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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: redrumloa on March 09, 2004, 11:40:54 PM

Title: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: redrumloa on March 09, 2004, 11:40:54 PM

By request, I present to you 2 high quality images of the Prometheus!

First we have a bare Prometheus (http://anachronismindustries.com/imgs/Prometheus-pic.jpg)!

Next we have everything included (http://anachronismindustries.com/imgs/inbox.jpg)!

WARNING! Images are ~250K each!!

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: on March 09, 2004, 11:47:21 PM

Looks broken... Where's the missing corner?

:laughing:

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: redrumloa on March 10, 2004, 02:21:57 AM

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Wayne wrote:
Looks broken... Where's the missing corner?

:laughing:

Value engineering, saves money :lol:

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: bloodline on March 10, 2004, 11:08:06 AM

So how does the board work? Are the two big ICs FPGAs? Is one a PCI controller and one a ZorroII/III controller?

Can the board be booted up without an Amgia? ie. can you put a Busmastering CPU card in one slot a,d run the unit like that? hmmm... maybe you would need a microcontroler on the board for that...

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: Jope on March 10, 2004, 11:55:57 AM

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bloodline wrote:
Can the board be booted up without an Amgia? ie. can you put a Busmastering CPU card in one slot a,d run the unit like that? hmmm... maybe you would need a microcontroler on the board for that...

Buy a system-on-a-card and plug that in.. Might work, might not. :-)

Then again, no use in buying a prometheus when you can buy real cold PCI backplane for that purpose.

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: Karlos on March 10, 2004, 12:22:41 PM

So how does the prometheus stand up next to its competitors performance wise?

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: bloodline on March 10, 2004, 12:24:16 PM

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Jope wrote:

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bloodline wrote:
Can the board be booted up without an Amgia? ie. can you put a Busmastering CPU card in one slot a,d run the unit like that? hmmm... maybe you would need a microcontroler on the board for that...

Buy a system-on-a-card and plug that in.. Might work, might not. :-)

Then again, no use in buying a prometheus when you can buy real cold PCI backplane for that purpose.

Well, that was just a secondary thought... I as just thinking about the ideas of a cold fire card... etc...

anyway, what I was reallygetting at, was tha as those IC's are just FPGAs then you could modify them to turn one socket into an AGP socket, since I can't find any PCI graphics cards.... but AGP ones are 10 a penny.

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: bloodline on March 10, 2004, 12:44:37 PM

If there is any room on those ALTERA FPGAs then one could stick a 68000 core on there :-)

http://www.altera.com/products/ip/processors/32_16bit/m-cas-c68000.html

Title: Re: High quality (BIG) Prometheus pictures online!
Post by: Lemmink on March 10, 2004, 01:27:46 PM

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So how does the prometheus stand up next to its competitors performance wise?

Performance should be compareable to that of the Mediator (the Models for the ZIII Amigas), as it is the same technical approach.
Benchmarks on Amigaspeed shows that at least on the graphis sector they are compareable.

http://www.amigaspeed.de.vu