Re[2]: Joystick network program working

[Eric . Boon]

>please, ground, Ground, GROUND! :-)
>First of all, it's not only safer for your MSX's "intestines", but should
>also improve your signal strength (less errors)
>
>If there is no ground between the two computers there's no real
>electricity flow. Most of the time it just feedbacks tru either one of
>the other lines (bad, bad!) so you can still get some signal.
>But this is neither good for you, nor for your MSX.
>So PLEASE ground! :-)


Or keep the MSX-es electrically separated alltogether and use opto-couplers
to transmit the signals from MSX to MSX, like it is done in MIDI. It's less
cheap of course, but chances for short-circuiting etc. are reduced to zero!

Eric

****
MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put
in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the
quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/)
****