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Contiki for Internet-enabled Apple II

Posted by pudge on from the just-because dept.

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."

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  1. Scary video effect by baryon351 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know about anyone else, but that video damned near frightened the life out of me.

    For those who haven't seen, it's a camcorder recorded screen of an Apple II booting. Looking at it, I could see a guy's head moving in the background.

    Now, since I live alone and there's not meant to be anyone behind me, first thing I did was look behind me to my left and raise my arms in defense.

    Thank you slashdot, for the 160bpm heartrate. I'm nearly normal now.

  2. Wow by black+mariah · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the dorkiest damn thing I've ever heard of. It takes a certain kind of boredom to do something as incredibly fucking stupid as this, and for that I salute the developers. ;)

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    1. Re:Wow by capmilk · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Other incredibly smeggin' stupid things were done with East German KC 85 computers:

      - 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? :)

  3. Slow typing by dozer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I loved my ][e. The indestructable keyboard sure wasn't finger-friendly though. That's got to be the reason they guy in the video is typing so e x c r u c i a t i n g l y . s l o w l y . . .

  4. No Doubt by Atomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The same thing happened to me. I was wondering how the killer with the knife behind could be so damn quiet. It's 2:00 AM here, and that scared the crap out of me. It's worse than those animated gifs you stare at for 20 seconds, before a "ghost" shows up for 2 frames.

  5. Re:][c ? by fm6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So go out and buy a ][ or ][e. Probably cost you less than the ethernet adapter...

  6. Re:][c ? by bjb · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, you could debate the official way of writing the 'e' version.
    • The original ROM displayed "Apple ][" on boot (1983-1985).
    • The enhanced ROM displayed "Apple //e" on boot (1985-1992).
    • The original badge on the machine was "//e" (1983-1987).
    • The revised machine's badge (platinum) was "IIe" (1987-1992).

    I always felt that it was better as "//e". But then again, this is a totally geeked out topic, and I might as well get back to my life now :-)

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  7. It's projects like these... by innerlimit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that reminds us of wat can be done with relatively low-spec systems, and that SO MUCH MORE could be done with current processing power.

    but of course, hardware being so diverse as it is, programming for 1 platform just isn't feasable any longer

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    1. Re:It's projects like these... by pilgrim23 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Hard core Apple II enthusiasts out here find these projects fascinating. Speaking as a long time Apple II fanatic and someone who purchased Joachim Lange's LANceGS ethernet card (referred to in the link), and an almost daily user of the OTHER TCP/IP effort on the Apple II (yes, there is more then one!) Marinetti, this is a way cool project! You can surf the web on an Apple II (I know of 2 browsers), use FTP (again, at least 2 clients), telnet (last count 4 different clients and growing), an IRC client, and even more! Here are the specs on my Apple II screamer: Apple IIgs ROM3 with 5mbs main memory (1 on motherboard, 4mb on memory slot), a TranswarpGS at 6mhz CPU accelerator; Slots: 1: Vulcan IDE card on a 120mb Vulcan Gold Hard Drive/Power Supply, 2: Apple 1024kb "Slinky" Memory card (also switchable to Appletalk for filesharing on intranet) 3: TranswarpGS, 4: scanner card 5: Apple "Superdrive" card for 1.44mb Floppy access. 6: ComputerEyes card for video capture, (switchable to 5.25 floppy controller for the occasional old game), 7 LANceGS ethernet card. Apple ][ FOREVER!

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  8. Re:][c ? by mgs1000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Girlfriends come and go, but Apple IIs are forever.

  9. Testing Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay guys, it's been almost 20 years and I'm finally here! I just put this bitchin' mod on my Apple IIe. Wait till you can do video over the net, I can't wait to show it to you.

  10. Does it work because of the magic subnet mask? by SillyWilly · · Score: 4, Funny

    255.255.255.9? :p

    If I knew that the video of me making a mistake like that was going to end up on Slashdot I'd re-record it :)

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