Amiga Card PPC developing

[Piru]

bplan won't do this unless if there's profit to be made, and quite frankly I'd be amazed if anyone would.

[Piru]

@Plaz

I'd like to know why the dev cost would be so high when phase5 already has a PPC card design done.

I'd say the reason is that it'd require pretty much full redesign, as many of the components haven't been available for years, and/or are not available as RoHS. Also, you'd need to write the software for the card, this is quite tedious and time consuming work, too.

Sure having done previous designs helps, so probably doing it all from scratch would cost even more.

Also that figure of 50keur is probably derived using some highly "scientific" method such as Stetson-Harrison, the actual cost could be very much different.

[Piru]

I would think the 50keur would be just to design and produce a working product.

That'd still be quite cheap IMO.

Considering the probably low production runs the final product target price would be high, too. And this before even considering issues such as profit to make the effort worthwhile in the first place.

This is the reason why there are no new ppc accelerators.

[Piru]

Who knows. I don't speak german. But I have serious doubts anyone could do it for less. Also, since I've watched couple of these hw projects from the sidelines I have some idea of the effort and money involved.