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Re: A1200 clockport, what can it be used for?
« on: August 27, 2009, 04:42:38 PM »
There are dozens of things to add onto the clockport, including the rarely seen real-time clock add-on. There are a couple of sound cards, USB solutions, the Catweasel floppy controller, fast, buffered serial and parallel ports, and a couple of MP3 decoders. See a list at http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ where you can browse hardware by connection.
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Re: A1200 clockport, what can it be used for?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2009, 01:43:05 PM »
@delshay

Meaning an external clock port? Or a wireless network adaptor? As was said, networking across the clockport is possible in theory, but needs to be polled which slows everything down, and shifting data across the clockport is also a slow business, especially when you talk about splitting it between, say, a soundcard, networking and USB.
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