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Post #4 by neozeed
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryNetworking
Post DateFri, 10 Oct 2014 - 03:52
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/fix-networking-in-basilik-ii-under-linux.181/
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Hi there, I've started a rehash of older Basilisk II espeically to fit my networking needs.  To try to avoid all the naming confusion, I'm calling it Cockatrice III.

This isn't the newest source by any long shot, and I'm sure it's full of bugs (actually I know several right off the top of my head) but the major goal has been to improve the networking.

So with this 0.0-1 release I've included SLiRP and PCAP support.  No more tun/tap/bridge crap, instead on OS X, Linux and Windows, you just use a WIRED Ethernet interface, and you can DHCP an address, and even use AppleTalk.

I've done my best to make the SLiRP code more stable, and I've been able to download files over 100MB without issue.  You can even use Internet Explorer 4 and it doesn't crash out in seconds.

So there are of course some limitations, I've gutted the serial port support as I've had issues with the c++ constructor there for some reason and I'm not interested in that right now.  I've also fixed the display to being 8 bit only.  The CPU core is from BasiliskII-0.9, so it is pretty ancient.  Also there is NO JIT, as I'm hoping to start integrating the WinUAE CPU core as it has a solid enough 68030 and 68040 support that can run Linux, NetBSD, AMIX, and the 'Previous' project has been able to boot up NeXTSTEP with it.

I'm not even thinking about a full hardware emulator right now, if you want to run A/UX there is Shoebill which does a pretty good job of it right now.

Anyways give Cockatrice III a shot, and let me know if it fits your needs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/cockatrice/

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