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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Question to all amiga programs
- Date: 10 Feb 96 22:03:59 +0500
- Organization: MountainNet, Inc. Morgantown WV 800.444.1458
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- JOM> Is it possible to access PC cards connected to the amiga
- JOM> via Workbench 3.1 WITHOUT an emulator or 3rd party board
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- I agree with this sentiment to a point. But see next paragraph also.
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- Well, not from a programmers view, but more from the hardware end, its just
- not possible without the equ of at least a GoldenGate in the system. Over
- on/in the pc slots area of the amiga, there is virtually no connection from
- that buss to the amiga's own buss since the buss formats are so
- diss-similar. I've even thought of doing a wire wrap point to point hack
- to achieve that since my A2k is full+, but then I'd have to figure out how
- to handle such things as the interrupts etc cleanly, no mean feat AFAIK.
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- Conclusion? Buy the GoldenGate and lose 2 slots, at least I hear it works.
- Then of course you could plug in a Diamond-Stealth or?? card. The next
- question then becomes "what do we use for drivers?" Damifiknow... Does
- GoldenGate furnish any that can get past the enforcer? My guess is a
- resounding no unless the GoldenGate does some pretty fancy address
- remapping of those pc cards who expect to get their i/o at someplace in the
- first 1k block of the address space!
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- Cheers
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- /* Gene Heskett | These opinions are NOT to be */
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