[Coco] Serial to Ethernet

[William Mikrut]

Oh I am just starting to get into DW!

I already have the Coco talking to an external server using low level from
HDBDOS.

Well... the server hears the Coco... I am working on getting data back from
the server.
On Feb 10, 2015 2:41 PM, "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2015 3:24 PM, "Tormod Volden" <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:18 PM, William Mikrut wrote:
> > > Just think about what it would mean for the Coco.  A plug in network
> > > adapter.
> > >
> > > Simple emails... games...cloud storage.  Heck, live chat right from the
> > > console.
> > >
> > > It would open a whole new world if it was available.
> >
> > You are aware you can do that already, via the DriveWire server? A
> > cartridge solution could be faster though.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tormod
>
> Everything I added to DW (networking, etc) was in hopes we could start
> making software now for hardware that would come in "the future".  Ideally
> you could just change drivers and a program that does Internet stuff via
> Drivewire would do Internet stuff via some hardware solution without
> changes.  Unfortunately since I had no idea what that hardware might look
> like or how it would work, I had to guess a lot.  If the wiznet chips had
> existed then, I would have cloned their API.  I did implement one not very
> different, and also a Hayes AT command API, but it's different enough that
> software would be best redone specifically for the wiznet.  OTOH we still
> don't have any hardware and there's very little software using the DW APIs
> so not a huge deal in any case.
>
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