Company
VMC Harald Frank, Germany
Date
1996
Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000
Interface
Zorro II
Autoconfig ID
5001 / 1
  • Siemens / ISAC-S, HSCX, HSCX-TE chipset
  • max 2× 64000 bps transfer speed
  • 128 byte FIFO buffer
  • up to 10 different MSN numbers per device
  • support for ISDN SetClock
  • supported protocols on B channel
    • X.75, T.70 NL, T.90, V.110, V.120, PPP
  • supported protocols on D channel
    • 1TR6 and EDSS1
  • expansion port for the Hypercom 3i and Hypercom 3 Phone I/O modules
    • due to a couple of bugs in the ISDN Blaster PALs, the expansion port is not ready to take any expansions by default
    • Michael Böhmer from E3B describes the required hardware patch
  • up to 5 ISDN Blasters can be installed into one Amiga
  • supported by NetBSD
  • bugs
    • the card configures with a chained config request, so the Amiga thinks the card in the slot behind the Blaster is located on the same PIC - this bug is mostly harmless and correctable
    • the card stores only the upper three bits of the base address, assuming that it will get a place in the address space between 0xe80000 and 0xef0000 - this bug is not correctable
    • the address decoding does not differentiate between the ISDN chipset and the expansion socket - this bug is only noticeable when an expansion module is present; it is correctable
VMC Harald Frank ISDN Blaster -  front side
front side
VMC Harald Frank ISDN Blaster -  front side
front side
VMC Harald Frank ISDN Blaster -  back side
back side
VMC Harald Frank ISDN Blaster -  back side
back side
VMC Harald Frank ISDN Blaster - Connector right side
Connector, right side