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Offline utri007

Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« on: April 14, 2011, 01:33:58 PM »
I've two PPC computers, first on cost me about 250€ 3 years ago, it has only 160gb hd and ram is limited to 256, second is better it has 384 ram and 500gb hd, price was 120€

Both have usb/lan, first one has d-sub, second have DVI and wlan

OS used is linux, you can buy one from every home electronic store.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2011, 11:29:13 AM »
A500 when it arriver was a economy choise for people, in that time computer with HD was about 2-3 times more expensive.

Lets not forget that. Its all about software, NOT hardware.

There are plenty of PPC based computers, in every electronic store, at least here in Europe. You can get about 150€ computer, with lan, usb, dvi/scart and probably with WLAN. OS they uses is Linux. CPU is from 350mHz to 1000mHz, ram is 128mb to 512mb

Those computer are cleverly disguised to Digital TV set top boxes. ;) About 50% them are actually PPC based computer Linux inside. I call them computer, because they have all the needed connectors, usb, hdmi/dvi/lan etc They are digitv boxes only because the way OS is installed and configured.

"cleverly disguised", about that here is nice joke about it :D

http://www.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=84
« Last Edit: April 16, 2011, 11:33:44 AM by utri007 »
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD
 

Offline utri007

Re: So where did the PPC amiga thing come from?
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2011, 12:41:42 PM »
What would be minium requirements that A OS could competitor in mainstream market. That just in theory.

Hardware could be something like 600mHz, with cpu caches  and with proper drivers. Video coding done by GPU.

Software needed is office suite, with possibility to use and save MIcrosoft office docs. Modern Web brwser, with suppor media streaming, working youtube etc.

Versatile selection of games, sport, driving, fps, rts etc, maybe couple of games for childrens.

All that could done with reletively cheap Digi TV box, wich has PPC cpu and other needed parts. Price less than 200€

Lack of latest graphical triks would be possible bypass with talented graphic designers. Like in old days, there are amazingly good looking games with 32 colors in 320x200 screen.
ACube Sam 440ep Flex 800mhz, 1gb ram and 240gb hd and OS4.1FE
A1200 Micronic tower, OS3.9, Apollo 060 66mhz, xPert Merlin, Delfina Lite and Micronic Scandy, 500Gb hd, 66mb ram, DVD-burner and WLAN.
A1200 desktop, OS3.9, Blizzard 060 66mhz, 66mb ram, Ide Fix Express with 160Gb HD and WLAN
A500 OS2.1, GVP+HD8 with 4mb ram, 1mb chip ram and 4gb HD
Commodore CDTV KS3.1, 1mb chip, 4mb fast ram and IDE HD