For those learning assembly for the first time

calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:51 pm

While I"m not the only person on the forum learning asm for the first time, I certainly reach out wherever I can for guidance. In my search, I found a resource that may be beneficial to some like me:

gopher://zzo38computer.org/0textfile/programming/CARDS/65c02

Enjoy.

SlithyMatt · Post by **SlithyMatt** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:53 pm

Everything worth knowing is in gopherspace.

calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:00 pm

6 minutes ago, SlithyMatt said:

Everything worth knowing is in gopherspace.

I wish that were true.

EMwhite · Post by **EMwhite** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:18 pm

I'm going to have to break-out my Apple Newton MessagePad from 1993. I don't have any other devices with Gopher clients : (

Michael Parson · Post by **Michael Parson** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:23 pm

4 minutes ago, EMwhite said:

I'm going to have to break-out my Apple Newton MessagePad from 1993. I don't have any other devices with Gopher clients : (

The 'lynx' text-mode web browser still works with gopher:// URLs.

calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:42 pm

There is an add-on for firefox and chrome as well. Firefox only recently dropped gopher support and I could almost hear their facepalm out here in california when my feature request came in.

Someone also made a standalone gopher browser that you can download here: http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/

It's written in pascal, though it's not feature complete yet.

Cyber · Post by **Cyber** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:02 pm

Gopher proxy solution: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/

Standard: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

Lite: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:02 pm

There's a Commodore 64 GEOS gopher client, imaginatively called geoGopher. https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/geos/geoGopher/index.html I supposed if there were Internet of some sort connected to the Commander X16 it might be ported to the X16, too.

calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:31 pm

1 hour ago, Sean said:

There's a Commodore 64 GEOS gopher client, imaginatively called geoGopher. https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/geos/geoGopher/index.html I supposed if there were Internet of some sort connected to the Commander X16 it might be ported to the X16, too.

Sounds hella dope. This project has enough interest that I expect someone with engineering skills to craft a networking expansion card. Not like such devices haven't already been invented for retro computers.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:24 am

4 hours ago, calcmandan said:

Sounds hella dope. This project has enough interest that I expect someone with engineering skills to craft a networking expansion card. Not like such devices haven't already been invented for retro computers.

A dedicated network card for the Commander X16, Ethernet or WiFi, would be two approaches. Another approach would be an SPI bus expansion card for the Commander X16 that would allow SPI peripherals to be connected, including networking. The folks over at 6502.org have several of those dreamed up and documented, including example code and some CPLD designs. It wouldn't take much to adapt that to the Commander X16.