Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Ira Rainey Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.mac,scea.yaroze.problems.mac Subject: Re: Mac cables to connect to Playstation Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 21:57:41 +0100 Organization: shadow developments Lines: 37 Message-ID: <33723E43.B31@netcomuk.co.uk> References: <33719C46.41C6@notam.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-11-59.netcomuk.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scee.yaroze.problems.mac:4 scea.yaroze.problems.mac:40 Marius Watz wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering exactly where one could get the serial cable needed > to connect the Playstation to a Macintosh. The Codewarrior "Targeting > Playstation" document says to obtain a 9- to 25-pin adapter and a > 25-pin to serial modem cable. I assume that the 9- to 25-pin adapter > is a simple big serial port to small serial port adapter, but I've > never seen the 25-pin to serial modem cable (which I assume must have > the 8 pin Mac plug at one end). The cable I have is a 'high speed mac modem cable', this means that it must be wired for hardware handshaking. At one end it should have a male 8-pin mini din, the standard mac serial connector (bar performas - they have a variant 9-pin version, but the 8-pin still fits), and the other should be a male 25-pin RS232 connector. I don't know where in the world you are, but here in the UK, you can get them from PC World. The brand I have is 'Belkin', 5m long and comes with gold plated connectors and was on sale at half price for only a tenner. If you want to roll your own, not that hard a job, I can supply you the pin out for the mac serial port, it's not an RS232 port, rather an RS422 a similar but better standard. The adapter is simply a 25-pin to 9-pin serial adapter, these should be found in any decent computer store for not more than a few quid. There is a cable around, that is a male 8-pin mini din to 9-pin female connector, that is used to connect a mac to an HP imagewriter printer, this would seem perfect, but is not compatible. Ira. -- "Never take life too seriously, 'cause you know you're not getting out of it alive." - Bugs Bunny