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I imagine similarly could be done on any old computer? (Amiga, etc?)
by indigodaddy 7y ago
I imagine similarly could be done on any old computer? (Amiga, etc?)
- jerrysievert 7y agoyou could run x11 on an amiga, along with xterm, but yes you could run a simple terminal emulator as well.
- Annatar 7y agoI could use that. What's the X11 archive for Amiga called on "AmiNet"?
- jerrysievert 7y agounfortunately i don't know - the last time i booted an amiga was a little over 20 years ago, but it looks like DaggeX might do the trick (just search for x11 on aminet)
- reaperducer 7y agoI imagine similarly could be done on any old computer? (Amiga, etc?) Yes. I do this occasionally with a TRS-80 Model 100. And back when they were both still current, I would dial in to a PR1ME and Vax minicomputers with a Commodore 64. My holy grail is figuring out how to run a personal Zork server on an Ubuntu machine that I can access (serial or telnet) from the 100.
- Zenst 7y agohttps://bytemyvdu.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/tandy-trs80-m100-serial-terminal/ https://bytemyvdu.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/tandy-trs80-m100-... Would be most, if not all the battle. Might need to run the serial at a lower speed to accommodate the serial buffer on the M100. From there, you can telnet to the localhost and avoid a lot of messing with the zork server if you are unable to hook it directly to the serial port you are using.
- reaperducer 7y agoThat was actually the easy part. I'm already doing that. It's the Zork end that's the problem.
- nineteen999 7y agoMaybe i'm missing something, but why not just run frotz from the command line given you can already log in over serial? What on earth is a "Zork Server" anyway?
- Zenst 7y agohttp://www.retroadventures.net/zork-telnet-server/ http://www.retroadventures.net/zork-telnet-server/ covers that and as I said, you can just telnet to localhost from the M100.
- boomlinde 7y agoJust set zork as your login shell and enable telnet/serial tty
- Annatar 7y agoAmiga runs just fine as a dumb terminal in just about any combination of serial (PPP / Slip / straight serial). PCMCIA cards enable it to run regular SSH and NFS to a host (best used in combination with Solaris or illumos systems). Vampire accelerators enable TCP / IP networking on a regular A500.
- snvzz 7y ago>Vampire accelerators enable TCP / IP networking on a regular A500. A regular A500 can do TCP/IP just fine without a vampire. By using AmiTCP or roadshow TCP/IP stack and PPP, SLIP, PLIP (e.g. with a plipbox) or a NIC based on the left expansion header. A600 and A1200 can simply use a PCMCIA card. The typical choice is ne2000-compatible cards using the cnet.device driver.
- Annatar 7y agoA500 could always do Slip and PPP, but it's awfully slow over serial and parallel ports. Even plipbox manages only about 53 KB/s. I also use cnet.device in my A1200.
- maximus1983 7y agoYeah. There are quite a few ways to do it. You can even get TCP/IP stack and a Web browser running (though things are very slow and many sites do not work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTDHiBePyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTDHiBePyM
- tom_ 7y agoBut the ST is good for this, as (unless you're a demo coder) it's mostly otherwise useless - and unless it's an STe, not even that. And its 70Hz mono monitor is still decent by modern standards. (If you've only seen 70Hz colour CRTs: the ST's mono monitor is not the same! Mono phosphors look quite different. No flicker, like an LCD, but with restful, paper-like contrast levels, like a Kindle.)
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoWouldn't say useless, plenty of musicians still work with them.