A1200 clockport, what can it be used for?

[kolla]

Hopefully someone will have the vision to create a clockport Ethernet card that works with Amigas so all those A600 and A1200 users with 8MB Fast RAM can use it all online and not be limited to 4MB/5.5MB because of a PCMCIA network card. Then all we'd need is a 8MB/RTC/IDE/Clockport card for the CD32 and we'd be in expansion heaven.

Hear hear!!! :hammer:

Also, dont forget that TCP/IP is not the only thing to use ethernet for, there's also Envoy and various other "pre internet" protocols that use SANA2. I want my CD32 machines online primarly to avoid "floppy net" and hazardous (and with SX32, incompaible) pronet/parnet/serial cables.

Clockport adapter for CD32 and clockport ethernet has been on my wish list forr years

[ZeBeeDee]

I heard tale of a device that you can attach to the port that keeps your machine abreast of the current time and date. Incredible, eh?

[Trev]

Off topic, but a Fugitive/Bourne-style movie that's true to King's original Running Man novel would be cool. It doesn't have to be future-glitzy and filled with 80's sci-fi mock commercials. A setting similar to Children of Men would do just fine.

EDIT: Actually, Children of Men satisfies the requirement quite nicely. I guess a new Running Man doesn't have to be made. :-P

[espenbo]

Clockport devices are notoriously picky about timing and where the power is connected. ;-) A splitter sounds dangerous.

It has been done before. But harde to buy now.

http://hardware.amiga.hu/exp/quadroport


http://www.robthenerd.com/show.php?sect=projects&sub=clockport

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=560164


I would like one

Espen

[delshay]

from my point of veiw ( if it is possible ) the best thing for the clockport is a wireless module with a external reciver.

[Daedalus]

@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.

[kolla]

@delshay

...shifting data across the clockport is also a slow business, especially when you talk about splitting it between, say, a soundcard, networking and USB.

I think those of us who want ethernet (wifi is fine, but requires way more resources than amigas can offer - get a bridge!), dont plan on having more than just that on the clockport.

Hm... nice bridge

[hooverphonique]

No. They use multiple address spaces at an offset of $4000 for each clockport (base address is 0xd80001, which clashes with some chip area on A4000D/T machines -- peeking and poking in that area on an A4000 machine causes all kinds of havok to the IDE/SCSI port). Programmers that want to support these additional boards need to adapt their drivers for it and detection of multiple clockports that are not mere mirrors of the first one, is not trivial.

Hmm.. that sounds weird.. the official A4000(T) memory map lists $D00000-$D9FFFF as unused.. Maybe there's an address decoding bug somewhere in the IDE/SCSI logic then..

[som99]

Haha, I can't help but think of the first Robocop movie when I see that picture Thanks for a laugh

[AAACHIPSET]

usb ...its fantastic...got a 16gig usb stick  ..on the pc just plug it in transfer  what u like ..walk to the amiga  plug it in transfers  have never been so easy  ..even better than burning  a cd ..i love my clockport now,...