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

[jj]

well share.  I dont go to that site

[The_Editor]

Oops! Looks like all the excitement has broken aw.net!

It wuz Me


Soweeeeee

;-)

[chiark]

I don´t agree with that. If you are focusing on portability, netbooks are unbeatable.

True.  They changed the market radically from ultra portables being ultra expensive to being ultra affordable almost overnight.  I've been a fan of ultraportables since the Libretto 50...  Full disclosure - I collect the libretto series and have from the 50ct through to the U100

But should Amiga be a netbook competitor?  Should that be the primary marketplace that Hyperion aims for?  I personally think not.  That's not to say I wouldn't *finally* love a portable Amiga!

[dammy]

Yet it would still be crap, when you have MOS/OS 4 flying in much less demanding hardware.

What would be crap?  If your  referring to the x86 board you quoted him saying, that would make a fine AROS mobo even though it's running on a single core.

[dammy]

about $2500 USD.

It better not be more then several hundred dollars for CPU/Mobo.  Else they are not going to get attract anyone outside of the community.  Ideally a full box should be around $500 with OS4 installed in order to get sales moving with fresh blood.  Think of what a disaster it would have been for C= had it not have A500/A600/A1200 sales.

[The_Editor]

Page is up

http://www.a-eon.com/6.html

X1000

[Everblue]

"While the entry level is currently well catered for by ACube's SAM motherboard, it is this return of AmigaOS to the high-end that truly ushers in a new beginning."

If the Sam motherboard's price is considered ENTRY LEVEL.

How much will this new Amiga cost?

[Karlos]

Page is up

http://www.a-eon.com/6.html

X1000

Interestingly, several people hinted at the XMOS as the possible main CPU originally. I guess they'll be pretty chuffed to discover that they've got one anyway.

The stuff about the main CPU being secret but running at 1.6GHz in testing and being of "limited availability" and "you probably haven't even seen one in the wild" makes me wonder if it may be the pwrficient after all. If that's true, I'd love to know how they got hold of any.

[Crom00]

Lord almighty... if I wasn't so swamped I'd redo that page for them.... Web design sure ain't they're strong point. The logo could use some work as well...

[Karlos]

"While the entry level is currently well catered for by ACube's SAM motherboard, it is this return of AmigaOS to the high-end that truly ushers in a new beginning."

If the Sam motherboard's price is considered ENTRY LEVEL.

Note that they never said anything about price, only that the Sam is considered entry level, which may be a nod to the performance, more than anything. Theoretically, my A1 is significantly more powerful than the Sam.

How much will this new Amiga cost?

More, most probably. Though you can only hope it isn't too much more.

[Nickman]

Just as Commodore did with the A1000, we're aiming at the high-end first, with a powerful desktop computer aimed at the professional and serious hobbyist markets (although you won't have to wait until summer, and it should be a little cheaper!)

When A1000 released 1985 it cost around 1295$
Recalculated into todays value should be around 1950$

So either cheaper then 1295 or 1950.
If that is with a case you got a deal

[Derfs]

Interestingly, several people hinted at the XMOS as the possible main CPU originally. I guess they'll be pretty chuffed to discover that they've got one anyway.

The stuff about the main CPU being secret but running at 1.6GHz in testing and being of "limited availability" and "you probably haven't even seen one in the wild" makes me wonder if it may be the pwrficient after all. If that's true, I'd love to know how they got hold of any.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28microprocessor%29

APM 83290 – The first implementations of the Titan core design. Two 1.5 GHz cores with FPU, 512 kB shared L2 cache, DDR2 controller, security engine, multi-channel DMA and I/O engine for gigabit Ethernet, PCIe, USB, RapidIO and/or SATA. It began sampling in October 2009

[Karlos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28microprocessor%29

APM 83290 – The first implementations of the Titan core design. Two 1.5 GHz cores with FPU, 512 kB shared L2 cache, DDR2 controller, security engine, multi-channel DMA and I/O engine for gigabit Ethernet, PCIe, USB, RapidIO and/or SATA. It began sampling in October 2009

Possibly. For a 32-bit PPC, where do you think the four DDR sockets fit into that scheme? PAE?

[tony23]

And now hidden in the source of a-eon.com/6.html is this...

 "Today's hidden message
         THANK YOU!
No more hints, no more puzzles, we're done... for now. A big thanks to everyone who's been along on the ride with us, and we hope you've had as much fun solving the conundrums as we've had setting them, and watching everyone on the boards crack the code. As you probably know, we like the slogan 'Remember when computing was fun?' and we wanted to bring a little fun in with this announcement too.
 You folks are seriously clever, and a part of the challenge for us has been making sure it wasn't all too easy. No shout-outs to specific names, because we'd be bound to forget someone, but we'll say this: we've been impressed by your deductive powers!
We'll have a proper website before too long, when we've got more to tell you. No more yellow and black colour scheme either, if I have anything to do with it, I promise. That was one of the hints -- and believe me, by now I'm royally sick of it. "

[pixie]

What would be crap?  If your  referring to the x86 board you quoted him saying, that would make a fine AROS mobo even though it's running on a single core.

The x86 mobo, I wouldn't touch in anything lower then a i7. And that too would be a good AROS machine, mind you...

[dammy]

When A1000 released 1985 it cost around 1295$
Recalculated into todays value should be around 1950$

So either cheaper then 1295 or 1950.
If that is with a case you got a deal

Who will buy it at that price?  Even more important, who outside the community will buy it at that pricing?