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Re: What Amiga product do *YOU* would want. Please read.
« on: January 12, 2004, 05:43:58 PM »
In regard to the Zorro bus, I've always wondered if a PCI-to-Zorro adaptor or . . .
a AGP-to-Zorro adaptor . . .
could enable the use of certain plentiful (and cheap) PC expansion cards on big-box Amigas? What I'm referring to is a Zorro Card base with a PCI (or AGP) bus socket offset behind it. . . . . like an 'L' shapped Zorro Card where the other card connects on the adaptor (PCI or AGP) and snugs into a stiffener vertical fitting on the Half-Zorro section.

GVP had a feature connector on certain of their GForce accellerator cards that at least one 32bit Gfx Card fitted onto.
That was the Spectrum 110/24(?), and due to the 32bit connection bypassed the 16bit ZorroII bus of the A2000.
Spectrum 110/24

With that LAST in mind; is it at all feasable to manufacture a CPU-Slot passthrough AGP connector that still allows the accellerator to be used? This last, if feasable, may be applicable to A2000 and CD32-Upgrades.

 ~ ~ Still wondering how those ColdFire accellerators are coming along?
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Re: What Amiga product do *YOU* would want. Please read.
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2004, 03:26:22 PM »
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I'd also like to see a better and more elegant solution for integrating native Amiga graphics modes and RTG.  I'm fed up with swapping cables and having to make room for two monitors on my desk.  

But a Scan Doubler that "Passes through" standard ChipSet Gfx to the Gfx Card already does that!
Later cards had that bit included, as a Snap-Off if the Video Slot was not inline with a Zorro Slot!
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Re: What Amiga product do *YOU* would want. Please read.
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2004, 03:35:02 PM »
Oh - and before I forget:
I was discussing Jeri's C-One reconfigurable computer on a list when someone suggested an A1-configuration of the C-One?!?

My thought were more that classic-Amiga/C1 configuration may be more feasable?
Perhaps Mick Tinker's replacement chipset (or that other used in that 5.25 Bay Amiga media device) added to the C-One reconfigurable computer to produce a modern classic Amiga clone?  :-?
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