Date   : Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:08:23 GMT
From   : Wookie <wooky@...>
Subject: Re: Connecting a BBC Micro to a PC

In message <43A2C81F.50608@...>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:

> Speed's the main problem - it's not blindingly fast at BBC serial port speeds. 
> It's a shame there isn't a project around to cable up the BBC's 1MHz bus to a 
> PC parallel port and transfer data that way!

There nearly is, how about user port to parallel port, unfortunatly you
need a RiscPC or A5000 as the host rather than a windoze/linux PC, see the
link for more details.

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/software/65link/index.htm

You could ask John it he'd consider a windoze version, it's the same guy that
made gommc. He likes tinkering with hardware and getting different types
of hardware to work together.


Cheers Wookie.

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