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- Ghostlink v1.02 Beta 02/05/94 Copyright Bitz 1994
-
- What is ghostlink:
- ------------------
- Ghostlink is a link between an Atari GEM Computer (Master)
- and a MS-DOS computer (Slave)
- It allows the drives (floppy, harddisk, CD-ROM) installed
- on the slave to be used by the master as a GEM-partition.
- It is possible to connect up to 3 PC slaves (on different ports!)
-
- So, you can, for instance, import a picture stored on a CD-Rom
- (connected to a MS-DOS PC) into Calamus!
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- Connection:
- -----------
- A simple nullmodem cable is required.
-
- Installation on ATARI:
- ----------------------
- Run the program STMASTER.PRG
-
- 1. Select port & speed
- On the left you see 3 channel boxes.
- Set the wanted port and speed for channel 1:
-
- - STANDARD All Atari's (ST/STE/TT/Falcon)
- The standard TOS routines are used.
- Select port & speed in the control panel.
- (Select 8 bit, 1 stopbit, no parity, no flowcontrol)
-
- - SERIAL 2 Only MEGA STE & TT
- Speed: 300/600/1200/2400/4800/9600/19200
- 38400/57600/115200
- On a MEGA STE, do not use more than 57600 Baud
-
- - MODEM 2 Only MEGA STE & TT
- Speed: 300/600/1200/2400/4800/9600/19200
- 38400/76800/153600
- On a MEGA STE, do not use more than 57600 Baud
-
- - MODEM Only Falcon
- Speed: 300/600/1200/2400/4800/9600/19200
- 38400/57600/115200
-
- 2. Select the partition ID's
- On the right side is the partition box. Double click on existing
- entries to edit them, or click on ADD to add an entry.
-
- Editing a partition entry:
- - Select a local drive ID (this is the drive-letter used by
- GEM to access the slave).
- - Select a remote drive ID (this is the drive-letter used on
- the slave computer).
- Here you can also select "All existing drives"; this means
- that with 1 local drive-ID, you can access all the remote
- drives (the remote drives are showed as folders in the ROOT
- directory).
- - Select a channel (take 1).
-
- 3. Click on Save to save the settings, this will avoid you to select
- all settings every time the program is runned.
- (Note: the settings are saved directly into the program!)
-
- 4. Click on install. The program will quit but remains resident.
- Just install the icon(s) for the LOCAL partitions on the desktop.
-
- The program can also be installed in the AUTO-folder, this way
- the dialog does not appear (select & save settings before).
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- Installation on MS-DOS:
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- Run the program PCSLAVE.EXE
-
- 1. Select the port with keys <1> = COM1 <2> = COM2
- 2. Select the speed with the function keys 1->10
- 300 -> 115200 Baud
- Of course, the speed must be the same as the master speed!
- 3. So, thats all, as long as the slave is active, you'll have
- access to it from the master.
- 4. To quit, press escape (access is terminated).
-
-
- Use:
- ----
- Use it the first time at low speed, to avoid speed problems.
-
- The data that is transfered is CRC32 controlled, so when a
- datablock send by master or slave has errors, it is send
- again (this as much as needed). So, if a computer is to slow,
- or in other words the transfer speed is to high, the system
- will lock up. In that case hold CONTROL/SHIFT/ALTERNATE on the
- master (Atari) and the transfer will stop with an ERROR code.
-
- If on the MS-DOS screen, command tracing is ON, you can watch all
- used GEM-DOS operations (very interesting). Here you also can see
- the errors. MASTER ERROR means the master recieved a datablock with
- checksum error (Master to slow?) and SLAVE ERROR means the slave
- received a bad data block (Slave to slow?).
-
-
- Notes:
- ------
- What does not work:
- - Renaming a folder on the slave. (difficult to do under DOS)
- - Starting a program (.PRG of course) on the slave.
- (maybe in the next version...)
-
- What's next:
- - An Atari Slave program, to connect Atari to Atari
- - More ports support (midi, parallell)
- (I am really curious to see the parallell speed...)
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- This is a beta-version, Bitz does not take any responsability
- for dammage occured to hard- and/or software by using this program...
-
- If you have any suggestions, bug-reports or whatever, or if you are
- interested in a full working version, contact me:
-
- BITZ Computers c/o P. Van Malderen
- Brusselsesteenweg, 107
- B-1500 Halle / Belgium
-
- Phone: (02) 361 10 89
- Fax: (02) 361 25 52
- BITZ Atari BBS: (02) 361 14 08 (message to PIRRE KING)
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- So, enjoy this program...
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- (c)Bitz 1994 Pierrot Van Malderen.
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