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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« on: April 14, 2011, 09:28:37 AM »
Quote from: runequester;631567
Not interested in yet another thread of "PPC is dead" gibbering. We've all been there enough times.

What I am wondering about is.. what is the absolute earliest talk and from who, about amiga going powerPC ?

In other words.. where did it start? :)
Phase 5 started the first advertsiing of the power ppc design for the amiga 400 and 1200
I think was talk for the 2000 but never happened

I remember fondly looking at there adds for 030 040 060 boards and cool adds
Showing how fast in comparrsion to stock machines

Think amiga mags of the day amiga format etc ran storys on coldfire and power pc

many talked the talk but german phase 5 where ones that deliverd big time
unfortunaly they went broke in process maybe wasint good biz decsion at the time
But was awsome to own one and i did build quality was very good in my opion
seems european design  is very good esp these days and all built to high standred

am not sure was phase 5 idea but time was no commodroe to make forward plans
so feel on private companys to fund devolpment must cost alot was brillent design
to merge and have 2 seprate cpus diffrent design never had problems with mine
working toghter whould like to learn more on phase 5 design folks there names what doing know did they go help with pegeasas boards

ebox and another company did float there boards but weather down to not enough
market or the ran out design time who knows.

whould make intresting read was alot activty bit like there is today with x1000
sam flex and nat ami

go amiga sure been interesting journey
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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2011, 11:22:46 PM »
Quote from: AmigaHeretic;631575
It's kind of strange when Commodore was making x86 boards for Amiga's before PPC ever came along.   Amiga's real roots are more x86 than PPC.



Thats a spin you put on it amiga as in jay miner never went x 86
The commodore Brand may be loved by people but there biz plan sucked
mac also went to clones nearly killed them same with Commdore pcs i seen one
in shop looked yuk and sold poorly no one saw the point of it was just like ever other
Pc of the time hmmmmm reminds me of today
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Amiga 2000 020
Amiga 4000 030 25 mhz broken
Amiga x 4 1200
x 6 Sony Ps 3 Orginal 60 gb 4  port usb 160 gb hd (os 4.1 ready :-)
what can i say i like thse machines
x 3 XBOX 360 1x xbox 360 slim
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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2011, 11:26:07 PM »
Quote from: takemehomegrandma;631572
Overly simplified: It started with the guys that later brought us the Pegasos and MorphOS...

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they might been paid to work on software but was phase 5 that did funded the event
also warp up programs as well they where more system freindly but did love quake ppc that was power up
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Amiga 1200 020 14 mhz mbz 1200 z pcmcia network card 4 meg ram 2 Gb scandisk cf
Amiga 2000 020
Amiga 4000 030 25 mhz broken
Amiga x 4 1200
x 6 Sony Ps 3 Orginal 60 gb 4  port usb 160 gb hd (os 4.1 ready :-)
what can i say i like thse machines
x 3 XBOX 360 1x xbox 360 slim
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Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2011, 11:58:02 PM »
Quote from: runequester;631567
Not interested in yet another thread of "PPC is dead" gibbering. We've all been there enough times.

What I am wondering about is.. what is the absolute earliest talk and from who, about amiga going powerPC ?

In other words.. where did it start? :)
gee when read through amiga folks been blessed if your half glass full person look all good hardware of the years made me think getting a cheap cheerfull ppc card forget what its called still avaible i think it can run os 4 well orginal one anyway
Acthung baby
http://telnet://midnight-blue.dyndns.org
Cnet 4.60 PRO bbs software
Amiga 1200 020 14 mhz mbz 1200 z pcmcia network card 4 meg ram 2 Gb scandisk cf
Amiga 2000 020
Amiga 4000 030 25 mhz broken
Amiga x 4 1200
x 6 Sony Ps 3 Orginal 60 gb 4  port usb 160 gb hd (os 4.1 ready :-)
what can i say i like thse machines
x 3 XBOX 360 1x xbox 360 slim
url=http://avatars.jurko.net][/