GGSData got the A1XE mobos today!!! (Datakompaniet to have them early next week!!!)

[Helgis75]

Yes, that's right! I got a mail from Gunne Steen early this morning, and he told me he got his A1XEs into his shop, and have already contacted Datakompaniet to bring a bunch of these boards! I will have mine pretty soon! What a great news! :-)

[Karlos]

He he,

How'd I know this was going to be Helgis? :-D

Congrats BTW!

[odin]

Finally your optimism is rewarded :-).

[filson]

Nice one. be waiting to see them in The Netherlands.

[olegil]

filson wrote:
Nice one. be waiting to see them in The Netherlands.

Hopefully not the boards that has now reached Sweden, though. But the rest of the boards should be on the way from the far east by now, afaik...

@Helgis:
Good luck with your board. I hope you've checked out the linux page at http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/, the hardware page at amigarulez and that you don't run back to mommy crying about Linux being a bad kid after less than an hour
 :-P  :-P

Nah, I guess you'll be allright :-)

[amigamad]

I hope eyetech send mine soon. :-D

[Agafaster]

3 guesses who's gannin oot on tha p1ss tonight !
(but will be teetotal when theyve done 'Deliverin the goods'!)

NB: any typos, errors, or in your face opinionisms are the result of all these leaving do's I've been attending of late, and should be taken as such... ! :pint: :pint: :pint: :-P

[Wilse]

@Helgis:

Nice one. Looks like you're almost there.....

:pint:

[filson]

@olegil

well personally I don't care much for the boards that aren't currently headding towards Holland  :-D But I am happy that they are shipping in the first place.

BTW: anyone know why VIA was chosen for the southbridge? VIA doesn't have the best reputation for good PCI/IDE I/O. And they aren't the cheapest ones either.

[Eric_Z]

My guess is that they where the only ones willing to deliver
products  "good" enough and  in the small quantitys
 that Eyetech requested.

[Kronos]

Eyetech had nothing to do with that ...

AFAIK the VIA-ones are the easiest to connect to an "odd" NB, and
thats why Mai choose an rather old VIA-one for the eval-board
which was later replaced with a somewhat newer but pin-compatible
versiojn in the retail version of the mobo (aka A1).

Even the Pegasos use a VIA-SB, only one that was a bit newer and
orginally intended to be used in laptops (thats why there is so
much onboard stuff).

Getting information on how to use these chips (HW&SW) was also
very important.

[bloodline]

filson wrote:

BTW: anyone know why VIA was chosen for the southbridge? VIA doesn't have the best reputation for good PCI/IDE I/O. And they aren't the cheapest ones either.

The VIA south bridge is actually a really good peice of kit, it's well tested/proven, has lots of features, it's well documented and it's very cheap.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that one sits on a PCI bus and not some strange custom bus, which makes it easy to include in a non standard project like the A1

[Helgis75]

Hi folks! Thank you so much for the great feedbacks! It was a happy tear to my eyes when i got these happy mails! All the 8 years in darkness, and now i'm into the light! God, i'm so relived!

Now it's gonna be a lot of great fun! By the way, i also read that Lucasarts are going to release the third Jedi Knight game by autumn this year. It's called Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!!!! How about porting this game to AmigaOS 4? Yeah, that would be so cool!  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D

[Wilse]

By the way, i also read that Lucasarts are going to release the third Jedi Knight game by autumn this year. It's called Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!!!! How about porting this game to AmigaOS 4? Yeah, that would be so cool!            

Don't hold your breath on that one........

[filson]

@bloodline

I'm not going to rant on you, bloodline, since you were so nice to wake me up from the amiga time machine thread  :-D
but it is a known fact that VIAs southbridges contain "undocumented" features that some PC mobo makers like Abit use, that create a slight speed increase but will cause data corruption on the IDE channels if used in combo with e.g Soundblaster Audigy/Live.

After waisting more than 150 hours on debugging this problem I don't buy VIA any more.

And some basic pci transfer testing will show that Intel delivers the closest to the pci max, 110MB/s, then SiS, ALi and last VIA at 67MB/s

I have all the faith that the new Amigas are going to be a blast and that Ainc. wont make any stupid stunts so this probably wont be an issue anyhow.