http://www.genesippc.com/press.php?date=20070910

As I see just now, Genesi chose the same topic as I did (more or less). the Efika is now anbandonware, but Efika2 is close.
I am sure MOS-Team will support this board, too...

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The Efika is *not* abandonware. Only Genesi has stopped production and sales. Others are continuing.

[ Edited by Zylesea on 2007/9/11 15:28 ]

Greaaat... This either makes me a saviour or an idiot - anyone care to flip a coin?

The offer in my sig is still good - with the price back to $199 I may even be a good source for interested people in the US.

Check out postal rates to your country -
Australia Post (choose a parcel weight of 250g to 500g)

Edited for typos & small clarification

[ Edited by ausPPC on 2007/9/11 9:19 ]

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Whopee...! One more reason for delaying MorphOS 2.0 further!

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There's no need for this specific reason. The MorphOS Team hasn't run out of other reasons yet.

ausPPC,

Think positive. You've practically cornered the non-US market in Efikas.

jcmarcos,

It shouldn't delay MorphOS 2.0 at all, no more than it is already delayed anyway.

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 19.08.2011 - 16:11 ]

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I will pray to that...

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Delay ? Never seen an official timetable ...

Oh no... $99 efika was my only way to get back into amiga waters, but with this and infinite waiting for MOS.... That's it.. And i am pretty sure ppl will start dissapointing as much as they did for OS4

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I don't blame Genesi at all for MorphOS 2.0 delays, of course.
In the other hand, please, bring Efika 2 to market as soon as possible! It looks like a very nice computer.
I hope you can help the MorphOS team to create the neccesary new drivers. For example, in the video department, CyberGraphX programmers have never had any experience with PowerVR chipsets.
Is it very hard to write a driver for such a hardware?
Also, the new "3Dlayers" system means that the driver should also have 3D supports, so it's not enough with a plain 2D driver.
In the audio department things are easier, but I guess that an AHI driver with AXE support(the DSP funciton of the MPC 5121e) would be very desirable...

Too bad, I was trying to buy one. I'd pay $99 tha twe were promised for so long and only recently actually happened. I won't pay Directron's $199.95 price, or other prices higher than that from other sellers. Boooooooooooo!

If Efika2 has the same $99 price then I may still be in, if we get some indication that MOS will run on it as it is supposed to be released for Efika1 someday. If it costs more, then it won't meet my promise to buy if it ever does reach the once fabled $99 price. And without MOS it will likely only gather dust on a shelf, as I don't have any use for yet another Linux box.

Have there been any hints to the price of Efika2?

[ Edited by billt on 2007/9/11 14:44 ]

an AHI driver with AXE support (the DSP funciton of the MPC 5121e) would be very desirable...

The only task of AHI driver is to deliver samples from a program to the audio hardware. I see no application of AXE here.

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So let me get this straight. Now its a BAD thing that we get new hardware?

Today - What sizes are the biggest TFT monitors that display the 1024 x 768 resolution natively (that is without "blurring" the picture by resampling it to fit its real native resolution)?

I think perhaps a quick clarification is required...the Efika1 is still available for purchase from Directron, (http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=directron&query=EFIKA+-so%3A+-dis%3A&mysetin=EFIKA&.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.directron.com%2F)
if I am reading bbrv's latest blog post correctly:

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http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2007/09/engineering-engagement.html

That said, at $199 I think I'll be waiting for the Efika 2 :)

The Efika as well as the Efika2 is not targeted to the desktop
primarily. For many purposes a 1024x768 pixel resolution is
sufficient. If you want to have more gfx power, add a gfx card. the
pci/agp port will stay there I assume.
Of course a higher resolution would be welcome, but so is a L2 cache,
some hundred more MHz and so on...

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 19.08.2011 - 16:08 ]

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Ouch! Me dumb. Of course you are right. AXE is interesting to codecs, so I guess Reggae is the place to look at.

I tried to order one of those $99 units right before the new announcement but missed apparently by minutes, as the "buy now" redirect changed from the time I changed compters. Cesa la'vie. In any case, I'll wait till the EKiFA2 arrives.. then again I'm a big fan of the PowerVR, I even use one of them in my Linux box.

@jcmarcos

Well, now I'm waiting for AXE specifications. Freescale has not released MPC5121e User Manual yet, there are no other documents describing AXE in details.

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Let's hope freescale does it right with this chip. I can't wait for bplan porting SmartFirmware to this freescale MPC5121e development board, featured in a past BBRV blog post... hey, freescale states that it's "scheduled for availability in Q4 '07", so this is not a freescale board?.
It would be very cool if they sent you one as soon as possible, like they said.

Looking at freescale's MPC5121e evaluation board document I mentioned earlier, I noticed a reference to a certain "STx" company. It turns out to be Silicon Turnkey Express, a "contract design and original design manufacturer affiliate of RPC Electronics. RPC Electronics is an electronic manufacturing services provider to OEM customers". In short: They make hardware.
STx has an specific freescale-based product page. There you can see interesting mainboards, like the GP3SSA, described like this:

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It's not an Efika2, sure it isn't that freescale MPC5121e development board (perhaps their forecoming GP2PRO is?), but sure it's similar. It makes sense that freescale does not produce motherboards, only chips.
The document cites related products, with a price tag of 500 $, if you order more that 1000 units.

You know all of this just makes me long to finishmy own design... I should get off of my butt.

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Own design? Details please!