Re: Hardware musings

["BLuRry" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

mdj wrote:
> Greg Andrzejewski wrote:
>
> > Exactly. ADT is great, but how many new PC's these days even come with
> > serial ports? Then there's folks like me, who just could never get ADT to
> > work. I had the serial link going, dumped the hex that containted ADT and
> > DOS 3.3, but ADT would always hang on me. I've been following the recent
> > updates to both ADT and the host program and it looks like some of the
> > issues I experienced may have been corrected. Despite the fact that I have
> > since acquired better ways to move data around, I still see the value in a
> > Disk ][ USB.
>
> I do too, and hear you. My current PC's lack of a real parallel port
> was troublesome for me, until I located a PCI parallel port card that
> was Linux compatible (USB ones are useless for FPGA dev boards).

You can pick a usb-serial dongle on the cheap and map it to a regular
serial device easily enough in windows.  In Linux, it's a matter of
having the right modules to support the device.  YMMV.

I used a serial dongle with the Apple // game server and it works fine.
 ADT Pro also uses the same serial library, so I have no reason to
suspect you couldn't use ADT Pro with a usb serial dongle cable as
well.

-B