I had some spare time this week and tracked down a company which claims to be able to reverse engineer any circuit board, build a copy of the board, identify the components and even source the components to build a fully functional clone.
A cloned PPC board, rebuilt and produced in batches would still be way too expensive (it would cost as much as a high-end laptop). However you look at it, PPC is not cost-effective and will *never* appeal to a broad user base.
Five current users of Amiga OS 4 will certainly disagree with me.
Why not try out the Efika board and MorphOS 2.0? The entire Efikacomputer costs less than a half what an average PPC card fetches on ebay.
Now, I have not tried MorphOS yet, but this seems like a viable solution. Has anyone tried out MorphOS (binary compatibility?) with Efika 5K2 board?
UPDATE: Just read another thread about instability of MorphOS and Efika.
Nothing like booting up OS 3.9
:-D
