#Casio 2 Amiga link?
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Does anyone have any experience or info on linking Casio BOSS pocket organizers
to the Amiga? I have the SF4600BX and from what I've seen, uses a cable that
looks like male stereo mini-plugs on each end to link 2 organizers together.
Casio does sell a PC link kit but it is expensive. Any and all info
appreciated!
Bil
Bil,
Try looking in the PALMTOP forum. Casio has a section there.
DJ
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Where the ice cream truck plays Helter Skelter …
Bil
Good question. I've got a BOSS too and have wondered whether it's
possible to down load to the Amiga without buying Casio's PC link it. The
kit *is* expensive. Please let me know if you get an answer
Bob Campbell
Clover, SC
Bob & Bill:
I have a Sharp Wizard, and don't know the BOSS as well, but dont they
have a modem conection? I just E-Mail things to my self.
Brad Hayes
Hayes Visual Communication
As others have stated, you may find it worthwhile to look into the Palmtop
forum here on CIS. There is talk of a PCX bitmap file that details how to
build a cable. I'd imagine that is more than half the battle as the cable must
do voltage correction and such.
I have learned that it is easy enough to hack a cable to connect 2 BOSS units.
They seem to a want a 2mm stereo plug on each end. By crossing what would in
audio be called left and right you'd connect send to receive on each unit and
be ready to roll.
Once we build a cable for 232 connection, I wonder if we can't just catch the
text out of the BOSS with a comm program? And could we just resend the text to
the BOSS to perform a restore function?
I have the SF-4600BX, if anyone finds anything I'd sure like to hear it!
-BiL- woovis@infinet.com
Bil &/or Bob,
I too would be very interested in ANY information on connecting Casio's
to the AMIGA. SO far I have only seen questions, never any positive
answers.
Regards Leonard
I have followed this discussion on the Palmtop forum a couple of years ago (I
think it was called something else then). I have their cable and software and
use it on the IBM and I think I have seen Apple II software for it somewhere.
Although the cable looks just like a DB25 on one end and a stereo plug on the
other, apparently it is more complex than that. If I remember correctly, there
is a chip buried in the DB25 plastic that inverts all the signals. Didn't
sound all that electrically complex but a nuisance to build. I guess Casio
charges what the traffic will bear.
—–Paul—–
Paul, I too have found that the Palmtop forum has a lot of info in it…
including a pcx picture of how to build the cable. It does require a MAC233A
chip which I am having trouble finding a source of. Besides the chip, you are
right, it needs a DB25 at one end and a submini (2mm) stereo mini plug at the
other. There is apparently some custom handshaking going on so normal telecom
programs won't work. :{( But there is a free program in Palmtop called CASIF
for messydos that should run under emulation. I'll try that once I get the
cable built.
If anyone else has info chime in or email me! Bil 73357,121 woovis@infinet.com
Bil,
I am in the process of building one for my maiga using the one bought for my
IBM… the chip numbers in mine are all easy to find… I will post a picture
of some kind, and info as to how the software went in about 1 week (just got
the parts <G>)
*MD* W. A. Blaylock M.F.I. Comfortable Software [75201,2327 CIS]
sharecty!william.blaylock@xmission.com or william.blaylock@privy.com
Thanks for the note Bill, I'll look VERY forward to hearing from you on the
parts and software to link BOSS to Ami! Please keep me posted…
Bil 73357,121
woovis@infinet.com
William,
do I understand correctly, you ae building a CASIO to AMIGA link? Will
this be hardware or software? I have the IBM hardware but nothing to run
it on, I really would like to access the diary from my AMIGA.
More information please.
Regards Leonard
Leonard,
I am doing both… copying my ibm hardware ('cause my amiga and my ibm are
physically far apart)… the software is only in the infant stages but who
knows from there… CASIO has been most helpful in answering questions even
after I told them what I was doing <G>
*MD* W. A. Blaylock M.F.I. Comfortable Software [75201,2327 CIS]
sharecty!william.blaylock@xmission.com or william.blaylock@privy.com
William
bully for you, hope you get the Casio/Ami interface to work. Like others
here I have the PC interface hardware. I hope to someday see you upload
the Amiga software that we are all missing to the forum here. I see by
your tagline you are "Comfortable Software", sounds like you have the
tools to actually do this job. Best of luck.
> CASIO has been most helpful in answering questions
> even after I told them what I was doing <G>
Sure they are. They aren't the guys that built the interface in the first
place, Traveling Software did.
Tom
alternate: jonest@hfsi.com
I never met a man I didn't like…Will Rogers
Hi
I have had a SF7500 and my wife has a SF8000.
I had the same thought a number of years ago and visited with the palmtop
forum for a while (casio hangs out there). The upshot was that the only
way available was to purchase the PC-Link software and cable. They made
one for Macintosh too I believe. I use the PC-Link to dump to/from my PC
now. It is a bit clumsy but at least I get a usable backup saved to
harddisk once in a while. It cost me about $100.00, not cheap.
There was a kit sold by Casio to programmers that gave them license to
program for the palmtops and the information needed. It cost a lot also,
over $1000 I seem to recall. There were also some files in the forum that
outlined the format used by the serial interface to transfer data, for
interested programmers.
I have never found a shareware or freeware program that uses the Casio
serial port. If anyone knows of any, please leave the information here. It
would be nice to find a program to PC-Link to the Amiga or just to dump
the address list to it in txt format.
Thanks
Tom Jones
alternate: jonest@hfsi.com
I never met a man I didn't like…Will Rogers
Tom,
What a coincidence. I have an SF-8000 and she has a 7500.
I bought the PC-Link package despite the cost and used it with a PC when I
had one. The software is, I'm sure, no challenge for the most minimal of
PC emulators on Ami. But it would be neat to have a native application all
right.
Malcolm