Subj : Re: Ping
To   : Dennis J
From : Jeff Bowman
Date : Sat Mar 08 2008 16:50:37

> I used to run an Amiga BBS using TransAmiga.  I've recently pulled the
> machine and HDs out of storage, and miraculously, everything actually
> works.
 
Some of them old computers seem to be a lot tougher than some of the ones we use today.
 
 
> I've successfully transferred and run it from an emulator under Windows
> (no success on OSX, though, is UAE the best there is?), but thought it
> might be interesting to use the real hardware to bring it online via
> telnet.
 
UAE is what I've used on Windows for games, and it seemed to work fine, but I haven't used it enough to see of any downsides it might have.
 
 
> Unfortunately, I've got no idea where to begin.  I've seen at least
> one AmiExpress system running on authentic hardware but didn't see much
> info on how it was done.  Any pointers would be appreciated!
 
Good news is, I'm pretty sure almost all the Amigas had RS-232 serial ports, so you should be able to use a common null modem cable to hook it to your main computer.  If you don't have a serial port, you can buy a usb to serial adapter pretty cheap these days.  From there, you'd need to find some software, presumably for OSX in your case, to listen on a TCP connection on your main computer, and pass communication through your serial port.  Since OSX is based on Unix, this might end up being fairly simple to do already without even downloading anything, since I know Linux can do it, but I have no idea off the top of my head the exact process without doing some research.

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