6 Jan
2010
6 Jan
'10
2:32 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Doc Shipley <doc at vaxen.net> wrote:
David Griffith wrote:
True - there have been a good few Amiga clones that have never seen
the light of day.
However, Hyperion is not Amiga Inc. Unlike Amiga Inc., Hyperion does
actually /deliver./ It took years to ship AmigaOS 4.0, but a large
part of that was legal wrangles. Hyperion had pretty much finished it,
but Amiga Inc. wouldn't let 'em ship. AFAICT, basically, Amiga Inc
does not like the thought of anyone else making any money off the
Amiga name, even though AInc doesn't sell anything any more. AInc
would have rather sunk and killed the name and the product than let it
go.
However, it appears that a few years back now, AInc lost the lawsuit
and Hyperion now has a permanent right to use the name to describe the
product that it wrote from scratch under commission from AInc.
Fairly soon after, AmigaOS 4.1 followed and allegedly there will be
more to come. Also Hyperion have produced versions for
non-Amiga-badged PowerPC-Amiga-compatibles, such as Efika,
Pegasos/Pegasos 2 etc.
So I think the company is serious.
Secondly, what makes me slightly hopeful is that the spec of the new
machine is not that ridiculous. It sounds like a PowerFicient chip
A couple weeks ago I was grousing about there being nothing in the realm
of non x86/amd64 motherboards. ?I stumbled across something new while
looking at the Minimig board: the X1000. ?Its appears to be a multicore
Power of some sort with ideas from the old Amiga machines mixed in. ?See
http://www.a-eon.com/ or http://www.a-eon.com/6.html if you don't want to
play the hide-and-seek game.
?Oddly enough, I was looking at that yesterday.
?It reeks of vaporware to me. from (the late) PASemi - now part of Apple, AIUI - with
a modern-ish
chipset and this mysterious custom chip. It's doable. If it ships,
though, I bet it'll be expensive.
Personally, I find the BeagleBoard a bit more interesting - it's real,
out there, mates of mine have them, it's fairly cheap - and I always
was an Archimedes fan more than an AmigaHead. :?)
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