The ops console is a Power Macintosh 6100/66 (PowerPC) -> SheepShaver, with
the caveat that the 6100 ROM is incompatible (use a 7100/7500/8500 old-world
ROM; PPC apps are ROM-agnostic). Plan to leverage the real 6100: image its
drive for a faithful SheepShaver console and/or bridge it live to the
pcap-pod to capture the real egg protocol.
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NE2000 + Novell ODI chain (lsl/NE2000 MLID/odipkt) works against the
emulated card (odipkt at SINT 0x60, Ethernet_II). netnub -f btl4opt spawns
the game as btl4opt
The pods do TCP/IP over Ethernet (WATTCP + NetNub real-mode server;
ops console is master, pushes mission eggs to pods over TCP). Pod is a
static host on an isolated 200.0.0.0/24 LAN (200.0.0.113, console
200.0.0.1); -egg is the dev bypass of this path. Fork already has NE2000
+ pcap/slirp backends; since the emulated card is NE2000 not PCI Lance we
skip the Novell ODI chain and load a Crynwr NE2000 packet driver directly.
NET-NOTES.md has the full architecture + milestone plan (headline goal:
host-side stand-in console pushes an egg over the wire, no -egg bypass).
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