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- "WHEN I FEEL SICK I SWITCH ON MY 8-BIT!"
- (c) by MC Laser / tSCc
-
- !! ATARI XL/XE AND INTERNET !!
-
- by Dely / Atari Area
- English translation by Grey / Mystic Bytes
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- Would you like to surf the net using your 8-bit Atari? What would you say about
- IRCing for example? There are many people who think that Atari XL/XE is too
- small or simply too poor to connect to the internet. Well, in fact it won't be
- the typical use of internet - we will use 8-bit Atari as a Linux <link=g37.scr>terminal</l>.
- Anyway that's worth a mention!
-
- What we'll need:
-
- - Atari XL/XE (of course), additional memory would be nice. Generally 128Kb is
- enough because the communication software doesn't use more. Attention: You
- need an original Atari - an emulator is useless (it simply won't run :))
-
- - PC connected to the internet (modem or stable connect)
- - Sio2PC cable to connect Atari with PC
- - APE '98 proggy for PC which is needed for this cable
- - ICE-T proggy for Atari (it's bundled together with APE)
- - Shell account accessible through Telnet
- - Ultra-basic acquaintance of Linux
-
- Ok, let's start! I will explain everything "step by step":
-
- Install APE '98. It's a SHAREWARE product for which we should pay the author.
- If we are too poor and we don't have the cash - don't panic, it works even
- without registration (however you have to wait a bit longer after running this
- proggy).
-
- Set your own configuration in APE. In the 1st drive (in APE not in Atari) put
- image disk with ICE-T proggy. Of course you can copy ICE-T under DOS to the
- 5.25 disk but in that case we will load ICE-T from our favourite floppy-drive
- for Atari.
-
- Connect to the internet using PC. Boot your Atari and wait a while till the
- ICE-T will be loaded. After this you should see a white screen with unfolded
- menu on the top. You can spend some time with ICE-T configuration, however we
- don't have time for that - we want to surf the net! :)
-
- Choose the "Terminal" option from the menu on the top and press RETURN. Proxy
- sign> should be displayed: we are now on the INTERNET!!! Now we can write the
- address of our shell account e.g. open myprovider.pl and press RETURN. And now
- after typing Login and Password, we can control our account using 8-bit Atari!
-
- What you can do now? Well, it depends on you. If you want IRC then write:
- BitchX nick warszawa.irc.pl, if you want to see www-sites write:
- lynx http://www.nice.page.pl/
-
- Why do we need PC for all this time? Maybe because not too many people have a
- modem for their "small" Ataris? :) But even if you have a modem the maximum
- speed you can obtain is 1200 bps. So transfer Atari <-> could be something
- about 0.1 KB/s :) Besides I am not use if ICE-T can handle the PPP connection
- through TCP-IP protocol (I rather doubt in it).
-
- Ok.. but is there any sense to connect Atari to the internet if we still have
- to use PC as well? I think there is some reasons: When my woman uses ICQ on PC
- and I am not able to surf using PC then I switch on my 8-bit...
-
- This manner has been tested by myself on the following configuration:
-
- Atari 130XE with 320 KB of RAM, Qmeg OS (I have to switch it off because ICE-T
- doesn't see non-existing cartridges) and PC PII 333Mhz 128 MR RAM.
-
- Write to me if you have any problems connecting: dely@atari-area.net
- And don't forget to tell me your configuration.
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- CHOSNECK team contact us:
- people faithful 2 da roots! atarimsb@wp.pl
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