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modrobert · 24 November 2015, 04:35

From my experience with the Amiga serial port...

You get 19200 Baud on an Amiga (A500/A1000/A2000) with 68000 CPU (@ 7MHz) using standard serial device (WB 1.2 or WB 1.3) and decent terminal program (eg. JR-Comm), 38400 Baud can be achieved with faster serial device and tweaking screen mode (number of colours), etc.

A plain A1200 gives you 57600 Baud using standard serial device (WB 3.1) and decent terminal program (eg. NComm), with any accelerator (020/030 CPU) over ~30Mhz you can do 115200 Baud.

The "hardware" part of RTS/CTS refers to the physical RS-232 pins in the serial port to handle the handshake, as opposed to XON/XOFF handshaking which is "soft" as in characters sent by software in the data flow.

I haven't done any serial programming on the Amiga, so can't help much there.

24 November 2015, 04:35	#4
modrobert old bearded fool Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Bangkok Age: 56 Posts: 779	From my experience with the Amiga serial port... You get 19200 Baud on an Amiga (A500/A1000/A2000) with 68000 CPU (@ 7MHz) using standard serial device (WB 1.2 or WB 1.3) and decent terminal program (eg. JR-Comm), 38400 Baud can be achieved with faster serial device and tweaking screen mode (number of colours), etc. A plain A1200 gives you 57600 Baud using standard serial device (WB 3.1) and decent terminal program (eg. NComm), with any accelerator (020/030 CPU) over ~30Mhz you can do 115200 Baud. The "hardware" part of RTS/CTS refers to the physical RS-232 pins in the serial port to handle the handshake, as opposed to XON/XOFF handshaking which is "soft" as in characters sent by software in the data flow. I haven't done any serial programming on the Amiga, so can't help much there.