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takemehomegrandma wrote:QuoteDwyloc wrote:I looked at purchasing one and a copy of morphos when morphos 2.0 was released but it was going to workout almost as expensive as the SAM and OS4 is nowThat my friend, is very hard to believe! The Efika motherboard is very small and very light weight, and shipment from Directron.com to Europe can't possibly be an issue. Maybe if you fly over to the states to pick it up yourself it will, but... ;-)
Dwyloc wrote:I looked at purchasing one and a copy of morphos when morphos 2.0 was released but it was going to workout almost as expensive as the SAM and OS4 is now
takemehomegrandma wrote:QuoteMetalguy66 wrote:But some of us (who are interested in the AMIGA in a desktop role) are not willing to pay 6 times what a modern PC motherboard costs for a board that has roughly 1/10th the performance.The 8610 is a good performer, and you could use it to make a really good desktop class Amiga machine with really good price/performance ratio. Look at this youtube video, what you see is the 8610 running Linux and playing a divx movie at full 1080p. There is an interesting discussion about it here.However, no suitable 8610 based motherboard exists, hence no "Amigoid" OS is running on it yet, but hey, MorphOS is coming for the MacMini G4, which is a well tried, cheap and well spread second hand hardware you could easily buy! Click on the image in this thread for details, or look at this mpeg video! And with MorphOS it's a really good performer too (1080p h.264 video replay, wow!) ;-)
Metalguy66 wrote:But some of us (who are interested in the AMIGA in a desktop role) are not willing to pay 6 times what a modern PC motherboard costs for a board that has roughly 1/10th the performance.
recidivist wrote: takemehomegrandma Your enthusiasm for the MorphOS sparked my taking another look at it,and ordering a new $99 efika. Today the post lady brought a little white box ;inside a board and ..vas ist los?nicht verstanden!...oh,wait, flip over the instructions for English.Although I might have puzzled it out ,it was great-great grandfather who was German. The pci to agp riser was included which I didn't expect/realize was part of the sale. I was thinking of using a 4 gig SD card in 44-pin drive adapter, not yet sure if there is a compatible gfx card on hand. Biggest fly in the ointment: I didn't follow the links far enough before ordering to discover the MorphOS license is as much or more than retail box Microsoft OS. :-?
