TCP/IP under Workbench/Kickstart 1.3?

[patrik]

@Argus:

Do you remember if it was AS225r1 or AS225r2 you saw on eBay?


@Cyberus:

Genesis requirements:
-Amiga with 68000 CPU
-AmigaOS 2.04+
-Minimum 4 MB RAM
-Harddisk

This is according to Haage & Partners product page for Genesis. Alas Genesis should run on your A600HD provided it has enough memory.

You could always try AmiTCP 3.0b2 which is a version originally released to beta-testers. According to this page it is very stable and is essentially the same TCP/IP-stack as the AmiTCP 4.0 Demo. One of the most interesting thing with this stack is that it is last AmiTCP version distributed under GPL licensing.

It will be harder to set up AmiTCP than Genesis or Miami, but with a machine like your A600HD which I assume have limited amounts of memory it should be worth some extra work.

Btw, Genesis is essentially AmiTCP but with a GUI ontop to configure and control it. Also worth mentioning is that both AmiTCP and Genesis are faster than Miami.


@adolescent:

Then it sounds like AS225R1 would be the best bet. It would be very interesting to know if AmiTCP 1.0 can run under 1.3. According to this page, AmiTCP was a free implementation from the start. I know that version 2.0 to 3.0b2 was distributed under GPL licensing so its not impossible that it was distributed under GPL licensing from the very start.

Anyhow - GPL licencing or not, AmiTCP 1.0 was free so it should have been uploaded to fileshares like BBSes, Aminet, etc once in a time. It seems reasonable to think that someone should have it on an old disk or harddrive or something.


@DonnyEMU:

Yeah, it would be very exciting with TCP/IP on a 1.3 machine! Just imagine your old 1.3 machine being able to use some TCP/IP applications to communicate on a network :=).


/Patrik

[adolescent]

@Patrik

AmiTCP 1.0 requires at least OS 2.04.  Sorry.  :-(

AmiTCP 1.0 readme.txt:

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TITLE

 AmiTCP/IP - TCP/IP protocol stack as Amiga shared library

VERSION

 Distribution version 1.0

AUTHORS

 AmiTCP/IP group in Programming Project Course in
 Helsinki University of Technology. Futher on just
 AmiTCP/IP-Group.

 Tomi Ollila <Tomi.Ollilate@cs.hut.fi>
 Pekka Pessi <Pekka.Pessi@hut.fi>
 Jarno Rajahalme <Jarno.Rajahalme@hut.fi>
 Markus Peuhkuri <Markus.Peuhkuri@hut.fi>

 E-mail address: amitcp@hut.fi

DESCRIPTION

 AmiTCP/IP is the first publicly available TCP/IP protocol
 stack for the SANA-II interface. It has a BSD-compatible
 socket interface as a Amiga shared library.

FEATURES

 1. Standard SANA-II network device driver interface.
 2. BSD-compatible socket interface as a Amiga shared library.
 3. ARexx port for configuration and statistics.
 4. Over 200 pages of documentation including:
  - Installation and configuration
  - ARexx port commands
  - Programmer's manual based on the BSD IPC manual. It
    is a fairly complete tutorial for developing powerful
    client/server applications
  - Internal description of the implementation
  - API function reference guide in AutoDoc form.
 5. Basic applications with source included.
 6. Based on the BSD Net/2 release.
 7. Full source code included.


SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

 AmiTCP/IP can be run from floppy and with one
 megabyte of memory.

 OS release 2.04 or newer is required.

 Sana-2 device drivers for the network interfaces.

 Distribution is archived with lha so program to
 un-archive them is needed.

HOST NAME

 Software has been uploaded to the Aminet
 (amiga.physik.unizh.ch, 130.60.80.80) and will be
 readily available on other Aminet sites.

 For convenience of Finnish users, AmiTCP/IP is also
 uploaded to the ftp.funet.fi.

 The authoritative version of AmiTCP/IP is located in
 kampi.hut.fi, but this archive is not meant for massive
 downloading. All new versions will be announced and
 distributed to other archives, too.

DIRECTORY

 In Aminet: comm/net
 ftp.funet.fi: pub/amiga/communication/tcpip
 kampi.hut.fi: AmiTCP

FILE NAMES

 AmiTCP/IP is distributed in 3 archives:
 AmiTCP-bin-10.lha AmiTCP/IP binaries
 AmiTCP-doc-10.lha Documentation for AmiTCP
 AmiTCP-src-10.lha Source for AmiTCP/IP

 If you just want to use AmiTCP/IP, you need just bin and
 doc. To develop your own applications or AmiTCP/IP you
 need src, too. Number in the name corresponds to
 distribution revision. 10 means revision 1.0

PRICE

 Free. Contributions are accepted.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

 AmiTCP/IP is distributed under Gnu Public License.

OTHER

 Note, that this is not a final version but a
 &quot;gamma&quot; version that is given to Amiga community to
 find out and identify bugs that are still left in
 code.

 E-mail address for bug reports and fixes:
 amitcp-bug@hut.fi


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[Cyberus]

@patrik

Thanks, I'll see if I can get that working

[patrik]

@adolescent:

Thanks for the information! You dont happen to have the complete AmiTCP 1.0?


/Patrik

[LocalH]

I dug around a bit, and found this search result on Aminet:

AmigaNOS on Aminet

The version of the KA9Q tools on fish 225 is old anyway, there's a newer version listed on Aminet, but it doesn't say which version of WB it requires in the description link, so you may have to use the one from fish 225 (the original PC version was also called NOS, thus the name AmigaNOS here). However, it doesn't expose a standard sockets interface, so I don't see that you'd get much use out of it except for the tools listed along with the above search. Also be aware that the file named "NNTPKick13.lzh" is actually version 1.3 of "NNTPKick", and nothing to do with KS1.3 - it actually requires KS2.