| Posted on 23-Jun-2000 12:58 GMT by Amifan | 30 comments
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Amijoe info is now on the amijoe website! It uses flash but it looks very professional.
An FAQ section show that there will be NO A2000, A3000 or A4000 version of the Amijoe....."we only spoke of an a1200 version"
The amijoe will due a bug in a memory/PCI bridge controller be available at the end of Q4 early Q1 2001
Specifications:
- G3 300Mhz or more
- 512kb or 1MB l2 cache running at 1/2 speed of the CPU
- 1 SO-DIMM slot for a maximum of 128MB
- 1 IDE connector for a HD (NOT master/slave capable so you can connect only 1 drive) -> elbox bring us a splitter!! :))
- 1 non direct PCI slot (need a PCI backplane to use PCI cards)
The 300Mhz version will B far less then 500 EURO
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| Posted by Cybes on 23-Jun-2000 22:00 GMT | As ive posted in another comment thread re this issue, ill quote here too.
(Besides Blittersoft/Bill McEwen/MEt@Box themselves/flyers saying there would be a2k/a3k/a4k units)
here is what they said themselves:
Add comment Ziggy writes: "Martin Heine posted some Met@box news in c.s.a.misc, saying that the 3/4k-boards will be available about one month after the aj1200, the 2k-version will take about three weeks longer." Read more below.
Nothing spectacular, but I thought I might share some pieces of
information given by Thomas Rudloff (met@box) in an interview printed in the latest issue of the german magazine "amigaOS":
in addition to the flyer I quoted January 31st, a further
difference of the amijoe for A2k and A3/4k from the amijoe1200 is that those for 2/3/4k will have a 100MHz-frontsidebus.
the 3/4k-boards will be available about one month after the aj1200, the 2k-version will take about three weeks longer.
the price for the "k"-boards will be about 100 DM more than the
same version of the aj1200 because of the bigger board and the more
expensive technology.
asked why they use a G3 instead of G4, Rudloff answered: "We can
offer today 500MHz-G3-boards, while the situation of supply of the G4 is still not clear. All I can say about this for reasons of NDA is, that the first quarter of this year will bring completely new
perspectives." (Original of the second part: "Alles, was ich aus
NDA-Gründen dazu sagen kann, ist, daß das erste Quartal dieses Jahres ganz neue Perspektiven bringt.")
regarding 68k-emulation: met@box has two emulations in development, optimized for the pipes of the G3/G4. The first one is in a Flash-ROM and will reach about the niveau of a 030 - 040. An update for this emulation will only be necessary in case of any bugs. The second emulation will be loaded from harddisk at booting and brings the full speed. For this one there'll be regular updates for improvement. Current calculations show, that a PPC needs about 3.5 cycles (? - german: "Takt") for the emulation of one 8/16-bit-68k-command; 32-bit-commands are emulated in ca. 1.5 cycles, so that, regarding Thomas Rudloff, already their entrance-model will be better than an overclocked 68060. Important would be the possibility to switch between 68k- and PPC-code, so that a partial port of AmigaOS and applications would be possible. The second generation of emulation is already planned and will be much faster.
Bye, Martin.
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