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echo: amiga
to: MARK LEWIS
from: JOACIM MELIN
date: 2016-09-12 12:47:00
subject: Re: Connect modem to FS-U

 ml> 11 Sep 16 18:33, you wrote to All:

 JM>> As I'm forced to run my BBS in a emulated Amiga for time being, I'm
 JM>> wondering if there is any way to have the Amiga access the psysical
 JM>> RS-232-port on the PC that's running Ubuntu and FS-UAE.

 ml> it is generally up to the settings of the VM as to whether or not
 ml> access to real hardware is provided... if your VM software has some
 ml> place where you can set up the virtual machine to access real hard
 ml> drives, set the amount of memory, how many CPUs and such, you may be
 ml> able to "add new hardware" pointing to the physical serial port on
 ml> the physical machine /if/ that serial port is recognised by the
 ml> physical machine's configuration and its OS sees it...

It's FS-UAE and I am yet to find any setting for RS-232.  I used to run the BBS
with Amiga Forever, which supports RS-232 but had other issues such as the
emulated Amiga loosing it's network connection after a few hours.

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