[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 Nian on 17-Dec-2001 05:05 GMT | To be completely honest I have been asking local amiga hardware developers to do this exact thing for ages,The amiga NEEDS a Z3 card with
Ethernet 10/100
2x SDRAM slots
2x IDE Fast ATA66 (Or Better)
1x High Speed Serial
2x USB 2.0 Full.
If there was a card for the amiga with those then there would not be a true amiga user who wouldn't want one. The fact is that USB replaces Parallel but Serial is still around, Ethernet is a must, Faster IDE everyone wants, and as for Memory! SDRAM is so damned cheap that 256mb of memory where I am is 1/2
the price of 32mb SIMM's
Do the maths people.
How much money do you save if you buy 256mb of sdram ins6tead of 256mb of SIMMs?
SDRAM 128mb$70AU
SIMM 32mb$150
256/328, 8x150 = 1200, 1200-70 = 1130.
$1130!!!!!!! I just saved myself $1130 just by getting one stick of SDRAM...
Tell me where the economy versus speed should kick in? So what if we only get 12.56mb/s transfer with the sdram.
Anyway as for Zorro2 can it handle more than 8mb? |
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