Dial-Up Amiga Games

[Harrison]

Re: Dial-Up Amiga Games

Reading how this works, surely someone must have written some software that does a similar thing for emulators in software. Intercepting serial port modem calls from the emulated system and emulating it to connect into a LAN, making the emulator think it has connected via modem?

This modem emulation is surely something that WinUAE could really use as a built in feature. Maybe we should approach Toni and ask him?

 

[SkydivinGirl]

Re: Dial-Up Amiga Games

I know that WinVICE allows you to connect a serial port to an IP address, just like this device does. You can connect through terminal software to a telnet BBS through the VICE emulator using this feature. So it obviously has been done in emulation already. Having it done in WinUAE would be great!

I also thought of a way of getting around the IP Address length using the Lantronix device. Simply make a DNS entry for the IP address then you can use that short DNS name instead of the IP address in your dialing process. For example, instead of having to "dial" 192.168.0.1,222 you could create a DNS entry called 5551212 then "dial" 5551212,222 and the DNS server would resolve the address. Of course, I haven't tested whether or not the device will resolve DNS names so it might not work like I think it does. I'll have to test it to find out.

Take care,

Heather