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

[Mannequin*]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

I used to run a Linux box that split my dialup connection for my wife as 
well. Although it wasn't wireless, she still didn't mind her 50ft. 
cable. If wireless were more available (talking $$$) at the time, it 
would have been that way almost certainly. ;)

-M.