The ultimate Amiga?

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An A1200 in it's original case, with hard drive, and external CDROM, and one of these bad boys...

http://safir.amigaos.se/article_ack_eng.html


The only thing that sucks it that there is no GFX chip on there.

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Man, you guys are all so jaded! Anyone would think the Amiga community has been burnt by phoney hardware promises before :-P

I'm hoping that this one will not evapourate, I think it stands a better chance than some of the others.  IIRC the designer was involved with designing the microA1, and he's also part of the OS4 team.  Also the fact it seems to be a fairly simple peice of kit also helps me enthuse about it a little more.

As a nifty bonus it also works sans A1200.

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xaccrocheur wrote:

Mm... I though that the point of the  MPC 5200 was that is is NOT a PPC CPU ! :crazy:
(final) OS4 is PPC-only OS, am I right ?
I'm confused, because if the MPC 5200 IS a PPC (it very much seems so), then why should I prefer it over the (way faster) G3 ? Specially if this board "does not need a 1200" ?

This IS a PPC chip, what makes it special is that it not only contains the processor, but also other functions often found on other chips.  Basically a system on a chip.  This makes it easier to create a card that will fit in an A1200, it's also cheaper than building a full motherboard.  The chip also has the nice feature that it consumes very little power.

If I want a OS4 machine (and well sometimes I do) I'll buy an AmigaOne, so why the need for this ?

Well if they manage to ship this in the form they suggest, then you'll not only get all the PPC goodness of OS4, but you'll also get access to AGA still.  Also for me the idea of having a PPC plus all the other goodies in an A1200 desktop case, is brilliant.  My only complaint is that damn MiniPCI instead of a GFX chip.

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bloodline wrote:

The A1200 Trapdoor slot has provision to resistively mix a stereo audio signal with the standard Paula audio and output it via the RCA's at the back of the A1200. Very simple really.

I never knew that, shame no-one's ever taken advantage of it AFAIK.