Excellent examples of why the Amiga is considered a mostly dead platform. ;-) A market this small really can't handle this kind of competition. You know? Closed hardware only works well on a closed platform with well-defined standards (i.e. not the Amiga). :-P EDIT: OK, the Amiga does have well-defined standards, but who builds upon them?
So, hardware-wise, Prometheus good, [insert other PCI busboard here] bad. Software-wise, they all use closed libraries with varying levels of support for public APIs. Am I the only one that thinks Amiga hardware and software should be free of NDAs and other red tape? Take away the Video Toaster, and the Amiga's not much more than a hacker/hobbyist toy. It's unfortunate, but it's true.
Now, back to Prometheus. Good hardware. Open SDK. Can't blame Matay for the lack of a standardized PCI API during product development.
Same goes for clockport hardware. But it would have made sense for vendors to agree on a resource library specification before writing drivers.
And more rambling. Anyone know the current state of OpenPCI? The primary maintainer is missing in action, and no one wants to claim ownership.
Trev
