Official email info about sharkppc from elbox

[Bennymee]

This good news, but nothing really new.

I'll have a Mirage Pro tower available for it.
And the cheapest SharkPPC could do the job. Mediator's are advertized with 266MB/sec bustransfer if you use a Shark.

And you can also use a floppydisk....without spending the money on a Catweazle.

[Bennymee]

>about me, the only advantage to take a Shark, is >keeping your Amiga1200 and continuing using it for >Old chipset dpendent programs.
>You never will be able to use old progs with AOS4,

Why could it NOT be possible to switch of the SharkPPC and use your 030 / 040 / 060 accelerator again ?

[Bennymee]

@Kronos
>And again, what has the number of sold Pegs to do with it ? Remember
that Hyperion claimed that it was far to low to justify a port


Mediator support can only grow, but the Pegasos not as production is stopped. (nobody has a license for a new productionrun)
And on the Pegasos you have MorphOS, so it'll be a much smaller then the 600 IMHO.

[Bennymee]

@lempkee

yeah there might not be a market anymore for building up their amigas but the weird part is that there is more people wanting to upgrade what they have to ppc and with the lack of ppc cards .heh.. (i know of people who paid over 450 Euro for a 060*603e card this year,used old stuff.)

I can only agree, I sold some BlizzardPPC and CyberStorm cards last month's. I can only say from experience that a lot of people like too buy this stuff.

[Bennymee]

@Kronos

>Mediator should have reached it's peak (or will >soon) as the the users
>retiring their real Amigas (how I hate the >term "classic"), or be
>forced to do so by dying HW will soon outnumber >those you invest in
>a Mediator.

The Mediator is available for almost every model Amiga, I see a large potential market (> 100.000 machine's) and not everyone is going to retire their Amiga immediatly after the new generation is out.  I'll see another argument to buy an Mediator if the  SharkPPC it out.  

About dying hardware, after OS4 is consumer ready, our old hardware isn't immediatly falling apart...

>Pegasos1 production has stopped, but the Peg2 >will come "real soon now"(tm)  

We know Kronos, but we discuessed about OS4 for SharkPPC and Pegasos I.  

 

[Bennymee]

@Kronos

>....have allready bought one, or are just fed up with >Elbox trying to force their
>way without ever carring for anything else.

Elbox is controversial.  
But I owned an G-Rex and I can only say the support, professionilism of the company (for 2 years I intervieuwd them) is behind that of Elbox, they are much better.







 to go offtopic...

[Bennymee]

@Kronos


"And no, we haven't discussed OS4 for Shark or Peg1, but wether the Shark
is real or just vapor (until someone pulled it OT)."

Below was the discussion I placed an reply on:

>And again, what has the number of sold Pegs to do with it ? Remember
that Hyperion claimed that it was far to low to justify a port  



@Kronos

>You would be hard presses to gather 10000 active >Amigians, and only
>a minority of those run beefed upt "classics". Just >ask anybody who actually
>sells Amiga-HW/SW, and when he managed to sell >1000 units for the last
>me .....

I didn't write that, I said that I see a large potential market of machines and parts... to keep the scene year's a life  - potential Medaitor users.

@Kronos

>Oh and Amigas are falling apart everyday, they just >don't care wether OS4
>is ready or not. Just have a close look through >forums like this, and you will
>find lots of questions bout such systems behaving >strangly.

I see dozens of machines for sale on Ebay, Amibench, Amiga-news.de, perfectly working even with CyberStorm's or BlizzardPPC.   :-D