[Coco] RS232 to WiFi/Ethernet

[Wayne Campbell]

Ron Bihler is the author, and as far as I know, he is working on getting it
running again. He is on this list, so maybe he see this thread and respond.

On Jan 31, 2018 4:17 PM, "phil pt" <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wayne
>
> Do you know of the source code for Ribbs is available please?
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:34 AM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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