Usually when people say "it cannot be done", "it's not possible" or "who would be stupid enough to do such a thing?", someone steps up and does it. They usually do it for the kick and fun of it, not even for money.
I would be very interested in seeing who gets this done and he/she sure deserves the money.... I just donated $50:o)
This press-release is more believable because this new company has actually already done quit a lot and they already showed off some of their work (like the new SDK). Also the Amiga One can already be pre-ordered at several Computer-stores.
Amiga has always adapted itself to other kinds of hardware (put in a processor board - instead of a new motherboard & processor -, even non 680x0-processor boards where possible,like the PPC-boards, or add 16 bit soundcards or add 24 bit graphic cards). This has been possible right up from the first Amiga models and everything worked like one could expect (because of auto-config..... still better than Plug & Pray). They just extended these ideas and made Amiga accept any nearly any hardware the user wants to use). I think that's a nice concept and I'm curious to see how it works out. I already have the SDK and it impressed me!
In theory, yes it is platform-independant, as long as there are 'translators' available for the processors and hardware. Other graphics cards will also work, but Amiga only guarantees to support the next Generation Matrox cards. They teamed up with Matrox, because Matrox is supposed to have some sort of specteculair 2D- and 3D hardware in development, which would kick serious ass. I for one am not a great fan of Matrox, so I'll have to see it before I believe it.
It doesn't really matter what they target, now does it... since Amiga uses Tao elate as a basis for their OE/DE/OS. elate already supports multiple processors and everything written for elate is basically hardware-independant.
Yep.. that's the basic idea... any hardware can be used with the new Amiga, 'cauz it's a hardware-independant OS. So you can build a cheap system or an expensive system with altrafast multi-processing possibilities.
The big deal is mostly that Quake and Doom where first ported to java and the demos on the developer-machine showing several versions of Doom and Quake at once were a nice demonstration of the speed at which the new systems execute java-code. Remember... It will be even faster (35-50%) when Linux is being stripped and ONLY native Elate is running on the system;)
It seems a lot of people missed the updated Amiga World today (http://www.amiga.com/press/zine/6-3-00/AW1.htm)
There where actually a number of announcements today from Amiga. The update on their Amiga World magazine is the most informative.
The Amiga World actually contains a simple 'Hello World' sample code in VP (Virtual Processor Code) and a good explanation of the new Amiga Foundation Layer (AFL).
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Usually when people say "it cannot be done", "it's not possible" or "who would be stupid enough to do such a thing?", someone steps up and does it. They usually do it for the kick and fun of it, not even for money.
:o)
I would be very interested in seeing who gets this done and he/she sure deserves the money.... I just donated $50
This press-release is more believable because this new company has actually already done quit a lot and they already showed off some of their work (like the new SDK). Also the Amiga One can already be pre-ordered at several Computer-stores. Amiga has always adapted itself to other kinds of hardware (put in a processor board - instead of a new motherboard & processor -, even non 680x0-processor boards where possible,like the PPC-boards, or add 16 bit soundcards or add 24 bit graphic cards). This has been possible right up from the first Amiga models and everything worked like one could expect (because of auto-config..... still better than Plug & Pray). They just extended these ideas and made Amiga accept any nearly any hardware the user wants to use). I think that's a nice concept and I'm curious to see how it works out. I already have the SDK and it impressed me!
In theory, yes it is platform-independant, as long as there are 'translators' available for the processors and hardware. Other graphics cards will also work, but Amiga only guarantees to support the next Generation Matrox cards. They teamed up with Matrox, because Matrox is supposed to have some sort of specteculair 2D- and 3D hardware in development, which would kick serious ass. I for one am not a great fan of Matrox, so I'll have to see it before I believe it.
It doesn't really matter what they target, now does it... since Amiga uses Tao elate as a basis for their OE/DE/OS. elate already supports multiple processors and everything written for elate is basically hardware-independant.
Yep.. that's the basic idea... any hardware can be used with the new Amiga, 'cauz it's a hardware-independant OS. So you can build a cheap system or an expensive system with altrafast multi-processing possibilities.
The big deal is mostly that Quake and Doom where first ported to java and the demos on the developer-machine showing several versions of Doom and Quake at once were a nice demonstration of the speed at which the new systems execute java-code. Remember... It will be even faster (35-50%) when Linux is being stripped and ONLY native Elate is running on the system ;)
It seems a lot of people missed the updated Amiga World today (http://www.amiga.com/press/zine/6-3-00/AW1.htm)
;)
There where actually a number of announcements today from Amiga. The update on their Amiga World magazine is the most informative.
The Amiga World actually contains a simple 'Hello World' sample code in VP (Virtual Processor Code) and a good explanation of the new Amiga Foundation Layer (AFL).
Quite an interesting read, I thought