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Offline theformula

Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #104 on: September 18, 2008, 04:55:51 PM »
Anybody body know if u can dual boot so you have a choice of ubuntu and os 4.1?
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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #105 on: September 18, 2008, 05:01:59 PM »
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Anybody body know if u can dual boot so you have a choice of ubuntu and os 4.1?


Yes you can. Amiga OS 4.x's second level booter allows you to multi-boot. I do this on my Amigaone (my Linux install is kind of messed up though). UBoot also allows direct booting of Linux without the SLB.

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #106 on: September 18, 2008, 05:11:44 PM »
Yay thanks for confirming that hans. It ideal for me now only thing is the price but then I think how expensive amiga was back in the days and the price dont seem so bad.
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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #107 on: September 19, 2008, 01:09:51 AM »
Ouch that price hurts.
Didn't they read how our Stock Market is crashing?

No new Miggy for me and I have been waiting so long.
 

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #108 on: September 19, 2008, 01:42:21 AM »
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$800.00. !@#!@$$!^&

We really need some kind of bundle deal or something in the US. Our money is like no good anywhere. How about:

America's in the Crapper Super Sale (US loosers only):

SAM440 & AOS4.0 - $650.00

or

SAM440 & 512 MB RAM $650.00

 :-D  :idea:  :crazy:


Vesalia has a bundle sale for you.  Only $952.99 for a SAM440ep mobo plus OS4.1.  Then you still need a hard drive, optical drive (CD, or DVD), case, PSU, keyboard, mouse, and you will probably want a better graphics card with more GPU RAM than the onboard chip has.  So, a conservative estimate for a total system would probably be close to, or over $1,100 without a monitor.

If I had the money, I would seriously consider it, and hope that it does not have any of the troubles that the early A1 buyers suffered through, but that should not happen again as OS4.1 is much more mature now.

I know it is VERY expensive compared to what you get power wise, but AOS4.1 does not need the same power that a Windows computer needs.  Green is "IN" these days.  :-D

I don't like the price, but I really can't complain about it too much, because we have all been waiting and wanting a new Amiga, and this certainly qualifies, so I am not going to complain about the cost anymore (how's that for flipping 180 degrees in 24 hours).  :lol:
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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #109 on: September 19, 2008, 01:59:58 AM »
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Yay thanks for confirming that hans. It ideal for me now only thing is the price but then I think how expensive amiga was back in the days and the price dont seem so bad.



yea but back in the day there was software available.
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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #110 on: September 19, 2008, 02:06:36 AM »
Damn... And the Dollar exchange ratio just skyrocket these last few days...

I will have to wait some time more for a new Amiga
 

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #111 on: September 19, 2008, 02:14:31 AM »
Yea,

After looking at the prices on the Sam board and thinking about it for awhile, my Efika is looking more & more like a gem.

So far it runs just about every Amiga app I can throw at it and I can run PPC MorphOS stuff.

As a bonus I paid less then $150 for it and a Radeon 9250 w/ shipping included in that price!

I have yet to max out the 128mb of Ram either. I'm still using the 30 minute trial of MOS 2.1 but when I save up the cash I'll register it down the road.
 

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #112 on: September 19, 2008, 02:18:22 AM »
My advice for anyone interested in AmigaOS4.1 on the SAM is to buy the OS at least, as soon as it is available, just in case it is pulled from the market in a week, or a month, or 6 months, by A.Inc.

Then, if you don't have the money for a SAM board now, you can wait and hope that the price will come down, or the exchange rate for your currency will go up.

How many OS4.1 for SAM's will be sold, I wonder?
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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #113 on: September 19, 2008, 02:34:00 AM »
I agree somewhat with this Dave..

I will purchase OS4 perhaps two copies..I will hang on to all my Mac G4s in the hopes that one day OS4 will run on these machines.  

It makes so much sense to make OS 4 loadable/usable on these older Macs.
There are so many in the used market..its silly not to exploit this..Not to mention they are getting cheaper by the day

Coders start hackin..please !!!Who ever owns OS4 Wake TF UP!!


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My advice for anyone interested in AmigaOS4.1 on the SAM is to buy the OS at least, as soon as it is available, just in case it is pulled from the market in a week, or a month, or 6 months, by A.Inc.

Then, if you don't have the money for a SAM board now, you can wait and hope that the price will come down, or the exchange rate for your currency will go up.

How many OS4.1 for SAM's will be sold, I wonder?
 

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #114 on: September 21, 2008, 01:41:12 PM »
Serously guys, Here I was thinking I was bad, but Atleast starke is sticking to his word, and trying to order one, hopefully they havent run out of stock by the time they get to my emails.

remember, the days when starke kept the positive attitude, and everybody kept flaming him, well, did anyone stop to think, that he may have been onto something??

I mean, what he said, has happened, in a different way perhaps than planned.

Anyway some questions,
do you think they will restock or better said, get new stock of SAM440ep boards in, or do they only have the one batch??

AND

if they sold out of the motherboard 533mhz, that was selling for cheaper, how many did they sell in anyones opinion?? 50?? 100?? 200 before running out of stock on that item??

well, thats it, no flaming needed anymore, you negativity back then prooved successful, its just through sheer persevearance, that I managed to keep my faith from all the junk in here.

Cheers.

and Happy buying to those who can afford it.

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #115 on: September 21, 2008, 02:01:15 PM »
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BTW, do you really think that this is the only target hardware under development?


Yes.

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My expectation would be that Moana is being developed further as we discuss this.


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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #116 on: September 21, 2008, 02:26:42 PM »
@ humppa,

informative link, thanks.

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #117 on: September 21, 2008, 03:02:50 PM »
And how many people paid $599 USD in 1983 for a Commodore 64 ?

Or my $900 Radio Shack Model I in 1979?

The Sam is much less expensive in terms of computer performance ;it is looking expensive because the mass market IBM compatibles are so cheap.

Sam perhaps should be compared with Apple Computers as being a  niche market item..
 

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #118 on: September 21, 2008, 03:38:02 PM »
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humppa wrote:
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BTW, do you really think that this is the only target hardware under development?


Yes.


Suit yourself.

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My expectation would be that Moana is being developed further as we discuss this.


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Rogue (Quote): "There never was an "official" MacMini project. It is very unlikely there ever will be one."


What I read from this is that Hyperion never worked on a MacMini project, and probably won't. Just because ACube was working on their Moana project doesn't make it the "official" MacMini project.

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Re: Good News Is Here (OS 4.1&SAM440 amigakit.com)
« Reply #119 from previous page: September 21, 2008, 07:59:28 PM »
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do you think they will restock or better said, get new stock of SAM440ep boards in, or do they only have the one batch??


I think that they are getting new boards in stock within the next few weeks. And why do i think so? well because amigakit and vesalia are getting their boards within a few weeks.
I sure hope that i'm right this time   :-)
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