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Issaquah, Wash USA – Fonthill, ON Canada May 7, 2007 – ACK Software Controls, Inc. and Amiga, Inc. are pleased to announce the specifications for the new Power System.



“While targeting the needs of today, we wanted to challenge ourselves to design for the future as well.”, said Adam Kowalczyk President of ACK Software Controls, Inc.

This new system will be offered at a suggested retail price of $ 1498.00 and be a complete offering excluding monitor in a finished design that will provide customers with everything they need to get started.

Power Design Specifications PowerPC board:

• Based on the P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M dual core 64 bit CPUs clocked at 2GHz.
• RoHS compliant ATX form factor.
• Four (4) DDR2 DIMM slots.
• One (1) PCI Express x16 slot for high performance graphics cards.
• One (1) PCI Express x2 slot for high performance I/O cards.
• One (1) PCI Express x1 slot for standard I/O cards.
• One (1) PCI 32 bit slot for legacy cards.
• Six (6) USB 2.0 ports.
• Two (2) Gb Ethernet ports.
• Two (2) UART ports for serial connectivity and debug.
• One 8Mb Flash EEPROM containing U-Boot firmware.
• Four (4) SATA II ports based on the Silicon Image SiI3132 (x2)

“This new design offers the Amiga user a new choice in hardware. Amiga believes that this new system will address the needs of the Amiga user today and into the near future.”, said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc.

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About Amiga
Amiga, Inc. is the world’s premier provider of multimedia enabling technologies. For almost two decades its award-winning software has been a mainstay for motion picture studios, multimedia creators, and digital entertainment enthusiasts around the world. Today Amiga builds on this legacy leading the way in multimedia development by providing developers with hardware-independent technologies for writing and porting applications to new platforms and interactive devices. For more information visit www.amiga.com.

About ACK
ACK Software Controls, Inc. specializes in the area of embedded controls design for use in automation systems where low-power consumption and reliability is an absolute must. Concentrating on design for manufacturing with local manufacturing facilities has allowed ACK to quickly and cost-effectively develop solutions for customers with low-volume requirements. By integrating hardware, firmware, and device driver engineering capability in-house, ACK can provide complete turn-key solutions to customers.

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@koft

Specs sound fine to me and the "price is right"! Chalk me up for one, at least.

Too bad no estimation of a time for delivery though.

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@Steff

Strange!

All day people have been asking for the specs in post after post and now when they come up (been here for 30min.) it looks as though nobody is interested.

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@Steff

Sounds good to me too.

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@Steff

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Steff wrote: @Steff Strange! All day people have been asking for the specs in post after post and now when they come up (been here for 30min.) it looks as though nobody is interested.

Maybe because its on the front page as News!

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"This new design offers the Amiga user a new choice in hardware. Amiga believes that this new system will address the needs of the Amiga user today and into the near future.", said Bill McEwen of Amiga, Inc."

This would hold true if and only if such hardware ran an Amiga OS: AOS4? Ouch, difficult for a number of rather obvious reasons; AOS5 (assuming it keeps a true Amiga feeling)? Ouch, utopia.
To me, this is nothing but hot air (hoping it is not anything worse).
I'd be pleasantly shocked if this became true some time in the near future, but honestly I'm putting not even 1 gram of hope in it.
I deeply wish it is *at least* a genuine attempt by all involved.

saimo

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@koft

These things should be discussed further in the news-section about the Power Amiga I'm sure you will find many interesting answers there

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@saimo

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This would hold true if and only if such hardware ran an Amiga OS: AOS4? Ouch, difficult for a number of rather obvious reasons; AOS5 (assuming it keeps a true Amiga feeling)? Ouch, utopia. To me, this is nothing but hot air (hoping it is not anything worse).

Always wanted to say this to you (took a bit longer than expected):

I fully agree with you!

Nice specs, fair price given the market, I like that he's not intending to sell it as a motherboard alone. I won't be holding my breath as I did for the PowerVixxen, but will wait and see...

Chris

Last edited by clebin on 07-May-2007 at 11:42 PM.

@hatschi
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I'm getting a whiff of bull too. The good news is nice to hear but there are a lot of loose threads...

I'd love to have a system like this! The more I look at recent events, the more I don't like the odds of this being yet another chain yanking.

Ainc approach AOS as a chore & are quiet.
Hyperion finish & AInc don't even acknowledge it
AInc say no to HW businesses
ACube & Hyperion announce HW
AInc finally revamps website
AInc &Ack announce HW
AInc & Hyperion in court
(The rights & talent are in court)

Looks like tit for tat, ping pong. Either somebody is trying hard to move forward or to display intent to do so. This has the hallmarks of hype like somebody suggested for the courtroom. Hope not...

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If such a beast ever comes to market at the $1500 price point AND it runs OS4, I'll buy it!



Scott

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@koft

Nice specs, right price the problems are elsewhere.

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Want one want one. Can we trade the XE who has them. Does os4 work????

@koft

It seems all ok, but before I want to see something.
I have already given 100$ to Amiga!

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hello

someone could post the last night log with ack about high end board ??? thanks a lot for that.

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The new systems seems to be good!
The price is ok.
But in my opinion, we need to know "other things" about operative system for a good evaluation....

@ikir

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Nice specs, right price the problems are elsewhere.

Perfect summary.

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Has AOS4 porting to PA evaluation board started yet?

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@KimmoK

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KimmoK wrote: Has AOS4 porting to PA evaluation board started yet?

The right question to ask would be: "Will it ever start?"