Trinity Ethernet Interface out now...

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As announced as being in the prototype stage last month, I am now pleased to
announce that the Trinity Ethernet Interface is now available! The concept
of Trinity it to bring ethernet to your Sam with the goal of getting the Sam
onto the Internet. The interface consists of three main sections - hence the
name Trinity.

The first and most important part is the ethernet controller, a
self-contained chip to deal with the communication side of things. The
second section is a 128K EEPROM which is used for storing settings for the
ethernet configuration and for ethernet applications. (This was originally
just 8K as announced in the last Sam Revival, but having kicked the idea
about a bit with other people I upped it to 128K). The third section is a
card slot for MMC and SD flash memory cards to expand the memory of the
interface, as well as being another means of mass storage for your Sam
files. And all three peripherals are linked to the Sam via a
microcontroller.

I’ve got several Trinity interfaces ready built up in stock, and they are
priced at GBP 69.99 + postage.

More information at the Quazar website at www.samcoupe.com

Re: Trinity Ethernet Interface out now...

I’ll be posting out the first two updates to Trinity owners later this week. The first is an EEPROM Configuration Disk to format the EEPROM, and store network settings for the ethernet configuration, as well as all the documentation about using the EEPROM in your own programs (reprinted from SAM Revival 20).

The second update is a patched version of B-DOS (the mass-storage DOS from Edwin Blink) which has been adapted to use the MMC/SD Card slot on the Trinity.

Colin
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Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the SAM Coupe
1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Years of developing for the SAM Coupe
Website: http://www.samcoupe.com/

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