surfing the Internet with a CPC

[mr_lou]

Cool. I want one.

[Bryce]

Unfortunately, just after I finished building and testing it, my alarm clock rang and I was back in reality

Bryce.

[mr_lou]

Bummer.

But it doesn't have to be bluetooth. It can be cable. 

[MacDeath]

Beware : this cause Left Testicle Cancer...

[fano]

Unfortunately, just after I finished building and testing it, my alarm clock rang and I was back in reality

That happens me each time i write perfect code

[Russkie]

Has anybody made any progress towards connecting a cpc to a lan? Could there be some sort of black box that would sit between the serial port and switch/router, and do whatever needs to be done? And a browser on the cpc of course.

[rpalmer]

People,

I have produced a version of a TCP/IP package which works from a ROM.
To date i have test the ROM without a serial device, with the following results:

1. can start up the TCP/IP package with more memory available then what is available with CPC/IP.
2. Can start telnet, ping, tftp and http daemons.

The only thing missing is completing the serial device driver (and yes i am working on that too).
See the attached zip for latest TCP/IP ROM and drivers rom.

I have previously posted on cpcwiki a version of the TCP/IP ROM and my latest version is far more stable as of 07Feb2011.

It maybe possible to connect an ethernet board to a CPC (google web51, or "Pic Nic ethernet" or "Obsonet" for the MSX.
I have downloaded much of the contents to get a feel for what they did to one working for low-end CPUs.

[khisanth]

I had a go on the spectranet at Bletchley park , tweeted from the speccy 128 which was really cool !

[rpalmer]

The sprectranet or obsonet devices work on z80 based computers (i.e Spectrum and MSX). So it is possible from my previous post which included a picture of the obsonet device which has a few chips to make the ethernet work on a CPC.

I would imagine someone could possible do the same for the CPC whereby the ethernet board's CPU would communicate to the CPC in parallel giving greater communication speed and also of-loading much of the TCP/IP loads from the CPC itself. The spectranet device is the most likely candidate to work on a CPC since the Spectrum +2/+3 models are very similar if not the same as the CPC.

my previous post did not include a test disk to demonstrate the TCP/IP rom, so here it is.

To start the TCP/IP simply execute "tcpiplc.bas" to load the configuration file and type in either |TCPIP.ON or |TCPIP.ON,1

The second RSX command will also display the console.

The online help available appears to lock up the CPC, but if the console is exited and re-entered it appears to work on.

The use help simply type help help or help <command>.  The help files are simply just plain text files.

[RockRiver]

Do you know "Quijote" HTML OFF-LINE BROWSER for PCW???
https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.amstrad.8bit/browse_thread/thread/bd278684442e8be2/4406cbafbd5f1da4?hl=es&lnk=gst&q=quijote#4406cbafbd5f1da4

Symzilla DOX files are not a good and fast codec for text and graphics?