Amiga Hardware DatabaseCompany The Puzzle Factory, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A500, A1000, A2000 |
- a public domain hardware hackers project, designed by Jeff Lavin
- sold as a kit - either the PCBs only, or all components
- consists of a main board and one or two serial I/O boards connected by 20 pin ribbon cables
- the main board plugs into the CIA B socket with a 40 pin ribbon cable, the CIA chip is moved onto the board
- does not work with the A3000
- serial interface
- one or two Rockwell 65C52 ACIA chips
- each serial I/O board holds two DB25 serial connectors
- newser.device supports 15 standard baud rates from 50 to 38400 bps, plus the MIDI rate, 31250 bps
- full hardware handshaking
- up to four units may be open at one time, although a 68000 processor may not be able to keep up with all four units running above 2400 bps
- parallel interface
- one or two Rockwell 65C22 VIA chips
- up to four parallel ports driven by eightbit.device
- the type of the connectors depend on the user, either DB25 or Centronics can be attached
Main board, front side
Serial board, front side
- IOBoard.lha
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newser.device v2.10
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