ljones wrote:
Um...I've been out of the amiga arena for quite some time now (though I do still use my old amigas, and have a copy of amithlon).
Welcome back
I was just wondering what the current state of the new amiga, the Amigaone is and OS4?
AmigaOne "EarlyBird" systems are shipping with Linux. they aren't really ready for "normal" users yet unless you're experienced with setting up Linux and good with computers in general.
The reason I ask is because all of the info on the net I read is quite confusing at times: I've read things about the amigaone being in trouble, then being ok;
I don't think AmigaOne has been in trouble. Amiga Inc has had some difficulties, but they have nothing to do with the AmigaOne.
People upset about their Amigaone boards
I think thats just people who bought them expecting them to work "out of the box" like their old Amigas.
rent not being paid
Yeah, Amiga Inc didn't pay the rent so their landlord evicted them from their offices and sold off their equipment to get back some of the money he was owed.
Genesi (who?)
Genesi is a company mainly composed of ex-Amiga hardware / software developers (including those behind the Phase 5 BlizzardPPC and CyberStormPPC cards, the G-Rex, CyberGraphX, and others) who sell a PPC Amiga-compatible machine called the Pegasos which runs MorphOS. It is in a very advanced stage of development, and the Pegasos 2 (with a 1Ghz G4, Gigabit ethernet, DDR memory) is due out in a few days.
It is very fast, works great, and is a fantastic machine.
Court cases.....all kinds of stuff from all kinds of amiga news websites.
Amiga Inc owe lots of people money. They're also being sued by Genesi for failing to fulfil their obligations under a contract they signed with them some time ago regarding AmigaDE.
But what is the *real* situation? I can read stuff on one site, and then something else on another site which says something completely different!
I think I can guess which site you mean
Best way is just to download and read the
court documents yourself.
Is the Amigaone alive, dead
Still alive and still being sold.
and what about OS4?
Still in development, but "nearly finished".
And are eyetech still making the boards?
Eyetech never made any boards they're just a retailer. the boards are designed by a company called Mai logic and Eyetech buy them in from the Far East and pay Amiga Inc a $50 license fee for each one to use the Amiga name.
I would like to buy an Amigaone but feel put off because of the confusing information, the thought that it won't work with my current hardware and lack of software 
.
It's a catch 22 situation. If people don't buy the boards then there won't be new software, but if there's no new software then people won't buy the boards...
It would be marvellous if I could replace my ageing Athlon 700 with an amigaone, but the amigaone would need to be able to do everything I do with my PC right now. (I do a lot of video capture with a Matrox G400TV card, and use Mandrake 9.1 on my main PC system).
If you're going to get one, then don't expect it to replace your PC (at least just yet). Get one as a second system (but wait until OS4 is out) and wait until the software base has increased a bit before getting rid of your PC.
And also take a look at the
Pegasos. It's significantly cheaper than the AmigaOne, very compatible with Amiga software, very fast there is a large amount of software in development (a great free software package is included called the SuperBundle), and has great potential and (in my opinion) a bright future.
