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New Catweasel board announced
« on: October 27, 2002, 09:44:49 AM »
Individual Computers are announcing the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper.

This is a PCI and a Zorro card which will ultimately let your computer access more than 1100 different disk formats (of course including 880kB/1.76MB Amiga floppies) with a normal PC floppy drive!
It also has two 9-pin digital Amiga gameports and an A4000 keyboard port.

As if that's not enough, you can also install an on-board C-64 SID chip!

Listed price: 84.90 Euro. SID chip: 20 Euro.
Shipping starts Nov. 25.


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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2002, 10:02:30 AM »
Sounds like a very useful addition to the AmigaOne I am intending to buy. I am sure alot of PEGASOS and AmigaOS XL fans/users have been waiting for such a great solution as well!  :-D
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2002, 10:23:38 AM »
Yep....I`ll be buying it too!

EXCELLENT!!!! :-D
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2002, 10:37:56 AM »
Nice :)

Even just for the digital joystick support :)

/Björn
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2002, 10:47:40 AM »
COOL!! This board sounds damn cool. It does so much stuff. Shame I don`t have Zorro slots. Please
people. Buy one, buy loads of them. We need people to buy stuff and not just save for AmigaOne
stuff. I can imagine some time in the future some body like Eyetech will probably come up with some
PCI->Zorro converter anyway. Buy them!!
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2002, 10:53:36 AM »
Well, it's a flipper card.
PCI/Zorro. A Zorro connector on one side, a pci
connector on the other side and a clockport
header somewhere in the card. You can connect
it to systems with either of those.
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2002, 10:55:33 AM »
@Nick

Err...

Why do you need zorro->PCI converter for this card? You can plug it to PCI and clockport directly.

...Just wondering if you read the actual news item.
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2002, 11:28:56 AM »
;-) Now here's another useful item from the creator of the X-Surf card!  Cool.
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2002, 12:17:17 PM »
This seems to be something truly awesome!

Apart from the impressive technical feat, it's got relatively promising commercial potential too. UAE on every platform with PCI slots, Amithlon, heck anyone with the need to read/write something on a crapload of different old floppy formats, using the el-cheapo floppy drive they've already got installed.
Plugging in that nicely cigarette-tar yellowed keyboard with the LED glowing friendly in the caps-lock key and no Windows symbols to some nice modern hardware is tempting too. And the old Wico joysticks... And those old electronic projects that should go in the joyport...

Maybe some musicians who are looking for a SID-station could be interested as well.
 
85 Euro is not too steep either.
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2002, 12:24:05 PM »
I hope they are not going to target this only at Amiga users... I'm sure other platform users that now run their favorite computer as an Emulator on a Wintel system would like a change to load their old floppies on it.. The more people buy this the better..
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2002, 12:32:12 PM »
Cool! er....whats wrong with it? Seems too good to be true!!

I'll be getting at least one of these. I think it's a good price.

Now just need a good source of 'old' Amiga joysticks in the UK.

cheers,

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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2002, 12:43:51 PM »
I would really like if bPlan (and Hyperion for that matter) would
try to intregrate a kbd-driver into their flash so you could live
without any PS/2-keyboard at all.
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4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2002, 01:35:41 PM »
Wow!

The coolest card ever?  :-D
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2002, 01:45:04 PM »
Hmm I wonder if it would be economical to either make A4k keyboards or standard PC PS/2 keyboards with Amiga layout.

Hmm, nah, would probably cost a fortune.. Would be neat to have though.

/Björn
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Re: New Catweasel board announced
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2002, 02:18:44 PM »
@ Björn

What's wrong with the layout of PC keyboards?

However, there are PC keyboards available for which easily alternative keys could be created. Then it's a relatively easy task to create alternative Amiga, Boingball or help keys etc. They are easily replaced.
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