@wegster

I'll buy the first to come out as a standalone system!
As for the PV on 1200 i'm still undecided, 'cause the 1200 is far away at my parents' house (hundreds of KMs from here) while here i have a 4K happily waiting for the right version of PV to come out (if it'll ever do).

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@wegster

$500? Not as long as i have a breath in my lungs - jesus christ lets all just hand out bank accounts over to anyone who SAYS they are going to release something.

WAIT TILL IT'S HERE !!!!!!!

Chris

Voted for ACK for my 1200,stupid not get the best out of my 1200.
Can see myself getting an Amy as well though, especially if it is out first.

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@wegster

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will you purchase an Ack PowerVixxen for A1200 or standalone, or Amy'05?

If the Vixxen fits in a standard A1200 case then I'll get one of those for the coolness factor while the full NextGen Amiga boards gain some maturity.

I would however wait for a full review before purchase.

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if the price of the vixen will be right, some of my friends with classic amigas are really intrested in buying one. this one feels like a potential mega hit! lots of folks don't want a new 'modern' big box amiga, they want their desktop a1200's to keep shinin' as that's the one and only true amiga for them, and it always will be.
will there be a gfxcard addon for the vixen aswell? that would be really cool. i'll prolly keep mine hooked up to the amiga monitor though, wouldn't wanna loose aga compatibility... it would really kick ass if someone found a way of re-routing the aga output, making it pass through the gfxcard addon. =) imagine having the ultimate a1200 ppc powered, with aga and vga stuff running through the same video cable to the vga screen... =) will never happen though.... but it was nice to let my thoughts wander off for a bit...


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@yoodoo2

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The biggest problem atm is that people who have proven they will cough up the cash (ie A1 owners) don't have a viable upgrade path until new buyers provide funds for future devlopments.

Yep, this is certainly true. Neither system is really an upgrade, but I expect at least as many people still _want_ an OS4 system as those of us that have one...and Troika/Guru have mentioned a future system, so hopefully this all works out in time.

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@AmigaOneProductions

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I voted for Troika, Hopefully it will work flawlessly without me having to get out my soldering iron out and move resistors around to get DMA working

Yes, point noted

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I voted for Troika, Hopefully it will work flawlessly without me having to get out my soldering iron out and move resistors around to get DMA working

Same here seems like the best choice for me, built I still reserve the right not to purchase any of them
until I know they work, no soldering for me.

@wegster
Had/have the funds to buy one but I want a complete system. Built and ready to go, dare I say plug 'n play?

Not thrilled with the specks but will still go for it if the damn thing works out of the box. AOS4 looks fine to
me as it is but I want to know I can buy reasonably solid working hardware.

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@wegster

Voted: I won't buy anything until a higher end system is available

@yoodoo2

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The biggest problem atm is that people who have proven they will cough up the cash (ie A1 owners) don't have a viable upgrade path until new buyers provide funds for future devlopments.

And that also may apply to my position, as I would like to upgrade my A4000.
Until the addon for A1200 is a success (revenue), I don't expect to see an upgrade
path for my A4000.

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@wegster
There will be a standalone version? My idea was that it could be used as in standalone, on site all that is refered is that has one targueted at A1200 and other at A1200 tower equipped with USB, Ethernet, AGP and three PCI-slots, is it it?

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@pixie

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pixie wrote: @wegster There will be a standalone version? My idea was that it could be used as in standalone, on site all that is refered is that has one targueted at A1200 and other at A1200 tower equipped with USB, Ethernet, AGP and three PCI-slots, is it it?

Supposed to be, from http://safir.amigaos.se/article_ack_eng.html
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The PowerVixxen LT is therefore designed to function in a standard A1200 desktop, without the need of separate power-supply, and with the low electrical consumption it will hardly be any problems. Something worth a mention is the design of a terminator, which features among other things sockets for mouse, keyboard, sound and so on. This means in reality that one does not need an A1200 to use the card. With the right case one suddenly gets a luscious, energy-efficient, cheap and effective little Amiga.

I'm guessing it's going to be additional cost for a breakout cable of sorts for the additional connectors, and the mini-pci video card..

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@wegster

Undecided!

I will decide when there is real product and prices.

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@wegster

When the ACK PowerVixxen comes out I'll buy it and sell off my troublesome MicroA1-c to get it. I'd rather have a compatible system than a powerful system any day. If I ever need a powerful system I'll upgrade my PC instead.

@wegster

If it is possible to easily disable the PV card to get the A1200 to work as default, or failing that to use the AGA chipset instead of the VGA card, I would buy the PV even though I have a working XE. Why? because that way I would have one single amiga that can run old software as well as new. I've spent some time thinking about it, and I've realized that unless we have some sort of breakthrough, I'm going to do all my CPU intensive stuff on my AMD64 box. The kinds of things that I do on my amiga are not going to benefit much from the extra 400MHz that a Amy'05 is going to give me. Plus if I am wrong and end up doing more serious stuff on the amiga, it will be good to have the A1200 to test the code on low-end machines.

Incidentally, I discovered with some dismay that my A1200 has had one of its keys bashed in (something must have fallen on it when it was in storage). The rest of the machine seems fine, just the one key is broken off. Do you guys know of anyone I can buy a reasonably new A1200 keyboard from in the USA? Since I'm not sure of the extent of the damage, I'd rather replace the entire keyboard than risk having a crack in the keyboard assembly cause a short that takes out one of the CIAs.

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@Wegster

I also want to buy both solutions

TrevorDick

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Me too!

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@wegster

Fro my personal needs, I think the PowerVixxen would be nice. I've got an A1XE board, but PowerVixxen could provide something a little more portable. It's not convenient to haul around my tower, and I think carrying an A1200 would be less hassle when I want to take OS4 with me.

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@wegster

Ok I will start by admitting that I am just back from the Pub.

But that fits in perfectly with from what I am looking for in my new Amiga.

I am looking for a Small a computer than blends in to the back ground and just works.
All it has to do is play music (mp3’s and ogg) and movies (DVD’s) and be quiet and easy to use.

I just wont to be able to leave it on like I do with my VIA C3 mini-itx system and ether use the touch screen to select some music or use the remove to start playing the DVD I have just placed in the slot loaded DVD drive.

I don’t want to have to think about the fact it is a computer I just want it to do the job with out having to think about the problem.

That is what the Amiga has always done for me (you don’t have to think about it just works) my classic Amiga plays the mp3’s all my new Amiga has to add is DVD playback and allow me to run my existing PPC software faster.

So I will buy the first new Amiga system that allows me to run Amiga OS4 and playback DVD’s for £500 or less (just for the motherboard and CPU) if it is a small form factor mother board and the reseller will accept a major credit card.

I am not looking for a computer to replace my Athlon64 I am looking for a computer to replace my small x86 box I use for movie and music play back. All it has to do is pass the girl friend test which means it has to me as easy to use as win amp and WinDVD and be as quiet as my existing small for factor computer. If it passes both of the above tests and cost £500 or less I can have one as soon as its release and I will not have to answer any other questions about it.

From speaking to a lot of my friends who also owned Amiga’s in the past their requiments for buying a new Amiga are quite similar so I expect the fist company to release a new board that fit’s in to my requirements is on to a winner. Most of them will not run out and buy a new Amiga as soon as it is released but they will start saving so they can buy there new mp3 player that also run’s their old games and software as long as it done not cost to much.

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