Mashing Computers together

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Mashing Computers together

I have:

Iron Chef (PI 166MHz, 12g HD, etc., etc, with a tv tuner card)

Three NES controllers

One dead NES

A spare keyboard (I think)

An Apple Pro Mouse

An Old School printer-style calculator

And two dead powerbooks.

What can I do with them?

I also want to build a keyboard lock, but using a skeleton key. Does anyone know the pinouts to them?

I'm looking for a very CREATIVE hack. . .

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Update

Allrighty, I just hacked the NES controller ports to the parallel. I know how to do this for PC PS2, but has anybody done it for the Mac? Via serial/ADB?

(ADB is the best bet, I don't know how well Serial will work)

Oh, and you can do it with USB too, but that requires a chip, two capacitors, and two resistors.

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Griffin i think it was who us

Griffin i think it was who used to make an ADB adapter for various joysticks. I think it was called the Joyport. It's buried under a metric crapload of stuff at the moment, so I can't dig it out and confirm it. But judicious keyword searching on Ebay should turn something up.

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