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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: monami on December 06, 2007, 04:42:41 PM

Title: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: monami on December 06, 2007, 04:42:41 PM
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-EFIKA-5200B-NR_W0QQitemZ330194415886QQihZ014QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

i've heard the name bandid around are these usefull for amiga os? they seem an ok price to me.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: monami on December 06, 2007, 04:50:45 PM
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Extremely-rare-Commodore-P500-working-mint-boxed-RETRO_W0QQitemZ120191894942QQihZ002QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
dear me!
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: A1260 on December 06, 2007, 04:52:39 PM
no you cant use amigaos with this, also its a crappy hw with few opportunities, it run the unfinished morphos1.4 that are in beta and crash alot. dont throw your money away on this none supported and deadend hw....
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: spihunter on December 06, 2007, 04:53:11 PM
MorphOS 2 is supposed to run on it. But we have been waiting for ages for that to come out.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: dammy on December 06, 2007, 05:04:08 PM
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MorphOS 2 is supposed to run on it. But we have been waiting for ages for that to come out.


AROS should be out for it in early 08.

Dammy
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: dammy on December 06, 2007, 05:05:24 PM
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no you cant use amigaos with this, also its a crappy hw with few opportunities, it run the unfinished morphos1.4 that are in beta and crash alot. dont throw your money away on this none supported and deadend hw....


Funny, alot of folks said the same thing about AmigaOnes.

Dammy
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: adolescent on December 06, 2007, 05:33:12 PM
No, the price is not okay.  You can still buy them from www.directron.com for $99 while supplies last.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: krize on December 06, 2007, 05:35:07 PM
A1260 - I wonder where you got this from ? Unstable and crash alot
v1.4 ? I use 1.4 here and it doesnt crash or is unstable...
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: monami on December 06, 2007, 06:09:14 PM
his advert says:

"EFIKA supports many operating systems: QNX, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, some Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Crux, Gentoo, etc. It is great hardware for Amiga fans - it supports MorphOS and maybe in future even AmigaOS 4.0 and AROS."
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: dammy on December 06, 2007, 06:13:55 PM
AROS port is currently in developement (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=46) by Tigger.

Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: Damion on December 06, 2007, 06:35:45 PM
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krize wrote:
A1260 - I wonder where you got this from ? Unstable and crash alot
v1.4 ? I use 1.4 here and it doesnt crash or is unstable...



Even v1.3 was very stable for me, and that was almost 4 years ago already.

Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: jkonstan on December 06, 2007, 06:55:38 PM
How did you get a copy of MorphOS for Efika ?

I bought an Efika last year, and the Morphos registration web page did not allow Efika Morphos registration. Thus, I could not download a copy of Morphos for my Efika.

 :-)
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: djbase on December 06, 2007, 07:40:19 PM
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A1260 wrote:
no you cant use amigaos with this, also its a crappy hw with few opportunities, it run the unfinished morphos1.4 that are in beta and crash alot. dont throw your money away on this none supported and deadend hw....


Seems we have a new troll on a.org
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: A1260 on December 06, 2007, 08:59:10 PM
i have never been a troll, i just say what i experienced after i tried this so called efica hw...
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: Tempest on December 06, 2007, 09:14:50 PM
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A1260 wrote:
i have never been a troll


never? (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=32990)
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: A1260 on December 06, 2007, 09:28:56 PM
yes never i only tell the truth and what i have experienced with this hw...
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: pixie on December 06, 2007, 10:53:30 PM
Sorry pal, but there's no truth in your statements only your opinion and very biased at it.

Perhaps you don't grasp your own wording, but that would be another history...
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: krize on December 06, 2007, 10:58:37 PM
A1260 - Please get real, stop making up stuff as it make you look stupid.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: Acill on December 06, 2007, 11:00:39 PM
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A1260 wrote:
no you cant use amigaos with this, also its a crappy hw with few opportunities, it run the unfinished morphos1.4 that are in beta and crash alot. dont throw your money away on this none supported and deadend hw....



Unfinished and crashes a lot? What the heck are you talking about. MOS 1.4 is stable as can be and its a fantastic Amiga like OS! I even feel its got a lot of better features then Os4 in some areas.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: thanos on December 06, 2007, 11:17:03 PM
Heya...

I purchased an EFIKA for $99.

I had a lot of fun building a very cool case.

It has a 40Gb hd, ATI 9250, and micro PSU.  I have had some fun playing with a couple of linux distros.

I have had trouble with the sound, but I realize this is likely due to my own limited skills.

It is a very cool toy, remember for some of us 'its all about the hobby'.

I am really waiting for MOS.

I am sure AROS will rock, hopefully it will have a capable web browser soon.  I will make a donation after I can get some use from it.

I know everybody is hard at work, 'Keep at it guys!'
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: Stevo on December 06, 2007, 11:54:37 PM
@A1260

Funny. Your latest posts are all "OS4 is coming w00t", and that's great. Your last posts are very "Genesi hw sucks, MorphOS sucks". and that's fine. 1 + 1 = 2, so I reckoned you where a blindsighted "red" troll. But it seems that I was wrong, since you prefer linux above (any form of) AmigaOS nowaydays.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31758

Not that I care really, but this combination was a first for me :-)
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: jkonstan on December 08, 2007, 11:00:12 AM
How does an Efika owner get a copy of MorphOS for it ?

 :-)
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: kolla on December 08, 2007, 11:46:42 AM
Seems like all the .. oh, I dont know.. blue trolls? have a hard time grasping that A1260 was bashing MorphOS on Efika - not MorphOS in general.

I'm not much of a blue or red troll, but I do know that "regular Joes" can not get MorphOS in any release for it, and that there are lots of other hardware less crappy and just as cheap to run Linux/*BSD/OpenSlo^h^holaris on.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: itix on December 08, 2007, 12:18:13 PM
@A1260

If you are not troll you are liar because MorphOS 1.4.x does not run on Efika...
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: kolla on December 08, 2007, 12:49:41 PM
Not since the MorphOS pre 1.5 (1.4.x with large values of x) was renamed pre MorphOS 2.0.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: Warface on December 08, 2007, 12:59:36 PM
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Seems like all the .. oh, I dont know.. blue trolls? have a hard time grasping that A1260 was bashing MorphOS on Efika - not MorphOS in general.


So you're assuming he's a MorphOS developer/betatester? Because AFAIK no one else has access to MorphOS for Efika.
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: kolla on December 08, 2007, 01:35:55 PM
I'm assuming that he probably has visited one of the many happenings where MorphOS on efika has been demoed, or heard/read reviews from others who've seen/tried it. So he could have written 2.0 instead of 1.4, but would it really make any difference? Neither is available, and the efika is still crap :-)
Title: Re: efica 5200b on ebay
Post by: pixie on December 09, 2007, 01:02:36 AM
There never were any talks of 1.4 on EFIKA, only 1.5 now 2.