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  • Amiga announces new system!

    Amiga announced their new system.. with Matrox video adapter (will it be an G800???)
    http://www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.shtml

    October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).

    We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the "zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.

    The zico specification is as follows;

    - One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
    - 64MB+ memory
    - Next Generation Matrox graphics card
    - Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
    - 10 GB+ HD
    - CD/DVD
    - USB 1.0
    - Firewire
    - 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
    - 56k modem
    - Spare PCI slots for expandibility

    With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne products.

    The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product. Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.
    [This message has been edited by Michel (edited 22 October 2000).]
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  • #2
    most likely it will be a G450 & not a G800.

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    • #3
      I hate to say it, but Amiga has won more "vaporware" awards than nearly any other computer manufacturer.

      Show me the box, Amiga, not a product spec sheet.

      I'm not bashing Amiga: I still have one boxed up somewhere, and I think the architecture is still viable. Whenever I get a touch of nostalgia, I run UAE. (I still love Turrican).

      BUT, they need to produce something, not just tell us about it.


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      • #4
        ... heheh, yeah, but I already posted this yesterday...
        Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

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        • #5
          HEY! Don't insult Bitboys that way! THEY, not Amiga, are the reigning kings of vaporware!

          - Gurm

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          • #6
            You are not being fair to AMIGA.
            It has had its legs cut of more than 3 times.
            And if you read the statement again it actualy sais that an "AMIGA" system isn't a hardvare system anymore.
            More like a OS like Linux, etc etc
            If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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            • #7
              Looks like I need to get a firewire adapter and a new Matrox card soon..

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              • #8
                As an ex-Amiga fan (i still got my beloved A4000/040 25mhz and also a A500Plus and a rare Amiga CD32 ) i still like to hear good news for the Amiga system.
                By the way, do you remember games like Swadow of the Beast (trilogy), Turrican , Speedball 2, and my personal favorite Sendible World of Soccer
                And my favorite 3d programme Lightwave 3.5 and the 3d demos i created with it that still today are Extremly good(with Scala M200 )

                [This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 23 October 2000).]

                [This message has been edited by alessandro (edited 23 October 2000).]
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                • #9
                  AMIGA is great comp but have to many problems with hardware firms . I have Amiga 1200 + Blizzard PPC 603e / M68040 + BVision (Gfx card vith Permedia II) + 128Mb RAM + Fast ATA and it is very good combo, but I have not enough good software or games, and hardware come to be old. Anyway I hope Amiga alive ! 8-)
                  I know litle bit nostalgic....

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                  Only one thing is missing in my life. Save button. (bad English I know...)
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                  • #10
                    According to an interview that was posted a few weeks ago, the new Amiga will run a G800 ...

                    Besides that, name one Computer System that is officially dead since about ten years, but still has a very active user & coding scene ...

                    Ok, I admit, one might be the C64.



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