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| Posted on 16-Dec-2001 01:32 GMT by Ian Stedman | 147 comments
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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 priest on 16-Dec-2001 19:33 GMT | I think Z3 is "dead".
- there are not that many z3 capable Amigas
- some of those z3 Amigas have the buggy buster soldered in the motherboard
- even if someone would implement a bug free z3 motherboard, it could not compete with PCI/AGP bus in price or in performance.
And z2 is too slow for many moder needs. But still a lot of z2 Amigas exist. Almost "healthy" niche exists.
What I would most like to see for z2 Amigas are some kind of adaptor cards for other bus technologies, to enable the use of ISA/PCI/etc. cards.
Also BeBox's GEEK port for z2 -bus Amigas would be nice.
I really have no hope for seeing any state of the art / revolutionary Amiga specific HW in near future, but sometimes it is fun to dream:
Perhaps the Amiga developer community could spec a future bus standard.
Something that would be more flexible than the current ones.
Future motherboards could then have the most common PC standard slots for generic cards and the special "ADC" slots for simple low cost cards, DIY cards as well as for some bandwith hungry cards.
When the bus spec is done, we could have Z3/PCI adaptor cards to enable the development of future cards and drivers. As well as enable Z3 / PCI slot owners to use those as well...
I bet Dave Haynie could have a few ideas...
Imaginary motherboard:
1 AGP slot
3 PCI slots
1 ADC EC slot (low performance (8/16bit), reliable, simple, great for HW geeks & DIY, expandable with ricer card)
1 ADC HP slot (high performance 128bit, possible to use also as CPU card slot, expandable with ricer card) |
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