Mark, if you are interested I have a prototype board for the original QL that runs TCP/IP. Due to time constraints with my company I have not been able to work on it for the past year. It uses a chip that has the TCP/IP stack embedded so there is no need to implement that part on the QL. Before working on the adapter I ported http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIP_(micro_IP) on the QL and ran it over a serial connection. The serial ports on the QL being what they are I quickly wanted to explore other options.
I have tested the prototype board by implementing a DNS lookup client for name resolution and a NTP client to synchronize QL's clock from a network time server. Both work well. There's quite a bit of work to be done and if someone is willing to contribute I will be happy to share what I have done so far. I have *no* commercial interest whatsoever and am happy to open-source everything. Feel free to email me if you would like some further information. Best regards, Petri On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Peter Graf <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Martin wrote: > > >>> Could it be licensed under an open source license? > >> GPL planned. > > > > That's hopeful. What can I do to encourage or support that? > > Thank you. Unless you are a very familiar with drivers, C language and > networking, owning a native hardware with ethernet - I have no idea what > you could do. > > Even digging QLwIP out, making myself familiar with it again, and > introduce someone else costs so much time that we'd have to forget the > other projects I mentioned. > > >> There are ethernet cards for Q40 and Q60. > >> QLwIP supports them. > > > > I was hoping for broader support of hardware. It's a broad base to begin > > with, though, isn't it? There's QL original hardware, QXL, Q40/Q60, > > Amiga/Atari emulators. Software emulators. > > Software emulators use the TCP/IP stack of their Windows/Linux host, so > don't need QLwIP. > > Original QL and QXL have no ethernet hardware, they could use QLwIP with > SLIP over the serial line, but that's not of much practical use. > > About Amiga/Atari emulators I have no idea. I doubt there is even a > single user who would use internet on that. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
