Pegasos/AmigaONE confusion.

[coldfish]

...I think many people in the PC world could learn a thing or two from Eyetech's hardware engineers.

LOL!

[odin]

@lando:
You're taking the piss right? :-).

If not....in what alternate reality do you live? (I mean....A1  at Dixons' stores? :crazy:).

[c64_d0c]

so you finally got the mac then... good choice
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MEDICAL CANNABIS

[kedawa]

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with my mac.
I've only been messing around with live distros so far, since I don't want to wipe OSX and I haven't gotten an external drive yet.

For now, I think I'll stick to the wait-and-see approach with the A1.
Hopefully by early '06 the price will be a bit easier to swallow and the OS will be ready.

BTW, Has anyone else had trouble with the ISO of the native i386 port of AROS?

I have an old K6-266 collecting dust in my apartment, and I figured I'd give AROS a try, but I can't get the ISO extracted on my mac.
EDIT: Nevermind, I just had a corrupt download.  It took me three attempts, but I finally got it.

[billchase]

Try these sites:

MorphOS info:
http://www.morphzone.org

Mostly OS4:
http://www.amigaworld.net
http://www.intuitionbase.com   (Already posted but just to make it easier to reference)

I am sure there are others, but this should help you find more  information.

C Snyder

[kedawa]

I actually poked around those sites before I revived this thread, but there just doesn't seem to be that much new info out there to begin with.
Most of the news I've found on MorphOS and OS4 is either speculation or technical info that just goes over my head.
I realize that it's going to take some time to wrap my head around things, but it's a bit baffling that neither OS has a dedicated, official website.

[tomazkid]

However, no kernels are adapted for Articia 'features' so on A1 you'll have to disable IDE UDMA - making Linux *very* slow.

Please tell that to my A1  :lol:

Ide works with the kernels at http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/ .
with either a fixed VIA ide-controller, or
(as in my machine, )with the Silicon Image 0680 ide-controller.

[tomazkid]

@kedawa
As allready said in the thread, if you want to run OS4, get an AmigaOne or the new Amy-board ( http://www.troikang.com ), that are about to go on sale soon.
If you want to run MorphOS, get Peg2.

If you primarily want to run Linux on PPC, on non Mac-hardware, get a Peg2, since the Peg has a lot better Linux-support than the AmigaOne has.

[kedawa]

Just based on specifications, I see no reason to choose the Amy over the micro.

Unless there's a significant difference in price, which there might be since I'm in Canada and not Europe, I don't see the advantage.

Being able to use vanilla SDRAM in the Amy is nice, but AFAIK, all eyetech boards ship with memory anyway, so it's a moot point.

On a side note, I've started messing around with AROS on an old x86 machine that I had laying around.
After the initial struggle to get the native port installed onto the HD, I'm having a blast with it, and I could see this thing keeping me busy until OS4 hits.

[billchase]

The Amy board uses a much better chipset than the A1 which makes up for the lack
features IMO.  The Amy should also be MUCH cheaper if their projected estimates
are correct ($400 vs $800-$900 for microA1).  The biggest problem for microA1 is
availability. For some it has been an act of God just to get one.

C Snyder

 

[Lando]

billchase wrote:
The Amy board uses a much better chipset than the A1 which makes up for the lack
features IMO.  The Amy should also be MUCH cheaper if their projected estimates
are correct ($400 vs $800-$900 for microA1).  The biggest problem for microA1 is
availability. For some it has been an act of God just to get one.

C Snyder

 

The projected price is actually £400, which is around $708.  But they haven't stated whether this includes OS4, or the $100-per-board "name tax / license fee" which Eyetech has to pay Amiga Inc on each board.  So it could go up quite a lot.

[kedawa]

Actually, someone from Troika posted on another site that they'd like to get the price to be around US$400, and that the £400 estimate is a sort of worst case scenario.
Hopefully having two different hardware vendors for the platform will drive down prices to the point that it'll be cheaper to build an Amiga than it would be to buy a Mac.

[billchase]

The projected price is actually £400, which is around $708.  But they haven't stated whether this includes OS4, or the $100-per-board "name tax / license fee" which Eyetech has to pay Amiga Inc on each board.  So it could go up quite a lot.

Look in the FAQ on their site.  It is more recent than the
comparison chart figures.

C Snyder

[tomazkid]

But they haven't stated whether this includes OS4, or the $100-per-board "name tax / license fee" which Eyetech has to pay Amiga Inc on each board.

Gurumeditation stated that the price includes OS4. :-)