what the hell is an amiga one?

[rednova]

Hi all:

Forgive my ignorance, but:
what the hell is an amiga one?
I am a few months new to this forum, so I do not know what the A1 is, I just saw it mentioned here -I was away from amiga world for years-.
Is not it just a pc clone with amiga emulation software?
Pls explain!!!

rednova
-mobilis in mobile-

[Crom00]

It was an ill fated attempt to get the Amiga a POWER PC based motherboard to run os4 and beyond. A number of them were produced but a final version of Amiga 0s4 was never released.

Finally OS4 gets released.... but only for Amigas with phase 5 PPC Turboboards. Yes, you read correctly...

For whatever reasons current boards like the Sam440 or Efika are not allowed to run OS4.

 The boarsd are no longer made and there is little hope of getting anymore PowePC based Amigas. But you never know, things can turn around.. Or not...

Such is the pace of the Amiga...

if you're ever sick in bed with a laptop and hours to kill, I suggest you google it and find the colorful story online.

[adolescent]

@crom00

OS4 final was released for the A1 long before the classic version was.

[redrumloa]

The AmigaOne SE, AmigaOneXE and uA1 were all Teron reference boards re-branded by having a boing sticker slapped on it and the price marked up ~300%. After much disinformation by certain individuals and companies, much infighting occurred in the community for a long time over the reliability and performance of these boards.

History has proved these boards to be of very poor quality by most accounts. I personally would strongly recommend you avoid buying a 2nd hand board.

-edit-

Re-worded to sound less inflammatory.

[downix]

Saddest thing is, I have a 1GB RAM stick that works in the A1...

any takers?  

[TheGoose]

LMAO.

That is a mighty fine question.

[redfox]

@rednova

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOne

I own a MicroA1-C with IBM PPC 750GX CPU and 256MB of RAM.

Currently running AmigaOS 4.0 July 2007 Update (the last public update for A1 users).

The MicroA1-C has onboard Radeon 7000 graphics, onboard audio, onboard ethernet port, onboard IDE disk drive interfaces, onboard USB, onboard serial port, onboard parallel port and one PCI expansion slot.  I use a P/S2 keyboard and P/S2 mouse.

I would have to agree with redrumloa.  There are lots of users who have encountered untold grief and difficulties with their boards and consider the boards to be total crap.

However, I was one of the lucky ones, who had a usable system right from the start.

Of course, I've had my share of issues with old software, software bugs, config issues, issues burning CD-RW discs, and random glitches with USB mass storage devices.  Most of these problems have been solved and my system is very stable now.  Some of the problems were bugs that were weeded out with newer releases.  On the other hand, my issues with burning CD-RW discs appear to be related to my LiteON combo drive.  Through trial and error, I discovered it writes more successfully if I use high speed CD-RW discs or high speed CD-R discs.

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redfox

[AMC258]

Onboard onboard onboard.  Therein lies the death of any expandable computer.  Get all that obsoletable stuff OFFboard and now your expandable computer is more future-proof.
Without OS4, even OCS, ECS, and AGA can be a serious burden to those of us with graphic cards!

I had hoped to get a still working A1 for my girlfriend so she could run OS4, since she had so many problems with UAE a la eXPee.  Well, now she has a A2000/060/50, which is just fine.  Too bad it's turned off 90% of the time and not rendering 24/7! (yet ;-) )

[tokyoracer]

I'd say it's a PC pretending to be an Amiga but I will get plenty of abuse for saying that... =/

[Slash]

@redrumloa

Completely agree, they have bugger all to do with an Amiga, they must be the worst put together piece of crap I've ever encountered and should be avoided at all costs.

AmigaOne = CRAP!

[B00tDisk]

redrumloa wrote:
The AmigaOne SE, AmigaOneXE and uA1 were all Teron reference boards re-branded by having a boing sticker slapped on it and the price marked up ~300%. After much disinformation by certain individuals and companies, much infighting occurred in the community for a long time over the reliability and performance of these boards.

History has proved these boards to be among the worst, if not the worst consumer product of all time. Avoid these 2nd hand boards at all costs, total garbage.

Dude I have some Cyrix based packard bell P1 clones I'd like to show you...!  

 :-o

[rkauer]

B00tDisk wrote:

Dude I have some Cyrix based packard bell P1 clones I'd like to show you...!  

 :-o

 I had a Compaq Presario with a M2 too! :destroy:

[persia]

Not allowed? Is there some sort of OS4 Fairy that stops them?

Crom00 wrote:

For whatever reasons current boards like the Sam440 or Efika are not allowed to run OS4.

[redfox]

@persia

Sam440 and Efika are not licensed to use OS4.

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redfox

[redrumloa]

B00tDisk wrote:
Dude I have some Cyrix based packard bell P1 clones I'd like to show you...!  

 :-o

 :lol:

Oh yeah, Packard Bell was bad back then!! But really, I still think the AmigaOne takes the crown.