Report on DCE Repairs

[System]

While new PPC boards for Classic Amigas would be rather cute, in my eyes, it does seem more like a labour of love-style venture (like the Coldfire accelerators) than a real business venture.

Considering how much a new PowerPC board would cost these days - the original phase5 boards cost well in excess of £600 when brand new. Even with lowered costs of parts, without the m68k, without scsi, even without any special peripherals (USB, ATA), I doubt you could find a way to make a board that complex - and remind yourself this is just a PPC and a DIMM socket - for very cheap.

If you do look at the costs in a realistic way you will see that the best solution is...




.. by far ..




.. and by no mistake ..





.. buy a Pegasos!

For $299 you can get a 600MHz "Amiga", and run most of your old software over it. It'll be 10 times the performance of any accelerator hack, and you get goodies like ATA100, USB, Firewire, commodity RAM support (no more ZIPs and SIMMs - DDR is here, baby!), networking, and the ability to use AGP graphics cards (yay!)

Keep your old Amiga to the side to run all those old games on. Hell - pass the composite video cable into your Radeon AIW, and play them on your MorphOS desktop (I hope that's implemented now I said that

[System]

Neko!!! your avitar looks just like you

I know, it's great isn't it?

My nail varnish is blue today, though

=Neko=

[System]

Your wrong the amigaone would not be called an amiga if it was not an amiga that would be plain stupid

Well.. slap me with a haddock and call ME an Amiga.

If I wanted a Linux box, I'd have one. As it stands, I don't quite like Linux (BSD rules more) so there's little chance of me buying a box simply to run some boring KDE desktop.

I have a Pegasos not because I slavered and drooled for one and had to spend my money on it asap, I have one because I wrote Amiga software once, and migrated to writing MorphOS software - and I got one as part of my job  at Genesi, which was good, since my PPC Amiga died a hideous, drive-scorching death. I loved that bit of kit, having a PPC A1200 was something unashamedly geeky yet cool (and I had the best one too, onboard SCSI and a BVision and everything.. yeaaahhh!!!)

The Pegasos is a neat replacement for it, but I know it's not an Amiga. I don't expect it to be. I don't hanker for that Amiga feeling. I just need to do my work. If I can create something neat on it, that is what makes it cool. Not "how Amiga-like" it is.

Amiga is what you make of it. For a lot of people, a Pegasos running MorphOS is as Amiga as it gets these days - certainly a lot more Amiga than running Linux and UAE with MacOnLinux minimized in the background.

But if Linux and UAE and MacOnLinux was my job, I'd run it anyway, whatever they called it.

=Neko=