What Hardware?

[Atheist]

D@n wrote:
Sigh!

And then I was thinking about OS4/AmigaOne as it is the official release and when it is finally released it will have a ton of software (I should imagine) written for it.

My strongest reason for picking AmigaOne is it's coded from the original source code and they have access to the original chipset designs. Although a few people have come out and said, access to the original chipsets is a useless argument, I totally disagree, because, if it's not, how come it's so difficult to emulate AGA on x86s??? Even OCS/ECS.

I also feel that the group they assembled have a good feel for the spirit of Amiga.

In addition to that
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Rogue
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 12:43 am

No, petunia is external. However, the interpeter emulator is integrated, that's about 17000 lines alone, plus things have been added. All in all, there is now about 34000 lines of assembler and about 70000 lines of C in the kernel, but then, this isn't just ExecSG but also the emulator and expansion.library, which also includes the PCI system.
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Rogue - ",,,,34778 lines of PowerPC assembly source...."

Lots of PPC assembler, woooohoooo!


AmigaOne! You'll fly like in those ms commercials!!!!


Disclaimer: I'm not employed in any capacity by the companies behind A1, nor do I sell HW/SW, I'm just biased!

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[bloodline]

Use a hard drive caddy and switch out operating systems, such as AROS! (thought I'd throw you a plug Bloodline)

Aye! It's freaky, almost like you can read my mind  :-D (or my profile :-P )

My strongest reason for picking AmigaOne is it's coded from the original source code and they have access to the original chipset designs. Although a few people have come out and said, access to the original chipsets is a useless argument, I totally disagree, because, if it's not, how come it's so difficult to emulate AGA on x86s??? Even OCS/ECS.

Hahaha, you make me laugh!!!! THe Chips set is difficult to emulate not for any other reason than timing. You have to make sure the Blitter cycle ends when the CPU is expcting to to end and the Copper will be at the right location when the blitter ends etc...
The actual emulation is easy.
If timing didn't matter you could emulate each chip using a spearate task/thread and then let them run indipendantly as this would be lighting fast, especially on SMP systems, but this wouldn;t work as everything would get out of synch, and fail big style.

No, they do not have access to the original Chipset designs, they have been lost/destroyed/locked away in a Gatway vault. (Note: Gateway own the rights to the Chipset not Amiga Inc.)

Also the original source code is useless, don't take my word for it ask Hyperion if they have actually used the any of the original source code.  :-o

[mindful]

Well, Matt has a god point there...

[xeron]

Does it matter is AmigaOS4 runs on a Pegasos or not?

It does to me. Having looked at the featurelists of both, OS4 looks more to my liking than MorphOS. Of course, you can't make a real, balanced, decision until both are out there... I chose to take a risk on OS4 (by ordering an AmigaONE), simply because it looks nicer to me than MOS, from the information at my disposal. And no, I have nothing against MOS, it looks very nice too. If MOS was on the AOne, i'd probably dual boot it with OS4.

MorphOS is out! And it got a 68k emulator.

OS4 has a 68k emulator, too.

AmigaOS4 is however not out, and it does not look as fancy as MorphOS does.

It looks pretty fancy to me. I'm assuming "fancy" means eye candy, and if so the only "fancy" thing that MOS has that OS4 lacks, that I can see, is a fancier icon system.

And MorphOS supports MUI!

So does OS4, and AROS (Zune).

I know what I want

Great! I know what I want, too. :-D

[Dr_Righteous]

bloodline wrote:
Aye! It's freaky, almost like you can read my mind  :-D (or my profile :-P )

GMTA  :-D