I received refund for my fake Chinese chips from Ebay sellers shuaistar20150515 and bjstzq and hope I'll get customs refunded at some point.
There is this interesting US Ebay seller qsourceco_6 which seemed legit but I have not received my CPU yet and I think someone bought out his stock of 50'ish Freescales already. In a perfect world one would have five grand spare for making cpu purchases when they are available
. The seller also has MC68030RC33C in stock which if legit would be perfect for the 030 boards.
I'm afraid someone like Jens will just be stocking all the CPUs the get rid of the less organized competition enabling him to sell at a high price when he finally releases his boards.
Some people have been getting rev6 CPUs from Heisener for quite a hefty price and they seem to have some stock again - I got a quote for 275usd today. It's a lot of money but I've seen people doing crazy bids on Ebay for rev6s (I think one just went for over 400€).
I'm hoping the crazy people with too much cash will get what they want soon and let the market cool down a bit. Not expecting under 150e rev6s but at the moment it's a bit hysterical.
I wonder if someone with an Apollo with LC060 could share his experiences with the CPU. I know there's software like Oxypatcher which supposedly patches instructions not supported by the 060's FPU on the fly. I guess it would be too much work and too slow to implement something like that for the FPUless LC.