Review of Coder's Free Pre-April II Pegasos Board

[Coder]

I have done a review about my Free Pre-April II Pegasos Board. It’s not an in-depth review about the Pegasos or MorphOS but more a description about the time receiving it and having it running. It can be found here.

"On Friday July the 11th my Free Pre-April II Pegasos Board arrived. FedEx was already at my apartment the day before but we were on the bus on our way back from a short holiday. When we were on the bus we noticed a missed call on the mobile and usually we never call back. But this time (phew!) we did. It turned out to be FedEx which had a package from France."

[Wilse]

Nice review Coder.

I did the same as you, re. taking my Amiga One out of the case and
sticking this Pegasos in it.

Haven't gotten around to installing linux on it yet.

Who knows, maybe I never will. ;-)

[redfox]

Coder

Thanks for sharing your experience with us.  This was a very interesting review.

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redfox

[JoannaK]

It's a nice start to interesting story. Please let us hear more of
this later.

[sdesros]

@Wilse:
I take it you have a fully working Pegasos now?

@Coder:
Great!

Hmm... I need a new case for my Pegasos.  Most of my PCI cards won't fit through the backplane.  :-(

[KennyR]

Another satisfied customer. ;-)

[Warface]

Nice beginnings! Give us more! :-)

[Wilse]

@sdesros:

I don't know if I'd call it "fully working", in as much as there's
still loads I need to do to it but it's a sight more working than
the last one. ;-)

Much like the A1, when you first get it going, it's operational but
not fully meeting your needs. The difference for me is that working on
getting it there is *SO* much nicer in an amiga-like environment than
in Linux.

Once I get PSA installed, I'll be getting closer to what I want. At
least I hope so. :-P

[amigamad]

Nice review maybe you can get some pictures of it running online. :-)

[Floid]

Hey Coder...

...Can I borrow your G3SE until OS4's released?   :-D

[Atheist]

Hahahahahahahaahhaahahhaahha!!!!!

1. "copy cd0: dh0: all"
2. "copy env:sys/def_disk.info dh0:"
3. "copy dh0:boot.img bi0: move"

Compare this to windows!!!!!!
Hahahahahahahaahhaahahhaahha!!!!!

That's the Amiga way, all right!
Congratulations MorphOS guys! You've put the richest company in the world to shame!
What's that take, about 6 minutes? Hehe.

If the alternative wasn't available, I'd get a PegasOS!

[Coder]

Hi,

Thnx for the nice comments everyone. I will come up with more and also some pictures of my setup.

As for the A1, that one is really in my closet. Don't worry, it's packed very well. You see, I could buy a new case and all for the Peg but since I tried it this way I will keep it. When OS4 is out then I will buy a new case and all the others so that I have 2 machines running. Now I can only run Linux on my A1 and that I can do on my Peg too. But I am to busy working with MorphOS to give it a try.

The idea behind the review was just to give you all an idea how the whole Free peg proces went. And it went Superb. I think it's not under NDA or so, but there was one guy who got one that did not work and he will get a new one. It's not like, hey it's free so don't complain.

In the past I really did not like Pegasos/MOS. Even said it on some posts I think. But you can only judge it, once you tried it. But then again, everybody has a different taste of things. :-)

Coder

[sdesros]

@Wilse
I understand.   You'll never really be finished tweaking your setup...  Always new toys to try.  :-D

[KennyR]

Atheist wrote:
What's that take, about 6 minutes? Hehe.

Less. :-)

(And you'll only have to do it once.)

[MarkTime]

wow, that's really cool coder.

Well, one thing I will point out, it was a great advantage that you had an AmigaONE, and
thus you already had memory that would work
in this board.

It is very finicky on memory.  I tried 6 or 7 different
sticks of memory, even ones that were supposed
to work, before giving up and returning my
Pegasos.

nope, that was enough aggravation for me, but
its still a great thing they are doing giving away
boards.'

*edit*
btw, I hope no one takes it as unwarranted criticism.
They are, in fact, finicky on memory, both the
AmigaONE and Pegasos...the peg I and amigaone
share a chipset, after all, future versions that will
not be true and we'll have to see which one is better.  I suspect the Peg II, but time will tell.

Also, despite any criticism I will give on other matters, this whole developer program is a wonderful idea...I wish them well.