AmiVD is as much Vapourware as the Shark and Dragon.
No. E3B has never produced vapourware (this is one thing we never ever will be able to compete with Elb*x :-D ).
Would you believe me if I made a photo of the preproduction card with a current newspaper (to see the date) in my hand?
Or maybe running P96 on it with full PCI-PCI DMA on a NEC2 chip and a RTL8139 card in parallel?
...make a new graphics card why base it on an old no-longer-produced chipset when the current low-end Radeons perform many times better at the same cost.
Well. Radeon based PCI cards have a PCI-PCI bridge. No existing Amiga Classic PCI solution does even try to support these beasts, as you need more efforts in hardware to get things done.
Moreover, modern PCI cards need 3.3V power supply on PCI (as well as the SharkPPC aka Sonnet), and this power supply needs to source quite a few amps. This issue is also not easy to solve in Amiga computer with small power budgets.
It has reasons why the AmiVD is delayed, and my ongoing PhD work is one of them (next to it, work on the AmiVD is proceeding).
Michael
