Roadshow for 68K -Needs your support!

[mechy]

Hello all,
   For a few weeks i have been talking with Olaf Barthel about releasing roadshow 68K for the amiga. He seems all for the idea for the most part but would like it if he could sell it for a reasonable price and if anyone would buy it. It would be the only current tcp/ip stack that can be registered/bought etc! His stack is quite a bit faster than both miami and amitcp as it stands,and he said it would be possible to use on 68000 (ala A600 with limited resources).Olaf expressed concern that there were no docs or mui front end currently,but i assured him someone would probabaly step up to make a gui.I think most amigans can get by with limited install docs and such.

If you want to see this happen,please reply to this thread expressing your interest so i have something to show him!

Obviously if people pirate it right off the bat and spread it and he gets no sales,he will be quite disgusted,so lets show some support by buying it,pay for the thing if it happens ok!

I suggested to him he offer it via a web download you can pay with paypal and maybe on CD for those who are want something they can touch

So come on everyone,lets get behind this,its not everyday the amiga might see a new,faster tcp/ip stack!

Mike

[mechy]

Olaf has not mentioned any pricing yet,but i expect it to be reasonable.Again this all hinges on the people interested and who are willing to buy it.Just to clarify this uses exhisting SanaII drivers.

[mechy]

Kolla,
  I have to ask, we're you born this cheerfull or did it take years to get to this point?
Reading some of your responses(good/accurate info aside),i think you could depress the most cheerfull people.

good for a laugh tho.

mike

[mechy]

I can say i am not surprised by the results at the end on the 2 stock machines. both using 16bit pcmcia interface. I am sure that accelerating them would make quite a difference.
the 600 going to chip is well, definately expected.. LOL
nice list of results here Olaf!

Was the ariadne II you have fixed to run full duplex? i recall back in the day contacting villagetronic about this on mine.Seems there were bugs with some thatcould use a hardware fix?


mike

[mechy]

Last message i sent to olaf was about a week or 2 ago, he mentioned he is tidying up stuff and fixing a few small bugs.He didnt reply with a eta though,but expect it will be soon to be released.

Mike

[mechy]

Still waiting for one prospective publisher to respond. Should this fall through, I'll go with another one. The TCP/IP stack is still good to go, with a manual, installer script, SDK, everything.

hah! get the lead out olaf! I want to get my hands on this before i'm too old and broken down to use a computer!..

All joking aside, i hope you find a way to release it soon.

mech

[mechy]

EDIT: oops! didnt notice olaf had replied above..



When i set out to get Olaf to try and release this, i could not of imagined it would take this long.Most of the time was from him wanting to optomise and do some bug fixing ,as well as making the docs a bit better. sadly the last bit has been distribution. i talked to him about a week ago and he has someone that is going to distribute it. I dont know why this is so hard or time consuming,but he has not told me why.he says its in the works tho. This is all the info have.

Mech

[mechy]

Any news?

I'm waiting, money in hand.

Sadly i talked with Olaf and last time he was busy with other projects and i "think" the problem was distributing roadshow with the people who he was working with. This was about a month ago i talked with him.

sadly i expected we would see this long before now but things have moved at a snails pace.

I haven't had much luck lighting a fire under his butt

Mech

[mechy]

Hello all,
   For a few weeks i have been talking with Olaf Barthel about releasing roadshow 68K for the amiga. He seems all for the idea for the most part but would like it if he could sell it for a reasonable price and if anyone would buy it. It would be the only current tcp/ip stack that can be registered/bought etc! His stack is quite a bit faster than both miami and amitcp as it stands,and he said it would be possible to use on 68000 (ala A600 with limited resources).Olaf expressed concern that there were no docs or mui front end currently,but i assured him someone would probabaly step up to make a gui.I think most amigans can get by with limited install docs and such.

If you want to see this happen,please reply to this thread expressing your interest so i have something to show him!

Obviously if people pirate it right off the bat and spread it and he gets no sales,he will be quite disgusted,so lets show some support by buying it,pay for the thing if it happens ok!

I suggested to him he offer it via a web download you can pay with paypal and maybe on CD for those who are want something they can touch

So come on everyone,lets get behind this,its not everyday the amiga might see a new,faster tcp/ip stack!

Mike

Hooray! looks like roadshow finally has come to life.

For those of you that didnt see it in the announcements:

http://roadshow.apc-tcp.de/