High speed serial port expansions

[HardStep]

Hi,
will there be any benefits when using 2 A1200-s with high speed serial port interfaces for serial play in games like AB3D, AB3D2, Gloom, Doom, Extreme Racing etc? What about using one with graphics tablet?
Thanks

[Matt_H]

I don't think there will be any benefit over the native serial port in those cases. In fact, the games probably only work with the native port.

High-speed serial ports are useful for modems and computer-to-computer links for file transfers.

[magnetic]

I would say YES it would make a difference. Most add on serial ports (like say surf squirrel) have high speed buffers built in and allow much greater speeds that native port.  Dont know if the games support them or not, but if the game has a prefs mode for the networking you should be able to select the device manually..

[darkage]

From memory wasn't it a BaudBandit.device driver to get 115k for direct serial-to-serial comms?

[magnetic]

baud bandit is a specific driver. There are many drivers out there with high speed, Surfsqurriel device, duart.device from Multiface, Gvp i/o device etc etc

[actung_bab]

yes baudbandit was far better than serial.device with dl and getting no errors

you can run this with standred amiga serial port though the driver was better

on standred 1200 port 56000 was reilable the port speed is not the speed the dl
its the speed between the cpu and port .

On surf squirrel i got 11500 connects on my bbs and dl i always had port jnr plus
Which dies ages ago still have it though. sold the squirrel wish i hadint that sqssi port was awsome too

[darkage]

Ahh that makes sense Surf Squirrel has a 16C550 uart which is a must for reliable high speed serial comms.