Date   : Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:14:53 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: ARM copros, speech cartridges, real time

At 12:23 24/07/2005, Phil Blundell wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 12:25 +0200, Mark Usher wrote:
> > How about a USB->Econet adapter :-)
> >
> > There seems to be plenty of USB->Serial information and bits and pieces
> > around, so I was thinking it might not be to difficult to adapt one of 
> these
> > designs for the 6854 and make an interface to an Econet, possibly
> > piggybacking one of the Master Econet adapter boards.
>
>You could certainly do that, but I think it might be easier to build a
>standalone Econet/Ethernet bridge, and connect to the PC on the Ethernet
>side.
>
>I have a half-finished design for one of those lying around somewhere.
>I guess I should dust it off and actually make some.
>
>p.


At the risk of sending a "me too", some form of econet <-> ethernet would 
certainly interest me.  Depending on cost, too, of course..  I've no 
practical need for it, just sounds really cool and is in line with my 
interests..

An econet interface for the PC would be the most obvious implementation, 
but a standalone gateway would I guess be the most flexible. (certainly in 
my network, where I would expect to have multiple machines on each side, 
and where windows does not dominate the PCs..)   Heck, can you do an 
ethernet adapter for the Beeb?

The first use I can think of for such a device would be to allow 'real' 
beebs to access a fileserver on a PC, beit customised software or an 
emulated BBC running a standard FS.  (I've got econet over ethernet about 
80% working in BeebEm, but stalled for lack of time at the moment.)

After that the sky is your limit ..

Rob