[Gc-linux-devel] Paper Card Reader boot load?

[Scott M. <gb...@li...>]

Forgive my memory, I've just found the project...

There was/is a card reader device for the GC.  I've never owned one, but if 
I understand correctly, it plugged into a game port, then you swiped trading 
cards with barcode/dot patterns that eventually loaded a mini game.  I'm 
assuming it came with a disk as well.  In other words, the disk lets you 
load programs through a game port, possibly even store them on flash for 
later?

If you had the card reader disk, would it be possible to reverse engineer 
the card reader device and come up with a patch cord to directly load up 
programs from another computer?  Or for that matter, maybe a small boot 
loader program could be written and printed in the paper card format that 
would contain enough code to get the network up and a real boot loader 
running?

Scott

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