[Coco] Supercomm for OS9

[Kip Koon]

Hi Dave,
> Does Cubix have a TCP/IP stack?
I don't know.  I don't think so as I have not seen an ethernet connector in the schematics.  Care to add the code and an ethernet adapter with a TCP/IP stack on a chip?  It may not be too difficult getting the hardware.  I've seen a few serial to TCP/IP stacks on a chip with ethernet connectors - RJ-45 jacks.  It could be quite interesting to get Cubix online!

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Dave Philipsen
> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 3:08 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Supercomm for OS9
> 
> On 3/20/2015 11:27 PM, Kip Koon wrote:
> > Hi Dave,
> > I want you to know that I love Supercomm09!  I used it to test out a connection with a friend's Internet BBS in NC with the telnet
> option!  It worked great!  I'm sure I'd be interested in whatever else you come up with!  Thanks for all the time you spent keying away
> on your Coco over the years creating Supercomm09!  It's Superb!
> Yeah, wow.  I was in my twenties when I wrote SuperComm.  Now I'm in my fifties!  I haven't touched a CoCo for years now but
> started searching things out on the web recently and found there's still a lot of support for it.  When I wrote it, BBSs were very popular
> and I wanted a fast, lean terminal program that would interpret ANSI codes and run under OS9.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find one so I
> set out to write it myself in my favorite language, assembler.
> >
> > I have 3 intermediate versions of the Multicomp that I used over the
> > last couple years while James Moxham and Max Scane were developing the
> > Multicomp PCB and associated CP/M & MP/M software they ported over
> > using Grant Searle's Multicomp design as a guide.  After all the
> > trouble shooting was done on the PCB, James created a final version of
> > the Multicomp PCB that has not 1, but 2 - 512KB AS6C4008 512KB Static
> > Ram chips on it, LCD Interface, SD Card Interface, VGA Video
> > Connector, PS/2 Keyboard Connector, 2 - RS-232 9-pin Serial I/O ports,
> > DC Jack, Color Composite Video Out RCA Connector and a pseudo USB
> > Keyboard connector.  The pseudo part of the USB means only USB
> > keyboards that support the PS/2 protocol will work.  A small
> > prototyping area is included and the capability to choose an 8-bit or
> > 16-bit Data Bus for the 2 - 512KB Static Memory chips.  The link to
> > Dr. Acula's web store to purchase a copy is
> > <http://www.smarthome.jigsy.com/fpga>
> > I have been quite involved with my Multicomps over the last couple of years.  All total, I have built 6 of them.  I have 3 final versions
> myself that I have built up.  Currently 2 are running the Z80 Multicomp with MP/M II v2.1 running on them  and the 3rd one has the
> 6809 Multicomp with Cubix OS running on it that I will be showing at this year's CoCoFEST.  There is a picture of James' Multicomp
> PCB fully populated on the store web page you can view.
> Well I just ordered a couple of the Altera Cyclone II  boards and a cheap generic programmer from eBay.  I've never programmed an
> FPGA before but have always wanted to play around with them a bit so I guess this is my chance.  I'd love to emulate a CoCo (maybe
> even a CoCo 3) with an SD card instead of a hard drive.  Might even be kind of cool to expand the emulator to 6309 instruction set and
> even play around with some ideas like 32-bit program counter and index registers...just an idea for fun!
> > I've been reading up on Cubix and I must say Dave Dunfield has done a wonderful job with Cubix.  Cubix is a very capable Operating
> System.  The Cubix OS has many interesting features not necessarily found in 8-Bit Operating Systems.  The programming languages it
> comes with are a 6809 Assembler, RAID - Runtime Aid Interactive Debugger, MAPL - MicroAPL, Basic, C, and Forth, SIM80 and a tiny
> 3K MicroBasic Interpreter written in 8080 assembler that runs in the SIM80 - 8080 simulator.  It has may commands and utilities as
> well.  See the following site for more details as well as downloadable files for Cubix and an emulator of Dave's 6809 SBC that runs
> Cubix.  You can check out Cubix before you have any hardware to run it on!  The emulator runs in Linux.  In fact Dave wrote the
> emulator to use as a testing platform while he was writing Cubix.
> Sounds interesting.  Does Cubix have a TCP/IP stack?
> > Anyway I thought you might be interested in some of my projects I'm involved in.  Welcome to the Coco List!  Take care my friend.
> Thanks for the welcome.  I may have some questions later when I get into the Multicomp stuff!
> 
> Dave Philipsen
> > Kip Koon
> > computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> > <http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon>
> >
> >
> >
> 
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