USB on 2000 (3000,4000)

[recidivist]

 Subway appears to be the current solution for  my A1200s' as far as adding new capabilities but what about the big boxes?

 The webite of E3B shows the Zorro cards SOLD OUT!

 Since USB cameras,scanners,hard drives ,memory sticks,card readers,my broadband modem,microphone for iMac,but not yet my kitchen  have this port it seems the perfect solution to modernize the classic big boxes.

 I did do a search and Subway is all that seems available now!?

    :-?

[keropi]

get a subwway and put it on the KickFlash OS4 clockport...

[mboehmer_e3b]

get a subwway and put it on the KickFlash OS4 clockport...

... or give me the time to finish my exam end of this month :-) E3B will be back after this event (which keeps my busy at the moment).

Michael

[Zac67]

Nice to hear, Michael - viel Erfolg!

[Amiduffer]

recidivist wrote:
 Subway appears to be the current solution for  my A1200s' as far as adding new capabilities but what about the big boxes?

 The webite of E3B shows the Zorro cards SOLD OUT!

Hi recidivist.

I recently emailed Individual Computers about their Delfina Flipper, asking if could use it in the A3000, and her reply was, that it's A1200 clockport specific equipment, but, if you install their ISDN card in your big box Ami, the clockport on the ISDN will give you the same capablility. Email them about using it in your A2000.

[recidivist]

 Thanks for the suggestions;I believe that waitng until Michael has some more Zorro cards may serve me best.

 My telco,which is a rural co-operative, put in fiber optic all over six counties ;and we "hicks in the sticks" had high-speed before the nearby cities and towns! Started out at 280K but now usually run 1M+ (how did I ever surf with a 14.4?The provided ADSL modem is a netopia with lan and usb ports,so usb is how I thought to connect the Amigas.

 Computing is cheaper on the trailing edge,except for Amiga!

[Lemmink]

Sorry to diasapoint you, but your ADSL-Modem wont work with any Amiga USB-solution as it woudl require specific drivers that do not exist. Keyboard, Mouse, USB-Sticks, some scanners and printers and most of the digicams and MP3-Players will work.

[Amiduffer]

What computer language is usually used to produce something like a hardware driver?

[platon42]

> What computer language is usually used to produce something like a hardware driver?

For USB (Poseidon)? It's C. SDK with examples are provided on request. The SDK stuff is also included in the normal MorphOS SDK AFAIK.

[Amiduffer]

How difficult is it to code a driver? Just curious.

[platon42]

> How difficult is it to code a driver? Just curious.

Well, it depends on the complexity of the hardware (if the HW does only a few things, then you probably don't need much code to talk to it, but more glue to get what you want -- on the other hand, if it's complex, you'll end up with much management code for the HW, but might gain performance and simplicity on the higher levels), on your skills and very much on your experience ("been there, done that.").

Sometimes, the hardware driver is just the easiest part compared to the software layers above

If you ever have written a library or device, used and handled interrupts in all variations, do message passing while sleeping, know the caveats of parallel execution and multithreading, well, then it's probably not that hard.

Does this help? Probably not...