Microtek Z3i. A good fit?

[Blinx123]

I've been offered a Z3i for what I consider a budget price.
Unfortunately, I don't know very much about the Amiga 1200 ecosystem yet.

Will I be able to utilize a Blizzard 1260 + the Z3i at the very same time?

More interestingly, will I be able to install an Elbox as well?

The setup of my dreams would look like this:

- Towerized Amiga 1200
GPU: Voodoo 5 5500
CPU: Blizzard 1260@77MHz
Fastram: 128MB (Blizzard 1260) + 256MB (Radeon 9200 inside the Elbox)

Micronik Z3i for a possible future upgrade to PPC.

[Blinx123]

Embarrassingly misspelled the company which created this great busboard.

It's Micronik, of course.

[Blinx123]

There is a problem, if you connect blizzard to it it will work only Zorro II mode and then you can't use mediator. You should buy cyberstorm or any other A3000/A4000 acelerator, wich are much more rare and that's why more expensive.

Why don't you just buy mediator? Do you really need zorro bus?

Well.

I actually only want the Z3i for a possible future upgrade to PPC (this and the SCSI).
Before that, I'll probably stick with either plain AGA or install a Mediator.

When you're saying, I need Zorro III, you're actually referring to Mediator 4000, right?
So I can only install a Mediator 4000 but not the Mediator 1200, if I'm going with a Z3i?

Furthermore, wouldn't a Mediator 4000 need DMA over the Zorro III slots? The Zorro III slots on the Z3i are, unfortunately, not fully compliant and don't support DMA.

[Blinx123]

Yea. You definitely saw me on Amibay.
Even replied to my RAM thread and the one where I was searching for a Blizzard 1260.

Shame one can't simply put a Mediator 1200 and a Z3i together.
This would've been a really awesome setup.

I see you've got a Z3i yourself. How much did it cost you (if you don't mind me asking) and is it compatible with Mediator 3000/4000 or would this require functional DMA?

Even if I won't use it in the foreseeable future, I still consider buying that Z3i, since it seems to be pretty rare and I could get it for less than 200 euros, which is probably a good price for it.

EDIT: Missed your second post.
Darn. So there's really no way having a CPPC and PCI on an Amiga 1200 at the same time then?

Knew about the unusuable PCI on those Z3i boards, btw. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't even have asked if it was possible to install another busboard on top of it.

[Blinx123]

Huh huh...http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=Micronik+A1200+Z-3i+&company=&amiga=&intf=&mid=&base=dec&pid=
...but the ZorroIII implementation is clearly slower than the original.

To be fair. Steve seems to own/have owned such a card in the past.
According to his thread, he tried something similar and very much failed.

So there's a fair chance that he's right about it.

The Z3i still seems like a nice busboard worth of testing, though.
If I interpret it correctly, it's rather rare and even if I couldn't use it apart from giving my curiosity a well deserved rest, I could  probably sell it for a small profit later on.

[Blinx123]

Does anyone know the approximate value of such board?

I tried asking on Amibay but totally forgot you weren't allow to do so anywhere (including the parts that don't belong to the marketplace itself).