Why not bplan or DCE (who is the owner?) release new blizzard powerpc boards? (the old implementation or new up to date ones)
if people pay these prices for a second hand, old ones, even if it´s unknow if OS4 will be released for it, imagine how people would pay for a new ones and if OS4 run on it (this is not an isolated case, stuff like this get these prices)

IF they are not interested (is waste a market, i do not understand why they let lose it) how difficult would be reverse engine it and build clones?

Last edited by Fransexy on 08-Feb-2007 at 04:31 PM.

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I wish new Blizz PPC boards would be released i would buy one on the spot!
About upgraded boards, this is going to be diffecult i think with compatibility from newer chips on older boards.
Reverse engineering the board would take up too much time i think.

But IF new boards would be released maybe some ppl can lay their hands on some 604e 350 Mhz versions (can be clocked on 400 mhz) that allready would be significant upgrade on a Blizz PPC compared to 603e 240 Mhz.

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hmmm good point. the rumoured shark springs to mind as a good alternative.

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But IF new boards would be released maybe some ppl can lay their hands on some 604e 350 Mhz versions (can be clocked on 400 mhz) that allready would be significant upgrade on a Blizz PPC compared to 603e 240 Mhz.

Without mentioning that these will be cheaper than the prices of old ones on ebay

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spotUP wrote: @Fransexy hmmm good point. the rumoured shark springs to mind as a good alternative.

The point is that current software would run uncharged, Just plug and play like with the current ones, with the shark you need at least a new powerup/warpup library.Not to mention possible licence troubles with OS4

Edit: I forgot to mention that with the shark you need and existing accelerator and a mediator

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That price doesn't even cover the 68060...

Just FYI.

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@Fransexy

Is it RoHS compliant?

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olegil wrote: @Fransexy That price doesn't even cover the 68060... Just FYI.

There are various prices and sources to buy for the 060

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itix wrote: @Fransexy Is it RoHS compliant?

Both the 060 and 603 are RoHS compliant, i don´t know if the rest of the board is, but how difficult would be replace the non compliant parts?

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@itix

That shouldn't be a problem for a company making other boards with RoHS compliance (which presumably they are). Designs don't have to change very much, their soldering and processing machines might have needed changing, but that should already be in place for their other products so it wouldn't be a big deal...

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@olegil

As a curiosity, i browsed the freescale site and discover that there are versions of the 060 (@75 ) that cost more than some PowerPC G5

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Fransexy wrote: @olegil Quote: olegil wrote: @Fransexy That price doesn't even cover the 68060... Just FYI. There are various prices and sources to buy for the 060

These budgetary prices (>1000) should give you an indication.
And then you can try finding some "cheap" MPC603e/603ev. Good luck!

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this means that this thread would inflate even more the price of the blizzards PowerPC on Ebay??

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Were blizzppc parts more expensive in 90's? They must have come down by now, 'cause we need a bunch of new ppc's! :)

Who could manufacture them today?

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It's very possible that some parts used in the design back then are no longer available at all, or that some parts do not have RoHS equivalents. It's very likely that you might as well start over with a new design. ACK's PowerVixxen sounded like a very reasonable idea. Look at the Efika, which it sounded pretty similar to. There's almost nothing there other than the CPU. Add an FPGA to adapt the CPU's PCI bus to the A1200 CPU connector, and there's not much else to do. Emulate the 68K instead of soldernig it. Granted, that isn't necessarily trivial, but it's a lot less complex design work than Phase 5 did. Now, if only we could actually buy anything that's been announced, we 'd already have some "new Blizzards"...

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i guess we don't need exactly BlizzardPPC coz the old 680x0 cpu would raise the price of the card. For todays situation the best option would be AmiJoe or something like that packed together with AmigaOS4 for some reasonable price.

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DCE is on the "dark side" now so forget it..

please grow up

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there's a simple reason why they won't release new blizzard boards, they build new stuff, they innovate, they are not historians nor paleotechnologists.

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they build new stuff, they innovate, they are not historians nor paleotechnologists.

They are probably just well aware many Amigans would never buy anything from them.

I'm not a historian either but remember DCE's history very well and although many years have passed I still think of them as the worst thief's in Amiga history.

I would rather leave the Amiga scene than having to buy anything from DCE, thank god I have my A1

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I would rather leave the Amiga scene than having to buy anything from DCE, thank god I have my A1

Maybe Eyetech Ltd would be interested to start BPPC production and offer warranty options similar to your A1. That is, if I was you I wouldnt say anything about DCE and their repair services.

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