Re: LZ: Re: Extra players connect


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Re: LZ: Re: Extra players connect



> : From: ChrisK@NUKEWARE.COM
> :
> : That's easy to do... just take 2 data links and split them open at the
> : center.  Then you connect a couple wires and walla.  (I don't remember
> : which wires off hand (I think white), play with it a bit, there's only 3)




Zenon Lynx wrote:
> 
> That won't work since there will be more than one calculator involved so
> it's not a simple linear signal to and from another calc; there will be
> confusion on which signal belongs to which calc, so this is not possible.
> 
> "Canada has no national identity other than our strongest policy:
> multiculturalism"


I know ChrisK's method won't work, but it is definantly possible. What we would need to do is 
use the i2c libary to do the communications instead of using the link port TI style. i2c 
allows for multiple masters on the bus to talk to multiple slaves or other masters, with 
arbitration.


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