People upgrading or updating for OS4 ?

[Elwood]

Hi,

This is intended for people that followes (or plans to follow) the OS4 way.

Just to know, what will you do ? :
- keep your Cyberstorm PPC card on your Amiga and buy AmigaOS4
- buy an AmigaOne + OS4

Thanks.

[Bodie]

I'm going for the A1 approach. Although the idea of upgrading my A1200 with PPC is nice , that approach is too expensive from my position. Then again your question was largely aimed at users who currently own classic PPC amigas.


 

[Kay]

I'm buying an AmigaOne, which will be my main system once OS4 is up and running on it. I will keep my A1200 for older games, at least until someone develops a good AGA emulation layer for OS4. Probably, I will downgrade it somewhat (removing the BlizzardPPC, for example:-)).

Perhaps you should ask this over at Amigaworld, I think there are more of us OS4 people there.

Kay

[voxel]

Hi :-)

I'm already using a CyberstormPPC in my A4000D, planning to buy an AmigaOneXE G4 (the biggest one available) and owner of tree $50 coupons ;-)

So I will buy AmigaOS 4 for CyberStorm AND for my (soon to be mine) AOne :-D

Amigalement,

Jean-François Bachelet,  Amiga ONLY since 1985.
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That config : Amiga 4060D-PPC, CyberstormPPC 233, CyberVisionPPC 8Mb, 150Mb Fast, 2Mb Chip ;-) AmigaOS 3.9 BB3,  Blizkick v1.24rc5, MMULib v43.6, Exec.library v44.1b4, Highway USB, X-Surf I, HyperCOM IIIZ, Repulse SoundCard, 10 Gb IDE HD, 4.5Gb UltraWide SCSI HD and outside the box : 2x 2Gb SCSI II HDs, 1x 4.5Gb FastSCSI III HD, Iomega Zip 100 internal SCSI, Plextor UltraPleX 40 max FastSCSI III CDRom, Plextor PleXWriter 12/4/32 FastSCSI III CDWriter, SyQuest SyJet 1.5Gb Cartridges SCSI HD all in a neat small SCSI tower, ADSL Internet :-) Epson GT5000 // flatbed scanner, Canon BJC620 BubbleJet printer. Pfffew ;-) (others 22 AMIGA configs on demand :-D ).

[ikir]

If i can, i'll buy a SharkG4.

Probably i will an AmigaONE user.

[Ryu]

with a bit of luck I will be keeping my classic PPC amiga and getting an A1 which will run OS4. I havent decided on OS4 for my classic yet, it all depends on my financial situation when OS4 launches, if I dont have much money it will have to be classic OS4. But I would much prefer an A1+OS4 :-). I look forward to having Mork (A1) and Mindy (1200 PPC) running next to each other :-)

[jumpship]

I will be using OS4 on my A1200 BlizzardPPC until next year. After which I will be getting the biggest A1 (A2 perhaps :lol:). Having said that, Alan was on about an A1-Lite, now depending on what it turns out to be, the size and the cost of it, I may get it b4 if it is cheaper then current models.

At most I'll be getting some more RAM for the A1200, if i can find it 2 sticks of 128Mb, but prob have to settle for 2 sticks of 64Mb.

[sTix]

I will go for both of them (A1+C.PPC),

I hope to get fairly cheap (?) CyberstormPPC
once people start upgrading, but maybe most
people will keep their classic ppc's, I know
I would....  

[duesi]

I don't wanna buy a PPC for my 4000.
so I will order an Aone with OS4 (when available)

I also think the Boards will getting cheaper than today...

[amigamad]

ive preordered an a1 g4 xe but i do also have an a1200 with blizard ppc 200mhz so i could try both out.
 :-)

[Darth_X]

I'm going to wait until AmigaOS4 is completed and hopefully be able to buy an official boxed copy of it and potentially run it on a Pegasos II based system. :-D

[Elwood]

Was it supposed to be fun ?

[SlimJim]

Not having PPC nor gfx-card in my A4000@060 (and it being
notoriously flakey when least expected), I'll get an AOne G4-XE.
 
I'll happily run Linux on it until AOS4 comes out. I have
waited this long - I'll be damned if I gave it up now when
there is actually weeks between the news items rather
than months... :-)
.
SlimJim

[AmiGod]

Hi Elwood,

My A1-G4 is already pre-ordered, and I'm looking forward to getting it.  Whenever that'll be.  I'll still be keeping my A4kT around until all the software I require runs properly on the A1.  Then it's going to become an mp3/image server for the A1 and PowerBook.

AmiGod

[Darth_X]

I'll happily run Linux on it until AOS4 comes out.

Which may be fine for a power user as yourself, but it doesn't compare to the Amiga A1200 experience. Plug-in, turn on.. boot up. You don't even need a hard drive (though its nicer with one). And software runs off floppy. Wouldn't a modern system with bootable CD-ROMs have similar functionality? :-D

For myself, I prefer to NOT touch Linux at all. I'm NO fan of Linux. (Of ALL the operating systems Linus had to copy.. he had to choose to make a UNIX clone when he really should have developed an AmigaOS clone. Oh well..)


Anyway, several years ago I preordered a Cyberstorm PPC accelerator card (Paid around $1500 for it & $400 for the 060 CPU).

It worked nicely, however, there was no software that supported the PPC, so I eventually sold it (then like 2 months after I sold it software for PPC appeared! Go figure!).