[News] A1200 USB board available end of April | ANN.lu |
Posted on 04-Apr-2001 13:08 GMT by Christian Kemp | 5 comments View flat View list |
Kenny Marx wrote: A new Universal Serial Bus board will be released for the Amiga A1200 at the end of April
AmiSoft, A Belfast based Amiga company have been working on the USB board for some time and are now in the final stages of testing the completed board. The board connects to the clock port on the 1200, providing a passthrough socket for other cards as well. A small PCB sits on the clock-port header and the 2 USB ports are then accesed through the spare slot at the back of the Amiga. A tower version is also available with backing plate.
The unit is expected to ship for around £60 initially, but can be pre-ordered at a reduced rate. AmiSoft are ideally looking for 500 pre-orders to cover development costs, and insure other versions of the board are released.
AmiSoft have produced quality, low-cost Amiga peripherals since 1991, including MIDI connectors, multi-port joystick expanders and various software projects. They began developing the interface before PCI boards were available for the 1200, but project manager, Tony Burrows thinks their board should still succeed "The AmiSoft USB board can of course work alongside a PCI/ISA bus, therefore eliminating the need for a USB PCI card and leaving valuable space free for other more demanding cards."
Amisoft currently have no Web-page, but have set-up a mailbox for enquiries: USBinfo@the-computer.co.uk
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List of all comments to this articleSorted by date, most recent at bottom |
Comment 1 | Bill Toner | | 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
Comment 2 | Giovanni | | 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
Comment 3 | Amifan | | 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
Comment 4 | Bill Toner | | 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT |
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A1200 USB board available end of April : Comment 5 of 5 | ANN.lu |
Posted by B. vd Meer on 04-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Amifan): In comment to comment 3:
>USB is nice but is it high speed or only low speed (for connecting mice and >keyboards),
USB 1.0 ~ 1MB/sec
Mice, keyboards, printers, scanners, usb->ethernet adapters...
>And what about the drivers? No need for another piece of hardware with only >10% of the announced drivers
Once they write the device for this USB card
, why can't the software redirect all the calls from the serial port (and maybe keyboard, mice ports also) to this card ? |
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