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  • FS-UAE, Linux, and tcpser

    From DustCouncil@21:1/227 to All on Sun May 31 03:10:13 2026
    I never had an Amiga and am trying to get an emulated Amiga environment running on my system.

    I'm running Debian Trixie currently.

    What I want to do is get fs-uae to talk to tcpser so I can use it to "dial out" to other systems, but back-and-forth with Gemini and researching what I can hasn't yielded much progress.

    tcpser is running with:

    ./tcpser -v 25232 -s 2400 -p 6400 -l 4

    This works fine with VICE.

    The fs-uae configuration file has this in it:

    serial_port = tcp://127.0.0.1:25232

    From what I can tell, that should be enough, but it isn't. I've tried a few terminal programs and even at loglevel 4 I can't see any serial comms going from fs-uae to tcpser.

    Has anyone made this work -- maybe someone running an emulated Amiga BBS?

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to DustCouncil on Sun May 31 14:36:46 2026

    Hello DustCouncil!

    31 May 26 03:10, you wrote to all:

    I never had an Amiga and am trying to get an emulated Amiga
    environment running on my system.
    [...]
    From what I can tell, that should be enough, but it isn't. I've tried
    a few terminal programs and even at loglevel 4 I can't see any serial comms going from fs-uae to tcpser.

    Your best to use Amiberry. What you need to do:

    1. Enable "bsdsocket.library" emulation.
    2. Forget telser, just get and use DCTelnet. Will work with the bsdsocket library
    directly. No need for a tcp/ip stack.



    Vorlon


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  • From codetsu@21:1/215 to DustCouncil on Sun May 31 08:31:01 2026
    Why you do not use TCP/IP connection ?!?
    you get multi line BBS that way not single line !?

    ... If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents!

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131.1 to All on Sun May 31 07:49:44 2026
    In article 'FS-UAE, Linux, and tcpser', DustCouncil wrote:
    I never had an Amiga and am trying to get an emulated Amiga environment running on my system.

    I'm running Debian Trixie currently.

    What I want to do is get fs-uae to talk to tcpser so I can use it to "dial out" to other systems, but back-and-forth with Gemini and researching what
    I can hasn't yielded much progress.

    tcpser is running with:

    ./tcpser -v 25232 -s 2400 -p 6400 -l 4

    This works fine with VICE.

    The fs-uae configuration file has this in it:

    serial_port = tcp://127.0.0.1:25232

    From what I can tell, that should be enough, but it isn't. I've tried a
    few terminal programs and even at loglevel 4 I can't see any serial comms going from fs-uae to tcpser.

    Has anyone made this work -- maybe someone running an emulated Amiga BBS?


    As Vorlon said, Amiberry in Linux is the best way to go, turning on bsd.socket and then just using a term program, if you want to run a BBS use telnetd to do that. This message is being typed on my Excelsior! BBS which hasn't been updated since 1997 and runs great with TelnetD and Amiberry. In fact it is running inside AmigaOS 3.2.3 and is running in a 060 emulation.. Amiberry is being updated daily, FS-UAE I don't think has been updated in several years..


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