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Ariadne |
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Company
Village Tronic, Germany | | Date
1994 | | Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000
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Zorro II
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2167 / 201
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Ethernet interface
- AMD Am7990 Ethernet controller
- 10Base2 and 10BaseT connectors
- the two protocols are selectable by software
- 32 kB buffer
- supports multicast / broadcast (multicast is only supported by ariadne.device v1.26 or later)
- socket for optional boot EPROM
- four LEDs display connection information
- LED1 (left) shows Twisted Pair MAU Link Status (only 10BaseT)
- LED2 Transmit Status
- LED3 Collision
- LED4 (right) Receive Status
- internal LED header for connecting external control LEDs - this header is connected to the LEDs on the board
- SANA II compatible driver
- support for up to ten Ariadne boards in one machine
- 20% faster in receiving than the Commodore A2065
- two additional DB25 parallel ports
- 26 pin internal header provides connection for the second DB25 parallel port
- SANA II compatible PLIP driver
- ParNet driver
- the integrated parallel port is ariadnepar.device unit 0, the optional second port is unit 1
- parallel ports on additional Ariadne cards are unit 2, unit 3, etc.
- supports the A-Max IV Macintosh emulator (from ariadne.device v1.28)
- supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Photo
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Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2, back side
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Rev 1.2b, front side
Rev 1.2b, back side
Rev 1.1, back side
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