Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!udel!mmdf From: spencer%eris.berkeley.edu@UDEL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Serial Ports Message-ID: <4418@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 88 22:17:35 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 55 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 3692; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:00:30 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Sat, 01 Oct 88 23:00:27 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id ab03980; 1 Oct 88 15:38 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa03968; 1 Oct 88 15:37 EDT From: "Randal m. Spencer [RmS]" Subject: Re: Serial Ports Message-ID: <14909@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 1 Oct 88 18:33:20 GMT Organization: Not really very well organized right now. To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) wrote: ..I can think of lots of things I would have been happy to give up if only ..I could have had another serial port... up to and including the parallel ..port, Extra Halfbright, and the 7 finger trick (yow, now we're getting ..serious!). Where are the Amiga-based multiuser BBSes? Where do I stick ..my MIDI box and modem and debugging terminal (get a switcher, ya bum!)? ..-- .. Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Well, this is probably stupid, but I am curious as to what the results of this might be... If you wanted to put a box on the outside of your Amiga that spoke serial data (such as the X-10 box) couldn't you use one of those parallel to serial converter boxes. I know that you can't just run VT100 and have it talk out the parallel port, but would it be that hard to change it? (take out things like Setting the baud.) If nothing else you could write a program that would send all the things you needed sent to the X-10 out the parallel port to be converted into serial. That should work. Actually, if you got really ambitious you could sit down and write a serial device like thing that spoke to the parallel port. Then you write a little program based on MWB that would take the next call to OpenDevice (serial.dev) and route that to the semi-serial.device. That way you could run your BBS on one serial port (the funky one) and then run any application through the normal serial port. (Of course BBS's like to change speed of the port so that probably isn't the greatest of applications for the semi-serial port, but maybe you could run UUCP on that port (if all others systems run at a single specific speed) (is it called CCCP in the USSR?:') Hopefully all this noise that went on this last year will result in more serial ports for the Amiga sometime soon. As I remember it we left it with Bryce and Randell were going to be hired into Commodore and they would get to fight out how to write the new Serial.Device stuff to support multiple ports. I do kind of wonder how that is coming... "He who dies with the most toys... is dead" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu ...ucbvax!mica!spencer BBS: (415)222-9416 (no longer working for Infinity Software..."Work? I don't work for anyone")