PAR and Imagine
08-May-95 16:09:26
Sb: #11585-PAR and Imagine
Fm: Jim Shields 74557,2134
To: Charles Blaquiere 76046,1756
I currently connect my Pentium and A2000 via a null modem cable. Procomm Plus
on the PC side, and Term on the Amiga side. 115Kbaud transfers. It takes a
while, but it works. Legendary Design Technologies supposedly has a product
called LinkIt! that connects PCs & Amigas via Parallel port, transfers around
60K per second, but they're REALLY BAD about shipping — I ordered one in
October 1994 and still haven't gotten it ("well, we've had problems getting
cables…" sheesh.). Aside from that, EnLan-DFS should work with a Ethernet &
PCs running TCP/IP protocol software.
That's the end of my knowledge on networking.
On a different tack, if you have SCSI on both the PC and Amiga, you should be
able to use an external hard drive, formatted on your PC, and then use
Cross-DOS on the Amiga to read the drive (you'd have to remove the drive from
the PC and hook it up to the Amiga).
Jim Shields
Regal Rodent Development