Streaming RealAudio From a Commodore 64

An anonymous reader submits: "This just came in on comp.sys.cbm and I think it will be of general interest here at Slashdot as well. Two Commodore hackers, Adam Dunkels and Peter Eliasson, have built an Ethernet card for their C64 and have connected one to the Internet. But they aren't 'just' running a TCP/IP stack and a web server on it - they are also running a RealAudio server which streams audio from the C64's cassette player and apparently, it sounds awful! They have the full source code avaliable and pictures of the C64 server."

Not half bad

[cscx]

Currently active TCP connections
Local Remote State Retransmissions Timer Flags
6510 68.53.74.100:3127 SYN-RCVD 0 3 *
6510 195.197.177.165:46743 SYN-RCVD 4 8 *
6510 62.23.145.66:28401 ESTABLISHED 0 3 *
6510 144.134.31.152:1599 SYN-RCVD 1 3 *
6510 68.53.3.20:2035 ESTABLISHED 7 38 *
6510 67.82.198.141:63434 ESTABLISHED 6 24 *
6510 68.0.176.210:3466 LAST-ACK 6 35 *
6510 193.10.66.107:4831 FIN-WAIT-1 0 2 *
6510 132.170.42.189:3313 SYN-RCVD 7 1 *

Maybe it's just that time of night...

Re:hack value

[MagerValp]

Umm, well, actually, some of us are working on networked games running on the C64... As for emulators being cheaper, I don't there's much of a difference: C64s and disk drives can be had for less than the cost of an internet connection. Hacking the old hardware is immensely more satisfying than playing around in an emulator.

Just because newer computers are more capable doesn't mean that they are more fun. 8 bits is all you need.

Re:So these guys did essentially nothing

[glwtta]

Well what the fuck did you do? Sat on your ass and read /.? Yeah, that's much more impressive.

Re:Ingenuity

[tomlouie]

Who's to say that their ingenuity wasn't spent doing something worthwhile? They had a blast, I bet, they overcame technical problems, and they learned a lot. And, they furthered the knowledge and realm of possiblility. (Who would have thought that a C=64 could handle a /. load?!?)

Now, if you were talking about the millions of dollars that goes into sports every year that could have been going to something worthwhile, I would agree with you.

Tom

port 6510

[Alcoholist]

I notice the status pages are found on port 6510. Nice touch.