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trsnic Is a TRS-80 Network Interface Card

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Details are in the blog post, but essentially trsnic is a TCP/IP network card for the TRS-80. It's more a "project" than a "product" at this point and still has a ways to go, but it is basically working for plain TCP/IP networking. There are examples of how to use it and detailed API documentation on the trsnic GitHub site.

I can't offer enough kudos to Arno Puder who open sourced his RetroStoreCard upon which trsnic is built.

I'd love to hear your feedback.

Thanks

Pete
 
Looks interesting!

Argh another thing I want to study and play with in my (non-existant) spare time :(

A couple of questions about building based on 20 seconds looking at the repo:

- DIRS = boot ihex2cmd trs esp (src/Makefile)

No sign of boot ihex2cmd or trs in the repo . . .?

- include $(IDF_PATH)/make/project.mk (src/esp/Makefile)

Which compiler are you using?

I suppose a more general question is how to build this out-of-the-box.

PJH
 
Being wireless is a huge plus for me. I'd love to have something like that to make it possible for me to copy files to/from my PC via wireless.

-Kevin
 
@pjhacnau, thanks for pointing that out. I removed those Makefiles for now. trsnic currently builds only using the Makefile in src/esp as it only consists of the esp32 component. Other than some client example programs in the src/client directory.

The only tool needed to build the esp software is esp-idf which can be obtained at https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/
 
One other question - from the RetroStoreCard github repo -

"Note: although it is possible to connect multiple cards to the TRS-80's I/O Bus, not all cards are compatible. In particular, the popular FreHD hard disk emulator is not a good citizen on the I/O Bus as it takes over complete control. It is therefore not possible to connect both FreHD and the RetroStoreCard at the same time to I/O Bus. Future versions of FreHD will hopefully remedy this."

Have the problems here been quantified? I'm assuming the problem would carry over to your use of the card.

PJH
 
pjhacnau said:
One other question - from the RetroStoreCard github repo -

"Note: although it is possible to connect multiple cards to the TRS-80's I/O Bus, not all cards are compatible. In particular, the popular FreHD hard disk emulator is not a good citizen on the I/O Bus as it takes over complete control. It is therefore not possible to connect both FreHD and the RetroStoreCard at the same time to I/O Bus. Future versions of FreHD will hopefully remedy this."

Have the problems here been quantified? I'm assuming the problem would carry over to your use of the card.

PJH
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To be honest, I have yet to try it myself with a FreHD. I've been using it with my M3SE without issue. I just need to set up the cable on my MIII with FreHD.
 
I saw that project. Specifically I was hoping someone was selling the chip pre-programmed. I don't/haven't had enough reasons to invest in a programmer.
 
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