Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 17:01:45 01/05/06
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On January 04, 2006 at 17:02:28, James T. Walker wrote: >Not sure if anyone is interested but I finally found a solution to the problem >with new computers having only USB ports and no RS232 serial ports to run >auto232 games. >I found a PCI card that provides a RS232 serial port. It is made my Startech >which can be found on the internet. Their suggested price of around $51 is >higher than the $40 I paid today at a local Electronics store. The model number >of the card is PCI1S550 which provides one serial port. They also make cards to >provide more ports if you need them. >Now that I can run auto232 games again by connecting my old XP2400 to my new >64x2/3800+ I'm not sure why I want to. :-) Running eng/eng matches on a dual >core computer with each program having it's own cpu is much cleaner and simpler >than auto232. I just couldn't let the problem go untill I found a solution for >it. :-) >Jim You don't need any serial ports at all. Both ChessBase and Arena support Auto232 games using TCP/IP and named pipes. Read the arena docs, or finger Blargh on ICC for some hints.
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