DRAGON ColdFire FAQ

[System]

@jdiffend
I wasn't aware that they released a price for the DRAGON; can ye share the link please?

@Kaminari
We all know what Hyperion's response will be: that they haven't recieved a Shark yet.
Would Elbox need a license, if the accelerator is aimed at the BPPC/CSPPC version of OS4? Maybe they are planning on doing the hacking themselves?

I would imagine that it would be quite simple for elbox to engineer the Shark to appear as a CSPPC/BPPC to any software that uses one of these cards. Why should OS4 be any the wiser about what Classic accelerator it is running on? A PPC CPU is a PPC CPU afterall.

[System]

It doesn't say whether PCI IDE (ATA100/133) are supported or not.  I hope they are, as 133MBps is a darn site faster than 16MBps! :-D

[System]

(I think announcing a product for over four years definately makes it vapor)

By that rule, OS4 is vapor too. ;-)

[System]

Quite the contrary. The CSPPC and BPPC kernels lack the support for any other CPU but the 603/604. The Blizzard and Cyberstorm have unique interrupt controller logic. Plus, anything like that Shark would be a PCI card and I doubt it will have direct access to the custom chips. This will not run unmodified.

Sounds like Elbox are full of crap to me then.

[System]

You can actually buy it.

I know, and I very nearly bought a uA1 last week.  

Mac Mini got the better of me though. :-D

I'm waiting for the ACK board now.