Linking Amigas to play Serial-based games over the Internet?

[kd7ota]

Yooo,

I was wondering how good do games even perform over serial connections on an Amiga.  Since it is possible to link over WinUAE, I was wondering if we could use actual Amigas to link up with other Amigas over the internet.

I been using a Lantronix MSS-100 devince with a null modem adapter attached to it with my Commodore 64/Apple IIGS setup.  This prevents of needing an actual PC running to link up with.  You essentially dial out with a ATDT command, but instead of an actual phone number, just type in the address you want to go along with the port.  Believe these devices use port 2000 or port 3000 depending on the type of TCP connection needed..  With that being said, I wonder just how good playing games that would dial out to another computer to play would be using these adapters?

I wrote a guide some months back setting it up to use Qlink/Telnetting other BBS's online.

http://scatcat.fhsu.edu/~r_fernandez/lantronix/

Yea it is probably troublesome to even get things setup and ports opened up and configured over the router, but figured it would be neat to have my Amiga 1200 running some games and link up with another player for a few rounds.

Either way, any input is apprecaited. Thanks and take care.

[kd7ota]

Awsome! Thanks... Least I know someone else tried it.

I wonder if why it crashed on you was because of the actual software itself.  Don't think the Lantronix would conflict and ruin it.  I had an issue with QLink on the C64, you have to establish a "raw" connection vs the "normal" connection, but that would separate Qlink from working propertly, believe I had to use port 3000 or something along those lines to make a raw connection.

[kd7ota]

 Someone has the Qlink server running, but still useable. Course none of the file databases work and other features, but chat and a few games do work.  Not many are on but just was seeing if I could get it running.

Sometime I will have to try out the Lantronix linking with other games to see how they are.