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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Hardware News => Topic started by: InTheSand on December 08, 2006, 03:47:58 AM
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A review of one of the first EFIKA boards by Pegasos.org.
Full article is here (http://www.pegasos.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1265).
- Ali
Note: nothing to do with me, just thought others here would be interested!
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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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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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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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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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TheMagicM wrote:
it runs MorphOS
Really?
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moto
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@motorollin
According to a MOS team announcement, it will.
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Ahhh, it will, not it does. IOW, it might :roll:
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moto
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There are videos (http://www.ppcnux.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6614) of EFIKA running "the mystery OS", showing (http://www.ppcnux.de/public/efika/efikaquake.avi) games (http://www.ppcnux.de/public/efika/efika_wipeout.avi), movie (http://www.ppcnux.de/public/efika/efika_trailer2.avi) trailers (http://www.ppcnux.de/public/efika/efika_trailer3.avi) etc. Guess what that OS was? ;-)
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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!