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Must have Zorro cards or other hw?
« on: May 15, 2011, 10:12:36 PM »
Is there any Zorro-II/-III cards that you have that you wouldn't live without?, ie very useful, must have etc? ;) that isn't bread-n-butter solutions like SCSI-controller with disk,  IDE-controller with disk, RAM-expansion etc.

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Re: Must have Zorro cards or other hw?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2011, 12:19:22 AM »
But the A500 already have an Zorro-II slot on the left side of the computer?
 

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Re: Must have Zorro cards or other hw?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2011, 03:21:50 AM »
Like Picasso96?

I know the A500 doesn't have native Zorro bus. However there's plenty of PCBs that will fix that. ;)
 

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Re: Must have Zorro cards or other hw?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2011, 05:59:26 AM »
The FPGA Replay has 32 MB DRAM which should be enough for many applications. For ethernet the board space needed is PHY+Jack w magnetics so it's easier to have it on base board.
FPGA Replay has USB which is wired to the ARM according to the schematic page 2, but if it's available for AmigaOS is another matter ;)

There is only one experimental add-on board with MC68060 socket and Ethernet asfaik. And it's not stackable. But there shouldn't be anything that prevent such design.

The video toaster flyer would need an external video A/D + D/A. Dunno how fast the original 3x disk interfaces was but maybe the SD-card can do. Otherwise an Spartan-6 rocketport can connect one S-ATA disc per two differential ports. Processing power is another matter.

Storage over IDE / SCSI is easily implemented in the FPGA without any physical incarnation.
 

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Re: Must have Zorro cards or other hw?
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2011, 12:05:28 AM »
To little bandwidth on the PCI side?