You can get the new 7447A CPU card at a discounted price by helping out in a little project over at ppczone.

If you are interested, I suggest you to go over there and check what you can do:

http://www.ppczone.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=145

Hm, a 7447A would be nice but is a G3 fast enough for testing?

DJ Base, I believe the G3 is enough, the application doesn't use a lot of CPU ressources and it is interesting for the benchmark to have Betatester running g3 as well ;)

Ok, so all I need is a cam I guess.

Yes, you can use a USB or Firewire camera. The result with the FW is much better. You also need speakers and microphone. The best is to have a head set or you will have an annoying echo ;)

Will a cam with built-in micro work?

Well, we never give it a try. Do you have one ?

No but I dont have a micro either. Its hard to find cheap firewire cam it seems. I will give usb a try.

Tapero

sounds great! I have a Firewire digital video camera here I can use. How do I set it up with Gnome meeting though? I couldt get it recognized..

However, It does work with Kino though - an Open Source Imovie type video editing/capture program.(runs on peg )



magnetic

ps How are we going to start our efforts?

Before anyone get disappointed you should probably ask specifically
what the discount is going to be.
I mean.. a 5 Euro discount may probably not be what you expect, do
you? :)

Things should be clear before you go into wild dreams and enormous
expectations (i.e. 7447A for 0,-)

Don't get me wrong. I wish we'd all get them for free (hehe) but some
users might really expect too much and then end up angry just because
they didn't knew the odds.

Regards Ingo


[ Edited by Ingo on 2005/2/12 0:24 ]