Re: USB 2.0 drivers for classic Mac OS. How hard could it be?

[superstar64]

"There was a period of time between the introduction of USB 2.0 and when OS 
X began to not suck". Notice how you said "not suck" and not "when OS X was 
made". By the time OS X was released in 2001, developers were shifting 
their focus from OS 9 to OS X (which as we've seen today, that's worked 
pretty good for them), so that's why there was a massive disinterest. You 
could try to deep search on google using +s and -s in your search, but 
would have no idea why you need a USB 2 driver anyways when USB 1 ports 
support USB 2.0 and even 3.0 drives (just at slower speeds).

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USB 2.0 drivers for classic Mac OS. How hard could it be?

['Gregg Eshelman' via Vintage Macs]

Mac OS 8.1 and later support USB 1.0 / 1.1 but no company or independent 
software developers could be bothered to consider writing USB 2.0 drivers for 
those OS versions - not even the guy who wrote USB Overdrive to support many 
peripherals that neither Apple nor the device manufacturers would deign to 
support on Macintosh.
Why the massive disinterest? There was a period of time between the 
introduction of USB 2.0 and when OS X began to not suck that someone could've 
made some decent income selling a USB 2.0 controller driver for Mac OS 8.1 and 
9.x.x.
Since the Classic OS and the Macs it runs on have slipped into the hobbyist and 
collector, how about a second look? Hackers keep figuring out way to hook up 
all kinds of new technologies to old computers far more primitive than an old 
Macintosh - but the old Macintoshes are all but ignored by such hobbyists.
The easiest place to start would be a driver for the NEC USB 2.0 chips on PCI 
boards, installed in PCI PowerMacs running OS 9.x.x. For the VIA chips, all 
most anyone could ever get working with them on Mac was a keyboard and mouse. 
If it's a hardware issue the problems are likely unfixable. If Apple's USB 1 
driver is just that bad with VIA, then there may be hope, but it'd involve also 
fixing USB 1 support.
Easier to write a USB 2 driver for NEC than to do that *and* fix USB 1 for VIA.

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