Re: [NTLK] Sync Newton using Sheepshaver

> My apologies. It probably was 7.5 or even 7.5.5. I must have upgraded
> to 7.6

:-)

> Nonetheless, I should make a correction:
> Launching Newton Connection Utilities does not crash on itself.
> Instead it presents a dialogue, "Could not initialize the Serial
> connection because the Modem port is being used." My only option is
> to select the "OK" button.

Well, make sure the emulator knows which physical serial port is mapped to
the emulator's Modem/Printer port. Did you mention what kind of machine the
emulation is running on? Make sure obvious things like Palm Hotsync and
other Serial stealing apps are not running (Activesync under Windows can
also steal the serial port - even when syncing with USB.) Also worth noting
that older MacOS (though I believe this if 7.0 or earlier) only likes to
Appletalk on the printer port. If you do chose to sync with Appletalk, make
sure Appletalk is turned on for the port you want to use. AFAIK, you don't
have to use Appletalk though. IIRC you can just pick a serial port. It
certainly worked that way on my Mac 9500 running both 8.1 and 8.6.

You could also try turning off Apple talk completely. Make sure no printers
are connected to any of the serial ports in the emulation. If you have a
null model cable (a Mac serial cable will do between two Mac's) run a
retminal emulation and check the emulator both sends and recieves text over
the serial cable. This rules out non working ports.

HTH

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