New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[matt3k]

Great news.

Hope it offers something beyond what the used market provides.

I recently bought a new X-Surf 100 and I'm having a real challenge to get it to perform faster than the Ariandne it replaced. The Ariandne via nmi gives 155,000 cps  and the X-Surf using EasyNet gives 60,000 cps (Using Miami I can get between 160,000 and 200,000).  

I already have a Delfina Plus, that only uses 2% cpu to decode, has great sound quality, and is bullet proof in reliability.  My 3k multitask without any perceived slowdown now. If this will offer something better, I'll entertain it (I will probably buy if it as least as good as what I have now for my spare desktop, but it would be nice to offer more).  

The problem, as has always been in Amiga Land, is software and driver development. Hopefully, they will have a good and well tested solution out of the gate.

[spirantho]

The price hasn't been decided yet, but it won't be ridiculous. Unlikely to be £50, though, I'm afraid, from experience. By the time you've factored in manufacturing of the board, the parts, the transport costs, the software costs, the hardware design costs and of course taxes, and with the fact that this is going to be relatively low numbers in the production run, £50 would leave practically nothing as profit for the company (they have to make some, even Amiga hardware makers have to eat ).

What I can say is that we're aiming for a good price for everybody, including the buyer. No-one's going to get massively rich off this one board (and if they are, I want a bigger cut )

[spirantho]

Hope it offers something beyond what the used market provides.



I already have a Delfina Plus, that only uses 2% cpu to decode, has great sound quality, and is bullet proof in reliability.  My 3k multitask without any perceived slowdown now. If this will offer something better, I'll entertain it (I will probably buy if it as least as good as what I have now for my spare desktop, but it would be nice to offer more).  

The Delfina Plus only does MP3 doesn't it? This does OGG Vorbis, WMA, WAV, FLAC and MPEG 2 Layer 3.

The problem, as has always been in Amiga Land, is software and driver development. Hopefully, they will have a good and well tested solution out of the gate.

I'll do my best.

[matt3k]

Double post...

[matt3k]

The Delfina Plus only does MP3 doesn't it? This does OGG Vorbis, WMA, WAV, FLAC and MPEG 2 Layer 3.



I'll do my best.

I only use it for mp3's and mp2's, so I don't know.  Glad yours offers some more options!

I would be happy to put it in my kids system and beta test a card for you:)

[Rabbi]

I'd love to buy it for use on my A1200, but I'm already using a Subway USB card attached to the clock port.  Would you consider coming out with a run of something like the Quaddddroport (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quadroport ) so that I can keep both attached to the clock port?

[klx300r]

I'd love to buy it for use on my A1200, but I'm already using a Subway USB card attached to the clock port.  Would you consider coming out with a run of something like the Quaddddroport (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quadroport ) so that I can keep both attached to the clock port?

see post #38;)

[spirantho]

I believe the clock-port on the Prisma is either host or slave, but not both at the same time. That said, it may be possible to do something funky, not sure yet... (but we do need to keep an eye on costs as well)

[spirantho]

Edit: Double-post. Silly forum. First the post disappears completely, then I re-post it and it appears twice.

[SamuraiCrow]

The Delfina Plus only does MP3 doesn't it? This does OGG Vorbis, WMA, WAV, FLAC and MPEG 2 Layer 3.

MPEG 2 Layer 3 is often abbreviated MP3.  :p

[klx300r]

I believe the clock-port on the Prisma is either host or slave, but not both at the same time. That said, it may be possible to do something funky, not sure yet... (but we do need to keep an eye on costs as well)

work your magic for us Ian:biglaugh: It's not just the money issue but the space issue as well for us desktop case users so PLEASE save us some space and let us have 2 items on the clockport with Prisma:knuddel:

[klx300r]

what the heck is going on with this site??? it's constantly logging me out??

[XDelusion]

Cool... so in theory, this could also work with an A600, just so long as it has a clock port too?

 If so, I know I'm going to want between 1-4 of them, depending upon the price.

[NovaCoder]

The Ogg/FLAC decoding would come in very handy for both ScummVM and my SDL Mixer, how do you interface to them, is there going to provide some kind of library?

Also, can this card fit into an A1200 desktop?

[AmigaClassicRule]

The Ogg/FLAC decoding would come in very handy for both ScummVM and my SDL Mixer, how do you interface to them, is there going to provide some kind of library?

Also, can this card fit into an A1200 desktop?

Are libraries important for Amiga hardware?

[amigakit]

@NovaCoder

Please contact me separately about development opportunities.  Ian is currently developing the prisma.library and we would value your feedback at this stage of development.