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Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 0:23:40
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Quake played top of WarpOS and Sonnet PPC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBiGvfH7q0k
Elbox announced Shark year 2000, it would have bee rebranded Sonnet Crescendo, PPC accelerator for 680x0 apple Computers.
Now somebody has hacked it to work with Mediator.
Currently there is two of them on sale on ebay, price is something like 11€.
That would be cheapest PPC accelerator fo classic Amigas. :) Last edited by utri007 on 05-Dec-2015 at 12:23 AM.
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 3:53:26
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Interesting. So it was a viable project after all. I wonder why Elbox never followed through. I'd certainly have stuck one in my A4000+Mediator. Mind you, I have the X1000 now, but if the price was right... _________________ AmigaOne X1000, A4000(T), A3000, A2000, A1200(T), A1200, A500, CD32, Minimig+ARM, FPGA Arcade, Chameleon64, C-One, C128, C128D, C64C, C64, VIC-20, CBM 8032, CBM4032, Efika, Ultimate64 |
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 4:19:00
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 5:02:38
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Just make a ebay search, ther is two of them in ebay right know.
"Buy now" prices are 11,02€ and 12,86€
Last edited by utri007 on 05-Dec-2015 at 09:21 AM.
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 9:41:50
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Could you provide the eBay-link? I see 2, but they don't have the memorystick slots. |
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 9:47:37
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 12:45:37
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 5-Dec-2015 20:35:30
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| Graphics card memory is necessary for the boot of PPC CPU. Otherwise, Sonnet on-board memory is both used and necessary at this point.
Also, to anyone searching for the card. You need 7200 model. Nothing else will work. Read the README.md file in GitHub repository before you spend any money:
https://github.com/Sakura-IT/SonnetAmiga Last edited by strim on 05-Dec-2015 at 08:37 PM.
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 6-Dec-2015 5:40:51
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| i am wondering was there ever made an petunia/jit for warpos classics ? and how would that would that fly with it. i dont thin os 4.1 classics will work with such an card but iff there is an warpos jit/petunia this i think it would fly and maby out performe an 060... |
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 6-Dec-2015 6:47:51
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| Freescale are still selling 7448 CPUs ranging from 600Mhz-1700mhz and IDT are stll selling the TSI 108 and TSI 110 bridge chips. I'm sure a lot of people would be happy if someone designed a new card based around those with a couple of GB ram soldered on board. |
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 1:10:09
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| The ones on ebay look like NuBus connectors (not the rarer PCI ones). The PCI ones are probably mostly installed in old performa 7200's right now. There are a few other sources too.
I wish the development library wasn't so tied to Elbox pci.library. These would be great for Amithlon machines that have extra PCI slots if the support for amithlon pci libraries were there.
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utri007 wrote: @Darrin
Just make a ebay search, ther is two of them in ebay right know.
"Buy now" prices are 11,02€ and 12,86€
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 11:05:51
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 11:10:06
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And maybe there are more PCI powerPC cards ? |
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 15:10:00
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| What is a powercell pcie? Have a link?
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 15:12:39
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 16:42:24
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 16:47:56
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I was thinking in PCI embedded development powerpc cards and SBC powepc cards. there are a few ones than can be used also as a slave systems. I do not know if it's technically possible to do something similar to what have been made to the crescendo 7200 but is something to considerLast edited by Fransexy on 07-Dec-2015 at 05:03 PM. Last edited by Fransexy on 07-Dec-2015 at 04:59 PM.
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 17:12:46
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 18:09:21
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Do you know that we are talking about warpOS and nor about warp3D?
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Re: Quake II with (almost) Elbox Shark Posted on 7-Dec-2015 19:31:47
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Those are dead technologies. I was in contact with IBM throughout those projects. What most people don't understand about IBM is they prefer to qualify their partners. What do that mean? Unless its a licensed product, they may not want to sell it to YOU. They may work with a large company (in this case primarily Sony). But they actually want to know what YOU can bring THEM.
Its the weirdest organization I have ever tried to work with. Doubt me? Go try to buy new Cell BE or PowerCell 8i cpus. They WON'T sell them to you .
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