I still don't know what a Genesi is... (Sega Genesis?)
The Pegasos is a PPC motherboard that was designed by bPlan. MorphOS is an PPC-based OS with built-in Amiga compatibility. It will run a large chunk of Amiga software that does not bang the hardware.
Genesi is a company started up by Bill Buck asnd Raquel Valesco (hopefully spelled that correctly) that is currently producing the Pegasos and MorphOS.
Is the Pegasos built on custom hardware?
Not in the same ways as our Classic Amigas. You'll find it very difficult to find (outside of the Console and embedded market) custom hardware.
The Pegasos is its own design, but built with off-the-shelf parts. It's a MicroATX motherboard. (The AmigaOne is as well built using off-the-shelf parts. )
is it hardware dependent?
Not sure exactly what your question is, but in short, it can fit AGP, PCI cards. It has USB, Firewire, built-in-audio, ethernet, and IDE. Linux will have more drivers to run more cards, but MorphOS does support Voodoo's and Radeon graphics cards.
can it do seamless animation like my Amiga500?
Not exactly sure what you mean here. It all depends on software. I can't say I've tried to play Anim files, but VCD's, DVD's and DivX's movies play very well with MPlayer and Frogger. MAME works great and plays games rather smoothly (so I can keep my JAMMA boards in storage.)
Is there a software base?
It can run Amiga 68K and PPC software (as long as it doesn't try and bang the hardware.) There is also a growing amount of developers that are recompiling their works for it to be MOS native and some open source software that made it's way.
Off the top of my head:
Commercial/Shareware:
-Hollywood 1.5 (Presentation/Multimedia/Programming)
-FroggerNG (plays lots of different video formats)
-Pro Station Audio
-Digibooster Pro (coming soon)
-PageStream (coming soon)
-FxPaint
-FxScan
-VHI Studio
-Feeble Files
-Software Tycoon
- ... and more.
Open Source:
-Mplayer (can play DVDs!)
-MAME
-UAE (in case you need to run some software that bangs the hardware)
-Quake
-Bochs (PC Emulator)
-Yam
-... and more...
Amiga 68K/PPC software that works in MOS:
-ImageFX
-Descent: FreeSpace
-IBrowse 2.3
-ArtEffect
-Cinema 4D
- ... and more ...
Mind you, this only applies to MorphOS. Genesi are trying to get everyone to port their OS to the Pegasos as well.
Does it have a future?
Well... Genesi have done a lot of work in enticing developers to port their products. Nothing can be certain, but it seems like they have done a lot of work to make sure that they have a future. And there is already more to come: Pegasos 2, and umm... a few "annoncements" are supposed to be forthcoming in mid-October to coincide with it's release.
So, wait-n-see will probably be the best thing to say.
Is there a god?
Is this off-topic?
