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Title: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: amigamad on October 30, 2003, 03:15:38 PM
 Mini-ITX AmigaOne in action running Debian and of Jürgen Schober's AmigaOS4 presentation at last weekend's OASE show. Eyetech's AmigaOne updates as published by Total Amiga Magazine will now also be made available quarterly at the AmigaWorld.net portal. Q&A session 22 with Amiga's CTO is now also available.

The pics are here - mini itx a1 (http://www.lightelements.com/gallery/index.php?gallery=05-OS4_and_more)

Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: TheJackal on October 30, 2003, 03:42:49 PM
[homer simpson]
Hmmmm Pretty!
[/homer simpson]

Whats that map thingy its showing?
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: dammy on October 30, 2003, 03:45:21 PM
Nice to see it working.  How much?

Dammy
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: carls on October 30, 2003, 03:49:09 PM
ARGHHH, MY EYES! I can see topaz/8 there! I know that some applications use the default 8-point proportional font, but couldn't they have replaced it with a prettier one by now?
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: restore2003 on October 30, 2003, 03:54:13 PM
eeeek! Did somebody say Topaz/8??!??  :-o
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: NyQuil on October 30, 2003, 04:03:32 PM
[Homer drooling]
Sweet sweeet caaandy!
[/Homer drooling]
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: jd997uk on October 30, 2003, 04:06:12 PM
@Dammy

Prolly 50% more than you'd ever consider paying!
 :-D  :-D
Actually, it damn small. Like smaller than a standard power supply. Do they make special mini PSU's for these things?

-john
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: Chunder on October 30, 2003, 04:06:33 PM
Is it my eyes, or does the CPU card extend beyond the boundaries of the motherboard??
Hope not...  :-(
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: dammy on October 30, 2003, 04:09:50 PM
Poster: jd997uk Date: 2003/10/30 11:06:12

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Prolly 50% more than you'd ever consider paying!


Still doesn't answer my question, how much? ;)

Dammy
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: System on October 30, 2003, 04:44:30 PM
Gamecube has the things of an alite and costs 99EUR only ;)

Uhm, these memory could be expensive...
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: Crumb on October 30, 2003, 05:51:43 PM
@timo:
gamecubes won't run OS4 so I don't care about that.
laptop memory  is not as expensive as you may think, check out http://www.alternate.es
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: amigamad on October 30, 2003, 06:02:08 PM
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Is it my eyes, or does the CPU card extend beyond the boundaries of the motherboard??


From what i see it does. :-?
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: pixie on October 30, 2003, 07:15:02 PM
These are pictures of AOS4 actually running on mini itx a1 right? Damn, they were fast porting it over!! :-D  :-D  :-D  :-o  :-o  :-o  :-o
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: Casper on October 30, 2003, 07:19:12 PM
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Gamecube has the things of an alite and costs 99EUR only ;)


Not a fair comparison since Gamecubes are sold at cost or even at loss (only Nintendo knows for sure). Console manufacturers make their money from game licenses, not from their hardware.
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: downix on October 30, 2003, 07:36:05 PM
@Casper

Actually that whole "sold at a loss" bit was an accusation, a but of FUD really, made by Atari against Sony when the Playstation came out at remarkably cheaper than Atari's Jaguar.  What Atari failed to realize is that their supplier was still charging them the same price for RAM 2 years after the DRAM prices dropped so dramatically in the mid-90's.  So the Playstation could be manufactured for significantly less than expected.
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: Methuselas on October 30, 2003, 08:31:11 PM
I'm not sure if I dig the CPU placement. Dumb question, but with the smaller design and things like laptop ram, how is this cheaper than an AOne. It's got WAY limited expansion and uses more specific parts than the AOne..

Wait....now that DOES sound more Amiga.

Oh, I can't wait until Tax Season. :-D
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: takemehomegrandma on October 31, 2003, 12:24:40 PM
This is from page 2 of the A1Lite installation guide:
:-P
(http://www.hig.se/~sbn/A1Lite.jpg)
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: takemehomegrandma on October 31, 2003, 12:30:30 PM
Seriously, I think this board could be quite interesting, provided that the end-user version will have another northbridge than the Articia S and that the price will be on par or below the Pegasos II ...
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: takemehomegrandma on October 31, 2003, 12:43:31 PM
@ jd997uk

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Do they make special mini PSU's for these things?


A Mini-ITX PSU is **less** than 100W, and that is kind of "special" today. However, it very possible to connect a standard PSU to it if you want to go beyond the Mini-ITX boundaries.
Title: Re: Mini-ITX AmigaOne Demoed with Debian
Post by: mikeymike on November 01, 2003, 01:07:15 PM
@ takemehomegrandma
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This is from page 2 of the A1Lite installation guide:


You have waaaaaaay too much time on your hands.

And your nick should be 'grandmatakemehome' to be Nirvana-compliant :-)