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Re: How will Hyperion continue the momentum?
« on: January 10, 2010, 02:24:45 PM »
I don't imagine there's any valid reason - other than lack of a developer support - why modern Mac's can't play the gamut of PC games. It's the same hardware nowadays.
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Re: How will Hyperion continue the momentum?
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2010, 05:39:22 PM »
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Bah. How about sorting out the legal issues and releasing Amithlon boxes running OS3.x instead?
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Re: How will Hyperion continue the momentum?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2010, 10:38:18 AM »
Quote from: Hell Labs;537587
Intel atom board for £67
PPC G3 500mhz £31.15
DDR2 2GB £51.69 (ddr2 is going up in price, it's OLD)
Mini atx case £30
500GB SATA £40
dvdrw pata £25
Keyboard and mouse £8
AmigaOS 4.1 £108.30
Total price: £361.14 Pound Sterling.

A weak ppc (but not by much), I know, but there are faster ones out there and at any rate, they can MAKE a ppc card if they want to for less than an entire motherboard. That's MUCH cheaper than a SAM setup from amigakit, with twice the ram too. I've even totaled in a keyboard and mouse like amigakit do. Hell, a SAM motherboard ALONE costs more than this! Go Go Gadget Hyperion.


The performance will be less than stellar if the PPC only has PCI speed access into the rest of the system, especially to the RAM.
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Re: How will Hyperion continue the momentum?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2010, 10:11:36 PM »
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Why? AmigaOS 4.x doesnt need anything that NATAMI offers, and why would NATAMI waste time on fitting PPC when they just aim for OS3.x?

I think you totally missed what NATAMI is about.


It might be fun to support WarpOS at least. I don't know what sort of connectivity the machine is supposed to have but if it has PCI then I suppose one of those Sonnet cards could be used if an appropriate WarpOS module could be implemented for it.

In truth, however, I think the project is suffering from enough feature creep as it is.
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Re: How will Hyperion continue the momentum?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 12:46:58 AM »
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What? It's about the only reason to put a PPC in a machine entirely conceived as an m68k one (and as you well know, "fun" means context-switch-tastic applications). I didn't mean to imply it would actually be sensible, let alone feasible ;)
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Re: How will Hyperion continue the momentum?
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2010, 11:27:05 PM »
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The LAST thing we need is another "Linux" powered OS. What is the last count? 4 to 6  million different "flavours" of linux? Because no body can decide on ONE. Lets face it, if you love linux -fine, but many people despise linux and are physically repulsed by people who insist on bashing it into us every single chance they can get. Its worse than some religious zealots who go door to door.

Why do people insist on being lazy and use some form of linux instead of making a whole new OS? This just leads to more Crappy Linux distributions. If you guys want linux to finally take out Windows, PERFECT ONE, ONE Linux, but to have billions of crappy linux distros, and then try to port a nice Amiga band-aid over to it, is not  the answer.
Programmers that use linux have no imagination or skill what so ever, they are just building and trying to get credit for other people' hard work. You want to impress me then make a new OS from the ground up.

Yes, I am an Anti- Apple fanboy, but I can put up with the Apple fanboys. Its the Linux Zealots that make my blood boil. For they can't even decide on one distro, but have to fight over millions, and they don't realize that their fancy distro won't work on anyone elses hardware, but their own. It makes me sick.


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There is pretty much only one linux. Distributions vary but that's basically which package manager, window manager and default packages are included out of the box. Distros are just various groups ideas of what should be put together for a default installation.

At work, we use fedora, at home I use ubuntu. There are a few differences in how certain things work but nothing too drastic. If you've used one linux distro, you can pretty much use any other. There may be millions, but if you aren't comfortable with that, pick a big, well-supported one.
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