Re: Amiga Serial killer at large!

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From: Ben Preece
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:00

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On 09 Mar 00 17:29:19 +0500, Angus Manwaring waffled:

> In a nutshell then, is connecting a cable to the non-selected channel of
> the switching box safe while the powered up Amiga is switched to the other
> channel?

In my experience Angus, yes. As you're gaming, I assume this means you
tend to play from a reboot, so hopefully that means there's little chance
of a serial program causing some crash when you switch.

Maybe get a switchbox with more than two states so that you don't have to
unplug it all the time? :)


Ben

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