[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 Anonymous on 26-May-2002 01:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (Simon): >>It looks like a PC BIOS. Why do we need a BIOS at all ?
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>Who cares what it looks like? You don't spend much time in the BIOS screen.
I do. It may be only a small thing but its all these small things that when added together are taking the "Amiga" away from being a Amiga, I dont want to see that goddamn PeeCee MDA font dating back to the IBM XT on my Amiga when I turn it on.
>>Macs dont have a BIOS. Amigas dont have a BIOS.
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>C'mon, every personal computer has a BIOS, even Macs and Amigas. Havent you >ever held down both mouse buttons when you turned on your Amiga?
Well, I just checked my Mac, and nope, definitely no BIOS there. How do I access it ?
And the early startup screen in kickstart 3 (it wasnt in earlier versions) isnt a BIOS.
Why do I need to know how many EISA, ISA and MCA slots my computer has ? Why should I be bothered with what memory address my Parallel port or serial port uses for DMA ? These are all PeeCee issues!
If they absolutely MUST put some sort of BIOS (why???)in the A1 then it should look like the OS and have the same windows, glyphs, gadgets, buttons like the OS.
I dont want another PC or another Mac, I already have one. I want a new AMIGA. Anyway, I decided I wont buy this A1G3-SE, I'll just upgrade my A4000+mediator with a SharkPPC. At least then its a REAL Amiga. |
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