AOS4 & Amigaone

[Tigger]

Waccoon wrote:
I believe you're right that a redesign wasn't used for the AmigaOne, but it's not strictly a stock Teron board.  People did just have an argument recently about whether the AmigaOne's on-board audio works or not, and found that some AmigaOnes have the audio chip, while others do not.  Or, did that only apply to the AmigaOne Micro?

Maybe the audio chips just fell off in transit, and Eyetech decided to sell the boards, anyway.

Originally the sound chip didnt work, it was believed to be a hardware problem in the PWB, so on subsequent builds of the board, the part was deleted from the partlist, thats why on the majority of A1's there are pads for the part, but no part.   In recent weeks, a sound driver for the chip has been written, which seems to be working fine, of course now the majority of the A1's dont have the chip the driver is trying to support, however if you have the chip, the on board sound is now working.   Part deletion saved a dollar or two I would guess on parts cost, if someone tells me the actual chip number, I could give you a more definitive cost.
    -Tig

[Tigger]

FrankBrana wrote:
@Tiger

If everybody use UAE, wont be evolution at all in amiga land.Buy machines, AMiGA or PEGASOS, but support real machines. Yes these machines we dreamt for years, and now that are developed, everyone finds "flaws" on it.

C´mon. Support OS4, support MOS. Whatever option you choose, support real and modern hardware.

Amithlon would have allowed revolution on x86 hardware, it was done years ago, and we would have had 2 or 3 major updates since then. AROS will eventually supass that effort and will be open source.  We don't need to build our own hardware (AmigaOne) to update the OS to PPC (or x86 for that matter).  Macs are plentiful, at this point Pegasos' are available as well.  AmigaOne aren't being manufactured now, and when they were, were more expensive then either of those alternatives, weren't as powerful and weren't being repaired under warranty (the biggest complaint of them all).  Plus the AmigaOne has the hardware problems brought on by the Articia.  I'm all for updating the OS, I'm against tying it to a faulty albatross called AmigaOne.   1 days production of the Mac Mini would more then double those using OS4.  At $100 (or even $150) a pop, there is literally 100's of 1000's of dollars worth of sales available on a Mac port.  Less for a Pegasos port, but even then lots of money, right now, OS4 has been sold to every AmigaOne owner, until it there is new hardware, there is no new OS4 sales.  Thats not good for Hyperion, and not good for the OS4 community.  The Troika folks have picked good parts for there design, but honestly I doubt they will have shipping hardware for Christmas, so we have no sales of OS4, till January or later, how is that better then doing a Mac port and selling the hell out of it??
   -Tig