Hi, I have a mostly stock NTSC 25mhz A3000 with a SCSI2SD fitted. I was looking into an RGBtoHDMI for it when I came across the ZZ9000.
I would use it mainly for the HDMI output for ECS modes and for the extra RAM. The RTG modes would be nice to explore, particularly with Shapeshifter for Mac II color emulation.
The USB stick support and the Ethernet support would all be useful as well.
I've seen critical reviews of the ZZ9000, often comparing it to other USB and Ethernet solutions which are faster. I'm not very concerned with speed (within reason) but I do want something reliable.
I'd like to understand how reliably the ZZ9000 performs these tasks:
- HDMI output of NTSC ECS modes
- RTG graphics
- Extra RAM
- Ethernet
- USB thumb drive support
Thanks for any experiences you can share.
My experiences with a A4000 and one of these boards:
The short version first. Had one, couldn’t get it to work properly. Needed a Voltage fix (Early version). Sold it.
The long version;
Bought one of these a couple of years back. Tried to get this thing to work on my A4000 desktop rig. Only thing I could get working was native video via the HDMI.
What I struggled to get working was the RTG modes, the Network interface wouldn’t be seen. Forget about the USB. Apparently this was (And maybe still) a pipe dream?
MNT as far as I am aware are not doing much with this card. I tried updating to the latest firmware (Last release a year or 2 ago). No dice!
There is a Sound module available for it as well. Not heard much from other users on this.
There is now something called the ZZ3660 (Must get this name right, or the Sheldon’s will be out in force 🙄 ), which is an all in one accelerator, HDMI, network etc. etc.. But this is still in development with Beta firmware.