How to BBS by TCP/IP?

[WuShufei]

Howdy, I should greatly fancy using this with iPad to log onto internetworked BBSes. Especially such as Quantum-Link RELOADED. The net modem on VICE is fairly straightforward, but I’m not seeing any such options here. Is there an internet compatibility possibility yet? If not, is that in the works?

This really is an amazing C64 emulator for touchscreens so far, very polished for tablet. Thank you for this lovely project!

[mithrendal]

This really is an amazing C64 emulator for touchscreens so far, very polished for tablet. Thank you for this lovely project!

🥰 Thank you.

The net modem on VICE is fairly straightforward, but I’m not seeing any such options here. Is there an internet compatibility possibility yet? If not, is that in the works?

1. this vc64web is not VICE it is based on the VirtualC64 for MacOS by @dirkwhoffmann

2. One might think because vc64web is a web app and therefore sort of ”present and online in the internet” that it could communicate easily with other servers in the internet… But this thought is misleading…

That is because browser engines in which vc64web lives together with its compiled c++ code inside a wasm memory space are very strict when it comes to connectivity to other servers. You can think of it as a sandbox in which connections to the outside world are restricted to the ”same server only” from which vc64webs code was loaded from.

To connect to any server from a web app like vc64web would therefore require sending all traffic back to the same server which would have to act as a reverse proxy through which all information would be passed. Since it lives on a github.io space which only serves static files there is no way to implement such a proxy.

despite this constraints ... the user port of the emulated c64 is connected to the outside i.e. javascript
see here for reference.

https://github.com/vc64web/virtualc64web/wiki/serial_cable

There are projects which are using that to emulate a BBS in javascript

https://quipzz.bplaced.net/5n1a.html

EDIT: what would be possible is to enable CORS on the bbs server, but then still there has to be some sort of an access protocol maybe websockets ? because javascript can not directly establish an open standard tcp/ip connection i.e. keep the connection open for bidirectional communication...