Bluetooth, does classic Amiga's support it?

[digiflip]

Im thinking of perhabs using my apple magic track pad on a FPGA arcade with duaghter board eventually, just wandering if there is bluetooth drivers , i think there is bluetooth within the poseidon usb stack.

[Matt_H]

No Amiga BlueTooth support, sorry. The Poseidon driver is only enough to recognize a dongle - there's no stack to drive it. It's like having a SANA-II driver for your network card but no Miami/AmiTCP/whatever to get online.

I don't know anything about this FPGA Arcade board, but if it uses BlueTooth to emulate an Amiga mouse (like Minimig does for PS/2 ports), then it could work. But there's no support on the AmigaOS side of things.

[Tripitaka]

The driver Matt H is referring to bluetooth.class (included with poseidon) for Bluetooth HCI USB interface, no Bluetooth stack is included however as he says, It's a sadly lacking area in Amigaland.

[Xanxi]

However, serial blutooth adapters such as the Pico plug are usable to set up some kind of wireless serial null-modem connection.



I have one and entend to use it some day. There is a tutorial for that on EAB.

[mfilos]

There are also devices (like for example Logitech's DiNovo mini that I own) that:
- they are bluetooth devices that can be used just fine from any bluetooth enabled device... OR
- they have a dongle supplied that has bluetooth communication with the DiNovo BUT dongle acts like a normal HID device alas it can be used from even the BIOS of a PC or any other device that supports USB HID devices (like Poseidon does).