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IanJ wrote:I am quite interested in building up your ethernet card.......would you be interested in sharing the design and code. I've been looking for a way to build a QL based web server just for fun.

Hi Ian,

I have sent you a PM.

Cheers,
Petri

Any progress so far?

Ethernet for QL sounds interesting...

msch wrote:Any progress so far?

Hello,

the project is hibernating again due to "real-life" time consuming situation. Looking for fellow hobbyists that would be interested in cooperating on this. Happy to share code/design if anybody wants to pitch in.

/Petri

We're interested, as always. I have ten of the IC controllers here....

Hey,

Got any further on this ?

Would be really interested to see your design documentation and any other info you've got on your prototype.

Cheers,

Dave

For clarity, that Dave is not this Dave.

quantumDavey wrote: Got any further on this ?

Would be really interested to see your design documentation and any other info you've got on your prototype.

Hi Dave,

fortunately I have had a bit of spare time early this year so I have made quite a lot of progress on the driver which is the biggest missing piece of the puzzle. To be honest, the QDOS driver is not even strictly necessary but it would make it a lot easier to recompile stuff that uses a POSIX TCP stack as well as providing convenient SuperBASIC access to the hardware. I have implemented a network time synchronisation client, an HTTP file fetcher and a DNS name resolver without the driver by using the card directly from C through some API wrapper code.

Hardware wise there are a couple of things that need to be solved and a couple of things that need to be changed before designing the first "real" version of a PCB. Current implementation is on a prototype board. I'm more of a software guy so it would be nice to have someone with more hardware experience help.

I would very happy to share any/all of the design and source code with anyone willing to chip in on the effort. Heck, having someone collaborate would probably re-ignite my enthusiasm for actually getting this thing finished after so many years of fits and starts. However, I want to keep it on a strict non-commercial basis so anything that derives from the existing stuff needs to be non-commercial/non-profit.

Please feel free to send me a message if you want to take a look

Kind regards,
Petri

If you like I can design a pcb for you and have some prototypes made.
Non profit would be great for me.
I'm not into QL software. So I can only help on the hardware side.
Kind regards
Paul

Paul wrote:If you like I can design a pcb for you and have some prototypes made.
Non profit would be great for me.
I'm not into QL software. So I can only help on the hardware side.
Kind regards
Paul

Hi Paul,

thank you for your kind offer for help, much appreciated! There is no rush with the PCB since the software side has to be finalised first with the current prototype but I would really like some opinions on how to approach a couple of things on the hardware side for the next iteration. I'll send you a private message.

Cheers,
Petri

Hey yeah ! Non profit sounds fine to me.

Dave
(The other one