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Re: ETA for Elbox Dragon?
« on: March 19, 2007, 05:48:51 PM »
Dragon is a dead end technology. It has codfire cpu which had been a good solution in the mid/late '90, when the os is not ported to ppc. (AFAIK coldfire is not ppc it's similar to 68k) But now when os4 is out(?), it is for nothing.
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Re: ETA for Elbox Dragon?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2007, 08:55:26 PM »
In the elbox site there is a complet photoshot "album" and some movie about the amizudski (I love polish, but I'm not speak polish) Show. As you see in the picture dragon demoed. I think if it is really runing os3.9 and other amiga stuffs (spaceball demo as seen in one of the pics) some amiga mag already write it. (Amiga future etc.)  Or am i missed something?
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Re: ETA for Elbox Dragon?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2007, 09:48:58 PM »
@donar: I still using os3.9, and i love it, but in my amiga there  is a powerful cpu wich most of the time is sleeping or if it used it has got some "content switching orgy with 68k cpu".

So other aspect: Mac OS goes powerpc in the mid '90, amiga planned do the same about '97. (Afaik commodore want the same maybe hp, dec alpha or powerpc but want the same)It delayed and delayed and now os4 is out but now the time is 2007 not 1997 or something similar. So there is a good os4 only one little step from my amiga. (Someone just relase it please)  So why on earth buy a coldfire which is unusable with os 4?
Amiga 500: 68030@14MHz/68882@40MHz/ 5.5MB RAM/80MB HDD/Delfina FE Sound card/Kickstart 3.1/OS 3.1

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Re: ETA for Elbox Dragon?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2007, 11:16:31 PM »
@ bubba: from this aspect you say something, but this price?

Any ppc card (sharkppc if ever will be relased too)is a stone age tool compared to any "modern" pc but it offer me and probably my a1200 some speed under os4. (and 3.9) I want speed in my amiga not a speed of '060 or worse. If the only thing they offered after many years of developing is a 060 card, then why not licensing blizzard '060 and sell it?

Anyway when dragon first appeared ddr 266Mhz and ati 9200/9700 etc was about ok technology, but now day by day these parts will be the parts of some computer museum.
Amiga 500: 68030@14MHz/68882@40MHz/ 5.5MB RAM/80MB HDD/Delfina FE Sound card/Kickstart 3.1/OS 3.1

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PowerBook 15" PPC 1.67GHz, 2GB Ram, 250GB HDD, ATI 9700/128MB, MorphOS 3.1