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Posted on 19-May-2002 14:10 GMT by jah | 359 comments View flat View list |
i noticed a new video on aminet:
http://www.aminet.net/pix/mpg/Pegasos.mpg
"This is a demo video of bPlan's Pegasos computer. The video has been created by Thendic-France to give an impression of how the machine runs."
the download is still in progress, but i'm sure it will finish to convince all amiga users thats the ppc amiga they are waiting since years is finally arrived
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Posted by [JC] on 19-May-2002 17:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 91 (Darrin): > So what do we get out of this? An idiots guide to standard computer
> ports,
Standard for a PC and a Mac, but new ground to the Amiga, mostly anyway.
> and proof that MOS can run (briefly) Candy Factory (let's make this a
> VERY SHORT demo before it CRASHES).
At least we can see proof of it actually running anything at all. And how do YOU know that it'll crash ? Is this in the same way that Windows always crashes but yet my Windows 2000 PC has never once had a bluescreen ?
> Someone should have told this guy that looking at a flickering PC
> monitor screen that's been filmed by a home video camera is akin
> to watching a ballet lit by strobe lights.
Well, it takes a lot of expensive video equipment to fix that problem. You can even see it happening on professional broadcasts. The only way they could've fixed it would've been to capture output directly from the VGA or so, and that's still complex and fairly expensive to do.
> 1. MOS running Workbench which needs to be removed & subsituted
> before it can be legally sold.
Not true, because Amiga own no trademark on the word "Workbench", and even if they did, it'd be thrown out of court the same way as Microsoft's trademark on the word "Windows" has been, therefore MorphOS is free to call it's desktop "Workbench".
Furthermore, unless it can be proven that there is actual binary code that belongs to Amiga Inc running, it isn't illegal for it to run a workalike.
> 2. A Pegasos board which is ONLY shown to use a MOUSE PORT,
> IDE CONTROLLER and VIDEO OUT. Yes, it was so nice to spend 5
> minutes being introduced to all the other ports, but do they work?
Most of the other ports are components of the VIA 686B southgate chip. I should imagine therefore that they do work, since as I am using a PC using one of these chips, and it all works just fine for me. If you meant drivers, well, drivers are just a matter of code, and as Linux and BSD supports that stuff pretty well, I'd say it's likely MorphOS will too.
> 3. The Pegasos has a G3 card available and it WILL take a dual G4
> and a G5. Well, as there is no G5 card available as they don't have
> a G5 chip to make this claim, we can only suppose that the dual G4
> is vapour too.
Thats a bit of a stupid statement to make.
> The proof is that the Pegasos is a G3 machine ONLY for now, it may
> have a dual G4 in the future and WHO HONESTLY KNOWS if it will EVER
> take a G5.
Well, you can be sure for certain that the AmigaONE never will, unless you're any good with a soldering iron.
I seriously don't get it. If this hardware had come out 2-3 years ago, it'd have been met by the Amiga community with great joy. But now, AInc want to be greedy and keep all the market from themselves, the loyal blind followers of Amiga cast hate upon it and MorphOS with it. |
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