AmigaOne to be demo'd THIS Sunday for first time in Australia!

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I wouldn't expect to see AOS4 running on new hardware until 2004, if at all. The only public demonstrations of any new non-Linux related software have been AOS3 with a few elements which will part of AOS4 running on a A4000.

I mean cripes it wasn't long ago that they bragged that exec was native. Woop de do!

You can get a similar experience by running Linux on a slow PC and then crashing your Amiga by pouring iron filings on the motherboard. This is really pathetic, I feel sorry for the people who have to display this stuff.

I just read a report from the "Finnish Amiga User Group 2002 meeting held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002" and the ReadMe.txt said:

vuosi2002_11.jpg: AmigaOneG3-SE motherboard, sadly missing a working BIOS.
Deliveries should start by Christmas.

vuosi2002_12.jpg: AmigaOne-XE prototype, which refused to boot. The user
group will demonstrate a working AmigaOne at a later date.

vuosi2002_13.jpg: Pegasos setup all ready to rock. Notice the gracefully
placed microphone used for Shoutcast streaming.

I mean crap, they didn't even get to demo Linux on the boards! The cards were displayed like pieces of art while the Pegasos was doing all kinds of cool things on new hardware.

It's embarassing!

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By the way when they say "Deliveries should start by Christmas" that only referres to the AmigaOne hardware with the G3 soldered on the motherboard. It doesn't refer to AmigaOS 4, it doesn't rever to AmigaOneXL, and it doesn't refer to a bright future for this platform.

We have yet to see AmigaOS 4 proper, even running on 68k Amiga hardware. Even when we do I very much doubt the libraries will be PPC native. Even when all that is done we won't be any closer to seeing AOS4 on new hardware.

All I ask is nobody be duped into buying this hardware thinking this will bring them any closer to AOS4 running on new hardware. I'm counting the days before somebody suggests doing just this.

What a bummer.

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1) You can't develop AOS4 drivers on Linux. You can mess around with bootloaders and develop Open Firmware drivers if you want. But then again you could do that now with an Apple or Sun machine, or a Pegasos. Plus they will run OS X, Solaris, or MorphOS respectively.

I dont care about Linux. If I did I could run it on one of my PCs or one of my Macs. This isn't a selling point.

2) DE is not Amiga. I mean what's next, is Amiga Inc. going to repackage horsemeat and call it AmigaFood™? It doesn't even share the API!