It is an incredibly well designed and manufactured board, (guaranteed for 5 years) and is the first PCI expansion board on any Amiga to get Hyperion's seal of approval for its 3-D support. A PPC add-in card is in the pipeline giving a PPC-based forward path for those users who want to retain Zorro 3 compatibility in their big-box Amigas.

Specifications are as follows:

General

• Works with any Zorro III equipped Amiga, regardless of the accelerator/CPU board installed in the system.
• Four 32-bit PCI slots clocked at 33 MHz.
• Fits any tower case and also works with desktop A3000/4000s when open.
• Works with other Zorro III cards, supports AutoConfig (TM).
• Real transfer rates between Amiga and PCI cards - up to 12 MB/s (a limitation of the 'Buster' chip)
• Real transfer rates between PCI cards - up to 120 MB/s.
• Additional on-board connector for the power supply.
• Professionally designed four-layer printed circuit board with gold-plated contacts - complies with the PCI standard specifications.

Drivers
The Prometheus card comes with a CDROM containing:

• Drivers for the Voodoo3 graphics card, developed in close co-operation with Hyperion and the authors of Picasso96. 2D drivers work under the P96 system, 3D functions are available through Warp3D.
• Drivers for the the network card. (Sound card drivers will be available for free download shortly)
• A royalty-free, NDA-free software development kit for programmers. This is designed to make the Prometheus card the most open PCI bridge solution as far as the driver development goes.
• Demo versions of games using the 3D functions of the Voodoo3 graphics card: Heretic 2, Shogo, Wipeout 2097.

The package also contains a reference manual (in English, German & Polish), brackets for the Prometheus and PCI cards and an extension cable for a graphics card.

Mechanical issues
Due to the wide variety of tower solutions available for Amiga computers, it was not possible to design the Prometheus to be mechanically compatible with the card slots of all of them. The solution was therefore to design the Prometheus as the smallest possible Zorro 3 card and to provide brackets which hold the PCI cards to the Prometheus itself. Short cables (supplied) connect the PCI cards' I/O connectors to the rear panel of the computer case. This makes the card compatible with all Z3 tower cases that we are aware of.

It also means that the Prometheus can be used in desktop A3000's an A4000's, although for these however the case lid cannot be closed with PCI cards installed.

Other benefits of the Prometheus design approach

• Suitable for 'riser' and 'motherboard' Zorro 3 slots
• Works in conjuction with all CPU daughterboard/accelerator cards
• Where mechanical layout allows, two Prometheus boards (8 PCI slots in total) can be used simultaneously
• Future use with an be used with an G3/G4 card including 'off-the shelf' Macintosh types for running OS4.2 and higher.

Graphics cards drivers

• Voodoo3 2000
• Voodoo3 3000
• 2D drivers for Picasso96 graphics system
• 3D drivers for Warp3D (full OpenGL support)

Network cards drivers
The prometheus NE2000 device driver should work with all NE2000 compatible PCI network cards, including the following:

Producer	Chipset	Manufacturer ID	Product ID
Realtek	RTL8029	$10EC	$8029
Compex	RL2000	$11F6	$1401
Winbond	89C940F	$1050	$0940
Holtek	HT80232	$12C3	$0058
Surecom	NE34	$10BD	$0E34
Holtek	HT80229	$12C3	$5598

Tested network cards
Genius GE2500-III SE, RTL8029 chipset

TV card drivers
Work in progress

Sound card drivers
Work in progress. It will be available for free download as soon as it is finished.
Some independent developers have also started work on writing soundcard drivers for the Prometheus.