Classic Amiga Hardware Projects for 2014

[matt3k]

1. Zorro III Video Card:
- DVI/HDMI out.
- High performance
- Lots of fast video memory.
- Pass through so Amiga Video could be redirected to a DVI/HDMI output.

2. Bridge for SCSI to SATA devices.

3. Accelerator for big box amigas.
- Fits an A3000D without cutting the chassis.
- SATA controller.
- Option to bypass the bus, like the grex.  (Make it work it both the 3k and 4k).


Thank you for asking and for all you have done for the Amiga community.  Looking forward to the prism.

[matt3k]

Such a solution already exists for big-box Amigas (with A2000 being the exception), and it's called the Mediator bus board. Yes it may cost a lot, but I think it gives better value for the money than old Amiga graphics cards at insane prices (like you mention here).

We can say the same for not only video cards, but for NICS, USB, Sound cards, etc.  The X-surf-100 did well and the Prism sound card also looks to be a good success for a zorro bus.

I would like to buy a high end video card that even uses tricks like the roxxler, a Zorro Bus card that redirects amiga video to DVI/HDMI would be a hit.

Unless a Grex type solution that gives benefits of another bus, zorro is good solution, IMHO...

[matt3k]

Cheapest possible Zorro II / III graphics card. It would any way be much faster than any other zorro graphics card produced to zorro. As a reference GVP-M sold all Spectrum board they produced couble years ago.

I agree with the video card for the zorro bus, but I would like to see some benefits as opposed to the used video card market.  Pass through and DVI/HDMI output and being faster than the Picasso IV and Cybervision 64, would be a great starting point.

I would be willing to spend 200-300 USD on a great auto sensing Z-Bus video card with the items above.  IMHO, there are are a lots of video cards available to the Amiga now in the used market and many big box Amiga have video cards.  If it didn't provide a benefit, I wouldn't replace any of the video cards I use now...