Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Elliott Lee Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: Serial lead & COM ports Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:56:41 -0800 Organization: . Lines: 51 Message-ID: <3665D3B9.1329F43F@shell.jps.net> References: <3658B934.5D2C@manc.u-net.com> Reply-To: tenchi@shell.jps.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-m-62-237.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; U) Weird. I have your basic old Pentium Pro with 2 serial ports. I have my mouse plugged into port 1, my Yaroze in port 2. My internal modem used the same COM number as my Yaroze, but I've never had to swap. I thought it was because I use different IRQ numbers. I've not yet tried the modem and Yaroze at the same time, but everything seems to work OK. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see why things shouldn't work. I did have to spend some time trying all 4 permutations of the DJSETUP.BAT settings to get that DTLH environment variable to have the right settings. Maybe you just have to play around with it until it works? - e! James Shaughnessy wrote: > > Hello. > 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..) > > 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. > It's not so much me being lazy, but swapping the leads twice a day > puts unnecessary strain on the Yaroze cable's internal wires. > Will buying a serial card fix my problem, or just introduce IRQ > conflicts and waste memory with sorry-arse resident TSR drivers? > Will Penelope Pitstop escape? > > Cheers, > Jim > -- > ----------------------------------------- > James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com > http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj > -----------------------------------------