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Interesting PPC card for A1200
« on: January 23, 2005, 08:20:24 PM »
Heya!!! What's this then?
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5159323441&fromMakeTrack=true
Sounds good, really good actually, specially if you check
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-32234/ppcrulez/amijoe.html

Is this card supported in any way? Using any PPC software?
Sounds really good, having an IDE controller, PCI connector and SO-Dimm memory slot....
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Re: Interesting PPC card for A1200
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2005, 08:41:40 PM »
There are at least 3 custom design IC's on it, reverse engineering it would be very tough indeed. Also, there is still a flaw in the design of the PCI Bridge.
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Re: Interesting PPC card for A1200
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2005, 08:51:17 PM »
But it doesn't have a classic 68K cpu fallback, they intended to run 68K emulation. But with no software written for it that means falling back to the 020  :-o

Anyway, having the card is really, really cool but of no use at all. The only viable option would probably be reverse engineering it, but then you would still have to write warp support software for it, or design your own....

Maybe Elbox is interested?
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