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Efika 5200B Project
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Efika Retro Station
in category Other
proposed by Oliver Hummel on 28th November 2006 (accepted on 6th December 2006)
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Blog Entry
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 premiere day
posted by Oliver Hummel on 11th December 2006
Today is premiere day. It is the first time i received a package from the states, actually the first time i got something delivered through
FedEX. It is the first Single Board Computer I have (another one is to follow), yeah the Efika has landed :)
Unfortunately, my Harddrive and the GFX Board did not yet arrive, but this leave some time to think further about the Case for
the Retro Station. The first one will be definitively a Super Nintendo Case, but maybe I can also get my hands on that Broken Playstation 2
from a friend of mine.
BTW, if you read this and want to get rid of some of your older Console Hardware (Please only non functional Hardware,
I hate to kill working things) feel free to contact me :)
However there will be one step before, to have the gfx card properly attached, I will create a custom Backplate, this will also make it easy to
put the Efika in various Cases.
On the Software Site, work on the Frontend has also already begun. But wait, there is no MorphOS for the Efika yet, How is this supposed to work?
Well I will use Hollywood (a nice Multimedia Layer for Amiga and MorphOS) for that, and thus I am able to develop on what and where ever I want.
As I am on holiday from next week on, development will continue on my Laptop with WinUAE installed. Cool eh?
In the end today is not just premiere day, it also the day to bring back some nice memories:
The Efika is not the most powerful Computer in the World, but it is very tiny and it feels a bit like it was in the beginning of Home Computers,
You are not yet sure what to do with it, but you know there will be some surprising options :) And in the end, when this project is done,
it will also bring back some of the greatest Computers and Consoles from the past. (Well you can also just buy a Wii, but honestly where is the fun there? ;) )
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