On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > But it can run as VCS2600, C64, TOS and AmigaOS and whatnot. And with a > wireless keyboard with touchpad, its actually nice to use, no more worries > about keys falling off the keyboard or the mouse button breaking. Maybe I > dig out my GoldED key so I can finally use the best editor again.
:) > But why did you build in a Pi0, to get it online? I do not see a serial port > on my MiST, does it have an internal connection? Ah. And the Pi0 has wlan or > ethernet? An Amiga with wlan would be cool. Or a VCS2600 ;-) Well, the MIST's MIDI module is connected to the serial port, which consists of 4 pins - ground, VCC (3V), TX and RX (3V signals). The Pi of course has corresponging pins, so essentially you hook ground-groun, TX-RX, RX-TX, and you are ready to go, with a serial console on the Pi. In addition to those, I let the Pi Zero steal 5V from the power switch of the MIST (that is the red probe clamp on the pic), so it gets powered on when I turn on the power of the MIST. What I use it for... * Reliving the old days with Olaf "Olsen" Barthel's old Term, doing mail with Alpine, web with w3m and links2, google groups with slrn :D * Writing AREXX scripts that talk with the Pi (using DigNet, rxserial or Term) - Example - I have an arexx script that sets the system time by asking the pi, if you look closely on the pic, you see the Pi has an RTC module. * Uploading/downloading files using zmodem protocol - the Pi has Aminet mounted, and I use good old ADT do search and download (adt supports rz send directly) * The Pi has my Cloud drives mounted, so I walk around sampling stuff on my iPhone, save to my Egnyte account, a VPS (virtual host) in the cloud (digitial-ocean) downsamples my sound snippets to various formats, including IFF samples suitable for trackers, so when I come home, I can just down download the lot and use with Protracker/OctaMED/MusicLine/whatever :) * I have FAT95 installed on the AmigaOS disk images on the MIST, so they mount the FAT partition on the SD card directly as second disk, meaning I can build new kickstarts, download ADFs and firmware updates directly without ever needing to eject the SD card. * Null modem games - using socat I can connect the tty of the MIST to a TTY somewhere else on the net, for example on my mac that runs FS-UAE, or my original Minimig that has a bluetooth RS232 adapter conneted to rfcomm device on my G4 minimac running Gentoo/Linux. I used to do this with the MIST too, but all in all it is more convenient to have everything built into the box, than to rely on remote hosts. * I want to rewrite old DirectoryOpus Magellan modules I made back in the days, so that I can browse files and upload/download with zmodem protocol from DOpus listers, and remote control media players etc from the MIST :) Anyways - it is all great fun! -- kolla
