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notalentcoder
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Registered: Jan 2009
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All these new gadgets for the c64.
I love it all. From the sd card readers to the serial interfaces for using your peecee as a disk drive. All this new innovation got me to thinking. I'm not a tech head, I wish I was because if I was I'd make a USB adapter for the c64. Use any USB device on the c64? Now that would really be something.
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hevosenliha
Registered: Sep 2008
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I built a USB interface for the shortbus on IDE64, works just like the new IDE64 with USB built in.
You can't use usb mem sticks with it, you still need a peecee with a server program running...
But, it's just a matter of time when I've built a usb host adapter for my c64... |
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notalentcoder
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Now that's what I'm talking about. :)
I'd buy 2. :)
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hevosenliha
Registered: Sep 2008
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Just building the interface is a peace of cake, the driver software is another story...
One way could be to build a IEC-bus attached thing that could access files on a usb stick, and even mount d64 files there on, then we need no special driver on the c64. |
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DemongerX
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I'd heard musings that one of the IEC devices would eventually have usb support. Don't know if that's a confirmation, but I know it is in the works.
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notalentcoder
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If the hardware exists, the software is usually sure to follow. I pulled my old c64 out of the closet recently, maybe try my hand at it. I'm sure the USB programmers guide is 100 pages long though. It's never easy.
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hevosenliha
Registered: Sep 2008
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I was thinking of a PIC18 microcontroller, USB drivers already exist to access umass devices, so it's just a matter of implementing the interfacing to the c64, either via IEC or some faster parallell way, but then you need drivers on the C64.
If connected to a IDE64 it would be a piece of cake to implement the ideserv protocol and let the IDE64 do all c64 side handling... |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
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Well its not designed for the C64, but i've hooked a
pair of "80 video goggles to my C64.
Unfortunately, the C64 floats, so the luma goes wrong after 10 secs and starts to increase up to white.
With DTV they behave same way.
A friend has suggested me to solder a small cap and maybe a resistor to fix the prog.
Anyhow, it just feels so damn cool CYBER using the 64 with these! :-) |
