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| matherp Guru  Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 11215 |
 4 channel CDC host capability alongside the normal USB keyboard/mouse/gamepad support |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1849 |
 oh great, now we have another zillion possibilities to keep me awake at night  |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1849 |
Does this mean that a PicoMite can talk to four other PicoMites via their USB ports? |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 11215 |
Yes |
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| Peter63 Senior Member  Joined: 28/07/2017 Location: SwedenPosts: 153 |
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| mozzie Senior Member Joined: 15/06/2020 Location: AustraliaPosts: 278 |
G'day Peter, A huge thank you for this, it's been on my wish list since the very first PicoMite USB firmware was mentioned Regards, Lyle. |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1849 |
This is insane. Might need to go grab a beer and ponder the possibilities 🍺 |
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javavi Guru Joined: 01/10/2023 Location: UkrainePosts: 546 |
Awesome! Is it possible to do something else so that you can connect a USB Flash drive to a hub and have it available in the system as drive C:? Edited 2026-04-05 04:43 by javavi |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9936 |
I guess USB laser-printer support will be next......  You amaze us all, Peter.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8768 |
I doubt if it will handle USB devices that aren't actually serial. That would rule out all types of USB flash drives, USB printers etc. Also, you can't set the baud rate so it's not something you could connect to a serial printer. Time to plug some USB drives into a Raspberry Pi and turn it into a modernised Commodore 64 disk drive. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9936 |
Well, I WAS joking about that, Mick!  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8768 |
I wasn't. :) I think the possibilities of a high speed serial-controlled usb-connected (preferably) drive are definitely there. You need a command structure to talk to the Pi to give it commands and get it to accept or send data over the link. Obviously it needs to be set up to use its USB system in a suitable mode and respond to those commands. You could then access whatever drives or devices that could be plugged into a Pi. No need for the latest and greatest either, a Pi 3 or 3B would probably be adequate as a file server. Of course, this may not be possible. I don't know enough about the Pi. Or much else, for that matter. lol I do know that the Commodore 1541 floppy drive was on their own serial version of the IEEE-488 interface though. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| bfwolf Senior Member Joined: 03/01/2025 Location: GermanyPosts: 235 |
A 1541 floppy emulator already exists for the Raspberry Pi.  https://cbm-pi1541.firebaseapp.com/ However, an ATMEGA1284 is sufficient for this. https://www.c64-wiki.de/wiki/SD2IEC https://www.sd2iec.de/ And I just found this: Someone is working on a solution using a Pi-Pico: https://rastertail.net/scm/pico1541.git/tree/ By the way: Happy Easter everyone!  Regards |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9936 |
LOL! Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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