New A-EON Technology Website now live!

[Karlos]

Website does not properly work with netbooks (1024x600 resolution)!

Works fine at 1680x1050 though... :p

[Karlos]

How much of that hardware is already supported by AmigaOS4?

Well, I know RadeonHD drivers were being developed by the chap here: http://hdrlab.org.nz/radeonhd-driver/

Geh... worst corporate web pages of 2010? I think we might have an early winner.

A bit harsh. I quite like the "workbench" alike interface.

[Karlos]

ATI Radeon R700 graphics card - pick one with HDMI output.

Any card with DVI that can support HD resolutions really, DVI -> HDMI adapters aren't exactly uncommon.

[Karlos]

One ugly, unusable website.  Looks like it was designed by someone who has no concept of web design.  If there were a prize for bad website design, this site deserves nomination...

Sure, I haven't seen thousands of sites that are way worse :rolleyes:

[Karlos]

I think it should have DDR3 and a CPU socket (since CPU module seem to be agreed to raise the price too much and tougher to implement).

DDR3 has until very recently been very expensive compared to DDR2. I know because I had to buy it for my main machine :-/

[Karlos]

I have a very dirty mind. :lol:

Damn, now all I can see is a big phallus :griping:

[Karlos]

That's actually a good question

Well, I have in my possession:

Desktop A1200, 040@25MHz, 16MB 70ns, PCMCIA ethernet, 1.2GB HDD
Towered A1200, BlizzPPC040@25/603@240MHz/SCSI, 256MB 60ns, BVision, PCMCIA ethernet, 10GB HDD
Towered A1200, 040@28MHz, 32MB 60ns, Mediator, 32MB Voodoo 3000, 20GB HDD, PCI NIC
E-UAE on main PC (Q9450, 4GB DDR3, GTX275 etc)
A1 XE, 7445@800MHz, 128MB PC133 (need to upgrade that), 256MB 128-bit Radeon 9250, SBLive 1024, 80GB
Old Duron 1200 (was testing AROS on that), 512MB PC133, nVidia GeForce 4MX (weak), 80GB HDD.

Dead A600 *sniff*, awaiting repair.

I enjoy using all of them, when I get the chance.

[Karlos]

The specs are OK, but as long as the OS is not able to make good use of the hardware, it's all rather pointless. To call it high-end is wrong, there are far more powerfull powerpc systems around, it's a low/mid-end powerpc box in a huge casing.

It's "high end" in the same way the 060 is for a classic machine. There are much faster coldfire systems out there, but as they don't run AmigaOS, they aren't relevant when discussing what's high-end for an 68k based Amiga.

So, whilst it's true that there are more powerful PowerPC based systems available, a 1.8GHz PowerPC is still "high end" as far as OS4 compatibles go. After all, the fastest existing systems that can run OS4 are only about, what, 1.3GHz at most?

If it's "done right", this machine could be significantly faster by more than the difference in clockspeed from existing OS4 machines. A decent memory controller with DDR2 should help, as will SATA and PCIe expansion boards.

[Karlos]

I cracked a joke about the silly design of that website, and you have to admit, it really is silly. Is this really the end of the world, this one joke about the graphics?

It's better than this one I made a few years ago: http://voicesofaorg.extropia.co.uk/

At least you can resize the windows on the A-EON site

[Karlos]

As a relatively new user to this site I am appalled by the person who posted that image and ask why he has not been banned or given a warning and the image removed.

The vivisection images have been removed.

This forum is strange.  A forum dedicated to the Amiga platform yet so many Amiga-haters on here its quite odd.  Is there a Whinger thread these people can go to?  Or perhaps you should think about why you are here in the first place if you have to be so negative and let everyone know about it.

The forum reflects the user base. We all started out liking the same Amiga/AmigaOS, but when it comes to the descendant platforms, well people have very different views.

[Karlos]

For a microcontroller, XMOS's chips can make 32 Sprites.  I think that is more than the Amiga ever did.  This is probably not the chip but one of their versions has four cores and is capable of 400 mips.

Your point is pointless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5eU8pHpy-c

It isn't really much use if it can't actually write said sprites into the display memory on the graphics card.

And, any modern graphics card will be able to throw around several million sprites by simply mapping their image as a texture onto a pair of edge sharing triangles to make a square.

[Karlos]

To be honest, I can't really see what the XMOS will be useful for within the machine (as opposed to connecting custom stuff to it), but the rest of the spec seems quite nice for running OS4 on. The DDR2, PCIe and SATA are all reasonably "current" generation stuff so it seems like a decent enough step up from my A1.

[Karlos]

DDR2 seems self defeating, why start with memory that's already out of date?  Things get out of date by themselves pretty quick, why start that way?

Sure it is, which is why you absolutely cannot buy any DDR2 motherboards elsewhere. Oh wait...

My PC uses DDR3 only. I got it about 18 months ago thinking the death knell for DDR2 had sounded. Since then there have been loads more DDR2 motherboards and DDR2 memory has become ever cheaper and more plentiful.

DDR2 is technically obsolete but in practise it's still widely used. The overall performance gain of DDR3 is not that great in truth. Sure you get faster transfers but then the latencies (in clocks) increase. I expect going from dual to triple channel will make a bigger difference than going from DDR2 to DDR3 in most cases.

[Karlos]

Hehe.. nope, they just ramble around on certain websites, like the rest of us.

http://utilitybase.com/

[Karlos]

visiting there on a daliy basis because of warp3d fix thread i have never seen there anyone from hyperion, nor didnt they reply to questions directed to them neither in a thread nor per email.

I never said it was a "hyperion promoted" site, I offered it as an example of something comparable to Apple Developer Connection for AmigaOS: a site dedicated to development discussion for AmigaOS/descendants.