Alan Redhouse revealed the impressive future of AmigaOne!!!!! (from AmiGBG 2003)

[JurassicCamper]

@ SlimJim / Alan / Anybody who may know.

As you are the only person who has posted a show report so far could you clarify something. It may not have even been mentioned.

If the board were stuck in Germany on Saturday and GGS data are expected to have them on Monday(Today). Does that mean that GGS has got all the first batch ? One would assume they would go to England first to be serialised etc, before being sent on, unless this has been done by the third party QA company already. It  also save eyetech the cost of having to reship them on.
Do you think its fair to assume that several bundles have been sent out from the 3rd party QA Eg:-
Batch for Eyetech
Batch for GGS

etc etc :-?  :-?  :-?  :nervous:

[JurassicCamper]

... let's forget the whole OS4 .. seems like it's not THAT important anyway. As long as we have lots of A1's out there seems to satisfy a lot of people.

I think most people will be happy just to get the hardware for now.
I realy do think it will put a breath of fresh air into the postings over the next few weeks as we all start helping each other out with linux and A1 experiences.

[JurassicCamper]

If you listen to the Alans mp3 between 6:35 & 10:00 mins is the delivery time scale.
He mentions the contract  with the QA people is to test the boards by the 31st March (Today) and then 1 weeks shipping to England. So it looks like they will be leaving for England today. However, Alan expects a batch today from UPS, but only mentions GGS, not. how many are in it. But you must remember the target audience were swedish.

Who's bloody dog kept barking in the background ?

[JurassicCamper]

Helgis75 wrote:
I'm very excited at the moment! I will have my A1G4XE mobo really soon now!!!!! :-)  :-)  :-)  :-D  :-D

Easy Tiger..... you'll burst a blood vessel.
:-D  :-D

[JurassicCamper]

Tafka wrote:
Yes, I want to know that too.  How many boards are going to be available in the UK?

Surely enough have been produced to satisfy initial demand.

None out of the batch Helgis is on about these are just for GGS.

Alan.. 29th March 2003

....Obviously there was a little delay setting up the testing procedures and
setting up the contracts, so they will take us about a week to get them over
because its too expensive to get them express freighted even if UPS can do
that, and thats why Gunnes boards are in Cologne, because thats where UPS
left them. But that means that we and the manufacturers have a very good
quality assurance procedure, and that means we can pass that on to you.
Overall, we think thats saving time and cost, and thats why you havent seen
them before now. The rest of the boards are being shipped this week, which
I define as starting tomorrow.

Which I interpret as....
Get them W/C 07/04/03 (DD/MM/YY)
But they can go straight out as they have been tested already.

I would assume previous annoucement parameters still apply.
Eg: Pre built systems first / boards in order date order.

[JurassicCamper]

gary_c wrote:
I'm not sure building from the original source code is really better than doing a modern functional equivalent from a fresh start

Thats what hyperion have done with EXECSG.  :roll:

As for the dongle I would imagine that during the installation a function / functions will be called that are in the ROM.

Or if the boot device is set to CD-ROM then it will check for specific files on the CD before installing it.  

This way the system  knows you have a Amiga OS CD in the drive and will stop it from booting from the CD-ROM.

So what about a cloned HD with OS4 already installed.

Well I image that the HAL or EXEC during initialisation will call functions in the ROM that need to be present for the OS to Boot.

This is the way I would do it rather than checking a memory location in the ROM for a value as that could be easily cracked as the comparision value needed would have to be in the HAL / EXEC code its self.

[JurassicCamper]

Helgis75 wrote:
I agree with someone in the point that AmigaOne is nothing special without OS4. With OS4, the users will feel very much at home. No, i don't expect the OS4 to be out that soon. I guess Mai or June, after having read Alans' speech very carefully.

[speculation]
It maybe sooner, at least internally anyway.

Rogue commented the other day that's its almost done.

Alan also said he is back in China in 2 weeks for another conference seminar.

He put up this ppc forum slide and look at the last bullet point.

They want to show the benifits of PPC. I dont think he'll be taking his CD32 along to do that.
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