In a message dated 02/04/02 17:07:08 GMT Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


> Here are a couple more screwball ideas for you:
> 
> 1) Your 1200 has a parallel port. Xircom (among others) have made parallel
> port ethernet adapters in the past. Dunno if you could find Amiga drivers
> for them ...
> 
> 2) Similarly, there are parallel port SCSI adapters which might make it
> possible to vacate the PCMCIA slot. Adaptec (after they bought Trantor) 
> sold
> one called MiniSCSI. Iomega sold one called the Jaz Traveler. Again drivers
> could be a challenge.
> 

Not sure whether that would work, the parallel port on the amiga couldn't 
handle the paralle zip drive so I doubt it'd cope with that.

> <and my personal favorite, a VNC-less possibility>
> 3) Your 1200 has composite video out. If you had a video capture card in
> your PC you could at least display the Amiga screen on your PC's monitor
> sans VNC, if that is of any use. 

Like the video capture idea. 

Can you configure the 1200 to take its> 
> keyboard input from the serial port? 
> 
No, but the mouse can. Only problem is, the main reason for wanting VNC was 
because my keyboard adaptor broke on the amiga.


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