TTY comms via serial link support.

[gwald]

Hi Martin.

There is someone making a Net Yaroze game with serial link cable communication between two PS1's.
And there is no support for the serial link cable in NY, apart from the TTY functions, ie ioctl and open/close, read/write etc.
Seem to have managed to do it and it's working on hardware!
TMK, this is the first time it's has been done!

Not sure how trivial TTY is to implement basic TTY (open/close, read/write char, etc) on no$psx, but it would make it easier in the future if someone else is game to do it!

[nocash]

I have no idea what you are talking about... a tty text output hardware game that was made by someone?
But whatever you mean, I have probably already emulated that.

[MasterLink]

I don't think he's talking about TTY text output, but rather like how Doom lets you link two PS1's to play a multiplayer game on two separate TV's. I guess that wasn't supported with the Net Yaroze (with the NY libraries I assume).

What game is this, so we can look it up?

[gwald]

I have no idea what you are talking about... a tty text output hardware game that was made by someone?
But whatever you mean, I have probably already emulated that.

Sorry, I often can't find the right words to explain things, MasterLink is correct.

TTY is a two way protocol (typically over a serial interface) and it's being used between two real playstations to communicate input and position, so opening a TTY device and using putchar into the other PSX and getchar to read the other's data etc. Because Net Yaroze doesn't have serial cable lib support.
When using No$PSX with two PSX connected via serial, TTY char's are sent, but never received.

What game is this, so we can look it up?

I guess it's in development, so I don't know.
Just talking and sending info I know about how serial/TTY was used via NY, apart from Siocons PC transfer related stuff, wasn't much.