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- 91-04/GoldBrick.inf2
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- Transfinite Systems Company, Inc.
- Post Office Box N
- MIT Branch Post Office
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-0903
- (617) 969-9570
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- D2002@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Donald Vastlake)
-
- The Goldbrick is a device which allows any Nintendo device to be connected
- to a Mac via the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB). The device will detect the presence
- of the powerpad, U-force, powerglove, as well as standard joysticks.
-
- It appears the Transfinite uses the box to develop software for physically
- impaired children. He cited an example where some speach impaired kids used
- a powerpad to make menu choices which would trigger a voice synthesizer
- for them.
-
- The Goldbrick does read the high-rez mode with full x,y,z,roll analog finger
- data being reported.
-
- The ADB is real bizzare and Apple licenses firms to develop for it. The
- docs on the Mac (Inside Macintosh ...) don't give detailed treatments on
- it and apparently Apple deals with those who it finds distributing devices
- for the ADB if they aren't licensed.
-
- I don't know what the legal implications are if a device is built that
- isn't intended to connect to the Mac but rather to the peripheral but it
- seems to me that the powerglove problem would be solved if someone were
- to come up with that device.
-
- The Goldbrick comes in two flavors. The model 1 is a programmer's development
- box which you can take apart to make firmware updates or whatever. It costs
- $245. The model 2 is a little box that just sits inline between the glove
- and the ADB in an injection molded case. IT runs for about $160.
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