X1000 Nemo Rev. 2 Motherboard in Production

[Dandy]

If (and I mean IF) that actually is a good use for an XMOS chip it also is a perfect example of why the intregration on the mobo makes no sense.

You would have to place your 2000Euro X1000 really close to your H0-set running several non-hotplug wires in between both.

I'm still undecided whether I will use a cable connection or some sort of WLan tec for this.

Use an existing XMOS-kit connect it via USB or Ethernet (both provide more than enough throughput for 1 lowres videolink and a bunch of signals)

Its more likely that I will use an HD pen cam.

and you will not only reduce the risk of killing your expensive kit,

Why do you think that steering a model railway might kill the A1 X1k?

but you might even get away with useing a less expensive one (honestly that were HW like the Efika or the Beagleboard would be optimal).

I also have some other things in mind where I would need the power of the A1 X1k for.
So all in all - for me the idea to have the XMOS chip onboard seems to be good.

[Dandy]

Dual Core systems and 64 bit new in the Amiga field ? My 3 years old 3.86ghz core2duo AROS box would beg to differ, as would the 64bit version of AROS.

Can I run AmigaOS (TM) on it?

[Dandy]

Unless they're significantly cheaper then PA6T all they're good for is looking at them :lol:

At least for those who cannot afford them...
;-)

[Dandy]

:roflmao:

That IS kind of the point, isn't it? You can't run AROS or MorphOS on an X1000, but that's not the point.
We no longer see too many blue vs red arguments (they're similar but different OS'), but why do we constantly have to hear "AROS is faster". "AROS runs on cheaper, common X86 hardware".

AROS won't run AOS4 apps (even MOS can run some AOS4 apps with a wrapper).

For me the decisive argument is not the price of the HW alone. I have a large collection of (old, but still usable) productive 68k Amiga applications - e.g. for CAE/CAD/CAM/CNC and electronics. Those apps aren't available any longer for any Amiga like system and to buy everything again for annother platform would exceed my financial possibilities.

From what I heard of AROS so far, it is not possible to run this software in AROS on cheap x86 HW without re-compiling it, which requires access to the source code.

So I would have to buy AROS equivalents of this software, which simply doesn't exist.
So AROS is out of the question for me.

If I realise my project, I want to avoid having to buy all the necessary apps again for a different platform, as I already have most of the required stuff on the Amiga platform.

Should MOS run on the A1 X1k one day and should it run even better than AOS on that HW I see no reason why I would not use MOS, provided it runs my apps flawlessly.

But until then AmigaOS seems to be the only solution for me...