AmiGUS Sound Card

[JHanna]

Hi all. Just heard about the AmiGUS Zorro II Sound Card, but there's not much information about it. Has anyone used one yet?

The TOSlink port intrigues me - finally a way to record onto MiniDisc with no analogue gap! (I usually record by downmixing to disk image tbf)

It apparently runs under AHI, but is there any talk of getting it to work with OctaMED Soundstudio? It seems to be a brand new design - not a Prelude clone, so TheMaestrix or the fake tocatta.library trick wont work unless anyone knows better?

Thoughts welcome.

 

[Nelson]

Here you will find information. https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga...AmiGUS-sound-card-for-Zorro-Amigas::1413.html

The entire development is documented in a1k.

 

[JHanna]

Yeah. Seen that.

 

[amienslaver]

Hardware design is also open-source: https://github.com/necronomfive/AmiGUS-pub

 

[JHanna]

Nobody used one?

 

[qz3fwd]

People are just receiving them. Living in the USA, my card is stuck at Alinea since they cannot figure out how to ship via UPS/Fedex, and have a contract with DHL (nat'l post).

 

[JHanna]

Ah ok. Looking forward to hearing what people have to say about them.

 

[Edd]

Hi all. Just heard about the AmiGUS Zorro II Sound Card, but there's not much information about it. Has anyone used one yet?

The TOSlink port intrigues me - finally a way to record onto MiniDisc with no analogue gap! (I usually record by downmixing to disk image tbf)

It apparently runs under AHI, but is there any talk of getting it to work with OctaMED Soundstudio? It seems to be a brand new design - not a Prelude clone, so TheMaestrix or the fake tocatta.library trick wont work unless anyone knows better?

Thoughts welcome.

I don't know about the older versions but octamed v8 what amiga kit made is compatable with any soundcard under AHI. But can't see it anywhere.

 

[HomeLate]

Alinea is out of stock now for a while so I decided to build one myself. PCB's and parts are on their way. I'll report back as soon as the card is ready and tested.

 

[HomeLate]

One card built and it's working great in an Amiga 2000 with N2630:



This is completely hand soldered. I did use a hotplate and hot air for the MAX 10, everything else is soldered with a microscope and fine soldering tip.

On a scale from 1 to 10 it's 7/10 for difficulty. Hand soldering 75 tiny capacitors can be time consuming job

 

[Dindi]

One card built and it's working great in an Amiga 2000 with N2630:

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This is completely hand soldered. I did use a hotplate and hot air for the MAX 10, everything else is soldered with a microscope and fine soldering tip.

On a scale from 1 to 10 it's 7/10 for difficulty. Hand soldering 75 tiny capacitors can be time consuming job

could you make One for me and for how much money ?? i'm not very good in soldering jobs...

 

[HomeLate]

could you make One for me and for how much money ?? i'm not very good in soldering jobs...

I might build more in early '26. I had a thread offering three cards but these are sold.