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Yesterday, I finally got around to building a serial cable to connect my Amstrad E3 up to a PC serial port. Various people are working on trying to get all the the hardware supported by Linux for this device. http://www.earth.li/~noodles/hardware-e3.html has up-to-date information about the project. Due to my uselessness in interpreting serial cables it took me a while to get it working (due to transposing TX and RX). For reference - my cable (9-Pin D Female) has the following connections:

• Pin 2 - Tip
• Pin 3 - Ring
• Pin 5 - Sleeve

and works at least as far as seeing messages from PBL. This episode served to remind me how much I hate minicom, and I was pleased to be told of the existance of cu which is a little simpler for the purpose of testing. I had success with the command.

cu -l /dev/ttyS1 -s 115200 -e -o

This website is now an OpenID server , and consumer. This means that people with accounts on other weblogs should now be able to login to comment, and that people with hu.gs weblog accounts should be able authenticate to post to other Blogs. Update: I'd be grateful if users of other Blogging systems could post test comments on here to check that the OpenID authentication is genuinely functioning.

Hello, and welcome to the new weblog on hu.gs. It if the space where I, and hopefully others will place current informaiton about things they are doing, projects they are working on and other things that are current, and going on in their lives.