[News] The AmigaOne in Leeuwarden (photos) | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-May-2002 17:32 GMT by petros1815 | 122 comments View flat View list |
The AmigaOne was presented in Leeuwarden today. Unfortunately, only openfirmware bios was shown. Photos of the presentation at http://www.amigascene.nl/nieuws/nieuws.htm .
At around 15.00 Computer City brought the AmigaOne motherboard. It is the first sample of the 1.0a board. Because the motherboard was different from the one that Eyetech had, it was not possible to use the Linux from the old board. Because there was no more time for a new installation, we had to do only with the openfirmware bios. There are installed a IBM processor (without cooling!), 128MB, Soundblaster soundcard and a ATi Radeon 7500 AGP.
It now waits for OS4.
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Posted by Julian Cassin on 27-May-2002 22:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 105 (amigammc): If you look at all the past computers ever built, probably the best of the bunch are all the hobbyist computers. The mainstream ones usually pale by comparison - both in the fun factor and in the overall hardware/software design.
Even all the 80s computers should be considered hobbyist computers as the general public didn't want computers in those days.
I *want* a hobbyist machine, not a mainstream one - if it is a hobbyist Amiga machine, all the more merry if they keep all the bells & wistles of the old one.
Yes, 15.6Khz *IS* important to many people, yes, it's elegance of hardware/software design is also - including the autoconfig - the ability to boot (into a CLI) in a few seconds or less (not 15 like my Windoze machine) - the ability to choose which devices to *disable* at bootup without having to remove them from some silly detection screen (aka PC BIOS) - I admit, I haven't seen an Open Firmware BIOS running, and I did say I might be jumping the gun, I might be pleasantly surprised - but I have some doubts... |
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