Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Steve Parnell Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: Serial lead & COM ports Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:16:08 +0000 Organization: Architectronics Lines: 39 Message-ID: <36596E28.BD6C464A@parny.force9.co.uk> References: <3658B934.5D2C@manc.u-net.com> Reply-To: steve@parny.force9.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: 356.hiper02.shef.dialup.force9.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Hi James, > For the past 11 months of having this Black Beauty called the > Yaroze, I quite possibly have been doing something incredibly > stupid. "Trying to code" hahaha yes indeed. > You see my PC has only 2 COM ports on the motherboard. COM1 > is used for the mouse, and COM2 for the Modem. Now, as you > know the Yaroze-PC serial lead wants a COM port so it's a game > of "musical chairs" every time I want to do something. > So I just have to swap the modem/yaroze cable every time I want > to use the repective device. Do most of you do this, or do > a lot of people have 4 COM ports? Or do you all splash out on a > serial card? Call me tight but I'm not paying PC-WORLD £35 for one. > That cash can go towards more important things (like Turok 2, Zelda > etc..) I got a bog standard ISA serial card from MAPLIN about a year ago for about a tenner. Took a bit of fiddling around with IRQs and jumpers and all with this NT box but I finally fixed it so Yaroze (COM4) and the modem (COM2) share IRQ3 with mouse on COM1. Don't ask about COM3. It still won't play ball, but I don't need it to...yet. > My solution (like an idiot) to my prob was to buy an INTERNAL > modem, thus freeing up COM2. How naive. Of course having bought > one it tells me I have to DISABLE COM2 for it to work. DOH!!!! > Straight back it went, along with my dreams of a handy internal > 56k modem and the idea of using my Yaroze, modem and mouse all > at the same time. You should be able to set the internal modem to use COM3 instead of COM2. Again, you'll need to mess with irksome IRQs, but this has worked for me B4 on '95 machines, leaving 2 serial ports free. > Will Penelope Pitstop escape? Erm, I'm currently negotiating with the Hooded Claw. I'll get back to you on that one... -- Steev