[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 Ralph Schmidt on 16-Dec-2001 11:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Ian Stedman): Ian, Zorro3 DMA is a nightmare...it's not about a normal dma buscontroller
but about design problems/not documented behaviour of Zorro3.
Then you have to deal with the general problems like Buster11 locks up
with more than 1 busmaster.
That means if somebody has a 4091,Fastlane,DVB it will lock when you
add your 2nd dma busmaster.
So you better forget that idea...you may do some zorro3 PIO ethernet
controller with a lot fifo to work around the lack of DMA.
But if all that is worth it...i have my doubts.
That only 3 Zorro3 DMA units were ever developed for the amiga
should speak for itself. |
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