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[News] A1200 USB board available end of AprilANN.lu
Posted on 04-Apr-2001 13:08 GMT by Christian Kemp5 comments
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Kenny Marx wrote: A new Universal Serial Bus board will be released for the Amiga A1200 at the end of April AmiSoft, A Belfast based Amiga company have been working on the USB board for some time and are now in the final stages of testing the completed board. The board connects to the clock port on the 1200, providing a passthrough socket for other cards as well. A small PCB sits on the clock-port header and the 2 USB ports are then accesed through the spare slot at the back of the Amiga. A tower version is also available with backing plate.

The unit is expected to ship for around £60 initially, but can be pre-ordered at a reduced rate. AmiSoft are ideally looking for 500 pre-orders to cover development costs, and insure other versions of the board are released.

AmiSoft have produced quality, low-cost Amiga peripherals since 1991, including MIDI connectors, multi-port joystick expanders and various software projects. They began developing the interface before PCI boards were available for the 1200, but project manager, Tony Burrows thinks their board should still succeed "The AmiSoft USB board can of course work alongside a PCI/ISA bus, therefore eliminating the need for a USB PCI card and leaving valuable space free for other more demanding cards."

Amisoft currently have no Web-page, but have set-up a mailbox for enquiries: USBinfo@the-computer.co.uk

A1200 USB board available end of April : Comment 1 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Toner on 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
If this can be made to also work with the clockport-compatible slots found on the X-surf
and any other cards that might have them, I'd be interested. I have an A4000T, which
now with Prometheus can finally have PCI, I'd prefer to keep USB as an addon to my
X-surf to leave room in the PCI slots for a good graphics card, sound card, their
planned PowerPC G3 card, and 100Mbit ethernet. (perhaps making the Xsurf mostly redundant
other than as a clockport adaptor) What other Zorro cards out there have A1200 clockport
compatible connectors? This method also has the benefit of providing USB to A2000
users who still can't use Prometheus or anything else for PCI slots...
A1200 USB board available end of April : Comment 2 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Giovanni on 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Bill Toner):
Be careful. To me Prometheus looks very unprofessional. If you fit any PCI card to it, this card will cover all remaining Z3 slots in A4000T! It is because PCI devices go at 90 degree angle to the backplates.
A1200 USB board available end of April : Comment 3 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Amifan on 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Giovanni):
All the PCI sollutions are "hacky". What abou a completely new mainboard.....Eyetech AmigaONE is your ask me :)
USB is nice but is it high speed or only low speed (for connecting mice and keyboards), And what about the drivers? No need for another piece of hardware with only 10% of the announced drivers
A1200 USB board available end of April : Comment 4 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Toner on 03-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Giovanni):
Well, while I haven't looked inside my 4000T lately, but I was hoping to put it in th
efirst Zorro slot, so the PCI cards would be "pointing" toward the drive cage. And if
that ended up in the way I'd remove it since I don't have anything in those two bays anyway.
My other four zorro cars should then be OK at the "left/below" Prometheus. I think this
should work, and with PCI stuff I won't necessarily need a couple of my zorro cards anymore
anyway, moving them to my A2000.
A1200 USB board available end of April : Comment 5 of 5ANN.lu
Posted by B. vd Meer on 04-Apr-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Amifan):
In comment to comment 3:
>USB is nice but is it high speed or only low speed (for connecting mice and >keyboards),
USB 1.0 ~ 1MB/sec
Mice, keyboards, printers, scanners, usb->ethernet adapters...
>And what about the drivers? No need for another piece of hardware with only >10% of the announced drivers
Once they write the device for this USB card
, why can't the software redirect all the calls from the serial port (and maybe keyboard, mice ports also) to this card ?
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