Amiga® Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 pending release

[System]

Wayne, I will let you sell your A1-G4 systems on my webpage free of any charge, but you will need to fill the orders.

[SlimJim]

> Just so you know, we're "lightly" considering
> forming a company to take AmigaOne boards and pop
> 1 Ghz G3's / G4's on them. Then we'd take'm, test'm
> and sell them personally configured for each customer
> in a Dell-type fashion. Any interest?

While it is good with new ideas and people willing
to take initiatives, It strikes me as somewhat
...naïve... to think that Eyetech wouldn't have done
this if it was echonomically viable (and as easy as just
'popping' on a new CPU).

 I like fast computers as much as the next man, but I
think this just makes one point come blatantly clear:
 No matter what AmigaInc (and lisencees) do, it will
NEVER be good enough for us.
.
SlimJim

[System]

While it is good with new ideas and people willing to take initiatives, It strikes me as somewhat
...naïve... to think that Eyetech wouldn't have done
this if it was echonomically viable (and as easy as just 'popping' on a new CPU).

There are a lot of things which haven't been considered.  First and foremost is that they're doing all this in England.  While I don't cast disparity against England at ALL, I  *might* be in a position which makes things available much cheaper than it costs to produce in England.  

All of this is unknown, which is why it's being "lightly considered" folks.  Keep it in context here.  I'm more than willing to invest a few bucks in an AmigaOne mobo, then solder off the chip and smack on a socket for testing..  I have absolutely no idea whether it will work or not, but I've got enough friends with EE degress and experience building motherboards for a living that I believe it's worth a shot.

.... And I never said it would be less expensive than the 600 soldered part but which would you rather do?  $550 for a 600mhz part, or a bit less for a socketed part you can put your own CPU in/on?

Naive?  Possibly, hell, more than probably, but then again it can't be any more naive than ahem...  building a company to continue a computer based on getting money from investors in an economy which was bound to hiccup.

[redrumloa]

So I wasn't the only one thinking about desoldering the
600Mhz CPU and replacing it with a faster one:-)

Wayne I'll say it again, if you can pull this off,
you have a decent business plan. Go for it!

[Chathurawind]

Hey there Wayne-

Were you thinking about overclocking an existing CPU to get your 1 Ghz?

[Seehund]

Wayne wrote:

Reason #1 -- Because if you do, you void the warranty for the DEVICE.

I think that the warranty issue only applies if you replace Linux with another OS like Tao's intent (there is no Amiga DE... yet). The Software Previously Known As Amiga DE Player (now AA) is just another Linux application as far as the Zaurus is concerned and it shouldn't affect your warranty.

[Seehund]

Wayne wrote:

There are a lot of things which haven't been considered. First and foremost is that they're doing all this in England.

No, they're doing all this in Taiwan. Besides, I reckon low volume production costs in the UK wouldn't be much worse than in the US (which is where I assume you'd be working on this).

Keep it in context here. I'm more than willing to invest a few bucks in an AmigaOne mobo, then solder off the chip and smack on a socket for testing..

A TeronCX from MAI without CPU for less than US$300 would be cheaper to experiment with. Also, it'd be interesting to investigate the degree of OS4 compatibility with these boards.

.... And I never said it would be less expensive than the 600 soldered part but which would you rather do? $550 for a 600mhz part, or a bit less for a socketed part you can put your own CPU in/on?

The latter. No doubt about it. OTOH, it might be cheaper to simply buy socketed boards from the manufacturer.

Naive? Possibly, hell, more than probably, but then again it can't be any more naive than ahem... building a company to continue a computer based on getting money from investors in an economy which was bound to hiccup.

Heh!

[AmiGod]

Were you thinking about overclocking an existing CPU to get your 1 Ghz?

Hi Anonymous Person,

I doubt Wayne would sell A1s with overclocked processors.  The 1 GHz G4 exists.  Check out the new PowerMacs as proof.  If Apple can do it without overclocking, so can Wayne.  It would just cost a bit more for the standard 1 GHz processor than it would for an overclocked 800 MHz processor.  Especially with Apple hogging the chip.

Although you do bring forth a valid discussion point.  I wonder what the overclocking limits on Eyetech's current batch of A1s will be.

AmiGod

[System]

Getting back to the original topic...

As an owner (and still user of an A4000), and an earlier purchaser of the AmigaDE SDK, and an IPAQ Pocket PC, I have been eagerly awaiting a player in some form for the IPAQ.

Well it's the 16th April and I still can't order this from the site.  This announcement has begun to appear on several PocketPC sites and people are commenting in the following ways:

1) OK where is it - the link is broke!
2) Why no demo version ?
3) It's Amiga in name only.

Point (2) is extremely valid.  I have tried and bought many PPC apps.  In every case there has always been a cut down version to try before buying.  Without a version to try, Amiga are gonna lose customers.  At the same time I can undesrtand the difficulty.  It would be easy to create a demo version of the games in the pack but what about the Amiga player itself ?  Any demo of the player would be open to a hack.

Piracy helped to kill Amiga products lets hope it doesn't kill AmigaAnywhere before it is anywhere.