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Amiga Walker
« on: August 26, 2004, 09:50:42 PM »

Does anybody has an A-Walker?
If yes, would you sell it?
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2004, 10:23:34 PM »
Anybody?

For people who don't know what the Walker is:

http://amiga.emugaming.com/walker.html


I know there was a shop in Belgium, who selled
these Walkers back in 1996/1997.
So, there must be people who actualy have bought it.
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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2004, 10:41:01 PM »
What an ugly design.  Looks like something I'd find at IKEA. :lol:
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2004, 10:46:13 PM »
There were 2 or 3 made, one member here owns one of them, and has coaxed it into booting.  The prototypes were never near production stage though ...

As for ugly, it's been proved that designs that polarise opinion (ie. love/hate) far outsell middle of the road stuff - personally I like it, just 'cause it's different!
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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2004, 11:52:31 PM »

:-o
:roflmao:

I'd imagine it has a stainless steel lid which says 'P U S H'.

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2004, 12:22:51 AM »
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As for ugly, it's been proved that designs that polarise opinion (ie. love/hate) far outsell middle of the road stuff - personally I like it, just 'cause it's different!
Interesting.

Who did that research? (Just out of curiosity :)
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2004, 12:32:36 AM »
[/quote]Interesting.

Who did that research? (Just out of curiosity :)[/quote]

Pontiac.  No joke.
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2004, 12:42:34 AM »
Yeah, then they threw it out the window and released the Aztec :lol:
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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2004, 12:45:13 AM »
I think the Walker looked crap mostly because of the beige drives.
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2004, 12:50:37 AM »
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2004, 01:44:58 AM »
I remember checking the news sites every day for released info on the Walker.. I was going to buy two of them..

Think about this too... The iMac came out to phenominal success around that time... it would have made a pretty big impact I think.
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2004, 02:02:32 AM »
Yeah, and even with the underwhelming spec it'd have been a big jump from the A1200!  (PCI socket, '030, updated Rom etc)

Had they hit production it'd have been a snap to bung it in another case.  Of course many would have customised the case too, which would have been neat, certainly up on the iMac for individuality ...

I've still got the Amiga Format edition that looks forward to the Walker and the new OS (so gullable looking back, that was in '96!).  Then there's a French '060 m/board in about 2000 - that looked promising as it was in proper production.  And of course there's the BoXer, '040 A1200 on a PCI card, numerous G3 accellerators (AmiJoe? etc), and the original A1.
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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2004, 03:11:36 AM »
Whatever happened to the AmiJoe?  That was Dave Haynie's company (name?), formed out of the ashes of PiOS.  I remember seeing a prototype board in Amiga Format at the '99 WOA in Cologne, Germany.  It had a G3 on it and some SIMM or DRAM slots.  Apollo was also working on an A1200 PPC card called TwisterPPC.  And then there was a third company called Escena ...and of course Phase 5 (sigh). I wonder if any of them would still be viable now that there is OS4.0 finally will see the light of day and a PPC native AmigaOS would run on such hardware nicely.....hmmmm....
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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2004, 06:46:37 AM »
Hmmmm, looks kind of like this.

http://discreetfx.com/FreeSGI.htm
 

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Re: Amiga Walker
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2004, 09:27:21 AM »
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I know there was a shop in Belgium, who selled these Walkers back in 1996/1997.


Cant be. They were never sold.

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