knew ... ) The Neutrino kernel that the new Amiga will be using runs on x86, MIPS and PPC. -- Gareth Knight Amiga Interactive Guide- http://welcome.to/aig "Shine on your star"

Derek Peschel wrote: make >your life so much easier. Hardly anyone outside Amiga Inc knows anything about the hardware yet. I expect that more news will trickle out over the summer. The only information I have is that the whole thing is on one chip allowing performance equivalent to high-end systems. One of the many rumours doing the rounds at the moment is that it will use the "Emotion Engine" that will be at the heart of the PSX2. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen. This November (unless it is delayed) three new Amigas will go on sale: - The Developers Machine. This will be a standard x86 system bundled with the Siamese PCI (Amiga-on-a-card), a developers version of the OS and some kind of hardware simulator. This was originally due for release last November but a change in OS partner caused it to be delayed. - A Internet Box A low end system for the set-top market. - An A500-style machine Like the internet box this will be a low-end system to fill the original markets that the A500 and A1200 were aimed at. I have a unconfirmed source that the machine will be in a custom mini-tower with an external keyboard. However, until there is more news released your guess is as good as mine. There is some documentation on the AGA chipset on Aminet. The release of AmigaOS 3.5 around May should correct some of the problems regarding documentation. They have said that compatibility will be high, all software that runs on AmigaOS 3.5 should run on the new machine. This could be achieved through software by either an optional emulation layer that or an emulator along the lines of UAE. There will be a version of the Siamese card available to run "Classic" Amiga software through hardware. Visit www.siamese.co.uk for more information on this. Another option will be the use of another operating system could AROS. As many list members will probably know, this has been in development for a number of years and is an attempt to produce a 100% portable AmigaOS-compatible. I have a reliable source that tells me Amiga Inc have been in talks with them to continue development. What direction this will take in the future though is impossible to guess. Definitely. I'm always on the lookout for cheap Amigas and they are very cheap. In the UK A1200's are sold around the £50 second-hand and I saw a A4000/030 retailing at £350. -- Gareth Knight Amiga Interactive Guide- http://welcome.to/aig "Shine on your star"

Derek Peschel wrote: I nave had some contact with people from Amiga Inc over Usenet and get information from some of the Amiga journos but that is pretty much it. The problem is NDA's. They can't talk about much and what they do mention is in riddles. They've appointed a new manager and combined the two companies to a large extent. I can't remember his exact name at the moment. Check out www.amiga.com for the recent announcement. original Amiga? In a lot of cases Commodore shipped prototype machines to various maufacturers. I believe they used Sun systems to develop the original AmigaOS. Well, the CD32 was really aimed at the console market. The CDTV was aimed at what would become known as the set-top market but it was a few years too early. -- Gareth Knight Amiga Interactive Guide- http://welcome.to/aig "Shine on your star"

Well, as I happen to have the mailbox with all the TEAM Amiga messages open at the moment his name is Jim Collas, and he is the former senior vice president at Gateway. He is becoming the new President of Amiga, Inc. Personally I think that this is the first good news in almost a year. The way the situation has been handled so far is criminal. The WOA announcements last spring did more towards killing off the Classic Amiga market than anything since Commodore's bankrupcy. Yes, but if you add a SX-32 you would have what looks to me a nice littel system. I've got a SX-1 that I've played with in a CD-32. I'd like to see a nice set-top Amiga with a keyboard and mouse that can be either plugged in with a cable or IR. It should also be able to work on a TV or a Monitor. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |

You're putting an entirely different slant on what I said. I was under the impression that the CD32 was a big failure. (Maybe I was thinking of the CDTV.) Besides, what you said is literally true -- if you except CD-ROM, then DVD-ROM IS novel. :) Maybe my lack of real Amiga experience has skewed my perspective. Maybe I should not post so late at night. :) No, I probably wouldn't. I was thinking that there was only one previous experiment and that it flopped. Apparently that's not true. -- Derek

Max wrote: Oh, maybe now I see why everyone else thinks aliens just popped out of my eyes or something... when I said the set-top box was novel, I mwant "as a configuration for the Amiga" ONLY, not "in general". Except for the CD-32 and the CDTV (which IIRC were not that popular, at least the CDTV) I don't think the Amiga has been released on a set-top box configuration before. -- Derek

Max wrote: As I read it, the original statement was that an Amiga-based set top box would be unique (unless you count the CD32). The existence of non-Amiga-based set-top-boxes is irrelevant to that point. Geez, now I'm starting to wish that Amigas were off-charter, just as I've wished PCs were. Not that I want to start up that particular flame fest again.