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The Final Ethernet [2002] |
AKA :
TFE
Website :
http://dunkels.com/adam/tfe/
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User Comment
Submitted by trident on 16 November 2024
this was the world's first ethernet card for the c64.
trasher had been interested in designing an ethernet card for the c64 for some time. and in the early 2000's we came across an ethernet chip that would fit perfectly. around the same time i had been developing some open source tcp/ip networking software for embedded devices and we realized that we now could put our minds together to actually create something really cool. we didn't want to offload anything except for the Ethernet processing to an outside chip or a more powerful computer - as much as possible should run on the c64. that was our definition of "something really cool".
so trasher designed the hardware and i wrote the software.
and we came up with the ridiculous idea of setting up a streaming audio server that would stream audio from the datasette player onto the internet for anyone to listen in to. fortunately, in the early 2000's, the internet protocols didn't rely much on any cryptographic security. so it was possible for a c64 to stream data directly to a realaudio player, which was the de facto streaming audio player at the time.
trasher had an old fake-tape-with-a-headphone-jack-thingy, that was originally developed for playing music from a portable cd player in old cars that didn't have a cd player, that we could use for our server setup.
we played mp3 music from a pc, connected the audio output to the fake tape, which we inserted into the datasette, and ran a micro-web server on the c64. people could go to the web pages served by the server and click on a link to listen to the streamed audio in their realaudio player, on their pcs. while the web server could support unlimited simultaneous visitors, because of a neat trick at the tcp layer, the audio server supported only a single concurrent listener.
we got a lot of tech media interest, outside of the c64 community, and had many hundreds of thousands of visitors to our little c64 web server. massive!
and how did that streaming audio sound? awful! it was possible to discern which song was played - but it was far, far from enjoyable.
useful? no. a demo? oh hell yeah.
later other ethernet cards for the c64 were released. but tfe was first and always will be. |
User Comment
Submitted by Count Zero on 15 November 2024
User Comment
Submitted by trident on 15 November 2024
| added the hardware design pdf files and the code for the real-time streaming audio server that was streaming 1-bit audio from the datasette out onto the internet. |
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