@lempkee
Prices:
The cheap "normal" Shark has no AGP and misses alot of other features,
something that just can't compete with the A1.
The + model has those, but will probraly cost more than an A1-lite
(well there is hope, cos a lite at >300 would be suicide), which would
be more or less comparable.
Numbers:
You can keep your cheap shot as that has NOTHING to do with this topic !
Most of the people who have such a beefed up system seem to be thinking
that they reached the end of the flag-post, and won't invest anymore in
old (and often problematic HW). Thats my personal observation.
So we might very well look at a potential costumer base below 600.
What would be hurdles ?
A SharkPPC+ would most likely be based on MAI's MikroServer, a system
that is still far away from being ready for production, and that won't change
until such times when someone sees a market for sveral 1000 of it.
The PPC_on_PCI would not be able to see the attached Amiga, only the mem
window on the Vodoo, so one would need to write a MMU-setup that redirects
those areas to it. And than what ? You would need an minimal OS on the
Amiga-side, to answer any request posted in the Vodoo-mem with the
fitting hits to the HW. Should be possible with something simple as a kbd
or serial driver, but try to access the IDE or SCSI (on accel), or something else
that needs serious bandwith or excat timing .....
Coding and testing such a system would atleasttake several months if not
a whole year, time that would have users switching to other alternives, and
time that (partly) could have been saved by sending a card to Hyperion earlier
this year (plus hireing one developer to closely work with Hyperion on
Shark-specifics).
Doesn't take much to smell "vapor" in here.
