Oli_hd wrote:
short answer: no
Long answer: kinda, there are UART to USB converters that let you mount the device (IE the Amiga) as a USB peripheral so it could be accessed by USB from another computer, that said you could not plug a harddrive or other USB devices into your Amiga. Basically you would get the USB B type connector on your Amiga but it would be of no use.
The second and much more complicated way would be to make a small 8bit computer with USB and serial, add a bit of software on both the Amiga and the 8bit chip, basically a serial network between the two, that would give yo uaccess to harddrives, CD-Roms etc. It would be as slow as a serial network but it would work.
I have seen Ethernet demo boards that are only 1.5" square that do this.. not a great solution though.
And why not try to use the user port directly?
I haven't had much time to solder things and so, but I am still thinking about to make a project wich makes usb connection possible on the C=64 using the user port and an AVR or PIC or something like that.
