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Project Announcement: AmiGUS Sound Card
Posted on 11-Apr-2025 7:57:00
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| AmiGUS is a modern high quality sound card for the Amiga. It was designed to provide the right combination of accelerated hardware and software features to bring the full multimedia experience to all Amiga users.
By supporting established frameworks such as AHI and MHI, we ensure that the card is compatible to a wide range of already existing applications. In addition, the card's true power lies in its highly sophisticated wavetable engine, which provides a powerful feature upgrade to PAULA, supporting 32 true hardware voices using 32 MB of sample memory.
The good news is that, in order to use all these features, you don't need a fast CPU. AmiGUS can be used on ALL Amigas with a free Zorro Slot, since all of the computational heavy-lifting is performed by the hardware acclerated functions on the card.
And since we are at it right now, you can own an AmiGUS too, either by buying it from one of our supported resellers, or you just download the card's design files and build one on your own!
AmiGUS Feature List
Zorro II card for Amiga 2000 / 3000 /4000 computers, or compatible bus boards.
Standard RCA stereo output, 192kHz @24-bit.
TOSLINK optical output, supporting 48kHz, 96kHz & 192kHz @24-bit.
3x analogue audio inputs (PAULA, CD-ROM, EXTERNAL), sampled at 192kHz @24-bit.
High-quality digital mixer which operates at full 192kHz @24-bit resolution.
AHI buffered stream interface, supporting 8-/16- & 24-bit modes for playback and recording.
MP3/OGG/FLAC/WMA hardware decoder (VLSI VS1063), enhanced by a powerful DMA stream buffer.
32 channel wavetable engine - featuring per voice:
8-/16-bit sample support, 192kHz @24-bit mixing rate.
Sample start, stop and loop pointer for effective one-shot or continuous playback modes.
32-bit sample phase accumulators for extra fine grained pitch definition.
Optional per-voice sample interpolation for smooth sounds.
Channel independent left / right stereo panning.
Hardware ADSR evelope generator.
32 MB on-board sample memory - ready to be used for Multichannel Sample Tracking or MIDI.
Flash-based mixer settings which are automatically loaded on start-up.
Upgradable FPGA Core via JTAG, or Amiga-based flash tool.
Open Hardware - Software, PCB Gerbers and FPGA Bitstream freely available.
Minimum Amiga Configuration
Amiga 2000
68000 @7.09MHz
1 MB Chip / 4 MB Fast
OS 1.3
Recommended Amiga Configuration
Amiga 2000 / 3000 / 4000
68030 @25Mhz
2 MB Chip / 16 MB Fast
OS 3.9 or 3.x.x
Release: June 2025.
Cards licensed for manufacturing will be available to buy from Alinea Computer. Stay tuned for an official announcement and pre-order inquiry! |
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Re: Project Announcement: AmiGUS Sound Card
Posted on 11-Apr-2025 14:43:35
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Re: Project Announcement: AmiGUS Sound Card
Posted on 11-Apr-2025 18:14:46
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So where’s the GUS?
Aside from that confusion, very cool, might very well get one. Last edited by kolla on 11-Apr-2025 at 06:21 PM.
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Re: Project Announcement: AmiGUS Sound Card
Posted on 11-Apr-2025 20:15:55
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| Sounds interesting  , pleased to see it will work on a plain 68000 Amiga & the CD-ROM input, MP3 hardware decoder etc, I might be tempted to get one (depending on price). Last edited by Tpod on 11-Apr-2025 at 08:45 PM.
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