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Old 21 September 2021, 12:17   #22
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I am thinking of making a 'breakout' board for Amiga development
You can buy them. Not sure how economical they are today but I've got two here.

https://twinind.com/index.php/produc...typing-boards/
https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/p...ping-kit/81942

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I have also decided that as much as practicable I will use standard logic gates rather than CPLDs or FPGAs
The FPGA on the OxU950 boards were for the controller not PCMCIA glue logic. We were designing the controller.

The hard bit IMO is not the interfacing to an external peripheral of the era. Most interfaces are extremely simple, just wires. The hard bit is writing an AmigaOS driver. But this could be just because I've never done one.

Some people have done AmigaOS PCMCIA drivers

Neil Cafferkey wrote a 3c589 PCMCIA network card SANA2 driver and Prism2 PCMCIA Wifi card SANA2 driver.

Some guy called Bruce Abbott wrote/contributed to the NE2000 PCMCIA network card SANA2 driver.

But are SANA2 drivers easier to write than full AmigaOS drivers? Than say a Poseidon USB host driver?

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