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Mini-ITX AmigaONE Board
bhtooefr writes "When I was checking Mini-ITX.com, I found this little gem, info on the AmigaONE Lite board that will be coming out. It's a Mini-ITX compliant motherboard, so you'll be able to throw an Amiga in a Cubid case. Pictures are here (first two - first is without CPU, second is with)."
My trash? Yes.
Lemmings, the way it was meant to be played!
First I'm told my C64 can be be modded for broadband.
/me dusts off his Apple ][
Then an Amiga runs at 900Mhz.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Denise and Agnus are spinning in their silicon landfills.
No, GEM was on the Atari ST ;-)
-psy
I've only got 4 questions:
Is the processor 64-bit?
Does it support IPV6?
Will it run Enlightenment 17?
Will it run Duke Nukem Forever?
If so, I'll buy a million!
In addition, during this file transfer, AMosaic will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Cygnus Edit is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Amigas, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an Amiga that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Amiga's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 7.1 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Amiga is a superior machine.
Amiga addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use an Amiga over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
[I've been waiting to post this for ages. Just kidding btw, I really, really, miss my A500+, with 6Mb of RAM and a 45Mb SCSI HD. :-(]
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Seemed a bit like overkill for playing Frogger, though I suppose if you want a networked MMORPG version of it where you're trying to frag everybody else's frogs before they cross the road, I guess it'll help...
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
It isn't dead until it runs BSD.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
But in 10 years lets see if
Windows XP or OSX
can still play ball like
AmigaOS3 can - from 1991!
The real strength of Amiga
was in the people. Development
kept on for a decade after
the platform died!
At the very least
it should serve to illustrate
why upgrading to MS-WindowsX.X
is generally only good
for MS..
I've thought about buying another amiga, and I'd have to have 1 fall in my lap to own one again. I'd own one for nostalgic purposes- the 4000s are/were grotesquely overpriced and the A1200s require too much expensive jury-rigging to get on the net & just be a nice, useful machine. (a $140 or so scan doubler, a NIC for the same price, a $200 or so expansion board to put a 1200 into a standard PC case...).
My dream would be to retool the A1200 (or A4000) so as to produce a machine that supported some more current standards (USB 1.1/2.0, firewire, Compact Flash, SD cards) in order to make the classic amigas more useful/nice to use daily.
stick a floppy into Drive A.
Drive A? Infidel! That's df0: to you!