Posted By
Suto
on 2005-09-22
13:17:23
|  Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Hi plussiers!
Maybe something new... I have found a Plus4 with network ROM I think. The startup screen says:
COMMODORE BASIC V4.0 *** TC NET ***
Any info?
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Posted By
Ulysses777
on 2005-09-22
14:15:36
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Have you looked at the ROMs inside the machine, anything written on them?
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2005-09-22
14:18:56
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
That reminds me... In elementary school 7th grade, back in Hungary at one time I went on a competition. The machines were Plus/4, and they were in a network! The teacher showed us that he could BROADCAST (that may have been the actual basic command) messages to all clients, and the text showed up on the client Plus/4 at the bottom in inverse. That's all I remember though unfortunately.
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Posted By
Suto
on 2005-09-22
14:24:44
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
"Have you looked at the ROMs inside the machine, anything written on them?"
Not yet. Please be patient, i will look at the ROMs soon.
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Posted By
Suto
on 2005-09-22
14:45:22
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Looking at ROM chips:
The U24 kernal and U25 Function low is replaced. U25 has a label "U25 SLAVE", maybe this is a slave machine in the network.
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Posted By
Suto
on 2005-09-22
15:16:45
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Correction:
I have other machine and only one chip is replaced in it: U25. In my previous post I mentioned U24, i think this chip contains the hungarian character ROM.
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Posted By
Rachy
on 2005-09-23
02:15:25
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Hm, really interesting! Unfortunately there must be a server machine then, I guess the client would not be able to operate without the server. (I think it might be some kind of star networking.)
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Posted By
Suto
on 2005-09-23
10:10:41
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
I will present the ROM image soon.
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Posted By
Luca
on 2005-09-23
11:20:00
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Great news Suto, hurry to see it!
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Posted By
Lavina
on 2005-09-26
02:36:40
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some network games would be cool....  ))
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2005-09-26
09:23:57
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Yeah, network games would be awesome, but in reality we couln't really play them at parties, since we would need all "network capable" plussies. However, for two machines, connected by a serial cable, that would be fast enough, so doable. Then we could ask Gaia to add emulation for this: two people would be connected over the internet, and the connection would be emulated as the serial cable...
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Posted By
Luca
on 2005-09-26
18:54:05
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
...or what about something like this?
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Posted By
Suto
on 2005-09-27
05:44:31
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Plus4 has roughly the same RS232 properties than C=64, has'nt? And if exist c=64 networking hardwares and softwares they could be usable for Plus4 or not?
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Posted By
SVS
on 2005-09-27
08:09:46
 | Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
>>Plus4 has roughly the same RS232 properties than C=64, has'nt?
No, the Plus4 has a better and faster RS232, because it is hardware wired and not software emulated as it is on C64!
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2005-09-27
18:42:50
| Re: Plus4 found with network capabilities?!
Also, many C64 networking hardware packages use the cartridge port, which is physically and memory-wise different than on the Plus/4.
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