DGB wrote:
As an old Amiga user and fan I have been curiously looking at the Amiga One which is now selling in the United States. I am curious about what the complete list of features are and what cross platform software and OS compatibilities are.
You can run LinuxPPC on it, and soon you will be able to run the new version of the Amiga's operating system (AmigaOS 4) on it.
Looking at the picture that Software Hut has of the Motherboard I see what appears to be four PCI slots and an AGP slot. I see no other slots to accommodate Amiga Zorro cards.
Thats right. There are no legacy Zorro slots.
That being the case , other than using a 68XXX processor how is this related to the Amiga? Also what does OS 4.0 offer?
It doesn't use a 680x0 processor, rather a PowerPC G3 or G4 processor, like the PowerMacs. 680x0 compatibility is provided by an emulation layer. AmigaOS4 is a continuation of the Amiga operating system. It is a PowerPC port of the original code, but it is also greatly improved. The new intuition looks much nicer, and there is support for modern graphics cards (the final shipping version is supposed to support around 180 graphics chipsets). AmigaOS4 also provides support for sound cards, hardware 3D on certain cards, virtual memory, a greatly upgraded kernel, and a new library system. It is the first step on the road to bringing the Amiga into the 21st century.
Does it come with a floppy drive and if so what are it's compatibilities? Will it read older Amiga Floppies?
It is unfortunately unable to read Amiga floppy disks, due to the leaving behind of the Amiga chipset (which is holding back the Amiga in many ways). However, you will be able to put a Catweasle PCI floppy controller in there to read Amiga disks easily.
There are many links I want to give you, but i'm just about to leave work for the weekend, so i'm sure someone will post links to the OS4 feature set etc.
