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Re: New Zorro based USB card.
« on: July 02, 2002, 10:17:26 PM »
Robert (the designer) came around to our user group meeting tonight with his Thylacine cards. They look great and he's currently in the process of making USB ethernet adaptor drivers for it as well (no modem or camera drivers yet though). We're going to be testing these cards for him in our Amiga's (including mine) at our next user group workshop meeting (July 14). Once I've seen it in action I might actually buy one as I would like USB in my A4000. At AU124.95 it's quite reasonable for classic Amiga hardware and it would show appreciation for his effort if he sold a few as the guy appears to have used his own time and money to design it.
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Re: New Zorro based USB card.
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2002, 07:04:15 PM »
I've posted a pic I took of the Thylacine at last night's meeting on our user group's website:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/colmiga/meetings.html

I'll be taking some more pics of it actually running at our next meeting (July 14).
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Re: New Zorro based USB card.
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2002, 07:13:31 PM »
amiga2000 wrote:

> I was wondering: will there be any difference between the Highway and the Thylacine? Performance-wise?

According to Robert (the designer), there should be no difference in speed.

> Will they share the same USB software? or will different software have to be written to take advantage of the different USB hardware cards with different USB devices? I am hoping that they share the same USB base software.

I will ask Robert more in depth about this but the impression I got last night was that it will use similar software (don't quote me on that).

If it runs as well as he says it does than I'm definately putting in a pre-order.
Sam460ex: PPC460ex/1GHz, 2GB RAM, 30GB SSD via on-board SATA-2, DVD-RW via USB, Radeon 5450 1GB PCIe, Catweasel Mk4 PCI, A4000 KB and Competition Pro CD32 Pad.
A4000D: 030/25MHz, 16MB RAM, Indivision Mk1, 8GB CF as HDD and IDE CD-ROM.

Amiga user since 1992.