New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[kamelito]

That's like asking if a Video ToastLLer is better than a Cybervision 64.

It is a streaming audio card, not a general purpose sound card like the Delfina.

If you kill the system like in most game or demo is it possible to use the card that way? Let's say you put the music in RAM and stream from it without AmigaOS? Any plan to release the hardware spec ? (register etc)

Kamelito

[kamelito]

What would be nice is to have it emulated under UAE. That way it would be a lot simpler to play with it than bringing back my 3000 for the basement since I don't have place for it
By play with it I mean patch existing games to handle the prisma instead of Paula. Any USB version planned for PC/MAC?
Kamelito
PS nice shop by the way.

[kamelito]

what would that be good for? uae can decode compressed audio streams or video for that matter with the available 68k software with no problem and with no need of emulating any custom spacialised hardware.

The aim is using UAE as a dev env of course it's to improve the music of existing games for the so called classic.

Kamelito

[kamelito]

Monkey Island, Sierra games and Eye of Beholder would be easy to support by adding the Prisma.library to ScummVM.

Well you'll then need a more powerful Amiga than the Amiga version.

Kamelito

[kamelito]

Not sure what you mean?

ScummVM runs these games just fine on my Classic Amiga

I played Monkey Island on my A500 back then so no 060 just a bare 68000 with 1MB. But hey life begin at 100 mips
Kamelito

[kamelito]

I got an email from NASA today (I'm on some strange mailing lists), it was hyping how the avionics in the new Orion capsule could do 400 MIPS.  My first thought was "hey, that's only 4x the speed of an Amiga".  

Edit:  It's a PowerPC!  So now all you smart-asses can boast about how your Amiga uses the same processor as the Orion, LOL.  

PowerPC 750FX is a G5 IIRC so it's more a Morphos thing

Kamelito

[kamelito]

The problem as they told us is the software, I don't really understand, even if the developer is not up to the task, they could have switch to another one and still have delivered long ago.

Kamelito

[kamelito]

What could be interesting is patching OS friendly games so they could use mp3 versions from say CDTV or CD32 or any others CDDA or MP3 versions. This could add more atmosphere to the game, but, it'll be a lot easier to do so under emulation and then test on the real HW. So adding a support for the card under UAE would be great.
Kamelito

[kamelito]

It is a pity that they are relying on Hyperion for OS development when Hyperion's primary developers admit to only working on the project "a couple of hours a week".

Let's hope that they're not doing it on purpose.
What all this mean is that if you pay good money to good developers they deliver.

Kamelito