[NTLK] Connecting a Newton/eMate to SheepSaver or Basilisk II emulators

[Craig Bradley]

I am using Baslilisk II and Sheepsaver on the latest Mac OS X. I have the keyspan USA-28xb working on Mac OS 9 on an iBook with the eMate fine. My concern is that there is no modern driver for this adapter. 

I have a modern FTDI adapter that works with NCX on a current MacBook Air but there is not driver for Classic Mac OS X.  So I am in a bit of a catch-22 situation. 

//Craig

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> On 5 Dec 2023, at 8:09 pm, Matthias Melcher <m.melcher at robowerk.de> wrote:
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> Hi Craig,
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> what is your host OS for BasiliskII? I did get it running on my Mac using the correct settings in the configuration file.
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> Descriptions and documentations are old, but probably not so outdated, since nothing much changed over the last years with BasiliskII.
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> You have two levels of failure here. First of all, I recommend you make sure that the USB adapter works correctly by using some software that is made for your OS to sync with your Newton device. Once you know that the adapter works and how to find the port address of the adapter, you can add BasiliskII in the next step.
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>> On Dec 5, 2023, at 03:29, Craig Bradley via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
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>> Does anyone have any recent experience with either of these two Classic Mac OS emulators connecting to a Newton or eMate? There is lots of historical stuff in the list but most of it is very outdated. I have all the physical hardware (USB to serial adapters etc) but can’t seem to get the serial ports within the emulators connecting to Newton devices.
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