nathanallan Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 I gladly refer you to a thread I have been following over at www.atari-forum.com: http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8407&start=0 Imagine having your ST or Falcon as a workign node on your network. When I say 'working' I mean productive, not just functional! I think this would utterly rock! And be worth the expense of having it shipped from overseas! Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Interesting - please keep us updated here when ordering takes palce as I dont frequent those forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 There are some information with prototype photos on http://hardware.atari.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fourth Horseman Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 USB sounds ambitious. Perhaps a little over-ambitious considering the OS and drivers and such. But I'd be interested in such a devide for its ethernet functionality, and if USB does come to pass down the road then so much the better. Will be watching this one, for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I do not think it is bad idea to have USB. Why not use printers or mass storage devices. Even Atari 8bit has USB cart for connecting controlers, so why not Atari ST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I think he means that decent drivers are very hard to write, plus they often rely on proprietary knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I partially agree with Fourth. A plain ST with plain TOS would have a hard time dealing directly with USB. Falcon and other powerful models running alternative multitasking systems are more appropiate. As we are discussing in an atari-forum thread, it is possible to put the USB stack and drivers in the device itself. Then you don't have to worry about writing the low level drivers (they are already written), or about them being too much for the old 68000. This is how the Atari 8-bit gets USB (obviously). However this won't be the case in the NETUS-Bee. May be next time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 How exactly will this thing work? I don't see a RJ jack on it, is it networking over USB? I'd like to get networking on my ST/Falcon, etc. but I don't want to bother with other OS's (i.e. MINT). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 It looks like the RJ45 is on the second side of PCB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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