AOS4 & Amigaone

[HammerD]

@Tigger

Your facts surrounding the flaws of the A1 are out-dated.  Sure, there were problems and there _are_ problems with some of the earlier AmigaONE XE and SE's.  But since a year now when the MicroA1 "C" version of the AmigaONE started shipping, there are no hardware problems that prevent the advertised operation of the board.

Every motherboard, chipset, and cpu have errata.  Most of these are worked around in firmware or software.  That is exactly the case with the MicroA1 "C" version.  It works as advertised with USB/DMA/IDE/Video, etc.  

So, update your facts.  Since the last year the only shipping AmigaONE's (new ones) have been MicroA1 "C" versions, which, as far as the end user is concerned, work without [hardware] problems of the earlier (might I add: developer pre-release) boards.  

The fact that no new boards are available and the price is rather high is a separate issue.

[HammerD]

@ Tigger

Sorry, I have owned a microA1 "C" now for a year and don't have any of these problems you are describing.  I think you should get your facts straight before continuing to make yourself look like someone who doesn't really know what they are talking about.

Do you even own a microA1 "C" version and do you have hard data to backup your claims of these "problems"?

I'm not saying there aren't problems with chips.  The MAI chip does work a bit differently than one would expect but this does not mean it is "flawed".  This is how it was designed.  You can argue whether or not that was a poor design decision or not, but the bottom line for the end user is that if they purchase a microA1 "C" production version all advertised features will work for OS4.  That includes onboard graphics, sound, UDMA-100, DMA Ethernet, USB, etc etc.

If you choose to believe (and again I'd like to see your hard data) that there are existing, under the current version of OS4, these problems you mention, that is your own judgement.  But back it up with proof otherwise you're just trolling.

@thread

Don't let Tigger scare you.  The microA1 "C" hardware features _do_ indeed work with OS4. USB/DMA/IDE/Ethernet/on-board graphics/sound, etc...