And if a Vampire will avoid us to be vampirized? (about insane prices of turboboards)

[jimmyboy]

I doubt the price of original Blizzard's and Apollo's and the like will fall because at the end of the day it's rare hardware that will never be made again.  Let's face it, this hardware just swaps hands all the time anyway so the price doesn't really matter so much.

The Vampire I'm sure will attract new users, or old ex-users who until now could not afford a high spec Amiga. Exciting times lie ahead I do believe.

Yes its rare hardware and if someone was daring enough and looked into it you could get any card cloned. There are cloning services out there and "ic break". With just a small run of 400 cards you could easily change things.


http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=pcba+cloning

[jimmyboy]

Which one?  The A600 or the Vampire?

I'm guessing the A600 is simple enough with all the expired patents that it wouldn't take much to clone.

The Vampire?  It's all in the firmware of the FPGA.  A clone wouldn't be nearly as useful as a re-creation using an ASIC in place of the FPGA anyway:  Something that's already being planned by the Apollo team with the code to do it with anyway.

I would always be against cloning something that is currently on sale with exception to 1 bit of hardware.
Clone the PPC boards and other old hardware that has not been sold for years YES.
They dont just clone they can add things. So you could clone a PPC board and take away the scsi and add sata or usb. Now theres a thought