murple
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RR-Net?
Sept 21, 2008 13:02:16 GMT -5
Post by murple on Sept 21, 2008 13:02:16 GMT -5
Is there a way to connect to QLink on a real 64 with RR-Net, without having to use a serial/modem connection to a PC?
Alternately is there a version of tcpser for Linux? I haven't had a DOS/Windows system in over 10 years.
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RR-Net?
Sept 21, 2008 13:39:48 GMT -5
Post by robertb on Sept 21, 2008 13:39:48 GMT -5
Is there a way to connect to QLink on a real 64 with RR-Net, without having to use a serial/modem connection to a PC? Not to my knowledge. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group videocam.net.au/fcugThe Other Group of Amigoids www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
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RR-Net?
Sept 30, 2008 17:59:53 GMT -5
Post by Cenbe on Sept 30, 2008 17:59:53 GMT -5
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RR-Net?
Sept 30, 2008 20:29:14 GMT -5
Post by sixstringmonk on Sept 30, 2008 20:29:14 GMT -5
Is there a way to connect to QLink on a real 64 with RR-Net I wish
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d0c
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RR-Net?
Oct 13, 2008 10:16:27 GMT -5
Post by d0c on Oct 13, 2008 10:16:27 GMT -5
i have the rr-net and have been waiting for a this option in q-link for years now.... the q-link would have been the biggest reason to use a c64 in years to come alot of things could have been done... but now it looks more like a lost opertunity and the whola q-link thing is dead... its very sad....
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Post by henrik51 on Feb 2, 2009 0:43:14 GMT -5
I've considered doing it... But, I lost my code I wrote for decompressing the disc to real files. And then, because every TCP/IP stack has one flaw or another as regards this project....writing my own. Ow. Sorry, guys....just no time anymore.
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Post by thurstan on Feb 2, 2009 4:48:28 GMT -5
I also really wanted this. Q-link seems to have ground to a halt. My RR-net has been gathering dust for a while now
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RR-Net?
Feb 3, 2009 14:48:04 GMT -5
Post by henrik51 on Feb 3, 2009 14:48:04 GMT -5
It's not HARD, you just have to figure out what the disc is doing. Essentially, the program "MMM" is the dialer/main menu. It's like a GEOS VLIR file, in that it gives the track/sector pointers to different forks. Each fork is made up of multiple hunks. The reason this is important is that it's one of these forks that contains ALL of the I/O code. You can replace this code, which is how the 2400 baud/other hacks work. However, it has to start on the same track/sector. Or, you need to crack the disk out to real files and change the DSC loader to expect real files. Since each fork has a rather complicated header on it, that took some doing. Since the Q-Link protocol is frame based and has errorchecking/sequencing, it shouldn't be hard at all to pass it over UDP. You could replace the dialer with a DHCP program. The dialler is mostly a giant BASIC program that handles the early part of the connection up to the main menu, but it's mostly a modem/Tymnet handler, and could be 90% scrapped for memory. Oh, and at all times when writing to a Q-Link disc, your login info is stored encrypted (badly) on 18/15, so if you add too many files...
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Post by shadowfire on Oct 9, 2009 1:58:19 GMT -5
Would it be possible to ask Steve Case or someone who has the availability to allow the code to go GPL? If we were able to do that it would be easy to allow not only RR-Net to connect, but also add the availability of newer OS to connect without difficulty or major work arounds...
Has anyone tried to contact someone who can release the code to GPL???
Shadowfire
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RR-Net?
Sept 2, 2013 3:27:30 GMT -5
Post by raymond61 on Sept 2, 2013 3:27:30 GMT -5
There was a patch with swift link to get on at 2400 baud back when the real Q-Link was going. Had that patch about a year before Q-Link ended. I have to find the boot disk I had and I will make a d81 copy of it. That's what I used back then. I think it my be on the CMD hard drive. I think that my work with the RR-Net not sure. At lest it does work with Swift Link. I forgot I all ready did this. The link is on this board here.-Raymond Day
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