Troika Website Launch

[drHirudo]

Hmm, since I couldnt get a license for A1 on the Pegasos I wonder how these people plan to or maybe even got it done?

Just because you aren't able to get license for A1 (That should be AOS) for the Pegasos, doesn't mean that nobody else shouldn't be able to get license for other hardware platform. As far as I know the Ariana board makers also had conversations with Amiga inc, but they refused since they didn't liked the terms. The could had it if they wanted to! With the Troika board makers this might be other case.

It sounds nice, but I would still rather see OS4 come to the Pegasos I and II first.

Are you working on this, or just want it anyway?

That site is a joke, it has no onfo and is just a simple one page announcement.

What about wait and see before posting negativism all around? I am sure if there was an announcement about a site with petition about port of AmigaOS 4 to the Pegasos, with just a simple one page announcement, you wouldn't have talked the same way.

 Sorry if this might cause flamewar but I can't stand the double standarts of some people.
 Moderator please edit out some of the lines if you see them inappropirate.

[Magic-Merl]

True or not the fact remains that the more AOS motherboards there are out the better it is for sales of software, hardware and increased future development.  If this is false then who cares we stay where we are for the time being.

If it's true, on the other hand, then there are now two companies marketing Amiga specic motherboards and pushing their sales forward - the competition will hopefully lower each others prices in the interim.

Lots of positive from where I'm sitting.  Ver Very little negativity.

[xeron]

Ian Stedman posted some more info on the board here:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=14912&forum=3&start=40&viewmode=flat&order=0

[mr_khyron]

:banana:  :banana:  :banana:

[Stedy]

@xeron

News travels fast.
I only posted that within the last hour!

To all, have a read of that article, it explains how  and why the design evolved.

[TheMagicM]

I wonder how 'low cost' this is.... will it be able to run Linux? (not interested in running anything else on it)

[mr_khyron]

Yes  ;-)

[InTheSand]

Looks promising... However, as other posters on the linked article have said, it really does need to be inexpensive - perhaps enough to be affordable to the expanded A1200 owner who just uses the machine for fun rather than serious work.

If it's cheap enough, and if either OS4 or MOS are ported to it, I'll get one! Hmm... lots of "ifs"!

 - Ali

[TheMagicM]

@mr_khyron: then count me in!!!   :-o

[SHADES]

@ Matt-H

My real concern is the mini ITX design.
What I want is an expandable cheap system.

Sure get rid of legacy stuff, but more PCI slots for expandability. Plug in USB, nic, sound etc. Also the lack of AGP is nasty. I will want to add a good graphics card that can do fast 3d etc for games I may want to play. Sorry, doesn't need to be PCI, was just an example as a cheap expandable bus design. I want the ability to plug in functionality if I need it or top up the speed in a CPU replacemet/upgrade.
so
1. Expandable system
2. good performance on the expansion (pci or express or something else)

I'll add the cards to my system to add functionality as I need them.

I'd love to see a cheap yet expandable mother board for a new AMIGA platform. This is just my desires however.

[billt]

> Does this mean that the AmigaOne is dead and the
> Pegasos really won the AmigaMarket ?

If Pegasos won, then why doesn't OS4 support it, and why would there be reason for Troika to do anything?? It's just yet another offering in the marketplace, not an indicator of anything between two other products.

[billt]

>Also the lack of AGP is nasty. I will want to add a
>good graphics card that can do fast 3d etc for
>games I may want to play.

Read up on the Olegil motherboard threads on AW.net where he talks about making a PCI to PCI-Express bridge riser card that should work in any PCI slot of any motherboard/classic bridge. That should let you plug in a pretty decent graphics card, even if it would limit you to conventional PCI speeds in Troika, AmigaOne or Peg, or whatever bottleneck limits classic Amiga PCI bridges.

[SHADES]

@billt

Yeah I see that, but I want the perfomance out of my system. The limitation in this would be flooding the PCI bus with data esp if it's video data. That's why the AGP design came into effect.
If I have firewire, fast graphics and a fast ethernet solution plugged in, the system would crawl because of the lack of system bandwith.

Just won't suit my needs.

[dammy]

If it's true (and I hope for OS4's sake, it is), who will want to order a Teron based A1 when they could wait to have this one?

Dammy

[Dr_Righteous]

While I will agree a full-sized board would be ideal, I appreciate that cost was a major factor in the design of this board. I'm far more receptive to a $100-200 board than I am to an $800 board... That kind of cash for a "toy" system is insane. Yeah, IF application support comes, and things pick up, then I'll be concerned with better graphics cards and expadability. Untill then, I'm all for a cheaper solution.

Perhaps my faith is being restored in OS4... Hmm...

[T_Bone]

No Mai!  :-)