[Coco] CoCo3.org

[Patrick Ulland]

Other machines lead the charge. In fact, the WizNet mfg docs display all 
the calls ‘backwards’ or 6502 style. We saw what the Apple][ ‘Uthernet’ 
project did code-to-book to grok what the chip was doing, then worked in 
little endian for 6x09.

The ‘www’ program requires 512K OS9, to lean on @strick’s libraries for 
dhcp,dns,etc. But there is an old DECB demo on my github that isn’t that 
big. Plug in static addresses, it will print a web page’s source. Could 
be rewritten as a 64K download engine or picture viewer.

The best thing about html is that it fails gracefully (Thanks, TBL!). 
Skip all the tags and close tags you don’t know,  the display will still 
be legible text. The background work like headers is simple string 
slicing (Thanks, Wiznet!). Visually, capture <p> for paragraph. 
Logically, capture <a> for images,downloads. Justify your printed text, 
and that is enough to fly. Anything more is gravy.

Our issue is encryption. Nobody wants to server http:// any more.  
However it works out, Thank You for another CoCo site. We need all the 
support we can get.

-ricku

CoNect


On 7/20/2023 4:03 AM, James Ross via Coco wrote:
> Patrick Ulland wrote:
>
>> With a domain like CoCo3.org I have to mention our (CoNect & friends)
>> project, the CoCoIO ethernet card for CoCo 1,2, or 3. It’s purpose is to
>> connect your CoCo to your cable modem with a cable and do networky
>> things free of PI or PC, just because. The hardware has limitations,
>> mainly, Protector boards don't like us. News to come.
> That is very interesting Patrick. I get the idea of getting an 8bit computer online to browse the web.  I wonder if all the major 8bit machines such as the Apple and Commodore have accomplished this?  Browsing HTML pages and doing it w/o the help of a computer (Pi / PC) makes it quite challenging – specially for a 32x16 TEXT screen!!  With SG24 however, you can underline text in different colors (CoCo1,2), that would be useful – I recall doing that back in the day.  On the CoCo3 we have proper 80 column w/ colors...
>
> A web-service can return a page of plain text. Or simple tab delimited response text lines which are easy to parse.  I could see those being useful for stuff like interactive querying an online database or playing an online multi-user turn-based text game. Or any other “custom” CoCo online app.  Put me down for something like this in the future (especially the database). I’m willing to help, time permitting – one of the reasons I haven’t joined Discord is *time* – I still plan on it someday.
>
> However generic HTML content like what is up there now, is quite challenging!!  Specially when you have links where the whole idea is to have the viewer go check out other sites which are not designed even for a 2001 computer / browser let alone one from 1981-1992! :) :)
>
> - James
>