rhalkyard

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by rhalkyard 3y ago
Ha, the pass-through version is possibly a long ways off. I had grand plans but the mechanical considerations mean that there will probably have to be a few trial-and-error revisions before I get it right. If you do want an ethernet card wi
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
Thanks! The irony is, I haven't built the SE version of the card yet, only the SE/30 version, because the day before the boards arrived, my SE's hard drive died. I've got a Wifi BlueSCSI on the way as a replacement, whic
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
Thankfully, folks have archived a lot of Apple's old developer documentation: https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/ is an invaluable resource, as is the mirror of the (late-1990s?) Apple developer website at https:&
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
That was exactly my motivation for the project! 12 or so years ago I had a pretty big vintage-Mac collection that I had to give away in a house move. A friend gave me an SE/30 a while back, which got me back in the game, and my first t
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
That's not a bad idea, but the 'interacting with the hardware' part of writing a driver has actually been a breeze - within a few hours of building the card, I'd thrown together a test harness that was able to send and r
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
That's correct; it's far from finished - I just chucked it up on Github to show it to some interested folks and get some review on the design. Didn't expect it to actually get attention. The plan is that once it's workin
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
I was a little bit tongue-in-cheek in saying that, but the RTL8019AS definitely does have its downsides - being a single-chip clone of the NE2000 ISA ethernet card means that it's got to be bug-for-bug compatible with the ancient DP839
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by rhalkyard 3y ago
Wow, huh, that's me! A friend told me I'd gotten mentioned here so I thought I'd drop in and offer some explanation, hope that's okay! It's still in very early development, I mostly put it up on github so I could sh