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Offline Varthall

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Re: Would you support this project? -please read-
« on: January 28, 2004, 04:33:46 PM »
Are you aware that IF your project will be successfull, you would split even more the Amiga community? We are already divided into two communities, one supporting the A1 and the other the Pegasos, which I find highly unneccessary... you would really like to create a new, even smaller "Amiga" community?
Instead, why don't you support the AmigaOne and/or the Pegasos? Both they need coders to port new software, to make new demos... Why don't you focus on this, which is really needed by the community NOW?
The Amiga feeling was made at most by its os and software!  You don't like the hardware? Many people at the time also complained for the architecture of some of the classic amigas, like the a600 or the a4000 with its crippled memory bus and the slow performance of the AGA chipset. There's no computer that would satisfy everyone, so let's work with what we already have!
And about that Amiga feeling... well I guess it's about time it gets 'upgraded" to today's standards.

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Re: Would you support this project? -please read-
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2004, 08:58:30 PM »
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AmiDelf wrote:
This Amiga wont be splitting Amiga community at all. It will just follow the path of Commodore. Amiga was a computer, and it still should be.

If it wont split the community, it should be compatible with the existing ppc Amiga mobos, a difficult task as initially you planned to use a different cpu. But as I can see now...

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Amiga 5200 specs:
- Virtua3D gfx custom chipset (as seen in Dreamcast)
- PPC G3 600MHz (We've left ColdFire atm)
- Kickstart v4.0
- AGP slot
- PCI slots
- Zorro slots
- 2x SD-RAM slots
- Amiga joystick and mouse ports
- USB 2.0
- USB Amiga keyboard

... it looks like a cross between an A1 and a Pegasos, with the joystick and mouse port integrated (a bit like an integrated catweasel).
Are you planning for an official license by Amiga Inc.,
so that it would run AmigaOS4?

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AmigaOne XE - AmigaOS 4.1 - Freescale 7457 1GHz - 1GB ram
MPlayer for OS4: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-amigaos/