PCMCIA and USB on A1200, would it work?

[amigakit]

Yes, the Subway USB card is a good (available) USB solution for the A1200 and the A600 with a clockport adapter.

I would wonder how fast a 16-bit CF-based USB port would be.  Also would there be enough power over the PCMCIA port, probably need a powered mini-USB hub otherwise you would put too much power strain on the A1200's mainboard.

[leirbag28]

YEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

Look what I found!!!!!

16bit CF to USB Baby!!!!!!!!

http://www.expansys.com.au/product.asp?code=113389

READ the Specs all the way at the last lines!

@Gringuero

Its a Twin Paradox card!  so they did develop it after all

Some one Please make a driver!!!!!!!!!!!

THis would be the easiest and cheapest wat to get USB on A1200 and A600 :-)

If a PDA can power it, then Im sure an Amiga can.

[adonay]

Its a Twin Paradox card! so they did develop it after all

:-D  :-D

COOL!!!!

and as for power ..wont be anny problem the pcmcia use the power dirct from main board so it realy deepends on the psu you have got atached.... :-D

I will join the >WE WANT DRIVERS KLUBB< :-D

adonay :-)

[adolescent]

@leirbag28

Read the page, it's not available.  

Ignoring that, and the fact that drivers would be needed.  There's no way it would be cheaper than the Subway.  Existing CF->USB adapters cost over $100.  Plus, you'd need to still buy the Posiedon USB stack, and a PCMCIA->CF adapter.

[Argus]

@adolescent

Isn't there a shareware evaluation version of Poseidon?  Maybe that could be used for testing the driver, limited use, etc.?  I'm sure if Chris Hodges? made the price right, a lot of people would buy Poseidon for a pcmcia card USB setup.

@leirbag

Good work hunting that down!  I don't see why that wouldn't work (though it hasn't been released yet).  Perhaps NCafferkey would know how to write a driver to make it accessible to Poseidon?  He wrote the driver for the Prism2 wireless cards (works great!).  In all fairness, to compete price-wise with Subway, it'd have to cost less than $50 or so, because Subway with Poseidon USB I've seen go for around $100 new.  I do think it would be neat to have another option, adding USB without tearing apart your Amiga and cutting the hell out of the em shielding to fit the Subway.  Thank God Commodore engineers had the foresight to put that pcmcia port on the A600/A1200!

[adolescent]

@Argus

I guess anything is possible.  Here's one that is actually available for those with the $$$ to try.  Again, I think the Subway is a much better deal.

http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html