New Hyperion Entertainment Website http://a-eon.com/ - The Mystery Continues

[Minuous]

Hyperion and Acube never contributed to the many vapourware products abound in Amiga land..

Until now. Which makes it all the more disappointing.

I get the impression it's a new Amiga. Which is what the AmigaOne, SAM or whatever etc. are. I don't see what the fuss is all about, people who want a new Amiga can already buy one.

[motorollin]

It's a computer we're making, not just a motherboard

This is getting exciting now!

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moto

[Crom00]

"Yes, it's high-end hardware. No, it doesn't have the number of cores you are thinking of. Whatever number you are thinking of. At least, not necessarily."


This is silly... just do a splash page with details and an actual ship date, price details... etc. I hope in six months I can look back at this and chuckle with this new piece of hardware on my desk.

[arnljot]

From the text I get that the last update is tomo, and that what they can reveal will be revealed.

So lets see if any bright heads can beat them to it :-)

[arnljot]

This is getting exciting now!

For my part, it's been exciting for quite a while :-)

[Nlandas]

Update today:

You must be a little curious.

We are too.

You see, is an unknown. Even we don't fully know what entails.

We know some of the things it means.

We know it means eceptional. Remember when Amiga hardware was eceptional, not just the OS? You won't need to remember much longer. Nemo brings Amiga back to the high-end.

It also means etra. This is where it gets hard to eplain. Let's start with custom chips. Amiga lead the way, everyone else followed. Got a graphics card? Custom chips are standard now. Amiga hardware used to be special, did things other computers couldn't.

That's why also stands for etraordinary, because that time is coming again. Nemo's 'custom chip' takes the idea a little further.

Even we don't know entirely what to epect of it. Which is the whole point. We're not going to tell you what it does, you're going to tell us. You see, the possibilities are endless.

Ecited yet?

[motorollin]

For my part, it's been exciting for quite a while :-)

Yes, but even more so now If it's any good, then fk it - it's going on the credit card. I've gone without for the past 3 years while I've been studying, so I deserve a treat

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moto

[dammy]

you know NOTHING about Sam440 sales, so please refrain to spread fud. Thanks

They sure didn't sell tens or hundreds of thousands of units, now did they.  I'd be shocked if they sold in the four digits for total units.

[fishy_fiz]

My guess is heading towads "X" allowing some way to add additional processors in some sort of flexible manner.

[Turambar]

The "Xorro" slot seems to be an HTX/HTX3 connector.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport for details.

[dougal]

Why is the Sam being mentioned in this thread?

The Sam is an over-priced under-powered waste of money motherboard which is slower and more underpowered than 10 year old pc's. The only reason they actual managed to sell a few is because of OS4 because if it were not for that they would have all ended up in the dustbin where they belong.

This new Hyperion computer sounds very very interesting, a whole computer, an Amiga. Lets wait and see what they come up with.

[Everblue]

That was..... harsh

Anyway my concern with the new "Amiga" is.... if the underpowered/overpriced Sam440 costed more than 800 Euro for a complete system. How much is this new thing which is gonna be uberspecced going to cost? 1500 Euro or more?

[persia]

Yeah, we'll wait and see, I guess, if they can deliver anything close to Mac performance at a Mac price they've done something that hasn't been done in two decades, but we'll see.
Hopefully it's not another 64 Mb graphics and sub 1 GHz processor at a thousand Euros, that would just start people laughing....

[Everblue]

In today's market, computer makers dont only compete to make computers better, but also cheaper. So I hope Hyperion will be following that too...

Another thing is that an OS, no matter how powerful the hardware it runs on is, is useless without good software. And with good software I mean commercial software, not linux ports.

[chiark]

In today's market, computer makers dont only compete to make computers better, but also cheaper. So I hope Hyperion will be following that too...
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I personally hope Hyperion don't compete on price: they can't.  And neither did the Amiga.  They can compete on value though.  The A1000 was hugely expensive...  The next machine, "for the masses", was expensive compared to other "home" computers such as Spectrums or 64s.

Let's see what Hyperion have come up with, understand what it costs and then work out if it's worth it.  They're not daft, they know they need a business case for this and if they've got investment in this day and age it means they've convinced someone!

I'm intrigued as to what this will be, and am hopeful.  if it's something that can put the fun back in computing, I'm behind it all the way

[J-Golden]

In today's market, computer makers dont only compete to make computers better, but also cheaper. So I hope Hyperion will be following that too...

Seeing How Hyperion has been in the busness long enough, I'd say there is an excelent bet that they are keeping this exact thing in mind.

What worries me is how Mac is leaning so much towards PeeCee.  Ever since it's "merger" with M$ the Mac has become more and more a clone of the dreaded winblows system.  Since these two are now bedfellows, meaning you can install M$ software under OSX AND run Winblows on a Mac, it will be difficult for a full blown Amiga to have as much flexability the more specialized it becomes.  THAT is what I am worried about...

Another thing is that an OS, no matter how powerful the hardware it runs on is, is useless without good software. And with good software I mean commercial software, not linux ports.

Another point well made.  There are few companies that have still held true to the Amiga.  What we can hope is that they get some dev. machines in advance, make some "gotta have" software programs, and then have them out the door and demoing with the new Amiga.

Face it, A-Eon has an up hill battle in front of them.  It will be HARD!  but the very fact that they have the experience (both good and bad), desire to fight for years to get the rights to the Amiga title, ability to do it their way this time, and the know-how to make the next generation Amiga makes me all kinds of excited to see what will be produced by them!