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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Franko on October 03, 2010, 01:55:12 AM
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Does anyone know of any software & hardware for the Amiga that would let me write and program PIC chips.
For a number of years now I have had a few little projects that I wanted to build for the Amiga but never got round to actually doing.
The main one I want to build first is a wireless joystick, having used the Cocolino mouse adapter for a number of years now, and realising that it's nothing more than a PIC chip controlling it, I started to convert an old competition pro joystick to work using the Cocolino device.
Using nothing more than the guts ripped from a cheap wireless mouse, it does work but only two input signals are available from it directly at boot up, these being the signals sent from the left & right mouse buttons.
Now a simple Amiga joystick only requires five signals from it to work, these of course being left, right, up, down & fire. So I don't think this should be too hard to achieve much like the Cocolino adapter.
Even if I have to write an Amiga based driver for it, (which I don't think I would need to) wouldn't be a problem, as I have already studied the Cocolino driver and optimized it for my own use, so writing a driver wouldn't be a problem.
I haven't been able to find any PIC programing software or hardware that would run on an A1200, I suppose though I could use my old iMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11) for this but would much rather do it all on the Amiga.
Anyone out their know or use such hardware on their miggy and where I can buy it.
Cheers :drink:
Franko
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It's pretty old, but I remembered this one: http://aminet.net/package/dev/cross/apic1812 (http://aminet.net/package/dev/cross/apic1812)
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This one may be more useful provided you don't mind some DIY HW building: http://aminet.net/package/dev/cross/MiniPIC (http://aminet.net/package/dev/cross/MiniPIC). It's from this millenium too, which may help.
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Of course, 2 seconds of google fu brings up Ian Stedman's site:
http://ianstedman.co.uk/Microcontroller_bitsnpieces/PIC_Programmers/pic_programmers.html (http://ianstedman.co.uk/Microcontroller_bitsnpieces/PIC_Programmers/pic_programmers.html)
The moral of the story? JFGI.
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Of course, 2 seconds of google fu brings up Ian Stedman's site:
http://ianstedman.co.uk/Microcontroller_bitsnpieces/PIC_Programmers/pic_programmers.html (http://ianstedman.co.uk/Microcontroller_bitsnpieces/PIC_Programmers/pic_programmers.html)
The moral of the story? JFGI.
Thanks for that Karlos, had a quick look and bookmarked it, need to get my 3 hours sleep now... :)
PS: I had already JFGI'ed it and I even JFGI'ed JFGI to find out what JFGI meant, trouble was I could only find PC & Mac stuff, but the second one's you gave look promising, ta... :)