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send me the file as if I right clicked on a link and clicked “save link as”. Be aware that if you use
any other port address then 80 then you need to type a little more then that for example when using
port 1234 you need to type the following URL into your browser: 192.168.2.8:1234/virtual.prg
In order to make this work on your CBM you also need to setup the Cassiopei with 3 settings (as
stored in the settings file, this needs to be edited manually using a text-editor because these settings
cannot be made through the menu.
VIRTUALHOST_IP=192.168.2.8
VIRTUALHOST_PORT=80
VIRTUALHOST_FILE=virtual.prg
The filename “virtual.prg” is merely used as an example here, it can be any other name is that is
more convenient to you.
As shown above the IP-
address is a fixed address, you
can determine the IP address
of your PC using a CMD
window and typing the
command IPCONFIG.
This will respond the IPv4
address, which is the IP-
address of your computer on
the local network. Do not use
google and ask “what's my IP
address” because then they
will give you the global IP-
address and this is not what we want! Using the local IP-address might cause some problems
eventually because most routers will try to change this value everyday (when starting or rebooting
your computer). On my router this is defined as lease-time and it is set to 86400seconds (which is
exactly 1 day). Fortunately it also has a setting to keep this value fixed for any specific computer,
which is just what we want. Otherwise we need to change the VIRTUALHOST_IP setting
everyday. How this needs to be configured depends on your router, but when you are somebody
who wants to program for the C64 then it is very likely that you gave technical skills that allow you
to figure out the routers settings by yourself. These are quite normal settings and should be
described in the manual (could be under advanced settings) of your router.
In order to use the virtual file mode on your CBM, just type LOAD and you would normally do to
directly load a PRG file from the Cassiopei. After pressing the play button (NOT the menu button)
and wait a few seconds. If all goes well this should not be any slower then loading from SD-card
(the bottleneck of the data transfer lies mainly in the speed of the CBM processor).
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