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#Techni-Soft & SideCar
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What about the pass through mouse port?
Jeric
If the T-S board doesn't cover the mouse ports (and it better not), it may
actually provide enough clearance that you don't have to use the SideCar
passthroughs. However, someone else has reported that you're not supposed to
be able to put >anything< between the Amiga and the SideCar (due to timing, I
guess), so they may simply be incompatible. Of course, SideCar has some sort
of Amiga slot it in — it's not clear if it's a full Zorro slot — but if it
is, it would be easy enough to extend it, to convert it back to a side-bus type
connector. Until the SideCar is readily available, and in the hands of
hardware hackers, we won't know what can be done… – Bela
CBM tells me that there is definitely no Amiga slot inside Sidecar at this
time. The one I've seen twice didn't have one as far as I could tell.
It's mouse ports were finally working. I don't know if my external RAM
with passthru will work with Sidecar, but I would either have to attach my
cables to the box instead of Sidecar or use extension cords. I wonder how
sidecar supports our digital joysticks instead of the ibm analog joystick?
By the way, has anyone confirmed whether the Technisoft board is
autoconfig? Or when they're shipping us the newer versions of the 5.25 >
3.5 disk transfer software?
Ron, they said that the newer version of T-disk has been sent to all registered
owners. Did you send in your registration card? Even if you did, call 'em —
something could have gone wrong along the way. (They said that the partial
version you described was only sent to people who said they didn't care, they
needed anything they could get as fast as possible…) – Bela
Ron, they said that the newer version of T-disk has been sent to all registered
owners. Did you send in your registration card? Even if you did, call 'em —
something could have gone wrong along the way. (They said that the partial
version you described was only sent to people who said they didn't care, they
needed anything they could get as fast as possible…) – Bela
CBM tells me that there is definitely no Amiga slot inside Sidecar at this
time. The one I've seen twice didn't have one as far as I could tell.
It's mouse ports were finally working. I don't know if my external RAM
with passthru will work with Sidecar, but I would either have to attach my
cables to the box instead of Sidecar or use extension cords. I wonder how
sidecar supports our digital joysticks instead of the ibm analog joystick?
By the way, has anyone confirmed whether the Technisoft board is
autoconfig? Or when they're shipping us the newer versions of the 5.25 >
3.5 disk transfer software?
CBM tells me that there is definitely no Amiga slot inside Sidecar at this
time. The one I've seen twice didn't have one as far as I could tell. It's
mouse ports were finally working. I don't know if my external RAM with
passthru will work with Sidecar, but I would either have to attach my cables to
the box instead of Sidecar or use extension cords. I wonder how sidecar
supports our digital joysticks instead of the ibm analog joystick? By the way,
has anyone confirmed whether the Technisoft board is autoconfig? Or when
they're shipping us the newer versions of the 5.25 > 3.5 disk transfer
software?
CBM tells me that there is definitely no Amiga slot inside Sidecar at this
time. The one I've seen twice didn't have one as far as I could tell. It's
mouse ports were finally working. I don't know if my external RAM with
passthru will work with Sidecar, but I would either have to attach my cables to
the box instead of Sidecar or use extension cords. I wonder how sidecar
supports our digital joysticks instead of the ibm analog joystick? By the way,
has anyone confirmed whether the Technisoft board is autoconfig? Or when
they're shipping us the newer versions of the 5.25 > 3.5 disk transfer
software?
If the T-S board doesn't cover the mouse ports (and it better not), it may
actually provide enough clearance that you don't have to use the SideCar
passthroughs. However, someone else has reported that you're not supposed to
be able to put >anything< between the Amiga and the SideCar (due to timing, I
guess), so they may simply be incompatible. Of course, SideCar has some sort
of Amiga slot it in — it's not clear if it's a full Zorro slot — but if it
is, it would be easy enough to extend it, to convert it back to a side-bus type
connector. Until the SideCar is readily available, and in the hands of
hardware hackers, we won't know what can be done… – Bela
(I'm assuming that the SideCar doesn't actually use the mouse ports for
anything, just passes them through because it physically covers them…) –
Bela
(I'm assuming that the SideCar doesn't actually use the mouse ports for
anything, just passes them through because it physically covers them…) –
Bela