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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: SKAN on June 08, 2004, 06:11:07 PM
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Check this out!!!
http://nvplanet.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2551
This could be a nice solution for those who don't want to tower their Miggy and have hires trucolor gfx!!!
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I've heard that these things, along with USB sound cards are terribly slow compared to PCI/AGP solutions.
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I imagine that it would require high speed usb 2 ports, which none of the current zorro offerings (AFAIK) support.
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There are some benefits with USB sound-cards, lower noise being the main one.
But in the main, I really don't understand the obsession with attaching everything to the USB...
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that_punk_guy wrote:
But in the main, I really don't understand the obsession with attaching everything to the USB...
oh, come on! don't you like it when a girl says, "PLUG it in????"
:lol:
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cecilia wrote:
oh, come on! don't you like it when a girl says, "PLUG it in????"
:lol:
Universal Sodomy Bus? :-?
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that_punk_guy wrote:
There are some benefits with USB sound-cards, lower noise being the main one.
But in the main, I really don't understand the obsession with attaching everything to the USB...
It is the ultimate goal... to have a single universal connector for everything. Ok that will never happen, but with things like USB/Firewire we are getting close :-)
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that_punk_guy wrote:
Universal Sodomy Bus? :-?
OOOH! you ARE a sweet talker! :lol:
actually, what I do like about USB is that you can unplug and replug without rebooting. something, as we know, not possible with SCSI!
And, I'll love it when AROS can be bootable from a USB thumbHD or whatever those things are called! that would be the ultimate portable amiga!!
WOOT!:banana:
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bloodline wrote:
It is the ultimate goal... to have a single universal connector for everything. Ok that will never happen, but with things like USB/Firewire we are getting close :-)
Everything, though? I certainly like the idea of interchangable peripherals but when it gets to the point where you're (hypothetically speaking for now) running a full-blown 3D card over a slow serial bus, I think it's over-complicating things in the name of simplicity.
And if you unplug everything... Where's the PC gone? ;-)
I do like hotplugging USB though, that's nice (and something I've begun to take for granted.)
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Well not to be picky but hotswapping SCSI devices has been possible for donkeys years ... come to think of it I beleive it's been in the specs since day one.
Regards
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that_punk_guy wrote:
And if you unplug everything... Where's the PC gone? ;-)
It would be like a www.gumstix.com but better;-)
That would actually be cool a computer with only a processor,ram,bios and a USB host port.
Could turn into anything, pda, wearable, mp3-player,video-player, tabletpc, laptop, desktop. 8-)
But i cant see much use for this usb-graphiccard because there is already graphiccards that are pccard and even cfcards.
And it seems that they forgot video-out on this one, then what is the use for them???? :-?
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what I do like about USB is that you can unplug and replug without rebooting
Just don't try it too many times on a windows machine or it'll reboot itself. Windows has lousy USB support.
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SKAN wrote:
This could be a nice solution for those who don't want to tower their Miggy and have hires trucolor gfx!!!
Sorry, but it won`t. For a start, there aren`t any Amiga drivers for it (and very doubtfull that they`ll release any info needed to write one)
The only USB adapter for non-towered Amigas is the Subway, which plugs into the clock port.
Dunno what the Subway transfer rate is, but its big brother the Highway can reach around 700-800 Kb/s...an 800x600 24bit screen takes up 1406Kb
You`d be lucky to see more than one screen update every couple of seconds.. :-(
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SKAN wrote:
Check this out!!!
http://nvplanet.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2551
This could be a nice solution for those who don't want to tower their Miggy and have hires trucolor gfx!!!
the link takes me to a IQ test.. -Which I have no intention of taking :)
:lol:
-Uuh and what have we here the USB tingy...
Looks nice though
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Doobrey wrote:
SKAN wrote:
This could be a nice solution for those who don't want to tower their Miggy and have hires trucolor gfx!!!
Sorry, but it won`t. For a start, there aren`t any Amiga drivers for it (and very doubtfull that they`ll release any info needed to write one)
The only USB adapter for non-towered Amigas is the Subway, which plugs into the clock port.
Dunno what the Subway transfer rate is, but its big brother the Highway can reach around 700-800 Kb/s...an 800x600 24bit screen takes up 1406Kb
You`d be lucky to see more than one screen update every couple of seconds.. :-(
It'd be like running a VNC host, then opening a VNC View to the local host...! :-o