I can confirm I've gotten this to work on Windows 7 using Amiga Explorer and a USB -> 9 pin serial -> 25-pin adapter -> Amiga 2000 setup.
Transfer speeds are slow of course, but that's ok.
Here's the cable I purchased
ACLerok wrote:I actually bought two cables, the USB -> 9-pin and also a 9-pin -> 25-pin. I have one old 500mhz Celeron machine currently running Linux that has a serial port on it and that's it. I wasn't sure which was going to work. I guess either way I'm set!
I've also managed to get my 2000 online-ish with that same nullmodem cable thru a raspberry pi. I want to do a write up on that once I get it fully working. Currently I have some issues with DNS so while I can connect via the ip address, there's no name resolution (yet).
Yeah, I haven't even taken that cord out of the bag - instead I just used the USB cable with Windows. I had it more as a backup in case Windows acted goofy. I couldn't get the USB to Serial to work with OSX so I was concerned and didn't want to wait any longerleighb2282 wrote:That is actually where I am at with using a null modem for PPP network connections! however, with this method you can actually use FTP to transfer files which I find more reliable to use versus catting data to the serial port on Linux.
I never could get DNS forwarding to work either
This is where I think I'm probably the weirdo in the group. All of my Amigas are "online" but I only use that kickass feature for telnetting into BBSes (which are still active; retro-computing/gaming nerds like us chatting about their gear and whatnot).Do you guys have any suggestions that work on a stock 68000 with 2.04 Kickstart and 4mb fast ram?