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[News] Amithlon 2.0 pricing revealedANN.lu
Posted on 29-Jun-2002 09:42 GMT by Bill Hoggett17 comments
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Pricing for the forthcoming version 2.0 of Amithlon has been announced by German and Australian distributors Vesalia and Boing.net.

Contrary to previous indications, it seems existing users will get a discounted upgrade path to the new version.

The launch of v2.0 will be announced on the Amithlon home page around the 1st of July 2002.

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Posted by Troels E on 29-Jun-2002 11:30 GMT
Looks like a very reasonable price... I guess HP really got their share of the old Amithlon package price?
At this price many old Amiga users will take a look at it...This is good news even though I prefer the AmigaOne.
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Posted by darklite on 29-Jun-2002 12:07 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Troels E):
>Looks like a very reasonable price... I guess HP really got their share of the
>old Amithlon package price?
Especially considering Bernie didn't get much and AInc didn't get paid for a licence.
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Posted by amigammc on 29-Jun-2002 12:59 GMT
I thought the first release was seriously overpriced but the second one is much better, I might even consider getting one.
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Posted by Anonymous on 29-Jun-2002 13:06 GMT
Still too expensive for a semi-functional Amiga emulator. AmigaForever at least emulates an Amiga properly (ie. the whole machine, not just the 68k) and can be bought for $20 if you shop around.
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Posted by Don Cox on 29-Jun-2002 13:26 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
They both have their uses.
I prefer Amithlon because it doesn't need Windows. I wanted a machine
with nothing on it but AmigaOS.
A version of UAE for Amithlon that could support Ham-8 programs would
give the best of both worlds.
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Posted by Concerned User on 29-Jun-2002 17:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Anonymous):
Oh no! it's SG, he's escaped from csaa!
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Posted by Lando/Trinity on 29-Jun-2002 17:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Concerned User):
No, actually that was me. I was in a hurry to leave for work so I forgot to type in my name...
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Posted by José on 29-Jun-2002 19:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Don Cox):
UAE can't emulate HAM8 properly. It gives a poor 16bit picture or something.
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Posted by Don Cox on 29-Jun-2002 19:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (José):
I know, that seems to be the biggest gap in UAE. It happens to be the
one thing that is most needed by users of Amithlon or coming PPC
Amigas.
What I meant was that it _would_ be ideal.
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Posted by Dagon (HELLAS) on 29-Jun-2002 23:39 GMT
Does anyone knows what new features has Amithlon 2.0?
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Posted by cheesegrate on 30-Jun-2002 01:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Don Cox):
> I wanted a machine
>with nothing on it but AmigaOS.
You mean AmigaOS emul on a cut down linux kernel right?
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Posted by Don Cox on 30-Jun-2002 03:46 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (cheesegrate):
Emulation of the 68k CPU is the key component of all the new Amigas -
AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, and Amithlon. AROS will also need an emulator if
it is ever to run Amiga software.
The alternatives are to stay at 60MHz forever, or to emulate a 68k on
a Coldfire (not a fast chip).
Obviously parts of the OS could be recompiled for x86 in time, but
Amithlon is so fast already that it hardly seems worth it. Perhaps an
x86 compile of the Imagine rendering engine would be worth while.
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Posted by James Carroll on 30-Jun-2002 05:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (cheesegrate):
I hate to interject here, but Don Cox is a well informed/knowledgable guy. I've never talked to him, but his posts (on amiga.org/ann/mailing lists etc) are consistently good. Of course he knows its AmigaOS on a "cut down linux emul" or whatever you want to call it. Cheesegrate, your posts are constantly annoying me, but this time, I really have to point out I don't like your tone.
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Posted by Bill Hoggett on 30-Jun-2002 07:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (cheesegrate):
>> I wanted a machine with nothing on it but AmigaOS.
> You mean AmigaOS emul on a cut down linux kernel right?
Don't be pedantic Adam. AmigaOS os not emulated, it's real. The 68k is emulated, but it is also emulated on AmigaOS4 and MorphOS, so it's hard to see your point.
Yes, there's a modified Linux kernel under there, but it doesn't run Linux and you don't see or notice it in operation, so who cares?
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Posted by Kronos on 30-Jun-2002 07:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Bill Hoggett):
@Bill
Atleast not until you make the same mistake in the lilo/grub-setup that
I made on the first installation.
All this text flushing over the screen looked very much like Linux ;)
But your right after the initial boot, you'll never see or feel anything
that isn't AmigaOS.
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Posted by Budda on 03-Jul-2002 14:52 GMT
So how much is the new Amithlon v2 gonna cost then?
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Posted by SG on 05-Jul-2002 03:50 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Bill Hoggett):
Amithlon runs under Linux, not AmigaOS. Linux does all the multitasking, it takes its best guess at how AmigaOS may have timeshared the task and tries to act like it, but the multitasking will never be any better than, obsolete by Amiga multitasking standards, Linux.
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