Pegasos review thread volume II (The on topic thread)

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Calen wrote:
Does it have support for USB modems? (alcatel adsl)

Check with the Poseiden documentation, but I think "no" at this time.

Whats the power requirements to run a fully stocked board, 200 or 250 watt be enough?

I'm running mine on 125W, if that helps

Does it fit inside a Power Tower?

Depends on which model.  I believe there was a model that fit both an ATX and A1200 motherboard, so that model would work.  But if it's straight Amiga form factor, then no

Does it come shipped with 3d drivers for the newer video cards? or available to download

Not at this time, as they are still in beta

Can it run newer Amiga PPC titles like Heretic 2/shogo/Quake 2?

I've seen it run Quake2, and someone told me they had Shogo running.

How well do they run?

Q2 ran like a champ

Will it eventually have support (licence) for OS4?
If i read correctly having OS4 on the peggy 2 may be impossible?  (this may be aimed more at BBRV so apologies)

Up to Hyperion, as we have tried to discuss some kind of accomidation to no luck

While on paper the pegy /2 looks like a nice bit of h/w and something i would even look at, but no os4 would mean i will only have 1 New h/w of choice for the New amiga OS ex. Classic PPC Amiga's.
Having both the Amigaone and pegy for choice on the new Amiga OS opens up alot more sales for Genesi.

Have you given any thought to MorphOS?

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@JoannaK

My first time typing a responce on the Pegasos as well.  (I'm
downloading the apps I need in order to work, my PC died on Thursday,
poor old Athlon 500 couldn't take it any more)

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@bbrv

So far so good, been spending the past few days finding the most
optimum configuration of hardware, using the spare parts I have lying
around.  So far, gotten the best performance out of this:

Permedia 2, got 3% faster redraw than my Voodoo and 14% faster than my
S3.  Don't have a Radeon to test, but Linux liked my Rage128 quite
well (and it is an OF card, so got the system booted and configured
faster).

A 128MB stick (Samsung unregistered memory, of all things) and a 64MB
Viking ECC have given me the least amount of hastle.  (running just
one I kept having system reboots or shutdowns after an hour or so,
together I'm having no problems)

Conexant based TV tuner card, best thing since the VCR I feel.

external Zoom 56k modem, gets better performance under Miami than
Linux's integrated TCP stack.

Hard drive is where I keep getting hit hard, as I can't use the
largest HD, as that's got all of my data on it (don't want to rely
100% on the tape backups).  So I'm running a 4GB IBM and a 1.8GB
Western Digital.  (the WD is my old A1200's hard drive)

CD-ROM is a Phillips model. My CD-RW keeps powering-down during reads
for some unusual reason unless there is a second CD-ROM on the same
IDE channel.

ethernet is running fine, have a network between the Pegasos and my
in-laws PC (which has my tape backup SCSI drive attached to it at the
moment).  

Monitor is some no-name 15" that has been in constant use since the
early 90's.  

Other than some issues with Microdot-2, software has been a breeze.
(Thanks everyone that's pointed out some great apps to use)  I even
began porting some of the apps I've created over to MorphOS, to see
how well they'd do.