#dummy Bridge adapter
06-Mar-91 19:52:22
Sb: #8155-#dummy Bridge adapter
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: JAMES D. WILLIAMS 72157,3524
I'd always thought that was possible, too. First, define "cheap".
Bridgeboards are cheap, no? And even with that horsepower, they don't let
you use IBM cards from the Amiga side. A custom card would need to make
the bus come alive, making all the signals that a PC card needs. Why not
use a real PC processor to do that? What you really want is some software
to let the Amiga access the PC cards. You'd just boot the Bridgeboard into
this special-purpose PC program, it would take over, you couldn't run any
PC software, but you'd get access to the PC cards, if you had even more
custom software on the Amiga side. What kind of card do you need to use?