New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo

03-02-2002, 10:09 AM

More information on the upcoming Amiga Expo show. Sounds like it's shaping up rather nicely.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Amiga Expo and Extreme Computing are pleased to bring you the following press release. Please make plans now to visit Amiga Expo on March 29th-31st at the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn in Maryland where you will see all the
latest developments including those from our friends at Extreme Computing!

Extreme Computing (a branch of Extreme Corporation) began reseach and development of new Amiga-based products in the Spring of 1999. With the announcement of the Amiga x86 solution in the Summer of 2001, we began
working overtime to come up with new designs of x86-based hardware that would be powerful, functional, compelling, upgradable, and above all else - Amiga and AmigaDE compliant!

The results have far exceeded our expectations. Our new line of x86 based Amiga hardware will ultimately usher in new levels in design and performance for the Amiga consumer computing experience. The main goal was to give the consumers back a true Amiga system. One where you can take it right out of the box and boot up to an Amiga screen without any hassles or unnecessary complexity.

One of our guiding concepts was to combine classic designs with modern technology - thus bringing you the Amiga X1200 computer system. This system offers the design and compactness of the original Commodore Amiga A1200, but with all new, and blazingly fast, hardware under the hood. The Amiga X1200
is the ideal replacement, or addition, to your Amiga computing needs.

The Amiga X1200 isn't the only exciting new hardware we have coming. Extreme Corporation will have several MORE innovative and powerful Amiga solutions on display at their booth at Amiga Expo. All of these designs are will be shipping with Amiga OS x86(3.9) pre-installed and will come with a full copy of
Nova Design, Inc.'s ImageFX 3.2 on CDROM. As a special show bonus, all orders placed at Amiga Expo will also come with FREE SHIPPING.

Extreme Corporation (Formerly Amitech Electronics) was founded by Amiga Enthusiasts to assist in providing Amiga Owners with useful tools and information for an ever growing computing experience.

Nova Design, Inc. are the creators of Aladdin 4D and ImageFX - the Amiga's most consistently top-rated image editing and special effects package and are the hosts of Amiga Expo. See us all at the show!

For more information on other exhibits and information about Amiga Expo visit our web site at www.amigaexpo.com and sign up today! Don't forget to get your hotel rooms and banquet tickets! You can order everything online or by toll free number as shown on the web site.

03-02-2002, 11:32 AM

Amiga OS x86? Does that just mean Amithlon? Now I'm really REALLY confused! Is it a hoax?

System · 03-02-2002, 12:22 PM

Amiga OS x86, eh? Hmm...

03-02-2002, 12:50 PM

"With the announcement of the Amiga x86 solution in the Summer of 2001"

when was Amithlon announced ?

System · 03-02-2002, 01:43 PM

Its a PC with Amithlon Installed.

Hardly a breakthrough.

But still.

~Betajaen

jack · 03-02-2002, 01:49 PM

Just look at their site, it just PC hw packaged with Amithlon/AmigaXL :-) http://1extreme.net/computing/amiga/AmigaXspec.html

03-02-2002, 03:08 PM

There are 3 plan for PowerPC emulator for PC. Unfortunately the products are vaporware / unfinished.

http://www.ardi.com/ardi/technology.html

http://www.emulators.com/updates.htm

http://www.microcode-solutions.com/welcome.htm

If the product are finished and compatible with AMIGA OS 4 (or 5), perhaps Extreme Computing can bundle AMIGA OS with 10 GHz Prestonia

03-02-2002, 03:20 PM

Amiga x86 was the name Bill McEwen gave to AmigaXL/Amithlon when he presented it at Sacramento last year.

This isn't the same as buying some pc hardware at your local clone guys - this is an Amiga company branding some cool looking hardware and preinstalling Amiga x86 and OS 3.9 - meaning your money supports your platform rather than some clone store that won't help you and may not be there tomorow.

System · 03-02-2002, 03:57 PM

Amiga EX (EX4100):-D

CPU
Intel® Pentium® III processor / FSB=100/133 MHz CPU Types
1.0 GHz Maximum CPU Speed
Intel® FC-PGA CPU Packaging
512MB SDRAM Memory Maximum
168-pin SDRAM Add On Memory Type
2 Add On Memory Slots
128KB / 256KB L2 Cache
On-Die L2 Cache Type
Video System
SiS 630 Video Chipset
AGP2X Video Interface
64-bit Video Bus Width
3D Graphics
Up to 32MB Video Memory
1024 x 768 x 256k TFT Resolution
Storage System
Built-in Floppy Drive
Hard Disk Height: 25.4mm
Ultra DMA Support
Optional CD-RW CD ROM
DVD ROM
( 8X ) MPEG2 DVD ROM
DVD TV Out
PCMCIA System
SiS 630 MB Chipset
2 Type II or 1 Type III Number Of Slots
Cardbus
Audio System
Sound Blaster Audio System
3D Surround Sound
Expansion Ports
1 EPP/ECP Parallel Port Parallel Port
1 (16550A) Serial Port Serial Port
External CRT Port
2 PS/2 Port
Microphone Port
Line In Out Port
Speaker Out Earphone Port
S-video Video In Port
IrDA 1.1 / FIR Infrared Port
Internal Modem: 56k v.90 ; 10/100 Lan Card
4 USB Ports
Keyboard and Pointing Devices
( Keyboard optional )
Logitech Mouse
Power Systems
Auto-switching AC Adapter
Suspend to RAM and HDD
Dimensions
Size: 14.5" x 15.1 " x 6.8"
Weight: 17.4 Lbs

Technical Specifications - Extreme AmigaX1200

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CPU

Intel Pentium III socket 370 FCPGA 533EB-1GHz/133MHz Intel Celeron FCPGA566-850Mhz
MOTHER BOARD CHIPSET

High Performance SIS 630S with integrated high performance, advanced hardware 2D/3D GUI engine

MEMORY

Two 168-pin DIMM sockets for 64-1GB 100/133MHz SDRAM

DISPLAY ADAPTER

Integrated 2D/3D graphics engine, 4x AGP, up to 1920x1440 resolution, Shared system memory utilizing up to 64MB, hardware decoding DVD accelerator support

DUAL VIDEO

(VGA, LCD panel & Video Interface)
VGA, LCD, TV display 3 choose 1
LCD: Digital Flat Panel
Video: Video-Out (RCA jack)
The second video(VGA2) can be set as the primary video by the Operating System.

NETWORK

Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet controller, RJ45 connector,
Wake-On-LAN support.

AUDIO

AC' 97 Audio CODEC with full duplex, Supports Microsoft Direct sound, 3D positional audio effects, Audio-Out, Line-In Mic-In.

IDE AND HDD

Ultra DMA/33/66/100 Synchronous DMA support

FLOPPY DRIVE

3.5" slim 1.44MB Floppy (optional)
WARRANTY

2 years limited

I/O Ports
Windbond 83697HF super I/O chips, COM1, COM2, LPT1

USB PORTS

4-USB Ports w/Hot-Plug function

EXPANSION SLOT

1 PCI Expansion Slot (short card)

CD-ROM/CD-RW, DVD

Slim CD, CD-RW, DVD options

MODEM

56K v.90 (optional)

SYSTEM BIOS

Award AGP BIOS

KEYBOARD

Full-size Enhanced Windows keyboard

DIMENSIONS

18.25" wide x 8.5" deep x 0.5" high at front and 2.75" high at back

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

Ambient Temperature: 41" - 131º (5º - 55º C)

WEIGHT

7.6 lbs (3.4 kg) Main Unit

Operating Systems available: Linux OS, AmigaXL OS, QNX RTOS.
(Windows 98/2000/XP fully compatible, but we do NOT support Windows)

JetRacer · 03-02-2002, 05:30 PM

(Pr)Estonia =)

The Estonia ship was lost in a major accident with huge fatalities and few survivors. Kinda like a nordic Titanic.

BTW, why keep people believing that intel processors are cheaper and deliver more performance? Are these people total airheads? Did they politely inquire the matter at intels PR division? What's the inside story, please tell me.

Go AMD!

Ryu · 03-02-2002, 05:51 PM

Isnt this just that PC that was on some news sites ages ago?
notice how it has windows keys on the keyboard too.
Come on guys we all know emulation isnt the way forward, OS4
and AmigaONE is

yours
Ryu

System · 03-02-2002, 06:49 PM

I Would love to sell AmigaONE, Amiga SDK, AmigaX1200 and Amiga EX (EX4100) on my webpage who would I have to call and/or email?
:-D

03-02-2002, 08:20 PM

i`m still hearing anti-pc hardware vibes, but i`m sick of the way amiga hardware tends to be.. shoddy companies, shoddy equipment...

i `ll probably get slagged off for saying it but amiga companies piss me off - me and others have been messed around by alot of them - especially if ya bought a dodgy ppc card... and those that had one know what i`m saying.

lets get on the cheap hardware bandwagon, cos i`m loving it

03-02-2002, 08:59 PM

Just my opinion, but... THIS IS BLOODY TERRIBLE...

Their going to confuse a lot of people by saying this is x86 Amiga hardware and that they are going to give people OS3.9 x86.

This also seems like a wast of time for Extream. Ahthlon systems can also be used out of the box with OS3.9.

But the worst of it is, that there confusing peopple, *looks at previous posts*.

I could not think of anything worse than this, Amiga Inc, please have a word to these people and try to get them to change their wording fot heir products.

They are taking advantage of consumers who may not know alot about AmigaOS and the Amiga.

This will prolly end up giving the Amiga a bad name, amoung consumers who are going to buy these boards.

I dont like this. What the point in buying one anyway? That is for those of us who know what hey are. AmigaOSPPC should be out in a months time... Why bother buying the Old OS? DE wont run on it.

03-02-2002, 09:44 PM

>SIS 630 S chipset

This "Intergrated / System on Chip / SOC" low cost chipset is a total CRAP.

The intergrated video performance is very poor and there is NO LINUX audio driver. There are problems with LAN / Network portion of the chipset.

This chipset is only used in low cost PC and the PC vendor try to cut cost by using this chipset.

Several LINUX programmers / group try to get the documentation for audio portion of the chipset, but SIS ignored them.

03-02-2002, 10:09 AM	#1
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo More information on the upcoming Amiga Expo show. Sounds like it's shaping up rather nicely. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Amiga Expo and Extreme Computing are pleased to bring you the following press release. Please make plans now to visit Amiga Expo on March 29th-31st at the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn in Maryland where you will see all the latest developments including those from our friends at Extreme Computing! Extreme Computing (a branch of Extreme Corporation) began reseach and development of new Amiga-based products in the Spring of 1999. With the announcement of the Amiga x86 solution in the Summer of 2001, we began working overtime to come up with new designs of x86-based hardware that would be powerful, functional, compelling, upgradable, and above all else - Amiga and AmigaDE compliant! The results have far exceeded our expectations. Our new line of x86 based Amiga hardware will ultimately usher in new levels in design and performance for the Amiga consumer computing experience. The main goal was to give the consumers back a true Amiga system. One where you can take it right out of the box and boot up to an Amiga screen without any hassles or unnecessary complexity. One of our guiding concepts was to combine classic designs with modern technology - thus bringing you the Amiga X1200 computer system. This system offers the design and compactness of the original Commodore Amiga A1200, but with all new, and blazingly fast, hardware under the hood. The Amiga X1200 is the ideal replacement, or addition, to your Amiga computing needs. The Amiga X1200 isn't the only exciting new hardware we have coming. Extreme Corporation will have several MORE innovative and powerful Amiga solutions on display at their booth at Amiga Expo. All of these designs are will be shipping with Amiga OS x86(3.9) pre-installed and will come with a full copy of Nova Design, Inc.'s ImageFX 3.2 on CDROM. As a special show bonus, all orders placed at Amiga Expo will also come with FREE SHIPPING. Extreme Corporation (Formerly Amitech Electronics) was founded by Amiga Enthusiasts to assist in providing Amiga Owners with useful tools and information for an ever growing computing experience. Nova Design, Inc. are the creators of Aladdin 4D and ImageFX - the Amiga's most consistently top-rated image editing and special effects package and are the hosts of Amiga Expo. See us all at the show! For more information on other exhibits and information about Amiga Expo visit our web site at www.amigaexpo.com and sign up today! Don't forget to get your hotel rooms and banquet tickets! You can order everything online or by toll free number as shown on the web site.

03-02-2002, 11:32 AM	#2
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo Amiga OS x86? Does that just mean Amithlon? Now I'm really REALLY confused! Is it a hoax?

03-02-2002, 12:22 PM	#3
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo Amiga OS x86, eh? Hmm...

03-02-2002, 12:50 PM	#4
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo "With the announcement of the Amiga x86 solution in the Summer of 2001" when was Amithlon announced ?

03-02-2002, 01:43 PM	#5
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo Its a PC with Amithlon Installed. Hardly a breakthrough. But still. ~Betajaen

03-02-2002, 03:08 PM	#7
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo There are 3 plan for PowerPC emulator for PC. Unfortunately the products are vaporware / unfinished. http://www.ardi.com/ardi/technology.html http://www.emulators.com/updates.htm http://www.microcode-solutions.com/welcome.htm If the product are finished and compatible with AMIGA OS 4 (or 5), perhaps Extreme Computing can bundle AMIGA OS with 10 GHz Prestonia

03-02-2002, 03:20 PM	#8
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo Amiga x86 was the name Bill McEwen gave to AmigaXL/Amithlon when he presented it at Sacramento last year. This isn't the same as buying some pc hardware at your local clone guys - this is an Amiga company branding some cool looking hardware and preinstalling Amiga x86 and OS 3.9 - meaning your money supports your platform rather than some clone store that won't help you and may not be there tomorow.

03-02-2002, 03:57 PM	#9
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo Amiga EX (EX4100):-D CPU Intel® Pentium® III processor / FSB=100/133 MHz CPU Types 1.0 GHz Maximum CPU Speed Intel® FC-PGA CPU Packaging 512MB SDRAM Memory Maximum 168-pin SDRAM Add On Memory Type 2 Add On Memory Slots 128KB / 256KB L2 Cache On-Die L2 Cache Type Video System SiS 630 Video Chipset AGP2X Video Interface 64-bit Video Bus Width 3D Graphics Up to 32MB Video Memory 1024 x 768 x 256k TFT Resolution Storage System Built-in Floppy Drive Hard Disk Height: 25.4mm Ultra DMA Support Optional CD-RW CD ROM DVD ROM ( 8X ) MPEG2 DVD ROM DVD TV Out PCMCIA System SiS 630 MB Chipset 2 Type II or 1 Type III Number Of Slots Cardbus Audio System Sound Blaster Audio System 3D Surround Sound Expansion Ports 1 EPP/ECP Parallel Port Parallel Port 1 (16550A) Serial Port Serial Port External CRT Port 2 PS/2 Port Microphone Port Line In Out Port Speaker Out Earphone Port S-video Video In Port IrDA 1.1 / FIR Infrared Port Internal Modem: 56k v.90 ; 10/100 Lan Card 4 USB Ports Keyboard and Pointing Devices ( Keyboard optional ) Logitech Mouse Power Systems Auto-switching AC Adapter Suspend to RAM and HDD Dimensions Size: 14.5" x 15.1 " x 6.8" Weight: 17.4 Lbs Technical Specifications - Extreme AmigaX1200 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU Intel Pentium III socket 370 FCPGA 533EB-1GHz/133MHz Intel Celeron FCPGA566-850Mhz MOTHER BOARD CHIPSET High Performance SIS 630S with integrated high performance, advanced hardware 2D/3D GUI engine MEMORY Two 168-pin DIMM sockets for 64-1GB 100/133MHz SDRAM DISPLAY ADAPTER Integrated 2D/3D graphics engine, 4x AGP, up to 1920x1440 resolution, Shared system memory utilizing up to 64MB, hardware decoding DVD accelerator support DUAL VIDEO (VGA, LCD panel & Video Interface) VGA, LCD, TV display 3 choose 1 LCD: Digital Flat Panel Video: Video-Out (RCA jack) The second video(VGA2) can be set as the primary video by the Operating System. NETWORK Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet controller, RJ45 connector, Wake-On-LAN support. AUDIO AC' 97 Audio CODEC with full duplex, Supports Microsoft Direct sound, 3D positional audio effects, Audio-Out, Line-In Mic-In. IDE AND HDD Ultra DMA/33/66/100 Synchronous DMA support FLOPPY DRIVE 3.5" slim 1.44MB Floppy (optional) WARRANTY 2 years limited I/O Ports Windbond 83697HF super I/O chips, COM1, COM2, LPT1 USB PORTS 4-USB Ports w/Hot-Plug function EXPANSION SLOT 1 PCI Expansion Slot (short card) CD-ROM/CD-RW, DVD Slim CD, CD-RW, DVD options MODEM 56K v.90 (optional) SYSTEM BIOS Award AGP BIOS KEYBOARD Full-size Enhanced Windows keyboard DIMENSIONS 18.25" wide x 8.5" deep x 0.5" high at front and 2.75" high at back OPERATING ENVIRONMENT Ambient Temperature: 41" - 131º (5º - 55º C) WEIGHT 7.6 lbs (3.4 kg) Main Unit Operating Systems available: Linux OS, AmigaXL OS, QNX RTOS. (Windows 98/2000/XP fully compatible, but we do NOT support Windows)

03-02-2002, 06:49 PM	#12
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo I Would love to sell AmigaONE, Amiga SDK, AmigaX1200 and Amiga EX (EX4100) on my webpage who would I have to call and/or email? :-D

03-02-2002, 08:20 PM	#13
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo i`m still hearing anti-pc hardware vibes, but i`m sick of the way amiga hardware tends to be.. shoddy companies, shoddy equipment... i `ll probably get slagged off for saying it but amiga companies piss me off - me and others have been messed around by alot of them - especially if ya bought a dodgy ppc card... and those that had one know what i`m saying. lets get on the cheap hardware bandwagon, cos i`m loving it

03-02-2002, 08:59 PM	#14
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo Just my opinion, but... THIS IS BLOODY TERRIBLE... Their going to confuse a lot of people by saying this is x86 Amiga hardware and that they are going to give people OS3.9 x86. This also seems like a wast of time for Extream. Ahthlon systems can also be used out of the box with OS3.9. But the worst of it is, that there confusing peopple, looks at previous posts. I could not think of anything worse than this, Amiga Inc, please have a word to these people and try to get them to change their wording fot heir products. They are taking advantage of consumers who may not know alot about AmigaOS and the Amiga. This will prolly end up giving the Amiga a bad name, amoung consumers who are going to buy these boards. I dont like this. What the point in buying one anyway? That is for those of us who know what hey are. AmigaOSPPC should be out in a months time... Why bother buying the Old OS? DE wont run on it.

03-02-2002, 09:44 PM	#15
Chathurawind Guest Posts: n/a	Re: New Amigas to be shown at Amiga Expo >SIS 630 S chipset This "Intergrated / System on Chip / SOC" low cost chipset is a total CRAP. The intergrated video performance is very poor and there is NO LINUX audio driver. There are problems with LAN / Network portion of the chipset. This chipset is only used in low cost PC and the PC vendor try to cut cost by using this chipset. Several LINUX programmers / group try to get the documentation for audio portion of the chipset, but SIS ignored them.

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