Amiga system with PowerPC SoC

Amiga system with PowerPC SoC


AmigaOne 500
Image: Acube system sells for € 1062, the Italian company Acube system AmigaOne its 500th In the computer the motherboard Sam460ex infected with the Applied Micro PPC460ex SoC and the Silicon Motion SM502 chip that includes a graphics processor. 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM and a SATA hard drive with 500 GB capacity is included as well as a mouse, and the preinstalled operating system AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 From about 45 € surcharge stronger graphics cards are available, about 4650th of an AMD Radeon HD

The Belgian Acube-rival A-Eon Technologies, meanwhile, has a number of developers with preliminary versions of the more expensive AmigaOne X1000 supplies, it comes with a beta version of the motherboard Nemo-2, which the British company Varisys with the dual-core PowerPC processor, PWRficient PA6T-1682M equipped. The manufacturer of this processor, Apple has taken a few years ago originally wanted to use the CPU Varisys announced at the 2007 VM31 XMC module.

Older AmigaOS versions can be significantly cheaper to use as Windows emulators, such as in August 2012 had Cloanto released version of Amiga Forever. The same manufacturer also supplies about C64 emulators are Forever but some also available for Linux, Android or IOS. The U.S. company Commodore, meanwhile, provides information on their own PCs in April announced the C64 keyboard design from now, but at different prices also announced Commodore OS 1.0 is apparently not ready yet.

Not only are the Amiga scene filed on new hardware: Even the Atari Coldfire Project is working on the support of FireTOS and FreeMiNT for the 700-euro single board firebee  with the 266-MHz ColdFire CPU Freescale MCF5474  .