Date   : Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:00:20 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: BeebEm Repo on Github

On 8 February 2016@..., Julian Stenning <julian_stenning@...>
wrote:

> 3. Is econet over IP possible? Could we have a public server available
> that anyone running the emulator could join?
>

Yes it is.  Econet works wonderfully on a LAN, quite happy to talk to e.g.
a L4 fileserver on an A5000..  I have not properly tried it over the wider
Internet - it might work but with timing issues.



> 4. Could we do an IP modem? Would a IP-based bulletin board be of interest
> to re-create the feel of past times, I wonder however if this would not get
> used enough to make it viable.
>

It's possible to redirect the serial ports to IP - using "tcpser" it will
accept incoming telnet connections as if they were incoming modems.  I have
successfully run my BBS doing this.  This is my aim - to be able to run
multiple copies on a single host, talking Econet to a server, to re-create
my old viewdata BBS entirely in software.

Rob.