What's a good price and where to get?

[Tripitaka]

I might sound like an Elbox salesman but if you are after 68*** compatability with loads of speed, check out the Dragon 1200 Coldfire board, it goes for sale at the end of this month.

This may cost closer to the price of an 060 but the extra expansion is worth it and the Shark PPC board will be compatable.

Check it out with this link Dragon 1200 at Elbox :-D

[Tripitaka]

Ouch!  :-o
I do my research, Elbox had a very good reason for the delay. This is the reply I recieved after I emailed them.

My question: I was just wondering as to when the Dragon board will be available as it was to be released Jan 05 and I can't find it in your online store.

The reply: DRAGON 1200 was expected to be on sale in January, but Freescale delayed the
start of the volume production of their newest ColdFire MCF5475.
As for now we have very limited quantity of these new processors.

The last info from Freescale (Motorola) says that the mass production of
MCF5475 processors on which Dragon is based will start at 15 June 2005.
If this becomes true the Dragon sales will start at the end of June.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

Thank you for using Elbox's online support services.

Best regards,

I hope that clears that one up.  :lol:

[Tripitaka]

True... .. but, it feels wrong and my PC is used for work, I prefer to keep only the programmes I need on it.
 For classic Amiga software, UAE is pretty good, but as OS4 develops things change, PPC emulation on x86 just ain't happening, what I'm saying is, it's a dead end.
Amiga keyboards feel nicer anyway....mmmmmm..  :-D

[Tripitaka]

Do you work for Intel?
I don't see why I can't have great eye candy on my Amiga either, that was why I bought my A1200 all those years ago.
As for the A2000 case, It's a modern Amiga I want, not retro and not emulation.
Damn it man! Defend the faith! :pissed:

[Tripitaka]

@ XDelusion: I think I'll do the same. :-D

[Tripitaka]

Lemmink wrote:

I'd be truely amazed if it even comes into existence at the end of this month as a running prototype :lol: [/quote]

Elbox seemed to be pretty cofident and it was only 3 days ago I mailed them. With with chips in production on the 15th and expected release for the boards only 2 weeks later, one might be given to the idea that the boards are allready built...mmm :-P

[Tripitaka]

It seems like the V4e core used by the MFC5475 is a subset of the '060 instruction set and from our (Amigan) point of view offers comparable compatibility. :-)