Ideas

One day, pie in the sky stuff. nothing here is a commitment

Table of Contents

1. Systems
2. Media
3. Tools
4. GUI
5. General
6. Work In Progress
7. Recent Systems
8. Added

Systems

Apple, AppleTalk, Mac, Apple II

• timelord and tardis
  • https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/tardis-and-timelord
• A2BOOT (network boot Apple IIGS)
• MacIP
  • https://www.macip.net/

Coco

• Drivewire / pyDriveWire https://github.com/n6il/pyDriveWire
  • Good video going through setup and use with MAME
  • when python3 port is finished

Commodore 64

• WiFi access point for C64-WiFi
• Tape emulator
• rr-net bits
  • netbooting https://netboot65.sourceforge.net/
  • udpslave https://automac.se/paradroid/udpslave/
  • netdrive https://csdb.dk/release/?id=83066&show=summary#summary
  • 64net/2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/c64net/
  • test webserver (lighttpd) is compatible with http-load2

OpenBoot Netboot (e.g. Sun Sparc)

• assumes a /24 net
• rarpd - Reverse ARP
• tftpd
• nfsd
• bootparamd
• reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3iUmhkP10k

Netboot - Arcade

• PiForce - https://github.com/travistyoj/piforcetools
  • Supports Sega NAOMI, Chihiro, Triforce arcade hardware
• WiPiNetbooter
• triforcetools.py (Original)
• NetDIMM tools
• NaomiPi
• TiforceTools Webui)
• netdimmutils pypi
• naomiutils pypi

DS/Wii Online

• WFC-pi

DOS

• PLIP (IP over Parallel port)
  • https://tldp.org/HOWTO/PLIP-1.html
• mTCP Netdrive (in development)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMd2NTow1oE

Media

ISO / CHD

• ISO checksum tool
• ISO <-> CHD converter (MAME chdman)
• ISO CD/DVD burner (via USB CD-R/DVD-R)

Carts

• Retrode Symlinks for MiSTer as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLp56LpfoM
• GB Cart dumper https://github.com/Palmr/cart-dumper
• MegaWiFi cart loader https://gitlab.com/doragasu/mw . specifically . https://gitlab.com/doragasu/mw-wf-cli

Tools

Audio player for tape based computers

• Push tape images over audio to compatible systems
  • Sega SC-3000 "bit" format
  • MSX "cas" format
  • Generic "wav" / "flac" formats
  • MAME castool frontend - https://docs.mamedev.org/tools/castool.html
• Test with cheap 3.5mm audio jack to tape player hardware
• Linux mpd + web interface to play audio files (mobile compatible), e.g.:
  • https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPD
  • https://github.com/rain0r/ampd
• https://github.com/8bitkick/PlayUEF

Floppy disk manager

• Build a floppy builder
  • Take ideas from ISOify - https://github.com/danmons/isoify
  • Build 512x20x18x2 (1.44MB) FAT12 floppy image files, lookback mount, copy data
  • Include tools for FlashFloppy export - https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
• Add USB floppy disk support
  • Mount real floppy disks
  • Copy from RetroNAS to Floppy (individual files or raw image)
  • https://gitlab.com/rreiner/usbfd-tools/

GOG sync

• Sync all GOG purchases to NAS
  • https://github.com/eddie3/gogrepo
  • Mostly done, need multi-game select menu
  • cron scheduled sync

FTP client

• Something web based preferably (curlftpfs+frontend?)
  • Allow push from RetroNAS to devices like modded Classic XBox, XBox 360
  • https://github.com/sairuk/cockpit-xboxmanager

ROM auditing

• Symlinks/Hardlinks for deduplication (filesystem specific)
  • https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemov
• ROM Verify SmokeMonster SMDB verify-pack support

Cloud drives, cloud sync

• rclone cloud sync / cloud drive mount
  • https://rclone.org/docs/
• Test stability/performance of cloud drives accessed from retro systems
• Backup tools to push from RetroNAS to cloud

Speed test

• https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest
• Something for disk too

Scheduled downloader

• Open source tools autodownloaded
  • 240p test suite images
  • FreeDOS
  • GParted
  • Open source games/ROMs ("Bad Apple" demo for various console/computer systems, etc)

IPX / NCPFS / NetWare

• https://github.com/pasis/ipx
• https://ftp.disconnected-by-peer.at/ncpfs/
• https://github.com/cml37/dos-utils/blob/master/network/novell/servers/mars_nwe/mars_nwe_setup.txt
• https://github.com/davidrg/mars_nwe
• https://github.com/fragglet/ipxbox

Bulletin Board / BBS tools

• Native Hosted, DOS VM maybe, expose local file system for file downloads
• Dialup integration via DreamPi
• IP based for ppp connections. telnet connections

DECnet

• DECnet PDP-11 / DEC / OpenVMS network sharing
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet
  • https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/decnet.html

parport

• pi-parport
• plip2slip
• plipbox
• plipUltimate

Serial port

• USB to RS232/DB9
• RPi GPIO to RS232/DB9
• ppp support with dhcp
  • Test with null-modem compatible OSes - DOS, Win3.x, Win9x, Amiga, etc
  • RetroPi access over serial
  • Internet access over serial (optionally via WebOne)

Internet Access proxies

• Browservice

DHCP / DNS / PXE

• dnsmasq or something similar and simple
• Option to choose WiFi Bridge mode or secure "RetroLAN" NAT/Firewall mode
• PLOP boot manager for retro OS installs, utilities, add USB boot to retro PCs, etc
  • https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html
• PXE / iPXE support + menus
  • OS installers (e.g.: FreeDOS via memdisk)
  • iSCSI support
  • Floppy imager to build iPXE floppy

IPv4-only clients to IPv6-only hosts

• socat configured as a service - test with WebOne
• Squid already works as an IPv4-to-IPv6 proxy. Need to build simple non-caching service/config for this.
• Combine with dnsmasq stuff for dual stack config on the RetroNAS server itself.

Torrent server with client install instructions

• Tracker Instructions (Local)

Download tools

• jDownloader software https://jdownloader.org/

WS-Discovery

• WS-Discovery protocol / wsdd daemon
• Enables "people near me" features in certain legacy Windows builds
• https://github.com/KoynovStas/wsdd
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-Discovery

GUI

GUI remote access

• Non-crap GUI / web interface (mobile compatible)

  • https://github.com/danmons/cockpit-retronas

• aria2 webui

  • https://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2

• Custom Web/Text UI Opportunities

  • XBOX Manager
  • PFSFuse/hdl_dump
  • Media managers (chd/iso/castool/floppies), (iso burning, disk(dd) imaging)
  • lftp ui
  • gogsync
  • dnsmasq/dhcp management
  • /etc/hosts file editor
  • Scheduled tool downloader (toggled)
  • sabretools
  • mpf dumping

Manage external devices

• iSCSI Target mode (on RetroNAS)
• OTG setup external device
• A general sd card imager menu

General stuff

• Deployment
  • Extend ansible playbooks for other distros (not just Debian)
  • Flashable image for RPi
  • Docker container
    • Target UnRAID, TruNAS/FreeNAS, etc
    • macvlan config for unique MAC, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • Pre-baked VM images for popular VM tools (VirtualBox, VMWare, QEmu, etc)
  • WSL2 distribution for Windows10/11 users
    • "debian" distro exists, confirmed Debian 11 Bullseye
    • Waiting on Microsoft to allow WSL2 virtual switch in bridged mode for IPv4
• Storage
  • Advanced File Systems
    • MDRAID
    • LVM
    • BtrFS + deduplication / compression / snapshots
      • https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove
  • Addition single drive mounting
    • Data path per system as this request
• Javascript/WASM Emulation
  • Emularity / emularity-wrapper
    • https://github.com/db48x/emularity
    • https://github.com/mameau/emularity-wrapper
  • EmulatorJS
    • https://emulatorjs.org/docs/getting-started
    • https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS/tree/main/data

Work In Progress

• Netboot Mac

Recent systems

• Switch - Nut server

Added

• Aria2
• XLINK Kai (multisystem) - https://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
• CUE2POPS / POP2CUE - on device conversion
  • POPS on SMB - https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/smb-mode
• Fenrir-ode Webserver
• TCPSer Hayes compatible software mode
• Netatalk
• FSP + Swiss
• TNFS / Fujinet
• uCON64 dumping / launching
• ROM-import SmokeMonster SMDB https://github.com/frederic-mahe/Hardware-Target-Game-Database
• SabreTools https://github.com/SabreTools/SabreTools
• Cockpit Good file copy/management tool see: cockpit-navigator
• pyGopherd Gopher
• BitTorrent deluge-web https://deluge-torrent.org/
• File manager:
  • https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-navigator
• megatools mega.nz support
• * ADTPro style serial boot for Apple II family machines
  • https://github.com/ADTPro/adtpro
  • https://www.adtpro.com/
• PS4 - HB-Store CDN Server
• DreamPi - https://github.com/Kazade/dreampi || https://github.com/sairuk/dreampi
• [Netlink]
• Kermit
• SMB https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-file-sharing
• ZFS manager https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager
• VNC access for tools that don't have web interfaces
• SMB https://github.com/enira/cockpit-smb-plugin Using SMB 45Drives package
• Pi1541
• ethflop, floppy block device over L2 ethernet http://ethflop.sourceforge.net/
• Redumper (replacing DiscImageCreator) https://github.com/superg/redumper
• macproxy https://github.com/rdmark/macproxy
  • Legacy proxy for old browsers, similar to WebOne, but another option
  • Not Mac specific, despite name
  • listens on TCP/5000 by default, no conflicts
• wrp https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
  • Web Rendering Proxy. Another retro focused proxy that uses Chromium to render pages to static images.
• DIC - Redump BIN/CUE optical drive ripper (was MPF, MPF is a frontend)
  • http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Dumping_Guides
  • https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF/