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What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 10:56:59
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What is going on with Mai? There website is down, and I heard that all there phone/fax numbers are disconnected! Is it possible to get some facts and not speculation! Alan!!!!
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 10:59:23
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We don't know yet, as soon as anyone knows anything concrete, it will get posted here.
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 10:59:52
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I fear nobody can answer this here...
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 13:28:22
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has anyone thought opf checking the company regitrations office where they're based (Austin, Texas right?) In the UK we ahve a central organsisation (Companies house) where companie are registered, I don't knwo what the American equivilent is called but they will know if they have filed for insolvency etc. |
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 13:41:01
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hmm... IF mai was dead, I'm not sure it's TOTALLY bad, that would force (well, hopefully, in a perfect world) Amiga Inc to think different, and make AOS4 happen on another platorm, and that would hopefully mean a bugfree more up to date platform. I wouldn't mind seeing AOS4 on the pegasos for example, not saying that the Pegasos is all up to date either but, you get my point. I'm just not so sure AInc is all that intrested in AOS4 at all though :/
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 16:51:13
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what about the mystery hardware that OS4 already works on. |
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 17-May-2005 17:00:51
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i hope we hear somethig soon on both the mystery device and mai's situation. _________________ Win•dows: n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition. |
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 21-May-2005 17:29:16
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| I wish eyetech or someone could say some words on how/if this will affect AmigaONE. |
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 21-May-2005 23:44:46
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If mai logic is really dead, as rumours in other sites suggest, then unless someone bought the design for the Articia chips and decided to start manufacturing them again you've got about as much chance of buying a SID chip as you do an Articia northbridge.
I *really* hope Alan's silence is a result of him looking for alternatives and not wanting to spook prospective business partners.
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 22-May-2005 13:18:58
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I hope Mai is ok. We need argently a new Northbridge like the Articia P and a new AmigaOne (XC). If AmigaOS 4 is released we need a good AmigaOne board in a own Amiga like Box.
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 22-May-2005 14:37:18
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AmigaPapst wrote: @Yogi27
I hope Mai is ok. We need argently a new Northbridge like the Articia P and a new AmigaOne (XC). If AmigaOS 4 is released we need a good AmigaOne board in a own Amiga like Box.
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 22-May-2005 17:51:52
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Now all we need to do is to *not* put in a VIA southbridge and we should be good to go 
Actually, I remember reading some discussion (could have been anywhere, I tend to browse all over the place) where the possibility was mentioned of making a modern motherboard without a southbridge at all. If you limit yourself to USB, ethernet and IDE, apparently there are discrete chips that you can buy in small enough quantities to be worthwhile for the hobbyist (ie you can buy them individually or lots of 5 or 10). IIRC the reason why we ended up with the 686B is that this was the only SB that Mai could get in small enough quantities.
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 22-May-2005 17:54:13
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The nForce4 chipset supports PPC970. 
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 22-May-2005 19:53:30
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I'm using nForce 4 sli... now !!
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Re: What is going on with MAI? Posted on 22-May-2005 20:06:34
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I'm using nForce 4 sli... now !!
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