[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 redrumloa on 16-Dec-2001 16:46 GMT | I think with the current state of Amiga hardware, quality zorroIII cards are still
VERY important! I have a Prometheus, but in the near future it looks like all 4
slots will be full. I like your idea of I/O and 10/100 ethernet on one card.
However to get 100Mb you'd have to use DMA right? I understand that DMA on Zorro
III is a nightmare. The only DMA board I have ever tried on my A3000 didn't work
at all(A4091). If you could pull off this, my hat will be off to you:-)
Then again if you really think you could tackle DMA and make it work, what I'd
like even more is either a ZorroIII UDMA IDE card, or UW-SCSI that would DMA in
the A3000. That is something that does not exist at all. The Power FLyer4000 IDE
card does not dma, and eats up 100% CPU load during transfers, no good. There are
no UW-SCSI Zorro cards, the closest thing is the SCSI-II A4091, but like I said
it does not work at all on the A3000. I would buy one of these boards if made.
Regards,
redrumloa |
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