Hi everyone, its been a long time. I've been thinking about getting an Efika and MOS 2.x to give the latest MOS a chance again. How is it on the Efika? Since its so small I can put it any place and have no trouble with it being in the way.

Does all the hardware work under MOS?

Is the low RAM an issue with MOS? How about the slow CPU speeds?

Any info would be great from real Efika users.

I've just been trying out a few demos - mainly to check out graphics and sound output.

The low memory is just something to bear in mind - other than Quake 3 it hasn't really stopped me from doing anything.

Hi!

I am also intrested in Efika!
Is it posible to connect a slim DVD to it?
Would be a nice mediacenter under my tv
I have also looked at the sam motherboard, but
it is a bit expencive.

Serial output and sound work. Expect graphics card that work in a Peg to also work in an Efika. Those that work with my Peg II also work inside the Efika. Internal harddisks also work flawlessly. For USB devices this changes. I tried 11 USB devices with only 2 of them working in just one special combination. All the other failed to work as stand-alone or in combination with others. It is said to be changed for MOS 2.3 but until then be careful.
Regarding speed, Efika is a lot slower than Pegasos. You will see this especially with every graphics related thing such as Ambient, MUI, Shell output ... For example, just scrolling around inside of this text box by cursor keys to write the comment to your questions takes a lot more time than on my Peg II with the same environment (even the same graphics card). This is also the case for mouse scrolling or typing text messages inside any string gadget, Shell or whatever.
Hardisk is also slower which will be visible especially in Ambient when you open list browsers, icon browsers and change view. It takes a lot more time to initially load the directories' contents and later to display them.
The low RAM is not an issue for MOS itself but for running applications. Small ones do not make any problems as most of the Amiga apps are not that consuming, but e.g. AmiGG takes 13MB of RAM, OWB takes 35MB just for loading the applcation. Every webpage will take more RAM (5-10MB is usual) and just making the window size some pixels bigger eats up another 3MB of RAM. That's why I still use IBrowse - for RAM usage and speed gains on Amiga sites.

serailport works on Efika? ... that's not what I heard, but I didn't test it.

My Efika has a USB dvdwriter connected to it ... reading is ok, writing: I didn't test it, but don't expect it to work.

ah, I am not getting this thing, even though I am sure it would be a lot of fun to have. The RAM is just to low for me, and it looks like to much work if you can even do it to get more on it.

[ Edited by Acill on 2009/3/21 10:13 ]

@Oepabakkes

That's serial output as in debug. For your usb dvd writer you should try to disable simple scsi in usb settings, it's more likely to work that way.

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If you want to try the EFIKA out to see what MorphOS2.x looks like on it, I'll let you borrow mine for a few weeks to see if you like it. I am not using it much at the moment and can do without it for 3 to 4 weeks if you want to play with it.

I also see that you posted in the "Who has bought a MacMini" thread, so if you are the patient type, it might be better to wait for MorphOS3.0 to be released for the G4 Mini's, instead of buying the low power, low RAM EFIKA.

I am spending most of my time in Riverside lately, which is closer to you than Big Bear Lake. Let me know if you want to borrow my EFIKA.