Re: Super Serial Support in Emulator (How to use it???)

[rdoerr@bizserve.com (Robert L. Doerr)]

> Have you already tried your software with AppleWin at all?

Hello Oliver,

Yes, I have tried it with AppleWin (which looks like an excellent
emulator) but the program could not find a Serial card in any slot.
So far I have had the best results with the one from Apple Oasis.
I just heard about another called Kegs32 which I will probably try
in the next couple of evenings.

> >The emulator from Apple Oasis seems to support the SuperSerial card and
> >my program recognizes it.  Someone suggested that it may not implement all
> >the hardware emulation of the serial chip though.
> 
> As I already mentioned most programs use the SSC on the hardware
> level, not on the firmware level, so it's hard for me to imagine that
> an emulator doesn't emulate the hardware.

I haven't given up on this emulator and am going to try it on another
PC.  I've also disabled the FIFO buffers for the Serial port too.

> >I still need to confirm
> >the differences in the 25pin serial port on the Apple and a 9pin serial
> >port for a PC so I can make sure my cable is correct.
> 
> I have to admit that I don't understand your trouble at all. Both 25
> and 9 pin serial port are popular physical layouts so it is simple to
> find that piece of info.
> 
> One result of 5 seconds of Google:
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/5704/serial1.html

The conversion from a 25pin to 9pin is the easy part.  I have those
pinouts on hand.  I wanted to confirm that the Serial port on the
SuperSerial card did in fact have the same pinout as a 25pin port
that the PC uses.  In the past I have seen some systems with non-standard
pin configurations.  If that were the case here I might have been chasing
a problem in the emulation instead of looking at the cable pinouts.

I was under the impression that one of the jumper blocks on the SuperSerial
board changes some of the pin signals.  If that is not the case then perhaps
someone can confirm that.  Otherwise a link to some docs that show the pin
signals in each mode would help.  I believe that I have the card set for Modem
mode.

Regards,

Robert