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- POWER PC BOARDS
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- Phase 5 will bring out Power PC Boards (603e and 604, maybe 620 too) for
- A1200, A3000 and A4000 in June/July (evaluation Boards for developpers
- are available in January).
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- They will use 68k Emulation and will have ported Exec, Graphics and
- CyberGFX till June/July to Power PC Native Code.
- The rest will be ported one after the other, later...
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- CyberGFX 3 will support "multimedia and 3D functions, audio and video".
- It weill support AGA in addition to GFX Boards. They work together with
- Amiga Technologies and they say, future Power PC products from both firms
- will be compatible (they work in cooperation with Amiga technology).
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- The low end boards seem to be quite cheap (1000 german marks, which is
- about 1.3x the price of a new A1200 without software-package).
- Some developpers already announced support (proDAD, Softwood, Almathera,
- MAXON).
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- Amiga Technologies Power Amiga? Will it use CyberGFX 3 then, to remain
- compatible? (I hope so...) But sounds to be GOOD news... :) These Power
- PC 604 are speed monsters ... :) They had already some sort of Beta
- version of the Developper Board there to look at it... but only dumb
- hardware up to now... --
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- Steffen Haeuser - haeuser@minnie.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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