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by jPV » Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:48 am
Oh yeah, I haven't checked serial stuff in Hollywood yet, but if you really can't define the device driver to be used, it's quite limiting in many aspects.
Not only in MorphOS, but on real Amigas you also might want to use USB serial adapters (I have Spider USB on my main classic Amiga).
And not to talk that many use serial.device replacements on real Amigas. For example, in modem based BBS/Internet times people commonly used 8n1.device and other newer devices that were much quicker than the original Commodore's serial.device. I can't see why they wouldn't be using them still.
And then there are serial port hardware expansions. A1200 had many clockport adapters, bigbox Amigas have MultiFaceCards etc. And in my case, my main Amiga's internal serial port is broken, so I just can't use serial.device with it. I've been using MultiFaceCard III instead.. that works fine with communication programs and with games where you can select the device (like Napalm etc).
And preprocessor for this wouldn't be enough alone, there should be a way to make it user selectable. So, just add that option to OpenSerialPort?