I have been very fortunate to come into possession of a 133 MHz PPC BeBox in the past year, along with the majority of the print books on BeOS from that era. Hardware has been very well preserved and has thus far proven to be fully functional. Been maxing out hardware since its procurement and interested in realizing its full I/O potential. (For a 1996 system I was especially amazed how seamless it was to augment the system with a video capture card and use the TV application, as having struggled through the clunkier aspects of other platforms’ plug and play implementations during the '90s.)
What I cannot seem to find is much information on how to use the GeekPort. Wondering if there is a standard means to use the port’s I/O capabilities either through the /dev/beboxhw/geekport device files or an API. (Presuming this likely would require programming in CodeWarrior by interacting with the DeviceKit…?) Not planning on doing anything too exotic at first—initial plans are just to hook up a breakout board to the DC-37 connector and seeing if the BeBox can handle the signals that are coming and going.
Bonus points if anyone has any insight on use of the infrared ports.
Does anyone here have any experience? Thanks in advance.
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