AmigaOne to be demo'd THIS Sunday for first time in Australia!

[System]

The Australian debut of the AmigaOne, the final hardware, will be demonstrated this Sunday in Sydney, Australia. So come along and check it out at ....

AmigaOne Australian Debut
  You're invited!

Sydney Amiga User Group and Anything Amiga (www.anythingamiga.com.au) present, the AmigaOne Australian Debut.

Want to be one of the first in Australia to get a look at the new AmigaOne ...................

Well come along...
SAUG Website

DATE: Sunday October 20th
TIME: 2pm
LOCATION: Epping Community Centre, (School of Arts building), 9 Oxford Street, Epping NSW.
If your Sydney based or close enough to get there then see the following.

This coming Sunday the Sydney Amiga User Group in conjunction with user group member Ross Vumbaca and AnythingAmiga will debut the new AmigaOne.

So come along and see the first new Amiga hardware in many years ............ and join SAUG while your there.
For more information on the Sydney Amiga User Group please visit: http://welcome.to/SAUG.

For those that can't make it a full run down on the event will be posted on the net via our website as soon as possible after the days activities in both text and mpeg video format.

So if you can make it we will see you all there this coming Sunday !!!!

If not we will post links to where you can see it on the net. !!

[tonyw]

Excellent  :-D  I'll bring my camera and chequebook.

tony

[newbee]

AARRRGGGHHHH...........................

So close and yet so far....

It's killing me

Regards
Darren

[System]

great but will they show linux on it or os4?

[System]

Considering that, to the best of my knowledge, work has not even yet begun porting OS4 to the AmigaOne hardware, my money is on Linux.

[yssing]

Uhh yet another Linux Demo, This is really worth it all..

Give us the f****** OS 4.0 NOW

[strobe]

I wouldn't expect to see AOS4 running on new hardware until 2004, if at all. The only public demonstrations of any new non-Linux related software have been AOS3 with a few elements which will part of AOS4 running on a A4000.

I mean cripes it wasn't long ago that they bragged that exec was native. Woop de do!

You can get a similar experience by running Linux on a slow PC and then crashing your Amiga by pouring iron filings on the motherboard. This is really pathetic, I feel sorry for the people who have to display this stuff.

I just read a report from the "Finnish Amiga User Group 2002 meeting held in Oulu, Finland on September 28th, 2002" and the ReadMe.txt said:

vuosi2002_11.jpg: AmigaOneG3-SE motherboard, sadly missing a working BIOS.
Deliveries should start by Christmas.

vuosi2002_12.jpg: AmigaOne-XE prototype, which refused to boot. The user
group will demonstrate a working AmigaOne at a later date.

vuosi2002_13.jpg: Pegasos setup all ready to rock. Notice the gracefully
placed microphone used for Shoutcast streaming.

I mean crap, they didn't even get to demo Linux on the boards! The cards were displayed like pieces of art while the Pegasos was doing all kinds of cool things on new hardware.

It's embarassing!

[strobe]

By the way when they say "Deliveries should start by Christmas" that only referres to the AmigaOne hardware with the G3 soldered on the motherboard. It doesn't refer to AmigaOS 4, it doesn't rever to AmigaOneXL, and it doesn't refer to a bright future for this platform.

We have yet to see AmigaOS 4 proper, even running on 68k Amiga hardware. Even when we do I very much doubt the libraries will be PPC native. Even when all that is done we won't be any closer to seeing AOS4 on new hardware.

All I ask is nobody be duped into buying this hardware thinking this will bring them any closer to AOS4 running on new hardware. I'm counting the days before somebody suggests doing just this.

What a bummer.

[tonyw]

Your optimistic outlook is out of touch with the reports of those developers that actually have these boards. It seems to be the attitude "if I[/u] haven't seen it, then it doesn't exist."

If I order one now, I will at least get a new mobo to play with, and an OS that can support development. I don't care that I can't run AOS4 on it yet. I can at least play with boot loaders, device drivers and all the other development that has to be done to bring the new hardware up to the level of the 68k platform.

Besides, the DE runs on the Linux platform - sooner or later it has to be ported to the PPC. I remember years ago when this Kommunity consisted of people who were prepared to "'ave a go".

The more of us that start doing something, instead of just whingeing, the better.

tony

[yssing]

There are a lot of us actually doing something.
But if we don't get any new OS or Mobo, then I personally will stick to whom ever delivers.
ATM it seems as if the Peggy with MOS is the way to go.
At least they deliver, as far as I can tell.

[strobe]

1) You can't develop AOS4 drivers on Linux. You can mess around with bootloaders and develop Open Firmware drivers if you want. But then again you could do that now with an Apple or Sun machine, or a Pegasos. Plus they will run OS X, Solaris, or MorphOS respectively.

I dont care about Linux. If I did I could run it on one of my PCs or one of my Macs. This isn't a selling point.

2) DE is not Amiga. I mean what's next, is Amiga Inc. going to repackage horsemeat and call it AmigaFood™? It doesn't even share the API!

[olegil]

WHAT'S THIS ABOUT OPEN FIRMWARE? THERE IS NO FRIGGING OPEN FIRMWARE ON THE AMIGAONE. We use PPCBoot instead, with x86 emulator for graphics card initializing.

For your information, the reason the SE didn't have firmware is because the firmware hadn't been shipped.

And the XE ran Debian GNU/Linux the week before in Gothenburg  (same motherboard, my harddrive).

My god, the amount of plain wrong info you see every day here is just unbelievable. I guess spreading FUD really works, since so many don't bother to CHECK THEIR GOD DAMN FACTS BEFORE POSTING.

And why the frell would you "develop Open Firmware drivers" anyway? _YOU_ don't develop OF drivers, the card manufacturer does. And then he puts it into the flash on the card and allows you to use it under OF. Not so with PPCBoot.

[Rodney]

Its just an X86 board, with a PPC. I'd see if it i wernt 6 hours away. I would if OS4 was going to be demoed or if it was going to be a really big event. But then again, its this sunday, not much notice.

[Coder]

I can understand that people do not feel much for seeing Linux run on the A1. It's of interest for people that are looking for a machine to run Linux on. But most people want it for OS4. But for that we have to wait. And yes, Pegasos/MOS can be bought. Well the beta program. It's tempting but I want A1/OS4.

Let's wait for some months. I know I said it some months ago too. And before that too. And... well next year I am sure we will have it.

Coder

[zacman]

>We use PPCBoot instead, with x86 emulator for
>graphics card initializing.

You say this as this would be something special.