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Hey, Is it possible to do this?

Zaksund - Mar 12, 2003

		Zaksund	Mar 12, 2003
		Hey all, I'm trying to figure out if it would be possible to read data from and to a PAR from a PC while an SGL program was running. I know it sounds like a pretty weird question, but I was working on a backup routine and just thought I'd find out once and for all. thanks!!

		antime	Mar 12, 2003
		I don't see why not, as long as your program supports it. The PAR can't cause interrupts, so you have to poll the status flag every once in a while to see if the PC wants to talk. You could use the built-in communication routines, but you'd have to make some glue functions as they don't use the SuperH calling convention IIRC. Charles MacDonald's site... should be useful, and there's a disassembly of the PAR communication routines at Y. Tanaka's site....

		TakaIsSilly	Mar 12, 2003
		Nevermind ^^; Antime's explained better than me.

		AntiPasta	Mar 13, 2003
		well, the PSX PAR has some nifty PC file server function basically just call OpenFile with "pcdrv:\" in the filename... Maybe we should also develop some ROM replacement for the PAR just like the PSX people did, instead of using the built-in software which wasn't intended for this use...

		antime	Mar 13, 2003
		That can more easily be implemented as a library, the only difference being that the code would reside in RAM instead of cart ROM.