| [News] Amiga announces the AmigaOne | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 21-Oct-2000 14:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 119 comments
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Amiga have just released this press release about the AmigaOne hardware spec. Eyetech will build the first actual boxes, which are Classic Amiga/AmigaOne hybrids (both A1200 and A4000-based models will be available) and will be based on PPC. They are scheduled for a Q1 2001 release. First stand-alone AmigaOnes should ship in Q3 2001. Also, the development of the Classic AmigaOS will continue with v3.9 coming out before Christmas.
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| Posted by Donovan Reeve on 21-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | Fleecy,
I know you are busy and I don't want to waste time which could be
used to further advance the new Amigas, but could you please answer
just a couple of questions that are very important to me?
First, a little background - I am a long-time Amiga user and own:
A-500 68000 with 3MB ram and no HD. This is of little use anymore.
A-3000 68030 with 6MB ram, 2GB HD and a burned-out power pack.
A-4000 with 18MB ram, 4GB HDs, fried power-pack, fried Zorro & sound.)
A-4000 with 18MB ram, 31GB HDs, fried Zorro Buss (I'm using it now)
CD-32 with SX32pro 68030/50, 18MB ram, 1.7GB HD. (works well, fortunately)
As you can see, I have no machines with operable Zorro slots [both
A-4000 zorro Buss's having been blown by a NEW Power Tower which
never worked and was evidently defective but I could get no help
from the dealer (Software Hut), the manufacturer (Power Computing),
nor the Buss OEM (Elbox)]. Thus, my several SCSI cards, several
graphics cards, CatWeasel, V-Lab, and Emplant Mac card are all dead.
And seeing as how my A-300 is dead too, all my SCSI periferals
(scanners, Magneto-Optical drives, CD-Writers, CD changer, Zip drive,
Bernouli drives, various hard drives, etc. are all dead too along
with most of my valuable stored data, files and software including
all CD-provided software such as Aminet, Amiga OS 3.5, games, etc.
All of my floppy drives have also died one by one, so I pass files
via null-modem connection. All I have left is IDE drives and ports.
I need to be able to use my files, software, data, and drives. I also
need a computer now as my last A-4000 is dying (crashes often now)
and the CD-32 is far to limited. No-one seems to repair Amigas
anymore unless one is willing to pay the price of a new PC to get
their old Amiga repaired, and then nothing is guaranteed.
OK, now for some strait-forward questions for which I hope you
can supply definitive answers:
(Condensed questions at very bottom of comments)
If I put together a nice wintel-type machine and run Linux on it
as my son is doing, and buy the Amiga DE, will I be able for
sure to run the Amiga DE and new Amiga software if the processor
is x86 type and the MoBo intel or intel compatible?
(I'm thinking ASUS K7V MB with Athlon/Thunderbird 800mhz CPU or
ASUS A7V MB with Athlon/Thunderbird 1000mhz CPU and a commonly
available SCSI card, 256MB 133mhz ram, CDW drive, DVD, etc. and
the latest Red Hat or Mandrake Linux (preferably Mandrake as the
interfacing is MUCH nicer).
With the above machine, could I also run old Amiga software
under emulation on the Amiga DE (when that is ready) or on a PCI
card as siamese (if such becomes available)?
In other words, are millions of PC windows and Linux users going
to actually be able to run the Amiga DE and new Amiga software (and
Amiga classic under emulation) on most any hardware they happen to
purchase which has the nessessary specs, or will it only be useable
on a select few pieces of equiptment?
I figure since all of my Zorro stuff is dead I might as well make
a clean break as soon as possible, but I want that break to be compatible
with the new Amiga DE.
Or do you know someplace which will reliably fix one of my A-4000
MBs for a reasonable price so I can consider the new EyeTech Amiga-One
A-4000 kits which would enable me to use all of my present hardware?
I need to do something soon, preferably now. I can't afford to wait
another year for the stand-alone Amiga-One as my present computer
situation is rapidly becoming untenable. I bet there are many others
in the Amiga community in a simular situation, and I know that many
have allready had to jump in the past because the work (and play ;)
must go on.
So, will a basic generic PC setup like I described above work with
the Amiga DE (to run on Linux initially and later native)?
Also, could a person with a PPC-based Mac with the necessary spec
run the Amiga DE native or under/over Linux or MacOS?
(this question from several Mac-owning friends intereste in Amiga DE)
AND... when is the native or stand-alone version of the Amiga DE
going to be available, lots of people are waiting for that over
a Linux or windoz based version.
Thanks for your kind patience and any answers you can give,
Donovan Reeve (bubby@inebraska.com)
And will the new Ami Operating system be available at that same
time or later yet (I'm talking NG Amiga OS, not Amiga OS3.9) |
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