[TI-H] Re: I remember hearing of a ti hub project a few years ago... (c
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[TI-H] Re: I remember hearing of a ti hub project a few years ago... (co...
In a message dated 5/1/2001 8:47:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
glp71s@MailAndNews.com writes:
<< Well that would be a useful adaptation, allowing anyone to hook into
another
small sort of LAN whenever you have your computer hooked up to the net, as
TI
calcs dont use high bandwidth it probably work quite well... Seeing as im in
year 11 and finally have my own laptop, thats what prompted me to think of
the
idea in the first place... Link cables are easy to build, especially the
parallel ones and with USB parallel converters it means you can add loads of
ports.. expensive tho... i was thinking more of a network for file sharing
only, rather than a network that was for games as well, theyd be much harder
to make. i suppose you could have a byte which tells the computer where to
send all the following traffic until it sent a closing byte... then you
could
have a game which would initialise the connection to one other calc using a
connect packet (more than one would be harder, you would have to tell the
computer to broadcast it to more than one connection, but as the computer
would be managing where the packets go the calc could send more than one
connect packet to connect to multiple calcs...)
If you designed the program on the calc to send the connect packets then end
without closing the connections opened, the calc would think it was
connected
by the wire because the computer would automattically send all data to the
open connections, you could use the standard ti file transer protocol, and
maybe even some standard games if you played one on one.
>>
Well in electrical engineering there are two major things: Practicallity,
and economically acceptablility! IT just isn't practical to have the
internet on a B&W calculator!
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