Readme for Ethernet driver sources                            27 Jun 99

These are the sources for STinG's ethernet pocket driver. The originals
were written by Peter Rottengatter for Rielb ethernet adapters. However
programming the cartridge port is a different story, so I tried to keep
the 'real' RTL part as isolated as possible from the rest of the driver.
This should make ports or adaptations for other pocket adapters easier.
For this to be done, infos from the card manufacturer are required.
One exception should be the DE-600 pocket adapter that is 'known' to
the ATARI world thanks to the TUW project and MintNet's xif driver.

Take great care when modifying the driver, since the cartridge port
behaves differently between ATARI models, especialy the addressing
logic. In this state the driver does about 75KB/sec when running on
a TT (this of course also depends on the clients used), but since
reading/writing a full ethernet packet takes less than 5ms, in theory
it's possible to achieve much higher speeds.

One easy optimisation can be to replace the memmoves from the TOOLS.C
file with faster equivalents (most of them just move 6 bytes).

Conditions:
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You are free to modify the driver in anyway you like and adapt it for
different pocket adapters but in this case you'll have to inform me
for the changes. In any case this project should remain FREEWARE.
I'll accept no liability for damages that might result from the
use or misuse of this package.

Vassilis Papathanassiou
papval@otenet.gr
