Some info about STinG, Peter Rottengatter, and why this page exists.

This is now the real homepage of STinG though I am NOT he who created STinG.
But it is still here that you can find the latest STinG release.
STinG's creator is Peter Rottengatter, and his original homepage is here
Note that the above is a new URL, replacing his old one.
But the new STinG release is not there. It is just a copy of his old page.
The real STinG homepage is the one you are now looking at, and its URLs are:
"http://www.ettnet.se/~dlanor/"
"http://dlanor.atari.org/"
"http://sting.atari.org/"
At present those all lead to the same page, but that may change in the future, and then it is the last of them that is most important in leading you to the new home site of the STinG pages.
Peter has handed over administration of STinG releases to me, together with all the source code of the STinG components he maintained. That is now my task. Hopefully he will be able to come back to share in this work again, as I know that he wants to do, but until then he has given us a legacy to preserve in his absence. I will certainly do my best to make sure it survives.

STinG is a TCP/IP stack for Atari TOS, and all compatible operating systems. This includes all MagiC flavours (even on PC), MiNT, N_AES, Geneva, etc... It can run on all real TOS machines, and even on some TOS emulators.
The STinG programming interface includes the interface used by the older TCP/IP stack STiK, so that all (that I know of) STiK client applications can also be used under STinG. In addition there are also a number of server applications available for STinG, many of which can not be used with STiK, since they use STinG functions not included in the STiK API.
I myself have used STinG with 8MHz 520ST machines, though my main machines are a 32MHz TT030 and a 50MHz Falcon030 (CT2B-accelerator). STinG works very well on all, so I can use them together as a functional and consistent LAN, with Internet access for all of them through a single ISP connection.

"So who is RA then, and why does he have this page ?", you may ask.
I was the one programmer who joined Peter in his efforts to produce the first STinG release, and we then continued to collaborate on improving old components and creating additional ones to gain new features.
It was therefore natural that I 'inherit' the project from Peter when he found that his professional work no longer gave him time for working on STinG.

This page was created in mid-April of 1999, to serve as a temporary center for the release of STinG and related software.
The creation of a new page was necessary because Peter Rottengatter lost access to his ISP account in mid-January. From then he only managed to get in touch once more with the rest of the STinG developers and testers until steady contact was reestablished in mid-June. We now have contact with him, but his job demands too much of his time now for him to resume as the maintainer of STinG releases. For the present I will take that job on myself, though I hope some others of the STinG crew will help later on.
Note: Peter retains full rights to all software that he originally created, regardless of any patches or updates made to them by others (mainly me) in his absence. Our work on such updates should be regarded as volunteer contributions to Peter's work, not affecting his full rights to that. This relates mainly to the TCP module that I have modified quite a lot, so as to fix some problems that Peter and I were jointly debugging at the time when he finally had to stop working on STinG.
The work as a whole will remain freeware, and it will continue to be maintained with the goals and guarded by the principles set up by Peter long ago, and which he and I have worked with in producing all the releases so far. Such are some of the requirements of Peter (and would be of me in any case), under which he has agreed to pass his sources on for others to maintain.
The last sentence above does mean that future support of STinG is now assured.

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