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- From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Macs and Ataris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.213752.6340@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 21:37:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Nov9.213752.6340
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- In <1992Nov9.035958.44537@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> moocow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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- >I had noticed the post concerning a link between PC's and Ataris and I was
- >wondering if a similar thing exists or is in the works for a link between
- >Macs and Ataris. I still have my Atari 800 as well as a Macintosh LC and I
- >was wondering if there was any way to connect the Atari to the Mac and then
- >run the Atari in its own window. And has anyone worked upon an Atari emulator
- >for the Macintosh?
-
- >thanks for your help, i understand either one of these possibilities are
- >probably a bit far-fetched.
-
- The SIO2PC device is a combination of hardware and software that allows a
- PC to pretend to be a physical Atari drive. The Atari's SIO signals are
- translated into RS232 signals by the hardware device, and the PC software
- interprets these signals and responds in such a way as to emulate an Atari
- drive (or printer). Unfortunatley, the PC software is (I believe) written
- in assembly and is not publicly available, making it rather difficult to
- port.
-
- Theoretically, however, the device should work with any computer that can
- send and receive RS232 signals. [I don't know about Mac's--don't they use
- RS432? Does this matter?] The issue is writing the software for the
- server machine to interpret the signals. If you are interested in writing
- such software, I would suggest contacting Nick Kennedy, the creator of SIO2PC,
- and asking for a copy of the PC code and any suggestions he may have.
- Also, I beleive that others have done some work on writing their own software
- for SIO2PC. If their code is in C, it should be much easier to port.
-
- Good luck.
-
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