Ethernet on Atari ST's (was Re: TCP/IP on eightbitters)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Nov 24 06:14:54 2000

THETechnoid skrev:

>There is ethernet for any Atari ST. It's a modification of a printer-port
>interface for PC's. You build a simple card that propogates a couple of
>signals not available on the St's printer port through the cartridge slot.

There have also been NICs for the Megabus on the MegaSTs and for the VMEbus of
the Mega STE and TT.

>At the very least it is supported by MiNT and MiNTnet. If you need help
>with MiNT, let me know. The TCP/IP stack in MiNTnet is complete and has
>servers. I think you might even be able to run an Xserver to another
>station using it.

AFAIK, the MiNTnet driver still isn't finished. The STiNG driver has been for
quite a while, though.

>I've got MiNT and MiNTnet on my Mega4 and have succeeded with PPP over an
>external modem. The only reason why I haven't built the ethernet
>modification is that the printerport ethernet interface costs something
>like $100.00 and I can't justify that yet.

I'm in the same position. Does anyone have a source for parallell port
ethernet adaptors?

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