Hey All,
I've recently been growing fonder of my less-loved Game Boy Colors for various reasons—nice display, good battery life, smaller, and better support for Carillon Tracker.
I've also recently acquired one of the aftermarket CGB link cables that are used to build the Pushpin interface; it's something I've been itching to play with, especially since it's so underused and poorly documented—and I'm just plain curious.
However, that mystique is also a cause of problems, as it is very difficult to find good information about the hardware and software.
Most of the links to information on Pushpin's Google Code Page are dead, and it's apparently somewhat common knowledge that the advice given on the page for building the interface is incomplete at best, and plainly wrong on some points. Any kind of formal documentation that was once available now seems scarce.
I've done some searching, and found nitro2k01's blog post about building the Pushpin interface, which was a troubled build and ended with suggestions for changes—yet nothing I understood to be complete as the best possible implementation.
I've also crawled through the Pushpin Google Group, which is now overrun by spam, to look for definitive information. I found some posts discussing improved schematics, but again, nothing that seemed to be the "definitive" or "ideal" schematic. This post from 2008 seems to have the most recently revised schematic I've found:
So, this leads me to my main questions:
Does anyone have any of the currently unavailable "official" documentation for Pushpin archived or saved anywhere?
Are there any known build tips or more refined schematics that I haven't found yet?
Does anyone have information I haven't thought of, or any general tips on creating the interface and using Pushpin?
I've stopped short of tweeting @ or e-mailing one of the creators; I don't like to bother people over something they've clearly quit supporting if I can help it…
Last edited by Telerophon (Jul 18, 2012 5:50 am)
