On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ruud Baltissen wrote: > My goal: connecting a C= to the internet. My only condition is that as much > as possible inteligence is on the C= it self. You are probably going to have problems with that. It has been pointed out that the software needs tens of kilobytes, and there won't be much memory left for storing the page being displayed. I've been looking at Pasi Ojala's PuCrunch, since a couple of local guys suggested an idea of making an all-games-in-one cartridge for the VIC-20. The most feasible way is to compress all games into a 1-megabyte image, and to write a decompressor that extracts a game from the huge ROM to a 32k RAM on the cartridge. Using a 700 MHz Pentium III, the compression task takes a bit under 30 seconds (I tried it yesterday). What I'm trying to say is that instead of trying to do everything on the C= side, it's much easier to combine the two worlds. > Just a thought: what about a ISDN-interface? Forget it. ISDN is unnecessarily complicated. The communication protocol DSS1 is kind of parallel to TCP/IP. All you need to implement TCP/IP is a data path, and getting that is simplest with normal modems. > Or may be better/ easier to realize, connecting an ISA-ISDN card to a > C=? Does anybody know if a ISDN card uses DMA? It depends on the card. The easiest way to find out is to investigate the source code of the ISDN drivers supported by Linux. Marko - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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