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Quote from: wawrzon;789730
now, are they are really giving themselves credit for minimig??? cmon..

another load of marketing talk, as if there was public out there to notice..

"Their plans include a series of exciting new hardware and software projects starting with the Minimig Plus, an updated version of ACube System's highly successful implementation of Dennis van Weeren's Amiga 500 FPGA design."

Better? :)

The meat of the press release, rather than the minor detail, sounds like good news to me.

It's good to see a strong cooperative attitude, and I respect that they're being businesslike. These are good things, aren't they?

I'd rather consider buying an expensive piece of hardware from someone businesslike, rather than someone who portrays it as hooby-level, and plays on your conscience when you need to make a claim under warranty. You can't have it both ways.
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Re: A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2015, 01:47:53 PM »
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the particularly exciting hardware to date actually come from "someone who portrays it as hooby-level" just to name majsta, who actually pushed the limits said companies are unable to reach.


Heh, noticed the typo after posting, couldn't be arsed to correct it (phone keyboard).

If I still kept Amiga hardware, I would probably have bought one - on a hobbyist level, and with no expectation of warranty, CE marking, etc. I see that as majsta's project that he's sharing, nothing more or less.
Spending several hundred pounds on a full, new system is something else entirely.

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also "playing on conscience" is something i rather identify with another group, guess whom.


Dunno, do tell.
(Who, not whom, btw - "playing on the conscience" is the subject of the sentence. Are you Franko? :))

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to my knowledge there isnt any amiga hardware and expansions from aeon so far released to the public. the new generation minimig isnt very exciting in comparison to various community based projects around.
the only real thing in testing is the audio streaming card, which is of limited use imho, has been incorrectly advertised as a sound card and after all the excitement still remains unreleased.

this hardly improves my confidence in further press releases like this. have seen enough of them and doubt anything is going to change.


Thought the soundcard was out, but I haven't been following that closely tbh.
Totally sympathise with the general pessimism regarding Amiga announcements - evidence from the last 20 years is totally on the pessimists' side - but A-Eon/Cube do seem to live up to their announcements, from my recollection at least.
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Re: A-EON Technology and ACube Systems strengthen strategic alliance
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2015, 09:30:31 AM »
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If you are to pretend you are a grammar nazi, at least learn to analyze sentences. ... "playing on conscience" is something I rather identify with another group, guess whom - (guess with which group, guess with whom).


How appropriate, you fight like a cow! :)

(I disagree with your analysis of the grammar, but really it was just a counter to the "hooby level" comment ;))
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