I've compiled a new Class for Poseidon. It is serialft232r.class for the FTDI USB to UART (Serial) Chip on the DrawBridge Controller. It is supposed to use serial.device to setup a serial connection.

It's not showing up in Trident Prefs though. Maybe I have to add it manually.

The new Poseidon Class didn't work as expected. But there is hope still of being able to read/write Amiga 68k diskettes on AROS.

There is a new OS4 Software Project called Waffle Reader. Yes, strange name but interesting topic! 🤪

Of special interest to me is the ftdi.library that is used by the system to communicate with the ftdi chip.

Read more about it here:

https://github.co...fflereader

The Serial Disk Reader is a very ambitious project. I'd like to write a new Poseidon FT232R Class to use the FTDI chip and serial.device to talk to the Arduino controller on a Drawbridge equipped USB Floppy Drive. If successful this will allow reading & writing Amiga 68k disks.

At first this seems like a daunting task and it can quickly become overwhelming! So it can be broken down into smaller pieces. So far I used the PL2303 class as a basis. I changed the file naming to FT232R then compiled it but at it's core it's not yet compatible with FTDI chips.

I still need to input the vendor & product id's as well as the logic to communicate with the FTDI chip. My first goal is to establish a link with the chip to read back vendor & product id & product description.

At this point I still don't know if all this is possible. We'll see how it goes. ;-)