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Re: ISA slots on an amiga, useless?
« on: September 29, 2003, 04:50:56 PM »
Only power is connected to the ISA slots, so without a BridgeBoard you can only use Time Base Correctors and similar video equipments.

Two kinds of BridgeBoards exist:
- PC emulators (Commodore 8088/ 2286/ 2386 and Vortex GoldenGate 386/486 series) which allow the use of ISA cards on the PC side.
- BridgeBoards without PC emulation (GoldenGate 2+ and CrossLink) which allow the use of some ISA cards on the Amiga side. These have driver for serial/parallel/Ethernet cards, but do not support ISA cards with DMA.

Here's the list and description of all BridgeBoards and all ISA cards which do not need a BridgeBoard but have Amiga software for it (eg. TBCs): list.

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Re: ISA slots on an amiga, useless?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2003, 04:57:00 PM »
Another similar (ISA ET4000 on Zorro II) card is the  Domino.

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Kronos wrote:

Well there was the Omnibus, a special (passive) bridgeboard
plus a 1MB-ET4000-ISA-card.