USB and Mac Support for IFI FRC Controllers???

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Originally Posted by dlavery

Tony Norman is sitting next to me right now, and upon reading this message made the following comment: "Not this year. This is in the list of 'highly desireable items' for future development, but it won't be tackled until the next development cycle."

Rumor killed.

-dave

So sad But glad to know it is comming. Eventually.

And on USB to serial converters- Most are designed to work for PDA's and will work fine with PDA's and some other devices, but will be drastically lengthen the transfer time. We had a 400MHz school computer as our programming computer. It would transfer the file in, oh, I would say 15-25 seconds. But would be forever compiling. We tried a USB to serial converter with a newer laptop (1.7Ghz ish). Compile in 1/4 the time, but took about 15 minutes to transfer the file. But this wasn't durring the competition, so it didn't hurt us and we knew not to use it when time counted. And the converter we used does work on my dad's old Palm Pilot with much better transfer rates. So it wasn't that the converter was faulty.