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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: jiffydos on July 29, 2008, 01:03:14 AM
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Anyone think it would be possible to make a Zorro II/III Radeon card? I figure if anyone can do it, Jens could. How much call do you think there would be for it? I bet it would sell if it could be done relatively cheaply. Video cards are the only piece of modern hardware that it just seems there is not enough support for "Big Box" Amigas.
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You know not whereof you speak :lol: Can you say "wishful thinking"?
How many do you think would sell 500... 1000?
Ever priced out a small run of PC boards? Ever tried to get 10K lot pricing on under 1000 chips?
If your board cost is $500 per, how will you sell it cheap?
Never mind the development/debugging time...
Now I'm no expert, just a prototyping tech. But I have done parts procuring and costed out board production runs (small ones) and it can't be done very cheaply. Let's face it, this is a dying market. If you want a Radeon in your "Big Box", a PCI bus is your only hope, IMHO.
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Well they made several hundred of the GBA1000, a large four layer board with tons of thru-holes and SMT, and it cost me $56 plus shipping.
Now, that's just the board I know, but really, how expensive can a lot of Radeon 7000 chips be? The RAM for 'em isn't even expensive nowadays, it is several generations behind what's hot now. And, even if it were $479 like the PicassoIV was, people would still buy it. You could sell 500 of those. Although, at this point, I'd probably like to see a little hotter chip in there like an 8500 or 9000, though there's no way ZIII could push it real hard.
Hey, since we're blue skyin' here :-)
Maybe Jens could make the glue logic and sandwich a PCI Radeon onto a Zorro interface board like he did with the Xsurf and dirt cheap ISA network cards :-) Brilliant marketing and resource utilization, that!