Amiga Card PPC developing

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But where's the price point?  There are 10's of people willing to drop an insane amount of money for a PPC card, but what's the price that would hook a thousand users, if it had a real PPC chip (G$/G5) at some GHz speed and not a junk 603/4?  Would a 1000 Amiga users pay €400 for a G4 or G5 card?  Assuming you want a profit as well as recouping your cost could you produce 1000 cards at €300?

If the whole project could be done in a year (from concept to sale of the final board) the developer would then have €100,000 in their pocket, a reasonable amount of money for an IT person though probably less than they could get consulting.   But my orin

[persia]

There's nothing that says how small we are than looking at the sad situation around OS4.  It wouldn't be that hard to run it on old PPC Mac equipment.  It wouldn't be that hard to adopt PearPC.  But we lack the resources and without equipment the numbers continue to shrink.

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Just get OS4 to work on old PPC based Macs, that will sustain the Amiga community until AROS becomes a real, functional OS.

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Well, only 49,998 more to go...

Hey I'm a glass is 0.004% full rather than a glass is 99.996% empty guy!

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There is a personal computer available right now, cheap and in abundant supply that would provide enough machines for everyone to have an OS4 machine in every room of their house, including bathrooms and toilets, and not affect the price one euro.

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Natami and Minimig are the hopes for Classic Amiga fans, what needs to be done is for there to be some way to actually run OS4.  I don't know if there are enough Amiga fans left for it to make a difference but right now the limiting factor is currently machines.  A functional OS4 on PPC Mac Minis would eliminate that restriction.

Do I think that Amiga OS4 will become mainstream?  No, it's far too late for that, but perhaps it can reverse the haemorrhage  of remaining users.  All Amiga needs is a few thousand users to survive into the future.

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I can get a 4 or so year old 1.42 GHz  G4 Mac Mini for USD 250 to 350 (€160 to 225), you'll need more than that in research seed alone to produce a card that will go into a 25 year old machine.  I don't give a flying fig if the box has got little faeries with pink wings on it.  All I want to do is run OS4.  I can have 4 bleeding  Mac Minis for the price of one A1, if they exist at all (there's been fewer sightings of A1s than there have been of Drop bears).

Apple hardware is new, top of the line stuff.