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Light shined on Omega USB By Chris Williams. Published: 22nd Feb 2005, 00:22:56 | Permalink | PrintableWe are not making this up  Updated at 17:26 22/2/2005
Earlier today we broke the news of an Omega demonstrating 'working USB support' at a user group meeting. Microdigital customers Bryan Hogan and Stewart Brookes reportedly showed off a StrongARM RISC OS 4 powered Omega with a working USB device. It appears we've been stumbling in the dark - only now have we learnt what the USB device was.
Yes. You got that one right. A USB powered light. It simply plugs into the socket, bypassing any need for a working USB software stack. We tried thinking of some puns, but forget it. We're lost for words.
A source at the evening yesterday in London whispered: "Other devices that are likely to be compatible are fans, battery chargers and, it would seem, USB toothbrushes."
ROUGOL have promised us pictures. Oh the excitement.
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Stewy
) decided it would be fun to pretend it was real.
Although it was funny seeing Drobe print this as a real story it has unfortunately had the effect of overshadowing the fact that everything else worked smoothly.
Things we demoed included:
- RISC OS Select 4.39
- floppy (for the really cynical)
- CD writer
- network (ShareFS to an A4 with parallel port ethernet interface)
- sound (MP3, SoundTrackers, etc)
- parallel port sound sampler
Plus a whole heap of software, old and new, so that the iconbar was scrolling like mad. Played MPEG and AVI files. Played Doom complete with sound effects, Midi music, and all the bilinear smoothing options on. Also ran some old demos (Flouro, era, etc) that you would expect to hit the hardware directly and be most likely to give compatibility problems.
All worked faultlessly, and the Omega ran all evening without a reset. Pat on the back to Microdigital and RISC OS Ltd.
(By the way, the Iron Dignity demo runs really nicely. Whatever happened to that - "Available 1999" it says at the end, that makes it later than the Omega!)
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