Subject: Re: Dreamcasr <--> PC Cable using maple bus?
To: Jason Keirstead <t126r@unb.ca>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 07/20/2001 12:17:03
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jason Keirstead wrote:

: I was reading the specs for the MapleBus protocol on Marcus's website
: (http://mc.pp.se/dc/maplebus.html), and it got me thinking. If the MapleBus
: operates on such a relativly simple protocol, and can send / recieve data at
: 2Mbps, would it be a very difficult task to design a MapleBus <--> USB
: adaptor?

It's probably a more difficult software than hardware project.  A
microcontroller with a USB-voltage bus should be more than capable of doing
the job; it just needs a controller/hub driver that latches into the NetBSD
USB driver infrastructure.

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