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 the following 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:

File transfer between Windows PCs and X68000 machines using null modem cable

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:

To test it out try:

ping google.com

and ignore any errors that may occur.

I don't know what web browser is good, Lynx is probably as good as any. I tested VWX and it had serious out of memory problems. I also tested WebXpression, it works but not well. For IRC I recommend clat http://sharl.haun.org/a/x68/clat-beta5.tar.gz. To configure clat, put clat.x somewhere handy and create a file called clatrc in the same folder and fill it in as follows:

SERVER irc.efnet.org
NICK yournick
MAIL blah@whatever.com
NAME whatever
USERINFO blahblahblah
QUIT yourquitmessage

You have to be in the directory you installed clat.x and clatrc or it will fail to find the clatrc file. I think the docs said there is a way to change that but I didn't follow up on it. If you have TwentyOne you can also call it .clatrc but it doesn't matter.

I didn't test out NFS but it seems pretty straightforward.