Went and bought something silly for my X68030, a old Nereid card which extends it with USB and Ethernet.
Setting it up was surprisingly easy. Loaded the drivers in the included floppy and followed these instructions, and everything just kindof worked for Ethernet right away.
Have it hooked up to my router and could jump on IRC with the CLAT client.
Pretty happy with this, and sortof want to keep using this as a IRC chat device for the fun of it. Will have to swap out the fan for something more quite though since the X68030 still runs on original power supply with a fan that’s a bit too loud for me to want to have it on all the time.
Messed around a bit with the available web browsers, but honestly… they’re not really something that’s particularily usable. IRC is neat though, it’s been a while since I’ve been using that.
Still need to mess around with the FTP software for X68000, since that might actually be kindof useful. Currently I’m transmitting files to it by modifying the HDD image loaded through BlueSCSI. I’m not sure using FTP is much better, but it’s at least a cool option!