[NTLK] Newton 2100 startup sound

[Victor Rehorst]

There is some information here:

https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii

Also, it seems that on *nix platforms, if the serial port name begins 
with a pipe '|' character, BasiliskII will allocate a pseudo-terminal 
and open the "serial port" as a sub-process, communicating over 
stdin/stdout.  There's mention of it here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/basilisk/mailman/message/2164793/

And I found evidence of its existence in the Unix serial port code in 
Github.  That's kind of cool (for me).  I don't think it is present in 
the OS X serial support though.


On 22/04/18 07:30 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> I did not know that about BasiliskII. Is there any documentation on this feature?
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>> 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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