Amiga PowerPC

2. Escena releases status report about project 'Brainstormer'

Also Escena, the second company, which plans PowerPC-G3 boards for the current Amiga computers reported back on their homepage(http://www.escena.de):

»Braunschweig, as of June 8, 2000

PowerPC prototype is running.

After having completed testing of memory controller and other units, we were able to get the Power PC unit running in mid of march. This was actually not exactly the PowerPC unit of the brainstormer itself but rather to be compared identical. We still have to fix some minor items on this, but this will have major effect on the Brainstormer project. We will be able to skip prototype phase and go directly to 0-series which allows us to produce a higher quantity of early boards allowing us to get out a limited quantity for software development purposes.

But we must admit that we have some trouble to find a financial basis for that at the moment. We are thinking (once again) to bridge that with an intermediate project (this time one in the Amiga market). Thus we cannot forecast the production start of the 0-series.«

(Source: Escena)