Point well taken, I just thought it was silly to have to get another modem for
the IBM side. How about the parallel port, can I use the Amiga parallel port
and hence not worry about moving printer connections?
Thanks,
John
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