[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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AFUA visited Thendic-France : Comment 247 of 629 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Leif on 26-Apr-2002 00:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 242 (Tony Gore): ---snip---
That is your words Leif, I never said that they were evil. Seems to me that you are the one who has figured something out. I didn't even say that they WOULD charge high prices for the G4, just that it's one possible outcome of buying from ex-phase5 folk. And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the phase5 people do something to the flash rom on the old PPC cards to try and block WarpUP from running on it? (I may indeed be VERY wrong on that one, but I recall something of a fuss back then)
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Yep, reacalling that is true. That was a little bit evil.
But why not really. They produced the cards.
I may be wrong on this one, but as I recall it,
PowerUP could not function when WarpUP was activated.
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They always seem to be at odds with any Amiga affiliated company who doesn't do things their way (of course they were Phase5 then, maybe bPlan _IS_ different). That has nothing to do with whether the hardware is good or not. If you look at my earlier posts, I said that if the Pegasos ran OS4 I would prefer to buy it for it's flexability. But if it doesn't, then I'll buy an A1. They are practically the same specs at start anyway, except the Pegasos does add Firewire (which I don't even need) and is a bit more expandable.
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Well, Im broke so I dont think about it :)
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I guess the whole point was if the G4 upgrade card winds up costing as much as a new A1 motherboard with G4 on it, the whole "CPU Slot" idea is a waste anyway. I don't have a REAL preference over either board. But if I have a choice (which at this time I don't, because I want to run Amiga OS4) I would choose Pegasos. Once again I'll say, let's hope that both sides (Amiga AND bPlan) get things worked out to an agreeable point.
The slot could just be something for bplans own needs.
Like having just one board, and ship with different cpus
for different customers. As the boards are equal in price anyway,
who cares ? The slot just adds. And how could the slotted G4 cost as much
as AOneBoard+G4 ??? Right now the slotG3+Pegasos costs less
that soldered G3+Aoneboard. Do some thinking :) Rather the other way
around as the AOne board have to be redone from near scratch
to support the G4 cpu.
Currently it looks like they will sort things out with the aid of
a judge. :)
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