Connecting to an emulated serial terminal with MAME

When using MAME to emulate an old computer system, you might want to connect to the emulated serial port. A lot of the advice online is good , but relies on using PuTTY. I ended up being able to use telnet on my Mac. First, start the server: % ./mame rc2014bp5 -bus:1 micro -bus:1:micro:rs232 null_modem -bitb socket.localhost:1234 As explained in the above linked article, this command line tells…