[Coco] atari USB device
Mark McDougall
msmcdoug at optushome.com.au
Tue Nov 16 16:15:19 EST 2004
jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> Just a breif look at the specs for the SL811 and the webpage it
> should be an easy drop in. They are not implementing the slave
> connector. Though the Cypress chip will handle slave mode as well.
>
> The SL811 is cheap, around $8 US in single unit price. From what I
> see of the final cartridge there is not much to the board. The SL811
> has 256 bytes of onboard FIFO also.
>
> An interesting idea.
Yes, very nice indeed. I have always been deterred from investigating
implementation of a USB host-side controller b/c of the fright I got looking
at the USB controller source in linux. But I must admit this project does
make me think it's a lot more do-able than I originally thought!
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