Marina TCP/IP Stack for Apple II Released

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David Finnigan of MacGui.com has announced the availability of his latest software project, the Marina TCP/IP stack for the Apple II.  Marina is a stack which was written completely in 6502 assembly language and is written to work with the Uthernet,   According to the press release,

Because I wanted to learn more about ethernet and TCP/IP networking, and
because I was dissatisfied with existing TCP/IP implementations for the
Apple, I decided to write my own implementation. It is called Marina.

I started on February 1st of this year, taking a Uthernet/CS8900A driver
that I’d written about 2 years ago, and in 2 months’ time I have written
decent implementations of IP, ARP, UDP, DHCP, with little bits of ICMP, and
the start of a DNS resolver.

As far as I know, Marina is the first IP stack for Apple II to include a
Link-Local addressing implementation. It has several other unique features
too, but that was the one feature that I really wanted to have in a TCP/IP
stack for Apple II.

You can download the stack for free from the Marina website at:
http://marina.a2hq.com/

Author: Bill Martens
A.P.P.L.E. Chairman of the Board and Club president -- Bill worked for the founder, Val J. Golding and A.P.P.L.E. from 1981 to 1982. In 1999, he began archiving the materials which were distributed and sold by A.P.P.L.E.. That project led to the group that remained of A.P.P.L.E. Bill was involved in the financial industry in Tokyo and has over 20 major office infrastructure projects to his name. In March 2001, he retired to write books and to spend more time pursuing personal interests. As the president of the users group, Bill is in charge of distribution of Call-A.P.P.L.E. magazine as well as the organization of this web site. Bill currently resides in Tokyo, Japan and Shelton, Wa splitting time between the places.