Hi all,
I'm an Apple IIgs fanatic that likes to use an emulator to continue
working on IIgs projects.
What I need is a way to connect the TCP/IP stack within the emulator
that I use to the host machine's TCP/IP stack.
Unfortunately the emulator authors are long gone so modifiying this
app is probably not an option.
My host machine of choice at the moment is a PB1400 running MacOS 8.6.
So I believe the host TCP/IP stack is Open Trans****t.
The emulator has the ability to output to the host machines serial
****ts very reliably.
So the utility that I've imagined would watch the Mac serial ****t and
grab data passed to it and shove it into an IP datagram that is then
passed to the Open Trans****t interface and vice versa.
This utility does not necessarily need a user interface, however some
method of watching the packets flow through would be nice to confirm
everything is working as expected (e.g. dump to disk file).
So, is this kind of utility possible to build? (e.g. can two
applications use the same serial ****t at the same time?)
Does anyone here have the know-how to build it?
Is anyone willing to have a go themselves or mentor me to have a go?
I've never done any mac programming, so there's a huge learning curve
for me that I'd rather not attempt if I don't have to. But just in
case I do have to, what version of CodeWarrior should I look for to
run in this environment?
What language would be best for this? Can C do the job or would some
of it have to be in done in something else?
Thanks for any input on this.
Regards,
Andrew
