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    From MeanDumpsterCat@80:774/22 to All on Sun Jul 23 15:41:33 2017
    Hi everyone.
    Complete newbie on this board here.
    Recently I finally got around to making a space for my Amiga 500 to sit. It looks great with its original monitor and everything but the only problem is, if I want to use any BBSes on it, I have to connect it to a Windows XP
    computer which can get very annoying.
    I was looking at the WiFi232 project and im considering getting one to use on the A500.
    Has anyone here used them? Are they worth however much they cost? I just
    think it would be nice to have something less intrusive when using the amiga online.
    Cheers!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: ACiD Telnet HQ / blackflag.acid.org (80:774/22)
  • From bcw142@80:603/0.2 to MeanDumpsterCat on Sun Jul 23 20:58:17 2017
    On 07/23/17, MeanDumpsterCat said the following...
    Recently I finally got around to making a space for my Amiga 500 to sit. It looks great with its original monitor and everything but the only problem is, if I want to use any BBSes on it, I have to connect it to a Windows XP computer which can get very annoying.

    I would suggest a Raspberry Pi with RS232 setup, likely USB to RS232 to talk
    to the Amiga. You can run Mystic on the Pi as well and the Linux the Pi uses
    is more like the Amiga than any PC. I went from Amiga to Linux as main machines, I did use Win95/98 dail-up from the Amiga back in the day, but now would use the Pi as the interface to the net (likely to set mine up this year at some point). That said this point system is working off an older Pi 2B+.
    The newer Pi3 has Wifi & Bluetooth built in at the same price as that old
    2B+, there are a number of software interfaces out there for it and it's easy to run 'headless' as I run the BBS and points.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Mystic AlphaTest bcw142.zapto.org:2323 (80:603/0.2)
  • From MeanDumpsterCat@80:774/22 to bcw142 on Mon Jul 24 19:11:16 2017
    I would suggest a Raspberry Pi with RS232 setup, likely USB to RS232 to



    The Pi is certainly something I have considered. I have one of the later ones with WiFi that was given to me by my university but I do still like the idea
    of the WiFi232 in that its a convenient device that just sits in the serial port with no extra cables or setup required.
    But it still could be a good use for a Pi I have done nothing with for over a year. Something quite amusing about using a computer that is many times more powerful than the amiga as essentially a modem :)

    Cheers!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: ACiD Telnet HQ / blackflag.acid.org (80:774/22)