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

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I don't know about that, they tried, I think it depends on what market you were in. In the UK at least the A500/A600/A1200 was sold as a mass market item (compared to other computers/consoles of its time).  I was not ever really aware of anyone owning a big box amiga as they were well out my price range.

In the UK you had David Pleasance (I belive that was his name...) who was on the ball...You also had the PACK in games... in the USA the offerings were no where near as snazzy. A healthy account with Wal Mart or mass retailers of the time was key.

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Lord almighty... if I wasn't so swamped I'd redo that page for them.... Web design sure ain't they're strong point. The logo could use some work as well...

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Y'all have to be smokin crack through a pipe to believe this could compete with Mac or PC. This will be a niche machine at best...and maybee they'll get some embedded uses or  some industry will use it like some form of industrial PC or appliance.

At best we can hope that this becomes the leading RETRO PC or hobby project pc of choice (folks will potentially run Atari Falcon ,C64, Old Game Console, Amiga cores) and the Fast OS4.

Within that space I would expect thousands of units to be sold, if it really takes off... tens of thousands.

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Nice find. I'm liking this more and more.

Same here... Although I dunno if I'm going to get the A-Eon. From what I'm reading SAM is listed as the low end in the a-eon website so like others have mentioned we could see a motherboard cost alone that is up to double the cost of a SAM. $1000 for a fully functional configured system is all I spend (and it will have to blow my socks off). I'll spend more on a money on a system if it makes me money back for my business.

But for something that will for the most part be used for trips down memory lane and reliving retro games (until Siginificant OS4 releases come out) I can't justify $1000. I suspect that many others can't justify that either.

The hard reality Hyperion are going to face here is that current patterns effect future trends. The trend is for $300 netbooks, $150 consoles, and low cost machines. Big Desktops sales are down and all my buddies would only spend $1200 or more on a KICK ASS laptop or Desktop for a highly specialzed business purpose...or a MAC

But Hyperion know all this and will price the machine for Amiga Enthusiasts who are prepared to pay for this. I hope that this X1000 will spawn a X500 with expansion capabilities. I think Hyperion will realize this just like Commodore did when they released the A1000.

History repeats itself!

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@hazydave

Good to see you lurking and posting here, it gives a unique perspective.

Yep... God only knows how uniquely qualified he is to comment on the matter...

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Redrumola, your idea is good. Having OS4 running on macs is a good deal. G5's that were $1200 or more are now $275-$350 second hand. Then port AmigaOS to x86.

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Does this mean you're not gonna buy a x1000 system and develop useless demo programs for the XCore embedded processor?

guys.. even NewTek has a hard time convincing folks to use Lightwave these days in this AutoDesk 3dsMax - Maya dominated world.

I work in graphics... I can tell you. This is never going to get professional markets. If they win a military or government contract for some specialized task then great, but those machines are built to "military spec" (where's Doomy when you need him)

Guys, we're going to have an Amiga to (hopefully ) run classic apps and tinker with. That's the way it's gonna be for a long while unless somthing magic happens.

I think that machine or option should start at $300-500 and move up from there for the hardcore users. You know we kind of have ourselves to blame for this too in some small degree.. We all remember how we went bananas when Gateway proposed a move to X86...?

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HazyDAVE...

My comment  about military spec came from a young lady I know who is a project manager on the Hubble Space telescope. She told me that one of the Computers in the thing is a 1990's 486... not a chip from another supplier with equivalent CPU power... it's a 486..they had to go through so much engineering BS to get it approved and fabbed for aerospace use.  It's built to withstand the rigors of liftoff and whatever else happens up there.

Reagardless of all that am I crazy to believe that a FAST Amiga legacy compatible machine can be made using FPGA technology and come in under $300?

I mean go to deal extreme and you see Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis TV game units for like $30 bucks. Those consoles were more or less Amiga 500 like tech...

I think 99% of us here would pay $200-$250 for a NATAMI like device with an expansion bus for a faster CPU a la the A1200,  or Walker styled motherboard design.

AS for the potential high price.... This is happening because you can bet Acube and Hyperion  watch CVPPC cards go for $800 or more on EBAY and wonder well... if they're willing to pay that much for a 10 year old CPU card they can pay up to 2X that for a new system.

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Putting an Amiga clone chipset in the FPGA of the hardware the Atari Coldfire Project is producing could be interesting, but I doubt that will run under $300 when they're done.

THE ACP looks amazing. They managed to et the coldfire to work, that's impressive. If this was an Amiga product... $1000 price tag... yet this is a total Hobbyist product a la Minimig.

I think this is the MiniMIG 2/3.0 everyone's been thinking about.

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Ok... it' been almost 2 weeks since the puzzles. Any word out there on when more info will be dropped.
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A4 is ARM.

Pretty funny the Acorn Archimdes architecture now powers Apple products.