Subj : Re: Looking For Bbs Clien
To   : Kirkspragg
From : AKAcastor
Date : Sat May 04 2024 17:28:02

 k> I get 40-50 kB/s (kilobytes per sec) with fastlynx. I no 
 k> longer use laplink due to consistent issues I've had 
 k> with stability. For short transfers its fine, but 
 k> anything that needs more that 20-30 minutes is almost 
 k> guaranteed to either stall or crash outright - sometimes 
 k> requiring a full power off and on cycle (at both ends) 
 k> to get everything up and running again, somehow when it 
 k> breaks it can really mess with your parallel/com ports.

This is great information that seems like it could save me hours of frustration down the road! :)   Crashing after 20-30 minutes is the worst.

 k> If you interested I can give you more detailed info on 
 k> how to set this up with dosbox-x on windows. Main things 
 k> to do are to ensure you get your PCI-E parallel port's 
 k> IO addresses from the device manager (these are unlikely 
 k> to be the standard DOS LPT1/2 IO addresses) and use 
 k> those when configuring the the LTP pass-through with Dosbox-x.

I am not ready at the moment to test the setup, I am familiar enough with dosbox to get the gist of it, but I think it would be great to have detailed information about this as it's such a good way to pull the files you want to use onto your retro PC and your experience here would be valuable.


Chris/akacastor

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