Zx81 emulator tutorial
#Zx81 emulator tutorial software
In order to use the WiModem232 simple terminal software is required. Similarly Hayes commands are used to connect to telnet instances on a local network or further a field. The modem is configured and connected to a WiFi network by Hayes Modem command extensions. Note that on both variants an RGB LED provides a status indication allowing you to easily live without the OLED screen. The choice of adapter comes down to a desire for a handy information display or a need for the milliamp power savings brought about by not including it. Luckily and possibly inspired by the original WiFi232, two new solutions have recently hit the market from CBMStuff, the WiModem232 and WiModem232 w/OLED.įunctionality wise, the only real difference between the WiModem232 and WiModem232 w/OLED is the rather obvious OLED screen.
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Sadly the device has remained sold out for months, and may now be permanently unavailable.
#Zx81 emulator tutorial serial
WiModem232 for Anything with a Serial PortĪround the middle of 2017 Paul Rickards released the WiFi232 Internet Hayes Modem for retro computers, the perfect solution for networking old computers. The German Sinclair has links to all software and sources. Telneting is only one small part, there are web-browsers and network file managers and more. At minimum in order to get a ZX81 connected to online BBSs software in the form of ipconfig and telnet are required. In order to configure and use the Zeddynet expansion on the ZX81 some software is required.
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Still, keep an eye out on SinclairWorld forums should you desire a fully assembled Zeddynet. Zeddynets first appeared back in 2012, I procured mine mid 2017, unfortunately no more have been produced since then (at the time of writing). Still we're about to plug a ZX81 into a network, a few aesthetics issues and minor viewing discomforts are hardly of major issue compared to the achievements realised.Īvailable sporadically from and designed by the German ZX-Team, Zeddynet as the name implies connects a humble ZX81 to a TCP/IP network via Ethernet cable. This arrangement is a little cumbersome, particularly once a network cable is plugged as the cable and the card tend to get in the way of a low-ish sitting desktop monitor. The card is quite tall with the Ethernet port located at the top. Starting with Zeddynet and the ZX81: The Zeddynet board mounts onto a ZX81XT extender / extension board, and combined plugs into the ZX81s expansion bus. Both interfaces are specific to my needs (and small retro collection), the WiModem232 is certainly of much use to the general retro community, where as the Zeddynet is obviously of more limited one machine appeal. Now for a brief look into the networking devices I'm using. Now we have the basis for a slightly confused and conjoined blog post, one that ends up being not quite a review, mostly not a tutorial and a slightly random collection of ideas on network hardware and software, in which I get a number of ancient machines on-line connected to a BBS, a BBS that ends up being my own local BBS.
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In the last week or so another more general purpose retro network device in the form of a Serial to WiFi modem / network adapter, the WiModem232 crossed my threshold rekindling ideas around networking old computers. I've been meaning to write something about the ZX81 Ethernet adapter Zeddynet for a while now, but hadn't got around to it for various reasons.