[Coco] Rs232 Pack

[Phil Taylor]

Running VCC and or Drivwire on Microsoft windows why would this work with
total data flow control and support xmode and Ymodem?

             Incomming Data flow
             Control handled by           Microsoft Windows
************ the Telnet server            Running VCC/Drivewire
* Internet *  -------------------------->
              Inbound Traffic
              not to exceed 2400 or baud using the original RS232 peek
              to get the data and check the buffer using the /t2 Port




On Thu, February 27, 2025 2:44 am, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 2025, at 8:20 PM, Phil Taylor via Coco
>> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>>
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>> If someone can work on restoring support for the RS232 pack with using
>> the same original memory address then I will work on making a telnet
>> interface server so wee can get Ribbs bbs working again. Its just not
>> the same without logging in to a Trs-80 Color Computer BBS with out.
>
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> Someone has done an RS232 pak that uses the ESP8266 or maybe ESP32 wifi
> module in it. It looks like a standard pak but when you put firmware like
> ZiModem on it, it is a simulated Hayes modem but you do things like;
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> ATDsubethasoftware.com:23 <http://atdsubethasoftware.com:23/>
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> And it does telnet. There are examples in BASIC for Commodore for IRC,
> Telnet, FTP and other simple protocols (but on CoCo we’d need an
> assembly assist to go faster than 300 baud I bet).
>
> If you want to experiment, for less than $10 you can wire up an ESP8266
> to a .99 RS232-to-TTL adapter, load ZiModem on it, then hook it to an
> existing RS232 pak (or the bitbanger) and start playing.
>
> This may not be updated but I wrote this up years ago:
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> https://subethasoftware.com/2018/02/28/wire-up-your-own-rs-232-wifi-modem
> -for-under-10-using-esp8266-and-zimodem-firmware/
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>
> Later I redid the article and tried to organize it better, but this page
> is the one that remains one of my top-viewed posts.
>
> And I agree. I’d love to know where I could just buy one that has this
> built in. --
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