As someone who grew up with Amiga... I find it amazing these boards still keep coming (X1000, X5000... anyone?) - they have always been insanely expensive for specs that are decade(s) old, all in the name of... really no idea what beyond "we can".<p>Or in other words: I wonder what if all that time, money and effort went into say AROS[1] and/or emulation. I can imagine still using AmIRC and HippoPlayer if I could run them as any other software on Linux.<p>1: <a href="https://aros.sourceforge.io/introduction/" rel="nofollow">https://aros.sourceforge.io/introduction/</a>
Yeah, the lack of support for off-the-shelf hardware has been the doom of the Amiga revival since day one.<p>The refusal to port AmigaOS to anything but dead or near-dead architectures has always amazed me -- had the resources been spent on AROS instead, we'd have a usable modern ecosystem by now, rather than multiple different options that fall back on various ways of running 30 year-old binaries.<p>All I want is a decent modern version of YAM and universal ARexx/datatype support! :(
There's an AROS runtime for GNU/Linux and others.
Amazing effort<p>Be sure to click through to the details page <a href="https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/" rel="nofollow">https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/</a>
<a href="https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/" rel="nofollow">https://mirari.vitasys.nl/the-first-rebirth/</a>
As a fan of older Macs, I didn't know there were any 64-bit PowerPC chips made after the Power Mac G5 and the Cell processors used in the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3.<p>This is cool; it would be cool to play with a modern, hobbyist 64-bit PowerPC board. I will be keeping an eye on this project!
This board is based on an NXP QorIQ SoC which is designed for networking hardware, not really intended for general purpose computers. It is to my knowledge, and has been for years, the only game in town if you need to be compatible with the PowerPC ISA (IBM POWER processors, while part of the same lineage, cannot run <i>PowerPC</i> code)
It is what powers (hehe) many IBM servers,<p><a href="https://www.ibm.com/products/power" rel="nofollow">https://www.ibm.com/products/power</a>