Networking A500's

[curtis]

I have a couple of A500's along with an A2000 and 3000 and was kicking around the idea of creating their own little subnet on my home network then using either the 3000 or the 2000 as the gateway to the internet.

What is the easiest way to network 500's?  Parnet doesn't seem like a viable alternative as I'd have to add several parallel ports.

Curtis

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Most of the networking options for A500's (a few sidecars released back in the day) are rarer than hen's teeth.  You could use the side expansion port with a Zorro II card, or maybe Plipbox?  Don't know much about it but here's a link to get you started:

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/

[gertsy]

I have a couple of A500's along with an A2000 and 3000 and was kicking around the idea of creating their own little subnet on my home network then using either the 3000 or the 2000 as the gateway to the internet.

What is the easiest way to network 500's?  Parnet doesn't seem like a viable alternative as I'd have to add several parallel ports.

Curtis

1. SD or CF cards and sneaker net. With the correct hardware on each.
 or
2. A multiport serial card in the 2000 running a good BBS and a null modem cables to each of the miggies.

No IP stack in sight.

[orange]

have you looked at magplip: http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/magPLIP38.1
?
notice it has slightly different cable from parnet, you could network them with a linux PC with special cable. pci cards with parallel ports are probably very cheap.

I've  been using a serial port and an old special hub/router with rs232 and ethernet ports. slow, but works.

[ognix]

Most of the networking options for A500's (a few sidecars released back in the day) are rarer than hen's teeth.  You could use the side expansion port with a Zorro II card, or maybe Plipbox?  Don't know much about it but here's a link to get you started:

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/

Thanks for the link: I didn't know.
It's a cool project!
Maybe is not that fast, but it's very elegant for machines like A500.

[freqmax]

Tip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga#Networking

[orange]

Thanks for the link: I didn't know.
It's a cool project!
Maybe is not that fast, but it's very elegant for machines like A500.

I like it too, had a same idea: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=422820&postcount=51

[curtis]

So it appears the best solution is going to involve parallel ports.

Hmmm, wonder how many parallel ports a linux box will support?

Curtis

[curtis]

Oops, belay my last.

Read a little closer and I realized the plip thingie converts to IP and a RJ-45.

Only 1 parallel port involved.

Really need to learn to read one of these days!  

[smerf]

Hi,

Years ago we used the serial ports on the Amiga's so that we could transfer games back and forth, if you look at some of the old books you will see that you have to cross I believe the TX and RX lines on the serial cables, but I believe this only worked on two amiga's or one amiga and one PC. I know at one time we had about 4 amiga's all talking to each other but I can't remember how, since it was just about 2 weeks after we all bought amiga's (A1000). For the life of me I can't remember how we did it, you know old age and all that. Sometimes I wonder if I can even figure out where I put the old miggy and I don't think I moved it in 4 years, if I remember right.

[curtis]

Also have to cross CTS and RTS for a null modem cable.

[freqmax]

Only if you configure the port for hardware handskake.

There's DTR/DTR to consider too if you want more signals.

[danbeaver]

PPS DoubleTalk use the older AppleTalk protocol and they had a Zorro2 and A500 Sidecar version.  I have one of each, some of the software and the cables.

[orange]

iirc, someone managed to network computers using SCSI ports. should be quite fast.

[Kernel]

Isn't the new ACA500 supposed to be compatible with A1200 clockport devices like the subway usb card - which would allow usb dongle 10/100 adapters like I use on my A3K with DENEB - and aren't there future expansion plans on the ACA500 for a network port?