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Title: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: System on June 06, 2013, 08:50:16 AM

(http://www.vesalia.de/pic/cubieboard.jpg)


Cubieboard

ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board

The Cubieboard is an inexpensive ARM Cortex-A8 development kit and a powerful alternative to the Raspberry Pi (http://www.vesalia.de/e_raspberrypi.htm).
Features:

• CPU: 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor (NEON, VFPv3, 256KB L2 cache)
• GPU: Mali400 (OpenGL ES GPU)
• RAM: 1 GB DDR3
• Flash: 4 GB Nand
• Video Output: HDMI (1080p)
• Network: 10/100M Ethernet
• USB (Host/OTG): 2/1
• 1 microSD slot
• 1 SATA connector
• 1 IR receiver
• 96-pin extension header including I2C/TWI, SPI, RGB/LVDS, CSI/TS, FM-IN, ADC, CVBS, VGA, SPDIF, R-TP
• Running Android, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions (download page (http://cubieboard.org/download/))
  

Package Contents:

• Cubieboard
• DC-USB cable
• SATA cable

EUR 64.35 incl. 19% German VAT (EUR 54.08 excl. VAT for non-EU customers)

More... (http://www.vesalia.de/e_cubieboard.htm)

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: yssing on June 06, 2013, 10:34:35 PM

what flavor of amiga os will it run?

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: Dwyloc on June 06, 2013, 11:36:42 PM

AROS-ARM Linux hosted I am guessing and if its anything link the Raspberry Pi I expect it will feel very responsive.  

Sadly there is virtually no ARM binaries for other AROS software available to download so its not very useful at present, but hopefully this will change and become useful in the future. :-)

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: XDelusion on June 07, 2013, 06:01:04 AM

Personally, I'd really like to see Haiku or MorphOS running on this. That would make my day! :)

A stable AROS port with Odamex and ScummVM would certainly keep me happy too! Then if ARM ever gets JIT, we can all celebrate and enjoy UAE with DOSbox. Oh to dream.

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: nicholas on June 07, 2013, 11:06:35 AM

Quote from: XDelusion;737087

Personally, I'd really like to see Haiku or MorphOS running on this. That would make my day! :)

A stable AROS port with Odamex and ScummVM would certainly keep me happy too! Then if ARM ever gets JIT, we can all celebrate and enjoy UAE with DOSbox. Oh to dream.

UAE4Droid on Android has a 68k JIT core for ARM I think.

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: AJCopland on June 07, 2013, 11:09:55 AM

Is no-one porting AROS-ARM to the boards from HardKernel?
http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/main.php

Quad-core 1.7GHz ARM A9 chips and 2GB of ram for less than US$135...

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: polyp2000 on June 07, 2013, 12:04:25 PM

One really nice feature about these boards is the SATA interface - that creates a lot more possibilities than the Pi (eg : open source NAS amongst other things)

I would have bought one by now except there seems to be no UK stockist an Im not massively keen on ordering one from china of ebay.

Anyone in the UK got one of these yet?

N...

Title: Re: Cubieboard, ARM Cortex-A8/Mali400 Board w/ 1 GB RAM, 4 GB Flash, etc.
Post by: Iggy on June 16, 2013, 07:21:54 PM

Quote from: AJCopland;737104

Is no-one porting AROS-ARM to the boards from HardKernel?
http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/main.php

Quad-core 1.7GHz ARM A9 chips and 2GB of ram for less than US$135...

Yep, since the A15 was released, these have come down.
I might have to buy one.
The lack of an SATA connection is not a problem for me.