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Authored by: greed on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
You don't mean the BridgeBoards, do you?
BridgeBoard was an actual PC that plugged in to the Zorro II bus on the Amiga
2000 on one end, and an ISA bus header on the other end. (As a result, Zorro II
connectors were all the way across the machine from the slot brackets--a
half-length Zorro II board would have to have a metal frame to link up to the
slot bracket, if it needed an outside-the-case presence.)
The video driver then wrote to a mapped-in portion Amiga RAM which would appear
on the display screen.
I do have vague memories of a software emulator on the A1000, but it would have
been DOS, not Windows 3.1, at the time--the Amiga line was near death by the
time Windows 3.1 came out (1992).
BridgeBoard had many of the same problems that "by the book" PC
compatibles had: almost no-one coded by the book on the PC, and relied on direct
access to hardware.
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