New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

[Zac67]

Does look like a new PPC board - AmigaOne Powe..
Let's see if we get a somewhat decent price/performance ratio.

@koaftder
Hey, you're spoiling it! Let everyone look for themselves!

[Zac67]

So my guess is a PPC mobo for OS4 with a Minimig on a card for classic compatibility.

... called Xena.

[Zac67]

Are we heading for a dual core? 8x 25% = 200%... :confused:

[Zac67]

Are those PCI Express slots?

Sho' thing!

Now wait! In the far corner you can just about make out "AmigaOne Power X" - so that's what it'll be called.:idea:

[Zac67]

It says on the board:
"AmigaOne Powe..."

I bet it finishes of as "red", making it "AmigaOne Powered"

You've lost, it's "AmigaOne Power X".

[Zac67]

@arnljot

Take a look at the pic VingtTrois linked in on the first page. The far corner has some printing.

[Zac67]

Price of fully configured system or just motherboard.

affordable!

Availability

soon!

Dealers

Amigakit, Vesalia, Softhut, ...

Software Developers with confirmed titles

see os4depot.net

VIDEO of the thing booting OS4

real! soon!

Speed Comparison using Legacy software running on this hardware

incredibly fast!

How about that? That'd be the usual way Amiga hardware was 'announced' - IMHO Hyperion / A-Eon are doing a pretty good job right now. As far as current info indicates, we're bound for a system far beyond anything we've ever (nearly) seen. Probably faster than a Peg2 and much better to expand (socketed CPU?): multi-core, 4 RAM sockets for lots of gigs, 64 bit?, possibly (optional?) ECS/AGA compatibility - I do hope it's affordable.

[Zac67]

Answer XMOS XCore. http://www.xmos.com/technology/xcore

Very interesting thought - would explain the 'core number is not what you think' bit. Together with a MPC8640D DC MPU (1.25 GHz @ 21W!) it would make quite a nice platform. Reminds me of the A3500 DSP approach.

[Zac67]

Could this computer be made compatible for say..playing the latest PC games whitout being a windows PC while keeping your favorite apps on AmigaOS?  Best of both worlds?  Who drugged my coffee?  

What for? If you want a Wintel box buy one.

[Zac67]

Had not noticed that before, but yes they are lots further into the board than normal.  I guess its only going to fit properly in the A-EON case.

The slots are in the normal position (compare length vs. offset from edge), it just looks a bit odd because the area behind the slots is so empty.

The board's standard ATX, would be silly to not use a common form factor.

[Zac67]

I would like to see a 3." drive fitted as standard.

OMG - noone has been using floppies for more than a decade. Please, let's spend no second thought on this as standard...

If you still need to hook up a disk, why not use the nifty Xena hardware? I'm sure someone will hack up a classic or PC style disk interface (in software) pretty quickly.

[Zac67]

IIRC Apple switched to Intel because Motorola were unable to make a G5 processor run cool enough to use in a laptop.

The G5 actually used came from IBM...

[Zac67]

My bet's still on a 8640D (e600) CPU. The Titan might be too fresh to be included in a finished(?) design. The 8640D has the right age and it's spec'ed at 21W on full load (remember the '8 threads to get it up to 20W'?). And it's got dual memory controllers.

[Zac67]

The e600 is only compliant to the PowerPC spec, not Power Architecture 2.04.

Duh! There goes my theory...

[Zac67]

... if we locked them in a room with a few dev machines and lots of coffee!

Don't forget the beer! @Dave