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

[arnljot]

Seems like it's gonna be a dual core PPC motherboard with modern ports and slots. Wonder if it'll be DDR2 or DDR3 memory.

I also wonder what the X chipset is. Nothing I've heard so far seems likely, but I do find the transmuter theories interesting.

[arnljot]

Back in the period 95 to 00, people laughed at the price of prelude sound cards, picasso iv, cyberstorms, a1200s and a4000s. They were never cheap. It was the software and OS which made it worth it.

[arnljot]

It was the complete package that made it worth it, like the Mac does nowadays IMHO.

100% agree. It was a complete package.

[arnljot]

I think it's allowed to be critical. But some comments here is beyond critical, they are right out negative with no basis other than "I've been burned 10 years ago, never again".

I think this negativity and inability to move on is why the a-eon thread on aw.net is so much more active. People are tired of just bad wibes and unrealistic wishes.

To believe that Hyperion should be able to mount a "full scale attatck" on Dell, MS, Apple, Compaq and IBM by them selves and release a killer machine which costs less or equal to what Dell or Apple can sell... Well, we then can speculate on where the pipe is.

Amiga is about having fun. It's fun people and fun computing. With the community on amibay, and the recent buzz on aw.net we've seen it again. And I think that the Amiga X1000 is truely inspirering and exciting with the Xorro and XMOS.

I hope more people will catch on, and I'm glad to see that it hasn't been all nay-sayers here either! :-)

[arnljot]

Sure there are a lot of questions, and most of those you ask are good ones. But I think it'll all be answered in time. They've said it'll be out before summer.

- It's a full computer. Not only motherboard
- It will be sold with OS4.x installed
- I'll be sold with some harddrive obviously then
- Why would you expect floppy to be part of a modern computer, because Amiga classic had it? This is 3rd party perhiperal domain now. Ie Catweasel PCI or the like. Jens or someone else should provide decent OS4 drivers.
- It'll be cheaper than the A1000 was in it's time. That leaves a lot of room for speculation, should the price be adjusted for inflation since 1985??

[arnljot]

There are USB floppies, is there not? Perhaps ITFYAB? (It's Time For Yet Another Bounty?)

[arnljot]

It was a serious design flaw of the amiga that it wasn't shipped with an integrated tape cassette player...

[arnljot]

Neither of these work in Norway.

[arnljot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6bH8PpKSas :hammer:

+1

[arnljot]

In the end, before the bankrupcy in 94 it did not compete in price. At that time I was an Amiga user because "it just worked". A sales pitch that Apple have learned from main stream computer users that has a big appeal.

Most apple users would tell you if you ask them why they want it: "it just works, right out of the box". Now, that it's not entirely true is another thing, just like it was with my Amiga. But never the less, it feels like it for the most part.

Perhaps it wasn't Commodores fault that Amiga couldn't compete on price, perhaps it was Phase5, Village Tronic etc etc. But it still means that I paid more for my Amiga4000 setup than I would have for a comparable PC set up.

But I wouldn't have AmigaOS then. And I wanted to use Amiga hardware with Magellan II back then, still wants to :-) lol

[arnljot]

I'm expecting an Amiga that is $1000 to $1500 which performs like the lsat high end PPC Macs.

Other than that I want Hyperion to contunie to improve OS4, I don't care if AmigaOne X1000 is the last PPC amiga. What I care about is having PCIe, DDR2 ram (would like it to be DDR3 but that's not doable). There are more things I'd like to have, but you eat an elephant one bite at a time.

[arnljot]

Rogue says in the interview that Intel is the only real CPU alternative. But he also says that he's not talking for Hyperion and that it's not in the cards as they don't have the time or resources to do it. That's why it's not a topic for discussion.

For all Amiga Intel fans, they should put their energy into AROS for now. Not into nagging MOS or AOS4 devs.

[arnljot]

AmigaOS x86 was before my eyes all the time: AROS

Well spoken! AROS is actually quite good. Yes it doesn't run 68k, unlike MOS and AOS4 it doesn't have a 68k emmulator.

Some new ideas has to be brought into AROS, atm endianess limits stops the efforts to bring a 68k emmulator to AROS.

Perhaps mr Hayne can give the AROS devs ideas and inspiration to break out of the endianess haze... :-P

[arnljot]

*sticks fingers in ears*

So What do you think the chances of an amiga keyboard coming out are?

Slim to none :-)