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Posted on 24-Aug-2003 12:40 GMT by Mike Bouma59 comments
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Dave Pitcher (aka Miffy) has reviewed Eyetech's AmigaONE Power System, based on the A1G4-XE motherboard at the AmigaWorld.net community portal.
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 51 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Aug-2003 07:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 49 (DaveP):
Yes that was the wrong thread
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 52 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Aug-2003 14:50 GMT
In reply to Comment 51 (Anonymous):
I agree with you Darrin...

Folowig that last post Eva made .. She almost sounds .......

"Shaggable"

:)
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 53 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by Druideck on 25-Aug-2003 19:54 GMT
Linux is Linux, i'm tired of Linux reviews, that means nothing about how
AMIGA would be on that hardware.


GO EVA!
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 54 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by DaveP on 26-Aug-2003 16:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 53 (Druideck):
"GO EVA"

...and never come back?
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 55 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by Jim Forbes-Ritte (AGAfaster) on 27-Aug-2003 07:49 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (Emeric SH):
"Is there an antidote to stop the unleashed bloodthirsty ravenous rabbit? :)"

The Holy Handgrenade of Antioch, perchance ? :-)

and now, back On Topic:
Nice review. personally didnt get on with UAE - only got it to go to 16 colour WB, and a bit sluggish on my G3. mind you, I was comparing to the A1200/030 sat next to it, and I might just have to try the P96 suggestions.
Debian is nice and quick - nay responsive - (cf: NT4 on my 733MHz P3 at work, and especially Debian on the 1200 ;-) ) and Konqueror is the Mutt's nuts since I managed to get the A1 online.
Therein lies the beef: Linux *is* a pain in the bum compared to a real AmigaOS. Miami was just so much easier to set up than wrestling with pppd config files. although wvdial does a reasonable job.
However, I have no games on the A1, so the 1200 is still the main machine,(except for surfing, now !) and I'll probably setup a login for the Wife so she can use Abiword.

@Miffy: where are the obligatory piccies ? :-)
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 56 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by Jim Forbes-Ritte (AGAfaster) on 27-Aug-2003 08:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 45 (Darrin):
Darrin,

I'm with Hooligan/DCS and Hans-Jörg on this - I loved my speccy(s), and me ZX81.

>> Spectrum won for me. Sure, the C64 had more hardware in there, but did that
>> matter for the games? Noooo. OTOH the 4 Mhz Z80 vs. the <1Mhz 6502 made the
>> difference when playing Elite and a bunch of other games...

errmm - nitpick time, but the Z80A in the spectrum was run at 3.5MHz. half the speed of the Pixel clock in the ULA. (the 128K was a shade faster at 3.55MHz)

> But what about the awful Speccy sound!!! Arrrggghhh, my ears!!! ;-)

You obviously never heard the stuff that Greg (I think) Follin came up with - I believe he made 3 channel tunes out of that there buzzer !

> I never played Elite on the Spectrum. I used to play it on a BBC Micro B in
> school and then spend hours on it on the C64 at home. I still give the Amiga
> version a whirl now and then. Frontier never managed to create the "thrill"
> of the original :-(

I did. many hours of fun, but I never got above 'Competent'. I only ever received one 'right on commander' message.
I believe the Beeb had the best version (anyone remember the Execrable Electron version ?! :-x ), but you are absolutely right about Frontier !

>> Spectrum was a cool machine, one that I could still build hardware for ;-)

The ultimate Hardware-hack machine !

> Start by building it a decent keyboard ;-)

but that was half the charm ! and besides you forgot about the Spectrum+, and the 128K ! (that had a proper 3 channel sound chip !)
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 57 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by IForgotMyPasswordBecauseItWasLongAndComplicated on 27-Aug-2003 08:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 49 (DaveP):
Hmmm, lots of L1 and L2 cache bandwidth results, and at the end a memory bandwidth result that is very low - 1/4 of the theoretical bandwidth that the FSB allows.
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 58 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by StillForgottenMyPassword on 27-Aug-2003 08:50 GMT
In reply to Comment 55 (Jim Forbes-Ritte (AGAfaster)):
> Miami was just so much easier to set up than wrestling with pppd config files.
> although wvdial does a reasonable job.

I never had that problem in Linux - you did use kppp?
Very easy to configure. Only a maniac messes with the actual config files by hand these days.
AmigaONE Power System Review : Comment 59 of 59ANN.lu
Posted by Jim Forbes-Ritte (AGAfaster) on 27-Aug-2003 12:06 GMT
In reply to Comment 58 (StillForgottenMyPassword):
"I never had that problem in Linux - you did use kppp? "

Tried that - as far as me modem went (Pace 56k) it didnt wanna know.

"Very easy to configure. Only a maniac messes with the actual config files by hand these days."

...or someone who doesnt QUITE know what he's doing ... !

besides I located wvdial on the Debian CD, which works a charm. its only shell based, but you set it off interrogating the modem,which it does very nicely taverymuch.
Then add your user name, password of your ISP, and also their telephone number, and Bobs' yer auntie's live-in lover. (going offline is just a matter of a ^C in the shell window !)
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