PowerUp-to-date

4. News in brief

• G3 and no end: In an advertisement in the May edition of the magazine amigaOS the hardware manufacturer GVP-M announced to put G3-PowerPC boards for the Amiga models A1200, 2000, 3000 and 4000 on the market, too. A PPC 750 with 512 MB or 1 GB backside cache is to be used. The memory extension will be made using SD-RAM. GVP-M also considers to develop UW-SCSI and graphics extensions for the cards - this would be decided in this quarter of the year. The G3 boards are to appear in the 4th quarter of this year.


• Randomize (http://www.randomize.com) offers with their project Genesis Odyssey PPC II a new and complete PowerPC computer, based on the A1200. There is one special feature: On the homepage of the manufacturer you can choose of nearly any of the components for your computer.


• Blittersoft started a survey regarding FusionPPC and PCxPPC on their homepage (http://www.blittersoft.com). Who is interested in one of these programs should participate on this survey, because the realisation of the PowerPC version of these emulators isn't certain, yet.