RapidRoad USB Review

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Thanks @fitzsteve! Could you post the exact model of sound card you tried, in case others want to attempt to duplicate your efforts?


I hardly ever listen to mp3's on my Amiga, but as a test I've played a few mp3's off flash drives through Amplifier and my AD516 card. Works okay, a bit of popping, not any different from playing them off a hard drive/CF card. Best playback results I've gotten come from playing an mp3 back directly from RAM:. USB overhead when streaming music files from a flash drive seems minimal.

[fitzsteve]

Hi, the model is:

Creative Sound Blaster SB0270 - USB External Soundcard



That's not my pic, just one I found online.

I shall try streaming the MP3 from Ram, it was from external USB stick so maybe the sound card and usb stick were using too much data although I believe it to be CPU related.

[Tygre]

Thanks a lot for the reports!!!

I can't wait to buy one :-)
Tygre

[bbond007]

That's not my pic, just one I found online.

I have one of those. Your saying it would work with my A1200 if I got rid of subway and got RapidRoad?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I have one of those. Your saying it would work with my A1200 if I got rid of subway and got RapidRoad?

How fast is your A1200?

[fitzsteve]

I have one of those. Your saying it would work with my A1200 if I got rid of subway and got RapidRoad?

I tested on my A4000 and as you know Zorro III is much faster then clockport so I can't guarantee it will work on an A1200.

If I can find some time to open my A4000 I'll try it on my A1200 which has a Blizzard 1230 and report back.

Steve.

edit:

Just ordered another RapidRoad lol, this one will go in the A4k as it's the reduced cost version and then I'll use the clockport one in my A1200, expect the USB Sound Card test in a few days/1 week

In the mean time I tested an MP3 from Ram Disk instead of USB on the A4k and it played back just fine, there was some stutter at first but then it settled down (after about 10 seconds) and played ok.

[Ancalimon]

Can anyone who has popupmenu.library and reqattack and magic menu installed test if the menu that opens when you right click inside a requester (for example the requester that opens when you choose "about" from "Workbench" menu) gets stuck using a usb mouse connected to RR?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Can anyone who has popupmenu.library and reqattack and magic menu installed test if the menu that opens when you right click inside a requester (for example the requester that opens when you choose "about" from "Workbench" menu) gets stuck using a usb mouse connected to RR?

I have "popupmenu.library" version 10.10.1 and MagicMenu version 2.35 installed on my system. I have no problems right-clicking on any menu items with USB mouse.  Mouse works seamlessly with any Workbench-compatible programs I've tried so far.  Obviously doesn't work with hard-coded WHDLoad games, however.  

[QuikSanz]

If they could only somehow "re-target" USB devices to work on old games I would be in heaven. Would be nice to use a USB analogue stick with fight sims.

Chris

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

If they could only somehow "re-target" USB devices to work on old games I would be in heaven. Would be nice to use a USB analogue stick with fight sims.

 
 How about a USB --> PS/2 --> 9-pin adapter?  Yeah, not exactly what you had in mind, I know.  

Adding to my list, I can now confirm that RapidRoad works great with a Microsoft Wireless Desktop 5000 (wireless mouse and keyboard combo).  Plugged it in, popped up, worked fine no issues.  Although it felt a bit weird using a wireless keyboard and mouse on my Amiga for the first time.  

[QuikSanz]

Lol, prolly won't work on a X1000 and run in uae.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Adding to my list of compatible devices:

- Garmin Nuvi 1300 (binded to massstorage.class, was able to charge device and access its file system).

I'd like to try a USB printer at some point. I assume that to have any chance at working it would need to support Postscript output. I've got 17 printers around the office but all are big workgroup-class devices connected via Ethernet, not sure if I have any USB printers anywhere, haha.

Side note, it looks like Poseidon uses a small amount of chip memory for something? With my graphics card I usually have 97% free. Doing a fresh boot and then opening nothing but Poseidon/Trident Prefs I notice that goes down to 95%. At a quick glance with SysInfo and Scout I couldn't find the cause. All my libraries/devices/etc. appeared to be loaded in 32-bit fast. Odd, but no big deal.

[itix]

Side note, it looks like Poseidon uses a small amount of chip memory for something?

AFAICT, it does not. Perhaps some small graphics is cached to chip memory?

[danbeaver]

I'd like to try a USB printer at some point. I assume that to have any chance at working it would need to support Postscript output. I've got 17 printers around the office but all are big workgroup-class devices connected via Ethernet, not sure if I have any USB printers anywhere, haha.

Instead, plug in an ASIX Ethernet dongle and access your network printers that way; it gives me a way to connect to my HP inkjet, Dell WorkGroup and cheap B/W laser printer.:laugh1:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Instead, plug in an ASIX Ethernet dongle and access your network printers that way; it gives me a way to connect to my HP inkjet, Dell WorkGroup and cheap B/W laser printer.:laugh1:

Since my Amiga is on the same domain I think I could just access them straight over the network, without a dongle.  Only two things (1) I have no need of a printer on my Amiga, and (2) I still haven't had time, haha.    But yes, I'd like to test a printer connected to RapidRoad, just for purposes of compatibility testing.

[Ancalimon]

I have "popupmenu.library" version 10.10.1 and MagicMenu version 2.35 installed on my system. I have no problems right-clicking on any menu items with USB mouse.  Mouse works seamlessly with any Workbench-compatible programs I've tried so far.  Obviously doesn't work with hard-coded WHDLoad games, however.  

Try this:

Choose About from Workbench menu. The about window will appear in ReqAttack style. What happens when you right click that about window using usb mouse connected to RR USB?

Here a menu pops up but gets stuck and the only way to close that menu is either using the real Amiga mouse or pressing escape from keyboard.