NFG Games + GameSX

This article is a kind contribution by our forum member Neko68k. Thank you for shedding light on this rather grey area !

First of all you will need to download these:

It might also be useful to install TwentyOne (long file name support) if you haven't already.

• unlzh PPPXR5.lzh
• put PPP.SYS in \SYS
• put PPP.X KILL.X and PPPX.BAT in \BIN

If you install PPP.X anywhere else, be sure to modify the first line of PPPX.BAT to point to that directory.

I found it helpful to add a line to the end of PPPX.BAT:

inetdconf +dns 192.168.0.1

You have to do this anyway so might as well just make it happen. This is to point at your dns server, I used the IP address of my router.

• unlzh TMSIO031.LZH and put TMSIO.X in \BIN
• unlzh TCPPACKA.LZH and merge the folders it contains with your existing \BIN \ETC and \MAN
• edit \ETC\hosts and \ETC\networks to reflect your actual network. for example:

#
# /etc/hosts
#
127.0.0.1	localhost		localhost
192.168.0.11	x68k			x68k

#
# - /etc/networks
#
127		loopback
192.168.0	private-net

• optionally add this line to \ETC\services, clat asks for it:

irc			6667/tcp

Add to your config.sys the following(RSDRV.SYS comes with human):

PROCESS 16 10 50
DEVICE = \SYS\RSDRV.SYS
DEVICE = \SYS\PPP.SYS

Once this is complete plug in your null modem cable and reboot the x68. A wiring diagram for making a null modem cable can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D9_Null_Modem_Wiring.png

On your x68k run PPPX.BAT. On the emulator this throws an error, it can be safely ignored. Once at the ppp> prompt type 'term' and push enter then switch to your Linux box. This also throws a couple errors in emulation and they can also be ignored.

On your Linux machine(I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat) open a terminal. At the prompt type the following where 192.168.0.10 is the host IP, 192.168.0.11 is the x68k IP. It doesn't matter what these are necessarily as long as they dont collide with any other IP addresses on your network. /dev/ttyS0 is your serial port(ttyS0|COM1 ttyS1:COM2 etc):

pppd -detach crtscts lock proxyarp 192.168.0.10:192.168.0.11 /dev/ttyS0 38400

If everything worked you should see something like this: