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Offline zerostressTopic starter

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Elbox Dragon "news"
« on: October 30, 2006, 02:29:34 PM »
A friend on IRC just copy+pasted the answer he got from Elbox when asking updates about the Dragon. Vapor or bollocks as usual time will tell.
Here it is:
Q - What happened to the Dragon? Why are you so silent about it? Any news?
A - There were some problems with the previous MCF5475 Coldfire versions as they did not work as they should. We finally received first MCF5475 processors in ver.1.3 whose production just started few weeks ago. It seems that now the problems are sorted out and finally everything works correctly. It means that Dragon cards should be available in sale before Christmas.
 
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2006, 02:43:45 PM »
At least the name is pretty descriptive: Drag-on :-D

Seriously, it's hard not to be entirely jaded when it comes to amiga HW announcements these days. I really hope they prove the critics wrong on this, but I stopped holding my breath ages ago for this.
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2006, 03:17:39 PM »
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It means that Dragon cards should be available in sale before Christmas.
 


As usual, they didn't mention which year...  :lol:
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2006, 03:37:36 PM »
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At least the name is pretty descriptive: Drag-on :-D

Seriously, it's hard not to be entirely jaded when it comes to amiga HW announcements these days. I really hope they prove the critics wrong on this, but I stopped holding my breath ages ago for this.


Hard not to be?  Dude this thing is never going to be released.  Ever.

At this point there's been more hardware NOT produced than produced for the Amiga... :roll:
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2006, 03:38:47 PM »
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As usual, they didn't mention which year...  :lol:



indead :crazy:

from an other point of view, with all these new ppc boards ''coming'' they have to say something them selfs as well...
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2006, 04:41:12 PM »

I don't buy into the elaborate hoax theory. Elbox have already demonstrated over many years that they can deliver good hardware. Maybe not so good PR!

I've alot of time and admiration for a company that still develop for the Amiga in 2006 when most others have scampered years ago.

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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2006, 04:51:14 PM »
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At this point there's been more hardware NOT produced than produced for the Amiga... :roll:


There's been more stuff "not produced" than produced for anything, at least given that there's no theoretical upper limit on what can be produced...

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There were some problems with the previous MCF5475 Coldfire versions as they did not work as they should


How enigmatic. I assume they mean that it didn't run 680x0 object code without freaky side effects ;-)

If so, I don't suppose the next batch will be any better, either.
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2006, 05:09:14 PM »
...and after the Dragon comes the Shark?  :-D

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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2006, 05:18:44 PM »

Close, after OS4 comes the Shark!  :-D
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2006, 07:11:59 PM »
But... OS5 comes before OS4; what does that mean for Shark?  :-o  :-D
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2006, 07:32:01 PM »
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But... OS5 comes before OS4; what does that mean for Shark?  :-o  :-D


arghh..how will this end?  :crazy:   :lol:
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2006, 07:33:54 PM »
Yaay Elbox !!

AAAAgghhhh reality just caught up with me, I need a :pint:
Mmmmm, now where was I ? Ah yes, Elbox ;-)
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2006, 07:40:14 PM »
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arghh..how will this end? :-o  :-D
 

with the 2nd coming of Jesus ofcourse. He will have OS6 with him.
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2006, 07:41:55 PM »
 :lol:  :lol:
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Re: Elbox Dragon "news"
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2006, 07:47:52 PM »
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with the 2nd coming of Jesus ofcourse. He will have OS6 with him.

 A lentil eating,long haired, sandal wearing do-gooder not using a Mac?  :-o
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