[NTLK] Newton 2100 startup sound

[Matthias Melcher]

I have been looking into that last week, and I was glad to learn that it is actually not that difficult to write a kernel serial port driver. Einstein would appear to macOS as if it was a physical device connected via a USB-to-serial adapter. Administrator privileges would be required once to install the driver.

If this is something useful, I'd be happy to put some time into writing such a driver. It is probably much more useful than the current pipe solution.

I did not know that about BasiliskII. Is there any documentation on this feature?

> On Apr 20, 2018, at 22:48, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
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> I was just trying to read/write data to and from the virtual ports from the shell.  Probably not the right way to go.
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> BasiliskII can connect the virtual Mac's serial port to a named device... it would be cool if the Einstein serial port worked with that.
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> On 13/04/18 04:38 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote:
>> I implemented serial port emulation on Einstein quite a while ago, and it is working fine at least on MacOS X. However, there are no serial ports on the Mac anymore, and so I don't have an app that communicates with Einstein. Which app would you use on the host side, since Classic hasn't been available anymore for such a long time. NCX is an option, and I had that working for a while. Would it help if I picked that up again?
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