--- "M.Buckett" <M.Buckett_at_dcs.hull.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >>For a while I had a parallel port webcam running of a 386sx20 with 4MB>
> >>of RAM and it ran Windows 95. While it was slow it did get the job
> > >
> > >The catch with using w95 regardless of speed, it that for many cases its
> > >the only game in town if you want network services, ie winsocket etc.
> >
> >
> > Huh? What about linux, freebsd, and friends.?
>
> Drivers for the webcam (Creative Webcam 1) only really existed for Windows
> 95. A linux driver is about on the net but it looks pretty beta.
I built a 486SLC box in a tiny case with a 2-slot ISA riser card for my WebCam.
There was only enough room for the I/O card (parallel port) and network card.
No Video. The OS is LRP, Linux Router Project. I grabbed one of the
implementations of the Connectix QuickCam drivers for Linux, ncftpput and
a looping script and smashed them together into a ".lrp" file. It does take
8Mb of RAM, but that's because LRP loads from a single floppy and decompresses
to a RAM drive. Once this thing boots, it never references the floppy again.
The evidence is at
http://penguincentral.com/webcam/
-ethan
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Received on Mon Apr 02 2001 - 08:48:25 BST