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Offline Tripitaka

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The 30th of June? that's my 40th birthday, maybe DiscreetFX should send me one anyway just to be nice, whatever it is.  :)
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- A modern network solution (i.e. Zorro or other type of network card)
- One of those joystick to mouse switches....let you have a joystick and mouse hooked up to the same port and switch between them.
- a dual monitor switcher
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AmigaTWO (i.e. the next-gen AmigaONE)
 

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Quote from: amigean;566796
AmigaTWO (i.e. the next-gen AmigaONE)

You might have been joking, but there is actually truth behind your statement. Amiga One was supposedly the first PPC NG Amiga from Amiga Inc (based on the Pegasos and "Escena"). It would be single core, hence the "one". It would be followed by a dual core variant at some time, and that would actually be called "Amiga Two". It's teh true!!1!

Really, it is!

:)

EDIT: And this is probably why Hyperion persists with the rather strange version numbering of their OS, i.e.:

OS4.1
OS4.1.1
OS4.1.2 ... etc, etc

What I'm getting at is that IIRC OS4.2 would supposed to have SMP. And maybe they are saving that particular version number for this occasion for "nostalgic" reasons? Not that it will ever have *true* SMP, at least not in a way that it would be recognized as such by "outsiders", at least not without breaking the last parts of "Amiga" it has in it. And I guess it will still be called "AmigaONE"... ;)
« Last Edit: June 23, 2010, 10:22:20 PM by takemehomegrandma »
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Yeah, but I'm probably wrong as Pyromania explicitly mentioned _classic_ amiga hardware...

so here's me scratching my head again as to what could it be that comes in two-s...

The only thing that springs to mind as something that might actually be useful is a dual graphics card solution. Final guess.
 

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@Pyromania

"DiscreetFX iStore"

Why "iStore"?  Sounds very Apple.

Just curious.
 

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- A modern network solution (i.e. Zorro or other type of network card)


That would be great.  

But it would undoubtedly cost about the same as a Mediator daughterboard and PCI Ethernet card.

Only Amiga makes it possible.

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Wireless Card would be nice ...

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Quote from: ffastback;566803
@Pyromania

"DiscreetFX iStore"

Why "iStore"?  Sounds very Apple.

Just curious.


We have been using that term since before 2003.


http://web.archive.org/web/20030603234849/http://discreetfx.com/
 

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Quote from: Pyromania;566807
We have been using that term since before 2003.


http://web.archive.org/web/20030603234849/http://discreetfx.com/


Cool, sue Apple then!  ;)
 

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RS232-powered Pop Corn maker.

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Ok, let's sum up things, "super secret" has to be something bigger than a cheap thing like a joystick or adapter, "for Classic" and 1st one to guess get's one. So noone has guessed yet ?
My 1st guess is a new sound card.
I'd say a PPC accelerator but that is probably dreaming too high and someone has made that guess already before.
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Maybe is a hardware encryption gizmo that hides all your pr0n & wares.... that sounds "discrete" ;-)  

Personally, I like the idea of licensing the NatAmi or FPGArcade boards...
Obsolescence is futile. You will be emulated. - Amigus of Borg
 

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A new, customized keyboard.
A500 PAL ACA500 Plus/Gotek
A1200 060/66 Tower/Mediator
A2000 Vampire/4XEIDE\'99/MNT 2000/Ariadne II+
A3000 040/40
A4000 Tekmagic 060/50
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Re: New Mystery Amiga Hardware Coming to the DiscreetFX iStore on June 30th, 2010!
« Reply #59 from previous page: June 24, 2010, 12:19:45 AM »
An adapter for the Optimus Maximus keyboard together with an Amiga compatible layout.