[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 Mike Veroukis on 17-Dec-2001 00:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (Brent Santin): >This will allow people who have cool cards like the Repulse audio card,
>Sunrize AD516, OneStopMusicShop, MaestroPro, Delphina, and other neat hardware
>such as graphics capture cards, (perhaps even the Video Toaster) etc. to use
>them with the AmigaOne.....(of course these cards are slower than modern ISA
>cards, but they often have advanced features you can't get on run-of-the-mill
>PC cards).
One question: Why??? Aside from maybe the VideoToaster, there's not many cards for the Amiga that can't be replaced with a vastly superior card from the PCI market. Top of the line graphics cards provide video in/out and if you get the Radeon All-In-Wonder it has a TV tuner as well. Why bother with any of the old Amiga sound cards when you can get a SB Platinum? The old Zorro cards are severly out dated, there's little reason to add Zorro cards to an AmigaOne. And if your goal is to save money, the cost of adding Zorro slots to the AmigaOne would probably cost you more anyway.
As for new Zorro cards... I don't know. The Zorro bus is rather slow and buggy. I think the PCI daughterboard solution might be your best bet if you want to hold on to your bix-box Amiga for a while. Although, if you're serious about spending cash on Amiga hardware, why not just save up for an AmigaOne??? I say the sooner you can move on to newer hardware the better. Our 10 year+ Amigas will soon start to suffer MB problems with chip failures and who knows what. Why invest more in this hardware when something new is just around the corner???
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