Upcoming Mirari PPC motherboard

@m3x
Super!

Any update with OS4.1 running on this new board?

Anybody working on it would be under NDA, so I doubt there will be comments before an official announcement.

in the mean time according to the Mirari website at Amiga40 ..."HunoPPC was using a Mirari system to present his wonderfull port of WipeOUT, the Fantomas Edition. So if you have played this game at the HunoPPC booth…you were playing a Mirari system probably."
https://mirari.vitasys.nl/wp-content/u ... 10/Amiga40_HunoPPC_04.jpg

Also, per AmigaOldskooler's October roundup and Hyperion's (?) presentation at Amiga40:

• A proof-of-concept kernel for the Mirari has already been built.
• After this show, Dave Koelman is shipping boards to Steve Solie and Thomas Frieden to begin the port of ExecSG to the Mirari board.

@tao
That would be from Trevor's presentation at Amiga40.

@graff
That would be from Trevor's presentation at Amiga40.

Steve presented after Trevor and said he had already received the board.

@all

Both devs (Thomas Frieden and Steven Solie) have received the board and work has started.

@Skateman

Thanks - made my day!

@Skateman

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

@Skateman

@all

what will be its typical cpu power? between 460ex and x5000?

and what will be its prices?

tnx for any hints

@noXLar

CPU power will be around 75% of the X5000/20.
If you would measure Mhz wise..its almost the same in speed.
The most Mirari users at the moment are runnin the 1400Mhz at 1600Mhz

Price, we still target between 500 - 600 euros..

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@Skateman

Is a 2081 version still plaanned?

The prices seem to vary quite a bit but I can't understand why Arrow are asking such a low price for this part number. It might be a good idea to buy all 120 before someone else does.

www.arrow.com/en/products/t2081nsn8ttb/nxp-semiconductors

@Rob

Those prices make no sense.. 200+ each is more realistic for this.
See them at Mouser for 225,-- atm.

@Skateman

The 2081 version is the one most awaited indeed (AltiVec and speed).

This the one I would take

The obvious question is where Skateman and Geennaam have been all our PowerPC life?

The OS4 market was at an all time hardware low with power dropping and prices rising when suddenly a new board is in development to offer reasonable power at a decent cost.

Now, bringing a board to market at a good cost for the end user is already tough. So plans for a reasonable cost board tend to be taken as a relative term in the OS4 market. What's considered a good price today? But what I want to know is why this took so long? I mean, for years people spread on the forums that releasing a PPC board at good cost was doable, but no one did that. Even releasing a PPC board was fantasy talk and only companies like ACube could back it up after the A1 went stale. The laptop guys had an idea that was just too big to be practical. It just boggles my mind, that after all this time, a few people got together to do what teams have taken years trying to achieve and didn't deliver. Just saying.