Enter the Dragon or enter the vapor?

[amiga92570]

humppa wrote:
@derringer3

Look, in elbox's webpage the Sharkppc cards were marketed that these cards will go into production when os4 finished.

When OS4 is finished? Even that is currently under debate. For the lawsuit, Hyperion wants to make it appear that it was finished in 2003/2004, Xmas 2006 they said that "It's done" and some months ago they announced that they are preparing the final ISO including packaging. So we have three dates that could be interpreted in such a way that "OS4 is done".
Elbox would still choose another date. Preferably one that lies far far in the future.  :-P

Elbox has stated that production of shark will procede when OS4 is released. It has not been released and may not be for a while now with the ongoing court case. Why would anyone buy a shark PPC if there is not an OS to run it on?

[jj]

Wake up and smell the java.  There will NEVER EVER be a shark PPC.  

[derringer3]

Ok, os4 is not relased, or more to the point i can't buy it to my beloved a1200ppc.

But above all, if these elbox products is ready for the productions, elbox why don't relase any preview for its speed benchmark under pre relased (beta,test version, etc) os4. Or some review, technical specification working with real-life apps, games etc. in an on-line or printed magazine. Or at least in its own webpage. Or do something.

[humppa]

But above all, if these elbox products is ready for the productions, elbox why don't relase any preview for its speed benchmark under pre relased (beta,test version, etc) os4.

Because they don't have any access to OS4. I also doubt they are in contact with Hyperion or Amiga Inc in any kind of form.
There will never be a SharkPPC. Get over it. Btw, the prices of the Sonnet Crescendo are simply hilarious compared to the prices that Elbox states for the SharkPPC. Not that we aren't used to that however...

[Donar]

Piru wrote:

I explained this 4 years ago in June 2003 already. See ColdFire V4 Amiga accelerator project from the m68k emulation perspective.

Thanks for the link, i think i already had read it at some time but hope(d):
a) You are over pessimistic about performance problems.
b) Your conclusion that Coldfusion would be slower than a 68060@50 would be based on the CFV4@162Mhz (as we now have a 266MHz part).

Hey Elbox release the Dragon, then we can see if it's crap or not.

[Akiko]

Is the coldfire range still being developed for? I think Elbox had mentioned the Dragon being fully upgradable with future coldfire revisions, so maybe what their waiting for is a newer chips, or again maybe not  :lol:

[Donar]

Akiko wrote:
Is the coldfire range still being developed for?

Motorola/Freescale "presented" a Coldfire V5 in 2002 it should have been two times faster than the V4... whatever happened to it...