| [News] The AmigaOne in Leeuwarden (photos) | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 25-May-2002 17:32 GMT by petros1815 | 122 comments
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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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| The AmigaOne in Leeuwarden (photos) : Comment 96 of 122 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Simon on 27-May-2002 13:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 93 (GUI Freak):
>Tweaking
>can be fun, but it should also be somewhat accessable
>to the unwashed masses
No!!! It should not, because they'll fuck up their machines!
>The Amiga OS will always be doomed
>to remain a hobby OS
Yes. It will. The AmigaOne is NOT going to change this no matter how optimistic you are.
> NORMAL computer users are very intimidated by the
>ugly, unfriendly user interface of the Pee Cee without
>it's Windows[dressing].
Good, if they are intimidated then they shouldn't mess with it. Besides no one FORCES a user to enter the BIOS. I am SURE that the AmigaOne systems will come with the BIOS all set and ready to go, may god strike may down if it not be so.
>Trying
>to save time isn't a very good
Absolute bullshit. Way, way, way too much time has been wasted. WAY too much. Spending more time making the BIOS look nice for a few people who apparently aren't intelligent enough to configure it is .... take a guess...
>We need regular people
>to start using the Amiga again,
If you mean winning back PC users (like me). Well, a nice BIOS won't win me back. But OS4 might, I really, really miss my old miggy.
> People have to get out of this mindset that power is
>everything.
If I want to play fullscreen divX movies, MP3's and browse the web then power is important.
>Usability should be just as important on
>the new Amiga OS
It is. What does the OS have to do with the BIOS? When I go into BIOS on my PC I don't see windows XP. I see a text screen, are you saying that windows XP should be in ROM so that the one or two times in this computers life that I need to access the BIOS I can have it look like my OS??
>cludgy, half-baked
>BIOS screens
?!??! It's a BIOS screen!!! Get over it! it a fucking BIOS screen that most users will NEVER have to see.
>won't cut it in the marketplace anymore
If the marketplace is people like YOU than nothing but a brand new designed-from-scratch supercomputer with a very cool looking BIOS wont cut it.
>Ever
>wondered why most PC users (who have a clue, at any rate)
>seem to spend so much time cursing M$?!
Because they don't have an Amiga to curse???
God speed OS4 and the AmigaOne. There might be some hope left. |
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