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General Category => Amstrad CPC hardware => Topic started by: TFM on 21:43, 02 April 14

Title: 20 MB and a network
Post by: TFM on 21:43, 02 April 14
Do you know this one?

Amstore - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amstore)

Does it also work with CPCs, or is it for Amstrad PCs only?
Title: Re: 20 MB and a network
Post by: KaosOverride on 00:48, 03 April 14
Maybe we can remake the idea with some derivation from the vnet96 for CPC, and a RaspberryPi, with an adaptation of the Vnet96 to it's GPIO, a network driver fot sharing a folder and a ROM for filesystem abstraction.

For C64 serial transfers for disc operations just worked, so why not with raspberry+vnet96...
Title: Re: 20 MB and a network
Post by: TotO on 07:43, 03 April 14
Useless, as you can store more with a floppy drive emulator.
Title: Re: 20 MB and a network
Post by: arnoldemu on 09:24, 03 April 14
Quote from: TFM on 21:43, 02 April 14
Do you know this one?

Amstore - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amstore)

Does it also work with CPCs, or is it for Amstrad PCs only?
difficult to say, but when I read it I think Amstrad PC.
Title: Re: 20 MB and a network
Post by: gerald on 10:32, 03 April 14
Here is  a january 1985 arcticle (in french) about Nothern Computer network/storage solution.
Last paragraph talk about the 1st try with .... 10+8 CPC464 on two sites 1km appart connected via a radio link, sharing two 10mb HD.
Title: Re: 20 MB and a network
Post by: Kris on 13:02, 03 April 14
Excellent cet article, je ne savais absolument pas que ça existait sur CPC, surtout par radio..... :o
Title: Re: 20 MB and a network
Post by: MacDeath on 13:52, 03 April 14
We always forgot that most stuff possible on computer were already possible in the 70's...


So yeah, networking was working, but only for the working machines, not home machines...




Still a good internet solution and CPC specific (or even 8bit machines specific) servers would be cool.


Forums, chat, imageboards, online games, MMORPGs and so on...




Perhaps getting the Thomson's Nanoréseaux working on CPC ?
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