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The development of the new IDE64 card V4 is still in progress, but we decided to uncover the picture of the new card prototype board together with some technical information. So what to expect from the IDE64 V4?
Because of surface mount technology, the shape of the card has changed and the length has shorten to 11 cm.
The ShortBUS connector for external peripherals has remain, but also "Amiga Clock" port has appear, so RR-Net users could connect their Ethernet cards directly onto the IDE64.
Not only the mount technology, but also whole architecture has changed which enables us to increase the access speed performance so the card should be up to 20% faster when accessing the HDD or Compact Flash than IDE64 V3.4+.
The IDE64 contain two IDE controllers for plugging up to three IDE peripherals (Compact Flash and two other on IDE flat cable). USB device (in the picture without the connector) will enable users to interconnect IDE64 with PC host and make file transfer between C64 and PC even more easy without building PCLink cable.
The IDE64 will contain IDEDOS V.90 which offer great performance (e.g. 80KB/sec loading speed), very reasonable compatibility and many advanced features including support of partitions, relative files or large capacity media.
More info on the IDE64 webpage soon.
Please, don't hesitate to contact Josef Soucek