[Coco] Retro hackers

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Mark

How about using FTDI's Vinculum on the Coco3? 

That gives a USB host on the Coco3 for a relative small cost. 

james

 

On 28 Sep 2007 at 9:41, Mark McDougall wrote:

> Joel Ewy wrote:
> 
> > I've got a small supply of 8-bit NE-1000 (NE-2000 compatible) cards
> > that I have always thought shouldn't be too difficult
> > (hardware-wise) to interface to a CoCo.
> 
> My way of thinking would be to use a chip like the CS8900A on the C64
> card... looks easy to interface with a modest register map?!?
> 
> On a related but different topic...
> 
> 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???
> 
> Regards,
> 
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