??? 8/11/2002 5:56:43 ??, ?/? Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??????:
> >On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 at 17:12:21, Phoebus Dokos wrote: >(ref: <ZY93KED8S73WTTRZUHGUR2WB7KI4Z05.3dcc36c5@quantumcentral>) > >>I got two Crayola Tablets (they are serial) one for my daughter's >>killer QL system to >>draw on TV (and avoid the mess) and one for my Q40... It works just >>fine with my >>regular QL as an IPC mouse (trouble is no DOing allowed but that's no >>problem for >>me)... >That is via superHermes? Yes via the IPCMOUSE directive, works great :-) >>Preliminary specs for the toy: >> >>SGC / Aurora / RomDisQ or QubIDE/CF card for software updates >>Minerva MK II for I2C (see Lego) connectivity >I can see no basic problem with letting you use the pcb design on the >motherboard. It needs a GAL of course. Thanks for the offer but it's rather premature of course :-) I will buy a Minerva MKII from you to try it and then we can see... :-) (IIRC when SMSQ/E is loaded atop of Minerva, the I2C port continues to function...am I wrong?) Nasta said that an (equivalent of your IBOX) with 68SZ388 (or smaller) is extremely easy to manufacture *maybe even using parts from the Aurora* and that's where we could possibly talk on integrating the mkII and sH directly on the mainboard... After I am done with it (the prototype) and it's working I will try to sell it to a couple of these companies and see what's going on (Maybe Arnould with his contacts could help here?) >It would be up to Lau though, who is the sole representative of the >original design team. >>Since I haven't had an Aurora with a Minerva Rom so far I still don't >>know if the >>extra modes can be invoked like with SMSQ/E (with direct hardware >>access) but I >>am getting there :-) >They can't, but Lau said it was not too difficult to do. Hmmm until that time though I can still use SMSQ/E to try it :-) I do have a quasi-colour driver working on the Aurora (actually it's commands like print, circle, pic_load etc....) under SMSQ/E... so it's a start :-) Phoebus
