Andrew Roughan and Richard Bennett-Forrest of the Marinetti Open Source Project announced today the release of Marinetti 3.0b1, an open beta of the TCP/IP stack for the Apple IIGS.Documentation has been revised, header files updated, a new link layer format introduced, the MacIP link layer is included, the PPP and PPP Scripted link layers now support CHAP. Additionally, several bugs have been fixed.

A new CD-ROM including all the materials needed to build and install Marinetti 3.0b1 is available from Andrew at KFest, and will be sold by Syndicomm thereafter. The CD will also include Geoff Weiss’s gwftp and ping, plus the Crypto and Hash tool sets.

The long-awaited Casper web server program for the Apple IIGS is included with Marinetti 3.0b1.