Sylvain@speedy.CAM.ORG (Sylvain Tremblay) (07/15/90)
I bought the "Dual serial port" for my XT Bridgeboard 4-5 months ago and I
wasn't able to make it work. I brought it to an Amy dealer and he wasn't
able either. Why are some serial boards won't run on the XT Bridgeboard?
I heard of a patch that allows using Amy's internal serial port for the
Bridgeboard uses. I never saw it running, though, so I don't know if it's
true. Is that kind of patch possible? Does it really exists? Does
anybody has it? If you got it, it would be really kind of you to send it
to me.
Thanks
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Sylvain
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Sylvain@speedy.CAM.ORG (Sylvain Tremblay) wrote: > I bought the "Dual serial port" for my XT Bridgeboard 4-5 months ago > and I wasn't able to make it work. Too bad for the *Dual* serial port. The bridgeboard will support only COM1 :-(. I have plugged in a par/ser card as well and it works fine. > I heard of a patch that allows using Amy's internal serial port for the > Bridgeboard uses. Sorry Sylvain, this little program does not exist. Should Commodore ever decide to create this program, they will have to supply a new bridgeboard custom chip as well, since the CPU ports for the serial port are not passed to the Amiga :-(. Hope this helps, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _ Alexander Hagen | PRIV MSGS IN DUTCH, GERMAN OR ENGLISH _/_\__ Newtonstraat 20 | ````-o--o- 4532 KH Terneuzen | UUCP alexhagn@neabbs.UUCP The Netherlands | Fido 2:285/403.2 ------THE-FIRST-AND-ONLY-UNREGISTERED-AMIGA-BRIDGEBOARD-DEVELOPER------
a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) (07/25/90)
In article <425243@neabbs.UUCP> alexhagn@neabbs.UUCP (ALEXANDER HAGEN) writes: >> I bought the "Dual serial port" for my XT Bridgeboard 4-5 months ago >> and I wasn't able to make it work. > >Too bad for the *Dual* serial port. The bridgeboard will support only >COM1 :-(. I have plugged in a par/ser card as well and it works fine. Maybe it's different for the XT bridge board, but I bought a multi-I/O board (two serial, one parallel, one game port) for my AT bridge board and it works just fine. I have COM1:, COM2:, and LPT2: (I borrow the Amiga's parallel port for LPT1:). I don't know whether the game port works or not, and don't really care. :-) Sylvain, do you have the necessary chips for COM2:? Most of the dual serial ports I've seen come partially populated for those people who only need one port and want to save money. To activate the second port you might have to drop in a chip or two and move some jumpers. Indeed, no program exists to let the bridge board use the Amiga's serial port. Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP My Amiga *is* a PC! It says "Personal Computer" right on the box!
eddy@duteca (Eddy Olk) (07/26/90)
From article <425243@neabbs.UUCP>, by alexhagn@neabbs.UUCP (ALEXANDER HAGEN): > Sylvain@speedy.CAM.ORG (Sylvain Tremblay) wrote: > >> I bought the "Dual serial port" for my XT Bridgeboard 4-5 months ago >> and I wasn't able to make it work. > > Too bad for the *Dual* serial port. The bridgeboard will support only > COM1 :-(. I have plugged in a par/ser card as well and it works fine. > It is true that the bridgeboard only supports COM1. However, it is possible to use a second serial port (COM2): 1. COM2 must use IRQ4 instead of IRQ3 (which is used by the bridgeboard itself). Most serial cards will have jumpers to change this. 2. Since the BIOS doesn't recognize COM2, it must be manually added by changing same date in the BIOS data area. This is done by the next code fragment (use debug, your favorite assembler, or email me for the assembled program): MOV AX,0040 MOV DS,AX MOV AX,02F8 MOV [0002],AX MOV AX,[0010] AND AX,F1FF OR AX,0400 MOV [0010],AX INT 20 I'm not sure if this 'workaround' works for all communication programs, especially those using interrupts, but I've no problems using UFO. >> I heard of a patch that allows using Amy's internal serial port for the >> Bridgeboard uses. > > Sorry Sylvain, this little program does not exist. Should Commodore ever > decide to create this program, they will have to supply a new bridgeboard > custom chip as well, since the CPU ports for the serial port are not > passed to the Amiga :-(. > > Hope this helps, > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > _ Alexander Hagen | PRIV MSGS IN DUTCH, GERMAN OR ENGLISH > _/_\__ Newtonstraat 20 | > ````-o--o- 4532 KH Terneuzen | UUCP alexhagn@neabbs.UUCP > The Netherlands | Fido 2:285/403.2 > ------THE-FIRST-AND-ONLY-UNREGISTERED-AMIGA-BRIDGEBOARD-DEVELOPER------ -- ______________________________________________________________________ Eddy Olk Delft University of Technology EMAIL: eddy@duteca.tudelft.nl Department of Electrical Engineering EDDY@ET.TUDELFT.NL Section Computer Architecture **********************************************************************
Sylvain@speedy.CAM.ORG (Sylvain Tremblay) (07/27/90)
>In article <2616@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes: >In article <425243@neabbs.UUCP> alexhagn@neabbs.UUCP (ALEXANDER HAGEN) >writes: > >>> I bought the "Dual serial port" for my XT Bridgeboard 4-5 months ago >>> and I wasn't able to make it work. >> >>Too bad for the *Dual* serial port. The bridgeboard will support only >>COM1 :-(. I have plugged in a par/ser card as well and it works fine. > > Maybe it's different for the XT bridge board, but I bought a >multi-I/O board (two serial, one parallel, one game port) for my AT >bridge board and it works just fine. I have COM1:, COM2:, and LPT2: >(I borrow the Amiga's parallel port for LPT1:). I don't know whether >the game port works or not, and don't really care. :-) > > Sylvain, do you have the necessary chips for COM2:? Most of the >dual serial ports I've seen come partially populated for those people >who only need one port and want to save money. To activate the >second port you might have to drop in a chip or two and move some >jumpers. The dual serial port I bought was in fact set up for COM1: only. But that was just what I wanted, and it didn't work. > > Indeed, no program exists to let the bridge board use the Amiga's >serial port. > Thanks for the info -- Sylvain __ +-----------------------------------------------------------------///------+ | Sylvain Tremblay INTERNET: Sylvain@speedy.CAM.ORG __ /// /| | | Montreal, Qc, Canada CIS: 71640,666 \\\/// # | | | (514) 256-3779 or: 71640.666@compuserve.com \XX/ _|_ | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+