Prometheus owner?

[patrik]

@Crusher:

I am not a owner of the card, but I can tell you a bit I have read about it.

From a hardware point of view the card is constructed with more modern technology than the mediators. The only direct benefits from that is that the design is smaller, should draw less current and produce less heat.

From a software point of view the company - matay seems very open about releasing information. You will for example get software developer kit with your board and the Prometheus is supported by the OpenPCI library. Not like Elbox...

The only real drawback I can see with this card is that the physical fitting of the card and pci-cards on it might be a quite experimental experience if so to say .


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Jose:

On the Prometheus homepage they claim that real transferrates between the Amiga and PCI-cards can reach 12MB/Sec.

Isnt there anyone reading these forums with a Prometheus who can test the transferrates and post them here?


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Brian:

I must just add the Prometheus Developer Section link which could be found in your last link. It explains quite thoroughly how the Prometheus functions, very interesting reading indeed.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Brian:

What can I do to convince you to try the Prometheus with a graphics-card and then do a transferrate-test?


/Patrik

[patrik]

@zipper:

Sounds like the speed you would get with a mediator.


/Patrik

[patrik]

Didnt Karlos make a program for measurement of transferspeed between the Amiga and the video-memory of a graphics-card which was used in a quite extensive test featuring quite some different PCI-buses. It would be interesting to see how the Prometheus would score with that program.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@zipper:

What do you think about running Karlos pixeltest program on your Prometheus and post the results in this thread?


/Patrik

[patrik]

@zipper:

Karlos said in his post that it was just to ask him about the program and he would send it over.


/Patrik

[patrik]

zipper?


/Patrik