UW drives work as a narrow drive if you terminate (preferably) or disregard the wide bits - you get a converter to do this.
You could probably get PCB manufacture/assembly a bit cheaper. I think olimex were the people to go to for a while - not sure now. The CFFA guy gets things assembled and is still able to sell for a reasonable price - maybe ask him? Oh yeah the real prize in the ROM project would be to be able to use the iici ROM simm.
Just thinking.. didn't the macpicasso have a nubus-pci implementation? I know the picasso card on the amiga had a local pci bus for expansion (which had a few expansions made for it). There is also a device for the amiga called a mediator (made by elbox) that performs a similar role (actually think it piggybacks some of the chips?) .
Though it would probably cost a bit, perhaps a nubus or pds PCI "bridge" is the way to go as software drivers exist already for many PCI devices under classic OS.
You could probably get PCB manufacture/assembly a bit cheaper. I think olimex were the people to go to for a while - not sure now. The CFFA guy gets things assembled and is still able to sell for a reasonable price - maybe ask him? Oh yeah the real prize in the ROM project would be to be able to use the iici ROM simm.
Just thinking.. didn't the macpicasso have a nubus-pci implementation? I know the picasso card on the amiga had a local pci bus for expansion (which had a few expansions made for it). There is also a device for the amiga called a mediator (made by elbox) that performs a similar role (actually think it piggybacks some of the chips?) .
Though it would probably cost a bit, perhaps a nubus or pds PCI "bridge" is the way to go as software drivers exist already for many PCI devices under classic OS.