** HOT FLASH ** EFIKA is now the biggest ever Team Aros Bounty! **

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FerretSimp wrote:
Reasons for the Efika:

The whole system, a dedicated AROS PPC system , can be built for under £200.

It's Small, so it won't take up your entire office, like a PC based Amiga.

It will be the first "official" AROS computer. That's actually quite a big step when you think about it. A machine that you can go out and buy, specially to run AROS on.

Obsolete? Yes. But so's your 7.14mhz A500, and no one seems to complain about those around here. It gets you a proper Open-Amiga for a low price, in a small form factor that you can stack on top of your PC.

The point is, it's a beginning. Yeah sure, we'd ALL love to see AROS on a 64 bit Three-core Multiple gigahert IBM PowerPC system, but it's just not going to happen, is it!? And even if it did, almost no-one here could afford them anyway.

So stop griping at the project paid for considerably by the company who makes them, ok? The fact that any company is taking an interest in building AROSMIGA's is great.

I welcome it, at least.

800MHz PC w/ 256MB ram, 20Gig HD from dumpster: free

You can goto a thrift store and pick up a PC with twice the power of an efka for $20 and run aros on it. To me, aros on efika is worthless.

I do hope a port is made avaiable though, for the only reason that it will help force the codebase to be multi arch.

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FerretSimp wrote:

koaftder wrote:

800MHz PC w/ 256MB ram, 20Gig HD from dumpster: free

You can goto a thrift store and pick up a PC with twice the power of an efka for $20 and run aros on it. To me, aros on efika is worthless.

Wow! The wonder of the free country. Over here, they'll charge you $200 for a P2.

And you can't directly compare the processor megahertz, the 400mhz PPC chips tended to be at least as powerful as the 700-800mhz chips they were competing with.

Maybe the PC would have more ram, but it's still a huge, butt ugly PC. PC. Not Amiga, not AROS computer. I hate PC hardware. It's shoddy, cheap and unreliable. My PC's tendto average 5-6 years TOPS before they burn out, while some manage 3 years. I have UNIX workstations and Amigas and goodnes knows what else, running still when they were madein the early nineties.

In fact I think my oldest functional PC is around 1997 after continual repair with NOS parts, whereas I have a BBC that still work perfectly.

If you want to stick with a PC, stick with a PC. GO install windows. I'm happy with getting an Amiga.

The Efika will never be an Amiga. It will most likely never run os4. If you want aros right now, you need a PC. All Efika is right now, is a linux box, and an underpowerd one at that.

Would you hold your breath waiting for MOS/AOs4 or Aros to be ported to efika? I wouldn't.

Buy an Efika, get a crappy linux box, w00t.

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And you can't directly compare the processor megahertz, the 400mhz PPC chips tended to be at least as powerful as the 700-800mhz chips they were competing with.

Yer right, I wouldn't compare an embedded 603 to a p3, period.

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FerretSimp wrote:
Note the >$1000 bounty.

I'm saying that WHEN someone ports AROS, it will be the first AROS computer that's not just a Pizzak' Rrap made by some dodgy PC company in the mid nineties.

Look at the fact that Genesi are putting money into this. They want it to be an AROS box, lots of other people want it to be an AROS box and it would make a far better AROS box board than a K6-2 or a Duron.

Amiga are never going to port anything to anything! They're one of the few companies that I don't consider to even be Amiga anymore! Ex-Parrot.

I'm saying, as several other people are, that when AROS is ported this will be a good system.

Saying that it's a waste of time just because it's obsolete? Why are the people saying that even here? Amiga is obsolete. Everything to do with Amiga is obsolete. It's never going to be anything BUT obsolete. The closest you'll come now is one of the new Be replacements.

Lots of people just happen to think that an Obsolete computer specially for the Obsolete Open Source Operating system, would be good.

If they wanted AROS on the Efika, they would have hired a guy to port it. Paying 1000 dollars to port an operating system to a new platform is like pissing in a developers coffee mug. Genesi has played every trick in the book to sucker people into thinking the Efika has something to do with amiga when in fact, it's just an embedded device running linux at the moment.

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Aros on Efika is a waste of time.