BBS terminal to Amiga 500

[danbeaver]

The modem commands are not needed.  Unsure of your BoycoT program though, as i just open the terminal in Windows (using a Win98 laptop from 2000) to communicate with my X1000's serial port over a Laplink serial (null) cable.

[Dr. Chef]

Sorry for the late replies. Thanks for being patient and helpful.

Would you confirm your signal path again. Amiga to Null-modem to serial2USB converter to Windows laptop running BoycoT?  Did you construct the Null-modem cable youself?

I can confirm the cable works. I use it with Amiga Forever (Software to connect an Amiga to Windows for copying files to floppy or Ram, etc.). I didn't make the cables, but I bought them off the internet. When I use BoycoT, I adjust the settings so they match the same on my Amiga. On NComm, you can adjust baud rate, handshake, etc. When I change the handshake settings on both software to none, I can attempt to connect, but I get Modem Error 1 on BoycoT

It's been a very long time since I've used Ncomm or a null-modem cable.  Shooting from the hip, I'm guessing that BoycoT (Terminal program on the other platform?) is expecting a real modem at the end of your USB2serial converter.  Isn't there a Null Modem option in BoycoT when connecting?  It seems that there was one in Ncomm.

Have you successfully used this USB-to-serial converter in the past?

BoycoT is a modem emulator, it is supposed to work in a way where your retro computer will think its a modem. For example: Connecting a C64 to your PC running BoycoT instead of a real modem. My setup is this: Amiga side: NComm terminal emulator. Windows: BoycoT modem emulator.

The modem commands are not needed.  Unsure of  your BoycoT program though, as i just open the terminal in Windows  (using a Win98 laptop from 2000) to communicate with my X1000's serial  port over a Laplink serial (null) cable.

How were you able to achieve this with Command Prompt? I don't want to communicate back in forth like Amiga Explorer, I just want to connect to my PC where my Amiga think its a modem, with using modem emulation, so I can play with BBS servers on my Amiga. If there is another way to achieve this, then that would be great, but I don't know what to do.

[danbeaver]

Again, I have no idea what BoycoT does, I just used HyperTerminal in Win 98.  Did you try Putty or HyperTerminal Private Edition?

I mean it makes no sense to me to pretend to open a modem connection (that uses the analog phone lines) to send digital data directly over a digital serial connection; you don't need to modulate-demodulate anything.

[Dr. Chef]

Hurray. I was able to connect via TCPSER and following a guide already on Amiga.org. I changed my settings to 'tcpser.exe -d /dev/ttyS4 -s 19200 -l5'

I'm on At2k. Thanks for your help guys.


Edit: I'm getting a tiny bit of graphical problems such as some possibl ascii characters not displaying properly, but I might be wrong. For example when I was creating a account it showed "Your nickname zz yournamehere. Also, the main menu name looks a bit different, but it could just we the BBS, but I'm not sure.

[Dr. Chef]

A image of it working. Sorry, I was using a garbage camera on my tablet.

http://i.imgur.com/DEcs2Xq.jpg

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

:banana:  :banana:  :banana:

[Dr. Chef]

Oh boy door games. I believe my dad used to talk about them.

Edit: Fixed the graphics problem. I had to change a setting.

[Tenacious]

I'm glad you got them talking.  The image, while blurry, was nostalgic for me.    I first acquired Ncomm from a BBS as a solution to see PC-style ansi graphics for playing Tradewars.  Ncomm required an ANSI font to do that.  Prior to that, I had been running the Amiga terminal program Access!  Just before BBSes went extint, a new graphics protocol came out that was much superior.  IIRC, the Amiga program was called RipTerm.

In my area, there was easily more than a dozen free local BBSes. Most were Dos based, but many had Amiga sections with software.  There were even a few based on Apple products.  It was really cool connecting for the first time and seeing the possibilty to exchange files and info.

Have you search the keywords "BBS" and "Terminal" on Aminet?