Michael Mahon's Apple II NadaNet

NadaPong, which debuted as a HackFest entry at KansasFest 2007, is a demonstration of the Apple II parallel processing hardware known as NadaNet. Michael Mahon writes:

"Do you have more than one Apple II computer? Have you ever thought about what you could do if they were networked together? Several years ago, I began thinking about this, and envisioned being able to send data easily from one machine to another and being able to run programs on other Apples while sitting at my main machine.

"I knew that there were networking cards available for the Apple II machines, but they were all some combination of rare, expensive, or unsupported by software. So I considered how one might network Apple II computers using only the I/O capabilities built onto the main board, and wondered what might be done with such a network.

"I have worked on this project over the intervening years as time permitted, and it is now working quite well."

For more details and downloads, visit
http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/

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[iToasterman]

nice :D

[uriituw]

Nice.

This has inspired me to write something similar.

[ueberRegenbogen]

Nice touch with the sound coming from the relevant machine. :D

With 5 Apple II's in the house (IIe IIgs IIgs IIc IIc+) i should do stuff like this.

[aramusician]

excellent!

[candjsmith]

that guy is crazy.. must be off his rocker