Gettting my Miggy(s) online

[Damion]

KatManDew,

You're lucky you can just plug your cable into the router, mine is as far away from the Amiga as is possible. I'm looking into getting an X-Surf and either ethernet mains plugs or a wireless ethernet bridge. Anyone setup a wireless bridge before? I have no idea what's involved.

Something like a WAP54g, configured in wireless client mode should work OK. I did it with a WAP11 via a switch to my A2000/Ariadne2, the only minor problems I had were with the POS WAP11. I definitely prefer some sort of wired connection, though.

[tone007]

If you don't mind a bit of soldering, you can connect an Amiga keyboard jack directly to your A1200's motherboard, it's only 4 wires (2 to one of the CIAs and 2 for power, maybe an additional one for reset?)  Now that's a cheap keyboard adapter.

[KatManDEW]

If you don't mind a bit of soldering, you can connect an Amiga keyboard jack directly to your A1200's motherboard, it's only 4 wires (2 to one of the CIAs and 2 for power, maybe an additional one for reset?)  Now that's a cheap keyboard adapter.

Now you've got my attention... Can you give me more details about where to pickup the necessary connections?

Amazingly enough, I scrounged around in my shop and found some 5 pin DIN connectors. They're PCB mount, but that's not a show stopper.

Thanks!

[KatManDEW]

I found ths about the keyboard connections...

http://www.textfiles.com/computers/newkbdhack

[tone007]

That looks about right.

[ChaosLord]

Are there any OS 3.x email proggys that are usable?

There are 2 excellent ones that I know of.  Thousands of ppl use them:
YAM
SimpleMail

I recommend SimpleMail.

[KatManDEW]

That looks about right.

I'm probably going to give it a try. Thanks for the info.

[KatManDEW]

There are 2 excellent ones that I know of.  Thousands of ppl use them:
YAM
SimpleMail

I recommend SimpleMail.

Thanks.

Many many moons ago, when internet access first became available in my area, I had a shiney new Gateway 486, but I was still using my old A2000. I remember getting my A2000 "partially online" (with dialup - yeeuch), but I don't remember if I ever did email with my A2000 (I didn't really know anyone else who had email at that time anyway). When I did start emailng regularly, everyone I knew was using Eudora on the PC.