Yeah, I have been thinking about another package, the only thing about that is that I wont be able to run my Warp6 games (although they are applesoft basic so perhaps could be converted to run with Proline). The games arent much, but they were created by myself and some friends a _long_ time ago, so I was keen to let them see the light of day one more time so to speak.

Unfortunately I'm back at work now (uh-oh here comes the lame excuses!!) which is putting a bit of a damper on my drinking, I mean retro challenging, however....

I have had some success with getting Warp6 in an emulator onto the net via TCPSER.

I had absolutely no luck with AppleWin or APC (which is quite nice, but DOS based), but have had some success with KEGS which I think will ultimately be the platform if this goes online.

Warp6 supports the IIgs serial port with a specific driver and so once I got my head around the serial port emulation (and virtual TCPIP modem support in KEGS - which BTW doesnt work with Warp6, but otherwise seems ok) I changed warp6 to the GS driver, set Warp6 to use HW handshaking and connect to the modem at 9600, connected COM1 and COM2 with a null modem cable, fired up TCPSER on COM1 and KEGS on COM2 and presto, I can connect via telnet! Yay!

Bad news is that if the telnet connection is dropped Warp6 doesnt notice, and if warp6 tells the modem to drop carrier, it doesnt. The reason for this is almost certainly the cable - but I am encouraged because this is much better than I achieved previously.

I'm not 100% sure why I'm getting better results now, but it seems to be a combination of factors which makes it fun - cable, emulator, comms settings.

I had a quick go at making a cable that would allow for carrier detection and modem hangup but failed miserably - part of the problem is getting my head around how the emulated GS serial port pin connections are represented on the 9 pin serial port on my PIN - also, I'm not even sure if the emulated serial port provides all the signals like a real serial port (I would assume it does, but who knows).

Anyway, I'd like to get Warp6 in an emulator online now, but am also quite keen to see if I can get something else running on the LCe - probably Proline.

to be continued.....