12 Sep 16 12:47, you wrote to me:   
      
    JM>>> As I'm forced to run my BBS in a emulated Amiga for time being, I'm   
    JM>>> wondering if there is any way to have the Amiga access the psysical   
    JM>>> RS-232-port on the PC that's running Ubuntu and FS-UAE.   
      
    ml>> it is generally up to the settings of the VM as to whether or not   
    ml>> access to real hardware is provided... if your VM software has some   
    ml>> place where you can set up the virtual machine to access real hard   
    ml>> drives, set the amount of memory, how many CPUs and such, you may be   
    ml>> able to "add new hardware" pointing to the physical serial port on   
    ml>> the physical machine /if/ that serial port is recognised by the   
    ml>> physical machine's configuration and its OS sees it...   
      
    JM> It's FS-UAE and I am yet to find any setting for RS-232.  I used to   
    JM> run the BBS with Amiga Forever, which supports RS-232 but had other   
    JM> issues such as the emulated Amiga loosing it's network connection   
    JM> after a few hours.   
      
   i've given all i can... i'm used to QEMU/KVM and how it operates in my   
   installation... i think there is actually a QEMU-UAE module but i've not   
   looked for it or attempted to do anything Amiga oriented in a virtual   
   machine...   
      
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   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
      
   ... Gates change a light bulb? He doesn't. He declares dark the standard.   
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