Cloning the CyberstormPPC

[Jose]

Probably illegal but would it be possible to clone the thing and have it produced in one of those cheap chinese factories ?
I've read some post in a thread here that P5 protected the PLC's or something, but there must be a way around it:)

Note, I personally don't belive cheap chinese salaries is the way to go but unfortunately it's the way the world is going right now..
Just though I'd post something controversial, been long since I used to post more around here...

Cheers :pint:

[Jose]

Ok, but let's get more deep into it. What type of PLC does it use ? What type of encoding was used when programming it ?
Regarding economics, I bet they could produce it for peanuts if they wanted...

[Jose]

Oh no, are the X86 vs PPC wars still going on ? Well for real speed one can use WinUAE, but I don't think an emulator is the same thing, it's just cool to run Classic hardware and it sells for fortunes on eBay.
This could also be a good way to screw DCE a bit, after all the cards they kept without rapairing them or sending them back (if anyone still remembers that...).

[Jose]

The only reason I posted this is that, while not news, CyberstormPPC's are selling over €1000 these days, when they once sold for less than €300 in 2004/5, it's amazing. I never thought prices would keep up this high for such a long time, and the tendency is to go even higher.
Designing a new board  is also a fortune, from what I've gathered from the experts.
And even if it did happen it wouldn't be cheap, just look at the new 030 for the 1200.
Natami is looking better and better I guess, I hope they join both worlds and make a PPC / 68k card for it, or maybe just program a PPC core too.

[Jose]

What? Really?

/me looks over at his CyberstormPPC

Yeah, not always, but it's close

[Jose]

Crying is not gonna help

[Jose]

BTW anyone noticed a few years that chinese guy selling E41J masks very cheap (less than €40 IIRC) ? A few months later I checked and he was selling them for €100 and later he had no more.
Demand and supply does work sometimes in practice, so since now there is demand maybe there is a small profit to be made. Frankly I'm getting fed up with all this and will probably not get anything new and that's what most of us will do. It will all die out and we don't care anymore, we're all starting to have wives and kids and getting into new hobbies:)

[Jose]

Maybe DCE is producing them and slowly putting them on eBay

"Then you look at a 20 year old 030 accelerator selling for some ungodly sum of money and just shake your head."

LOL My thoughts exactly.

[Jose]

Regarding the Notebook for AOS4.1 it seems that it won't have AltiVec so I lost interest on it. An old Powerbook is better IMHO.

I agree with some of the comments that we don't need PPC cards for Classics, but the thing is there is demand. I sure wouldn't mind having one;)

[Jose]

@Senex
That's interesting but how far did it go ? All these projects that happened along the years that didn't come to fruition would have all benefited from some cooperation.