[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 Bert Dorhout on 27-May-2002 22:29 GMT | Strange thread, this.
Let's compare to a modern PowerMac. Is has a way to access the Open Firmware. I never saw anyone do it, and didn't even know how to until this thread, and I work as a Mac HelpDesk for 400 Mac users.
Start a Mac, hold the Option key (ALT to some). The Mac shows a screen with nice Maccy graphics to let you choose the medium to boot from. Isn't THAT comparable to the Early Startup Menu??? (I mean, it could have more functions on the new Amy's, but...). It is something with a reasonable GUI-ish thing, very Mac, etc., and it comes AFTER the OF. I even think the OF should NOT be Amiga specific, since people might want to boot other OSses from the Amy hardware. Just put a startup menu after the OF (which people seldom to never have to see/access), and everyone's probs in this thread should be solved, I think? (well... :-) And who knows... perhaps that's already coded/planned???
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