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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)."
Who actually still uses Amigas? Where are they popular?
That's totally small...I was looking at this picture, but it doesn't have anything else to compare it to. Anyone have a picture next to a penny or something to compare?
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I think actually getting AmigaOS 4 to run on the things is the first step. Amigas are about the only machine I've seen selling without an OS for more than a year before release. The only option is Linux PPC. Not bad, but when you're paying the Amiga premium on the hardware it's getting a bit grating.
All the same, I can't wait for AOS4. I have 2 AmigaOnes here waiting for it
Sounds delicious! Whats to stop me from just slapping a G4 on this baby and having a nice 1.4ghz G4 Linux box with Radeon video in a cubid? Why the hell would I want to run AmigaOS on something that is obviously a god sent Linux desktop?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Yawn. You can sell a new product, you can call it Amiga, but if there's no continuity, it seems like a misnomer. Yeah, I can release a new computer and name it after an old discontinued line, but why? Anyone got dibs on the Apple IVne (Nostalgia Exploiter)?
They still are, most notably to run the "community bulletein board" software on the public access channels in between highschool football games and Trekkies griping about the state of the Sci-Fi channel in someone's basement. Every now and again, the hard drive will crash, and the Amiga screen will pop up on the TV and demand that you mount a volume or stick a floppy into Drive A. I think the "previews" channel runs the same program, as I've seen the ugly-as-sin Amiga UI whining that it needs a drive on those channels, too.
They knew how to make computers that last in the '80s...
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when DRM crap gets implemented at the hardware level on intel/AMD boards. Frankly I'm glad to have alternatives.
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The NEW "Amiga" is an interesting beast, and shares little (save running old apps via UAE proably) with the old but the name.
And that will be mostly true untill AmigaOS 4.0 comes out. The new kernel, ExecSG, is not based on *nix/BSD. It is a re-implementation of Exec on the new PPC architecture.
Disclaimer: This is posted with my AmigaONE board, running KDE on Debian.
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http://www.pegasosppc.com/
save your money 'til mid october, then go get yourself a brand new Pegasos2 with a PPC74xx/G4 and live happy ever after =)
I remember it that way too, but some googling makes me believe that the 68000 was actually out early enough that it could have plausibly been used for the PC. However, the 68000 was always a single-source thing. Intel has been fairly open towards cloning, all things considered.
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