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Title: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: carvedeye on January 15, 2008, 10:19:10 PM

just been looking at the efika and thinking of shelling out for one but before i do this i want to know what it has to offer. am i going to beable to run amiga softare and games, is it compatible with Amiga OS 4 etc....

thanks in advance

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: HopperJF on January 15, 2008, 10:20:43 PM

Edit: Honest answer - don't know!

As far as it stands, nothing bar old Cyberstorm/Blizzard PPC boards and the scarce AmigaOne will run OS4

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: motorollin on January 15, 2008, 10:21:30 PM

It doesn't run MorphOS (yet). The only way to run Amiga software on the EFIKA is to run UAE under Linux.

--
moto

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: Tripitaka on January 15, 2008, 11:12:30 PM

Under the current climate (politically correct turn-of-phrase  :lol: ) I'd go for the SAM440 (http://www.acube-systems.biz/eng/hardware.php) over Efika.
Why? Well quite honestly either way the court battle goes SAM still has a chance of getting OS4, Efika only stands a chance if Hyperion win.
Morph OS will be available for both at some point (so the sages tell us).
AROS is in much the same situation on both machines, ie. running on top of Linux and nativly at ....some point.

So there you go, I hope I was helpfull.

By the way, no criticism of the AROS team intended in the above "...some point" comment. The fact is they have done great things but still have lots to do.  :-D

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: Rob on January 16, 2008, 12:43:35 AM

MorphOS 2.0 has been demoed running on Efika but when MorphOS will be released we don't know.

OS4 running on any hardware let alone Efika is a bit of an uncertaninty right now.

Bill Evans aka Tigger is currently porting AROS to Efika and it should be ready on or before the 18th of February.

AROS doesn't currently run classic software and has far fewer native apps than OS4 and MorphOS.

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: A1260 on January 16, 2008, 01:21:24 AM

Here is my honest answer...

NOTHING!

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: zizban on January 16, 2008, 01:37:57 AM

I think its a cool little geek machine.

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: dammy on January 16, 2008, 02:36:42 AM

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AROS is in much the same situation on both machines, ie. running on top of Linux and nativly at ....some point.

Both EFIKA (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=46) (due out in ~30 days) and SAM440 (http://thenostromo.com/teamaros2/?number=60) (due out in ~six months) ports are in active developement. 08, year AROS went native on PPC.

Dammy
TeamAROS (http://www.teamaros.org)

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: Tripitaka on January 16, 2008, 11:00:15 AM

Nice work AROS folks!
As for a geek machine, the FPGA on SAM adds to it's repertoire a whole new angle. Chipsets? maybe through the FPGA we could get something wothwhile, we've seen a lot of great FPGA projects recently with Minimig et al.
I'd still choose SAM over Efika. :-D

Title: Re: What does the EFIKA have to offer?
Post by: Everblue on January 16, 2008, 12:25:11 PM

I wouldnt buy an Efika unless there is any OS that runs on it (Amiga related, not linux distros).