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  1. Re:Prior art by mindwhip · · Score: 0 · on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port

    http://www.hardwarebook.info/PC_Gameport_with_MIDI

    nuff said.

  2. Re:Prior art by mindwhip · · Score: 1 · on Apple Files Patent For New Proprietary Port

    Back in the day you had 'game ports' that were really a MIDI port combined with a joystick port. Two different devices via one connector isn't a new idea!

    And you could have both connected at the same time so even the two at once isn't new!

    http://www.hardwarebook.info/PC_Gameport_with_MIDI

    yet another patent that isn't novel or new...

  3. Re:A couple of points (pins!?) by PuercoPop · · Score: 1 · on A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs

    well http://www.hardwarebook.info/ is a wiki also and already has lots of information...

  4. Already been done . . . by wooferhound · · Score: 4, Informative · on A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs

    > been hoping someone with some bandwidth to spare would be kind enough
    > to collect all of this information in one place

    I've been using the pinouts from these 2 websites for too many years
    http://www.hardwarebook.info/Category:Connector
    http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Main_Page

  5. Re:Looks promising by tttonyyy · · Score: 5, Informative · on A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs

    http://www.hardwarebook.info/ has been around for a very long time and has huge numbers of pinouts and cable diagrams.

  6. Re:/.ed by Greger47 · · Score: 4, Interesting · on A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs
    You can find plenty of pinouts on http://www.hardwarebook.info/ while you wait for the storm to settle.

    /greger

  7. Re:What happened to the joystick? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Informative · on Whatever Happened To The Joystick?

    You could probably make one. Get a microcontroller with USB support. Choose one with some HID class sample code and you could add support for reporting from an Atari joystick in a weekend. Here's the connector

    http://www.hardwarebook.info/Atari_2600_Joystick

    Just pull the pins to 5V with a pull up and then see if they go low when the switches inside the joystick short them to ground. You'll need to debounce in software - just wait for a few milliseconds before reporting a transition.

    Here's an example with a PIC.

    http://www.eetkorea.com/ARTICLES/2004MAY/2004MAY25_ID_AN.PDF?SOURCES=DOWNLOAD

    Note the PIC has A to D converters - it's probably got more circuitry than a 2600! - and so could handle Atari paddles too.

  8. Re:.ru by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell

    More tech details at Hardware Book. The iPhone has an iPod connector.

  9. Re:.ru by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell

    More tech details at Hardware Book. The iPhone has an iPod connector.

  10. Tech specs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on AppleTV Hits the Streets

    You'll find the technical specs here.