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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: RobertB on October 06, 2017, 12:36:52 AM
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The magazine, Popular Mechanics, has a new article on the "rise, fall, and possible resurrection" of the Amiga. See
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=100417
Writing from Cardiff, Wales,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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The magazine, Popular Mechanics, has a new article on the "rise, fall, and possible resurrection" of the Amiga. See
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=100417
Writing from Cardiff, Wales,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Is this in the print edition as well?
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Hey RobertB, what ya doing in Wales? Will you be watching the Wales vs Georgia (the country not the State ;-)) football game on TV tomorrow from 5pm?
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I simply hope this two Amiga motherboards (maybe with case + Boing Ball ;) ) will be AVAILABLE. I'm actually very surprised that X5000 IS available. We shall see with A1222. Few years back I almost got Sam, I even got case for it, HDD and all. GOOD LUCK, I missed it and then I got bust with life. So, now there is a PC in it.
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...Will you be watching the Wales vs Georgia (the country not the State ;-)) ...
Wales is not a country. :biglaugh:
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I was referring to Georgia as it is confusing for Americans to understand the game of football (the one where we actually use our feet i.e. soccer) especially as Georgia is one of the 50 U.S. states as well as a country :)
Wales, whether you view it as a Principality or a Country still has its own sports teams and so for the purposes of sport it definitely IS a country! :rtfm:
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The magazine, Popular Mechanics, has a new article on the "rise, fall, and possible resurrection" of the Amiga. See
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=100417
Writing from Cardiff, Wales,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
How long are you in Wales for?
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1 - 0 Wales with 15 minutes to go!!
Come on boys!!!
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I was referring to Georgia as it is confusing for Americans to understand the game of football (the one where we actually use our feet i.e. soccer) especially as Georgia is one of the 50 U.S. states as well as a country :)
Wales, whether you view it as a Principality or a Country still has its own sports teams and so for the purposes of sport it definitely IS a country! :rtfm:
We aren't quite that stupid, and we do remember former chunks of the USSR.
Besides, I'll be attending my University's homecoming soccer matches tomorrow (several, all day, with tail gating).
We recruit European, Central and South American students, so I might actually get to see some decent play (because professional soccer in the US isn't quite up to global standards, you should have tried to sell us on Rugby instead, we prefer our sports more brutal and vaguely dangerous).
Your FANS seem to be the most dangerous part of European sports. :laugh1:
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We aren't quite that stupid, and we do remember former chunks of the USSR.
Besides, I'll be attending my University's homecoming soccer matches tomorrow (several, all day, with tail gating).
We recruit European, Central and South American students, so I might actually get to see some decent play (because professional soccer in the US isn't quite up to global standards, you should have tried to sell us on Rugby instead, we prefer our sports more brutal and vaguely dangerous).
Your FANS seem to be the most dangerous part of European sports. :laugh1:
Edit - Actually, when I got up this morning I checked out how our men's soccer has been doing so far this season. Oh boy, 1 tie and the rest of the games loses...hmm...well hopefully those players are still good students. :confused:
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The magazine, Popular Mechanics, has a new article on the "rise, fall, and possible resurrection" of the Amiga. See
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27437/amiga-2017-a1222-tabor/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=100417
Writing from Cardiff, Wales,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
I don't know about resurrection. The current selling 'Amiga's' just look like overpriced PC's. A-Eon needs to make a mini-itx form factor board in a small case and sell it for under $500.
What I'd love to see though is taking Uae4Arm and re-write it to run bare metal on a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone rather than on top of a Linux kernel. Then compile OS4 and Aros for Arm as well. One of the original selling points of the Amiga was the lower cost.
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I don't know about resurrection. The current selling 'Amiga's' just look like overpriced PC's. A-Eon needs to make a mini-itx form factor board in a small case and sell it for under $500.
What I'd love to see though is taking Uae4Arm and re-write it to run bare metal on a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone rather than on top of a Linux kernel. Then compile OS4 and Aros for Arm as well. One of the original selling points of the Amiga was the lower cost.
Well the plan for Tabor is close to that, but I've already stated and restated my objections to that.
Although I could see how it might appeal to someone that wanted to be more economical.
Frankly, at the lower end I'd just wait for the new A1200 boards or the Vampire2.
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... One of the original selling points of the Amiga was the lower cost.
I see someone remembers buying an A500 in a discount bin in a big box retail store but some of us remember the cost of Amiga 1000, 2000, 3000 & 4000 when new and 'low cost' is not why we (at least I) bought one
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Well the plan for Tabor is close to that, but I've already stated and restated my objections to that.
Although I could see how it might appeal to someone that wanted to be more economical.
Frankly, at the lower end I'd just wait for the new A1200 boards or the Vampire2.
What tabor plan?
I saw a post where someone made some new 1200 boards but they were talking about them in a non-english forum so I couldn't tell if they are available or not.
I've been redrawing the schematics in KiCad to see if I could eventually make one.
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I see someone remembers buying an A500 in a discount bin in a big box retail store but some of us remember the cost of Amiga 1000, 2000, 3000 & 4000 when new and 'low cost' is not why we (at least I) bought one
That was always one of Commodore's selling points that they cost less than the PC or Apple. granted PC prices dropped after that but it was one of the original selling points.
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How long are you in Wales for?
Heh, I am now in Lincoln, having attended the Lincolnshire Amiga Group (LAG) meeting today. Sunday I will be at the Amiga North Thames (ANT) meeting in Enfield (north London).
Lots of traveling,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
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That was always one of Commodore's selling points that they cost less than the PC or Apple. granted PC prices dropped after that but it was one of the original selling points.
And all of them sold a lot of Atari STs which were yet cheaper.
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@RobertB
thanks for the link. it's a nice article and any publicity at this point is a good thing IMO. looking forward to amiwest more than ever! :)
-- eliyahu
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@RobertB
thanks for the link. it's a nice article and any publicity at this point is a good thing IMO. looking forward to amiwest more than ever! :)
-- eliyahu
I agree. Good Article. My only criticism is the cover photo shows a vintage Amiga, which to the untrained eye looks like... an old PC. Nor exactly eye-candy inviting the reader to click and learn that the article is really about something new(ish).
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Thanks for sharing. Good article indeed, Where I can get one of those Bonk's mouse pads from the photo next to the A2000 Keyboard? It would be a good addition to my A1200 that its sitting next to my Turbografx 16 :knuddel:
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Thanks for sharing. Good article indeed, Where I can get one of those Bonk's mouse pads from the photo next to the A2000 Keyboard? It would be a good addition to my A1200 that its sitting next to my Turbografx 16 :knuddel:
Interesting, my SX1 equipped CD32 is sitting next to a Sega Genesis and a Sony Dreamcast, as if if to prove that a good idea isn't a guarantee of success.
Speaking of which, what would everyone think of a Vampire 4 standalone being combined with a Blu ray drive and some form of solid state storage?
It could be very compact, and still provide an interesting gaming, multimedia, and computing experience. And I could play the discs I rent from Redbox on it!