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1. #Amiga explorer serial settings install#
2. #Amiga explorer serial settings update#
3. #Amiga explorer serial settings Pc#
4. #Amiga explorer serial settings windows#

#Amiga explorer serial settings install#

There’s a piece of the Amiga Explorer software that you’re supposed to install on the Amiga and in theory you can do that by redirecting the serial port to a file by entering a single command in the Amiga shell.

#Amiga explorer serial settings Pc#

I used the Amiga Explorer software that came with Cloanto’s AmigaForever to connect the A500 to a PC using a pair of serial cables, a null modem adapter, and a USB-to-serial port adapter. Instead, I decided to try to recover the information from the hard drive and a few important floppy disks – I figured I could use them with the WinUAE Amiga emulator. I wasn’t as hardware-savvy then as I am now or at least I was more chicken about poking around in the guts of a computer. And for all I knew, the motherboard itself might have been the problem. The Amiga 500 is from that style of 80s home computers where the keyboard was integral with the case, and connected directly to the motherboard. With a PC, a broken keyboard is a trivial problem – you just replace it. It booted up, with a few transient read errors on the disk, but the keyboard didn’t respond. I never got rid of the A500 but, as the Rush song goes, “Time if nothing else will do its worst.” When I finally hooked it up again, a few years ago, all was not well. It was a trustworthy machine that remained capable long past Commodore’s corporate demise and its own technological obsolescence.Įventually, though, I had to move on, and by 1998 or so I was a dedicated Linux snob.

#Amiga explorer serial settings update#

At considerable expense and with the help of a good friend I finally got an AmigaOS 2.04 update ROM kit for it.

I added a GVP HD-8+ sidecar with a massive 50 megabyte hard drive (SCSI, of course) and 2 megs of RAM. Towards the end, I rigged up some kind of IP-over-serial hack to access the Net from my dorm room. At first, I used it – along with my trusty SupraModem 2400 – to discover the BBS scene. My Amiga 500P was my primary computer through my undergrad college years. You see, the sad fact is that I haven’t had a fully functional Amiga since before 2006. When I bid for that copy of Questron II for the Commodore Amiga on eBay a few weeks ago, I knew I was getting myself into trouble. I'd like to also point out I am fairly cluey at making these cables and using Amiga Explorer but this issue I am having has completely stumped me.Fully operational and playing Questron II – but it took a lot of work to get there. I am using a cheap Chinese Prolific USB to RS232 adapter and am wondering if this could be the issue? I cannot understand how I can reliably copy across Amiga Explorer perfectly and multiple times but then AExplorer refuses to establish a connection on the PC side. Im only using 19200 baud but have also tried as low as 9600. I have the same baud settings on both machines and packet size, retries etc. On very rare occasions I do manage to read the Amiga and it shows it's contents etc but as soon as I click on anything the serial connection error occurs again.

#Amiga explorer serial settings windows#

The problem is now when I run Amiga Explorer on the Amiga side and then try launching it on the Windows side I most times get a serial connection error. I can read the readme.txt on the Amiga and Amiga Explorer launches on WB no issues there at all. On Windows side and using the Amiga Explorer Setup function I managed to successfully copy across Amiga Explorer to the 2000 with no problems. Recently I acquired an Amiga 2000 and have made up my own RS232 Null modem cable.