[Coco] RS232 to WiFi/Ethernet

[Wayne Campbell]

RiBBS was written in Basic09. For low level functions like carrier detect
and things he used object code subroutines written to work with Basic09. I
think Basic09 was too slow by itself to handle low level functions.

Wayne

On Jan 30, 2018 5:30 PM, "phil pt" <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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