11 Mar
2006
11 Mar
'06
4:56 p.m.
Instead of hashing it out here, call the guy. I ordered from the web site,
got an immediate response that they were waiting for stock and that they'd
contact me.
3 days later He contacted me that they were in stock and shipping.
They were MK4s
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard [mailto:legalize at xmission.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 7:23 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: CatWeasel card
In article <200603101819450723.4315859A at 10.0.0.252>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
On 3/10/2006 at 6:30 PM Richard wrote:
>Hmm... the card offered on softhut says it is an ISA card.
So is the Mk
IV Catweasel ISA or PCI?!?
It's PCI--the original Catweasel was ISA.
Softhut says their PCI card is Mk 3, not Mk 4.
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11 Mar
11 Mar
5:19 p.m.
Oh--and ithis site has the CW MK 4 about 13 clams cheaper than SoftHut:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=206
Cheers,
Chuck
9:47 p.m.
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/11/06, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Oh--and ithis site has the CW MK 4 about 13 clams
cheaper than SoftHut:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=206
Interesting site. I've never even heard of them, plus they don't
appear to be in the US, as prices are listed in Pounds. I'd also
like to say that I've always had good service from SoftHut. They're
one of the few US Amiga dealers remaining (I think they're the only
major one left), and well worth supporting.
Zane
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9:57 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/11/06, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Mr. Hardware is pretty good. A little different focus from SoftHut.
I've bought from both and been happy.
ObOT:
Did I mention I picked up a Pegasos II board last month?
Doc
Oh--and ithis site has the CW MK 4 about 13 clams
cheaper than SoftHut:
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=206
Interesting site. I've never even heard of them, plus they don't appear
to be in the US, as prices are listed in Pounds. I'd also like to say
that I've always had good service from SoftHut. They're one of the few
US Amiga dealers remaining (I think they're the only major one left),
and well worth supporting.
12 Mar
12 Mar
9:38 a.m.
At 11:57 PM -0600 3/11/06, Doc Shipley wrote:
Mr. Hardware is pretty good. A little different
focus from
SoftHut. I've bought from both and been happy.
I've bought from him as well, though he seemed a bit high on his
prices (but at least he had what I needed).
ObOT:
Did I mention I picked up a Pegasos II board last month?
Well, at least you're not telling me you picked up an Amiga One
board, that's the one I *REALLY* want. I simply can't afford/justify
the cost of either.
How do you like it?
Zane
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1:56 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 11:57 PM -0600 3/11/06, Doc Shipley wrote:
And SoftHut's cheap? :)
Yeah, Mr. Hardware does take a premium for keeping those "last little
bits" around.
Mr. Hardware is pretty good. A little
different focus from
SoftHut. I've bought from both and been happy.
I've bought from him as well, though he seemed a bit high on his prices
(but at least he had what I needed). Well, at least you're not telling me you picked up
an Amiga One board,
that's the one I *REALLY* want. I simply can't afford/justify the cost
of either.
Me too, concerning the AmigaOne. But the Pegasos was under $350
shipped with the 1GHz G4 and a video card, so I snarked it.
How do you like it?
Umm. MorphOS has some problems. It runs the classic Amiga software
I've installed just as well as AOS v3.5 does on a "real Amiga". That is
also to say that an app can take out the machine just as well as it did
in the classic OS. Not much memory protection at all. There's also
apparently some longstanding feud between Genesi and the original
MorphOS developers. However, when I told Genesi I bought my board used
and wanted access to OS updates and their support forums, they handed me
a login, no questions asked.
Having said all that, I like MorphOS. It seems to do exactly what it
intended - provide a very fast modern platform for Classic Amiga
applications and games. (I haven't tried any games yet. I have Leisure
Suit Larry v5 around somewhere....) It seems to have good support among
the s/w houses that are still developing Amiga-ish stuff, like AWeb and
iBrowse, and has a reputedly good AOS4 emulation built in.
Oh, and MorphOS is stupid quick. It boots from OpenFirmware boot
command to a ready desktop in under 3 seconds.
Honestly? I like the *hardware* a lot more than MorphOS.
I like having a PPC Linux box that's neither Apple nor RS6k. The
Pegasos-II is very very quiet, and supports up to 2GB RAM to go with the
1GHz CPU. With 512MB it's been rock-solid running Debian "testing".
The onboard gigE is supported in v2.6 kernels, too. My only beefs would
be the 400MB Firewire and USB1.1 onboard, but then Linux-supported
FW800/USB2.0 PCI cards are a dime a dozen.
Genesi's hardware and OF development seems more active,
better-funded, and a lot more consistent than AmigaOne's, too. I like
the idea of AmigaOS v4 better than MorphOS, but nothing I read on
Hyperion or any of the AmigaOne hardware development tells me it's got legs.
Doc
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