[News] Pegasos II price! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 04-Jun-2003 15:17 GMT by Alkis Tsapanidis (Edited on 2003-06-04 17:45:37 GMT by Christophe Decanini) | 154 comments View flat View list |
The Pegasos II price has now been announced.
The options are the following: G3 at 299 and G4 at 499 (Tax excl.).
Additionally there's the option to exchange the Pegasos1 with a
Pegasos 2 with a G4 at the expense of 200E or buy the G4 card alone
at the same price.
More info at: MorphOS-News.de
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Posted by Neko on 06-Jun-2003 06:40 GMT | In reply to Comment 138 (Samface): > Not only did they release a detailed feature set of this at that time very
> impressive machine, it was also said that they would have an AmigaOS
> compatible OS to go with it. It was planned to be released sometime during
> the second half of 1997. I don't know what happened to it but somehow it was
> forgotten about.
Oddly enough, the idea became reality after phase5 went bankrupt: The Pegasos
is as close to the A\Box as you get, bar the magic chipset, and MorphOS is
what Ralph Schmidt did based on the planning for the Amiga-compatible OS.
They dropped the A\Box at phase5 because there was no demand for it, and
definitely no support from Amiga Inc. at the time. Someone needed to solidify
a plan, and that plan had to be "move to PPC". Unfortunately, and a lot of
people blame Petro for this, there were NO attempts to clarify the processor
move. phase5 didn't want to go into making a PPC Amiga if Amiga Inc. turned
around later and said "we're going PA-RISC instead". Customers wouldn't buy
a box until Amiga spoke anyway.
Deadlock. The project was cancelled.
Eventually Amiga decided, and said "PPC is the way" and G3/G4 accelerators
were planned, but Amiga's indecision and lack of developer support hurting
sales, meant that phase5 was already on the way out.
> You know, this really pinpoints my biggest problem with Genesi et all
Genesi are perfectly willing to cooperate. What happens here is Bill Buck wants
every damned thing on this machine, because it makes it a better package. If
he could get AmigaOS 4.x then he would.
The problem is that Hyperion are dead against it in principle (don't believe
what they say.. it's not in their interest to screw Eyetech over like that) and
with Hyperion's history of 2-year stalls and delays in porting games (and slow
performance at the end of it), the core MorphOS team are seemingly reluctant
to give away all the information for the Pegasos port. Just think: Hyperion
give all that info to Eyetech, and it then takes 18 months for the Pegasos port
of OS4 to appear.. that's the worst case scenario.
Neko |
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