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91-04/GoldBrick.inf2
Transfinite Systems Company, Inc.
Post Office Box N
MIT Branch Post Office
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-0903
(617) 969-9570
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.