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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Helgis75 on April 04, 2003, 02:36:14 PM
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Yes, that's right! I got a mail from Gunne Steen early this morning, and he told me he got his A1XEs into his shop, and have already contacted Datakompaniet to bring a bunch of these boards! I will have mine pretty soon! What a great news! :-)
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He he,
How'd I know this was going to be Helgis? :-D
Congrats BTW!
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Finally your optimism is rewarded :-).
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Nice one. be waiting to see them in The Netherlands.
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filson wrote:
Nice one. be waiting to see them in The Netherlands.
Hopefully not the boards that has now reached Sweden, though. But the rest of the boards should be on the way from the far east by now, afaik...
@Helgis:
Good luck with your board. I hope you've checked out the linux page at http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/ (http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/), the hardware page at amigarulez (http://web.amigarulez.com/ahs/) and that you don't run back to mommy crying about Linux being a bad kid after less than an hour
:-P :-P
Nah, I guess you'll be allright :-)
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I hope eyetech send mine soon. :-D
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3 guesses who's gannin oot on tha p1ss tonight !
(but will be teetotal when theyve done 'Deliverin the goods'!)
NB: any typos, errors, or in your face opinionisms are the result of all these leaving do's I've been attending of late, and should be taken as such... ! :pint: :pint: :pint: :-P
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@Helgis:
Nice one. Looks like you're almost there.....
:pint:
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@olegil
well personally I don't care much for the boards that aren't currently headding towards Holland :-D But I am happy that they are shipping in the first place.
BTW: anyone know why VIA was chosen for the southbridge? VIA doesn't have the best reputation for good PCI/IDE I/O. And they aren't the cheapest ones either.
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My guess is that they where the only ones willing to deliver
products "good" enough and in the small quantitys
that Eyetech requested.
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Eyetech had nothing to do with that ...
AFAIK the VIA-ones are the easiest to connect to an "odd" NB, and
thats why Mai choose an rather old VIA-one for the eval-board
which was later replaced with a somewhat newer but pin-compatible
versiojn in the retail version of the mobo (aka A1).
Even the Pegasos use a VIA-SB, only one that was a bit newer and
orginally intended to be used in laptops (thats why there is so
much onboard stuff).
Getting information on how to use these chips (HW&SW) was also
very important.
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filson wrote:
BTW: anyone know why VIA was chosen for the southbridge? VIA doesn't have the best reputation for good PCI/IDE I/O. And they aren't the cheapest ones either.
The VIA south bridge is actually a really good peice of kit, it's well tested/proven, has lots of features, it's well documented and it's very cheap.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that one sits on a PCI bus and not some strange custom bus, which makes it easy to include in a non standard project like the A1
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Hi folks! Thank you so much for the great feedbacks! It was a happy tear to my eyes when i got these happy mails! All the 8 years in darkness, and now i'm into the light! God, i'm so relived!
Now it's gonna be a lot of great fun! By the way, i also read that Lucasarts are going to release the third Jedi Knight game by autumn this year. It's called Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!!!! How about porting this game to AmigaOS 4? Yeah, that would be so cool! :-) :-) :-) :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
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By the way, i also read that Lucasarts are going to release the third Jedi Knight game by autumn this year. It's called Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!!!! How about porting this game to AmigaOS 4? Yeah, that would be so cool!
Don't hold your breath on that one........
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@bloodline
I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.
After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.
And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s
I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.
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Ime not gona get too excited as have heard it all b4 many times over somthing will crop up and ill not get my a1 b4 chrisy Sadam husain prob blow ship up or sumit like that
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I had 3 via based pc mobos and I never saw any data corruption. There was a problem with the soundblaster but that might as well be crappy creative drivers.
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filson wrote:
@bloodline
I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.
After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.
And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s
I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.
Oh yes, I fully agree with you on what you said, but I've found the VIA chips to be very good little chips (and very cheap). I'm currently wading through pages and pages of Technical documentation for the VIA Mini-ITX, as I'm keen to make AROS use the south bridges buit in sound. :-o
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I also hope to see them in the Netherlands soon!!
I have all my hardware allready. Thanks to snap I don't even have to buy a graphic card. Just stick a Geforce DDR in I still had around.
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Helgis75 wrote:
Yes, that's right! I got a mail from Gunne Steen early this morning, and he told me he got his A1XEs into his shop, and have already contacted Datakompaniet to bring a bunch of these boards! I will have mine pretty soon! What a great news! :-)
Dont forget the toilet tissue and plastic pants when you go to bed tonight :-P :-P :-P
On a more serious note.... Surely Alan should have delivery of the others by now :-? :-?
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My girlfriend will take care of my happy tears..hehe...and something more..but that's for the private thing..hehe..:-)
The fun starts next week! :-)
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Hmm, Geforce wouldn't be bad if I had one to try out. I don't know if there's ANY working AmigaOne-linux drivers for it atm (the focus has been on Voodoo and Radeon), but Geforce is the only card I know of that actually HAS hardware GL drivers under Linux. Matrox, Voodoo, Radeon don't (at least not on my computers they don't).
Funny how the A1200 is almost as fast on the Gears demo as the A1 :-) (ok, that was a joke. But software-rendered opengl sucks quite a bit...)
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Im not bothered if they dont get anywhere else in the world as long as we get ours here in Australia i just want my A1 xe ppl,s :)
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I believe Eyetech are awaiting the next (big) batch of A1s out of the Far East imminently...
hold on to yer hats, and brace your credit cards, chaps !
:-o :-D :-P :pint:
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@Elektro
Ok, well the stick a Audigy2 card in a Abit KR7 and see what happens. very wierd stuff :-D
After searching some time it turns out that this is indeed a VIA bug. not a SoundBlaster. what should happen is that SB cards (among others) is using some very long bursts, around 32 bytes. And VIA (bug enabled) can only handle PCI bursts up to 24 bytes.
In the linux world this bug is called the AMD bugstomper.
Once this bug is out, AMD is just as stable as Intel. :-D
A quick swap to SiS, and there is nothing wrong with the Audigy card. go figure.. :-)
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Matrox, Voodoo, Radeon don't (at least not on my computers they don't).
Matrox is ok here (RH 8 - Matrox G550).
3360 frames in 5.0 seconds = 672.000 FPS
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@blodline
would AROS also support the SiS onboard sound?
got some nice spatial 3d sound emuls.
I could test for you if you'd be interested. :-D
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"3 guesses who's gannin oot on tha p1ss tonight"
I thought we had the beginnings of a North East Amiga User Group there Agafaster, then I saw the West Midlands as your location.
Are you in exile? :)
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Hercules cards seem to work fine, santa cruz too. And my problems were solved with unnofficial creative drivers.
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Helgis75 wrote:
Yes, that's right! I got a mail from Gunne Steen early this morning, and he told me he got his A1XEs into his shop, and have already contacted Datakompaniet to bring a bunch of these boards! I will have mine pretty soon! What a great news! :-)
Kudos. Really sounds GOOD ! Happy new century, Helgis ;)
pX
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Helgis75 wrote:
My girlfriend will take care of my happy tears..hehe...and something more..but that's for the private thing..hehe..:-)
The fun starts next week! :-)
Did she had to wait THAT long ?? Boy, you *are* busy ;)
pX
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I can pretty much, 100% bloody well confirm that the AmigaOne's has reached Sweden and some has been sent out to waiting customers already ;)
Got mine today at around 16:00 local time.
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Congratulations, Andreas :-)
Give me a bell and a whistle if you need some help setting it up (but I guess you'll get some local Göteborg-help, eh?) :-)
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Thank yee!
I was wondering if you got the mail that gunne sent about the dev-mailinglist. I'm not sure how it's done, exactly.. are you the administrator or something?
Regards
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I am the moderator.
Alan is supposed to be the administrator, but I end up doing a lot of the dirty work on that end as well. Next time Gunne might consider emailing Alan and then let Alan email me instead of emailing me and then I have to email Alan and wait for his reply :-)
Confused? I am ;-)
Me and Gunne have started talking about a smaller list for anyone who is interested (basically, I would set up something where anyone can request to subscribe, and members-only posting as usual (saves us a hell of a lot of spam, actually). Does it sound intriguing? Anyway, let's hope we'll have AOS4 soon, eh? I just finished installing the 990529 snapshot of GeekGadgets on my brand new A1200, next up is installing some newer things from the alpha branch. Tomorrow. After I've played some games :-)
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I am the moderator.
Twisted Moderator!!! Psycho-kinetic.....blah blah blah :-)
Congrats to Helgis on the imminent arrival of his A1!
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@olegil
Any chance you could post some LinuxPPC UAE benchmarks ?
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No. Benchmarking UAE is really silly. How do you benchmark an emulator anyway?
Also, I've got the AmigaOne in the completely wrong place at the moment (A1200 at work, A1 at home).
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Hmm, I managed to get it up from 200 to 370 now, on the Matrox G550. Tuxracer is suddenly playable.
What resolution are you running? I'm thinking maybe 372 isn't too bad in 1600x1200. I get 600 FPS in 800x600. But who would run that on a 21"? Even the A1200 runs 1280x1024 (with a linuxchicks background image *cough* :-D )