been a while since i have posted so let me re-introduce myself. i'm basically an old 8bit burnout from user/programming/custom interfacing standpoint having cut my teeth on pet machines then doing the c64. exciting times back then. my amiga experience was with a stock 500 machine in the mid 90's. was user of this machine, never programmed it. went on computing hiatus and returned to commodore as hobbyist several years ago. still have same c64 i used in early 80's and it still works along with a majority of floppies and even cassettes. have a 128 that i am about to utilize for greenhouse environmental control purposes. have modernized 3000 seeing most use. so this is me. i follow amiga happenings a lot. bad as it sounds, my best amiga user experience is currently uae (sorry but for what i do on amiga this is easier than maintaining my 3000 machine and also portable on my laptop too.) run the 3000 because i wanted to modernize an original machine. will never do this again due to cost vs returns. play with the other post amiga systems (never os4) but settling on none. so guess i still have my head in the 68k sand. tried many linuxes and unixes but never like them as 'home' computers. simply do not have the time to become expert at too many things. i guess i am commodore loyal from pre-amiga days. i like amiga because of good usable applications simply not available in any goodness on other platforms (scala). am starting to use for creating interactive infant/early childhood learning programs. not my working profession, have a youngster that i am trying to teach at home. also like amiga because of the long term loyalty of hardware/software developers and many users. a long introduction...sorry.
new x1000 board better than others before it and also obviously behind x86 stuff. spent some time reading xmos papers today. neat little devices for hacking and interfacing. this is a good thing in my opinion. problem is mainboard due to be very expensive to get this hacking/interfacing ability. specifics unclear but seems to link up through pci-ex 8lane. wouldn't mind having one of these chips for some alternative energy projects i am working on. i see os4 people having a slightly better time of it in the next year. user base real small but increasing a little here and there. x1000 probably a high end developers machine or well to do hobbyist machine. still, i'm glad for community that there is something new. it looks like hyperion is going for it in a sense and i wish them well. looks like a lot will be happening on os side of things this year as well. so maybe board not for everyone, but at least it is something to continue with. if anything os should improve. maybe one day porting to smaller/cheaper devices would be viable. until then i say carry on. there are lots of camps to choose from. many people in more than one, as I am. although i can say that i will be retiring from one of them. i can't say if i will jump into os4 yet. being a user, it depends on software availability. os4 getting there so maybe?
cheers.
