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Offline InTheSandTopic starter

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EFIKA - First Impressions
« on: December 08, 2006, 03:47:58 AM »
A review of one of the first EFIKA boards by Pegasos.org.



Full article is here.

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Note: nothing to do with me, just thought others here would be interested!
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2006, 04:19:43 AM »
We're 3 weeks away from the year 2007!  I really think limiting this to 128mb of ram is strange.  I know it's for embedded and all, but doesn't that sort of cut down it's potential uses?  Why the strange for factor?  

Why would a company choose this board over other solutions already out there?
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2006, 02:29:38 PM »
128megs will be fine for MorphOS.  Dont know about the form factor.

Why choose this board?  Because I'd rather pay $200 for a decent board instead of $600, but the primary reason.. it runs MorphOS.
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2006, 03:59:43 PM »
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Why would a company choose this board over other solutions already out there?


Looking at it specifically from a retro user point of view, it's dirt cheap and it's specs are higher than most solutions out there. The specs are higher than any classic Amiga for a fraction of the price of an extremely flakey 3rd/4th/5th hand PPC accelerator alone and it's new with a solid warranty.

It's a way to build a sharp, small footprint Amiga compatible for very little money. Is it a monster? No, but it's not meant to be. It wasn't even built with enthusiasts in mind.

Lastly, it's for sale. What else is actually for sale in this market today?

JMHO
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2006, 08:03:15 PM »
It's a very nice little board! It'd be a great excuse to pull OS4 from the dust pile, but if not that's why the AROS bounty is so frickin high for it!

The form factor is perfect, I wouldn't want to mount it in some generic case... This forces everyone to come up with something special! It's small and downright cute!
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2006, 10:23:01 PM »
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TheMagicM wrote:
it runs MorphOS

Really?

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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2006, 10:28:55 PM »
@motorollin

According to a MOS team announcement, it will.
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2006, 09:53:22 AM »
Ahhh, it will, not it does. IOW, it might :roll:

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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2006, 01:07:20 PM »
There are videos of EFIKA running "the mystery OS", showing games, movie trailers etc. Guess what that OS was? ;-)
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Re: EFIKA - First Impressions
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2007, 08:33:01 AM »
But no sign of if/when MOS for Efika will be released. I for one would NOT buy it while its Linux only... if MOS ships then I may well buy one.. but not until so perhaps MOS better ship if anyone expects Efika to succeed!
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