Elbox upgrade .... PPC? Amiga?

[Tiago]

haaaaa, ok, now i makes sense.

And if you put one of those "Mediator PCI 1200 LT4" to have pci slots and you put a greaphics card, will it disable the standart amiga video ? you canot have 2....
so the ecs/ocs/aga will be disable and a vga video mode (pc) will be available?

[Buleste]

haaaaa, ok, now i makes sense.

And if you put one of those "Mediator PCI 1200 LT4" to have pci slots and you put a greaphics card, will it disable the standart amiga video ? you canot have 2....
so the ecs/ocs/aga will be disable and a vga video mode (pc) will be available?

Graphics cards are different. Basically it depends on what screen mode is needed at the time. To use a Graphics card you need either CyberGraphix or Picasso96. If you run a game which does not support rtg (most games) then it will use the native amiga video.

[Harrison]

Both will still work, much the same as if you have a Zorro graphics card in a standard box box Amiga like the A4000. All standard Amiga display output generated by the AGA chipset will still be sent to the standard Amiga graphics port. To see anything from the graphics card you need to be using the specific graphics devices that are for the graphics card. Then the display will be seen on the graphics card instead of the standard Amiga output.

This is why some people use a TV card in their Amiga tower conversions, so they can pass the output from the standard Amiga monitor port into the TV card so it can be seen on the graphics card display. Not sure how well this works though.

[Buleste]

Good news!! I've just checked the specs on the SharkPPC+ and it has a EIDE controller built in. And a AC97 sound Sub system.
Bad News!! The SharkPPC does not.

[Harrison]

The SharkPPC+ definitely looks like the best option, although it is also not cheap. It also supports a USB expansion too, so you shouldn't need to add anything extra. When is this going to be available though?

[Buleste]

1st qtr 2007 or when the final release for A1 of OS4 comes out so an easier question is what is dark matter.

[Harrison]

Similar to most Amiga hardware then. At some point if you hope and wish hard enough we may one day see it produced.

[Stephen Coates]

To quote Elbox's site 'Prices start from EUR 299.95 (depending on the processor version).'

Which is about equal to £215 so I guess it might be cheaper if you just got a slow G3 rather than a fast G4.

Actually, is there currently any AltiVec optimised software for the Amiga?

EDIT: I was getting currencies mixed up. The price in the list was in dollars, which is why it looks expensive. Then it says at the bottome of the page, the price in EUROs