Re: [PARPORT] Any work on the Snappy?


Jeff Pierce (piercej@preferred.com)
Fri, 01 May 1998 13:12:11 -0400


Ian Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know if anyone is working on driving Play's video
> snappy under linux?
>
> If not, any suggestions on starting to program parallel port
> devices welcome!
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
>
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I contacted Play a little over a year ago about the availablity of the
information to create a driver for Linux/Unix since all they were
supporting was Windoze. (My working group had purchased one and I was
impressed with it's functionality vs. price.) I received a single
sentence reply which stated that NO information for driver development
would be released. I think it is now obvious that Play intends to make
very little on the actual Snappy hardware, and make their money off of
software "upgrades". I started to use Numega and reverse engineer it to
develop a Linux driver, but I left that employer and lost access to the
Snappy.

I don't know if they have changed their policy or not.

Jeff
piercej@preferred.com

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