[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 Ole-Egil Hvitmyren on 27-May-2002 10:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 80 (Graham): The point is that OF has become something of a standard in the non-x86 world. It's a matter of actually having ANY card support you... The _ONLY_ alternative you have from using someone elses OF, is writing your own OF (bPlan did this, afaik). This takes time, though. And it doesn't excactly pay off in the long run if you could have saved that time by licensing someone elses working code (reinventing the wheel to get prettier spokes, anyone?) and spent more time on making the OS work instead. Just let it go, ok? There's not gonna be a proprietary Amiga Firmware anytime soon. |
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