| Posted on 06-May-2002 18:42 GMT by kdh | 42 comments
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The USB card HIGHWAY will be general available by May, 31st 2002 and will be distributed by KDH Datentechnik. This is the first time that Amiga users can connect and use modern USB devices in connection with their classic Amigas.
HIGHWAY is a Zorro II USB card and comes with an integrated 4-port-hub. The user has the possibility to connect up to four USB devices without the need for an additional hub. In addition, the HIGHWAY card can be expanded by the new 10Mbit ethernet modul NORWAY without wasting an additional Zorro slot. A compatibility list for Zorro-boards and Zorro-cards can be found here.
The boards have been developed and manufactured by E3B ( Michael Boehmer ). The worldwide distribution is done by KDH Datentechnik and your local Amiga dealer will have the cards in stock by end of May.
The scope of delivery includes the USB software stack Poseidon by Chris Hodges. Drivers for USB mice, keyboard and parallel interface ( printers ) and mass storage devices ( SCSI-emulation: e.g. flashcard-reader, ZIP-devices, digicams following the MSD-standard ) will be shipped in addition to the HIGHWAY card without any additional cost. More drivers ( webcam, digicam and printers ) are being developed right now by third party companies.
We do support the development of the Amiga OS4.0 contained USB-stack by providing the USB cards HIGHWAY and SUBWAY. Both cards serve as the reference-hardware for the software-development and will be directly supported by OS4.0. Alternatively it will be possible to use the provided Poseidon stack.
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| Posted by Chris Hodges on 07-May-2002 04:56 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (Anonymous):
Poseidon and its included class drivers can be made RomTag resident. That
means you can put a LoadModule instruction just before SetPatch (which
normally reboots the Amiga the first time) and you will be able to use the
mouse and keyboard (? well, you can toggle between PAL/NTSC) inside the
boot menu or the initial shell without having to do anything further (this
was already working in mid of march).
Poseidon currently only supports mice (and tablets) and keyboards in the so
called boot mode. This mode needs no configuration from the user side. A
general HID class (which is rather complex) will be available later on and
will offer lots of user configuration possibilities (like setting up
actions for special keys) comparable to the things you could do with the
function keys with my FormAldiHyd tablet driver.
Due to the bootmenu of <=OS4 is using hardware hacking to check for the
mouse buttons, /currently/ you will not be able to /enter/ the boot menu
using an USB mouse. If Ben is not going to sue me ;-) I might provide a
patch which allows this.
There is also an input.device replacement (courtesy of MorphOS/Ralph
Schmidt, who provided his source and allowed me to do the modifications) as
the initial input.device is unable to cope with multiple devices. So the
things that have been done by lots of patching in FormAldiHyd are now gone.
Booting from mass storage devices will also be possible in future, but I
don't think I'll have the time to add this for the first release.
I hope this answers your questions?
Best regards
Chris Hodges |
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