[Coco] Run a CoCo while sitting on the toilet! :)

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 19 February 2007, Roger Taylor wrote:
>I hope the title says it.  For those who can only get dial-up where
>they live but like to roam about the place with a wireless laptop
>doing their work and CoCo ventures, I found an answer, but not
>without weeks of research and trial and error.  For some it probably
>falls right into place (no pun intended), but for me I was having
>trouble with this kind of networking for years using Windows 98 and XP.
>
>Basically, I'm using two Vista PC's (a wireless equipped laptop, and
>a PC using a simple Belkin Wireless G USB adaptor), no access points,
>routers, or high-speed modems, and am surfing the web and doing
>e-mail, etc. by way of the FreeProxy server software running on the
>main PC that's connected via dial-up.  The result is that you can do
>neat things like visiting the Mocha CoCo emulator site (emulator in
>your JAVA-based web browser) and have a portable "CoCo" without
>requiring any downloadable emulators, ROMs or CoCo
>software.  Ofcourse, you can probably mount local DSK images in the
>emulator, making it even more Cool.
>
>So I'm sitting on my sofa right now with Mocha, a fairly accurate
>CoCo for all practical purposes, beamed to me from the main PC using
>802.11g, ofcourse with no wires or dongles coming out of the
>laptop.  This was a not-so-instant portable CoCo experiment, but it
>works.  Can we say headaches?
>
>The trick is the 'adhoc' networking technique that's already in Vista
>and all you need is a few wireless USB adaptors or cards if your
>computers aren't already equipped.  So I just had to buy one
>adaptor.  All salespeople will tell you that you'll need a router and
>also that you can't share dial-up, but we know that's not true; we
>just had to put our minds to getting it to work.
>
>--
>Roger Taylor

I shared an on-demand dialup here for years Roger, but all the local stuff 
till just recently was all cat5 connected.  Now I have an old wap11 
rigged so my lappy can connect using its radio.

Running on linux of course, the script actually runs as a daemon.  Its 
about 25 lines long & easily configured if anyone if interested.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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