my AO G4XE will arrive beginning April 2003 :-)

[Atheist]

Yes, it is expensive, but from memory, I spent

Can  UKP
2000 = 857 1989  A2000 1 meg chip, 1 floppy, + 6% tax
500 = 214 1989 1084 monitor (not the 1084S, that was $50 more) +6% tax
300=128 1990 GVP Series II impact SCSI ram card, no tax
560 = 240 1990 8 * 1 meg SIMMs 80 ns, no tax
905 = 388 1990 Fujitsu 180 Meg SCSI HD, incl. tax

Totals
4440 Can = 1902 UKP

Amiga was ALWAYS too expensive. They could have AT LEAST put SIMM sockets on the A500, A600, A2000, and A1200 motherboards, but THEY WERE CROOKS!!!! (Reference is to Commodore BM)

I would still like to get the Megachip 2000 (at least $150) and an accelerator ($1200 Can + ram). Cripes!
And that, a 60Mhz 060 and a 604 (@240MHz?)!!!!

Then, I'm still using AOS 1.3.3!!! I'd like to get the 3.0 and a rom switcher, and AOS 3.5 or 3.9.

Then, I still don't get to see the beauty of AGA. Maybe, one day I'll find one still for sale at Soft(ware)Hut.

So, if I end up spending a bit much for an AmigaOne, I still spent more before. I'm shooting for the 1.3 GHz. I've put a partial pre-payment on an A1XE 800, so that they at least hold on to One for me. My plan is to put in 2 Gigs, and a RAID card (I want the fastest boot time possible :-D). I'm even going to try it, with booting off of a Compact Flash card, that ought to SHOCK the guy putting it together for me :-D :-D :-D Hahahaha!!

I wish they would just go ahead and make the OCS/ECS/AGA emulator. Pick the Back 2 the Roots poll if you are interested.

AmigaOne! "Whatever, whenever wherever", I just prefer, "Everything"!!!!!  :-D

[Atheist]

carls wrote:
£800... I don't think that's CHEAP.

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I can understand that the manufacturing costs for the A1 is higher than your average PC MoBo but I feel that if the Amiga is going to have chance the prices need to be more competitive.

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True, too true, but we're also paying for the R&D. If Eyetech made 25,000 or more boards, the price could probably be half of that.

I look at it 3 ways,

1. I HAVE to have an OS that thinks like I do, allows ME to call the shots, and *I* understand.

2. When and where else will some one/corp CUSTOM build something for YOU; WE'RE SPECIAL!!!!

3. They risked ALOT for a noisy crowd, so we better keep OUR, no I will only speak for myself, MY end of  end of the bargain!!

Don't forget, here in Canada the full version of xp, home edition, is 343.50 Can=147 UKP, by itself.

AmigaOne! Built JUST FOR ME!!!!  (I used the rest of you for leverage! :-P  :-P )

[Atheist]

I just checked at Cloanto.com.

I didn't know they have "limited" AGA support in "Amiga Forever".

It still would be preferable to make an emu based on Hyperions, built in address space code support.

Ack, forgot about needing a Catweasel for A1.

AmigaOne! Amiga Always!

[Atheist]

Kronos wrote:
@Atheist

"SIMM-Sockets" ?
What kind of sockets are you talking about ?
Before 1989 everybody was using DRAM in DIL-packs, just
like the ones soldered onto the OCS-mobos.
Than there was ZIP-packs (used in the A3k) and SIPPs (used
on some Z2-cards), but try to find some of those today.
Later came the first 8(9) bit SIMMS, followed by PS/2 (FP or EDO)
and now DIMMs (SDR or DDR).

Well, maybe not the A500 and the A2000, it would have cost alot to redesign them. But the CD32, A600, A3000, and A1200 could have had them. I have 8 SIMM sockets on a GVP Impact Series II SCSI card, which I bought in 1990. And a friend of mine bought a 33 MHz 386 in May 1990 that supported, I believe, upto 32 Megs in SIMM sockets on the MB.

AmigaOne! 2 Gigs, BABY!!!! :-D  :-D