New A-EON Music Card for Classic Amigas

[wawrzon]

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.

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.

[spirantho]

this is the result of advertising it as a "sound card". no wonder people expect sound card functionality. if it was advised as an audio stream decoder the expectations wouldnt be wrong and people would not ask "stupid questions"..

It's not a stupid question at all, but it has been answered repeatedly in this thread.

I agree the thread title may make people think it's like a Delfina or something, but I can't change it, sorry.

[QuikSanz]

A nice idea may be to take the output of this card and run it to the Aux in on my Prelude. Bet that will rock.

[spirantho]

Or wire the Prelude output into the aux input on the Prisma. Best of both worlds. You could chain them with Paula audio too!

[ElPolloDiabl]

It still could be better at mp3 playback than a delfina. Is it?

[spirantho]

It still could be better at mp3 playback than a delfina. Is it?

I've never used a Delfina but I believe it struggles on high bit rate mp3s... the Prisma will happily play many more formats including 320Kbps mp3.

[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

[spirantho]

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.

It would be easy to make a Prisma.library that actually redirected to a software mpeg player. You wouldn't want to lose the OS though in that case.
Arcade games wouldn't benefit easily but something like Monkey Island could be done, I guess. Same with Sierra games.

[NovaCoder]

It would be easy to make a Prisma.library that actually redirected to a software mpeg player. You wouldn't want to lose the OS though in that case.
Arcade games wouldn't benefit easily but something like Monkey Island could be done, I guess. Same with Sierra games.

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

[QuikSanz]

Or wire the Prelude output into the aux input on the Prisma. Best of both worlds. You could chain them with Paula audio too!

Is the Aux input on the board or backplate?

[Pyromania]

This sounds like an exciting card.

[spirantho]

Is the Aux input on the board or backplate?

I can't say, I afraid. Mine just has a wire as it's a prototype.

[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

[NovaCoder]

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

Kamelito

Not sure what you mean?

ScummVM runs these games just fine on my Classic Amiga

[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

[paul1981]

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

Life ends at 100 mips, as that's the approximate speed of some of the fastest Amiga's (with real 68060's of course). Chase over!