Wanted: Programmer to build utility for Mac

Hi all,

I'm an Apple IIgs fanatic that likes to use an emulator to continue
working on IIgs projects.

What I need is a way to connect the TCP/IP stack within the emulator
that I use to the host machine's TCP/IP stack.

Unfortunately the emulator authors are long gone so modifiying this
app is probably not an option.

My host machine of choice at the moment is a PB1400 running MacOS 8.6.
So I believe the host TCP/IP stack is Open Transport.

The emulator has the ability to output to the host machines serial
ports very reliably.

So the utility that I've imagined would watch the Mac serial port and
grab data passed to it and shove it into an IP datagram that is then
passed to the Open Transport interface and vice versa.

This utility does not necessarily need a user interface, however some
method of watching the packets flow through would be nice to confirm
everything is working as expected (e.g. dump to disk file).

So, is this kind of utility possible to build? (e.g. can two
applications use the same serial port at the same time?)
Does anyone here have the know-how to build it?
Is anyone willing to have a go themselves or mentor me to have a go?
I've never done any mac programming, so there's a huge learning curve
for me that I'd rather not attempt if I don't have to. But just in
case I do have to, what version of CodeWarrior should I look for to
run in this environment?
What language would be best for this? Can C do the job or would some
of it have to be in done in something else?

Thanks for any input on this.

Regards,
Andrew

On Feb 1, 10:42 pm, roughana <rough... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> what version of CodeWarrior should I look for to
> run in this environment?

I actually have CodeWarrior 6 Academic. This has min requirements of
System 7.1.
Can this still be used to build stuff for MacOS 8.6 Open Transport
v1.3 ??
Does it have the necessary libraries / headers etc already or would I
have to get them from somewhere?

Thanks,
Andrew