CompuServe Messages

There's a standard program for the bridge card stuff that lets the IBM use the printer port. Basically, you just run this program on the Amiga side, and it will exclusively allocate that printer port to it's task, which communicates though shared bridge RAM which emulates the IBM parallel port hardware. A parallel port is a bit easier to emulate, it's only in one direction for the most part, and printers are usually slower than the data sent to them anyway. Actually, if bridge cards really become popular, I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with a serial port emulator. The high level emulation of a device called COM1: or whatever could be made to go fast, since it could buffer over on the Amiga side. However, any emulation of the serial chip itself is bound to be slow, and that's why they decided not to release such an emulation. -Dave