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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: mantisspider on December 02, 2003, 04:56:36 AM

Title: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: mantisspider on December 02, 2003, 04:56:36 AM

Hi guys,

Just been reading about the Ateo Bus on amiga-hardware.com.
Says that  in theory, the Ateo Bus can use standard ISA cards that dont use DMA, if drivers are written for them.

just wondering if anyone has ever been able to get the Ateo Bus to work with any ISA cards, such as graphics/video or lan cards?
Ateo Bus (http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.avalonsoftware.org/encanta/hard/ct/ateo/ateobus.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Ateo%2BBus%2522%2Bamiga%2BISA%2Bdrivers%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff)

edited to be in english :-P

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: voytech on December 02, 2003, 05:46:33 AM

Whoa!! Would you translate the text?

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: whabang on December 02, 2003, 08:24:12 AM

I think there was drivers for some generic I/O-cards, but as an Ateo-bus optimized I/O-card was delivered with the bus board, there was little use for it...

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: Crumb on December 02, 2003, 09:54:54 AM

there's an ateo bus mail list in yahoogroups. If you have one of these boards I would download all the messages with wgetall, teleport or a similar app... as it has little activity it may dissapear...

I've read that the scsi card is an adaptec 15xx... or similar, a NE2000 ISA network card should work too... and afaik soundcard drivers weren't finished.

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: bloodline on December 02, 2003, 11:58:31 AM

Quote

Crumb wrote:
there's an ateo bus mail list in yahoogroups. If you have one of these boards I would download all the messages with wgetall, teleport or a similar app... as it has little activity it may dissapear...

I've read that the scsi card is an adaptec 15xx... or similar, a NE2000 ISA network card should work too... and afaik soundcard drivers weren't finished.

Don't sound cards need DMA?

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: mantisspider on December 07, 2003, 01:10:45 AM

is ateo still a company or are they dead? if so, who has the rights to their hardware?

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: Jagabot on December 07, 2003, 02:50:57 AM

I recall having a couple of these things, even one that plugged into the side of the A500 and would let you use any ISA device (imagine, a $15 pc IO card plugged into your A500 in 1989 with 4 IDE devices on it!) At the time I assumed that, "Cool, in a few months there will be drivers for all sorts of ISA cards that I can use wiith my Amigas!"

However... Amiga users were too busy writing 500,000 demo disks, and music scrollers, and all sorts of useless crap  and NEVER a single bloody driver for any PC ISA cards. It's been by biggest gripe about the Amiga community since the 80's.  :-D

Title: Re: Ateo Bus: 3rd party ISA cards
Post by: mantisspider on December 07, 2003, 03:45:06 AM

i just bought ATEO BUS with PIXEL 64 graphics card and Ethernet card. Gonna use ISA riser cables to mount these into a desktop case,

:-D no more towers needed thanks to extension ribbons.