News from Swiss Micros

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In addition to not needing a Saturn emulator because the 50g has one already, the 50g firmware's ARM code runs on bare metal, meaning it's basically guaranteed to contain some snippets that interface with the S3C2410 SoC directly (e.g. for power management, keyboard, or display). Swapping out the SoC for a newer one would surely create some problems with those parts of the code. This could potentially be handled with a basic VM, but I'm not convinced they would put that kind of effort in.

Also, there's no reason to develop a crippled placeholder firmware to sell it with, just adapt newRPL for the hardware to get a product that is much more useful by itself.

Therefore I believe the 50g is out as a candidate - which is unfortunate, because I'm not interested in pre-RPL models.