Contiki for Internet-enabled Apple II 43
indyV writes "Most of you probably remember the Contiki OS which
previously have been used to Internet-enable both the Commodore
64 and the 8-bit
Atari. This
video shows the brand new Apple II Contiki port in action, booting up on an Apple IIe
and surfing to www.apple2.org. The network connection was made with a
specially crafted Ethernet adapter."
Re:Wow (Score:5, Interesting)
- RAM was increased from 64KB to 2MB.
- Hard disks were added.
- Ethernet was added.
And since the floppy drive had the same U880D cpu as the main machine:
- multiprocessig was added.
How cool is that? :)
The sad thing is... (Score:2, Interesting)
Think that was geeky -- it serves VNC!! (Score:3, Interesting)
Man, that's a sic and a sick. Impressive stuff. That's enough for me to really start jones'n to build that ethernet port on a breadboard and give it a shot.
Use your Apple IIe from nearly any box connected by broadband from anywhere in the world. Man, the 21st century rocks!
Re:It's projects like these... (Score:4, Interesting)