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Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« on: November 20, 2006, 06:27:48 AM »
Did anyone else notice this on the EFIKA Developer Program

Jens applied for the program and was rejected....(i think you get an EFIKA board to work with if approved)

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Clone-A Amiga chipset on Efika-compatible PCI card

Submitted by Jens Schönfeld on 25th October 2006
   
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Clone-A implements the Amiga chipset on an FPGA. Efika plus Clone-A could be regarded as a hardware-accelerated Amiga emulator.

Project Status has been [color=ff0000]rejected.[/color]


A bit disappointing!!!!
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2006, 08:12:14 AM »
Considering how much he's been bashing Genesi, did he really expect to get something from them for free?
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2006, 09:05:02 AM »
what are you saying? that Jens did that to get a 160euro board for free??? are you serious? this is a TOTALLY LAME thought!
clone-a on efika would rock, the Efika people should not have rejected a project like that, and I cannot find any real reason why to reject it... it is not like efika has a 3ghz cpu so it is beefy enough... this could promote BOTH products and give something that no new-amigalike platform has... the original chipset!
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2006, 09:29:13 AM »
Perhaps, however, possibly a very good opportunity for Genesi to show a commitment to the Classic Amiga Community has been missed.

If Jens was brave enough to ask, Bill should have ben breve enough to provide

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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2006, 09:33:01 AM »
The fact that Jens has been badmouthing the company behind the Efika for quite some while is quite an understandable reason for them not to give him anything. I mean, would you support someone who insults you and your customers?

Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if he requested a board, knowing his request would be rejected, just to get more fuel for his bashing.
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2006, 09:43:20 AM »
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Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if he requested a board, knowing his request would be rejected, just to get more fuel for his bashing.

You think so?
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2006, 09:45:36 AM »
Piru: Yeah, I've seen that page :)
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2006, 10:11:19 AM »
Cor thats a very interesting page, Bill Buck and co remind me of '80's business man' from futurama.  :lol:
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2006, 12:11:54 PM »
heheh! nice one!
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2006, 02:00:28 PM »
The Clone-A-PCI-card is something still to be developed, so why would anybody (sane) want to use a slow piece of HW with only 1 PCI-slot for that ??? A PC running UAE or Amithlon, a Mac or even a Peg would have been a far better choice.

Why would anybody (as a user) use the Efika's only PCI-slot for Clone-A instead of a Radeon ?

What OS was Jens planning to use ? UAE on Linux ?? There are far better options for that.

So all in all I think Jens laid out the bait and BBRV snapped it ...
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2006, 03:11:02 PM »
as far as I can see, you can have on the efika a riser with AGP and PCI, propably more than just 1 pci...
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2006, 04:58:00 PM »
OMG!!!11 EV1L BBRV IS DESTROYING A_CLONE!!111 CALL TEHPOLIC!!!

EDIT I mean, what difference would it make if A-Clone was accepted? None. Free HW is always nice but the last time when they were giving out free Pegasos boards for free Genesi was accused for bribery :-)
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2006, 05:12:05 PM »
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So all in all I think Jens laid out the bait and BBRV snapped it ...


Spot on.
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2006, 06:53:15 PM »
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Britelite wrote:
Considering how much he's been bashing Genesi, did he really expect to get something from them for free?
so, what are you saying??? that bbrv don't believe in behaving like professionals and doing things that would be good for business?
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Re: Clone-A in Efika, Rejected!
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2006, 07:11:08 PM »
I sure would like to have clone-a in my peggy. But was Jens thinking that Genesi would fund his business?  :-?
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