[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 Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 28-May-2002 11:17 GMT | In reply to Comment 108 (Ole-Egil Hvitmyren): Ole said,
>Excactly what's happening here. You do the early startup-screen AFTER the OF
>(because you really need the OF to load your OS lest you write your own firmware.
>is propietary always better, uhm? =) )
For a few hours there, I was worried the OS was going to be silly enough to require a proprietary loader as well as dongle... *whew* :)
For those of us with little practical OF experience, I stumbled across
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-powerpc/1998/02/17/0000.html , which puts it in perspective vs. the standard Wintel BIOS (designed for a bit of device abstraction) and the big ROMs of Amigas/Macs/STs (well, I assume the ST had a ROM).
An Amiga-consistent UI on the firmware (whether for the OF setup or after it) would certainly be nice, but let's face it- anything that further delays release is a Bad Thing. As that part of the system should be flashable, improvements/adjustments can be added later.
Boot-time screenmodes shouldn't be too much of a problem (especially with some DDC tricks thrown in) but I'm not entirely sure.. Do Europeans get seperate SCART ports on their video cards, or are HD15->SCART adapters popular? You only need 15KHzish output for those certain special cases, so ideally it should pop into 640x480, 800x600, or even better- whatever you normally boot the OS into- when it's attached to a capable monitor. (Anyone else tired of listening to their multisync popping around?) |
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