Re: Bunnik reaults

[Stephan Haller]

As I told, yesterday was Bunnik meeting, and as I also commented, a new SAM interface was shown. To be honest: two. The first can be connected only between SAM and PC. The aim is to transfer programs from and to a PC harddisk. Thats the point, Nomad (Stephan) comes in. Stephan presented yesterday a 5 MB 16 colour reduced PC Mpg file running at the SAM from a harddisk (hey presto, a Record has 800K in size... ;-)   This is quite interesting in fact!   Does this allow SAM to treat the PC as an external drive? What sort of transfer speed? Will it work with BDOS - and with an existing Atom powered drive (ie - a CF powered one....?)   Very importantly - as a SIAC owner... is the interface big? :) The interface is really small in size something near 5 x 5 centimeter (I think is around 2,5 inch. Correct me ;) and 2 centimerter height (less than 1 inch if I'm right). But if asked for the box around the board can be removed. So things will be get smaller. Currently nothing works with it because the first one was produced but speed should be the same as hard disk perhaps a little bit higher it not much. I myself think of networking between PC and SAM. Real network. As I'm running Linux on my PC box which does support parallel line IP (aka PLIP) and some nice TCP/IP stacks for the Z80 it should now be possible to connect the SAM to the net via PC (think of router). But to be honest it's all theory at the moment.... The reason for Quazar access is now to get the most of the sound which was running with the video file. Stephan will also write the necessary transfer files and he hopes to have them ready to the SPC/Joyce meeting on October 4th, near Cologne. British readers will notice, that there are a lot of meetings on the "continental" side.... Alan Miles always commented on how more seriously "the contintent" was for people who really pushed and where interested in their computing... I think of some of the great ideas i've never seen.... Edwin Blinks ideas on networking SAM and Acorn machines, The ESI sound interface, and others .... ....but we're working on it.  ;) Stephan Haller