Date   : Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:59:19 +0000
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb emulators with Econet support...

At 10:31 09/02/2006, Jules Richardson wrote:

>Brilliant! Any idea if it's integrated into the UNIX port at the 
>moment? Otherwise I'm going to be trying to run several Beebems 
>under a Windows emulator under Linux :-)

The two UNIX  ports linked from Mike's pages are for 0.9 and 2.3 of 
BeebEm.. It sounds like Dave Eggleston is still working on his, from 
the webpage, so he might be prevailed upon to move up to the 3.1 
version with econet support..

Actually, I wouldn't have thought it would be too hard to add the 
code to any of the emulators - most of the work is the 68x54 
emulation code, of course, which forwards packets out via UDP. plus a 
bit of configuration support code of course, and hooks in the address 
read/write and NMI routines.

>(I'm not sure whether that works of not - I've never tried starting 
>two separate Windows apps there and getting them to talk to each other)

As long as networking via UDP is supported then I wouldn't have 
thought there would be a problem.

I was sort of hoping that it would would allow an emulated beeb to 
talk to a real ethernet enabled acorn machine, but haven't got one to 
test it against.  In my original testing I had it running on two 
seperate (windows) machines across my LAN..

I haven't actually had an opportunity to try out Mike's fix of my 
code yet, for various reasons, but keep meaning to..!

What also happened to the econet-ethernet bridge that was being 
discussed on here a while back?


Rob.