Posted By
TLC
on 2021-07-23
04:54:11
|  Re: Question: Send and recieve data to UNIX-System with the commodore plus/4
@George when I'm thinking it over now, indeed @siz's idea looks also promising. The C64 WiFi adapter that you can recently see sold on eBay and various other sites, are generally derivatives of this design, and run this firmware. The interface has an embedded TCP/IP stack. As far as I could see, there's also an embedded Telnet client inside (but no FTP). With that, the Plus/4 could connect to a WiFi hotspot, and communicate over the network just right away. Considering that, unlike the C64, the Plus/4 has a real (hardware) async serial interface controller, communication over the WiFi interface should be both faster and less CPU intensive on the Plus/4 than it is on the C64. (Communication between the host machine and WiFi interface mimics modem communication both physically and logically, and as such, it's also RS-232).
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