@Troels

The plan has always been to bring financial backing in for the pre-production and production runs. It's just how this is done that needs to be sorted outa and that is what is causing me greif at the moment. The idea of selling the board at cost makes it very dificult to bring in fincial backing, and creating a not for profit organisation would probably make it next to impossible.
Momentum wern't very helpfull about costs before but I will try to get some info out of thema gain.
I don't have anywhere to set up a mialing list, if you can suggest somewhere then i gladly will. Yahoo prehpas?

@Troels

The best way to go about this would be to fund Hyperion to port OS4 to the G5, and use that as a stepping stone to the new iMac. Better to have a known base to start from, before you start running into "unknown" and "undocumented".

Then you can peel off the bank loan for the board from the initial OS4 sales for that platform. Say £100 for OS4, £10 of that for the board and development costs, you only need 600 sales for the iMac to cover the board alone.

Remember the iMac market is of millions, and a lot of them will buy stuff like this in a shot if they have a chance to run Amiga software (MacUAE sucks, remember).

Neko