Re: interfacing Euphoria to the 'real' world
- Posted by useless_ Jan 07, 2014
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Hi Kat,
I recall you had posted some info on previous impressive low-level hardware interfacing you had done yourself on Commodore computers.
Yeas, and i am currently cutting the shelf boards which will hover over my new desk for resuming Vic20/C64 stuff.
If your current interfacing needs are limited to a few digital/analog and Pulse width modulation ports, I can suggest
Not going to limit myself on what the Commodores can connect to, except as far as i can tell there won't be anything PC/wintel/nix compatable.
a Vellerman P8055N-2 board that uses a USB cable and documented callable DLL functions.
I went to http://www.vellemanusa.com/products/view/?id=500349 and followed all the links to their retail sellers, and none stocked Velleman stuff. Shame. It's going to be difficult to transfer data from the wintel boxes to the Commodores, just so i can make use of that data while connected to the real world. I saw the k8055 on ebay, spec say 20ms per command, figuring two 4bit inputs to make a byte, the transfer rate is 25 bytes per second. At that rate it will take 418 years to transfer a 330 Gbyte drive.
I am considering a virtual dual-ported pata drive, so the pc can read/write "files" on one port, and the non-PCs can read/write the other port. It's wierd Euphoria can connect to the internet across the world so well, and cannot connect to anything on my physical desktop right in front of me.
useless
