New Mystery Amiga Hardware Coming to the DiscreetFX iStore on June 30th, 2010!

[xeron]

EDIT: And this is probably why Hyperion persists with the rather strange version numbering of their OS, i.e.:

OS4.1
OS4.1.1
OS4.1.2 ... etc, etc

Actually, its OS4.1 Update 1, OS4.1 Update 2. The reason for it is very simple indeed; the updates to OS4.0 were called "July update", or "Final update", with no consistency.

Now, there is consistency. Think of "Update" like "Service Pack", or "Boing Bag" but not as horrible.

[som99]

Well, ofcource I was a bit disapointed since I diden't want anything of the "mystery amiga hardware", tho it's better then nothing I suppose :/

[x56h34]

I don't usually comment on these things, but yeah...very disappointing...
DiscreetFX should have known better than to overhype a rather simple item such as a joystick, as a mystery hardware. Totally unnecessary, and what should have been done was simply post a news item about how batches of brand new joysticks are in.
It'd be different if you indicated ahead of time that this were a fun guessing game, don't take it too seriously type of thing.

Anyways...not that it matters...just felt like posting my 2 cents worth of comments. :-)

[HammerD]

I wish it was more of a substantial product.  Although for the video toaster market the SSD packaged solution is very nice.

The Joystick is nice, having a local North American source.

I don't want to blame DiscreetFX here, they had their own excitement.  Maybe we are at fault, since many of the users hyped this up themselves (myself included) about really cool classic hardware like new ppc accelerators...

So we did it to ourselves!

[B00tDisk]

I wish it was more of a substantial product.  Although for the video toaster market the SSD packaged solution is very nice.

The Joystick is nice, having a local North American source.

I don't want to blame DiscreetFX here, they had their own excitement.  Maybe we are at fault, since many of the users hyped this up themselves (myself included) about really cool classic hardware like new ppc accelerators...

So we did it to ourselves!

Oh I didn't think it'd be anything of the kind - besides, a run of new PPC cards...the cards alone would cost more than that xk1k1000x thing.  

No, I thought they'd be going in the direction of maybe a new ZIII card of some kind, or ... shit, I dunno.  Commissioned a mini-mig aga run or something.

Grabbing two bulk PC items off the shelf and foisting them off with the hype they did though is just stupid.

[recidivist]

Hey!
On page six I did come close on  item #3 ; I was thinking of AF  when I said  an emulator not UAE ,just didn't expect all this hype over things that already exist.

I am sorely disappointed by the promtion of  items practically identical  toitems  long available elsewhere .

 Joysticks are nothing special,I have dozens-every  ex-Amigan/C= user has loads they throw in the deals.

 IDE and SCSI to flash and SSD  adapters can be ordered direct from Hong Kong-I have had them for months.

 Amiga Forever is a very nice  package for those who want a ready to go solution-I have had AF for years.

 Let me  again publically thank Discreet for the A4D from Christmas contest.

 That said,this "new hardware" announcement deserves a big yawn,if not a BOO!

 No wonder people think Amiga users are stupid in these days of quad-core multi-GHZ Wintel machines!!!!

[HammerD]

a MiniMig on a PCI or PCI-E card would be awesome

Ok, there I go again hyping

[B00tDisk]

a MiniMig on a PCI or PCI-E card would be awesome

Ok, there I go again hyping

minimig aga on pci would be tres awesome (or pcie although I don't have a spare PCI-e slot! )

[save2600]

Nah... I'm thinking something much, much simpler and universal here... I'm thinking maybe some kind of a new DB9 input device, a joystick or something that has already been mentioned.

Hahahahahah, I *knew* it!  For anyone that is disappointed, I think it's really funny - the way they hyped this. It's obvious they have a sense of humor    

No need to make a mountain out of a mole hill here people, you should have known better!  lol

[x56h34]

Hahahahahah, I *knew* it!  For anyone that is disappointed, I think it's really funny - the way they hyped this. It's obvious they have a sense of humor    

No need to make a mountain out of a mole hill here people, you should have known better!  lol

OMG, you knew! And you didn't warn us? By staying silent, you were aiding the disappointment.

[orb85750]

For toaster/flyer users, I think such replacement drives may be a good idea.  I might purchase in the future, once I get a chance to start using my overheating t/f system again.  Sure, it was overhyped, but I'm grateful that there's still support for classic Amiga video production!!

[motrucker]

I think this is hilarious! Could it be a comment on the "new" X1000 Amiga - thinly disguised?

[B00tDisk]

For toaster/flyer users, I think such replacement drives may be a good idea.  I might purchase in the future, once I get a chance to start using my overheating t/f system again.  Sure, it was overhyped, but I'm grateful that there's still support for classic Amiga video production!!

dear lord YOU CAN BUY AN SSD FROM NEWEGG NOW!

*facepalm*

oy, amigans...

[klx300r]

jeez some of you guys really have to grow up:bitch:

@ DiscreetFX
so how's Alladin4D on AmigaOS4.1 shaping up eh:)

[amigakit]

Perhaps this is the way we should have marketed ZorRAM a few weeks ago when we launched it for the Classic Amiga :-D

[tone007]

ZorRAM definitely calls for more fanfare than a joystick and an SSD.