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Argo wrote:

Yeah. Like that old Teron board Alan Redhouse showed around when he was first talking of the A1. Basically, It was a prototype, a working one, that evetnually was modified to be the A1.

It looks to me like you're talking about the cancelled Escena/Eyetech "AmigaOne 1200", not a Teron board. Apart from the mini-ITX board discussed here, the A1 1200/4000 is the only hardware prototype/concept that's been shown or announced by Eyetech as an "AmigaOne".

All Terons have been sold as "AmigaOnes", luckily with no modifications to hardware. Although the first Teron CX mobos were not intended for commercial desktop usage so to speak, they were still not prototypes. And they were sold as "AmigaOne G3SE's".


OTOH, this mini-ITX board simply must be ready now, since it's already announced using the licensed "AmigaOne" trademark, right? I mean, just like the earliest Teron CX's, it must have passed through Amiga Inc's stringent quality and AmigaOS4 compatibility tests, right? Because it can't be that the "AmigaOne certification" is absolutely worthless to us consumers, that a former "hardware partner" of AInc has carte blanche rights to slap the name on whatever they can find, and that we could just as well be allowed to buy the exact same hardware on an open market, right? It just can't be.



P.S. @ Argo: It's annoying to have to switch to Threaded mode and open individual posts to find out just to which post or to whom you're replying. Could you please include an attribution/quote with your followups? Thanks!

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MarkTime wrote:

I've stated many times before, that you all should not post until I've posted, and then not post any reply to my post, since basically I'll say all that needs to be said.

Now everyone go home and stop disagreeing with me.

Have you considered applying for moderator privileges at another site?

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Hi Bodie_CI5

I'll be happy to clarify if you only told me what you find unclear.
IOW, what are YOU babbling on about?

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@Bodie_CI5

Ah, I guess it's just my non-native English and my run-on sentences that's messing things up again.

Anyway, there were no news in my post...

Basically, Argo said that Eyetech had shown an "AmigaOne" prototype before, and that was a Teron board.

The only "AmigaOnes" shown in prototype stage were the Escena "AmigaOne 1200/4000" and this new mini-ITX board.

The current "AmigaOne SE" and "PX" were never shown or sold as prototypes. Whatever Teron model that's been available at any given time has been sold as an "AmigaOne" straight off.

Clearer now?

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@Bodie_CI5

Once upon a time (officially until Nov. 2001) Eyetech were planning to sell an "AmigaOne 1200/4000", a custom design by Escena. This was before they had seen Mai Logic's Teron and before Hyperion had taken over development of AmigaOS4.

Here's a photo of the prototype. The project never went anywhere beyond this. Escena couldn't come up with a suitable northbridge chip, and it was also revealed that Amiga Inc had forgotten to mention that they hadn't even started on AmigaOS4. The Escena AmigaOne project was cancelled. This is how AInc's "on schedule and rocking" status announcement came to live in infamy, together with fleecy's eyewitness report on how incredibly fast the inexistent AmigaOS4 was running on the inexistent AmigaOne 1200.