Date   : Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:59:46 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Writing / invoking assembler on the beeb

At 15:24 10/07/2006, Jules Richardson wrote:


>Joel - was it you who was possibly looking at modifying xfer to work 
>with the user port? One of the things I need out of this is 
>bidirectional parallel comms between the BBC/SBC and a PC-style 
>parallel port - I was going to just use the same handshaking as 
>SCSI, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if you (or whoever) has 
>done work on parallel comms already; it'd make sense to use the same 
>signals for the same stuff I expect.

Is John Kortink's 65Link cable suitable for your needs?  Since that 
wheel has already been invented.. :-)
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/software/65link/index.htm
(cable spec is within the "Guide" text file within the archives.

...I really must make one of these up sometime...

Rob.