Where could I get a microA1 ?

[AmiDude]

Email him and ask about if he's got it in stock or not.
You'll never know... :roll:
  :-)

[Varthall]

humppa wrote:
Thanks to Hyperion, we will have OS4. Wow, the A1 that Eyetech sold to you is actually working? Must be a great company then, it doesn't matter not having any warranty for highly overpriced hardware.  :lol:

My A1 is working, too.

Varthall

[The_Editor]

So is Mine

[LawlessPPC]

Nice Jump Leads

[Colin_Camper]

Apart from second-hand the ONLY A1 I know of for sale is an XE complete system at Stellar Dreams.

Contrary to what people have said here (I thought the same myself!) Eyetech is busy with new A1 hardware. I don't know when this will ship.

ACK was meant to be shipping the PowerVixxen next month.

I don't know about Troika.

As for the children calling Eyetech names - What have you done for the Amiga lately?  :crazy:

[Savan]

Eyetech is busy with new A1 hardware. I don't know when this will ship.

We have been hearing this crap for months, why not provide actual proof? oh and tell redhouse to answer the phone and check his e-mails aswell, people have been trying to contact him for months.

As for the children calling Eyetech names

What was said was FACT. redhouse sold "known" faulty boards and when he found that out he decided not to honor the boards warranty. He is a dishonst and a dirty buisness man.

Only in Amigaland can a company spit in their customers faces and get thanks for doing so.

What have you done for the Amiga lately?

Piss all after the death of Amithlon.

[Tigger]

Colin_Camper wrote:

Contrary to what people have said here (I thought the same myself!) Eyetech is busy with new A1 hardware. I don't know when this will ship.

Where did you get that info Colin, enquiring minds want to know.

As for the children calling Eyetech names - What have you done for the Amiga lately?  :crazy:

Delivered the Open Source Video Toaster, which has a much bigger installed base then say the Amiga One.   Open sourced a bunch of my amiga video software to help the effort, offered to make fully working firewire ports for an OS4 port to the powermac, since I've already done it for another OS.
    -Bill

[Wilse]

@Tig:

I wanna know how Colin knows this too.


I appear to have fried the cpu in my A1, after 2 years sterling
service.
Never realised how much I'd miss it - typing this on my Pegasos1.

That eleven hundred quid system Sven is selling actually looked quite
tempting until I remembered I don't have anything like that kind of
dosh just now.

OS4 on the Peg2 is my preferred route, although I appreciate that
isn't likely to happen any time soon.

[uncharted]

Oh buggery bollocks,  I wrote a reply to Lando about Eyetech while at Uni, but it doesn't seem to have submitted.

Anyway, basically I said that Eyetech were never a 'little computer shop',  they were an industrial and commercial systems company.  They happened to use Amigas in some of thier systems (CD32s and A1200s IIRC) and opened a sideline in computer retail.

The A1 was supposed to be their way of replacing the Amiga systems they used.  Unfortunately it seems they got in way over thier heads.

If you want a better info, the omnipresent Don Cox is the guy to ask, he wrote an article for AA about Eyetech (Half about Eyetech themselves, half review of one of thier Amiga based systems)

[Tigger]

Wilse wrote:
@Tig:

I wanna know how Colin knows this too.

I appear to have fried the cpu in my A1, after 2 years sterling
service.

Which A1 board, which CPU do you have and are you sure its the CPU on the cpu board and not something around it??  I'm just asking because if you've blown something little, I could probably fix it for you here, if you dont have other options.

OS4 on the Peg2 is my preferred route, although I appreciate that isn't likely to happen any time soon.

It would solve so many issues with OS4 now, I just wish they would bite the bullet and go for it.
    -Tig

[Wilse]

@Tig:

It's an A1XE, 800mHz G4 (750x I think).
I'm not sure it's the CPU at all.
Is there a definitive way to test
this?

Cheers for the offer, BTW.

[Tomas]

You need to get it second hand these days.... I suggest maybe asking the same question at amigaworld.net, as most amigaone users hang out there.

There are companies that are claiming to be making new boards, and hyperion has verified that they are in talks with some certain hardware manufactors. But there is no word on eta, so i would not hold my breath just yet.

[xeron]

@Wilse

Have you tried replacing the clock battery? The A1 won't boot with a dead battery for some reason..

[Colin_Camper]

@Savan

What was said was FACT. redhouse sold "known" faulty boards and when he found that out he decided not to honor the boards warranty. He is a dishonst and a dirty buisness man.

If you met Alan, you would find him a really genuine, decent guy.

Well the SE was a mess. But to be fair it was sold as a Beta development system AND these owners were very much encouraged to upgrade to XE (at some cost to Eyetech if I remember.
The XE's have had issues that are all surmountable - most XE owners are happy with them. I only hear people complain and {bleep} about A1 and Eyetech when they don't own one and have no intention.
The uA1 (I bought one of these) - I heard there is an obscure issue with DMA - handled by OS4. I never had any problems with my board.

Are you seriously suggesting that Eyetech or any company in this tiny, fragmented market can offer the same after sales support that IBM, Apple or HP do?
Also, if you had an HP or Apple out of warranty - do you believe community people would offer a turn round repair service for owners all over the world?

@Tigger

Delivered the Open Source Video Toaster, which has a much bigger installed base then say the Amiga One.

My question wasn't really aimed at you  :-D

Where did you get that info Colin, enquiring minds want to know.

Right, well if you haven't dropped in at Amigaworld.net the place has been buzzing like crazy!  :-D
It kicked off with an interview with the Freidens just after christmas - and since then we have had bbrv, Dave Haynie, the guy from OSNews amongst others, DEBATING in multiple posts (15+) running to 20-40 pages with very little flaming and trolling. It's been great -  haven't had so much fun since the Garry Hare business card real/fake brewhar!  :-)

Anyway, in one of these threads;

Amigaworld: Organising correspondance with Eyetech

>Anonymous   
>   Re: Organising correspondance with Eyetech
>Posted on 25-Feb-2005 17:02:04       [ # ]
>   
>@RedMelons
>
>Quote:
>
>RedMelons wrote:
>Does anybody know whether Eyetech are still in the Amiga >business?
>
>
>Me
>
>And believe me, when Eyetech quit the Amiga business I'll >be among the first to know.
>Everyone's finding Alan hard to get hold of these days, >including his wife. Without wanting to go into details, >he's apparently currently doing the job of two, if not >three, people at the moment, trying to get the A1 into the >industrial market and preparing for the next generation of >A1s, liaising with Hyperion and MAI, trying to keep dealers >supplied, eat, etc etc
>
>There's an incredible amount of fiddly detail involved in >the A1/OS4 project, and even if some of the dealers are >doing our best to take some of it off his hands, he's still >horrendously busy.

>I know it's stressful when you haven't had any fresh news >for a while, but bear with us. In most cases it means we're >working bloody hard.

I also heard in another thread that the ACK PowerVixxens are  soon (next month at latest) to be shipped to dealers and that the product range will include CPU modules for A1's at reasonable prices.

[Lando]

@Colin_Camper

>Anonymous   
>   Re: Organising correspondance with Eyetech
>Posted on 25-Feb-2005 17:02:04       [ # ]
>   
>@RedMelons
>
>Quote:
>
>RedMelons wrote:
>Does anybody know whether Eyetech are still in the Amiga >business?
>
>
>Me
>
>And believe me, when Eyetech quit the Amiga business I'll >be among the first to know.
>Everyone's finding Alan hard to get hold of these days, >including his wife. Without wanting to go into details, >he's apparently currently doing the job of two, if not >three, people at the moment, trying to get the A1 into the >industrial market and preparing for the next generation of >A1s, liaising with Hyperion and MAI, trying to keep dealers >supplied, eat, etc etc
>
>There's an incredible amount of fiddly detail involved in >the A1/OS4 project, and even if some of the dealers are >doing our best to take some of it off his hands, he's still >horrendously busy.

>I know it's stressful when you haven't had any fresh news >for a while, but bear with us. In most cases it means we're >working bloody hard.

Well, that covers the situation a year ago.  I don't really see the relevance here today though.

Given that we've still heard nothing from Eyetech and that Mai haven't been heard from or updated their web site for nigh on 2 years apart from to hastily slap on an old backup from archive.org so that there was at least something there when it was deleted early last year...  

I think Eyetech and Mai are both about as alive as Amiga Inc is.  Which is to say 'not very'.

I also heard in another thread that the ACK PowerVixxens are  soon (next month at latest) to be shipped to dealers and that the product range will include CPU modules for A1's at reasonable prices.

That would be good news.  But, I heard in a thread back in 2004 that the ACK boards would be available Q1 2005.

I think the ratio of things that I read in threads to things which actually happened must be about 20 to 1.

[Colin_Camper]

I think the ratio of things that I read in threads to things which actually happened must be about 20 to 1.

Yes, I agree. I felt pretty much the same way after the Hyperion IRC session. I think that's why bbrv struck such a chord with the openpeg thread - something tangible as opposed to something vapourous!  :-)

But there is a lot of buzz and activity happening at the moment. People who normally post, too busy. People who are not known for hype or exaggeration hinting at things about to happen soon.

Let's hope so.  :-)