Date   : Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:22:51 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: The Beeb BBs Project

At 11:15 13/07/2006, Littlefield Aaron wrote:

>Are there any emulators that mimic Econet? We could do a worldwide Econet
>via our PCs! Maybe...not quite the same though!

BeebEm does, from, um, about 3.1 onwards.  I started the code, and 
Mike got it working.  I believe it works in the new Unix port too.

It sends to other emulators using Econet encapsulated in UDP, as per 
the official AUN, but as I haven't got any ethernet cards for my 
A5000 (and didn't have any risc machines at all when I started it) 
I've not had anything to examine and then test it /against/ to make 
sure it is the same.  It does however work with multiple emulators 
talking to each other.

As and when I get something that talks real AUN I'll do the necessary 
changes so that it works - the potential then (and my original aim) 
is to have a mixed network of real classic hardware and emulated 
machines, all chatting to each other.

Rob.