Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 20:57 UTC
Not too long ago, we announced that 
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RE: ACK had another prototype...
by humppa on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 23:04
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...called the PowerVixxen LT that generated some excitement among Amiga circles. It was an accelerator for the Amiga 1200 that would add a Radeon mobility graphics card and CMedia sound chip along with a PowerPC 603e series processor. He said he had a prototype anyway, but nobody ever saw it because he cancelled the demonstration before anybody could see it.
The (canceled) demonstration was for the CPU modules, not the Powervixxen LT. Adam never managed to show any of his announcements working, let alone any photographic evidence that they existed.
In an IRC chat around Xmas 2005 he even lied by saying that the Powervixxen LT was "in production" and only the "docs are being polished up".
Edited 2007-06-03 23:06
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...called the PowerVixxen LT that generated some excitement among Amiga circles. It was an accelerator for the Amiga 1200 that would add a Radeon mobility graphics card and CMedia sound chip along with a PowerPC 603e series processor. He said he had a prototype anyway, but nobody ever saw it because he cancelled the demonstration before anybody could see it.
When he first announced it, he said he had Linux running on it and AmigaOS 4 would follow. He has access to the AmigaOS 4 source code as confirmed by the head programmer on the project on AmigaWorld.net .
Some people would have loved just to have Linux running on it until the thing could be ported. But his supplier of the connectors for the A1200 trap-door slot says he never got paid for the work he did machining an ROHS compliant tooling.
ACK announcements can't be trusted. Amiga, Inc. has a similar track record with orders of the Clone-A chipset which is a modern recreation of the Amiga ECS graphics chips on field-programmable gate arrays. He said to the guy that did the work to expect lots of orders in a specified number of months. He didn't hear from Amiga since then.