A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance

[wawrzon]

Yes and while that, the minimig thing, was an unfortunatly frasing. It was not actually the important thing in the press release.

then what is actually the important phrase in this announcement? because if these oversights didnt follow some frequent pattern, it would be less to complain about.

[yssing]

There will always be something for some one to complain about, if nothing else, then complain about what is not in a press release.

I think, that the important thing here is that "A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance"

But I do recognize some peoples need to focus on the negative side and their need to focus on complaining, just like any other groups of old grannys.

[TrevorDick]

Just to be clear, there was no intention by ACube to belittle the work done by on  Dennis van Weeren on original MiniMig design concept. The News Release has been modified to acknowledge Dennis' original design concept.

The MiniMig Plus is a different animal altogether.

TrevorD

[utri007]

I hope that this means a cheaper low-end Amigas. Wich would mean higher volumes, as it is possible produce low-end PPC mobos really cheap, less than 50%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8364; per unit.

[matthey]

I hope that this means a cheaper low-end Amigas. Wich would mean higher volumes, as it is possible produce low-end PPC mobos really cheap, less than 50%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8364; per unit.

How many PPC Amiga users want a low-end PPC Amiga? Even a low end PPC Amiga needs customers to lower costs. Most PPC Amiga users want reasonably priced high-end PPC Amigas but there aren't enough customers judging by the prices. IMO, the only hardware capable of selling over 10,000 units (still low end volume production) is 68k hardware with at least 68020+AGA chipset compatibility and with a low price. High end 68k hardware is still low end in terms of cost and in comparison to modern hardware. The FPGA Arcade is the base standard now (68020+AGA+RTG) and if the spec or cost can't be beat then it is better to work with Mike to produce the FPGA Arcade in larger quantities (lowering the cost) than to compete against him.

[ssolie]

Just to be clear, there was no intention by ACube to belittle the work done by on  Dennis van Weeren on original MiniMig design concept. The News Release has been modified to acknowledge Dennis' original design concept.

I'd like to complain that the news release was altered and now we have slightly less to nitpick and complain about.

[zylesea]

@wawrzon

Are you always this cheerful?

Well, truth hurts.

[amoskodare]

I look forward to the MiniMig Plus :hat:

Hope it will be pretty "fast" and working AGA...

[slayer]

The MiniMig Plus is a different animal altogether.

Well done and good luck! :hammer:

I've been so busy lately I feel like I'm missing out on alot of things! Must find more time! :roflmao:

[wawrzon]

I look forward to the MiniMig Plus :hat:

Hope it will be pretty "fast" and working AGA...

will that minimig plus be better, faster or more compatible than fpgaarcade or mist?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

will that minimig plus be better, faster or more compatible than fpgaarcade or mist?

Bah.  These devices are all toys.  If A-Eon can finish the Natami then I'll be really impressed!  :lol: :lol: :lol:

[QuikSanz]

Bah.  These devices are all toys.  If A-Eon can finish the Natami then I'll be really impressed!  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Equally impressive would be some nice new FPGA Accelerator cards with all the bells and whistles!

Hope your listening Guys  ;-)

Chris

[Rob]

Well, truth hurts.

So you're saying he's upset because of the truth?

[Lurch]

Altering the news release doesn't really mean much, the original release shows the real colours ;-)

Anyway, here is hoping something great comes out of all of this. Would love to be able to go down to the local store and pick up an Amiga again.

Don't see why this can't be achieved, plenty of other products have come back from the dead and retro and nostalgia is flavour of the month.

Stick it in a nice case like the X500 and in mini ITX format with fast FPGA, 060, DVI/HDMI, RTG running AmigaOS 3.9 with a custom theme and put it in toy stores at first and it would get lapped up.

There are so many projects out there that can achieve this.

[matthey]

I don't mean to complain but suffering the truth now is better than suffering more later.

1) Most users don't want low end PPC hardware lacking Amiga custom chip compatibility.
2) Most users don't want to pay for high end low production custom PPC hardware.
3) Most users don't want more 68000+ECS hardware as we have plenty.

We want at least 68020+AGA+RTG, 128MB of memory and modern hardware I/O. Anything less is bringing out an inferior product to what is already available and I don't see the point. Many Amiga users and developers would like to see AmigaOS 3.x back in development and becoming more API compatible to other Amiga flavors like AmigaOS 4.x. Without cheap low end Amiga hardware, there will be fewer and fewer Amiga users and developers wanting high end hardware similar to what they are familiar with. That's game over for the Amiga.

[kolla]

(Who, not whom, btw - "playing on the conscience" is the subject of the sentence.)

If you are to pretend you are a grammar nazi, at least learn to analyze sentences. ... "playing on conscience" is something I rather identify with another group, guess whom - (guess with which group, guess with whom).