@Helgis
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Helgis wrote:
@vidarh
I like your idea, but the name of that port is not Zorro, but Xorro. They should not be mixed. Xorro is the port that gives access to Xena, opens up even support for the XCore-features.
I'm not talking about Xorro. I'm talking about the Zorro bus on the classic Amiga's (including the side expansion port on the A500 / A1000). This is more or less a buffered extension of the M68k system bus, complete with support for bus mastering DMA.
As such, you can almost entirely control the machine if you connect a fast enough device (like the Xena / XMOS) to it.
What I was describing was briding Xorro to Zorro, to use the IO pins on Xena to effectively control the system bus on the classic.