PCE Flash Cards

[nat]

It seems like a pretty good product. I guess what baffles me is that it works great on my Duo 100% of the time but it won't work on a regular TurboGrafx.

[Keranu]

Well I guess you shouldn't be too tremendously surprised, as most flash card type things are usually cheaply made "hacker quality" products that rely on ancient technology like parallel ports.

Hey I wish more products these days used parallel ports! I'm sick of everything using USB now!

[GUTS]

What possible reason could you have to want to use a parallel port?  That is just insane.

[Joe Redifer]

I'm sick of everything using USB now!

I KNOW!!!  Convenience sucks ASS!

[MissaFX]

If only the flash card required a VLB slot, that would just be super!

[ceti alpha]

I KNOW!!!  Convenience sucks ASS!

teehee

[spenoza]

I vote for the next flash card supporting a NuBus card interface only.

[Joe Redifer]

Or better yet, ADB which is only available on ancient Macs.

[spenoza]

NuBus slots are available on fewer Macs (and computers in general) than ADB. ADB survived until Apple's blue G3 towers and NuBus died off shortly after the original PPC revolution.

Wow, I just ranted to try and win an obscurity pissing contest. That's kinda embarrassing.

[agranger5]

I've got the Neo Power 64 meg version and have had it for over a year now.  It works great.  All of the games both US and Japanese have worked great on it except for one.  I have trouble with TwinBee having trash in the graphics while it is playing.  It boots up great but plays with distorted graphics.  It's the only game that does this for me.  I'm playing on an American Duo with a Region Switch.  Ive programed the card for both regions and I have even used the numerous hacked versions of the rom and they have all had the same trash in the graphics.  Has anyone else experienced this?

[BigT]

What possible reason could you have to want to use a parallel port?  That is just insane.

Parallel ports (and RS232 serial ports) are rather simple designs that are well documented and easy to program for... great for homebrew projects.

As long as we're on the subject of obscure computer buses, I feel compelled to suggest IBM's MCA and Amiga's Zorro...

And come on, ADB was never really designed for data transfer    It was originally introduced on the Apple IIgs for mice and keyboards and then was adapted for the Mac line. It only transfers a few kilobits/second, so it would take quite a while to transfer the contents of a Hucard.

[Keranu]

What possible reason could you have to want to use a parallel port?  That is just insane.

I was somewhat joking. It does piss me off though when stuff like printers use USB ports because then you just have a parellel port available for no reason. I want to use my USB ports for other things, not printers! Not to mention parallel ports are way cooler. It's not like there is anything wrong with using a parrellel port, it's just not hip like you anymore.

[nat]

What possible reason could you have to want to use a parallel port?  That is just insane.

I was somewhat joking. It does piss me off though when stuff like printers use USB ports because then you just have a parellel port available for no reason.

Computers still come with parallel ports? I had no idea.

[MissaFX]

It's not like there is anything wrong with using a parallel port, it's just not hip like you anymore.

If a USB device is like putting glue on your CPU, using a parallel port is like burying it in cement and dropping it in the ocean.  They are very system intensive to use, I have 4 use ports, 1 of which has a hub and card reader on it.  I have plenty of usb slots to use so my parallel port goes unused and dusty.

[Turbo D]

I've never used my parallel port. I'm assuming that it is that big ugly oblong pink think on the back of my pc, right? All of my 2 printers have been usb. All of my accessories are usb too! I have always wanted to use that parallel port for something though. Seeing it there taking up space with no use makes me angry, haha.