New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[HammerD]

Very nice!  Will be ordering once the order page goes up.  Thanks AmigaKit!

[HammerD]

It's a nice idea, but the A1200 wouldn't be enough, I don't think. The ClockPort would be out, for sure (far too slow) maybe a Zorro-III card could send the data fast enough, I'm not sure - Zorro-II would be enough for smaller videos.
It's a possibility, after all the CD32 had an FMV cartridge, but I'm not sure how easy or worthwhile it'd be given it'd be limited by the bus bandwidth.

As far as I recall C= also had planned the FMV on a Zorro II or III card for the A4000.  Maybe there was even a prototype.  Of course you know the history and it never materialized

Anyway, back to the Prisma...really looking forward to it! Thanks for of your work on it!

[HammerD]

Believe me, we've thought about it.
We're still looking at doing an AHI driver for the card, but this is secondary to the primary purpose, so will come later.

Sorry, I'm a bit out of date, but no AHI driver? I would use this card primarily to playback MP3's with TuneNet (on OS 4.1 Classic) or using a variety of 3rd party MP3 players (AmigaAMP, AMPlifier, AmiNetRadio, etc...) so for this wouldn't an AHI driver be a requirement out-of-the-box ?

[HammerD]

@HammerD

It has a MHI driver already.  AmigaAmp and others use MHI.

Thanks and this works with TuneNet as well?