Review of Coder's Free Pre-April II Pegasos Board

[MarkTime]

wow, that's really cool coder.

Well, one thing I will point out, it was a great advantage that you had an AmigaONE, and
thus you already had memory that would work
in this board.

It is very finicky on memory.  I tried 6 or 7 different
sticks of memory, even ones that were supposed
to work, before giving up and returning my
Pegasos.

nope, that was enough aggravation for me, but
its still a great thing they are doing giving away
boards.'

*edit*
btw, I hope no one takes it as unwarranted criticism.
They are, in fact, finicky on memory, both the
AmigaONE and Pegasos...the peg I and amigaone
share a chipset, after all, future versions that will
not be true and we'll have to see which one is better.  I suspect the Peg II, but time will tell.

Also, despite any criticism I will give on other matters, this whole developer program is a wonderful idea...I wish them well.

[JoannaK]

Marktime: Those Pre-april boards (given as freebies) were damn
sensisive to memory types. I surely hope that any future systems don't
have this kind of hassle in them. Or if they do, manufacturers of the
system must start deliverim tested Dimm modules alongside boards.

Biggest problem with 'tested' memory-types is that most people don't
remember to write down (or check) chip types from simm modules. Same
simm module may be manufactured with different Ram chips. Brands are
not compatible nor are all manufaturing lots 100% identical. On normal
well.behaving memory controller this ain't usually much of an problem.

Anyhow.. it's hopefully soon becoming history.

[KennyR]

Marktime wrote:
*edit*
btw, I hope no one takes it as unwarranted criticism.
They are, in fact, finicky on memory, both the
AmigaONE and Pegasos...the peg I and amigaone
share a chipset, after all, future versions that will
not be true and we'll have to see which one is better. I suspect the Peg II, but time will tell.

No, on the contrary your criticism is well placed. The Pegasos-1 is indeed choosy with memory - too choosy. It would have been one of the biggest problems with the board had it ever gone into mass production. I just bought a memory stick from kdh and it worked perfect first time, but I know a great number of people who weren't so lucky.

[DethKnight]

couldn't they just send the 80-wire cables with the product?

[Coder]

@DethKnight

couldn't they just send the 80-wire cables with the product?

One could say yes but not in this case. It's a free board with no shipping costs and a free t-shirt. Who am I to complain about the cable? :-)

Coder

[greenboy]

These were swapped-out, pre-used Pegasos boards that Genesi was originally going to sell for (if memory serves) 49 euros (or was it 99?). Anyway. I talked BBRV into letting me GIVE them away - WITHOUT any associated shipping costs. And I actually only started with 10 and managed to incrementally extend that to over 40.

Maybe I should have tried for cables, cases, and harddrives too, but it might not have been in Genesi's best interests ;  }

I've remarked elsewhere that Coder (and others with similar smarts and drive) is exactly the reason I wanted to make these free. Coder, you RULE!

[Coder]

Greenboy,

Coder, you RULE!

Well thank you! So do you. It seems I do not rule here in the house since I have to take out the trash. Small world. :-P

Anyway, I don't want to be picky but your the one to blame that my A1 is in the closet. :-P

Coder