I'd like to know if anyone is able to shed some light on the
recent(?) death of the Picasso96 homepage. Formerly here

...to the whereabout of the original authors: Tobias Abt, Thomas Kneer

...to the overall future of Picasso96 and the AmigaOS4 gfx system
in later versions of the OS.

Also, if someone can give the information about AHI.

It's still being developed, yes, but wasn't there a new sound
system that should be written from scratch and implemented
in later OS versions?

Just curious, seeking noone in special, just wanna know.

So, if noone is breaching any NDA, could you please share?

TIA

@Outcast

AWESOME

Too short, though, thanks for sharing...

@Amigaz

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A shot slightly from the side would have been better.
Anyway, if i look very closely, i can see the board,
but only the thin side of it.

Great tower btw, i need to get those round cables, too

@Amigaz

I'm sorry, but i don't see a thing

The HD is in the bottom cage, but i don't see the ACARD.
I must admit i still don't know if the bridge is plugged
right into the HD or if a cable goes from the HD to the
bridge and further?

Is it done like that?

@Amigaz

At last

Thanks a lot

@Amigaz

Ah, come on, now you left me completely puzzled

Please, answer the following question with a simple YES or NO

An IDE HD connected via an Acard Bridge adapter to the UWSCSI controller that resides on the CyberstormPPC does DMA?

@Curty

Yeah...

Thanks for sharing

@Bean

Marvellous work, thank you

@stianstr

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Yes

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Give them some time to answer, they are very busy, although...read further

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Quoting from their website:
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Not enough requests for now, i suppose?

@PEB

As far as i know (and it may be well outdated already) they said they'll do the repair work only (for now?)

@poweramiga

Another year passed without doing something stupid?

Waaaaaaaay to go, man

@Amigaz

Thanks

Anyone know of a place which sells UWSCSI drives for a decent price?
Or do i have to pay outrageous 200 Euros up to get one?
Then i'll better to stick to some my SCSI-II drive.

@FihmpenRouk

SCSI-ADAPTER INTERN DB68HP ST / IDC50 ST
SCSI-ADAPTER INTERN DB68HP BU / IDC50 BU
SCSI III / SCA ADAPTER
No information, only the pics...the last one is a SCSIIII and thus out of range, i suppose?

So, to get a few things straight.

1) There is no DMA whatsoever with IDE on classic?
2) SCSI is still the "standard" when it somes to speed?
3) There is nothing "in-the-works" to "cure" No.1?

@Amigaz

That's what i meant to find out.

So, i need to use an Acard bridge?
A normal UWSCSI->IDE adapter won't do it?

About the speed, at least the Acard ads say that the IDE drives takes advantage of the SCSI bus in terms of speed.
I knew about the DMA issue on classics. So, that's a backstep then, too?

Hmm, too bad

Maybe, i'll better get me a new and already silent UWSCSI HD and CDRom?

Any objections on that one?

Thank you

@Amigaz

Err, the other way round

I'd like to scrap the SCSI drives and want to use only
IDE drives. Is that possible with bying one bridge?

How is the bridge being connected?
Plugged right into the drive?

How many IDE device can i plug into the bridge?

Thank you

@Jack

Try again, second and third product from above

Hi Amigans,

i wanna migrate from SCSI (noisy, expensive) to IDE/ATA on my Amiga4000.

I have a Cyberstorm with UW-SCSI on-board and would appreciate any comment/advice on possible hardware solutions.

I already looked at the Acard bridge adapter, but it's not exactly fitting my needs, the description says it has to be plugged right into an IDE HD which means i can only use ONE HD on the SCSI chain (and it would prevent me using further methods on silenting the amchine, e.g. capsulating the drive).
It also sounds a bit silly (only one drive), given the price of that thing.

Next thing i looked at was this adapter, but i dunno if this would help in any way, it's just an adapter and that aforementioned bridge is kinda recomputing with an extra chip on-board, isn't it!?

I know that there is no DMA IDE solution on classics (yet?), but i could use the bandwith of the UWSCSI.

So, what would be your advice/tips/hints?

I don't want to plug it into the slow A4000 onbord IDE and can't use the IOBlix one for known reasons

Thanks in advance

@Helge

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Read my points 1 and 2 again

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Do i?

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You got my point right there...

That's why i want to have a PS3 AND an Amiga, one for playing, one for work.

Neither want i to work on a big TV screen, nor play in an office chair.

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Because i don't have the slightest idea, how to do that?
I am not a carpenter, nor can i make anything from metal or
plastic (expect sharp things i throw at people not stopping
to bother me).

I'd like to have a normed mobo to be able to put it in
whatever the industry gives me...short-sighted? Maybe!

But that's how i am, love me or hate me!
[uhm, where did i get THAT quote from?]

@Jack

[ url=here goes your link]Here goes your description[/url ]

Drop the spaces and off ya go

@MikeB

CELL based mobo - Thumbs up

PS3 - Thumbs down (for me)

(1) It would likely be placed in another room (where my
TV-set is) and mostly used for playing games on the console.
(2) I'd like to build my own computer, i'd like have the
possibility to choose my own hardware add-ons, case etc.
(3) As much as i'm waiting for the PS3, i will NOT use it
as a computer - it will be my console to play awesome games.

@Elwood

Eeek, RAID???

What can done with it already on OS4?
Can it be used to add two drives as one to a system already?