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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS 4.x (future) Hardware Compatibility Discussions => Topic started by: ElPolloDiabl on November 01, 2014, 04:28:40 PM
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Any chance of getting a single board x86 for an OS4 Amiga?
Link here:
http://www.ieiworld.com/product_groups/industrial/content.aspx?keyword=PCIE-Q870-i2&gid=00001000010000000001&cid=08125382788155083144&id=0D178608839370643470 (http://www.ieiworld.com/product_groups/industrial/content.aspx?keyword=PCIE-Q870-i2&gid=00001000010000000001&cid=08125382788155083144&id=0D178608839370643470)
That's an i5. There are also Atom models.
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Uhh what is the point of this again? You're wanting to take a PowerPC system and add one of these SBCs in and run Windows on the side? This won't work well for a variety of reasons:
OS4 doesn't have Synergy, so you will need to use either a KVM or separate attachments to run this.
Power supplies in those systems aren't going to be able to provide necessary power requirements without upgrade, you're likely to blow a fuse in them or worse short out your system.
If you recall there was talk about adding a raspberry pi to Amigas, the consensus is you're putting a fast computer onto a slow computer in order to keep the old computer on life support.
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You would need to use a KVM, that's true... but why would the power supply be a problem? Most of the NG Amigas have decent power supplies unless they're a Sam440ep or something.
I agree it's a bit pointless, though, without any integration.
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I agree it's a bit pointless, though, without any integration.
Never say never, I'm sure someone will figure out a way to do it. :laugh1:
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OS4 doesn't have Synergy, so you will need to use either a KVM or separate attachments to run this.
it does have a synergy client available, but, yeah integration would be a problem on the software side.
@thread
since this isn't technically about any 'amiga' hardware per se, i'm gonna move the thread to one of the AOS4 forums for now.
-- eliyahu