A1200 clockport, what can it be used for?

[Cammy]

Hopefully someone will have the vision to create a clockport Ethernet card that works with Amigas so all those A600 and A1200 users with 8MB Fast RAM can use it all online and not be limited to 4MB/5.5MB because of a PCMCIA network card. Then all we'd need is a 8MB/RTC/IDE/Clockport card for the CD32 and we'd be in expansion heaven.

[Cammy]

Add a Subway and a USB Ethernet Adaptor....and here we go.

This isn't a solution for 8MB A600/A1200 users, it's a slow option for accelerated Amigas at best. If there was a more effective way of connecting the RR-Net and suitable drivers it might be usable, but really we just need a real, dedicated ethernet or wireless card for the Amiga clockport. Maybe it could have an extra clockport on the card to daisy chain it to another expansion without requiring a splitter.

[Cammy]

I guess daisy chaining and splitting on the A1200 clockport is out of the question then.

Please don't think I was blaming Poseidon for the slow speed of the Subway/USB ethernet solution, I'm aware it's the clockport that is the real bottleneck.

But surely a new, dedicated clockport ethernet card would work with less RAM than using a USB ethernet card through Poseidon. I wouldn't have expected significant speed increase, but at least a card like this would be of use to people with un-accelerated Amigas with clockports and extra RAM, especially since PCMCIA ethernet cards will reduce most 8MB cards to 4MB, and 4MB isn't fun to use online.