[Coco] RS232 to WiFi/Ethernet

[phil pt]

I would like to get my hands on some example that shows me how to receive,
send and detect carrier in basic09 please?  I am trying to write a bbs
system for Nitro Os9.

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2018 7:49 PM, "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Drivewire has provided telnet and "internet BBS" capability to any OS9
> > software for many years now.  Even better, the user space tools like
> telnet
> > are designed to work with Boisy's network library, so any mechanism that
> > implements these low level calls can take advantage of work already
> > completed for telnet and other protocols (wget for http things for
> > example).. even if they have nothing to do with Drivewire.  We already
> > designed with the hope that some other mechanism would become available.
>
> Is there any support for RS-DOS for this?
>
>
> Not really.  Robert Gault added support for MIDI over Drivewire to
> Ultimuse, and printing from rsdos is dead simple but requires some pokes.
> No proper PRINT #? support.
>
>
> The great thing about the $8 hardware solution is, with proper firmware, it
> could be made to look like DW protocol for those items, and leverage the
> httpd, etc. that exist for NitrOS-9 :-)
>
>
> Yes.  "With proper firmware" is the thing.  For whatever reason, this
> proper firmware failed to materialize during the past 6-7 years that
> Drivewire was waiting for it.  There are technical challenges with the size
> of basic ROMs, and the general lack of interest from talented people in
> putting work into extending DOS vs just using OS9 where we already did the
> work.
>
>
> -Aaron
>
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