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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: trekiej on January 20, 2010, 05:07:10 AM

Title: X1000 Board picture
Post by: trekiej on January 20, 2010, 05:07:10 AM

What do you think of this board?
http://www.a-eon.com/4.html
Sorry if this has been posted before.

Title: Re: X1000 Board picture
Post by: Gulliver on January 20, 2010, 05:22:33 AM

A very nice motherboard, its success is tyed to AmigaOS 4.x to being mature enough, and that developers embrace that microcontroller thing in ingenious ways.
Anyway i still miss the custom DMA Amiga chipset behaviour, where the cpu could remain with nearly zero load whilst many tasks were being carried out by this custom DMA chipset.
Most importantly, if price is proportionally as steep as it was with the SAM, we arent going to see many of them in the wild.
So for me, it means that there are lots of "ifs" that will make X1000 either a success, or an entire flop, only time will tell.

Title: Re: X1000 Board picture
Post by: NovaCoder on January 20, 2010, 05:23:43 AM

Looks ok, what is it?

Title: Re: X1000 Board picture
Post by: Karlos on January 20, 2010, 07:45:24 AM

Quote from: Gulliver;539282

Anyway i still miss the custom DMA Amiga chipset behaviour, where the cpu could remain with nearly zero load whilst many tasks were being carried out by this custom DMA chipset.

Why would you miss something that's common all around you now? Modern machines employ this behaviour too. IDE has used DMA for disk transfers for ages now. Sound cards, graphics cards, NICs etc all use DMA too.