Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
David wrote: I seem to remember Colin making a simple two player game which we tested before going for a Pizza before one of the shows :) My networked PacMan used the MIDI/Network ports on the back of the SAM for simple communications between the machines :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, S

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread david
Quoting Calvin Allett : Sorry to stray from topic but I seem to remember you saying that it would be possible to use networking from basic (well hopefully MasterBasic), would it be feasible to set up a server and have time to send perhaps even 6 - 8 bytes of data for multiplayer games, or

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Calvin Allett
time game too much? (have a new game project that would benefit from two player :) ) --- On Sat, 4/8/12, Colin Piggot wrote: From: Colin Piggot Subject: Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Date: Saturday, 4 August, 2012, 11:43 David wrote: > Trinity may be a bet

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
David wrote: Trinity may be a better interface to go to - as it could make life a bit easier to work with. Well, not quite yet, but it's getting there! Still some work to be done on the TCP/IP stack but Adrian's been making advances with the main stack code, Simon finalised his ethernet driv

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Piggot
Steve wrote: According to the World Of Sam Hardware Bugspage, ... Would any of the ones on this Maplin Pagebe appropriate? I'd probably use the largest - 100uF 10V, although Maplin are a rip off in terms

Re: Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-03 Thread david
Trinity may be a better interface to go to - as it could make life a bit easier to work with. Quoting Stephen Longhurst : Hi all, According to the World Of Sam Hardware Bugspage, to improve the comms interface RS232 connection, you need to "solder a fat ta

Capacitor fix for comms interface

2012-08-03 Thread Stephen Longhurst
Hi all, According to the World Of Sam Hardware Bugspage, to improve the comms interface RS232 connection, you need to "solder a fat tantulum cpacitor" between the +5v and 0v rails. Can anyone offer any more detail on what sort of capacitor I ought to get, I'm h