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which pcmcia wifi card are you using? did it require writing code to get it to work?

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I sent you a email today and the same email on vogons too. Thanks for answer

It is possible to buy somewhere this PCB board or get the project of that?

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That is a great project! I wonder if you can just use the rp2040 and the wifi chip to layout a completely self-contained PCB. i.e no pico w needed. This will make the card more compact. Pico W’s design file is open so it’s technically possible.

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Great work. Definitely keen on this!

Looking forward to ordering :)

I only just heard about this... What a great idea to go with a different CD-ROM interface, that is simpler to implement. I remember having a Matsushita drive back in the day. AFAIK the Creative CD-ROM drivers didn't work at first, but you could HEX edit them or something, the details escape me. The drive was 2x, but for the target games this should be all that's required for DOS retro gaming. Maybe some later games could benefit from a faster drive, but then also many games had the option to copy most of the files to the hard drive. I dont' remember if there was a faster than 2x Panasonic drive...

So cool! Wonder if something like a pi zero can fit in a pcmcia slot. I guess since the socket needs pins a pcb makes more sense.

Any plans on CardBus to PCI expander? I know those exist, but impossible to buy. PCMCIA to ISA expander is also really nice to have, but I wanted to connect Voodoo card to random CardBus supporting laptops. Also in theory some laptops have video mixing capability for MPEG cards, I wonder if my ones support it and would allow Voodoo signal to be shown on laptop own screen. Good progress and good luck.

Some PDAs like the tandy zoomer have a manual lock like that. Just a piece of plastic that you can slide over. Nothing this complex or cool

Would make some sense for an educational model to lock them to prevent students from walking off with the cards. Might not help with the dongles for ethernet cards or such, but a neat feature for retaining them.

That's some interesting engineering there!

Assuming some business/government made a requirement to lock the pcmcia slot to prevent users from removing cards.

CDROM emulation is really interesting.

Really cool! Never seen this type of mechanism before. My Powerbook 190 and 1400cs have spring-loaded ejectors that get triggered by a bimetallic strip, so there are just buttons next to the sockets to request an eject, or you could drag the card icon to the trash to eject a card. Overengineered solution of course, but quite nifty :D

Cool. Wonder if your proto PCMCIA works with CAW (certificate authority workstation) the AT&T/General Dynamics Fortezza keyloader system that also does Spyrus Technologies (sic?) crypto PCMCIA stuff.

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Is this a 5V or 3.5V card? I am asking for HP 200LX type of palmtops.

OMG Great project!! Can't this project be converted to an ODE for retro PCs ? ;)

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Wow, pretty impressive. Sound and connectivity / storage were the biggest hurdles for me with old laptops. I'm interested. I got a few old notebooks a card like yours could be very useful for. I own 2 Compaq LTE Elite 4s with DX 2 or DX 4 CPUs and some others a bit newer, up to the XP era. They have dual PC-card 16 slots. There were docks with SB's, more ports, and ISA 16 or PCI slots in them, but the are now unobtainium or cost like 500 bucks over here. Your card could fill some of the same needs. I'll fill out the form. International shipping will likely be the biggest problem for me along with customs stuff. I got refered to this video after watching Adrian Black's videos on the PICO ISA cards and he mentioned the creator of I think the PicoMem was trying to distribute his cards in Europe. If your card 'takes off' might be something you can do too. PS: saw the demo of the CD emu you did, pretty useful. I think different drive emulation similar to the PicoMEM would be incredible. Especialy if it would be possible to boot from them. I ask because the floppy and HDD drives in a lot of mine are dead or dying. then there is things you can do with the USB port, like the PicoMem with its gamepad emulation over USB. But what you have is already pretty awesome. Looking formward to more updates and if you put it on sale, I'm gonna see if I can import one.

Great video

Outstanding work!

Nice work!

Not using the atapi interface is a pretty nice hack. Everybody was talking about emulating atapi is pretty hard and I never thought to look for alternatives. Great job!

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Cool video bruh. Just output audio to mono for those who listen with headphones.

What type and revision of PCMCIA does this require? I have a Poqet PC with a rev 1.0 slot I'd like to use this with, but I'm not sure if 1.0 slots support network cards.

Thats not slow man !

We need this! just make sure to include all drivers :)

I don't have any equipment with a pcmcia card, but if I did, I'd invest in one of your great devices. Kudos.

THIS IS CRAZY!!!!! Omg I need

Is there a chance of sharing the source code at some point?

I like, how with old computers, you just switch them off. No shutdown procedure, just a cold switch.

great, I'm interested

Very cool, Kevin!

The right hinge cap on my 100lx and 200 LX are cracked and or missing too

Wow. Your channel just popped up randomly on my recommended list and what a surprise. I have an old Cassiopeia A-11A, upgraded to 6mb ram, has an SH3 CPU, grey scale display and PCMCIA slot with WinCE 2.0. Wondering if one of those custom PCMCIA slot cards would work on my unit. If so, add me to your order list ASAP!. You've earned a new subscriber. 👍

It's way better then Panasonic KXL-D745 (which is a sound/scsi cdrom card combo). Combination of CD (with audio), audio card and ne2000 and serial port/modem (fax modem? ppp? slip?) is a killer feature. If it will be capable of emulating both ata/ide and linear flash for storage options in addition to cdrom support it will be close to ultimate pcmcia device. What would be left out is audio in (which was rarely used), parallel port emulation (which there is little point to emulate unless a physical connector will be present to connect, say, link cables or printers), scsi adapter emulation (same as parallel port, physical bus connection for peripherals is an overkill here. there were parallel port to scsi adapters anyway). As for other obscure pcmcia devices like video cards and mpeg accelerators - they didn't work in dos AFAIR, and even under window 3.1. Never seen anything doing zoomed video "direct to framebuffer" in real life.

PC Card soundblaster yes please!

Awesome work dude

What does the EOL of AMD/Xilinx 5v tolerant CPLDs mean for this project? If you use one I suggest ordering them before the price goes through the roof.

Excellent work.

Very cool! I have a HP 320LX and a Jornada 710 and none of the PCMCIA network cards I have work with them so this is very cool to see!

This thing is so cool! Amazing work!

Fantastic! Great compatibility.