Amiga 500 Internet Connection

josiahgould · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:52 am Post subject: Amiga 500 Internet Connection

Ok, I'm sitting here with an Amiga500 and a WindowsXP box. I have the serial cable hooked up, it works fine, already backed up all my games and software. What I want to know is if there is ANY way at all to use my XP box to work as a sort of emulated modem for my Amiga. I have broadband here, and can't afford to go out and find a real modem for it. I just want to use some Telnet software to connect to some BBS's and connect up to my Linux server.

Chain · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:55 am Post subject:

there is something like "tcp over nullmode cable" thing, but i never got it working. http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/NullTCP
btw you need really expanded A500 for that anyway (2mb ram and harddrive at least)

josiahgould · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:10 am Post subject:

I've got the hard drive.

I've been fiddling with it all day and just can't make it work.

TriNitro · Newcomer Joined: 16 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

On an Ami500 with no expansion, your best choice is a Unix shell: it is probably the only way to get to the Internet.

On the other side, you have to setup linux, not XP. Maybe a virtual machine with Fedora or Ubuntu inside XP?
On your linux box, just setup mgetty to listen at 19200 baud over a serial port (e.g. /dev/ttyuS0) and connect with a serial null modem cable to your Amiga serial port, RS232 protocol with the usual options.
Use NComm (terminal emulator) at same speed (19200) on the Amiga side: a login prompt will appear.
Just enter your Internet connected linux box and you cas use telnet or even elinks.
Of course, if you have a modem connected to another serial port (e.g. /dev/ttyS1), you can also dialup everywhere.
In the end, your amiga will be simply a terminal to your home linux box.

nhoijtink · Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

You need MUI and Miami TCP stack. MUI is only available for KickStart/Workbench 2.04+.

The archive itself is only a few files that should work once all requirements are met (though i haven't tested it). Just wanted to mention it....

nnyby · Newcomer Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Age: 25 Posts: 4

I've been trying to do this with my Amiga 2000 with 6MB RAM all day... there are some useful diagrams here for making the null-modem cable if you don't have one. Here are some ways to share Internet between the PC and Amiga. I've been trying to use Windows XP's Internet Connection Sharing, with no luck so far...

nnyby · Newcomer Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Age: 25 Posts: 4

Just got it working on Gentoo with this guide!

Also learned how to set up DNS and NAT here.

jayk2k · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:05 am Post subject:

One of the guy's here in Toronto wrote a neat little app to do this with his C=64, and it seems to work for the amiga (under emu at least). I'm still trying to get my hands on a set of boot disks to get my 500 up and running.

http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/