Anaiis - Highway USB Stack for old classic Amigas

[alexh]

Ah, UHC124, that brings back memories. I cant believe we still make it, let alone sell it ;-) If the Amiga community needed some UHC124 chips I could arrange to get them at cost.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. USB is a f#@£ing stupid idea for MiniMig. The CPU power and RAM required for the USB stack combined with the incompatibility native Amiga USB has with Apps such as games makes it a terrible idea.

You can plug in modern keyboards and mice via MiniMig's PS2 connectors using $1 USB adapters and have 100% compatibility and no CPU/RAM overhead. It is a no brainer as far as I am concerned.

[alexh]

Gilloo wrote:
Games should use lowlevel.library, and not kill system.

They don't though. Most games (ADF images) don't even run from workbench, or are even DOS disks. They must be booted separately.

Gilloo wrote:
If Amiga was designed only for games, it would be dead in 1994, and unknown today. I use it for computing, texts, drawings... not for games.

A 1.5Mbyte A500 (MiniMig spec) was effectively dead _before_ 1994.

Gilloo wrote:
And where I plug the printer? in the PS2 connector? :lol:

Into your PC/MAC?

Seriously, you are not going to want a 7MHz, 1.5Mbyte MiniMig as your main computer and so you're not going to need to print from it. Have you tried printing on an A500 Amiga recently, not fun.

persia wrote:
It's f#@£ing stupid to trade legacy Amiga ports for legacy PC ports if you don't have to

Hardly a true legacy port. It's on the latest Intel x38 motherboards! The majority of keyboards and mice will continue to support PS/2 with a passive ($1) adapter for a long time to come (if not forever) as they all use the same ultra cheap USB HID device chips.

leirbag28 wrote:
the power usage issue or whatever can be easily resolved with the inclusion of an AC adaptor port right on the MiniMig

CPU power, not electrical power :-)

I am not an opponent to the Anaiis USB stack, I congratulate it's author(s) for all their hard work.