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16 Channel ADC 24 Bit Realtime Digitizer 2M & 2MI 8-Up! 8M & 8MI A-Max & A-Max II A-Max II Plus & IV A-Team 2000 A.L.F. A.L.F. 2 A.L.F. 3 A2000 SCSI A2052 A2058 A2060 A2065 A2088T A2088XT A2090 A2090A A2090B A2091 A2232 A2286AT A2300 Y/C A2386SX A2410 A4066 A8MB-2000 A8MB-4 AccessX 2000 Action Cartridge Super IV AD1012 AD516 ADD-2000 AdRAM 2080 AdSCSI (Advantage) 2000 AdSCSI 2080 Alcomp Eprommer AlfaRam RA2-8M Algor & Algor Pro AmigaGPIB Board AmigaNet AMIOX Amtari ANet Apollo 2000 Apollo AT2000 Arcnet Controller Ariadne Ariadne II Aries AT-Bus 2008 Athlet ATonce Audio Blaster AutoBoot-Karte AX-S for A2000 BattDisk BCD-2000A BigRAM 2008 Buddha & Buddha Flash Buddha Flash "Phoenix Edition" CA 2000.01 Catweasel Mk3 Catweasel Z-II Catweasel Z-II "S-Class" Catweasel Z-II Mk2 CHA-Boil 2000 Coll-Card COLSP ComPorts ConneXion Cortex A2000 RAM Crosslink CyberVision 64/3D CyberVision 64/3D (prototype) D-RAM 2000 / Multi-Mega-Card DataFlyer 2000 DataFlyer Plus DataFlyer RAM DataLink 2000 DD524 Delfina (Classic) Delfina Flipper Delfina Lite Delfina Plus Deneb Domino DoubleTalk DSP96000 Realtime Data Acquisition Dual Serial Board Easyl EB920 / LAN Rover EGS 28/24 Spectrum Emplant EPEX 2000 EPROM-Bank Ethernet Controller Evolution 2000 EXPO I FastCard FastCard Plus FastRAM 2000 Filecard 2000 Fireball FireCracker FivePower Flash 2000 Supercharger Flash!Card Flashbank FrameBuffer FrameMachine FrameMaster GDA-1 Gemini (AM-205) GigaMax 2000 Golden Gate 2+ Golden Gate 386SX & 486SLC & 486SLC2 Golem FastSCSI/IDE Golem HD 3000 Golem RAM-Card Golem SCSI II (A2000) GPIB Interface Board Grand Slam Handy Scanner Hard-Disk Interface HardFrame Harlequin Harlequin Plus HD 20 A (A2000) Highway Hypercom (PortJnr, PortPlus) Hypercom Plus ICY IEC-Bus Controller Impact A2000-1/X Impact A2000-2/X Impact A2000-HC Impact A2000-HC Series II Impact A2000-HC+2 Impact A2000-HC+8 Series II Impact A2000-RAM8 Impact A2000-SCSI+8 Impact A4000-HC+8 (A4008) Impact Vision 24 Impact Vision 24 A4000 IOBlix IOExtender ISDN Blaster ISDN Engine ISDN Master ISDN Master II ISDN Surfer ISDN-Karte ISDN-Link Kasmin Kickflash Kickstart Interchange + Switch System (K.I.S.S.) Kommos A2000 SCSI Kronos Live! 2000 M-Tec 8 MB Fastram for A2000 Maestro Maestro Professional Malibu MasterCard (MC-302 & MC-702) MAX - 125 MAX - Hacker's Package Medusa MegaLink Interface MegaMix 2000 MegaMix II MegaMix III MegaMix IV Melody Memory Master Merlin Meta 4 Micron Amiga Memory Mini FastCard Modem 19 Multi Eprommer Multi Evolution 2000 Multi Mega II Multi Serial MultiFaceCard MultiFaceCard 2 / MultiFaceCard 2+ MultiFaceCard 3 MultiPort MVD-819 MX 8000 Plus Next Generation (Kronos II) Nexus OctaByte OctoPlus Oktagon 2000 & 2008 oMniBus OMTI Adapter (A2000) OMTI-Adapter One Stop Music Shop OverDrive Parallel I/O Peggy Peggy Plus (Scala MD100) Personal Animation Recorder Personal Component Video Adapter Personal VDA PHC-2000 PhonePak VFX PIC-Universal Picasso II Picasso II+ Picasso IV Piccolo Piccolo SD64 Power PC Board Power PC Board Plus Prelude ProKick / ProKick XL Promigos Autoboot ProRAM 2000 Proto 40K Protoboard II QUADMOD16 (QM16) QuickNet 500 & 2000 Rainbow II RAM Fighter 2000 RAM/ROM-Disk Rambrandt RamWorks 2000 RapidFire RC-2000 RC4 RE-2000 RE8 Repulse Resolver Retina S-Bahn Simulator SA-2000 Scan-King SCANnex SCRAM 2000 SCSI Interface SecureKey Serial I/O Serial Solution SERIOX SKIstor 2000 Slot Machine SmartCard (SC-201) Spider Spitfire Super 8 SupraDrive 2000 SupraDrive 2000 WordSync SupraModem 2400zi SupraModem 2400zi Plus SupraRAM 2000 Synthesis 2000 Tandem TBC Plus The Advantage The Talon Thylacine Toaster Link Toccata Triceratops Trifecta LX & EC Trumpcard 2000 Trumpcard Professional 2000 Twin-X Unity V-Lab V-Lab Motion V-Lab Y/C VarIO VD-2001 Vector A2000i (Professional RAM Board) Vector Connection Vector Falcon 8000 Vector SCSI & Professional SCSI Video Toaster Flyer VideoCruncher & VideoCruncher Lite VideoMaster Visiona VME-Bus Controller Wavetools / Perisound Wraptest / A3000 Test Fixture X-Power X-Surf X-Surf 100 X-Surf 2 X-Surf 3 YCP-100 Zorro II Prototyping Board
Company
Edotronik, Germany Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 7
No description available.
Company
Edotronik, Germany Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 4
No description available.
Company
ASDG , USA Date
1986Amiga
A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro I Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 1
64 DIP sockets accept up to 2 MB RAM
supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
uses 256k×1 DIPs, 150 ns
zero wait states
recoverable RAM disk (rrd.device)
the Zorro I version (2M) fits into any Zorro I expansion chassis, such as ASDG's Mini-Rack
the Zorro II version (2MI) was licensed to Micron Technology
Advert (US) 1986-08 Advert (US) 1987-02
Company
Microbotics, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1010 / 3 1010 / 4
SIMM version
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept 8 MB RAM
MicroBotics offered so called PopSimms which are SIMMs with eight empty DIP sockets
supports 256 kB or 1 MB SIMMs, either conventional or PopSimm
accepts SIMMs in pairs giving 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 or 2, 4, 6, 8 MB configurations respectively
DIP version
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×1 DIPs only
accepts DIPs in groups of 16 giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
no waitstates
the autoconfig space is divided into two 4 MB areas
by disabling the autoconfig, the address space can be set to be totally continuous
DIP version, Rev 2, front side
DIP version, Rev 2, back side
DIP version, Rev 3, front side
SIMM version, front side
8Up.pdf
User's Guide (english) 38 kB
Advert (US) 1988-09 Advert (US) 1989-03 Advert (GB) 1989-06
Company
ASDG , USA Date
1987Amiga
A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro I Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 2
64 DIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
accepts DIPs in groups of 16 giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
AutoConfig does not support 6 MB configurations, so it is represented as two cards (2 + 4 MB)
uses 1M×1 (411000) DIPs
no waitstates
memory autoconfig
recoverable RAM disk (rrd.device)
the Zorro I version (8M) fits into any Zorro I expansion chassis, such as ASDG's Mini-Rack
the Zorro II version (8MI) was licensed to Progressive Peripherals
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1987-03 Advert (CA) 1988-12
Company
ReadySoft, Canada Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8448 / 1
Apple Macintosh emulation
two ROM sockets for 128 kB Apple ROMs
the Amiga floppy drive ribbon cable connects first to the board, then to the disk drive
two serial ports: a printer port and a modem / MIDI port
the printer port is used for AppleTalk
the modem or MIDI functionality can be switched on the back of the card
can use the internal Amiga ports but only two at one time
A-Max II Plus (1992) - v2.5 software (see A-Max v2.5 )
A-Max IV (1993) - v4.0 software
multitasks with AmigaDOS
only System 7 support
supports colour and multiple screens
hardfile support
front side
front side
Advert (AU) 1994-01
Company
Mainhattan Data, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2159 / 1
IDE controller
autobootROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB compatible
40 pin internal IDE header
autoboot disable jumper
available as filecard or slotcard
filecard: full length card with place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
slotcard: half length card, no place for mounting a hard disk
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1992-10
Company
Elaborate Bytes, Germany Date
1988Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
MFM controller
consists of MFM (OMTI 5520-B) or RLL (OMTI 5527-B) controller and an adaptor card
some MFM hard disks can be used with RLL controller, resulting in 50% higher capacity
cannot autoboot - by making the driver reset resistent, rebooting off hard disk is possible
supports FFS
supports expanded Amigas with processor card and 32 bit RAM
A-Max II driver (ALF.amhd)
A500 and A1000 versions:
both versions have different adaptor boards
plugs into side expansion port - no passthrough connector
no case (just the two naked boards)
does not provide power to the hard disk - it needs its own power supply
Zorro II version:
is a half length card
has no place for mounting a hard disk
Advert (DE) 1989-03
Company
Elaborate Bytes / BSC, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 1,2 2092 / 2
ST506/412 or SCSI controller
A.L.F. 2 is a general hard disk driver software with 16 different hardware versions based on it
supports processor cards and does some optimizations for the better processors
handles drives up to 1 GB only
Model 1:
only ST506/412, either MFM or RLL
cannot autoboot - by making the driver reset resistent, rebooting off hard disk is possible
the Zorro II version is half length (only a Zorro - XT adaptor board), the metal hard disk mounting frame is optional
Model 2:
ST506/412 (either MFM or RLL) or SCSI
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
the Zorro II version is full length and has place for mounting a 3.5" hard disk
if a Model 1 and a Model 2 controller are installed in one Amiga at once, the Model 2 controls the Model 1 (autobooting is possible on both controllers)
the 16 versions of A.L.F. 2:
A2000 MFM - Model 1 & 2
A2000 RLL - Model 1 & 2
A2000 SCSI - only Model 2
A500 MFM (without casing) - only Model 1
A500 MFM (with casing) - Model 1 & 2
A500 RLL (without casing) - only Model 1
A500 RLL (with casing) - Model 1 & 2
A500 SCSI (with casing) - only Model 2
A1000 MFM (without casing) - only Model 1
A1000 MFM (with casing) - only Model 1
A1000 RLL (without casing) - only Model 1
A1000 RLL (with casing) - only Model 1
the A500 and A1000 versions connect to the side expansion port
those without case have no passthrough connector, the others have
Elaborate Bytes A.L.F. 2 (OMTI), front side
Elaborate Bytes A.L.F. 2 (OMTI), back side
Elaborate Bytes ALF 222C (SCSI), front side
Elaborate Bytes ALF 222C (SCSI), back side
BSC A.L.F. 2 SCSI 500, left side
BSC A.L.F. 2 SCSI 500 passthrough board, front side
BSC A.L.F. 2 SCSI 500 controller card, back side
BSC A.L.F. 2 SCSI 500 controller card, front side
Advert (US) 1989-10 Advert (DE) 1989-08
Company
Elaborate Bytes / BSC, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2046 / 3 2049 / 3 2092 / 3
SCSI 2 controller
NCR 53C94 @ 25 MHz
does not use DMA but interrupt driven programmed I/O
50 pin internal SCSI connector
DB25 external SCSI connector for both snap-in and screw-in connectors
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB compatible
two-ROM version (ALF 232C)
designed by Elaborate Bytes
after developing this card, Elaborate Bytes sold their entire hardware product range to BSC
jumper settings:
Jumper Configuration Setting
J1 Kickstart ON - Kickstart 1.2, OFF - Kickstart >= 1.3
J2 Deactivation Disable Controller
J3-J5 SCSI ID Set SCSI ID ON ON ON - 0 ON ON OFF - 1 ... OFF OFF OFF - 7
J6 Parity ON - No Parity Check, OFF - Parity Check
J7 LUN ON - No LUN Control, OFF - LUN Control
J8 Disconnect/Reconnect ON - No Disconnect/Reconnect allowed, OFF - Disconnect/Reconnect allowed
J9, J10 Login Screen ON ON - Login Screen disabled ON OFF - Login Screen by pressing F1 OFF ON - Login Screen after every reset OFF OFF - Login Screen when no password is set (power up) or by pressing F1
J11 Interrupt ON - INT2, OFF - INT6
J12 Reset Level ON - Delete all control registers upon reset (test purposes)
J13 Bus Termination ON - 5V on Termination Power Line
one-ROM version (Oktagon 2000)
designed by BSC
an Oktagon 2008 without RAM expansion
Elaborate Bytes ALF 232C, front side
BSC A.L.F. 3, front side
BSC A.L.F. 3, back side
Elaborate Bytes ALF 232C, back side
BSC A.L.F. 3 (Oktagon 2000), front side
BSC A.L.F. 3 (Oktagon 2000), back side
Advert (DE) 1990-11 Advert (DE) 1991-03
Company
C-Ltd. , USA Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1004 / 12
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
uses polled I/O transfers
does not autoboot, reads CLtd.device from floppy
DB25 external SCSI connector
50 pin internal SCSI header - but there is no space for mounting a hard disk on the card
A-Max II driver (cltd.amhd)
two screw holes to mount a SCSI-to-MFM converter card
front side
with SCSI-MFM converter, front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 10
64 DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
accepts 256k×1 DIPs only
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 10
RAM expansion card
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
2 MB RAM preinstalled
supports only 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations, it cannot be set to 6 MB
accepts 1M×1 DIPs only, 120 ns or faster
no waitstates
jumper settings
J1 ON ON OFF OFF
J2 ON OFF ON OFF
- 2 MB - 4 MB (U16-U32 and U55-U62) - diagnostic mode - 8 MB
notes
some revision 3 boards have 8 MB pre-installed from factory with DIP chips soldered in (no sockets)
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 8,9
Arcnet interface
developed from the Ameristar Arcnet Controller
Arcnet networking system - old, slow but cheap and reliable, useful for small LANs and simple network sharing
Arcnet requires RG62 coaxial cable instead of the RG58 used on Ethernet systems
uses 93 ohm terminators opposed to the 50 ohm used by Ethernet
the Arcnet interface hybrid chip comes in two different versions, HCY 9058 for bus networks and HCY 9068 for star networks
the manual says the card uses a bus network layout with up to 256 nodes but many A2060s has 9068 hybrids for a star network layout allowing only four cards to be connected together
to solve this the HCY 9068 can be simply replaced with a HCY 9058 chip
interrupt driven (polled I/O) - one interrupt on the Amiga yields into a busy system
to reduce traffic the driver uses the Arcnet hardware's four buffer as a single FIFO buffer
the badly written driver (a2060.device) has some bugs in the FIFO buffer which results in lost packets and packet collisions - increased traffic on the Arcnet bus
manual says 2.5 Mbit/s (300 kB/s) transfer speed but only max 100 kB/s is achievable
socket for optional network autoboot ROM
bus activity LED connector
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 90,112
Ethernet interface
based on the Ameristar Ethernet Controller
AMD Am7990 Ethernet controller
10 Mbit/s transfer speed
32 kB buffer shared between the Am7990 and the Amiga
uses DMA transfers for the onboard buffer
BNC and DB15 (AUI) connectors
Thick Ethernet 10Base5
segment length: 500 meters without repeaters
network length: 2500 meters without repeaters
100 nodes per segment
min. node spacing: 2.5 meters
requires transceiver cable
Thin Ethernet 10Base2
segment length: 185 meters without repeaters
network length: 925 meters without repeaters
30 nodes per segment
min. node spacing: 0.5 meters
no direct support for 10BaseT
SANA II and MNI drivers
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISA
IBM XT emulation
NEC V20 @ 4.77 / 7.15 / 9.54 MHz (PLCC)
the different clock speeds are switchable by software (Ctrl-S, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-D)
640 kB RAM
16 kB XT compatible BIOS
no floppy drive supplied - it uses the built in 3.5" Amiga disk drive
the drive can either shared between the Amiga and PC, either assigned exclusively to one of them
can use any other Amiga floppy drives too: internal or external, DD or HD, 3.5" or 5.25"
parallel interface and mouse are emulated by the Amiga
piezo beeper
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1986Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
513 / 1
IBM XT emulation
8088 @ 4.77 MHz
optional 8087 FPU
512 kB RAM
16 kB XT compatible BIOS
360 kB 5.25" floppy drive supplied
720 kB 3.5" - uses external Amiga floppy drives on the external connector
CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
can use Amiga parallel ports
could be upgraded to 386 with the Roßmöller 386si
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 1 515 / 3
SCSI and ST-506 controller
supports seven SCSI and two ST-506 devices at once
the SCSI drives are controlled by the WD 33C93 IC
the ST-506 drives are controlled by the Zilog Z80B CPU
the 33C93 chip can be controlled by either the 68000 (default) or by the Z80
DMA transfers are provided by the custom Commodore 8727 IC featuring a 64 byte FIFO buffer
the Z80 CPU has 2 kB RAM to buffer commands from the Amiga, 8 kB PROM with driver routines and 1 kB RAM for storage of variables
cannot autoboot
does not support the SCSI Direct protocol
does not support partitions and drives larger than 256 MB
the ST-506 interface does not support 16-head drives
50 pin internal SCSI connector
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
on Zorro III machines the card only works if the driver and all the buffers are loaded into chip RAM
A-Max II driver (hddisk.amhd)
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 1 515 / 3
SCSI and ST-506 controller
supports seven SCSI and two ST-506 devices at once
the SCSI drives are controlled by the WD 33C93 IC
the ST-506 drives are controlled by the Zilog Z80B CPU
the 33C93 chip can be controlled by either the 68000 (default) or by the Z80
DMA transfers are provided by the custom Commodore 8727 IC featuring a 64 byte FIFO buffer
the Z80 CPU has 2 kB RAM to buffer commands from the Amiga, 8 kB PROM with driver routines and 1 kB RAM for storage of variables
three autoboot ROMs
custom bootblock design
does not support the SCSI Direct protocol
does not support partitions and drives larger than 256 MB
the ST-506 interface does not support 16-head drives
50 pin internal SCSI connector
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
on Zorro III machines the card only works if the driver and all the buffers are loaded into chip RAM
A-Max II driver (hddisk.amhd)
hard disk kits
the A2090A was sold in kit form which included the controller itself, a hard disk, cables, installation disk and manual
A2092: A2090A bundled with a 20 MB Miniscribe 8425 hard disk
A2094: A2090A bundled with a 45 MB Toshiba MK-134FA or a 46 MB Rodime RO-3055 hard disk
all of these hard disks are ST-506 drives
front side
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 4
autobooter
provides autoboot functionality for the Commodore A2090 SCSI controller
two autoboot ROMs
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 2,3,10
SCSI controller
Western Digital 33C93
uses the same DMAC custom chip for DMA transfers as the A3000
knows the Rigid Disk Block and SCSI Direct protocols
built in XT IDE (8 bit) hard disk controller - the connectors and LED are not installed but their place is visible on the card
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external connector
a 3.5" hard disk can be mounted on the card
16 kB autoboot ROM (can be disabled) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
revision 7.0 of the ROM is necessary for 68040 machines
supports SCSI network sharing
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
A-Max II driver (scsi.amhd)
memory
sixteen DIP sockets accept 0.5, 1 or 2 MB RAM
supports 256k×4 (44256) chips, 120 ns or faster
cannot use DMA to transfer data to 32 bit fast RAM
if Zorro II DMA memory is not available the driver falls back to programmed I/O transfers
performs extremely slow in the A4000 because of the above mentioned two problems
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 69,70
serial interface
a complete computer on its own leaving the Amiga free for other tasks
65CE20 @ 3.58 MHz controls the I/O operations
has 4 times the computing power of a C64
16 kB RAM
the RAM is addressable by the MC680x0
seven 8 pin mini-DIN serial ports
not completely RS232C compatible, the RI signal (Ringing) is missing
has jumpers for each port to exchange the RxD (Recieve Data) and TxD (Transmit Data) lines - nullmodem mode without using special cable
seven adaptor cables with DB25 RS232C compatible serial ports supplied (80 cm long)
50-19200 bps transfer speed for each port
the card is capable of 115200 bps mode but only with the supplied software
up to five A2232 can be installed into one machine giving a total of 36 serial ports
supported by NetBSD (normal and turbo modes) and OpenBSD
Rev 5, front side
Rev 5, back side
Rev 6, front side
Rev 6, back side
Rev 6 with RTS/CTS handshake mod, front side
Rev 6, front side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
513 / 2
IBM AT emulation
80286 @ 8 MHz
optional 80287 FPU
1 MB RAM
16 kB AT compatible BIOS
battery connector to store BIOS setup
1.2 MB 5.25" floppy drive supplied
1.44 MB 3.5" supported
CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes selectable with jumpers
can use Amiga parallel ports
Main board, front side
Main board, back side
Daughterboard, front side
Daughterboard, back side
Company
Kimatek, France Date
1992Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro II, video slot
internal genlock
Y/C genlock with integrated RGB splitter and fader
consists of a modified Commodore A2300 genlock and a Zorro II card
the A2300 is extended with an additional circuit board and the Composite (RCA) input and output is replaced with Y/C (S-VHS)
the Zorro II card performs the RGB splitting (3× RCA) and fading
the cards are connected together by a ribbon cable
Genlock card, front side
Fader card, front side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
513 / 103 514 / 103
IBM AT emulation
80386 SX @ 16 / 20 / 25 MHz (32 bit internally, 16 bit external bus)
optional 80387 FPU
sixteen ZIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
1 MB factory installed
supports 256k×4 or 1M×4 page mode ZIPs, 80-120 ns or faster
accepts ZIPs in groups of four
64 kB AT compatible BIOS
upgrading the BIOS and fitting a ZIP to SIMM converter makes possible to use 16 MB RAM
128 kB dual-port RAM for data exchange between the BridgeBoard and the Amiga
can use a PC hard disk (with additional ISA controller), virtual drives on Amiga partitions (hardfiles), you can even have an Amiga partition on the PC hard drive
PC floppy drives can be used in an internal bay, Amiga floppy drives can be used as PC only or shared, external Amiga drives can be connected directly to DB23 floppy connector of the BridgeBoard
only two floppy drives are accessible by the BridgeBoard
the Amiga supports MDA (monochrome) and CGA modes through the native display (CGA 640x200x2 or 320x200x4 modes) - you can toggle between Amiga and PC screens
with an ISA VGA board a separate monitor is needed
the card uses the Amiga's serial or parallel ports for printing
for modems it can only use an internal ISA modem or serial card
PC beeper on board
much slower than a PC with the same processor
card occupies 512kB in the Zorro II address space - when installed, only 7.5 MB of the address space is left for other expansion cards
front side
front side
back side
Company
Commodore, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1030 / 0 1004 / 245
RTG graphics card
Texas Instruments TMS34010 @ 50 MHz
2 MB RAM, sixteen 1M×1, 100 ns ZIP VRAMs
1 MB video frame buffer, 0.75 MB program overlay, 0.25 MB overlay bitplanes
screen modes
256+3 colours from a 24 bit palette
screen modes - only two is available one time by installing the appropriate oscillators
14.318 MHz - 512×512 interlace, quad buffering
14.318 MHz - 640×400 interlace
36 MHz - 800×600 non-interlace (default)
44.9 MHz - 1024×768 interlace
48 MHz - 1024×768 interlace
67.88 MHz - 1024×768 non-interlace (default)
80 MHz - 1024×1024 interlace
default is 800×600 and 1024×768 non-interlaced
software switching between the two clock sources
notes
RS343 compatible video sync on green and / or separate TTL sync
programmable synchronization timing
HD15 connector
no video passthrough
originally built for A3000UX machines
intended to use its not very well developed TIGA system
CyberGaphX 2, 4.2 and EGS drivers
supported by NetBSD (except for X server) and OpenBSD
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
Ameristar Technologies, USA Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1053 / 10
Ethernet interface
SMSC Ethernet chip
supports 10BaseT, Thick AUI, 10Base2 connections
10 Mbit/s transfer speed
64 kB packet buffer
diagnostic LED for link and collision status
ROM socket for network boot application
SANA II compatible
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
back side
A4066.dms
install disk a4066.device v1.9 (18.8.94) 22 kB A4066.dms
Installer's Heaven install disk 22 kB
Advert (US) 1994-10
Company
Roßmöller, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
16 ZIP sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1M×4 ZIPs
disable jumper
half length card
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1991-03
Company
Breitfeld Computersysteme, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2126 / 1
IDE controller
autobootROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB compatible
two 40 pin internal IDE headers
can handle up to four hard disks
half length card - no place for mounting a hard disk
disable switch
versions with ROM 626 or above have read/write problems with files larger than 130 kB
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
Data & Electronics / GameWorks, Netherlands Date
1991Amiga
A500, A500+ A2000 - -Interface
side expansion port CPU slot, Zorro II
freezer
successor of the X-Power freezer module
A500 / A500+ versions:
plugs into the side expansion port
2 LEDs, indicating speed (green/yellow) and enabled freeze mode (red)
LC version:
naked board (no case)
no slow motion controller
no X-Copy in ROM
LCX version:
like LC version, with X-Copy in ROM
Professional version:
features a case, slow motion controller and X-Copy in ROM
A2000 versions:
Zorro version:
plugs into Zorro slot
features only 86 pins, so it has to be plugged in on the right side of the slot
CPU slot version:
plugs into 86 pin CPU slot
two connectors for slow motion controller and freeze button
not compatible with bridge boards
freezer features:
trainer maker (with automatic find option)
save computer memory (freezed programs) to disk
machine monitor / disassembler
disk / file utilities: Dir, Path, MkDir, Rename, Erase, Install, Format, FileCopy, DiskCopy
picture / music (tracker) / sample ripper
sprite editor
slow motion controller (only Professional version)
slide show generator for IFF images
joystick autofire
disk monitor
shows computer status (disk parameters, ChipRAM, FastRAM...)
detects non-standard boot blocks (virus test)
joystick test
includes X-Copy disk copier in ROM (only LCX and Professional versions)
color and screen mode adjust
screen hardcopy
Professional version for A500, top side
Company
Sunrize Industries, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2127 / 1
Analog Devices 2105 DSP - 10 MIPS, 100 ns instruction execution time
12 bit playback and direct to hard disk recording
up to four audio channels
1 track at 44 kHz with 68000
4 tracks at 44 kHz with 68030
full duplex
mono sampling rates 7 - 82 kHz
frequency response 20 Hz - 20 kHz (-3 dB)
typical S/N ratio 70 dB
two eight order anti-aliasing filters
stores samples in 16 bit format for compatibility with AD516
mono RCA jacks for unbalanced line level audio input and output
100 input digital gain levels
LTC SMPTE time code reader (24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps, drop and non-drop)
SMPTE input (RCA)
64 kB fast static RAM, expandable to 256 kB
8 kB ROM
with Studio 16 v2 or later multiple AD516 cards are supported in one Amiga
digital I/O option was planned and advertised (DD524 ) but never realized
front side
back side
Studio16-205-1.dms
Studio 16 v2.05, disk 1 289 kB Studio16-205-2.dms
Studio 16 v2.05, disk 2 256 kB Studio16-208-1.dms
Studio 16 v2.08, disk 1 305 kB Studio16-208-2.dms
Studio 16 v2.08, disk 2 349 kB Studio16-300a-1.dms
Studio 16 v3.00a, disk 1 406 kB Studio16-300a-2.dms
Studio 16 v3.00a, disk 2 479 kB Studio16-300b-1.dms
Studio 16 v3.00b, disk 1 405 kB Studio16-300b-2.dms
Studio 16 v3.00b, disk 2 421 kB Studio16-301-1.dms
Studio 16 v3.01, disk 1 412 kB Studio16-301-2.dms
Studio 16 v3.01, disk 2 425 kB
Advert (DE) 1991-10 Advert (DE) 1991-12 Advert (US) 1991-05 Advert (US) 1991-12 Advert (US) 1992-08
Company
Sunrize Industries, USA Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2127 / 2
Analog Devices 2105 DSP (10 MIPS, 100 ns instruction execution time)
16 bit multitrack direct to disk recording
5 tracks at 44 kHz with 68000
8 tracks at 44 kHz with 68030
dual 16 bit delta-sigma A/D and D/A converters with digital anti-aliasing filters
64x oversampling
full duplex
fourteen sampling rates, 5.5 - 48 kHz
frequency response 15 Hz - 22 kHz (-3 dB)
typical S/N ratio 87 dB
MIDI control and autosync via Bars & Pipes
no MIDI clock support
the pan and volume of each track is independently adjustable and MIDI controllable
stereo RCA jacks for unbalanced line level (2 V RMS) audio input and output
16 input digital gain levels
LTC SMPTE reading (24, 25, 29.97, 30 fps, drop and non-drop)
SMPTE input (RCA)
256 kB static RAM
8 kB ROM
with Studio 16 v2 or later multiple AD516 cards are supported in one Amiga
digital I/O option was planned and advertised (DD524 ) but never realized
AHI driver
front side
front side
front side
back side
Studio16-205-1.dms
Studio 16 v2.05, disk 1 289 kB Studio16-205-2.dms
Studio 16 v2.05, disk 2 256 kB Studio16-208-1.dms
Studio 16 v2.08, disk 1 305 kB Studio16-208-2.dms
Studio 16 v2.08, disk 2 349 kB Studio16-300a-1.dms
Studio 16 v3.00a, disk 1 406 kB Studio16-300a-2.dms
Studio 16 v3.00a, disk 2 479 kB Studio16-300b-1.dms
Studio 16 v3.00b, disk 1 405 kB Studio16-300b-2.dms
Studio 16 v3.00b, disk 2 421 kB Studio16-301-1.dms
Studio 16 v3.01, disk 1 412 kB Studio16-301-2.dms
Studio 16 v3.01, disk 2 425 kB SMPTEOut-301.dms
SMPTE Out v3.01 140 kB AD516-AHI.lha
Aminet AHI driver 12 kB
Advert (DE) 1993-06 Advert (US) 1991-05 Advert (US) 1991-12 Advert (US) 1992-11 Advert (US) 1993-07
Company
Archos, France Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8498 / 11
SCSI controller
53C80 controller IC
50 pin internal SCSI connector
DB25 external SCSI connector
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
hard disk power connector
memory
eight ZIP sockets accept up to 4 MB RAM
Company
ICD, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2071 / 4
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×1 (511000) DIPs
accepts DIPs in groups of 16 giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
front side
Advert (DE) 1990-07
Company
ICD, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2071 / 1
SCSI controller
half length card - mounting frame allows the installation of a 3.5" drive inline with the card
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
autoboot ROM (icddisk.device or icdscsi.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB and SCSI Direct compatible
fully supports removable media devices
game jumper (disables the whole controller), autoboot disable jumper, HD cache disable jumper
pressing the left mouse button during startup disables HD automount, pressing the right mouse button disables HD cache
SCSI networking
A-Max II driver (icddisk.amhd)
jumper settings
A - autoboot ROM: ON - enable
B - caching: ON - enable
GAME - card: ON - disable
ID0-ID2 - SCSI ID
front side
front side
with bracket, front side
without bracket, front side
back side
ICDPrepHD-42.dms
install disk v4.2 ICDPrepHD v4.2, adide.device v4.0r1, adscsi.device v4.0r1, icddisk.device v3.5r1, trifecta.device v4.0r1 117 kB ICDPrepHD-40.dms
install disk v4.0 ICDPrepHD v4.0 adide.device v4.0r1, adscsi.device v4.0r1, icddisk.device v3.5r1, trifecta.device v4.0r1 117 kB icd_advantage.dms
Installer's Heaven install disk 316 kB
Advert (US) 1990-05 Advert (DE) 1990-07
Company
ICD, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2071 / 1,4
SCSI controller
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
autoboot ROM (icdscsi.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB and SCSI Direct compatible
fully supports removable media devices
game jumper (disables the whole controller), autoboot disable jumper, HD cache disable jumper
pressing the left mouse button during startup disables HD automount, pressing the right mouse button disables HD cache
A-Max II driver (icddisk.amhd)
SCSI networking
memory
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept 8 MB RAM
accepts 1 MB SIMMs in groups of two giving 2, 4, 6, 8 MB configurations
memory disable jumper
AdSCSI 2000 has no RAM expansion
front side
back side
ICDPrepHD-42.dms
install disk v4.2 ICDPrepHD v4.2, adide.device v4.0r1, adscsi.device v4.0r1, icddisk.device v3.5r1, trifecta.device v4.0r1 117 kB ICDPrepHD-40.dms
install disk v4.0 ICDPrepHD v4.0, adide.device v4.0r1, adscsi.device v4.0r1, icddisk.device v3.5r1, trifecta.device v4.0r1 117 kB icd_advantage.dms
Installer's Heaven install disk 316 kB
Advert (US) 1991-02
Company
Alcomp, Germany Date
1988 / 1989Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
EPROM burner
one socket for burning any 28 pin EPROMs of the 27xxx series
functions: emptiness test, reading, burning, load from / save to disk, compare, hexdump
four programming algorithms
A500 / A1000 version: connects to the side expansion port, no passthrough connector
A2000 version: controller card plugs into Zorro II slot, the external EPROM socket is connected to board header via ribbon cable
A500 version, front side
A2000 version, front side
A2000 version, back side
A2000 version EPROM socket, top side
Alcomp_Tools-16.dms
tool disk Modulgenerator v1.23, A500-Eprommer v1.6, A2000-Eprommer v1.3 example programs 422 kB Alcomp_Tools-13.dms
tool disk A500-Eprommer v1.3, A2000-Eprommer v1.3 example programs 330 kB
Advert (DE) 1988-10 Advert (DE) 1988-12 Advert (DE) 1989-11 Advert (DE) 1989-11 Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Alfa Data , Taiwan Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2092 / 8
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×4 ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
disable jumper
half length card
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1992-06 Advert (US) 1992-08
Company
E3B, Germany Date
2003 & 2004Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2145 / 203
USB interface
three USB connectors
compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0 specifications (but supports only USB 1.1 transfer speeds)
all ports are protected against overvoltage and short circuit
integrated power management on port by port base
implements most of the USB protocol handling completely in hardware
internally operates completely in 32 bit
shipped with a full license of the Poseidon USB stack
integrated 512 kB (Algor Pro: 1 MB) flash ROM to transparently include the USB stack right after cold powerup, boot off USB mass storage devices, use USB mice and keyboards during Early Startup Menu and to include system patches like those from OS3.9
Algor Pro can transparently compress the flash ROM contents, increasing the actual capacity to over 1.7 MB
38 pin expansion header for the ethernet module or for serial/parallel port expansions (HyperCom 3i)
optional 10 Mbit Ethernet module - Norway
connects to the 38 pin expansion connector
NE2000 compatible chip with integrated 16 kB buffer
RJ45 (10BaseT) internal connector
DB9 external connector - a DB9 to RJ45 adaptor is supplied
network status display by four LEDs
SANA II driver
notes
requires at least 68030 @ 25 MHz
driver for USB mouse and keyboard (HID devices), parallel interface (printers) and flash card readers (SCSI emulation) are included
front side
Company
ACDA, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
GPIB (IEEE-488) interface
NEC µPD7210 controller IC
no DMA support
gives slower programmed I/O performance than the ASDG Twin-X
the included software is only a set of C source code examples
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1989-06 Advert (US) 1990-02 Advert (US) 1990-07 Advert (US) 1990-09
Company
Hydra Systems, UK Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2121 / 1
Ethernet interface
National Semiconductor DP8390 Ethernet controller
16 kB SRAM buffer using DMA to and from the DP8390
AmigaNet v1.0 & 1.1:
DB15 AUI port (10Base5)
one or two BNC (10Base2) connectors - in case of two BNCs there is no need for T connectors, Hydras can be simply daisychained
AmigaNet v1.2:
one BNC (10Base2) connector
one RJ45 (10BaseT) connector mounted on the card or one DB15 AUI connector mounted on a separate card plate
status LEDs
SANA II compatible driver (hydra.device)
30% slower than the Commodore A2065
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Rev 1.1A, front side
Rev 1.2A, front side
Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.1, back side
Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.2A, front side
Rev 1.2A, back side
Advert (DE) 1990-12 Advert (GB) 1993-04 Advert (GB) 1993-05 Advert (GB) 1994-08 Advert (US) 1990-03
Company
Applied Systems Development, UK Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
serial and parallel interface
up to 8 serial ports
four MC68681 FIFO buffered dual UARTs
up to 57600 bps transfer speed
eight 26 pin headers for DB25 connectors
aserial.device
up to 4 parallel ports
four MC6821 controllers
four 26 pin headers for DB25 connectors
front side
Company
ML-Computer, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
Atari emulation
accepts v1.6 or v2.06 Atari ROMs
requires at least Kickstart 2.04 and MMU (68020 + 68851 or 68030)
does not support 68040 processors
supported screenmodes:
640×400, monochrome
640×200, 4 colours
320×200, 16 colours
user defined normal or ECS Amiga resolutions, monochrome
supports up to two disk drives
uses Amiga parallel and serial ports
stores up to five Atari partitions in one Amiga hardfile (no dedicated Atari partition)
card does not support autoconfig, it mounts itself at $F40000 - $F7FFFF which may conflict with other cards
front side
back side
Ethernet interface
ANet is basically a Hydra AmigaNet distributed by GVP
Advert (US) 1990-08
Company
3-State, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8738 / 0,34
SCSI 2 and IDE controller
uses polled I/O instead of DMA transfer
autoboot ROM (SCSI-Apollo.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
support for Rigid Disk Block
Direct SCSI is supported only on the SCSI part of the controller
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
internal 50 pin SCSI header and 40 pin IDE header
external DB25 SCSI connector
hard disk activity LED
disable switch
memory
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×4 FastPage or Static Column ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
two 30 pin SIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
the SIP sockets are hardwired to the first bank of ZIP sockets, they cannot be used at the same time
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1992-08 Advert (DE) 1993-01
Company
3-State, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8738 / 34
IDE controller
autoboot ROM (AT-Apollo.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
support for Rigid Disk Block
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
internal 40 pin IDE header
hard disk power connector
hard disk activity LED connector
autoboot disable jumper
A-Max II and Chamäleon drivers
no option for memory expansion
front side
front side
back side
back side
Advert (DE) 1993-01
Company
Ameristar Technologies, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1053 / 9
Arcnet interface
Arcnet networking system - old, slow but cheap and reliable, useful for small LANs and simple network sharing
Arcnet requires RG62 coaxial cable instead of the RG58 used on Ethernet systems
uses 93 ohm terminators opposed to the 50 ohm used by Ethernet
the Arcnet interface hybrid chip comes in two different versions, HCY 9058 for bus networks and HCY 9068 for star networks
interrupt driven (polled I/O) - one interrupt on the Amiga yields into a busy system
two sockets for optional network autoboot ROMs
Advert (US) 1987-04
Company
Village Tronic, Germany Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2167 / 201 2099 / 137
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
Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2, back side
Rev 1.2b, front side
Rev 1.2b, back side
Rev 1.1, back side
Advert (DE) 1995-02 Advert (US) 1995-03 Advert (DE) 1996-02 Advert (DE) 1996-06
Company
Village Tronic, Germany Date
1998Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2167 / 202
Ethernet interface
Realtek RTL8019AS Ethernet controller
a cost reduced version of the original Ariadne (it costs half as much)
10Base2 and 10BaseT connectors
supports full-duplex on 10BaseT
the two protocols are selectable by software
32 kB buffer
early versions need PGA upgrade to work reliably
socket for optional boot EPROM
10% slower than the original Ariadne
AmiTCP Genesis included
SANA II compatible driver
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Rev 2.1, front side
Rev 2.1.1, front side
Rev 2.1.1, back side
Rev 2.1, back side
Company
Integrated Memory Products Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2104 / 4
64 DIP sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
takes DIPs in groups of 16 giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
accepts 1M×1 DIPs
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1991-06
Company
BSC / Alfa Data , Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 6 2092 / 6
IDE controller
the board is basically the combination of the A.L.F. IDE controller and the MemoryMaster memory expansion cards
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
RDB compatible
40 pin internal IDE header
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
delivered with A.L.F. 2 driver software
during transfers the high and low bytes are swapped as the A600/A1200/A4000 and PCs do so the drives formatted with them can be handled by the AT-Bus 2008
hard disk activity LED connector
memory
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports either static column or page mode ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
RAM and HD can be disabled separately by jumper
front side
front side
back side
back side
BSC-HD.pdf
Controller Hardware and Software Installation Manual (english/german) 443 kB
Advert (US) 1994-02 Advert (US) 1994-05 Advert (DE) 1991-11
Company
Vortex, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8215 / 3
IDE controller
40 pin internal IDE connector
autoboot ROM (vortex.device) - autoboots even under Kickstart 1.2
not RDB compatible
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
memory
four 30 pin SIMM sockets accept 2 or 4 MB RAM
supports 1 MB SIMMs, 100 ns or faster
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Mainhattan Data / Omega Datentechnik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
audio amplifier
2× RCA connector for stereo input
2 connectors for a pair of passive loudspeakers
standard version has 2×12W, high power version 2×25W
supplied software allows basic sound control for each input: volume, balance, bass, treble
advanced sound effects like reverb can also be applied to the sound signal
front side
back side
Company
Combitec, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
autobooter
provides autoboot functionality for the Commodore A2090 SCSI controller
two autoboot ROMs
autoboots with Kickstart 1.2 and 1.3
supports FastFileSystem
replaces the drive request procedure of the A2090 - no 8 seconds wait for drives to show up
checks for bootable drives in the following order:
1st ST506 drive
2nd ST506 drive
1st SCSI drive
2nd to 7th SCSI drive
can be disabled with jumper or by holding the right mouse button during startup
works with the A2090A (if A2090A autoboot ROMs are removed)
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1989-08 Advert (DE) 1989-10
Company
Spirit Technology, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
2034 / 5
allows using of inexpensive 8 and 16 bit ISA cards in the Amiga
supplied with basic drivers for hard drive controller and A/D converter cards
the user has to write his own drivers for his other ISA cards with the help of the included AX-S Resource Library and sample driver source code
Company
DKB, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2012 / 1
reset resistant RAM disk - keeps its contents over months
16 DIL sockets for up to 8 MB static RAM
supports 32k×8, 128k×8 and 512k×8 SRAM chips in groups of two
memory types cannot be mixed
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable switch
hardware and software write protection
Advert (US) 1990-12 Advert (US) 1991-04
Company
BCD Associates, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISA, serial port
single frame controller
although the card has both a Zorro and an ISA connector, they are only used to obtain power, it's enough to connect one of them
the card is controlled via the serial port - a cable is included for the A2000 internal serial port, an adaptor is required for the A3000 and A4000
RS-422 control of broadcast / industrial machines
RS-232 control of VCRs and laser disc recorders
SMPTE timecode read and generation
GPI trigger for external devices
to control the Video Toaster an optional cable is required which connects the GPI trigger connector to the 2nd mouse/joystick port
the card does not hog the serial port, modems or other serial devices can be used while it's installed
front side
Advert (US) 1992-03
Company
W.A.W. Elektronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
257 / 10
8 MB RAM soldered to board (sixteen 1M×4 chips)
zero waitstates
can be configured to use only 2, 4, or 6 MB in order to avoid possible conflicts with other cards
front side
front side
Advert (DE) 1992-11 Advert (DE) 1993-10
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
1997 / 1998Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 0
IDE controller
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
two buffered IDE ports support up to four IDE devices
each port is compatible with IDE splitters allowing up to a maximum of eight drives
autoboot ROM
two LED port activity connectors - one for drives 0 to 3, the other for drives 4 to 7
software configurable IDE timing - even PIO mode 0 devices are compatible
raw transfer speed is limited by the Zorro II bus to 3.58 MB/s
supports hard disks larger than 4 GB
can mount GVP or AT-Apollo formatted hard disks
supported by Linux
26 pin local expansion slot for the optional HyperCom 3 Plus I/O module with two serial and one parallel ports
Buddha Flash:
64 kB FlashROM
clock port
allows using expansions initially designed for the A1200 clock port (the Buddha Flash gold edition has golden clock port pins)
when installed in Zorro slot, pin 40 of the card's clock port is towards the front side of the computer, pin 19 resp. pin 1 towards the rear side
marked wire of clock port expansions go to pin 19 or pin 40, depending on the manufacturer's definition - e.g. expansions made by Individual Computers are installed with the red stripe on pin 40 (to the left), expansions of E3B mark pin 19 / pin 1 (to the right)
front side
back side
front side
back side
front side
back side
buddha.lha
Individual Computers install disk 280 kB bflash.lha
Individual Computers Buddha Flash updater 74 kB
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2008Amiga
A1000 A500 A2000, A3000, A4000 - - -Interface
side expansion port, side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 0
IDE controller
special edition of the Buddha Flash IDE controller that is intended to be used with the Phoenix A1000 motherboard, but can also be used with original A1000 as well as A500 and Zorro Amigas
differences to Buddha Flash:
smaller PCB
hardware redesign, 5 chips instead of 8
no 26 pin expansion slot
floppy power connector
the board can be installed in the following places:
Front Slot Phoenix Board
Side Expansion Port (Phoenix board, A1000 board, A500)
Zorro Slot
if the board shall be used at the A500, a special edition with a different mounted 86 pin connector is needed
the board must not be installed in the front slot of the A1000 board
when used at the Phoenix front slot, the INT6 signal has to be provided to the board as this signal is missing - the side expansion ports provide that signal, so the wire is not necessary when installed there
height of the board was chosen so that a laptop CD drive (14mm) can be fitted above the card in the A1000
when installed on the Phoenix board front slot, the L64 jumper has to be removed
2.5" hard disks can not be powered by the board due to thin PCB tracks - making them thick enough for that purpose would have been resulted in a more expensive multilayer board
it is necessary to provide power to the board via floppy power connector
in conjunction with a Phoenix X-Surf a new Mach chip is needed (includes also a fix which prevented the Amiga from booting with Kickstart v1.3)
only one jumper on the board, next to the flash chip: open = flash write protected, closed = flashing possible
small header in the middle of the board with two LED connectors
clock port
allows using expansions initially designed for the A1200 clock port
when installed in Zorro slot, pin 40 of the card's clock port is towards the front side of the computer, pin 19 resp. pin 1 towards the rear side
marked wire of clock port expansions go to pin 19 or pin 40, depending on the manufacturer's definition - e.g. expansions made by Individual Computers are installed with the red stripe on pin 40 (to the left), expansions of E3B mark pin 19 / pin 1 (to the right)
Company
Ralf Jochheim Computer Tuning, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2052 / 1
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
accepts DIPs in groups of sixteen giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
accepts 1M×1 DIPs only, 70 - 100 ns
the amount of RAM is set by two PALs, each configuration uses a different pair
2 or 4 MB - PALs labeled as 1.2/4 and 2.2/4
6 or 8 MB - 1.6/8 and 2.6/8
the card was also distributed by Keller Elektronik with its own set of PALs
2 MB only - PALs labeled as 1.2 and 2.2
2 or 4 MB - 1.4 and 2.4
4 or 6 MB - 1.6 and 2.6
6 or 8 MB - 1.8 and 2.8
all four PALs are bundled with the card
no waitstates
autoconfig disable jumper
memory disable jumper
front side
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-05 Advert (DE) 1990-12 Advert (DE) 1991-11
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2002Amiga
A1200 A2000, A3000, A4000 - - -Interface
clock port Zorro II PCIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 66
floppy controller
can be installed either into any platform's PCI slot, into an Amiga Zorro II slot or to the A1200 clock port
clock port pin 40 is marked
the main purpose is to allow access to non-standard disks using normal 3.5" / 5.25" PC floppy drives without the need for a completely different computer
supports the same disk formats and file systems as the previous Catweasel versions
does not use DMA
the floppy drives attached to the Catweasel are not bootable
34 pin floppy header
emulation support
two DB9 connectors for Amiga/Atari/C64 digital joysticks and analogue paddles
mini-DIN connector for an A4000 keyboard
optional C64 SID playback support - socket for a 6581 or 8580
RCA audio output connector and internal CD audio header
front side
slot cover, front side
cwdisk0100.lha
Individual Computers install disk multidisk.device v3.48 361 kB mdisk362.lha
Individual Computers multidisk.device v3.62 22 kB
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
1997Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 42
combination of the Catweasel floppy controller and the Buddha IDE controller built into one device
features all Buddha functions plus an additional IDE port for up to six IDE devices
features all Catweasel functions plus a boot ROM which allows booting from floppy drives attached to it
three 40 pin IDE headers
34 pin floppy header
26 pin local expansion slot for the optional HyperCom 3 Plus I/O module with two serial and one parallel ports
not guaranteed to work with A1200 Zorro busboards - Winner Z4 board works properly, RMB boards fail
supplied with the software packages of Buddha and Catweasel
supported by Linux
front side
back side
cwdisk0100.lha
Individual Computers install disk multidisk.device v3.48 361 kB mdisk362.lha
Individual Computers multidisk.device v3.62 22 kB
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
1998Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 42
combination of the Catweasel Mk2 floppy controller and the Buddha Flash IDE controller built into one device
features all Buddha Flash and Catweasel Z-II Mk2 functions
works with all A1200 Zorro busboards
front side
back side
cwdisk0100.lha
Individual Computers install disk multidisk.device v3.48 361 kB mdisk362.lha
Individual Computers multidisk.device v3.62 22 kB
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
1997Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 42
combination of the Catweasel Mk2 floppy controller and the Buddha IDE controller built into one device
uses the non-Zorro Catweasel Mk2 as a piggyback module
features all Catweasel Z-II and Catweasel Mk2 functions
each IDE port has its own activity LED connector
without Catweasel board, front side
Catweasel board, back side
with Catweasel board installed, front side
front side
cwdisk0100.lha
Individual Computers install disk multidisk.device v3.48 361 kB mdisk362.lha
Individual Computers multidisk.device v3.62 22 kB
Company
Frank Strauß Elektronik, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4369 / 1
SCSI
FSE distributed the Kupke Golem SCSI II controller with a replacement autoboot ROM and driver software called Boil
front side
back side
Company
Collion Computertechnik, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro II
EPROM reader
32 sockets accept up to 2 MB EPROM
accepts 27512 EPROMs (64 kB capacity)
cannot burn EPROMs, only read (seperate EPROM burner needed)
Mk1 software
works with Kickstart 1.2
Mk2 software
autoboots with Kickstart 1.3
doesn't work with Kickstart 1.2
Company
Electronic Design, Germany Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
10676 / 136
sixteen ZIP sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1M×4 ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
disable switch
half length card
DIP switch settings
1 ON OFF ON OFF 2 ON ON OFF OFF - 2 MB - 4 MB - 4 + 2 MB - 8 MB
front side
back side
Company
Amigo Business Computers, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2041 /
serial interface
2, 4 or 8 serial ports
up to 57600 bps on each port
four 16 bit FIFO buffered dual UARTs
the 2 and 4 port configuration can be updated to 8 ports by simply adding more UARTs
low CPU usage during transfers
one DB9 and one DB25 serial port (port 1 and 2) mounted on card end
port 3 to 9 are mounted on an optional breakout cable
front side
Company
Zeus Electronic Development, Germany Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2189 / 1 514 / 112
Ethernet interface
AMD Am7990 or Am79C90 Ethernet controller chip
32 kB buffer
10Base2 (BNC) and 10Base5 (AUI) connectors
socket for optional boot EPROM
A2065 emulation mode - selectable by jumper
uses the drivers of the A2065
even the autoconfig IDs are set to the A2065's
the 79C90 IC may cause compatibilty problems, it is advisable replace it with a 7990, which is also on the A2065
the native mode uses a slightly different memory layout which allows an additional ROM on the board (though there is no empty socket for it)
SANA II compatible
slightly faster than the Commodore A2065
the BNC port is sometimes unreliable, the card works best with the AUI port
front side
front side
back side
Company
Cortex Design Technologies, UK Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
supports 1 MB SIMMs only
accepts SIMMs in groups of two giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
zero wait states
half length card
Advert (GB) 1990-12
Company
Mark Tomlinson, New Zealand Date
1995Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISA
allows using of inexpensive ISA cards on the Amiga
does not support ISA DMA transfers (which is required for PC floppies)
SANA-II drivers for NE1000 and NE2000 compatible ISA network cards are supplied
supported by OpenBSD
IDE controller
autoboot ROM (xlide.device)
supports the RDB standard, but filesystems are not loadable from the RDB
can use an MFM / RLL 16 bit controller instead of the IDE interface
serial interface
two onboard serial ports (xlser.device)
can be activated by plugging in one or two 8250, 16450 or 16550A UART chips
DB25 and DB9 connectors
Company
Phase 5 Digital Products , Germany Date
1996Amiga
A2000 A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro II Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
8512 / 67 8512 / 50
RTG graphics card
S3 ViRGE (PCI bus)
135 MHz dot clock in 8 bit modes
80 MHz @ 16 bit
50 MHz @ 24 bit
64 bit blitter
complex 3D functions
25 MHz local PCI bus
4 MB 64 bit page mode DRAM, eight chips
screen modes
programmable resolutions
1600×1200×8 non interlace
1280×1024×16
1024×768×24
optional modules
monitor switch & scan doubler
allows using one monitor for Amiga and CyberVision modes
doubles native Amiga 15 kHz modes to 31 kHz
connects to the video slot in one line with the CyberVision
a small ribbon cable attaches the cards
HD15 VGA connector
MPEG decoder
realtime MPEG audio and video decoding in full size or in a Workbench window
dedicated line output jack
notes
Zorro II / III autosensing
HD15 connector
CyberGraphX 3, 4 and Picasso96 drivers
supported by Linux and NetBSD
front side
front side
back side
RTG graphics card
S3 ViRGE (PCI bus)
25 MHz local PCI bus
4 MB 64 bit page mode DRAM, eight chips
programmable resolutions
Zorro II / III autosensing
HD15 connector
front side
back side
front side
back side
Company
Combitec, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
26470 / 130,132,136
eight SIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports only 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations, it cannot be set to 6 MB
each memory configuration gives a different AutoConfig product ID
accepts 1 MB SIPs in groups of two, 120 ns or faster
no waitstates
memory autoconfig
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1989-04 Advert (DE) 1989-07
Company
Expansion Systems, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 SCSI controller
50 pin internal SCSI header
optional external DB25 connector
half length card with optional hard frame
place for a 3.5" hard disk either on the back of the card or on the optional hard frame
hard disk power connector
hard disk activity LED connector, individual for SCSI and IDE
expansion header for the optional DataFlyer RAM board
autoboot ROM (ExpSys.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3, otherwise it has be disabled with a jumper
autobooting can be also disabled by holding down the left mouse button during the boot sequence
RDB compatible
A-Max II driver (ExpSys.amhd)
Advert (US) 1992-02 Advert (US) 1991-06
Company
Expansion Systems, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI and/or IDE controller
three versions, all share the same board with the necessary parts installed only
DataFlyer 2000 SCSI (2000s):
AMD 5380 SCSI controller
50 pin internal SCSI header
optional external DB25 connector
DataFlyer 2000 IDE (2000e):
40 pin internal IDE header
DataFlyer 2000 SCSI+IDE has all the parts installed
half length card with optional hard frame
place for a 3.5" hard disk either on the back of the card or on the optional hard frame
hard disk power connector
hard disk activity LED connector, individual for SCSI and IDE
expansion header for the optional DataFlyer RAM board
autoboot ROM (ExpSys.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3, otherwise it has be disabled with a jumper
autobooting can be also disabled by holding down the left mouse button during the boot sequence
RDB compatible
A-Max II driver (ExpSys.amhd)
SCSI and IDE version, front side
SCSI and IDE version, front side
IDE version, front side
IDE version, back side
SCSI version, front side
Company
Expansion Systems, USA Date
1991Amiga
A500, A1000, A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8290 / 2
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
supports 256 kB and 1 MB SIMMs
possible configurations are 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8 MB
SIMM sizes cannot be mixed
A500 version connects to side expansion port
front side
front side
Company
Applied Engineering, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2088 / 16
internal modem
2400 bps data transfer speed in standard configuration
compatible with Bell 103 and 212 protocols, as well as CCITT V.22 bis, V.22 and V.21
MNP5 option (plug in chip) gives data compression (up to 4800 bps) and error correction
Send-Fax option allows sending faxes at 4800 bps, but not to receive
telephone passthrough connector
autoconfiguring driver software (dl2000.device) in ROM - requires Kickstart 1.3 or later
up to five DataLinks are supported in one Amiga for bulletin board systems
Board with slot cover, front side
back side
Advert (US) 1990-05 Advert (US) 1990-08 Advert (US) 1990-12
Company
Sunrize Industries, USA Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2127 / 3
digital I/O interface for the AD516 and AD1012
allows transferring data directly to Digital Audio Tape and importing from CD or DAT without quality loss
S/PDIF (RCA) connectors
optional AES/EBU (XLR) connectors
16 or 24 bit sampling resolution
48 or 44.1 kHz sampling rates
supported by Studio 16
hard disk backup software
the card was never released
Company
Petsoff, Finland Date
1996Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
14501 / 0
DSP
Motorola DSP56002 @ 40 MHz
24 bit data bus
56 bit accumulators
most instructions executed in one cycle
fully programmable
memory
96 kB, 24 bit SRAM, expandable to 192 or 384 kB
dual ported, addressable by both the DSP and Amiga - when the Amiga is accessing the memory at full speed, DSP is slowed down by 10% maximum
one half of the memory can be addressed in program and X data space, the other half only in Y data space
zero-waitstate, 25 ns
audio
Crystal CS4215 audio codec connected directly to the DSP's serial bus
16 bit stereo digitizing and multichannel playback at 50 kHz
sample frequencies up to 50 kHz
16 or 8 bit linear, µ-law or A-law audio data coding
programmable gain and attenuation
microphone and line level inputs
headphone and line level outputs
on-chip anti-aliasing/smoothing filters
AHI driver
I/O
one of the DSP's serial port is for the audio codec, the other is used for RS232
all remaining I/O lines are used for the parallel port
serial baud rate is internally divided from 625000 bps, delfser.device rounds the requested baudrate to the closest available rate - setting a rate of 115200 results in 125000 bps
MIDI rate 31250 matches exactly, with a divider of 20
parallel port is similar to the Amiga's port, just used by delfpar.device
DB9 serial connector
DB25 Centronics parallel interface
front side
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2003Amiga
A1200 A2000, A3000, A4000 - - -Interface
clock port Zorro II PCIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 8,9
DSP
Motorola DSP56002 @ 67.73 MHz (overclocked from 66 MHz)
24 bit data bus
memory
96 kB, 24 bit SRAM, not expandable
zero-waitstate, 12 ns
audio
sample frequencies up to 48 kHz at 16 bit
unlike previous Delfinas, other frequencies are played back without resampling, freeing up DSP resources
three stereo inputs with regular intensity
one stereo input with increased sensitivity for a microphone
one stereo output (RCA)
full duplex recording and playback
AHI driver
Delfina module
carries the DSP, memory and the analog inputs and outputs
can be connected to the clock port of the A1200, or to the 26 pin expansion port that is available on all Individual Computer's cards
clock port pin 40 is marked
optional Flipper module
simply attaches to the Delfina module
expands the Delfina with digital SP-DIF connectors
MIDI In and MIDI Out connectors - can be programmed independently of each other
Zorro II and PCI connectors
front side
front side
front side
back side
Company
Petsoff, Finland Date
1997Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
14501 / 1
DSP
Motorola DSP56002 @ 40 MHz
24 bit data bus - 24 dB dynamic range
fully programmable using the supplied software
memory
96 kB, 24 bit SRAM, not expandable
one half of the memory can be addressed in program and X data space, the other half only in Y data space
zero-waitstate, 12 ns
audio
Crystal CS4231A audio codec
sample frequencies up to 48 kHz at 16 bit
three stereo inputs (2 RCA, 1 internal CD-ROM), one stereo output (RCA)
all inputs can be mixed with Delfina's output
full duplex recording and playback
AHI driver
optional serial interface module - DelfSer
connects to Delfina's expansion connector (DelfExp)
maximum serial speed is 625000 bps (1/64th of the DSP clock rate)
lower speeds are generated by dividing the maximum speed by an integer
DB25 serial connector
can be ordered with 100% Amiga compatible serial port - including -12V and +12V power - otherwise these signals are simply cut
allocates a buffer of its own in Delfina's memory, so using DelfSer may disable some memory hungry DSP effects
a 24 bit S/PDIF digital I/O was also planned for DelfExp, but never released
notes
8 bit Zorro bus interface logic - when running many sound outputting programs at the same time, the system may feel slow responding
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2, back side
Company
Petsoff, Finland Date
2001Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
14501 / 2
DSP
Motorola DSP56002 @ 73.7 MHz (overclocked from 66 MHz)
24 bit data bus - 24 dB dynamic range
fully programmable using the supplied software
memory
96 kB, 24 bit SRAM, expandable to 384 kB
one half of the memory can be addressed in program and X data space, the other half only in Y data space
zero-waitstate, 12 ns
audio
Crystal CS4231A audio codec
sample frequency is 48 kHz at 16 bit
other frequencies are played back by DSP resampling
three stereo inputs (2 RCA, 1 internal CD-ROM), one stereo output (RCA)
all inputs can be mixed with Delfina's output
full duplex recording and playback
AHI driver - infinite number of virtual AHI channels
golden plated audio connectors
optional serial interface module - DelfSer
connects to Delfina's expansion connector (DelfExp)
maximum serial speed is 1152000 bps (1/64th of the DSP clock rate)
lower speeds are generated by dividing the maximum speed by an integer
DB25 serial connector
can be ordered with 100% Amiga compatible serial port - including -12V and +12V power - otherwise these signals are simply cut
allocates a buffer of its own in Delfina's memory, so using DelfSer may disable some memory hungry DSP effects
notes
16 bit Zorro bus interface logic deliviers 3× transfer speeds of Delfina Lite
front side
back side
Company
E3B, Germany Date
2008Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, Zorro III, Zorro IVAutoconfig ID
3643 / 16,18,19,20,243
USB interface
one internal and two external USB ports
compatible to USB 1.1 and 2.0 specifications
supports USB 2.0 highspeed mode (480 Mpbs)
DMA possible in Zorro III mode - card implements Zorro III busmaster
Super Buster 9 or 11 needed for DMA mode
supports PIO (Programmed I/O) operation in Zorro II and III modes
Fast Zorro II mode on Winner / ZIV boards
Deneb must be placed in one of the two topmost Zorro II slots
Fast Zorro II jumper must be set
typical data rates:
Zorro III: 6 MBbps (PIO) resp. 8 Mbps (DMA)
Zorro II: 2 Mbps (only PIO)
Fast Zorro II: 3 Mbps (only PIO)
overload and short circuit protection for all ports
integrated power management
48 MBit FlashROM (4 MB for USB stack, 2 MB for firmware and installation software)
ROM can be switched off by jumper (ROMOFF jumper)
no media for installation needed (installation possible on diskless systems)
USB available from cold boot: USB devices can be used as boot device, HID devices are usable in Early Startup Menu
firmware updates
FPGA bus interface, can be upgraded via software
hardware watchdog (disables FlashROM in case of errors)
rescue mode, selectable by jumper (must be set for firmware upgrades)
4 LEDs, showing:
FPGA booted (should be always on)
Zorro II mode
Expansion port activated
Rescue mode active
22 pin expansion header for clockport expansions (optional, depends on firmware)
notes
requires at least 68030 @ 25 MHz, compatible with 68030/40/60 and PPC
needs Amiga OS 3.1 or higher
only PIO mode on Amigs OS 4.0
shipped with Poseidon 4.0 OEM USB stack
driver for USB mouse and keyboard (HID devices), parallel interface (printers), flash card readers (SCSI emulation) and sound cards are included
front side
Company
X-Pert Computer Services / Village Tronic, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2162 / 1,2 2167 / 1,2
RTG graphics card
the card has a standard ISA connector with a PC display card plugged into it
Tseng Labs ET4000
1 MB RAM
six predefined screen modes
1280×1024 87 Hz interlaced, up to 16 colours from a 18 bit (262144) palette
1152×900 60 Hz, up to 256 colours from 18 bit
1120×832 65 Hz, up to 256 colours from 18 bit
1024×768 70 Hz, up to 256 colours from 18 bit
800×600 72 Hz, up to 32768 colours from a 15 bit (32768) palette
640×480 81 Hz, up to 32768 colours from 15 bit
notes
socket for monitor switcher
video passthrough connector
HD15 VGA connector
CyberGraphX 2, Picasso96, EGS and custom drivers
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1993-05 Advert (DE) 1992-10 Advert (DE) 1992-12 Advert (DE) 1993-02
AppleTalk interface
existing AppleTalk networks:
unlimited number of Macs may be networked
230,4 kbit/s transfer speed (AppleTalk standard)
cannot access Macs with MacOS 7.x or later
can share files and printers
Amiga only networks:
up to 32 Amigas may be networked
460,8 kbit/s transfer speed (between other DoubleTalk or Emplant cards)
allows any Amiga to function simultaneously as a file server, printer server or client
can share large RAM disks
supports network distributive software to take advantage of the processing power of several networked Amigas
512 kB ROM
phone jack network adapter
additional DB25 serial port for the Amiga - due to a misdesign this serial port is not available as long as the AppleTalk connector is connected (it uses the same hardware interrupt)
software utilities: Network Manager, AutoLogoff, AutoPublish, password security, NetMail
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1991-04
Company
Edotronik, Germany Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 9
No description available.
Company
ASDG , USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 255
serial interface
two DB9 RS232C compatible serial ports
Zilog Z-8530 USART @ 6 or 8 MHz
6 MHz version:
reliably transfers data at speeds up to 76800 bps on one port or 38400 bps on two ports at once
can communicate at 31250 and 76800 bps but not at 57600 bps
8 MHz version:
reliably transfers data at speeds up to 115200 bps on one port or 57600 bps on two ports at once
uses siosbx.device
supported by Linux
front side
front side
Advert (US) 1989-07 Advert (US) 1989-08
Company
ASDG , USA Date
1990 / 1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 254
Ethernet interface
DP8390 controller IC
LAN Rover:
10Base2 (BNC) and 10Base5 (AUI) connectors
two 8 kB SRAM buffers
EB920:
10Base2 (BNC) connector only
two 32 kB SRAM buffers but uses only 16 kB of each
buffers are accessed with DMA
adjustable interrupt settings
network address ROM - some boards shipped without it and needed manual hardware address configuration
SANA II compatible
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
10-20% slower than the Commodore A2065
Jumper Settings (LAN Rover only)
Jumper Description
JP2-JP7 1-2 (towards back plate) - AUI (10Base5) 2-3 (towards front) - BNC (10Base2)
JP8 CLOSED - Provide +12V on AUI Connector (for e.g. transceiver)
EB920, front side
EB920, front side
EB920, back side
LAN Rover, front side
Company
Utilities Unlimited, USA Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2171 / 21 2171 / 32
Apple Macintosh emulation
allows emulating virtually any computer
all it needs is a simple software driver and ROM(s) from the computer to be emulated
all timers, interrupts, clocks are handled on hardware level
support for custom EPROMs, static RAM, and SIMM modules for any methods of storing computer OS
four empty 32 pin ROM / RAM sockets for OSs stored in DIP format (like 128 kB Mac ROMs) and a ROM SIMM socket
Macintosh emulation
uses the same standard serial IC as Macs
AppleTalk is fully supported via two optional 8 pin mini-DIN serial ports, (230400 bps normally, 921600 bps between two Emplants via AppleTalk, 460800 bps when connected to a Doubletalk board) - Appletalk printer / network support
optional autobooting SCSI controller (NCR 53C80) - pseudo DMA transfers up to 1.1 MB/s (not necessary if the Amiga has SCSI already)
serial and SCSI can be used on the Amiga side independently or simultaneously
optional hardware (Sybil - two passthrough connectors: one plugs into RGB, other into parallel) to handle 800 kB Mac floppy disks
Sybil operates by changing the clock speed of the Amiga's custom chips to match the different data rates of Mac formatted disks (the video display gets very distorted because of this)
Sybil can be disabled with a switch
optional e586 module
the SCSI controller is supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
Advert (GB) 1994-12 Advert (GB) 1992-08 Advert (US) 1993-06 Advert (US) 1993-09 Advert (US) 1993-10 Advert (US) 1994-01 Advert (US) 1994-05 Advert (US) 1994-06 Advert (US) 1994-09 Advert (US) 1994-10 Advert (US) 1994-11 Advert (US) 1995-03
EPROM burner
EPEX = "Epromexpreß"
2× 28 pin Textool sockets on separate board, connects to 40 pin header on EPEX board via ribbon cable
2 sockets allow word writes or copy operations
supply voltage only enabled during read or write operations
supply voltage for burning raised to 6V
supports any EPROMs of the 27xxx series up to 27011
four programming algorithms including pulse code
software supports burning Kickstart EPROMs (4× 27512) from a Kickstart disk
built-in monitor
Advert (DE) 1989-01 Advert (DE) 1989-04 Advert (DE) 1989-06 Advert (DE) 1989-11 Advert (DE) 1989-12
Company
Ameristar Technologies, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1053 / 1
Ethernet interface
AMD Am7990 Ethernet controller
10 Mbit/s transfer speed
32 kB buffer shared between the Am7990 and the Amiga
uses DMA transfers for the onboard buffer
10Base2 (BNC) and 10Base5 (DB15 AUI) connectors
no direct support for 10BaseT
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1988-06
No description available.
Advert (DE) 1988-04
Company
Xetec, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2022 / 1
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
uses pseudo-DMA transfers
place for two 3.5" hard disks on the card
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable jumper
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external SCSI connector
A-Max II driver (harddisk.amhd)
front side
Company
Xetec, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2022 / 3,2
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
uses pseudo-DMA transfers
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable jumper
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external SCSI connector
SCSI network support
A-Max II driver (harddisk.amhd)
memory
four 30 pin SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1 or 4 MB SIMMs
supports 2, 4 and 8 MB configurations
memory disable jumper
Advert (US) 1990-08 Advert (US) 1990-10
Company
Masoboshi, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
the card was made in two slightly different versions:
16 DIP sockets for 2 MB and six 30 pin SIP sockets for 6 MB RAM
32 DIP sockets for 4 MB and four 30 pin SIP sockets for 4 MB RAM
accepts RAM in groups of 2 MB giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×1 DIPs
fully auto-configuring
disable switch
Short version, front side
Short version, front side
Short version, back side
Long version, front side
Long version, back side
Short version, back side
Advert (DE) 1991-01
Company
Otronic, Austria Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2036 / 1
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
supports the RDB standard
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable jumper
50 pin internal SCSI header
optional DB25 SCSI connector
front side
back side
Company
Memory and Storage Technology, Australia Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
32768 / 8
SCSI controller
uses DMA transfers
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card but no power connector is mounted on the board
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable switch
two 50 pin internal headers
DB25 external connector
three status LEDs to indicate proper functioning of autoconfigure, board select and DMA access
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-05 Advert (DE) 1990-10 Advert (DE) 1990-10
Company
Impulse, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2104 / 0,1
framebuffer
horizontal resolutions: 382, 512, 768, 1024
vertical resolutions (NTSC): 241, 482
1 or 2 MB RAM
DB23 RGB output connector (15.75 kHz only)
DB15 passthrough connector
unless the card is activated, the Amiga graphics is passed through
in overlay mode colour zero of the Amiga screen is replaced with the Firecracker output
double buffering
optional SVHS module
does not work with internal genlocks but works with many external genlocks
three pots for adjusting the RGB video levels
adjustment pots for genlock vertical positioning and genlock vertical timing
supported by Imagine, ADPro, Turbo Silver 3, Sculpt Animate 3D, Vista Pro
front side
Advert (US) 1991-11
Company
Microbotics, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro II
No description available.
Advert (US) 1988-02
Company
Memory and Storage Technology, Australia Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI controller
can use either an 8 or 16 bit (NCR 53C94) SCSI controller IC
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
ZIP sockets accept 2, 4 or 8 MB RAM
memory autoconfig
supports the RDB standard
autoboot ROM (flash16.device)
autoboot disable switch
50 pin internal connector
DB25 external connector
Advert (AU) 1991-08 Advert (US) 1991-09
Company
Expansion Technologies, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1989-01
Company
Hardital, Italy Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
MFM controller
expansion consists of a full-length Zorro card that hosts a standard ST506/ST412 controller
autoboot ROM - autobooting with Kickstart 1.2 and above
compatible with Fast File System (FFS)
supports Autoconfig
card provides space for mounting a hard disk
also used in Multi Brain hard disk expansion for A500
Advert (IT) 1990-03
Company
Mimetics, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
framebuffer
can display images with a 21 bit palette only (2 million colours)
768×484 resolution
up to 1 MB RAM (32 DIP chips), 80 ns
BNC connectors for composite input and output
bad video output quality - weak colours, radio frequency "ghosts" record onto tape
reads IFF (including HAM), 24 bit RGB (DigiView compatible) and raw data
directly supported by AdPro, Sculpt 4D, 3D Professional, Mega Paint and Caligari Broadcast
framegrabber
optional FrameCapture chipset
grabs NTSC video frames in 1/15th of a second into IFF or RGB24 format
1 MB framebuffer is required for framegrabbing
front side
back side
Company
Electronic Design, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, video slotAutoconfig ID
10676 / 1
realtime digitizer/framegrabber
SVHS (Y/C) and FBAS (CVBS) inputs
standard 23 pin male connector (compatible with the usual Amiga video connector) which is without the Prism24 add-on useless
I2C-Bus connector
supports both PAL and NTSC video standards
supported resolutions: 720×570, 360×285, 240×192, 180×144, 120×96
overscan is controllable by software
1 MB 30 ns Video Field RAM
digitizer uses 4:1:1 video sampling, Prism24 uses 4:2:2
digitized video can be read from the onboard video RAM as raw-data in double buffering mode
the Xilinx chip performs realtime scaling of the video data and provides an interface for the Prism24 board
revision 2 boards support AGA, the older ones not
optional Denise adaptor for Amiga 2000
VHI driver
optional Prism 24 ( ) Digital Video Processor and Time Base Corrector module
the Prism 24 activates the 23 pin video connector
it can pass-through the digitized video or perform red, green, blue, colour, brightness and contrast adjustments to the output
adds genlock capability to the FrameMachine, taking the Amiga's video signal from the video slot
the genlock features are:
FrameMachine mode
Amiga mode
Amiga over FrameMachine Key mode
FrameMachine over Amiga mode
"B0-Keying" mode (color B0 is transparent)
with FrameMachine's realtime video features, it can do PIP (picture in picture) of real video and computer video on one screen
combined with a standard external Amiga Genlock, there is also the possibility to do PIP of two real video sources together with an Amiga overlay
AGA compatible Prism 24s have jumpers which allow the selection of the machine type
Rev 2.0, front side
Rev 2.0 + Prism24, front side
Rev 2.0 + Prism24, back side
Rev 1.0, front side
Rev 1.0, back side
Rev 2.0, back side
Prism24 module, back side
FMdriver.lha
Aminet driver, TV on Workbench 356 kB FMdriverVHI.lha
Aminet VHI driver 15 kB FrameMachine-10-1.dms
install disk 1, v1.0 349 kB FrameMachine-10-2.dms
install disk 2, v1.0 554 kB FrameMachine_20-1.dms
install disk 1, v2.0 373 kB FrameMachine_20-2.dms
install disk 2, v2.0 561 kB FrameMachine_21-1.dms
install disk 1, v2.1 295 kB FrameMachine_21-2.dms
install disk 2, v2.1 545 kB FrameMachine_23-1.dms
install disk 1, v2.3 291 kB FrameMachine_23-2.dms
install disk 2, v2.3 214 kB FrameMachine_25-1.dms
install disk 1, v2.5 263 kB FrameMachine_25-2.dms
install disk 2, v2.5 214 kB FastEasyEffects-1.dms
Fast Easy Effects disk 1 781 kB FastEasyEffects-2.dms
Fast Easy Effects disk 2 832 kB
Advert (DE) 1992-09 Advert (DE) 1992-10 Advert (AU) 1992-12 Advert (AU) 1993-10 Advert (DE) 1993-11 Advert (AU) 1994-02
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 32 2092 / 32
framebuffer
the FrameMaster is a variaton of the Rainbow II distributed by BSC
they differ only in their bundled software
Advert (DE) 1992-01
Company
GfxBase, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2142 / 1,0
graphics card
GDA = Graphics Display Adapter
512 kB or 1 MB VRAM
the 512 kB GDA-1 is upgradable to 1 MB with four 256k×4 VRAMs
there is no graphics chip or graphics coprocessor on the card
screen modes
256 colours from the 16.7 million palette
640×480, double buffering with 1 MB VRAM
800×600, 16 colours with 512 kB, 256 colours with 1 MB VRAM
1024×768, 16 colours with 512 kB, 256 colours with 1 MB VRAM
refresh rate is entirely dependent on the speed of the processor driving the card
since the display is driven by VRAMs (dual ported DRAMs) the processor will not be slowed down by display refresh like the standard Amiga graphics hardware
notes
HD15 VGA connector
maps its memory directly into the Zorro II address space - limits the amount of fast RAM to 7 or 7.5 MB
the card can be used as regular RAM expansion when not used for display
a basic memory mapped frame buffer that is accessible to the programmer as one contiguous memory space
supported by the X Window System
does not support standard AmigaDOS screens
Company
NES Inc., USA Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2067 /
serial interface
two DB9 serial ports
16550 serial controller IC
16 byte FIFO buffer
110 to 115200 bps transfer speeds
by swapping the stock 1.8432 MHz oscillator to a 2 MHz one, it can operate at the standard 31250 bps MIDI rate
supports both software and hardware flow control
gemini.device supports up to eight Gemini boards in one Amiga
DB9 to DB25 cables are included
Company
Gigatron, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro II
No description available.
Advert (DE) 1990-03 Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Software Results Enterprises, USA Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
2150 / 1
allows using of inexpensive ISA cards on the Amiga
supports all the PC interrupts and I/O addresses
no support for ISA DMA transfers (required for PC floppies)
all address and data lines to the PC bus are buffered to avoid loading down Amiga bus lines
driver supports
4 serial ports / modem cards (ibmser.device)
3 parallel ports - not bi-directional (ibmprint.device)
2 IDE / RLL / MFM hard drives (ibmIDE.device)
1 NE1000 (8 bit) / NE2000 (16 bit) network card - SANA II compatible (NE1000.device, NE2000.device)
supported by OpenBSD
front side
back side
front side
Company
Vortex, Germany Date
1992 / 1993 / 1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
8215 / 7,8,9
IBM AT emulation
80386SX @ 25 MHz or 80486SLC @ 25 MHz or 80486SLC2 @ 50 MHz (32 bit internal 16 bit external data bus, 1 kB cache inside, 2.4 times faster than 386SX)
optional FPU
optional HD/ED (1.2/1.44/2.88 MB) floppy disk controller kit (82077AA chip) for up to 3 drives (2 internal, 1 external)
internal floppy connector and a DB25 port for external floppies (HD kit required)
can use Amiga floppy drives as 360 or 720 kB
DB9 connector for the optional Monitor Master switch
built in IDE hard disk interface
hard disks can be emulated either as Amiga partitions formatted to MSDOS or via hardfiles
27 different emulated video modes (from 4 color CGA to 2 color VGA or 8 color text only VGA)
emulated video modes can be displayed in 15 kHz
inserting an ISA display card automatically disables the video emulation
512 kB on board + four SIMM slots max 16 MB, 2 or 4 MB can be used by the Amiga
50% of Amiga RAM (this can be split between chip, fast, or public) can be used as RAM for the emulator
built in realtime clock, speaker, CMOS RAM
in server mode the Amiga can directly access the RAM and disk drives of the Golden Gate board
the Amiga mouse is emulated as a serial Microsoft mouse
the Amiga serial port can be used by the Golden Gate as either COM1 or COM2
the Amiga parallel port can be used as LPT1 or LPT2 by the Golden Gate
in A2000 an adapter is required under the 68000 (a simple capacitor is connected between two pins)
in A3000 at least Buster rev. 07 is required
jumper settings
J1
set
reserved
J4
open
reserved
J5
open
reserved
J8
set
electronical speaker enabled
J8
open
electronical speaker disabled
J2
J3
open
open
Option ROM disabled
set
open
2MB for Amiga
set
set
4MB for Amiga
Golden Gate 386SX, front side
Golden Gate 386SX, back side
Golden Gate 486SLC2, front side
Golden Gate 486SLC2, back side
Advert (GB) 1993-02 Advert (DE) 1992-10 Advert (DE) 1992-11 Advert (US) 1992-12 Advert (FR) 1992-12
Company
Kupke, Germany Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2073 / 5
Fast SCSI 2 and IDE controller
FAS216 SCSI controller IC
transfer speed is limited by the Zorro II interface
50 pin internal SCSI header
40 pin internal IDE header
DB25 external SCSI connector
RDB and SCSI Direct compatible
autoboot ROM
hard disk activity LED connector
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
disable switch at the back of the card
IDE part can be separately disabled
front side
back side
Company
Kupke, Germany Date
1988Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2073 / 1 4680 / 1
ST-506 controller
supports RLL and MFM controllers
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
disable switch
A500 / A1000 version - HD3000 & HD3000A
the interface box connects to the side expansion connector and has passthrough connector
the separate hard disk box has its own internal power supply and is connected by a DB19 cable
the A500 and A1000 interface boxes are different
place for a 3.5" hard disk inside the case
hard disk activity LED
power LED (on HD3000A only)
Zorro II version - HD 3000A
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
hard disk activity LED connector
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1989-01 Advert (DE) 1989-04 Advert (DE) 1989-12 Advert (DE) 1990-01 Advert (DE) 1990-01
Company
ASDG , USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 255
GPIB (IEEE-488) interface
a cheaper successor of ASDG's Twin-X iSBX GPIB daughterboard combo
16 kB static RAM
the board cannot DMA on the Zorro bus but there is an option for DMA to/from the GPIB controller and the onboard static RAM
Company
Interactive Video Systems, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 2,4
SCSI controller
AMD 53C80
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB compatible
two 50 pin SCSI headers
optional hard frame for placing a 3.5" hard disk on the card
SCSI network sharing
hard disk activity LED connector
A-Max I and II drivers
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
memory
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept 8 MB RAM
accepts SIMMs in groups of two giving 2, 4, 6, 8 MB RAM
notes
the Grand Slam is basically a TrumpCard Professional 2000 with RAM expansion and some extra features
extra DB25 parallel port
front side
front side
Advert (DE) 1991-11 Advert (US) 1991-06 Advert Part 1 (FR) 1991-07 Advert Part 2 (FR) 1991-07 Advert (GB) 1993-02
Company
Cameron Date
1989Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
43521 / 16
handy scanner
versions of the scan unit:
Type 2: monochrome, 200 dpi, 64 mm scanning width
Type 3: monochrome and 16 gray patterns (monochrome dithered in a 4×4 matrix), 200 dpi, 64 mm scanning width
Type 4: monochrome and 16 gray shades, 200/300/400 dpi, 64 mm scanning width
Type 10: 4096 colours, 90 dpi
Type 10/II:
monochrome, 400 dpi optical resolution, 105 mm scan width
status LED
scan button
controls: contrast, resolution (200/300/400 dpi), raster mode (b/w or dithered)
Type 14:
monochrome and 16/256 gray shades, 400 dpi optical resolution, 105 mm scan width
status LED
scan button
controls: contrast, resolution (100/200/300/400 dpi), bit depth (1/4/8 bit)
supplied with Handy-Painter and Handy-Reader (OCR) softwares
the same scanner is used for Atari and IBM PC scanner interfaces
Bus interface
half length Zorro II card
DB9 connector on separate slot cover for attaching the handy scanner
A500 / A1000 interface
connects to the side expansion port
passthrough connector
DB9 connector
Zorro interface, front side
Zorro interface, back side
A500 Interface with Zorro Adapter, front side
type 10/II, front side
type 10/II, back side
Advert (AU) 1990-10 Advert (AU) 1991-05
Company
Alcomp, Germany Date
1988Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
OMTI controller
contains a PC XT slot where a standard OMTI controller is plugged in
supports OMTI 5520 (MFM) and OMTI 5527 (RLL) controllers
allows two drives to be connected simultaneously
no autoboot ROM
no place for hard disk on the card
no RAM option
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1988-12 Advert (DE) 1989-11 Advert (DE) 1989-11 Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Keybonus Ltd. / Amiga Centre Scotland, UK Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2118 / 100
framebuffer
the Amiga's first 24 bit display device
designed to provide compatibility with genlocks, single frame controllers and other video equipment
24 bit display and realtime animation
the output of the Harlequin is totally independent from the Amiga video
multiple Harlequin boards can be installed in one Amiga, each driving a separate device and outputting a different image
optional 8 bit alpha channel - superimpose high quality graphics onto live signal, or smoothly blend paint images
optional double buffering - two 24 bit displays instantly available
screen modes:
740×486, 832×486, 910×486 (NTSC, 60 Hz)
740×576, 832×576, 910×576 (PAL, 50 Hz)
4, 8, 15 and 24 bit colour depth
15 kHz interlaced or 31 kHz non-interlaced in all resolutions
models:
H1500 1.5 MB VRAM
H2000 2 MB VRAM - alpha channel
H3000 3 MB VRAM - double buffering
H4000 4 MB VRAM - alpha channel + double buffering
all models can be upgraded to later ones
outputs (two DB15 connectors):
RGB + Composite sync
digital key output
alpha channel
genlock control lines
sandwich card, it occupies the space of two Zorro slots
separate PAL and NTSC versions
H2000, front side
H2000, back side
H2000, front side
H4000, front side
H4000, back side
H4000 with daughterboard installed, front side
Sat & TV card, front side
Sat & TV card, back side
Daughterboard, back side
Harlequin.dms
install and developers disk harlequin.device v3.02 (21 Feb 1991), harlequin.library v11.07 (11 Jun 1992) 453 kB
Company
Keybonus Ltd. / Amiga Centre Scotland, UK Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2118 /
framebuffer
designed to produce RGB component video with CCIR compliant blanking and synchronisation (doing the half lines, serrations and equalizing pulses)
built in genlock - its output can be synchronised with a black burst studio reference, but does not do keying or mixing
filterd output signal, so it is quiet and properly band-limited
screen modes:
vertical resolution is fixed by CCIR compliance to 576 lines for the PAL variant, 486 for the NTSC variant
horizontal resolution can be selected from 910, 832, 768 (square pixel) or 720 for PAL, or 910, 832, 640 (square pixel) or 720 for NTSC
15 kHz interlaced (CCIR compliant) or 31 kHz non-interlaced (VGA timings)
as well as normal 24 bit colour the board supports 24 bit palette mapped colour
supports 15 bit graphics
supports 8 bit direct or 8 bit palette mapped (from 24 bit palette) graphics
uses the Brooktree Bt473 RAMDAC same as the OpalVision
the framebuffer allows for storing a 24 bit image or 3× 8 bit palette mapped images
with the double buffering option it allows for 2× 24 bit, 2× 15 bit or 6× 8 bit images stored simultaneously
the buffer switching is synchronized to vertical blanking and can be switched every frame if necessary
the 8 bit alpha channel can be output as an analog signal for linear keying or anti-aliasing
it can also be reassigned to provide a 15 colour palette mapped overlay screen in addition to the main screen
the board can be configured to produce interrupts on the first and/or second field of the interlace
memory:
H2000 Plus: 2 MB VRAM
H4000 Plus: 4 MB VRAM and double buffering
the VRAM is linearly mapped into the Zorro II address space
backwards compatible with the Harlequin
optionally bundled with MacroSystem's V-Lab Y/C real-time digitizer
Company
Combitec, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
RLL / ST-506 controller
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM - autoboots even under Kickstart 1.2
works only with hard disks with OMTI or Adaptec controller
Company
E3B, Germany Date
2002Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2145 / 200
USB interface
four USB connectors
compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0 specifications (but supports only USB 1.1 transfer speeds)
all ports are protected against overvoltage and short circuit
integrated power management on port by port base
38 pin expansion header for the ethernet module or for serial/parallel port expansions (HyperCom 3i)
high speed clock port
optional FlashROM module - ROMulus
512 kB flash ROM (256k×16)
reprogrammable up to 10.000 times - easy reprogramming by included software
software modules are automatically inserted by bootloader
can be deactivated at boot time
connects to the 38 pin expansion connector
passthrough connector for the Norway Ethernet module
optional 10 Mbit Ethernet module - Norway
connects to the 38 pin expansion connector
NE2000 compatible chip with integrated 16 kB buffer
RJ45 (10BaseT) internal connector
DB9 external connector - a DB9 to RJ45 adaptor is supplied
network status display by four LEDs
SANA II driver
notes
requires at least 68030 @ 25 MHz
has problems with RBM Onboard Zorro busboards
front side
front side
back side
Norway module, front side
Norway module side
Company
VMC Harald Frank, Germany Date
1996 / 1997Amiga
A1200 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
clock port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
5001 / 2,3
serial and parallel interfaces
Hypercom 1 / PortJnr
tiny 2x4 cm board
connects to A1200's clock port
Exar 16C650 UART chip
one DB25 RS232 serial port
50 to 460800 bps transfer speed
64 byte FIFO buffer (32 byte receive, 32 byte send)
may have problems with 1D4 motherboard revision
requires some modifications in order to work together with the Melody 1200 audio board
not compatible with Mikronik towers
Hypercom 3 & 3Z / PortPlus
Hypercom 3: connects to A1200's clock port
Hypercom 3Z: Zorro II version
Exar 16C552 or 16C553 UART chip
one DB25 bidirectional parallel port with 500 kB/s transfer speed
one DB9 and one DB25 RS232 serial port with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
A1200 version may have problems with 1D4 motherboard revision
requires some modifications in order to work together with the Melody 1200 audio board
not compatible with Mikronik towers
Hypercom 3Z serial ports are supported by NetBSD
Hypercom 3i
expansion module for the Hypercom 3Z / 4 and the ISDN Blaster
Exar 16C552 UART chip
two additional DB25 460800 bps buffered serial ports
one additional DB25 500 kB/s buffered bidirectional parallel port
32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
Hypercom 4
Zorro II
two Exar 16C554 or 16C654 UART chips
four DB25 RS232 serial ports with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
up to five Hypercom 4 can be installed into one Amiga
supported by NetBSD
Hypercom 1 / PortJnr, front side
Hypercom 1 / PortJnr, back side
Hypercom 4, front side
Company
VMC Harald Frank, Germany Date
1998Amiga
A1200 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
clock port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
5001 / 6,7
serial and parallel interfaces
Hypercom 3 Plus
available in both Zorro II and clock port versions
the latter connects directly to the 26 pin expansion port of Buddha/Catweasel or connects with a cable to A1200's clock port
the Zorro II version is based on the HyperCom 4 Plus, it uses the same PCB
Exar 16C552 UART chip
one DB25 bidirectional parallel port with 500 kB/s transfer speed
one DB9 and one DB25 RS232 serial port with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
not compatible with Mikronik towers
supported by NetBSD
Hypercom 3 Tel
expansion module for the ISDN Blaster
Exar 16C552 UART chip
two DB25 460800 bps buffered serial ports
one DB25 500 kB/s buffered bidirectional parallel port
one handset connector
32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
Hypercom 4 Plus
Zorro II
two Exar 16C552 UART chips
four DB25 or DB9 RS232 serial ports with up to 460800 bps transfer speed
two DB25 500 kB/s buffered bidirectional parallel ports
32 byte FIFO buffer (16 byte receive, 16 byte send)
up to five Hypercom 4 can be installed into one Amiga
supported by NetBSD
Zorro II version, back side
Clock port version, front side
Clock port version, back side
Zorro II version, back side
Company
Michael Böhmer, Germany Date
1999Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
5001 / 15
I2 C controller
I2 C = Inter IC Communication, a standard for coupling many different chips together, where a master controls many other slave chips
a do it yourself hardware project: schematics, building instructions and driver software are all published, GAL sources can be obtained freely from the author
PCF8584 bus controller
bus speed can be chosen to be 1.5, 11, 45 or 90 kHz
battery backed up clock which optionally can be used as a replacement for the motherboard RTC chips
VMC compatible expansion connector for optional modules like the Hypercom 3i
DB9 connector
Company
Edotronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 1
IEEE-488 / IEC-625 bus interface
interface functions: SH, AH, T, TE, L, LE, SR, PP, DC, DT, C
iec.library with full talker / listener functions
IEC: AmigaDOS device
interfacing of nonstandard devices is possible (eg. CBM 8xxx)
Advert (DE) 1990-01 Advert (DE) 1990-05 Advert (DE) 1992-12
Company
Great Valley Products , USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2017 / 1,2,3
SCSI 2 DMA controller
WD 33C93 controller IC
autoboot ROM (optional on early versions) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
has no autoboot disable jumper - the autoboot ROMs have to be removed under Kickstart 1.2
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
no place for mounting a hard disk on the card
memory
32 DIP sockets accept up to 1 MB RAM
accepts 256k×1 DIPs
early revisions support 512 kB or 1 MB configurations
late revisions support 0 or 1 MB configurations
DMA between drive and 4 kB onboard SRAM
late revisions: depending on the RAM configuration, one of two PAL chips has to be installed ( 0 MB = PAL with red label, 1 MB = PAL with blue label) in location U74
jumper settings
Jumper Configuration Setting
J3 Memory Size 0 or 512 kB - ON 1 MB - OFF
front side
Advert (US) 1988-05 Advert (US) 1988-08
Company
Great Valley Products , USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2017 / 2,3
SCSI 2 DMA controller
WD 33C93
autoboot ROM is standard but optionally can be replaced with advanced autoboot ROM supporting removable media devices
has no autoboot disable jumper - the autoboot ROMs have to be removed under Kickstart 1.2
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
memory
two 30 pin SIMM sockets accept 2 MB RAM
accepts 1 MB SIMMs
DMA between drive and 16 kB onboard SRAM
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-03 Advert (US) 1989-12 Advert (FR) 1990-04 Advert (US) 1990-06 Advert (US) 1990-06
Company
Great Valley Products , USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2017 / 10,11
SCSI 2 DMA controller
WD 33C93A @ 14 MHz
3.58 MB/s transfer speed
FaaastROM SCSI driver (gvpscsi.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable jumper
RDB compatible
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
no termination power
A-Max II driver (gvpscsi.amhd)
supported by Linux and NetBSD
memory
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept 8 MB RAM
accepts SIMMs in groups of two, giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
this memory is technically not Zorro II memory - data is DMA-d from the HD as normal, but not via the Zorro bus for added speed
jumper settings
J5 OFF OFF ON OFF OFF
J6 OFF ON OFF OFF ON
J7 ON OFF OFF ON OFF
J8 OFF OFF OFF ON ON
J9 ON ON ON OFF OFF
- memory - 0 MB - 2 MB, CN10-CN11 - 4 MB, CN10-CN13 - 6 MB, CN10-CN15 - 8 MB, CN10-CN17
J3 - autoboot ROM
J4 - SCSI drive
J10-J12 - SCSI ID
Rev II with RAM and Guru-ROM installed, front side
Rev II with RAM, front side
Rev 4, front side
Rev 4, back side
Rev II with RAM and Guru-ROM installed, back side
Advert (DE) 1990-10 Advert (US) 1990-09 Advert (FR) 1990-10 Advert (US) 1990-11 Advert (US) 1991-04 Advert (FR) 1991-04 Advert (US) 1991-11 Advert (FR) 1991-11 Advert (US) 1992-11
16 DIP sockets for 2 MB RAM
six 30 pin SIMM sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1 or 4 MB SIMMs
suppports 2, 4, 6, 8 MB configurations
fully auto-configuring
jumper settings
J5 OFF ON OFF OFF ON
J6 ON OFF OFF ON OFF
J7 OFF OFF ON OFF OFF
J8 OFF OFF ON ON OFF
J9 ON ON OFF OFF OFF
J10 OFF OFF OFF OFF ON
- 2 MB (DIPs only) - 4 MB (DIPs + 1 MB SIMMs in CN12-CN13) - 6 MB (DIPs + 1 MB SIMMs in CN12-CN15) - 8 MB (DIPs + 1 MB SIMMs in CN12-CN17) - 8 MB ( no DIPs, 4 MB SIMMs in CN12-CN13)
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1991-03 Advert (US) 1991-04 Advert (FR) 1991-04 Advert (US) 1991-11
Company
Great Valley Products , USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2017 / 1,2,3
SCSI 2 DMA controller
WD 33C93 controller IC
autoboot ROM (optional on early versions) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
has no autoboot disable jumper - the autoboot ROMs have to be removed under Kickstart 1.2
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
no place for mounting a hard disk on the card
memory
eight 30 pin SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1 MB SIMMs in groups of two
DMA between drive and 16 kB onboard SRAM
front side
Advert (DE) 1990-03 Advert (US) 1990-03 Advert (FR) 1990-04 Advert (US) 1990-06
Company
Great Valley Products , USA Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2017 / 10,11
Advert (US) 1993-11 Advert (US) 1994-04
Company
Great Valley Products , USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, video slotAutoconfig ID
2017 / 32
multi-function video card
framebuffer:
provides 12 or 24 bits of colour information to an Amiga screen
1.5 MB as two banks of 12 bit RAM
double buffered 12 bit (4096 colours) animations or a single buffered 24 bit (16.7 million colours) image
768×625 (PAL) or 768×525 (NTSC) maximum resolution
framegrabber:
realtime digitizing at up to 25 fps
freeze, grab and store 12 or 24 bit full screen live RGB video in real time frame grabbing
composite and Y/C video requires an RGB splitter or the optional Video Interface Unit
flicker fixer:
duplicates and enhances the A3000's display enhancer circuitry
even de-interlaces external live video
the HD15 VGA output is software switchable between 15 and 31 kHz
works only in 12 bit mode
picture in picture:
freeze, resize, move or scale live incoming RGB video in a window
reverse-PIP - place a fully functional movable and scalable Workbench window on full screen live video
works in 12 bit mode only
genlock:
separate composite and component (RGB + sync) genlocks
three genlock modes - controlled by a switch on the back of the board:
Amiga graphics only
keyed source - allows external video to show through the background
full external - direct feed of the RGB signal so it can be seen what the camera is pointing at or the live video to show through every colour but the background
separated RGB, composite and Y/C inputs
composite and Y/C outputs
optional Video Interface Unit:
connects to the 26 pin I/O connector of the IV24
built-in RGB splitter converts the composite and Y/C inputs into RGB
separate RGB, 2× composite, Y/C, external reference, key and remote control inputs
composite, Y/C and key outputs
software selectable sync source (external reference, composite 1 or 2, Y/C)
optional Video Interface Unit / Component Transcoder:
all features of the Video Interface Unit
connects to the 26 pin I/O and the HD15 VGA connector of the IV24
additional component input and output (Y, B-Y, R-Y), RGB output
connects to the inline Zorro and video slots of the A3000
can be installed in the A2000 with an optional video slot adaptor card
does not require a time base corrector unless broadcast quality is required
software: Scala, Caligari 24, MacroPaint, IV24 utilities
VHI driver
Main board, front side
Main board, front side
A2000 video slot adapter, front side
Video Interface Unit / Component Transcoder, front side
Open case of Video Interface Unit / Component Transcoder, top side
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multi-function video card
all features of the original Impact Vision 24
twice as fast in the A4000 as the original version, performance remains the same when used in an A3000 or A2000
software: ImageFX 1.5, EGS SpectraPaint
VHI driver
Company
RBM Digitaltechnik, Germany Date
1998Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4711 / 1
serial and parallel interface
ST16C654 interface chip
four serial ports with up to 460800 bps transfer speed (9 pin)
one 500 kB/s buffered EPP/ECP uni/bidirectional parallel port (25 pin)
64 byte FIFO buffer for the serial ports
16 byte FIFO buffer for the parallel port(s)
can be upgraded up to 8 kB FIFO memory which can be related to each module
modular interface
optional second parallel port (ST78C36 chip + cable)
optional Ethernet module
planned modules: AHI sound card, IDE ports, two-way infrared controller (IrDA)
driver for parallel ZIP drives and scanners (ioblixepp.device)
up to five IOBlix cards are supported in one Amiga
the IOBlix end plate is blank, reserved for connectors of the planned optional modules
all the serial and parallel ports are on separate plates
optional Ethernet interface
10Base2 and 10BaseT connectors (some revisions lack the 10Base2 connector)
automatic detection of the used connector
full duplex
SANA 2 driver
requires IOBlix firmware 2.0
front side
front side
back side
back side
Ethernet module, front side
Ethernet module, back side
Company
VMC Harald Frank, Germany Date
1996Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig 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
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
front side
front side
back side
back side
Connector, right side
Company
Inhouse Information Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
5500 / 100
No description available.
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 64 2092 / 64
the card is basically a Siemens ISDN standard design with a Zorro interface
ISDN-In and ISDN-Out connectors
RCA connector for Audio-In
phone handset connector
two 32 byte FIFO buffers
driver (bscisdn.device) emulates a Hayes compatible modem
supports the X.75 and V.110 protocols
X.75: 64 kbit/s
V.110: 38400 bps
supported by NetBSD
when CE-certification became necessary in Germany, BSC had to develop a new version of the card, the ISDN Master II
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1992-12
supports two B-channels and one D-channel
supports X.75, T70NL (Btx), V.110, syncPPP, HDLC, 1TR6 and E-DSS1 (EuroISDN)
microphone, auxiliary and phone headset connectors
64 byte FIFO buffer
D-channel activity monitoring
driver (fossil.device) emulates a Hayes compatible modem
optional module allows full telephone features with answering machine
parallel data and telephone calls
requires at least a 68020 processor
supported by NetBSD
ith Kommunikationstechnik bought the license before BSC's bankruptcy and continued production and software development
the new ith device driver supports multiple ISDN Masters in one Amiga
front side
back side
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2000Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 5
ISDN-In and ISDN-Out connectors
optional phone module
channel bundling (joining two 64k ISDN lines together for 128k access) is in development
parallel data and telephone calls
CE96 compliant driver
driver (isdnsurfer.device) emulates a Hayes compatible modem
26 pin expansion port compatible with the one on the Buddha/Catweasel controllers
clock port
allows using expansions initially designed for the A1200 clock port
when installed in Zorro slot, pin 40 of the card's clock port is towards the front side of the computer, pin 19 resp. pin 1 towards the rear side
marked wire of clock port expansions go to pin 19 or pin 40, depending on the manufacturer's definition - e.g. expansions made by Individual Computers are installed with the red stripe on pin 40 (to the left), expansions of E3B mark pin 19 / pin 1 (to the right)
supported by NetBSD
front side
front side
back side
isdnsurf.lha
Individual Computers install disk 36 kB isdndev.lha
Individual Computers isdnsurfer.device v1.944 15 kB
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
ISDN-In and ISDN-Out connectors
Audio-In RCA connector
phone handset connector
designed by Harald Frank (from VMC) and F. Geller for BSC
only a dozen of null series card were produced
software was not ready in time, BSC started to develop the ISDN Master instead
front side
Company
Zeus Electronic Development, Germany Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2189 / 3
ISDN-In and ISDN-Out connectors
supported by NetBSD
specifications unknown
Company
Team 4, UK Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
3084 / 12
768×576 (PAL) 32 bit framebuffer (24 bit colour + 8 bit alpha channel)
double buffering for two 32 bit screens or four 8 bit screens
realtime full colour RGB frame grabber
RS343A and RS170 compatible video output
T800 @ 25 MHz transputer for board pixel operations and image processing - frees up the host CPU so the user can enjoy fast response from the computer without waiting for graphics operations
4 MB VRAM for the framebuffer
4 MB DRAM for the transputer
a built-in SCSI controller was planned for fast loading of images
supported by TVPaint and Kasmin Paint (the latter features realtime hardware scrolling and transputer controlled brushes)
front side
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2004Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 10
Flash ROM
1 MB 32 bit flash ROM
two flash memory chips
uses 64 kB of the Zorro II address space for accessing the 512 kB / 1 MB FlashROM
allows storage of software which are run at startup of the Amiga
reprogrammable up to 100.000 times
extra clock port
allows using expansions initially designed for the A1200 clock port
the orientation of the port is geared toward expansions by Individual Computers (eg. the SilverSurfer), other expansions (eg. Melody 1200) do not fit correctly
when installed in Zorro slot, pin 40 of the card's clock port is towards the front side of the computer, pin 19 resp. pin 1 towards the rear side
marked wire of clock port expansions go to pin 19 or pin 40, depending on the manufacturer's definition - e.g. expansions made by Individual Computers are installed with the red stripe on pin 40 (to the left), expansions of E3B mark pin 19 / pin 1 (to the right)
optional 1 GB flash module is in development, will connect to the clock port
write protection jumper against unwanted reprogramming
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
CBM Design / Gameworks, UK Date
1991Amiga
A500, A500+, A1000 A2000 A2000 - - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II CPU slot
Kickstart Switcher
two 32 pin sockets for EPROM Kickstart and one 40 pin socket for an original ROM
supports 32 pin EPROMs 27C1001, 27C2001, 27C4001 or compatible
switch (external version) resp. jumper (internal version) allows switching between internal Kickstart, external ROM and external EPROM
three different variants available:
A500/A500+/A1000 external version with case, plugs into side expansion slot
A2000 internal version for Zorro slot, to be installed into 100 pin Zorro slot despite having only 86 pins (installs towards rear side)
A2000 internal version for CPU slot (special version upon request)
front side
PCB, front side
PCB, back side
KISS.jpg
user manual / Bedienungsanleitung 666 kB
Company
Jürgen Kommos, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI 2 controller
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
the SCSI cable is soldered onto the card and there is no external SCSI connector - a T-adapter is required to add more than one SCSI device, by placing the controller in the middle of the SCSI chain
autoboot ROM (jkscsi.device)
not RDB compatible
front side
back side
Company
C-Ltd. , USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1004 / 4 2050 / 4
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
dual-buffered pseudo-DMA design
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
place for two 3.5" hard disks on the card (on both sides)
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
supports SCSI network sharing
front side
front side
back side
back side
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Company
A-Squared Development, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1005 / 1
realtime digitizer
grayscale capture in 16 shades (15 frames/s)
colour capture in 32 (12 frames/s) or 4096 colours (4 frames/s)
supports overscan
does not have video buffer - the digitized data is transfered directly to the Amiga memory using DMA
four BNC connectors - two setups can be selected by jumper
mode 1: two inputs (FBAS) and two outputs (passed through video signal for control purposes)
mode 2: one RGB input with sync
very sensitive on the quality of the video signal
PAL (1987) and NTSC (1989) versions
the PAL version was manufactured by Elan Design, author of the Invision Plus software
requires a hardware upgrade kit (a pal replacement and a jumper cut) in order to work in A3000s and A4000s
Invision Plus software
seriously enhances the abilities of the card compared to the original Live! software
realtime effects (e.g. manipulation of colour register, fade out to black or white, wipes, strobes, looping) which can be attached to keys and mouse movements
effects can be combined (keys + mouse)
supports Anim-5 format
can capture sequences as large as the amount of free memory
multiple capture buffers
front side
back side
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Company
M-Tec, Germany Date
1996Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2192 / 34
two 72 pin SIMM sockets accept 8 MB RAM
accepts 1, 2, 4 or 8 MB SIMMs, 80 ns or faster
supports 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
with single modules only the slot number 1 has to be used
if two different modules are used, the bigger module has to reside in slot number 1
memory disable jumper
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
MacroSystem, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
18260 / 3
digital audio interface (has no AD/DA converter)
reads digital audio from the digital output of CD or DAT players, providing crystal clear 16 bit sound samples for editing
does not support direct to hard disk recording
32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz sampling rates
no playback ability (only through Amiga internal audio at 14 bit quality)
optical and coaxial digital inputs
jumper selects between the input connectors (only one at a time)
one track only
ability to remove DAT copy protection
front side
Advert (DE) 1991-09 Advert (DE) 1991-12 Advert (DE) 1992-05
Company
MacroSystem, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
18260 / 5
digital audio interface (has no AD/DA converter)
records 16 bit digital audio to hard disk from the digital output of CD or DAT players
16 bit digital audio playback through the connected CD or DAT player
14 bit quality analogue playback through the Amiga internal audio
optical input / output, coaxial input
jumper selects between the input connectors (only one at a time)
32 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz sample rates
for playback the card itself has only a 48 kHz oscillator, so all other rates have to be obtained from a device connected to either of the two inputs - eg. for 44.1 kHz playback a CD player has to be connected and turned on without playing any CD
one track only
ability to remove DAT copy protection without using the CPU
AHI driver
backup software - use audio DATs as a backup device
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1992-10
Company
California Access, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2021 / 1 2065 / 1
SCSI controller
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM (Malibu.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB compatible
optional memory board - Catalina Card
eight SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
supports 1 MB SIMMs
possible configurations are 2, 4 or 8 MB
Advert (US) 1990-12
Company
Masoboshi, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2157 / 3 8535 / 4
SCSI 2 and IDE controller
MasterCard 302
IDE controller only
40 pin internal IDE header
Mastercard 702
combined SCSI and IDE controller
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external SCSI connector
40 pin internal IDE header
uses DMA transfers
DMA can be switched off by software for better compatibility
autoboot ROM (masoboshi.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
RDB compatible
supports SCSI Direct
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot disable switch
A-Max II and Chamäleon drivers
hard disk activity LED connector
memory
sixteen ZIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1M×4 ZIPs, 100 ns or faster
supports 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
memory disable switch
MC-702, front side
MC-702, back side
MC-302, front side
MC-302, back side
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Company
Palomax , USA Date
1990Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2030 / 0
hard disk controller
serves as host for IBM compatible HD controller cards
semi-"do it yourself" project - the interface is partly assembled and tested but still needs some soldering and assembling
supports IDE, ST-506 / ST-412 (MFM and RLL) and ESDI interfaces
supports WD 1002/1004/1006/1007, OMTI 8127/5527 and DTC 5150 controllers
can take up to four controller cards for a total of eight drives - types and drive sizes can be mixed
autoboot ROM
the priority of booting and mounting is selectable
programmed I/O transfers with multi-sector blocks (up to 256 sectors)
write-thru track buffer with selectable read threshold sensing for faster file transfers
A500 / A1000 version:
passthrough connector
no case for the controller and drive, no power supply
Zorro II version:
optional hard disk mounting bracket
with two controllers, only one slot position is taken when installed in the rightmost Zorro slot
incompatible with Lucas / Frances
supports FFS and Kickstart 1.3 / 2.0
A-Max II driver
with the proper software the Palomax can be used for any type of hardware (like serial cards or disk interfaces) - drivers for DSP and other complex PC hardware were in development
Company
Palomax , USA Date
1987Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
ST-506 controller
a do it yourself project including complete interface schematics, list of components and vendors, assembly and installation instructions, and the software (driver and tools)
serves as host for Western Digital WD-1003 compatible controller cards
controller cards are connected to the MAX through a backplane with two 8 bit XT slots - up to four hard disks are supported
supports MFM and RLL encodings
does not autoconfig
connects to the side expansion port
the A500 version has passthrough connector
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1988-11
Company
Sang Computersysteme, Germany Date
1988,1989Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro II, ISA
interface for transputer cards
connects to a Zorro II slot
the transputer cards connect to XT slots
the interface card connects to the transputers externally
any number of transputer cards can be attached together
Helios operating system
MegaLink 01 (1988)
four Inmos T414 or T800 processors
each processor has its own memory - 1 or 4 MB RAM in four 30 pin SIMM sockets
MegaLink 02 (1989)
one Inmos T424 or T800 @ 20 / 25 / 30 MHz processor
1, 2, 4 or 8 MB RAM with 16 ZIP chips
Inmos G300 programmable RAMDAC
110 MHz video clock
1 or 2 MB dual ported VRAM
resolutions from 512×512 to 8192×8192 (the latter with multiple boards)
video data may not only be written by the local transputer but by other ones too - parallel image processing
port for connecting a framegrabber or a U-Matic Video Machine
distributed overseas by Digital Animation Productions as Video Graphics Transputer
MegaLink 03 (1989)
one Inmos T425 or T800 processor
up to 32 MB RAM
DMA interface
compatible and cascadable with all MegaLink boards and other Inmos B004/B008 compatible systems
Company
3-State, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
512 / 2
sixteen DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
six 30 pin SIP sockets accept 6 MB RAM
accepts 256k×4 (514256), 70 - 100 ns DIPs in groups of four
accepts 1M×8 and 1M×9, 70 - 100 ns SIPs in groups of two
possible configurations are 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 MB
disable DIP switch on the card
front side
back side
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Company
3-State, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
512 / 2
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×4 ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
disable jumper
half length card
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1992-02 Advert (DE) 1992-08 Advert (DE) 1993-01
Company
3-State, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
512 / 2
twelve ZIP sockets and sixteen 22 pin SIP sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
takes 1M×4 ZIPs in groups of four
takes 128 kB (256k×4) SIPs
possible configurations are 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB
disable switch
half length card
front side
back side
Company
3-State, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
512 / 2
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×4 ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
half length card
front side
back side
Company
Kato Development, Germany Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2145 / 128
Texas Instruments TMS320AV110PBM
MPEG layer I / II decoding in realtime
fixed sample rate and resolution, 16 bit 44.1kHz output
128 kB FIFO buffer for internal CRC checking - error protection avoids noise
16 bit audio playback for replacing Paula - native AHI support
Paula passthrough - simple analog mixing with Melody output
Toccata emulation
expansion bus for the sampler module with high speed serial port in development
2 audio in (for Paula passthrough), 2 audio out, all RCA
AHI driver
supported by NetBSD
Rev 1.3, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.3, front side
Rev 1.3, back side
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 8 2092 / 8
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×4 (514400), 100 ns ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
disable jumper
half length card
Rev 1.0, front side
Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.1, back side
Rev 1.1, front side
Rev 1.1, back side
Rev 1.0, back side
Advert (DE) 1991-03 Advert (DE) 1991-07
Company
X-Pert Computer Services / Prodev, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000 A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro II Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
2117 / 3,4,201
RTG graphics card
Tseng Labs ET4000W32
85 MHz dot clock in 8 bit modes
Brooktree Bt482 RAMDAC with hardware cursor
2 or 4 MB DRAM
although the Merlin was advertised to support 8 or 16 MB, that would be possible with ET4000W32i or ET4000W32p chips only
only 2 MB is possible in Zorro II mode
two SIMM sockets for custom made SIMMs
1× 2 MB, 32 bit (labeled as "2 MB 32 Bit")
2× 2 MB, 16 bit (labeled as "2 MB")
1× 4 MB, 32 bit, 60 ns
the clock speed of the blitter and memory can be selected with jumpers between 50-65 MHz (55 MHz is the default setting)
optional video module, X-Calibur ( )
activates the S-VHS and Composite output connectors
provides RGB, S-VHS and Composite inputs on a separate slot cover
the RGB input is fake - the signal is converted to NTSC Y/C and then digitized
the ProDev digitizing software supports the Composite input only
provides up to 800×600 @ 16 bit
works only in Zorro II mode because the ET4000W32 does not support digitizing in its 32 bit mode
a switch is provided for easy switching between Z2 and Z3 modes (connects to the Z2/Z3 jumper)
notes
a genlock module was developed but never sold
the design of Merlin was not finished when the card went into production, leading to many problems
compatibility problems with other Zorro cards
incompatibility with 060 processors
incompatibility with all GVP processor cards
reset problems
the small registers of the ET4000 chip led to problems with 24 bit screens larger than 680×576 (8 and bit screens have no problems)
X-Pert and ProDev both offered fixes but only ProDev's methods could cure all problems
Ingenieurbüro Riedel still offers fixing of problematic Merlin cards
HD15 VGA connector
S-VHS, RGB, F-BAS output connectors
automatic monitor switch and video pass through
every Amiga graphics function is supported except the Copper
if more than one screen is opened the next one can be seen through a window on the foremost screen
Picasso96, EGS and ProBench drivers
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
with RAM installed, front side
Analogue Video Converter module, front side
back side
no RAM installed, front side
merlin-e.pdf
Ingenieurbüro Riedel merlin hardware fix (incl. 060 fix) 26 kB merlin.pdf
Ingenieurbüro Riedel Merlin Umbauanleitung (incl. 060-Fix) 20 kB
Advert (US) 1993-11 Advert (DE) 1993-02 Advert (DE) 1993-03 Advert (AU) 1993-07 Advert (DE) 1993-07 Advert (DE) 1993-11
Company
Interactive Video Systems, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 64
Fast RAM expansion
four SIMM sockets accept 4 MB RAM
accepts 256 kB or 1 MB SIMMs, 100 ns or faster
supports 0.5, 1, 2 or 4 MB configurations
all installed SIMMs must be of the same size
SIMMS have to be added in pairs
jumper to disable memory autoconfiguration
half length card, designed to fit in the second slot of the Trumpcard 500
zero waitstate design
front side
Company
Micron Technology, USA Date
1987Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 1
64 DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
accepts 256k×1 DIPs, 120 ns
zero wait states
recoverable RAM disk (rrd.device) - a warm boot takes about 45 seconds, including 12 seconds of memory diagnostics
the design is licensed from ASDG, the card is technically the same as the ASDG 2MI
the A1000 and A500 versions both rehouse the Zorro II card and provide a second Zorro slot for an additional card - however, as no slot breakout exists, only internal Zorro cards can be used
A500 version:
external power supply
power switch and power indicator LED
passthrough connector - in order to use it, some terminator resistors have to be removed
A1000 version:
optional external power supply
front side
front side
front side
A1000 version, front side
A1000 version, inside side
Advert (US) 1987-09 Advert (US) 1988-01
Company
Xetec, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2022 / 1
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
uses pseudo-DMA transfers
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable jumper
50 pin internal SCSI header
half length card, there's no provision for mounting a hard disk on it
front side
Advert (US) 1990-10
Company
Microbotics, USA Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1010 / 18
No description available.
Company
Jürgen Kommos, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
3 / 1
EPROM burner
one socket for burning 24, 28 and 32 pin EPROMs
one socket for burning 40 pin EPROMs
supports any EPROMs of the 27xxx series:
2 kB, 8×2k (2716)
4 kB, 8×4k (2732)
8 kB, 8×8k (2764)
16 kB, 8×16k (27128)
32 kB, 8×32k (27256)
64 kB, 8×64k (27512)
64 kB, 8×4×16k (27513)
128 kB, 8×128k (27010, 27C1000)
128 kB, 8×8×16k (27011)
128 kB, 16×64k (27210, 27C1024)
256 kB, 8×256k (27020)
256 kB, 16×128k (27220, 27C2048)
512 kB, 8×512k (27040)
512 kB, 16×256k (27240, 27C4096)
1 MB, 8×1024k (27080)
32 kB Static RAM, 32×8k (43256)
functions: emptyness test, reading, burning, load from disk, save to disk, compare, hexdump
when selecting the EPROM type in software, one of the four LEDs is lit to indicate the correct position of the EPROM
front side
back side
Company
MacroSystem / Off Limits, Germany Date
1992 / 1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI 2 controller
FAS216 controller IC
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3 at least
supports SCSI direct
50 pin internal header
DB25 external SCSI connector
A-Max II and Medusa drivers
MacroSystem, v3.0 (1992)
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
two 30 pin SIP sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1 or 4 MB SIPs in pair
Off Limits, v3.4 (1993)
two 30 pin SIMM sockets for up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1 or 4 MB SIMMs in pair
the same PCB is used for the A500 version
Off Limits MultiEvolution, front side
Off Limits MultiEvolution, back side
Advert (DE) 1992-11
Company
MacroSystem, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
26230 / 131
sixteen DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
six 30 pin SIP sockets accept 6 MB RAM
accepts 1M×1 (511000), 70 - 100 ns DIPs in groups of four
accepts 1 MB SIPs and supports 2, 4, 8 MB configurations
the first 2 MB is either installed as DIP or SIP
disable jumper
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-10 Advert (DE) 1990-12 Advert (DE) 1991-03 Advert (DE) 1991-05 Advert (DE) 1991-12
Company
MacroSystem, Germany Date
1997Amiga
DracoInterface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
18260 /
No description available.
front side
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 16 2092 / 16
serial and parallel interface
two serial ports controlled by MC68681P
two parallel ports controlled by MC68230
up to 57600 bps serial transfer speed
can be upgraded to 115200 bps by replacing the 3.686 MHz oscillator to 7.3728 MHz oscillator and installing the MFS3 software
half length card - four ribbon cables connect to the two slot covers
both slot covers carry a DB9 serial port and a DB25 parallel port
serial ports are supported by NetBSD
disable switch
front side
front side
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-10 Advert (DE) 1990-11 Advert (DE) 1991-03
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2092 / 17
serial and parallel interface
two serial ports controlled by 68681
two parallel ports controlled by 68230
75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2000, 2400, 4800, 7800, 9600, 19200, 57600 bps serial transfer rates
the 31250 bps MIDI rate is supported only when the 3.686 MHz oscillator is replaced by 4 MHz - this disables the higher bitrates (57600, 33600, 19200)
half length card - four ribbon cables connect to the two slot covers
both slot covers carry a DB9 serial port and a DB25 parallel port
serial ports are supported by NetBSD
disable jumper
supported by OpenBSD
MultiFaceCard 2+
uses 7,3728 MHz oscillator instead of 3.686 MHz thus offering 76800 and 115200 bps serial rates
MFS3 software
the MultiFaceCard 2 can be simply upgraded to 2+ with the new oscillator and software
Rev 7, front side
Rev 6, front side
Rev 6, back side
Rev 6, front side
Rev 7, front side
Rev 7, back side
Advert (DE) 1991-09
Company
BSC / Alfa Data , Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2092 / 18
serial interface
two serial ports controlled by MC68681P
up to 115200 bps transfer speed
3 byte FIFO buffer
two 26 pin internal headers
the first is directly wired to the DB9 connector on the slot cover of the card
the second is for the ribbon cable of the DB25 connector on the separate slot cover
the MC68681 is a 4 MHz version overclocked to 7 MHz in order to reach the 115200 bps transfer rate
the 31250 bps MIDI rate is supported only when the 7.3728 MHz oscillator is replaced by 4 MHz - this disables the higher bitrates (115200, 57600, 33600, 19200)
does not support the RI (Ring) signal
supported by Linux and NetBSD
parallel interface
one bidirectional DB25 parallel port controlled by MC6821P
faster transfer speed than IOExtender 's
supported by Linux and OpenBSD
ParNet driver
notes
multiple Multiface 3 cards are supported in one machine
no ROM or EPROM - no autoconfig drivers, duart.device (serial) and pit.device (parallel) have to be mounted with the supplied MFC program
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1994-02 Advert (US) 1994-05
serial, parallel interface
two serial ports:
up to 38400 bps with a 68030, 19200 bps with a 68000
RS232, DB9 connector
RS422, Mac type 8 pin mini-DIN connector
driver software does not support hardware handshaking
AppleTalk networking software included for the RS422 port - DigiFeX Interact
parallel port:
DB25 connector
outgoing only
optional SCSI controller
50 pin internal header
8 bit, non-DMA
does not support the RDB standard
autoboot ROM
SCSI share networking
A-Max II driver (DISscsi.amhd)
Company
Masoboshi, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2157 / 7
realtime digitizer
captures up to 3 frames/s in colour or up to 9 frames/s in grayscale
supports all Amiga resolutions up to 720×624 with 4, 8, 16 grey shades or 16, 32, 4096 colours
768 kB video RAM
two FBAS inputs
software:
bandwidth and color filters
ARexx port
VHI driver
front side
back side
MVD819-3345.dms
install disk (MVD.library v33.45, MasoVision.library v33.98) 377 kB
Advert (DE) 1992-12
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
can be upgraded in 2 MB increments
feature connector for the optional ST412 / ST506 hard disk controller
socket for autoboot EPROMs - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
disable switch
Advert (DE) 1990-02 Advert (DE) 1990-05 Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Memphis , Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4136 / 64
SCSI 2 controller
NCR 53C94 controller IC
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
two 50 pin internal headers
DB25 external connector
place for two 3.5" hard disks on the card but there are no power connectors provided - they have to be connected to the power supply
autoboot ROM (imscsi.device)
RDB compatible
A-Max II and Chamäleon 2.0 drivers
hard frame
no RAM option
without metal frame, front side
with metal frame, front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1991-04
Company
Spirit Technology, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2034 / 6
64 DIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
supports 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
accepts 1M×1 DIPs, 150 ns or faster
Advert (US) 1990-03 Advert (FR) 1990-07 Advert (FR) 1990-08
Company
Memory and Storage Technology, Australia Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
the board is basically a SupraRAM 2000 distributed by Memory and Storage Technology
the Supra title is just covered with a MAST sticker.
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1990-10 Advert (DE) 1990-10
Company
BSC / Alfa Data , Germany Date
1991 / 1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2049 / 5,8 2092 / 5,8
SCSI 2 controller
NCR 53C94 @ 25 MHz
does not use DMA but interrupt driven programmed I/O
50 pin internal SCSI connector
DB25 external SCSI connector for both snap-in and screw-in connectors
Slow Cable Mode for external devices with long cables
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM (oktagon.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
ROM versions less than 6.5 may have problems with removable media devices
the ROM uses a MOVEP operation - which is an illegal instruction on the 68060 - making troubles during bootup on 68060 systems
RDB compatible
hard disk activity LED connector
hard disk controller disable jumper
A-Max II driver
supported by Linux
Oktagon 2000 ( )
no memory expansion
also called as A.L.F. 3
Oktagon 2008
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB 16 bit RAM
supports either static column or page mode 1M×4 ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6, 8 MB configurations
memory disable jumper
Rev 6, front side
Rev 6, back side
Rev 3, front side
Rev 3, back side
Rev 5, back side
Rev 5, back side
Rev 7, front side
Rev 7, back side
BSC-HD.pdf
Controller Hardware and Software Installation Manual (english/german) 443 kB
Oktagon-32.dms
install disk v3.2 HDInstTools v3.2 (07.12.94), OktagonMount 6.8 (30.11.94), GigaMem 3.0 (06.12.92) 455 kB Oktagon-215.dms
install disk v2.15 HDInstTools v2.15 (23.9.93), OktagonMount 4.4 (17.05.93), GigaMem 3.0 (06.12.92) 377 kB Oktagon-13.dms
install disk v1.3 ALF.device v2.13, oktagon.device v3.20 369 kB BSC_GigaMem-20.dms
GigaMem v2.0 vmem.library v1.0 135 kB Oktagon_ROM-612.zip
ROM v6.12 for Oktagon 508/2008 14 kB oktapus.lha
Aminet OktaPussy v2.1 (24.11.98) 106 kB
Advert (US) 1994-02 Advert (US) 1994-05 Advert (DE) 1991-11 Advert (DE) 1992-10
Company
ArMax, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISAAutoconfig ID
2181 / 0
RTG graphics card
basically an ISA to Zorro bridging card, similar to the GoldenGate 2+
a standard PC display card occupies a second ISA slot
Tseng Labs ET4000AX
1 MB RAM
six predefined screen modes
1280×1024 87 Hz interlaced, up to 16 colours from a 18 bit (262144) palette
1152×900 60 Hz, up to 256 colours from 18 bit
1120×832 65 Hz, up to 256 colours from 18 bit
1024×768 70 Hz, up to 256 colours from 18 bit
800×600 72 Hz, up to 32768 colours from a 15 bit (32768) palette
640×480 81 Hz, up to 32768 colours from 15 bit
notes
HD15 VGA connector
Picasso96 and custom drivers
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
Company
Megatronic, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro II
MFM controller
basically a reproduction of the C't OMTI-Adapter
supports up to two ST506 hard disks (OMTI)
does not autoconfig - the controller address is set by four patch wires
supplied with separate autoboot card
front side
back side
Company
C't, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
MFM controller
supports up to two ST506 hard disks (OMTI)
does not autoconfig - the controller address is set by four DIP switches: $810000 (ON ON ON OFF) or $8F0000 (OFF OFF OFF OFF)
different drivers can be used, c't suggests the MacroSystem AutoBootSystem (a separate autoboot card)
supported by MacroSystem's Medusa Atari ST emulator
A1000 and A500 versions connect to the side expansion port
the card was manufactured by MacroSystem
front side
back side
Company
Blue Ribbon Soundworks, USA Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2161 / 2
MIDI interface and wavetable
based on E-Mu System's Proteus 1 MIDI Sound Engine
it's an independent computer with a 68000 @ 10MHz
128 kB Operating System ROM
64 kB static RAM
4 MB of 16 bit General MIDI samples in ROM, over 210 sampled sounds and waveforms
a large number of configurable parameters allow a lot of flexibility in the sound: velocity control, pitch bend, adjustable tuning, and a choice of scale temperament
no built in effects (they are produced by software)
16 bit sampled stereo synth which is both polyphonic and polytimbral, so multiple instruments can be played simultaneously, up to its limit of 32 internal channels
some instruments need multiple internal channels
the Proteus is mounted as a daughterboard and interfaced to the Amiga via one port of a DUART
the other DUART port provides a built in MIDI interface
1x MIDI In
1x MIDI Out
expandable to three separate MIDI outs with the optional Triple Play Plus upgrade
stereo output (two RCA plugs)
bundled with Bars & Pipes Pro, supported by SoundJam
when the editor is first started, it has to read the entire configuration from the hardware, which takes about 20 seconds
works together with the Sunrize series: using Blue Ribbon's SyncPro (SMPTE Generator), both the AD1012 or AD516 and B&P Pro will lock to SMPTE, independently
front side
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1992-11 Advert (US) 1993-01 Advert (US) 1993-04 Advert (US) 1994-03
Company
Pacific Peripherals / Interactive Video Systems, USA Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 16
SCSI controller
Motorola 68440 DMA controller IC
early revisions have no autoboot ROM but they can be upgraded with the OverDrive Autoboot Retrofit daughterboard:
connects into the sockets of U102, U104, U110, U115
the PAL in U110 is replaced, the other three chips are reused on the daugtherboard
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
front side
OverDrive Autoboot Retrofit, front side
Advert (DE) 1988-04 Advert (US) 1988-01 Advert (US) 1988-10
Company
Edotronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 5
parallel interface
parallel ports are realized with 6522 chips - one of them can be directly accessed as PAR2:
one DB25 parallel connector (PAR2:)
fully compatible with AmigaDOS, all commands of parallel.device are supported
redirection of I/O between SER: / PAR: and PAR2: (device mapping)
32 TTL output lines
32 TTL input lines
additional daughterboards for relais output and / or optocouplers are available
Advert (DE) 1992-12
Company
Ingenieurbüro Helfrich, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2195 /
MPEG video decoder
C-Cube CL450 video decoder
plays MPEG 1 animations at 25 fps in 352×288×24 (PAL), 352×240×24 (NTSC)
cannot decode MPEG audio
video can be played directly from CD-ROM (VideoCD, Philips CDI) or from hard disk
the video output is synchronized to the Amiga (NTSC/PAL) display
works only if the Amiga produces an NTSC/PAL signal
256 kB display buffer
HD15 video output connector (RGB)
HD15 video passthrough connctor
front side
Company
Ingenieurbüro Helfrich, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, video slotAutoconfig ID
2195 / 7
MPEG video decoder
C-Cube CL450 video decoder
plays MPEG 1 animations at 25 fps in 352×288×24 (PAL), 352×240×24 (NTSC)
LSI-Logic L64112 audio decoder
supports MPEG-1 audio Layer 1 and 2
video can be played directly from CD-ROM (VideoCD, Philips CDI) or from hard disk
the video output is synchronized to the Amiga (NTSC/PAL) display
the Amiga signal can be used as overlay via the built in genlock
works only if the Amiga produces an NTSC/PAL signal
the Amiga audio output can be mixed into the MPEG audio output
512 kB display buffer, expandable to 1 MB
HD15 video connector (RGB output)
16 bit stereo audio output (headphone jack)
optional video module with composite and Y/C outputs
the card's device driver (peggympeg.device) is somewhat compatible with the CD32 device driver (mpeg.device)
front side
with video encoder, front side
with video encoder, back side
without video encoder, front side
back side
Company
Digital Processing Systems, Canada Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8553 / 1
animation recorder
DR-2150 NTSC, DR-3150 PAL
replaces the record VCR and single frame controller
allows animation sequences to be recorded to a video tape recorder and played back in realtime (up to 60 fields per second) direct from hard disk
avoids bad edits, missed frames and dropouts well known to VCRs
variable speed playback
random access still frame retrieval
supports direct rendering of all common Amiga image formats including IFF24 and Video Toaster frame store files
can also be used to build sequences from pre-rendered image files
the image data is stored on the PAR hard disk as compressed digital 4:2:2 image file in 752×576 (PAL) or 752×480 (NTSC) resolution
one or two dedicated video hard disks connect to the PAR's IDE interface
maximum 4 GB capacity (1.5 hour video)
composite (BNC), S-VHS and CAV (Betacam/MII) (3 BNC) outputs
composite genlock input (BNC)
5.5 MHz video bandwidth
60 dB S/N ratio
the DR-2150 can be combined with the Personal TBC IV to perform real time video capture for rotoscoping, time lapse and other special effects
the DR-3150 can be combined with the AD-3000 real time video capture card
for recording audio the PAR can be combined with the AD516 via SMPTE
PAR DR-2150 (NTSC) Rev 2, front side
PAR DR-2150 (NTSC) Rev 3, front side
PAR DR-3150 (PAL), front side
Advert (US) 1993-06
Company
Digital Processing Systems, Canada Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
video adapter
adds S-VHS input and output to Newtek's Video Toaster
NTSC only
no software required
front side
Company
Digital Processing Systems, Canada Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, ISA
video distribution amplifier
VDA-1000 for XT slot, VDA-1050 for Zorro II slot
can drive four 75 ohm terminated loads from one video input
the video input is AC coupled and features a switchable 75 ohm input termination
ideal for tape duplication, multi-monitor point of sale systems, distributing genlock reference to multiple devices, increasing isolation between devices by eliminating loop-throughs
front side
front side
Company
Phoenix Electronics, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI controller
AMD 5380 controller IC
uses DMA transfers
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
front side
back side
Company
Edotronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 6
PIC prototyping card
multi-purpose prototyping board with breadboard area for designing circuits
AutoConfig fully conforming to Commodore standards
complete buffering on board
bidirectional drivers for data and addresses
double sided printed circuit board
Advert (DE) 1990-01 Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Village Tronic, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2167 / 11,12,13
RTG graphics card
Cirrus Logic GD5426 or GD5428
85 MHz in 8 bit modes
45 MHz in 16 bit
28 MHz in 24 bit
1 or 2 MB 45 or 60 ns DRAM
1 MB (eight DIPs) soldered to board
eight DIP sockets for additional 1 MB
accepts 256k×4 DIPs, 45-80 ns
screen modes
1600×1280×8 interlace
1152×864×16 interlace
800×600×24 non-interlace
optional video encoder module - Pablo ( )
FBAS and S-VHS outputs
only PAL compatible
15 kHz overload protection
requires a time base corrector if used with a genlock
notes
maps its memory directly into the Zorro II address space - speeds up manipulation of graphics memory but limits the amount of fast RAM to 6 MB
with 8 MB Zorro II fast RAM the board has to be run in segmented mode - lower performance
two 15 pin VGA connectors
automatic passthrough
Picasso96, CyberGraphX 2, 3 & 4, EGS and PicassoRTG drivers
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Rev 1.6, front side
Rev 1.6, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.0, front side
Rev 1.0, back side
Rev 1.6, back side
Rev 1.4, front side
Rev 1.4, back side
Advert (AU) 1994-07 Advert (DE) 1993-04 Advert (DE) 1993-09 Advert (US) 1993-11 Advert (DE) 1995-02 Advert (DE) 1995-02 Advert (US) 1995-03 Advert (DE) 1995-04 Advert (GB) 1995-05 Advert (GB) 1995-06 Advert (DE) 1995-08
Company
Village Tronic, Germany Date
1996Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2167 / 11,12,13
RTG graphics card
Cirrus Logic GD5428
30 MB/s blitter speed
85 MHz in 8 bit modes
45 MHz in 16 bit
28 MHz in 24 bit
2 MB 45 ns DRAM in four sockets
screen modes
1600×1280×8 interlace
1152×864×16 interlace
800×600×24 non-interlace
optional video encoder module - Pablo
FBAS and S-VHS outputs
only PAL compatible
15 kHz overload protection
brightness control
requires a time base corrector if used with a genlock
notes
two 15 pin VGA connectors
automatic passthrough
DPMS support
Picasso96, CyberGraphX 2, 3 & 4, EGS and PicassoRTG drivers
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1996-06
Company
Village Tronic, Germany Date
1996Amiga
A2000 A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro II Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
2167 / 21,22,23,24
RTG graphics card
Cirrus Logic GD5446 (PCI bus)
64 bit blitter
180 MB/s fillspeed
videoscaling with interpolation
colourroom converting
picture in picture
16 bit digital video port
135 MHz in 8 bit modes
85 MHz in 16 / 24 bit modes
15.5 - 84 kHz horizontal frequency
50 Hz interlace - 160 Hz non-interlace vertical frequency
4 MB 64 bit 45 ns EDO RAM, eight chips
screen modes
1600×1200×16 interlace
1280×1024×24 non-interlace
integrated flicker fixer
programmable up to 160 Hz
24 bit colourdepth for A4000, 12 bit for A3000 / A2000
EPROM stores the configuration
does not pass through native Amiga multiscan and double modes
optional modules
Pablo IV video encoder ( )
S-VHS and CVBS outputs
supports PAL B/G, PAL I, PAL M, NTSC, NTSC-EIA
SECAM is not supported
linear interpolation reduces flickering
two display sizes: 640×480 and 800×600 - the latter is only available in PAL B / G / I mode
a time base corrector is required if used with a genlock
Paloma TV tuner ( )
three video sources - TV tuner, S-VHS, FBAS
the tuner supports only PAL B/G or PAL I, it does not support SECAM and NTSC
the videodecoder supports all standards, so it would be possible to use SECAM or NTSC through the S-VHS or Composite input (using a VCR as external tuner), but...
the software (PalomaTV) is written PAL only
monoaural sound decoding only
no teletext support
Concierto sound module ( )
Yamaha OPL3 synthesizer
16 bit recording and playback
3-44.1 kHz input and output
MIDI interface
consists of a main board and an I/O board
two mini DIN connectors with adaptor cables
planned modules
notes
Zorro II / III autosensing
integrated local PCI bus
flashROM for firmware upgrades
four channel audio mixer on board: Amiga, line, TV, CD
audio signal switcher - Amiga and CD-ROM inputs
DDC2B Monitor Plug'n'Play technology
DPMS power saving
15 pin VGA output
S-VHS input / output for Pablo IV
3.5 mm stereo input / output
when fitting into an A2000 the flicker fixer must be removed by breaking the card - requires the Denise adapter to avoid this
no support for draggable screens
Picasso96 and CyberGraphX 3 & 4 drivers
supported by Linux and NetBSD
Rev 1.2N, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2N, back side
Company
Ingenieurbüro Helfrich, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000 A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro II Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
2195 / 5,6
RTG graphics card
Cirrus Logic GD5426
85 MHz in 8 bit modes
45 MHz in 16 bit
28 MHz in 24 bit
1 or 2 MB DRAM
screen modes
1600×1280×8 interlace
1152×864×16 interlace
800×600×24 non-interlace
notes
Zorro II / III autosensing
automatic passthrough
two 15 pin DSUB connectors
S-VHS and FBAS connectors for the optional video encoder module
early boards may have problems with GVP Combo cards - the memory / bus controller has to be replaced on the Piccolo
feature connector for connecting the VideoCruncher digitizer card
Picasso96, CyberGraphX 2, 3, 4, EGS and custom drivers
supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
front side
front side
front side
back side
connectors, right side
Piccolo video module, front side
Piccolo video module, back side
Piccolo-1.dms
install disk with PicoPainter v1.3 and loaders for AdPro / ImageMaster, disk 1 EGSAmigaDriver v6.011, egs.library v6.100 357 kB Piccolo-2.dms
install disk with PicoPainter v1.3 and loaders for AdPro / ImageMaster, disk 2 EGSAmigaDriver v6.011, egs.library v6.100 769 kB Piccolo-3.dms
install disk with PicoPainter v1.3 and loaders for AdPro / ImageMaster, disk 3 EGSAmigaDriver v6.011, egs.library v6.100 776 kB piccolo_1of3.dms
Installer's Heaven install disk 1 739 kB piccolo_2of3.dms
Installer's Heaven install disk 2 424 kB piccolo_3of3.dms
Installer's Heaven install disk 3 314 kB
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Company
Ingenieurbüro Helfrich, Germany Date
1995Amiga
A2000 A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro II Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
2195 / 10,11
RTG graphics card
Cirrus Logic GD5434
64 bit blitter
110 or 135 MHz in 8 bit modes
85 MHz in 16 bit modes
45 MHz in 24 bit modes
2 or 4 MB 64 bit 70 ns DRAM
2 MB (four chips) soldered to board
four sockets for additional 2 MB
screen modes
1600×1280×8 interlace
1280×1024×16 interlace
1024×768×24 interlace
notes
Zorro II / III autosensing
Picasso96, CyberGraphX 2, 3, 4 and EGS drivers
supported by Linux and NetBSD
front side
back side
Piccolo video module, front side
Piccolo video module, back side
PiccoloSD64-1.dms
install disk with PicoPainter v1.3 and loaders for AdPro / ImageMaster, disk 1 EGSAmigaDriver v7.001, EGSPiccoloSD64Driver v7.028, egs.library v7.008 465 kB PiccoloSD64-2.dms
install disk with PicoPainter v1.3 and loaders for AdPro / ImageMaster, disk 2 EGSAmigaDriver v7.001, EGSPiccoloSD64Driver v7.028, egs.library v7.008 803 kB PiccoloSD64-3.dms
install disk with PicoPainter v1.3 and loaders for AdPro / ImageMaster, disk 3 EGSAmigaDriver v7.001, EGSPiccoloSD64Driver v7.028, egs.library v7.008 777 kB
Advert (DE) 1995-06
Company
Kolff Computer Supplies, Netherlands Date
1990Amiga
A500 A2000 - -Interface
trapdoor slot Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
767 / 0
IBM XT emulation
A500: connects to the trapdoor connector
Zorro II: the same A500 version is connected to a Zorro II adapter card
Power PC Board v1:
NEC V30 @ 8 MHz processor
does not support hard drives, only floppy drives
revision 1 boards can be identified by board label "P25-41"
Power PC Board v2:
NEC V30 @ 10 MHz processor
supports HD controllers but a special driver is necessary
software revision 2.90 supports the following HD controllers: A.L.F. (OMTI), A590 (OMTI, SCSI), Golem HD3000 (OMTI), Profex HD3000 (OMTI), Winner I (OMTI), F.S.E. (OMTI), Rex Datentechnik (OMTI), SupraDrive 500XP (SCSI), GVP A500+ (SCSI)
much faster video emulation (CGA)
revision 1 boards can be identified by board label "P25-42"
1 MB RAM:
704 kB free RAM in MGA/CGA mode
640 kB free RAM in EGA/VGA mode
200 kB extra memory for a reset proof MS-DOS RAM disk
the RAM can be used by the Amiga as 512 kB Fast RAM and an additional 512 kB RAM disk
the board can use the Amiga's Fast RAM (up to 8 MB) as PC memory
does not multitask with the Amiga
uses the Amiga internal serial port with up to 19200 bit/s
uses the Amiga floppy controller and parallel port
video:
up to 640×480 in 16 colours
MGA 720×348
CGA 640/320×200
software emulated flicker-fixer in any PC interlace mode
battery backed up clock
emulated PC sound card
not compatible with NTSC Amigas
Rev 1, front side
Zorro adapter Rev 1.2 with Power PC Board Rev 2, front side
Zorro adapter Rev 1.2 with Power PC Board Rev 2, back side
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Company
Kolff Computer Supplies, Netherlands Date
1991Amiga
A500, A500+, A600 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
trapdoor slot Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
767 / 0
IBM XT emulation
A500, A500+: connects to the trapdoor connector
A600: installed in a plastic case under the A600, which is connected to the trapdoor slot with a short ribbon cable and adaptor board
Zorro II: the A500 version is connected to a Zorro II adapter card
NEC V30 @ 10 MHz processor
1 MB RAM:
704 kB free RAM in MGA/CGA mode
640 kB free RAM in EGA/VGA mode
200 kB extra memory for a reset proof MS-DOS RAM disk
in PC mode the board can use up to 8 MB of Amiga Fast RAM as PC memory
in Amiga mode the 1 MB RAM acts as Amiga RAM:
A500: 512 kB Chip RAM or 512 kB Fast RAM + 512 kB RAM disk
A500+, A600: 1 MB Chip RAM
A2000, A3000: 1 MB Fast RAM
if an Amiga has 8 MB Fast RAM installed, the Power PC Board supplies 512 Kb of Extra RAM only
does not multitask with the Amiga
uses the Amiga internal serial port, up to 38400 bit/s on a standard A500
uses the printer connected to the parallel port
uses the Amiga mouse and joystick
can use four Amiga floppy disk drives as PC disk drives, supports both 3.5 and 5.25" drives
most Amiga hard disk controllers are supported
video:
MGA (Hercules): 720×348 in 2 colours
CGA: 640×200 in 2 colours or 320×200 in 4 colours from a palette of 16
EGA: 640×350 in 16 colours from a palette of 64
VGA: 640×480 in 16 colours from a palette of 4096
software emulated flicker-fixer in any PC interlace mode
Adlib and SoundBlaster sound card emulation
battery backed up clock for A500 and A600
front side
back side
Advert (GB) 1993-01
Crystal Semiconductor Sound Codec 4231A
5510-64000 Hz frequency range
ALaw, uLaw, ADPCM compression / decompression
MPC Level 2 compatible mixer
dual DMA registers support full duplex operation
two onchip FIFO buffers for higher performance
selectable Serial Audio Data Port
two channel simultaneous playback (simple stereo signal)
unlike a DSP, this chip is designed solely for handling audio, it cannot for example, off-load your CPU when playing back an 8+ channel ScreamTracker file
connectors
LINE
can be routed to the ADC and to the onboard mixer
normally used for recording line level signals
MIC
can only be routed to the ADC, not to the mixer
used for recording only - signal may be line or mic level
AUX1
can be routed to the ADC and the onboard mixer
used for recording or mixing the audio output of a CD-ROM drive or the MPEGit MPEG audio decoder expansion module
AUX2
can only be routed to the mixer - cannot be used for recording
recommended for mixing with the Amiga output
after a reset when the card is not initialized by the mixer program, LINE out is muted and the source connected to AUX2 can only be sent to the mono output
OUT
notes
15 pin D-SUB connector for the customizable adaptor - when ordering, the type of connector can be chosen for each input (e.g. RCA, 1/4" phone plug , 1/8" phone plug
mixing means that the signal of that input can be mixed to the output along with other inputs, and the sound generated by the codec itself
recording means direct recording to RAM or hard disk from that input and also using it for digital realtime effects
40 pin (male) expansion bus connector for expansion modules
Rombler - wavetable / MIDI interface
MPEG-it! - MPEG audio decoder supporting Layer II & III streams
Arpeggiator - digital input / output (S/P-DIF) for DAT, CD, MiniDisc, etc.
full duplex 16 bit audio sampling, mixing and playback
sampling and playback rates up to 64 kHz even on 68000
EMI filtering and double surge protection
software
Realtime F/X; u-law, A-law, ADPCM encoder / decoder; Surround Decoder; Mixer (adjusts the level of each input); tapedeck (recording one of three inputs at a time); Dub! full duplex recorder (record and playback a file at the same time); AHI
optional Samplitude 3.0 or AudioLab16
AHI driver
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
Intelligent Data Systems, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
multifunctional Zorro slot expansion
Zorro slot converter, EPROM burner and Kickstart switcher combined into one expansion
ProKick XL features 4 Zorro II slots (ProKick only one)
plugs into side expansion connector
passthrough connector
EPROM burner
meant for burning Kickstart EPROMs from 256 KB (Kickstart v1.x) to 512 KB (Kickstart v2.x/v3.x)
supports 27C2001 (2 MBit) and 27C4001 (4 MBit) EPROMs
already prepared for 8 MBit EPROMs - using them require a change of GAL and FPGA (IC1 and IC2)
Kickstart files may not be split
only burning possible, no erasing
Notes
the ProKick / ProKick XL can also be installed in an A2000, with limited use though
Zorro cards are mounted vertically
the Kickstart installed on the ProKick is mapped to the memory range $F80000-$FFFFFF, thus the original Kickstart ROM, or the Kickstart WOM and Bootloader ROM in case of A1000, is not accessible
512 kB or 1 MB of EPROM space can be installed in total
expansion doesn't work with only one EPROM equipped, so always both sockets have to be occupied
part of the EPROM can be used for own software, e.g. Autoboot driver, if the Kickstart doesn't occupy all of the EPROM space
optional angled adapter:
available as an accessory for the ProKick (not suitable for the ProKick XL)
plugs into the Zorro slot
allows horizontal Zorro card mounting
offers an additional Zorro II slots (two in total)
a design tower case was available that allowed mounting the ProKick XL and an A500 motherboard in it
front side
back side
Company
Pro-Computer, Germany Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
autobooter
provides autoboot functionality for the Commodore A2090 SCSI controller
two autoboot ROMs
autoboots with Kickstart 1.2 and 1.3
front side
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
accepts DIPs in groups of 16 giving 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×1 (411000) DIPs only
no waitstates
memory autoconfig
the design is licensed from ASDG, the card is technically the same as the ASDG 8MI
front side
Company
ACDA, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
data acquisition and process control
the card holds a D/A, A/D, DIO module made by DataTranslation
40 kHz maximum sampling rate
16× 12 bit analog to digital conversion channels (16 bit channels are optional)
2× 8 bit digital to analog conversion channels
16× 1 bit digital input lines
16× 1 bit digital output lines
3× 16 bit timers (programmable and cascadable)
3× trigger sources for the A/D process
adjustable input gain on the analog input lines
programmable signal amplifier / generator
data channels can be read randomly or sequentially
the software (Digi-Scope) does not support OS 2.0 and above
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Company
Akron Systems Development, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
prototyping board
plated through holes on a 0.1" grid pattern
place for 119 16 pin DIP chips
supports PLCC and PGA sockets
adjustable bracket and layout for various DB connectors and header pins
the autoconfig layout is drawn on the board
voltage and ground planes
gold plated edge connector
Company
Pangolin Laser Software, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
Laser Display Controller
provides analogue and digital channels to control a Laser Display system (XYZ-RGB-I) to perform laser shows
DB-25F connector on the slot bracket
each analogue output provides bipolar direct current (DC)
X, Y, Z channels: -5 to +5 volts
R, G, B channels: 0 to +5 volts
depth cueing input for 3D applications
blanking support
software
supported by Pangolin Laser Show Designer LD400 software package
up to 16.800.000 colors
up to 4 laser projector operated (requires multiple QM16 cards)
3D and 2D mode
script-based programming to generate laser shows
support for up to 32 tracks
support for real-time 3D manipulations
support for up to 10,000 3D laser frames with up to 2,000 points per frame
renumbering laser graphics
real-time laser preview
Asteroids laser game
notes
although intended as laser controller, the card and software can also be used for other DC control voltage applications
no protection circuitry on the digital outputs
front side
back side
Company
Resource Management Force, Australia Date
1994Amiga
A500 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2011 / 2
Ethernet interface
A500: either 10BaseT or 10Base2 connectors, connects to the side expansion port
Zorro: AUI (Thick Ethernet) and either 10Base2 (Thin Ethernet) or 10BaseT (Twisted Pair) connectors
Fujitsu MB86950 controller
64 kB buffer
EPROM contains both a SANA II compatible driver and the QuickNet networking software
the server machine has to run a disk based software too
the software does not detect the addresses of the boards itself, it has to be entered manually
supported by NetBSD
front side
back side
Advert (AU) 1993-11 Advert (AU) 1994-02
Company
Hertz Elektronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2145 / 32
framebuffer
Analog Devices ADV7120 RAMDAC
80 MHz pixel clock
1.5 MB, 30 ns dual-ported video RAM in twelve ZIP sockets
four additional sockets take 0.5 MB for alpha channel
takes 256k×4 VRAM ZIPs
screen modes
768×576×24 (PAL)
768×476×24 (NTSC)
8 bit alpha channel option
15.75 kHz interlaced or 31.5 kHz non-interlaced modes selectable by jumper
notes
video RAM is mounted in the Zorro II address space, ruling out 8MB RAM expansions
if populated to 2 MB, VRAM can be used as system Fast RAM
DB9 output connector
supports 'Sync on Green' (toggled by jumper)
can generate a white test screen for the Video-DAC (activated by jumper)
two EPROM sockets for custom driver software
not compatible with genlocks
the card was first distributed by Ingenieurbüro Helfrich, later by BSC (sold it as R2) and Omega Datentechnik (sold it as R-II)
front side
back side
Company
RBW Elektronik, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
34659 / 18 30819 / 18
32 DIP sockets accept 4 MB RAM
supports 256k×4 (514256), 70 ns DIPs in groups of four
four 30 pin SIP sockets accept 4 MB RAM
supports 1 MB SIPs in groups of two
possible configurations are 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 MB
LCA logic (Logic Cell Array) EPROM - changing the EPROM allows the use of 4 megabit (1M×4) DIPs
disable switch
does not work in A3000
DIP switch settings
2 ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF
3 ON ON OFF OFF ON ON OFF OFF
4 ON ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF OFF
- 512 kB - 1 MB - 1 MB + 512 kB - 2 MB - 2 + 1 MB - 2 + 2 MB - 4 + 2 MB - 4 + 4 MB
front side
back side
Company
Amiga Hardware Tuning, Germany Date
1989Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
19796 / 42
sixteen sockets accept up to 1 MB EPROM or SRAM
supports 27C512 EPROMs (64 kB capacity)
supports static RAM, backed up by battery
autoboot, requires at least Kickstart 1.3
A500 and A1000 versions:
side expansion port to Zorro II adapter
there's no case, the Zorro II card is mounted vertically
the adapter has passthrough connector
realtime digitizer and video processor
twin board
video and graphics, DTP, CAD system
TMS34020 processor
40 MFLOPS peak speed at 40 MHz
32 bit architecture with 512 byte cache
TMS34082 coprocessor
32 bit math / graphics coprocessor
3D vector support and rendering engine
parallel processing capability
memory
8 MB of 44C251 1 Mb VRAM (two 4 MB banks)
pixel / bit aligned block transfer rate of 142 Mbits/s
8 MB of DRAM for resident applications
input: RS-170A (composite), CCIR-624 (PAL), and RGB (DB9 Targa Pin Compatible)
output: RS-170A (composite), CCIR-624 (PAL), externally synchable (genlockable) RGB (DB9 Targa Pin Compatible)
RGB resolutions
variable from 320×400 to 1024×1024, in 8 or 32 bits
1024×2048 scrollable work area by combining the two buffers
non-interlaced: 320×400, 320×480, 640×400, 640×480, 512×512, 640×640, 800×600, 800×640, 1024×512
interlaced: 800×800, 1024×768, 1024×1024
thousands of other custom resolutions possible
composite resolution: 768×480 (NTSC), 768×576 (PAL)
pixel depth: 8 bit or 32 bit, user definable
horizontal scan rate
programmable 15.734 kHz (nominal NTSC), 15.625 kHz (nominal PAL)
range 15-34 kHz
vertical scan rate
programmable 30 Hz (nominal NTSC), 25 HZ (nominal PAL)
range 25-100 Hz
interlace: programmable 2:1 interlaced, or non-interlaced
Amiga bus interface: 4×128 kB DMA blocks, directly addressable
hue, saturation, contrast: software adjustable via digital pots in 256 levels each
palette
16.7 million colours displayable from a palette of 16.7 million
alternative display of 256 colours from a palette of 16.7 million
overlay
8 bit alpha channel with 16 colour overlay
alpha channel colour key between buffers
image capture
full frame and field capture in 1/30th or 1/60th of a second
realtime image capture in 24 bits up to 1024×1024 resolution
grayscale image capture in 256 shades
multiple resolutions in composite and RGB, up to 1024×1024
two framebuffers with adjustable resolutions of up to 1024×1024 pixels per buffer in 32 bit colour
image processing
bit blitting
hardware zoom and pan
dynamic resizing
runlength encoding
JPEG compression support
image enhancement, image recognition, histography, and many other functions built in hardware
digital video effects: flipping, page turns, colourization, solarization, polarization, up to 8:1 zoom, rotations, picture in picture , live resizing, digital graphic overlay and many realtime 24 bit animation and digital video effects
SAGE Library: over 200 graphic functions, with 2D and 3D graphic libraries: LINEDRAW, POLYDRAW, CUBICSPLINE, PHONGSHADE, GOURADSHADE, and more.
fast image loading: NTSC overscan image in less than a second, 1.5 MB 24 bit image in less than 4 seconds
multiple Rambrandt boards can be linked together to create exceptional virtual reality systems
front side
front side
Advert (US) 1992-03
Company
Applied Engineering, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2088 / 224
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 256k×4 (514256) DIPs only, 120 ns or faster
accepts DIPs in groups of four giving 0.5 - 8 MB configurations in 512 kB increments
does not require setting switches or jumpers for various memory configuration
configurations other than 0.5, 1, 2 or 4 MB are considered as an additional RAM card
works with Kickstart 1.3 only
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1990-08
Company
DKB, USA Date
1995Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2012 / 15
SCSI 2 controller
Qlogic FAS246
not a DMA device - the performance suffers if accessing two disks at once on the card
autoboot ROM (dkbscsi.device)
passive termination
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
50 pin internal header
DB25 external SCSI connector
disk activity LED passthrough connector
memory
two 72 pin SIMM sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
supports 1, 2, 4 MB SIMMs, 80 ns or faster
front side
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1995-11
Company
Golden Image, UK Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1056 / 9,10
64 DIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
2 MB RAM preinstalled
accepts DIPs in groups of 16 giving 4, 6 or 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×1 DIPs only
disable jumper
front side
back side
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Company
Digitronics, USA Date
1988Amiga
A500 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
No description available.
Advert (US) 1988-06
Company
Comspec Communications, Canada Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1006 /
64 DIP sockets accept 2 MB RAM
supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
accepts 256k×1 DIPs only
front side
Company
Omega Datentechnik, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2145 / 1
64 ZIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1M×1 ZIPs in groups of 16
supports 2, 4, 6 or 8 MB configurations
Company
Aliendesign, Germany Date
2000Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
16708 / 0
sampling rates: 8, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48 kHz
S/P-DIF frequencies: 32, 44.1, 48, 96 kHz
support for 16 bit, 18 bit, 20 bit and 24 bit (S/P-DIF) samples in mono or stereo
enhanced full duplex recording
feature connector for extentions, an MP3 decoder module is planned
3D sound function for games
inputs and outputs
optical digital output (max 24 bit / 96 kHz, S/P-DIF compatible) capable to transfer standard PCM sound or encoded streams like Dolby Digital AC-3, MPEG Multichannel and DTS
optical digital input (S/P-DIF compatible)
stereo line in (external)
stereo line out (external)
mono microphone in (external)
independent stereo headphones out (external)
three internal stereo inputs to connect CD-ROMs etc.
all inputs (except S/P-DIF) can be mixed together
it's possible to record from all inputs simultaniously
the volume can be changed for every in- and output separately
software
AHI driver
with the mixer preferences all volumes can be changed in realtime and it's used to setup the S/P-DIF input/output
stream player to play encoded data via S/P-DIF output
stream extractor to extract encoded streams S/P-DIF input
D-Box AC3 player for watching movies with Dolby Digital audio
Toccata emulation
supported by NetBSD
Rev 3.2, front side
Rev 3.2, front side
Rev 3.2, back side
Company
Digital Micronics, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2129 / 1
RTG graphics card
Texas Instruments TMS34010 @ 60 MHz graphics processor
up to 1280×1024 non-interlaced
up to 2048×2048 interlaced
256 colours from the 16.7 million palette
16 colour overlay
two hardware cursors
up to 4 MB video RAM - 32 ZIPs
Resolver A - 1 MB VRAM, 1024×768, without double buffering
Resolver B - 2 MB VRAM, 1600×1200, with double buffering
Resolver C - 4 MB VRAM, 2048×2048
up to 1 MB overlay video RAM - 8 ZIPs
up to 8 MB DRAM for resident applications (2 MB standard) - 16 ZIPs
2048×2048 can be displayed even on a Commodore 1950 monitor that is 800×600 only
3 BNC output connectors
SAGE (Standard Amiga Graphics Environment) driver
X-Windows driver for Amiga Unix System V Release 4
Advert (US) 1991-09
Company
MacroSystem, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
18260 / 6
RTG graphics card
NCR 77C22E+
90 MHz max pixel clock
70 MHz in 8 bit modes
25 MHz in 24 bit modes
15-75 kHz horizontal frequency
50-100 Hz vertical frequency
1, 2 or 4 MB DRAM, page mode, segmented, 70-80 ns
sixteen ZIP sockets
1 MB setup: every second socket (1, 3, 5, 7...) is populated with a 256k×4 chip (414256)
2 MB setup: every socket is populated by a 256k×4 chip (414256)
4 MB setup: every second socket (1, 3, 5, 7...) is populated with a 1M×4 chip (414400)
screen modes
2400×1200×8 interlace
1280×1024×16 non-interlace
1024×768 non-interlace
notes
optional external composite encoder - gives television style video output
optional video encoder - S-VHS and composite outputs
HD15 VGA connector
EGS and RetinaEmu drivers
supported by NetBSD (except for X server) and OpenBSD
front side
back side
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Company
Deutsche-System-Technik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A3000Interface
Zorro II
Urban Train Driving Simulator
used for training of train drivers
built as driver's cab of DR class 477 (operation in Berlin)
cab is hydraulically actuated
contains original cockpit controls
visual display of pre-recorded tracks in Berlin
tracks are played back via Laser disc player, sounds are simulated
simulation includes display of track signalling (Hl, Sv, Zs and Ks signals)
A3000 with custom Zorro cards for display
simulation is aided by Sun SparcStations
originally built 1968 (as VES-M), upgraded with Amiga hardware in 1992
outdated since 1996 with the introduction of new train classes, now only operated historically
further information (in german): http://www.historischerfahrsimulatorberlin.de
Company
Comspec Communications, Canada Date
1990Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1006 /
SCSI controller
uses polled I/O transfers
autoboot ROM (CompspecSCSI.device) - can be disabled by software
does not support the RDB standard
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card - requires stand-offs
50 pin internal header
DB25 external SCSI connector
A-Max II driver (comspechd.amhd)
front side
back side
Company
Reis-Ware, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
43437 / 17 43537 / 17
handy scanner and interface
200 dpi hardware and 800 dpi oversampled resolution
16 - 64 grayscales
basic paint and OCR software
half length Zorro II card
8 pin mini-DIN connector for attaching the handy scanner
front side
back side
connector plate, front side
Advert (DE) 1992-03
Company
Feet Computer Systems, Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
8512 / 65
SCSI 2 controller
a simple SCSI controller card bundled with a Sharp JX-7000 SCSI printer or a SCSI scanner with SCANnex driver software
SCANnex supports the following scanners:
Sharp JX-320, JX-600
Mustek MFS-6000CX, MFS-12000CX
Tamarack TS-3000C, TS-6000C, TS-8000C
FAS216 controller IC
external SCSI connector only, 50 pin Centronics
no autoboot ROM
the manufacturer ID belongs to Phase 5
front side
back side
Company
Norman Jackson / MegaMicro, Australia Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4096 / 3,4
SCSI + RAM for A2000, a public domain kitware project
schematics, building instructions and driver software are all published
custom logic (GALs, PALs, etc.) are not published, these chips have to be ordered from the author
the five custom logic chips:
Bertie - controls the memory autoconfigure logic
Cyril - SCSI autoboot controller chip
Griswold - master timing controller for the DRAMs
Ronald - controls RAM operation
Dennis - main address decoder
SCSI controller
provides sockets for either an 8 or 16 bit SCSI controller IC:
National Semiconductor DP8490V - an enhanced version of NCR 53C80
NCR 53C94 - the card performs 50% faster with it
the two controllers require different custom logic chips and autoboot ROM
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
autoboot disable switch for older Kickstarts or for game compatibility
supports the Rigid Disk Block standard
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
hard disk power connector
50 pin internal SCSI header
external DB25 SCSI connector
SCSI access LED connector
termination power option - jumper selectable +5V on pin 25 of the external connector and pin 26 of the internal header for using passive terminators
non-DMA transfer
custom synchronising logic
memory
16 ZIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
takes 256k×4 or 1M×4 ZIPs
ZIP sizes cannot be mixed
possible configurations are 0, 2, 4 or 8 MB
static column ZIPs work, but not improve performance
zero wait state
RAM access LED
autoconfigure LED
SCRAM2000.lha
building instructions, schematics user manual driver software 534 kB
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Company
Alcomp, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI 2 controller
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card's hard frame
two 50 pin internal headers
no external SCSI connector
autoboot ROM
no RAM option
bundled with tape streamer and hard disk
front side
back side
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Company
DKB, USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2012 / 9
password protection
once installed, the board requires the user to enter a password at warm or cold boot
three chances are given and if they all fail, the machine is locked, requiring a cold reboot
on softkicking A3000s the password has to be entered twice: before Kickstart is loaded, and after the warm boot
passwords are case sensitive and not displayed on the screen when typing
the protection can be bypassed by removing the card
front side
back side
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Company
Edotronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 3
serial interface
four bidirectional serial ports
110 - 19200 bps transfer speeds
a dedicated processor controls the I/O operations to avoid system slow-downs during serial transfers
supports several protocols with the supplied drivers
Company
Checkpoint Technologies, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2055 / 0
serial interface
one DB9 and one DB25 serial port
the DB25 port pinout is identical to the standard Amiga serial port, it even supplies power on the same pins
standard baud rates from 50 to 38400 bps
custom baud rates up to 125000 bps - but both ports have to use the same rate
all handshaking lines are supported: DTR, DSR, CTS, RTS, CD, RI
MIDI compatible - includes a separate oscillator to produce the exact 31,250 bps MIDI rate
supported by Bars & Pipes - 16 MIDI channels per port (up to 48 channels including the Amiga built-in serial port)
serial driver is ckptss.device
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Company
Applied Systems Development, UK Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
serial interface
up to 4 serial ports
two MC68681 FIFO buffered dual UARTs
DB37F connector for breakout cable with connectors
front side
back side
plate side
Company
SKI Peripherals, Australia Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
32768 / 128
SCSI controller
Adaptec AIC-6250EL controller IC
uses non-DMA transfers
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
serial interface
Zilog 8530 controller IC
two DB9 serial ports
Company
Spirit Technology, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2034 / 4
OMTI controller
serves as a host for a 62 pin OMTI5520 (ST412/506) controller card
supports RLL and MFM
works only with hard disks with OMTI or DTC controller
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires Kickstart 1.3
metal rail for a 3.5" drive
cannot load data into the RAM of 32 bit accelerators
Advert (US) 1990-03
Company
Zeus Electronic Development, Germany Date
1997Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2189 / 4
serial interface
eight serial ports
75-57600 bps transfer speed including the 31250 bps MIDI rate
eight serial interface chips
microprocessor running at 11.1 MHz, could be pushed to 14.7 MHz
each port has an 8 byte buffer for both status and data
independent transfer speeds for every channel
front side
back side
Company
DKB, USA Date
1996Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
SCSI 2 controller
Qlogic FAS246
not a DMA device - the performance suffers if accessing two disks at once on the card
autoboot ROM (dkbscsi.device)
passive termination
50 pin internal header
DB25 external SCSI connector
disk activity LED passthrough connector
no memory expansion
front side
Company
Hardital, Italy Date
1989Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 10
FastRAM expansion
2 MB (16 DIP chips) soldered on board
48 DIP sockets accept up to 6 MB RAM
supported configurations are 2, 4 and 8 MB
accepts 1M×1 (511000) DIPs only
7 segment display shows RAM size in MB
can only be used in Amigas with Kickstart 1.3 and below due to bug in Zorro handling - the expansion is shown as "defective" on Kickstart 2.0 and above and not usable
due to the large size of the board, it physically fits only in A2000 and Towers
Switch Settings
Description Setting
0 MB OFF OFF ON OFF
2 MB ON ON ON OFF
4 MB ON OFF OFF ON
8 MB ON OFF OFF OFF
front side
back side
Advert (IT) 1990-03
Company
Supra , USA Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1056 / 3
SCSI controller
53C80 controller IC
uses DMA transfers
autoboot ROM - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
three mounting holes for attaching a SCSI to ST-506 adapter
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Company
Supra , USA Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1056 / 16
internal modem
MNP class 2-5 & V.42bis error correction
asynchronous operation at 300/1200/2400 bps
up to 4800 bps with another MNP5 modem
up to 9600 bps with another V.42bis modem
supports Bell 103/212 A and CCITT V.21/V.22/V.22bis/V.42bis
fully compatible to AT command set
front side
back side
Advert (DE) 1991-11 Advert (DE) 1991-11 Advert (US) 1991-12 Advert (US) 1991-12
Company
Hardital, Italy Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2080 / 1
SCSI controller
Zilog Z0538010PSC controller IC
autoboot ROM (syndisk.device)
RDB compatible
50 pin internal SCSI header
DB25 external SCSI connector
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
memory
sixteen ZIP sockets accept up to 8 MB RAM
accepts 1M×4 ZIPs in groups of four
supports 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations
front side
back side
Company
BSC , Germany Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2092 / 24
CD-ROM and IDE controller
no autobooting capability
half length card - no place for mounting a hard disk on the card
two 40 pin IDE headers
supports two IDE or ATAPI devices and two Mitsumi CD-ROM drives at once
the supported Mitsumi drives are:
LU-005S single speed
FX-001S single speed
FX-001D double speed
delivered with CD-ROM filesystem
front side
back side
Advert (US) 1994-05 Advert (GB) 1994-08
time base corrector
infinite window time base corrector using 8 bit 4:2:2 CCIR-601 professional quality all digital video signal processing
realtime 24 bit video framegrabber / framebuffer for use as a digital video stillstore or signal generator
full transcoding between Composite and Y/C (SVHS) input and Composite and Y/C (SVHS) output
full processing amplifier (ProcAmp) control for correcting or adjusting incoming video on the fly quickly and professionally (hue, brightness, contrast, saturation)
realtime programmable video special effects generator featuring solarization, strobing, pseudo colour, monochrome effects, and more
NTSC / PAL / SECAM signal standards conversion to NTSC / PAL for integration into worldwide video environments automatically
ImageFX: direct editing and manipulation in the framebuffer
optional full SMPTE / EBU timecode receiver / generator (encoding / decoding / striping) - VITC (Vertical Interval Time Code) and LTC (Longitudinal Time Code) can be read and written
optional digital comb filter (cleans up Composite for Y/C output and fixes cross colour by splitting the Composite signal into separate chroma and luma signals as if it were a true Y/C input) provides true wide band 5.5 MHz Composite video performance
inputs and outputs reside on an adaptor cable
inputs: Y/C, two Composite Video, external key signal, sync reference signal, Longitudinal Time Code (LTC)
outputs: Y/C, Composite Video, Longitudinal Time Code (LTC)
the Composite and Y/C inputs can be connected simultaneously and hot switched with software without having to play with cable connections
convert the two Composite inputs into a single Y/C input, providing two switchable Y/C inputs
up to five TBCPlus cards can be installed in a single Amiga and independently controlled
will not overload the power supply when the maximum of five TBCPlus units are installed
works in 30 Hz, 29.97 Hz, 25 Hz, 24 Hz drop frame and color frame modes, can put a SMPTE burn-in window anywhere over the video
memory
two 30 pin SIMM sockets for frame buffer memory - 1 MB installed as standard, expandable to 2 MB for improving special effects
two 64 pin SIMM sockets for 4 or 8 MB standard Zorro II Fast RAM - accepts only 4 MB GVP SIMMs
the Fast RAM expansion has nothing to do with the performance of the TBC Plus, it doesn't increase the frame buffer capacity - it is meant for A3000 and A4000 machines which may have problems with Zorro II DMA to Chip RAM
front side
back side
Comb Filter module, front side
Comb Filter module, back side
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Company
Pacific Peripherals, USA Date
1987Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 2
64 DIP sockets accept up to 2 MB RAM
supports 0.5, 1 or 2 MB configurations
uses 256k×1 DIPs
zero wait states
Advert (US) 1987-04 Advert (US) 1987-07 Advert (US) 1987-11 Advert (US) 1988-01
Company
DKB, USA Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
No description available.
Advert (US) 1994-08
Company
Ambience Creation Technology, Australia Date
2002Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
USB interface
one USB connector - for connecting multiple USB devices an external USB hub is required
complies to the USB 1.1 specification
supported by the Poseidon USB stack
drivers are available for printers, scanners, ethernet adapters, keyboards and mice
front side
Company
NewTek , USA Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
Video Toaster controller
a SCSI based remote controller that allows Video Toaster to be used as a peripheral for an Apple Macintosh
as several TV stations and video production companies have experience only with Macs, NewTek had a demand for a Toaster to Mac interface system
the system consists of the Amiga interface card, the controller software on the Macintosh, and a simple SCSI cable
the controller software allows the use of Mac OS based image- and video processing applications instead of ToasterPaint, provides a Mac like user interface for the Video Toaster Switcher, and provides file transfers to and from the Amiga
the interface card is manufactured by Expansion Systems, it's basically a modified version of their DataFlyer Plus SCSI card
AMD 5380 SCSI controller
DB25 external SCSI connector
modified "autoboot ROM" and PALs
SCSI ID selector jumpers in place of DataFlyer's IDE header
front side
Company
Scott Advanced Microdesigns Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2128 / 1
serial interface
two DB9 ports
ST16C552 interface chip
individually programmable transfer speeds up to 691200 bps
16 byte transmit and receive FIFO buffers with adjustable trigger depth
optional internal MIDI interface - rules out the second serial port
cereal.device - supports up to 32 units of Triceratops serial channels
parallel interface
one DB25 bidirectional parallel port
extprint.device - output only parallel port driver for up to 8 units
no parallel input device driver is supplied
front side
back side
Company
ICD, USA Date
1993Amiga
A500 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2071 / 35
Trifecta LX: SCSI 2 and IDE controllers
Trifecta EC: IDE controller only
ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
autoboot ROM (trifecta.device) - can be disabled with a switch
autoconfiguring of the memory can be disabled with a switch
50 pin external SCSI connector (LX)
A500 version:
connects to the side expansion port
GVP compatible mini slot for GVP's PC emulator board
own power supply
Zorro II version:
does not work in A3000 / A4000
front side
ICDPrepHD-42.dms
install disk v4.2 ICDPrepHD v4.2, adide.device v4.0r1, adscsi.device v4.0r1, icddisk.device v3.5r1, trifecta.device v4.0r1 117 kB ICDPrepHD-40.dms
install disk v4.0 ICDPrepHD v4.0, adide.device v4.0r1, adscsi.device v4.0r1, icddisk.device v3.5r1, trifecta.device v4.0r1 117 kB
Company
Interactive Video Systems, USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 48
SCSI controller
AMD 53C80
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
50 pin internal header
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM (IVS_SCSI.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
when booting from floppy disk, the hard disk is not mounted automatically in order to prevent virus infection - but pressing the left mouse button during startup forces the HD to be mounted
hard disk activity LED connector
not RDB compatible
A-Max II driver (ivs_scsi.amhd)
TrumpCard, front side
TrumpCard, back side
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Company
Interactive Video Systems, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 52
SCSI controller
AMD 53C80
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
50 pin internal header
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
autoboot ROM (IVS_SCSIpro.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
when booting from floppy disk, the hard disk is not mounted automatically in order to prevent virus infection - but pressing the left mouse button during startup forces the HD to be mounted
hard disk activity LED connector
RDB compatible
SCSI share networking - one computer has write access the others have read access only
A-Max I and II drivers (ivs_SCSIpro.amhd)
supported by NetBSD and OpenBSD
no RAM option - the Trumpcard Pro 2000 with RAM expansion and extra parallel port is the Grand Slam
Rev 1.3, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2, back side
Rev 1.2 with bracket, front side
Advert (US) 1990-10 Advert (FR) 1990-10
Company
ASDG , USA Date
1988Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
1023 / 255
general purpose I/O board
it is a host for two industry standard Intel iSBX (IEEE-959) I/O daughterboards
supports both the 8 and 16 bit iSBX modules
ASDG offered two modules: a GPIB (IEEE-488) module and a dual serial port module
any other iSBX module can be installed: A/D and D/A converters, digital I/O, servo controllers, stepper motor controllers, etc.
Twin-X cannot DMA on the Zorro bus but it can be set up in a way that DMA requests from the mounted iSBX modules (which of course support DMA) triggers an interrupt in the Amiga
the iSBX modules appear to be standard auto-configuring boards for the Amiga
autoconfig status LEDs - when a module is correctly configured its LED lights up
two activity LEDs - when a module is accessed its LED lights up
SBX-GPIB module, front side
SBX-GPIB module, back side
front side
back side
with GPIB module, front side
Twin-X.zip
tool disk Professional ScanLab 1.4.1 (01.04.91) for Sharp JX-300, JX-450 and JX-600 (GPIB color scanners) 460 kB
Company
Kato Development, Germany Date
1999Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
clock port and PCMCIA interface
allows using expansions initially done for the A1200
onboard high speed serial interface - the same as Twister 1200
the card is prepared for an onboard parallel interface
two clock ports, one PCMCIA port and one external serial port
variable bus speed - it makes possible to run expansions nearly as slow as in the A1200 but it's even possible to go up to twice that speed
optional PCMCIA Ethernet modules
Unity-Net 10
10Base-T and 10Base-2 connectors
16 kB databuffer
auto detection of TwistedPair / BNC connection
Unity-Net 100
100Base-TX connector
64 kB databuffer
auto negotiation of 10Base-T and 100Base-TX
Notes
the Unity never left prototype status
standard version was too expensive
the cost reduced version was easily destroyable due to lacking buffers
Company
MacroSystem, Germany Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
18260 / 18
non-linear editing system
realtime JPEG compression / decompression chipset
composite and Y/C input and output
optional digital YUV or RGB component transcoders (50 pin feature connector)
integrated genlock and chroma key
2.5 MB, 30 ns DRAM
realtime video capture (60 fields or 30 fps for NTSC) and playback at YUV 4:2:2 square pixel quality 768×576
integrated scaling hardware giving extended capture and replay capability with picture in picture feature
also perfect for computer animation playback from any animation package
motion JPEG nonlinear video edit/playback
complete ARexx support allows digital video effects to be applied to video frames with third party image processor softwares
no TBC, time code or dedicated hard drives are required
fully integrated with the Toccata audio digitizing card giving simultaneous, synchronized, direct to disk CD quality audio recording
additional adapter for direct interfacing with the Video Toaster
MovieShop editing software
video clips and audio are stored within special JPEG file system partitions whose maximum size is 4 GB
cuts or sequences can be played back any time, making edits of the rough or fine cut visible at a glance
runs directly on V-Lab Motion board minimizing CPU access time
Rev 1.3, front side
Rev 1.2, front side
Rev 1.2, back side
Rev 1.3, front side
Rev 1.3, back side
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Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2001Amiga
A1200 A2000, A3000, A4000 - -Interface
clock port Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 7
serial interface
460800 bps transfer speed
16 byte FIFO buffer
MIDI compatible
DB9 serial connector
parallel interface
16 byte FIFO buffer
supports ECP mode (extended capabilities port)
DB25 parallel connector
notes
can be installed in three ways:
into a Zorro II slot
to the 26 pin expansion port of a Buddha, Buddha Flash, Catweasel Z2, ISDN Surfer, X-Surf or another VarIO (Hypercom, ISDN-Blaster and Highway are incompatible)
to a clock port - only possible with a special version of the VarIO that is only manufactured on order (the difference is the voltage level converter)
clock port pin 40 is marked
if installed into a Zorro II slot the clock port or the 26 pin expansion port (only one of them at a time) can be used for expanding the VarIO
clock port allows using expansions initially designed for the clock port of the A1200
when installed in Zorro slot, pin 40 of the card's clock port is towards the front side of the computer, pin 19 resp. pin 1 towards the rear side
marked wire of clock port expansions go to pin 19 or pin 40, depending on the manufacturer's definition - e.g. expansions made by Individual Computers are installed with the red stripe on pin 40 (to the left), expansions of E3B mark pin 19 / pin 1 (to the right)
front side
back side
vario.lha
Individual Computers install disk v37.19 163 kB SetupVarIO.zip
Individual Computers Update of the SetupVarIO for A500 Users 14 kB
Company
Roland Köhler / Merkens EDV, Austria Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2009 / 2
framebuffer / realtime digitizer
24 bit video digitizing at 50 fps
recording of 24 bit images from hard disk to VCR
up to 512×580 resolution (less than PAL)
1.5 MB video RAM
25 pin female connector for attaching the RGB splitter
external RGB splitter:
S-VHS / Hi8 and Euro-AV (Scart) inputs
DB23 RGB output connector - can only display the framebuffer image, the Amiga image is not passed through
external power supply
software:
reads IFF, RAW-RGB (Sculpt) and Beams (Reflections) formats
does not support RGB8 (TurboSilver, Imagine)
eleven filters: Smooth, Gauss, Median, Laplace, etc.
ARexx port
needs external sync signal on startup
front side
back side
Company
HK-Computer, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
6148 / 0
64 DIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 2, 4 or 8 MB configurations with autoconfig
the 6 MB configuration works only with autoconfig disabled - the memory has to be added by software
accepts 1M×1, 70 - 120 ns DIPs
running a 6 MB card together with a BridgeBoard requires replacing a PAL
not compatible with A2000-A motherboards
front side
back side
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Company
HK-Computer, Germany Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2113 / 227
serial and parallel interface
up to two bidirectional parallel ports
up to four serial ports - one 25 pin and three 9 pin ports
revision below 2.7
max 57600 bps transfer speed
each two ports must be used at the same transfer speed when using rates above 19200 bps (below mixing is possible)
guaranteed transfer rates: 38400 bps on 68000, 57600 on 68020
hardware bug: lines for DSR and CD are switched on port SER3 - this is corrected by software
revision 2.7 or above
max 115200 bps transfer speed (replacing an oscillator is necessary)
each two ports must be used at the same transfer speed when using rates above 57600 bps (below mixing is possible)
needs at least driver software v1.3
notes
serial drivers / buffers are socketed
if a serial driver is destroyed by overcharge replacing the appropriate 1488 and 1489 chip solves the problem
driver software v2.0 or above requires Kickstart 2.04
MIDI compatible
front side
front side
back side
back side
Company
HK-Computer, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
41233 / 1 56 / 3
SCSI 2 controller
uses polled I/O, not DMA transfer
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card but no power connector is mounted on the board
50 pin internal header
DB25 external connector
hard disk activity LED connector
RDB compatible
driver software is written by Jürgen Kommos
memory
sixteen ZIP sockets accept 8 MB RAM
supports 1M×4, 70 or 80 ns ZIPs
accepts ZIPs in groups of four giving 2, 4, 6, 8 MB configurations
memory is not continuous but autoconfigured into 2 MB chunks
front side
back side
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Company
HK-Computer, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
41233 / 1
SCSI 2 controller
place for a 3.5" hard disk on the card
50 pin internal header
autobootROM (vector.device) - autobooting requires at least Kickstart 1.3
Vector SCSI is RDB compatible, Professional SCSI is not
disable jumper
does not work with some Seagate and Fujitsu hard disks
developed by W. Heinen and Jürgen Kommos
front side
back side
Company
NewTek , USA Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
NTSC only non-linear editing system
broadcast quality, tapeless nonlinear editing system for the Video Toaster and Video Toaster 4000
requirements:
Video Toaster with v4.1 software
a SCSI 2 drive for Lightwave recording
three SCSI 2 drives for A/B roll editing - two for video, one for audio
input from video tapes must be time base corrected
compresses and plays back video in realtime
true broadcast quality - 60 fields per second, full overscan 752×480
internally works with D2 data - no D2 / composite transcoding
proprietary coporession method: Video Toaster Adaptive Statistical Coding (VTASC):
relies on limiting the video signal (i.e. dropping to Beta SP quality) instead of lowering picture quality as do JPEG, MPEG, WaveLet
no visible pixelization, artifacts show as video "noise" instead of jpeg "blockiness"
by using faster drives, lossless D2 quality can be achieved
three SCSI buses (two for video, one for audio), each bus can handle 7 SCSI drives (21 total)
two serial ports to control serial-capable VTRs
the SCSI and serial ports can be routed outside of the computer with the so called Octopus cable
video:
video input to the Flyer is provided via the connecting internal ribbon cable from the Toaster, as is video output
14.3 MHz sampling rate
8 bit quantizing
8 MB buffer
audio recorder / mixer:
ADSP2115
digital inputs
video disk A and B, left and right
audio disk A and B, left and right
analog, unbalanced left and right RCA inputs and outputs on the card's backplane
64 kB memory
20 MHz clock rate
16 bit sampling at 44.1 kHz
64x oversampling ratio A/D converter
front side
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back side
Advert (US) 1997-03
Company
Ingenieurbüro Helfrich, Germany Date
1994Amiga
A2000 A3000, A4000 - -Interface
Zorro II Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
2195 / 8
realtime digitizer
a video expansion card for the Piccolo graphics card
connects to the Piccolo via a ribbon cable
realtime JPEG compression / decompression chipset
captures video in motion JPEG format
realtime video capture (50 fields or 25 fps) and playback at YUV 4:2:2 square pixel quality
768×576 maximum resolution for still images
468×352 maximum resolution for video
16 ZIP sockets for 2 MB frame buffer VRAM
Composite and Y/C inputs
Composite, Y/C and analogue RGB outputs
Zorro II / III autosensing
the card works without the Piccolo but some features are not available:
no PIP (Picture In Picture)
only the RGB output is active
Videocruncher Lite does not support PIP at all and has a maximum resolution of 384×288 only
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Company
CEL Mühlenhoff, Germany Date
1991Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
realtime video enhancer
improves quality of video signals for copying/editing and applies several effects on them
consists of a Zorro card (only for controlling purposes) and an external box (W×H: 19"×8.75", 12 kg)
all effects are done in hardware, Amiga software is only needed for controlling
software needs 1 MB Chip RAM
framebuffer with max. 256.000 colors
supports full PAL resolution of 864×625
lots of options to fit many purposes
basic version
connectors (all BNC except Data Input):
Video I/O: 2× Y/C (one optional), 2× Colour Composite (one optional), 1× RGB
RGB-Sync Output
Data Input: 25 pin Sub-D
effects: ColorBox Fade & Switch, Freeze, Zoom, Master Video Fade In/Out, Noise Reduction
allows adjustment of the following video parameters: Brightness/Contrast, Colour Level, Carrier Frequency, Vertical Timebase
optional Genlock module
genlock is based on Commodore design
provides genlock Input/Output (C-Sync)
two different versions, either 'normal' genlock or BlueBoxGenlock
for installation, a trace on the PCB (J1) has to be cut
optionally provides additional statical effects: MultiPicture, Picture In Still (PIS), Still in Picture (SIP), Genlock/BlueBoxGenlock Fade & Wipe
optional YUV module
provides YUV Output (BNC connectors)
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Interface card, front side
Interface card, front side
Interface card, back side
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Company
X-Pert Computer Services / Viona Development, Germany Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2117 / 1,2
RTG graphics card
Inmos IMS G300C (85, 110 or 135 MHz) programmable RAMDAC and sync generator
no blitter, line drawing engine, or other general purpose graphics processing capability
Visiona Paint: 2 MB 20 ns VRAM in 16 ZIP sockets
Visiona Paint+: 4 MB 20 ns VRAM in 32 ZIP sockets
screen modes
maximum resolution is only limited by the amount of VRAM installed
24/32 bit: up to 1024×1024
8 bit: up to 2048×2048
2 bit: up to 4096×4096
1 bit: up to 8192×4096
the resolutions above need 4 MB VRAM - with 2 MB VRAM, the maximum resolution is limited
maximum horizontal frequency: 80 kHz
resolutions above 1600×1280 flicker badly
notes
Visiona Paint can be converted to a Visiona Paint+ by adding 16 RAM chips and a new control PAL
the VRAM uses 2 resp. 4 MB in the Zorro II address space:
limits Zorro II RAM expansions to 6 resp. 4 MB
the VRAM can be used by the Amiga as memory expansion using Addmem program (Visiona library must not be activated)
content of the Video RAM can be changed by the CPU and the Video Controller (which accesses the Video RAM with a DMA controller)
two separate oscillators for PAL and NTSC signals - two additional sockets for eg. SECAM
15 pin VGA connector
five HF-PCB connectors
supports several Sync options:
output: separate H-Sync/V-Sync, Composite Sync on H-Sync, Sync-on-Green
input: external synchronization (on H-Sync) with a TBC possible (needs small hardware expansion)
EGS driver
the Visiona, the GVP EGS-110/24 and EGS-28/24 Spectrum were all designed by Hendrik Horak
DIP switch settings
Jumper
Description
ON
OFF
1
Amount of Video RAM
4 MB
2 MB
2
ROM selection
selected
deselected
3 - 6
reserved
-
-
7
Video Standard
NTSC
PAL
8
Interlace setting
Interlace on
Interlace off
9
not used
-
-
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Visiona.pdf
Bedienungsanleitung / german user manual 1350 kB
Advert (US) 1992-11
Company
Edotronik, Germany Date
1992Amiga
A2000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2064 / 8
allows the Amiga to access the VME bus as Master Controller
consists of two cards, a Zorro II and a VME bus card
the cards are connected together by a 64 pin ribbon cable
supports 24 bit address and 16 bit data lines
bus requests on all 4 levels can be enabled with jumpers
the interrupt handler supports all 7 interrupt levels
requires 2 MB RAM
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Advert (DE) 1990-01 Advert (DE) 1990-05
Company
Digital Audio Design / IVS, USA Date
1994Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
2112 / 191
16 bit stereo digitizing and recording and playback
half duplex
64x oversampling
frequency response of 10 Hz to 20 kHz
dynamic range of 85 dB
eight sampling rate: 48, 44.1, 32, 29.4, 24, 22.05, 19.2, 17.64 kHz
internal SMPTE 24 / 25 / 30 fps time code sync
pair of stereo I/O jacks to record from any line level audio source
during recording the software allows adjusting the input gain over a span of 22.5 dB whereas during playback it spans 46.5 dB
built in filtering eliminates aliasing distortion
audio editing functions: cut, copy, paste, mix
uses AIFF16 stereo file format
the mixing function provides the left and right channels with six separate gain controls having a +/-32 dB range for both input and output files (these adjustments allows to control the balance of the mix)
optional RTX real-time effects extension board
AD2105 DSP chip and a 256 kB buffer
reads and writes SMPTE time code LTC, VITC, MTC (MIDI Time Code) versions - burn time code windows onto incoming video for work prints
in addition to SMPTE lock, it provides SMPTE cue lists for timed playback of audio clips
adds multi-track capability to Wavetools
mixing in real-time, up to 8 tracks
realtime effects such as flange, echo, slapback, EQ, etc
accepts composite NTSC or PAL video for VITC and line level audio fot LTC
AHI driver
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Company
Commodore, USA Date
1990Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
514 / 97 514 / 3
production line test card for all of the A3000's I/O functions
tests the correct functioning of SCSI, floppy, serial, parallel, mouse, game and audio ports
includes the complete circuitry and custom chips of these ports from the A3000 motherboard: DMAC and WD33C93, two CIAs, Paula
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Company
Data & Electronics / GameWorks, Netherlands Date
1990Amiga
A500, A1000 A2000 - -Interface
side expansion port Zorro II
freezer
successor of the Nordic Power freezer module
A500 / A1000 version:
plugs into the side expansion port
3 LEDs, indicating memory scan (yellow), speed (green) and enabled freeze mode (red)
slow motion disable switch
slow motion controller
A2000 version:
no LEDs, no slow motion disable switch
covered connector for diagnosis purposes (not to be used)
two connectors for slow motion controller and freeze button
card features only 86 pins, but has to be inserted in Zorro slot
not compatible with bridge boards
freezer features:
trainer maker
save computer memory (freezed programs) to disk
machine monitor / disassembler
disk / file utilities: Dir, Path, MkDir, Rename, Erase, Install, Format, FileCopy, DiskCopy
picture / music (tracker) / sample ripper
sprite editor
slow motion controller
slide show generator for IFF images
joystick autofire
disk monitor
shows computer status (disk parameters, ChipRAM, FastRAM...)
detects non-standard boot blocks (virus test)
joystick test
includes X-Copy on cartridge
color and screen mode adjust
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X-Power.txt
Bedienungsanleitung / german user manual 151 kB
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2000Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 23
Ethernet interface
Realtek 8019AS chipset
10Base2 and 10BaseT connectors
automatic detection of the used connector
10 Mbit transfer rate (20 Mbit fullduplex on twisted-pair)
16 kB databuffer
autoprefetch
automatic polarity correction for 10BaseT
Noise Filter Bus Interface ensures proper function in heavy-loaded Zorro systems
SANA 2 driver (MNI driver is in development)
supported by NetBSD
expansion ports
26 pin expansion port compatible with the one on the Buddha/Catweasel controllers
two clock ports for A1200 expansions
two IDE ports: 3,5" and 2,5" - as free add-ons to the X-Surf
can be activated by the IDE-fix software package
autobooting is not possible with these ports
the timing is not configurable
preemptive use of IDE devices - necessary for CD-writers - is impossible
all expansion ports are independent from each other and can be used at the same time
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xsurf.lha
Individual Computers Sana2 driver v1.2 31 kB xsurfide.lha
Individual Computers IDE driver v1.04 16 kB
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2013Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II, Zorro IIIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 100
Ethernet interface
Asix AX88796BLF Ethernet chip (NE2000 compatible)
100 MBit/s transfer rate
RJ45 connector
16 kB databuffer
Zorro III interface with Z2/Z3 auto sensing
SANA 2 and NetBSD drivers
notes
jumper to force Zorro II mode
in systems with 68EC030/68030, the data caches must be disabled
for operation in Mediator PCI/Zorro daughterboard, the swap jumper must be closed
local expansion port (48 pin header) for the high-speed USB module RapidRoad that activates the external USB ports
very slim card, a finger hole in the board allows easier removal
only compatible with a Merlin graphics card that has the latest fixes installed
Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2002Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 23
Ethernet interface
Realtek 8019AS chipset
10BaseT connector
10 Mbit transfer rate
fullduplex and supports auto-negotiation
16 kB databuffer
autoprefetch
automatic polarity correction
Noise Filter Bus Interface ensures proper function in heavy-loaded Zorro systems
SANA 2 and PPPoE drivers (MNI driver is in development)
supported by NetBSD
expansion ports
26 pin expansion port compatible with the one on the Buddha/Catweasel controllers
two clock ports for A1200 expansions
two IDE ports: 3,5" and 2,5"
can be activated by the IDE-fix software package
autobooting is not possible with these ports
the timing is not configurable
preemptive use of IDE devices - necessary for CD-writers - is impossible
all expansion ports are independent from each other and can be used at the same time
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Company
Individual Computers , Germany Date
2007Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro IIAutoconfig ID
4626 / 23
Ethernet interface
Realtek 8019AS chipset
10Base2 and 10BaseT connectors
automatic detection of the used connector
10 Mbit transfer rate (20 Mbit fullduplex on twisted-pair)
16 kB databuffer
autoprefetch
automatic polarity correction for 10BaseT
Noise Filter Bus Interface ensures proper function in heavy-loaded Zorro systems
SANA 2 driver (MNI driver is in development)
supported by NetBSD
expansion ports
26 pin expansion port compatible with the one on the Buddha/Catweasel controllers
two clock ports for A1200 expansions
one IDE port: 3,5" (40 pin header) - as free add-on to the X-Surf
can be activated by the IDE-fix software package
autobooting is not possible with these ports
the timing is not configurable
preemptive use of IDE devices - necessary for CD-writers - is impossible
all expansion ports are independent from each other and can be used at the same time
Company
Y/C Plus Inc., USA Date
1993Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
Y/C adapter
Y/C adapter for the Video Toaster or Flyer systems
Faroudja Laboratories' TDDA
two dimensional digital adaptive comb filter
removes unwanted video artifacting by comparing each pixel in front, on top and behind
far superior to any other comb filter - they compare video information line by line instead of pixel by pixel
black level improvement for better colour saturation and vivid colours
reduces dot crawl and cross luminance to an absolute minimum
delivers more than 450 lines of resolution versus the 275 to 325 lines in composite mode
four parallel inputs to the Toaster with two Y/C program outputs (6× mini-DIN)
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Company
Celestial Systems, USA Date
1989Amiga
A2000, A3000, A4000Interface
Zorro II
No description available.
Advert (US) 1989-03