Network bootable Spectrum

Chris Young

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Oct 31, 2009, 7:27:58 PM10/31/09

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Stumbled across this today:
http://speccyboot.sourceforge.net/

Anybody here built one?

DISCLAIMER: I may be making all this stuff up again.

khards

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Nov 1, 2009, 3:28:25 PM11/1/09

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On Oct 31, 11:27 pm, "Chris Young" <chris.use...@mail-filter.com>
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I'd have no idea how to even start, my 'Soldering Fu' is weak.

If someone has one for sale on the other hand..........?

RootShell (IFReviews.org)

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Nov 1, 2009, 3:54:44 PM11/1/09

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Chris Young escreveu:

> Stumbled across this today:
> http://speccyboot.sourceforge.net/
>
> Anybody here built one?
>
>

I would love to see is a USB connector :)

Siegfried Engel

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Nov 1, 2009, 4:23:44 PM11/1/09

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On 1 Nov., 21:54, "RootShell (IFReviews.org)"

See Tom's ZX81:

http://forum.tlienhard.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=179

:-)

Siggi

zxbruno

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Nov 1, 2009, 10:04:20 PM11/1/09

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On Oct 31, 3:27 pm, "Chris Young" <chris.use...@mail-filter.com>
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I haven't and don't know how, but would like to have it at some point.
Meanwhile, Winston's Spectranet is already in the software development
stage. Look for Spectranet on YouTube and Google and you'll find
videos of the interface in action, Winston's development blog, etc.
While SpeccyBoot only serves as a way of loading snapshots and the
author did an incredible job, Spectranet is a full ethernet solution
for the Spectrum. IRC, browsing, instant messaging, etc.

zxbruno

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Nov 1, 2009, 10:05:25 PM11/1/09

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On Nov 1, 12:54 pm, "RootShell (IFReviews.org)"

Well, that one has been around for more than one year. It uses
Residos, the same firmware used in interfaces like the DiviDE+, MB02
and Garry Lancaster's +3E.

Take a look here:

http://user.tninet.se/~vjz762w/zxmatrix82.html

Dylan Smith

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Nov 2, 2009, 4:47:22 AM11/2/09

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On 2009-10-31, Chris Young <chris....@mail-filter.com> wrote:
> Stumbled across this today:
> http://speccyboot.sourceforge.net/
>
> Anybody here built one?

No, <plug warning> but I am in the fairly advanced stages of software
development for the Spectranet. (It's a different beast to the Speccyboot,
it also provides a 'network operating system' - a socket library that
looks very much like the BSD socket library we are all used to, as
well as a modular ROM system, modular filesystem layer etc.

This weekend, I got snapshot saving and loading done (for 48K snapshots,
I started there because they are easiest). To give a quick rundown,
what works so far:
- complete socket library (I wrote an IRC client to demonstrate it) for
both C (z88dk) and asm.
- filesystem layer
- "Tiny network filesystem", a resource-light filesystem that is better
for filesystem use than FTP, but not the hideous thing CIFS (aka Windows
filesharing) is nor as complex as NFS.
- Support for BASIC streams - you can write networked programs in ZX
BASIC (%connect #4,"some.host",2000, then print #4;"..." etc.) - you
can write TCP clients and servers in BASIC
- Support for the filesystem from BASIC, commands to navigate the FS
(the familiar ones, %cat, %cd, %load, %save etc).
- BASIC streams support for files, so you can INPUT# and PRINT# to files,
as well as INPUT# to read directories.
- Ability to save/load snapshots to and from a network filesystem.

You can read more about it at http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc - see the
"news blog" for the development history. Also all the code, hardware
designs etc. are available via websvn at http://spectrum.alioth.net/svn .

I'll do a new video soon, demonstrating how it works...