[Forum] Any interest in Zorro cards? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Dec-2001 01:32 GMT by Ian Stedman | 147 comments View flat View list |
I am currently toying with the idea of designing a Zorro card for the Amiga. What would the interest be in a card with the following:
10/100 mbit Ethernet, 2 X High speed serial ports, 1 X ECP/EPP parallel port & IrDa?
There is some preliminary information on my website
I am also looking at the possibility of adding a Zorro to ISA bridge and making the card work in Zorro 2 and Zorro 3 Amigas.
Are there any other features you would like?
If you are interested, please email me. If there is enough interest I will look at making some prototypes and if feasible, a short production run.
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Posted by Sandals on 19-Dec-2001 04:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 122 (Mike Veroukis): -Um, buy the same argument I can claim that BeOS's first attempt was with PPC
-hardware and it too failed, which is why they moved to an Intel platform. So
-what does that prove? It proves that BeOS failed on PPC and on Intel. What's
Did you pay attention at all what was going on during that time? The reason they switched from PPC (Namely Apple Macintosh systems) is because Apple closed the hardware specs off from third party developers and refused all attempts at negotiations with BeOS to continue development, so they were kind of forced into the 80x86 market. BeOS was enjoying considerable success until Apple screwed them over, a lot of Mac people were dumping the underpowered, underfeatured, slow MacOS and switching to BeOS.
-market. However, the first lesson is that it's much harder to move into the
-mainstream hardware market then it is into the software market. Take careful
If Be had control of the hardware to begin with they would not have had to close down.
-note that Be's hardware department closed far before the software department
See reasons above.
-did. So, we could make the same mistake BeOS did by going to PPC, and when we
I guess by that reasoning Apple should dump their entire Macintosh line and port everything over to 80x86 since that would make them more competitive and increase their chances of survival, right?
-find out that no one is buying the expensive proprietary motherboards so we
-switch to Intel as a last ditch effort.... Hopefully Amiga will survive a bit
-better then BeOS. Let's hope and pray, because that's all that can save it
If this is a last ditch effort, why don't you switch to Windows and run that on your 80x86 hardware as well? You'll be better supported, software will run faster, and you can slap a lil' ol' boing ball on the case so you can call it an Amiga if you want.
-threatened by it. It is there mostly for nostalgia sake, the real Amiga will
-emerge as the AmigaOne. Hopefully it will be succesful. I have my doubts, but
-that's my opinion and I'm allowed that (I hope).
The AmigaOne will never make it to market.
-By pissing off other Amiga users like myself. Going around calling people
-idiots because they see things a little differently isn't exactly helping your
Umm, news flash, you are an idiot. You want to marginalize the Amiga into nonexistance.
-cause either. We all want to see the Amiga prosper, but no one is gonna want
-to touch it if they see fanatics like you blithering on and on about how
-everyone who doesn't use an Amiga is a loser, blah blah blah...
I guess by that reasoning noone would ever touch Linux or the Macintosh either, because we know there aren't any "Linux r00lz, Winblowz sucks, real computer users use Linux mannnn," and there aren't any "My Macintosh is so fast at Photoshop, it's better than any PC out there, runs rings around it, yup yup yup!" Especially on places like ZDnet or slashdot. Hey, don't let me ruin the fantasy for you. |
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