Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
:A long cable is used for sending (MSX pin 6,7,3) and has a male DIN5 plug.
:A short cable is used for receiving (MSX pin 1,2,8) and has a female DIN5
:plug.
Ah, didn't add that (about the long and the short cable) yet on my page.
:> The maximum transfer speed is theoretically only limited by the MSX
:>clock but the cable impedance (lenght and the existence or not of
>shielding)
:>may decrease the rate.
:
:So the standard should also include "you must use shielding" and "maximum
:cable length is xx meters"?
No man, that has no use. A cable without shielding can do as fine as a
shielded cable, the only thing is that **theoretically**, the dropout-rate
can be a little higher.
:> We should make a official homepage to spread the new standard, with
:>instructions and examples about how to make the communication and some
:>basic routines (but not standard routines).
:
:I made a page:
:http://www.stack.nl/~mth/msx/hardware/
:Laurens also made a page.
:I don't mind who will make the official page. I volunteer. Any other
:volunteers?
I volunteer too, the Datax Homepage: http://datax.cjb.net/
:Sander Kooijmans is willing to give the sources of Triplex (multiplayer
:Tetris clone using Music Module MIDI). It should be easy to modify it for
:the joystick network. The problem is that he's not sure he has the sources
:on disk. He does have printed sources, so maybe they have to be typed in
:from paper. Or I can test if OCR (Optical Character Recognision) software
:really works...
That also came into my mind... If that's true, it would be great!!!
~Grauw
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