I have no info on this thing at all, all I know is is that is uses a parallel port. Any idea how to use it?
Well just by reading the sticker it says to attach a N64 game to the bottom of it then probably came with a cable to attach it to your computer.
your going to require PC side software i would imagine, any idea of the brand, any identifying logos or names on it?
It's a part of the Wildcard64 copier... you need a special ISA (if I remember correctly) card to operate it though, along with the PC software of course I have one as well, incl. the card for the PC, but never bothered to try it. The Wildcard64 was supposedly also sold as "Supercom Partner 64"
Perhaps, if the DIP40 is an i8255. I think the cart part has some hardware for level translation at the very least.
Thanks for the pic of the SP/WC ISA card nesworld, thats the first close pic I've seen of one them in all the years I've owned mine. (didn't get one when I bought mine years ago) It's not a comms link card, it's an ISA parallel port adapter. It was meant to act as a secondary LPT port on the PC, so you could have the above Data Reader device permanently connected to 0x278-0x27F, < (typical second LPT address) while having the SuperCom/Wildcard connected to 0x378-0x37F. I would also like to see some inside photo's of the data reader, if you could please MasterOfPuppets, as I think I might have messed my data reader up some years ago. I took it upon myself some years ago to solder some of the parallel pins (that were not soldered) to the PCB. :banghead: I thought I was being clever, lol. But it didn't bother me that it didn't read cartridges because I could always download what I wanted. But I'd like to get it working now as just a matter of completness. There's a tool called read64.exe/read96.exe and read128.exe, which is used (in DOS) to retrieve the data off the cartridge. But all Ive ever got is files/roms full of 0's, even after setting my LPT address to 278. Also the Parallel Port mode has to be changed in the PC bios settings, but I can't remember if it's epp or ecp mode. There's a cached site for the Chameleon Wildcard 64 here http://web.archive.org/web/20050207051604/http://www.lizzard.demon.co.uk/index2.htm where some useful tools may come in handy.
