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icbrkr
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TCP/IP over Parallel Port?
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December 21, 2003, 09:06:50 PM »
I've currently got my Amiga 1200 hooked into an old PC running PC2AM through a Laplink cable and it works fine. It got me wondering though - is there such a thing as using the parallel port as a TCP/IP connection between the Amiga and the Windows box? I'd love to route the Amiga through the Windows box and off to the net (without having to buy a PCMCIA Amiga nic card
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Re: TCP/IP over Parallel Port?
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December 22, 2003, 12:02:44 AM »
I just found:
http://members.nccw.net/fmacall/
which is a
PLIP driver for Windows 98 that's still being supported. It works over a laplink cable (perfect!). It's now just a matter of getting the Amiga TCP stack to see it. How do you redirect the stack to look at a parallel port?
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Re: TCP/IP over Parallel Port?
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December 22, 2003, 01:17:56 AM »
And magPLIP supports Laplink.. perfect again! I'm off to give it a try.
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