English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Multi Zorro II / III Card ZZ9000 on an A4000/040 can be usefull ?

stevelord · 01 July 2020, 14:05

I have one in my A4000. The positives are that networking is rock solid, the graphics card element is very good but I have minor issues here and there.

The USB isn't really usable for me, I get dos errors all the time. The 128mb of RAM causes instability issues for me. Both of these features are fairly experimental and the author is working on an open source laptop right now so I wouldn't expect huge amounts of progress on them soon.

However... V2 of the ARM core firmware includes Linux and bidirectional comms, so you can run things like a browser on the ARM core and it'll be visible on the Amiga. That's a while off coming out, but should be fun when it does.

If you don't have any expansions, I'd say it's a good way to get a very good graphics card and good network card relatively inexpensively. If someone has those already and are happy with what they have I'm less sure the value is quite there yet. But it will be in time!

01 July 2020, 14:05	#4
stevelord Registered User Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: UK Posts: 540	I have one in my A4000. The positives are that networking is rock solid, the graphics card element is very good but I have minor issues here and there. The USB isn't really usable for me, I get dos errors all the time. The 128mb of RAM causes instability issues for me. Both of these features are fairly experimental and the author is working on an open source laptop right now so I wouldn't expect huge amounts of progress on them soon. However... V2 of the ARM core firmware includes Linux and bidirectional comms, so you can run things like a browser on the ARM core and it'll be visible on the Amiga. That's a while off coming out, but should be fun when it does. If you don't have any expansions, I'd say it's a good way to get a very good graphics card and good network card relatively inexpensively. If someone has those already and are happy with what they have I'm less sure the value is quite there yet. But it will be in time!