[Coco] Retro hackers

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Mark McDougall wrote:
> Joel Ewy wrote:
> One of the jobs I'm about to start work on involves an FTDI245R USB FIFO 
> chip. It provides a one-chip USB (peripheral) solution that is trivial 
> to interface to and also host-side drivers that allow simple application 
> access to the link.
> 
> I'm sure there's _some_ application on the Coco that could benefit from 
> a low-cost, low-complexity, 1MBps USB link???

Yep it's this that I have prototyped for a CoCo/Dragon->PC drivewire 
interface, I *WILL* get back to some of these projects, but trying to 
rationalise my retro stuff is sucking all my time currently :(

But it is a trivial chip to interface to, and has the advantages of both 
  Tx and Rx fifos to take some of the time criticalness out of 
interfacing to it.

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.