Paper Card Reader boot load?
"Scott Mazur" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.game-cube.devel |
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Forgive my memory, I've just found the project... There was/is a card reader device for the GC. I've never owned one, but if I understand correctly, it plugged into a game port, then you swiped trading cards with barcode/dot patterns that eventually loaded a mini game. I'm assuming it came with a disk as well. In other words, the disk lets you load programs through a game port, possibly even store them on flash for later? If you had the card reader disk, would it be possible to reverse engineer the card reader device and come up with a patch cord to directly load up programs from another computer? Or for that matter, maybe a small boot loader program could be written and printed in the paper card format that would contain enough code to get the network up and a real boot loader running? Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com