Amiga One on Tour

[seer]

I'm on the mailing list of Computer City and got this today;

Conputer City will be displaying the Amiga One on the AGGF meeting in Leeuwaarden (The Netherlands) on the 25th of May.

[Kronos]

"the Amiga One " and not "an Amiga One" ??

Minor mistake or will their be no dev-boards before ?

(Leaving Alans prototype as the only Amiga One)

Just curious :-o

[System]

Nit-picker... :-P

[Kronos]

Nit-picker... :-P

No just curious !

So will they show a "dev-board" or Alans prototype, that
(according to many rumours) is just a relabeled TeronCX
with slower CPU, older southbridge and doesn't have the
A1-features like ethernet or sound ?

An answer to that question should be interesting.

[zacman]

Kronos: read: May 25th. Thats around 8 weeks after
the order-deadline. Eyetech said that their
customers will get their boards in April or in the first
two weeks of May. So it must be the developer
version and just some prototype!

And it may even run OS4beta! Wahoo!

[Kronos]

@zacman
And some people say I make "simple" jokes....

[seer]

Well, the mailing doesn't say, just that they will be demonstrating AN Amigaone..

I was surprised to read this..

@Zacman;

I don't think they will show anything OS4 related.. (Knowing Computer City, they would be shouting that they would show of OS4, and "forget" the AmigaOne.. ;-)

[Kronos]

@seer
Did you really take zacmans post seriously ?

[seer]

Well.. When in doubt.. Better to be sure right, and answer ?

[System]

I think infact quite a few lil amiga ones now dawn the earth , IIRC the boards are finished and roms being plonked in :D.

Anyone wanna swap my a1200t ppc the works for their dev board when it comes ;).

[System]

It will be the developers version, hopefully with OS4 beta...

Cheers,
Ron

[Kronos]

It will be the developers version

Thats nice :-)

hopefully with OS4 beta...

Veeeeeery unlikely :-x

According to Bens posts on ann.lu :

Petunia isn't running on ExecSG atm (and still misses a lot of opcodes)
Intuition hasn't been recompiled and intregrated.
There are still some chipset-dependancies

Even if we assume he just poured some sand in our eyes, some things
would still be needed to run it on the A1:
"boot-file" (like vmlinux)
IDE-driver (for the VIA-southbridge)
KBD-driver
PCI/AGP-driver

And remember under 3 weeks...

[System]

""boot-file" (like vmlinux)
IDE-driver (for the VIA-southbridge)
KBD-driver
PCI/AGP-driver"

Really only the Boot-Loader will be need to kinda demo the beta , thru serial port debug or summi :D.
The boot shouldn't be to hard tho , IIRC hyperion were basing work on the linuxAPUS kernel or something along those lines

[Coder]

It will be the developers version, hopefully with OS4 beta...

I hope that to Ron. Just before my holiday I will be able to run the beta of OS4. That's the way it should be. :-)

Coder

[odin]

>It will be the developers version, hopefully with >OS4 beta...
>Cheers,
>Ron

Ah okay...cool...I'll certainly be there :-).

And you can ignore that email I sent you in reply to the mailinglist in which I asked what you just said :-D.

[Kronos]

@68040
What you suggested may count as a alpha-version but (IMHO)
a beta should atleast be able to start some user-SW.

Just take a look at the AROS-boot-floppy (if you got a x86) and
you will see what I would call a minimal beta.

[System]

"@68040
What you suggested may count as a alpha-version but (IMHO)
a beta should atleast be able to start some user-SW.

Just take a look at the AROS-boot-floppy (if you got a x86) and
you will see what I would call a minimal beta. "

Yeah i was joking :D , altho it would show something was running on the box :P.

I think now its just a case of getting the kernel usable to bring it all together and give a csppc/bppc beta ... but they did say the csppc/bppc version would be out first , give um a chance :D