| [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 Anonymous on 21-Oct-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 83 (Donovan Reeve):
>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).
We do not intend to get into the business of having 80 percent of our staff
writing bios patches and drivers for every combination of hardware out there. We
work with hardware companies, which means a much more restricted set of specs but allows us to tune the native DE to those specs. In addition, we will release a zico86 spec, specifying particular components, if someone wants to build a machine themselves. For cases where ppl want the DE running on some mongrel creation, then we offer hosted DE, using Linux and/or Windows as a driver base.
If you want the best performance, buy machines from our hardware partners.
>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)?
If they become 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?
Anyone with Windows or Linux should be able to run hosted DE. For the best
performance, you need a machine that matches supported native specs.
>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.
Software Hut have always done a good job for me. There's also Joe
up at National Amiga.
>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.
Macs - they always have that ROM issue, but if they can run Linux, they
can run DE at some point. |
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