[Coco] NitrOS-9 Tools for the CoCoIOn Ethernet Card

[Allen Huffman]

On May 27, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Michael Furman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> You and your Jolt Cola were definitely missed at CoCo Fest, hope you are doing ok these days.

Alas, Jolt Cola appears to have gone out of business again. It's just not the same!
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> The Computer Conect CoCoIOn is an Ethernet card for the CoCo using a WizNet W5100S chip.  This chip is also used on the Uthernet 2 card for Apple ][ computers as well as a bunch of others for other retro systems.  The chip is a lot higher level than CS8900 chips and is relatively easy to program for.
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> The card is manufactured and sold by Rick Ulland of Computer Conect https://computerconect.com/

Sweet. New CoNect hardware! How does it interface with the CoCo?

I am familiar with WizNet, as they are the chips used in the Arduino Ethernet card, and at my day job we have two products we put wiznet on last year and had to write code for.

Mine was based on the ESP8266 development boards ($4 for WiFi). One day I will learn how to solder and do electronics so I can make this stuff available.