On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:06:22 -0700 (PDT), Dropnine wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 2:40:43 PM UTC-6, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 00:45:02 -0700 (PDT), 6502enhanced{at}gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Today I had another stop of tcpser. So it ran now for 8 days
without problems.
>> >
>> > I don't know why it stopped.
>> >
>> > Has anyone an explanation or a hint what I can do?
>> >
>> > Here is a pic of the monitor when tcpser stopped:
>> >
>> > https://s22.postimg.org/ar4ayh2zl/PI_Hayes.jpg
>>
>> You might be able to bypass tcpser and most of your setup.
>>
>> I just came around info and a video by LGR from YouTube [1] about the
>> WIFI232
http://hackaday.com/2017/06/17/bbsing-with-the-esp8266/>. Which
>> at one end has an RS-232 adapter you plug into any of your old hardware
>> (C64, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, RadioShack, Atari, many others from
>> back of the day. It claims to be a Hayes compatible modem. Then sets up a
>> serial connection and call a terminal program on the computer (I notice
>> there is COMMSTAR for many 8bit computers available) and issue AT
>> commands. Not only "ATD123456" to dial. Also to connect
to your WIFI. I
>> think it was something like "ATESSIDmywifi_source".
There is a PDF user
>> manual in the web some where.
>>
>> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsS0E4G310Y>
>
> There's a number of those devices and they rock :)  There's a new
internal C128 wifi that someone made, too:
>
>
https://www.reddit.com/r/c128/comments/6gb28v/internal_swiftlink_compatible_wifi_modem/

Thanks.

But since the C128 also sports an RS-232 and the WIFI-232 is not hardware
depended I'd go with the WIFI-232.

But since I have no real vintage hardware thus emulate it I have to go
with tcpser. Kind of works for me.

Not always. [For the British readers here]: Why isn't Ceefax working on
the BBC Micro I emulate? ;-)
--
Andreas

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