@blitterstorm

It would not be possible to run BeOS on this, BeOS only runs on the BeBox and 603/604 Macs, Apple would not give Be Inc the docs for the G3 systems when they laucnehed and Be had no wish nor the resources to reverse engineer a solution from the hardware, Mac OS binaries and Linux driver source code for such a small market, they stopped developing for PPC and went entirly x86. In 2001 they were brought out by Palm (now Palm Source) and all development ceased. yellowTAB make a product called Zeta which is bassed on the unfinished and unrealesed BeOS r6 aka Dano. This is x86 only and noone outside of yellowTAB even knows if they have the source code (a lot of work is simply drivers and apps, the rest can be done without the source but is not as easy as it would be with it)

I will look into the possibility of using DSP's (Motorola make a nice one, the MSC8126 StarCore http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MSC8126&nodeId=0127958594 which has 4x400mhz cores and runs on the PPC 60x bus.

@digital disaster
I am quite excited about the ide of making the idear of making the Amiga5 a community effort.

I have some questions and comments on this matter.

Will the design or part of it become open source?
Are there any plans to involve people outside the Amiga community, I specily think about the linux ppc and BeOs, community. The MAC society is of cause also a teoretic opportunity, but to run MAC OS, on non apple hardware legaly, you need the permission of apple, but I dont think they would sell such licenses for obvius reasons.

Are there at this time, plans for making a simulator of the architecture.
If this such a simulator can be with a good quality, I think it could be a huge advantage.

F.eks. linux support, the linux developer can start porting *nix to the architecture before the boards become availible, and does not require the developers to actualy own a board to develop for it.

I also think having a simulator would aid, the effort of porting OS4.
Amiga device drivers work could also be begun before, the developers actualy get a board.

More developers could help finding and removing bugs in the board design, reducing the time to market factor.
It would make life much esier for developers actualy, working on the design of the motherboard.

I think, that openess of the project would aid the project in big ways.

There are not many open ppc architectures, I dont even know one.
Taking a look on NIX and their market share and growth, I see it as a golden opportunity, to get this computer to be adobted to a larger market.

The same with the Amiga OS, I think more people would be interested in Amiga OS if it can run on the same hardware as the do use for running Linux on.

Also If the Amiga 5 gets wider market, shares hey more jobs