@Fransexy

is your punishment for changing your old avatar..

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@Samwel

Hehe, yeah. It has vapour written all over it. They didn't contact Hyperion and highly likely didn't contact Amiga Inc., so they don't even know the added cost of both licenses. That means no or no sane business plan. Considering that you can buy DVD/media players for around 50 euro and the AInc license being very high, this is chanceless.
Apart from that, he says "We are currently half-way through booting OS4 ", which is completely crap, since they don't have U-boot booting and OS4 wouldn't boot at all anyway. So, yes, vapour!!

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@Fransexy

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all this excessive secrecy and cryptic commentaries start to irritate me

Easy, don't talk about unlaid eggs, maybe they are cubic and noone wants to buy
them, maybe they are rotten and only a few would buy them, maybe they are gold
and noone has the money to buy them, maybe they are egg-shaped with a white or
brown color, then noone wants to buy it because they are boring...

@rickardr

In keeping with the whole Fransexy / Whizkid / Spanish naming convention thing ... how about 'Novia' ?!?

Chao,

Jez

@Fransexy

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all this excessive secrecy and cryptic commentaries start to irritate me

Yes, I know, it's hard to decide where to spend your money on when suddenly 6 new platforms for OS4 appear on the market (in two weeks).

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> Different kernel, MMU etc

IIRC there was an announcement that AmigaOS is already ported to PowerPC 405 CPU.

Is this statement true?

> Cheap US$ 20.00

The CPU is IBM PowerPC 405, not AMCC. AFAIK the price of the CPU / SOC is more than US$ 20.

Apparently the walnut boards are failed multimedia STB products in 2002. The vendor went bankrupt and the remaining products were sold at low price (fire sale).

If Hyperion ported AmigaOS 4 to this board, who will mass manufacture it?
Is it possible to sell the boards for less than US$ 100?

a new soap show is ready: *SCAMiga - Vaporware or not vaporware* season10 episode101...

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@asian
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IIRC there was an announcement that AmigaOS is already ported to PowerPC 405 CPU. Is this statement true?

How true can it be when Rogue just posted the following?

Rogue wrote:
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FWIW, a PowerPC 750/7400 kernel will never run on a 405 because they have totally different MMU's. In addition, the 405 has no FPU so you would need to do a complete soft-float build (which is not publically available).

@d0c

Yep, isn't it weird how people still get so excited about this after the 101th episode. I'm off for drawing some case designs.

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@opi

It's one thing to sell a used board for $19.99, another thing to sell NEW equipment at that price.

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This IBM POWERPC 405GP computer board was removed from working equipment.

Oh my god, someone gave his AmigaOne to a developer, that means Eyetech suck because they charged me money for mine!!!!11two Right.

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@polka.

Ported to, yes.

Released for, no.

Run that through strcmp (or strncmp if you're afraid of stack overflow ) and see if ported == released for. So where excactly did they steal the kernel they're claiming to boot?

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Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@olegil

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So where excactly did they steal the kernel they're claiming to boot?

From the guys who ported it (like you said)?

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@olegil

DIf they have an Aone, OS4 is not hard to get then..

@mr.calibra

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DIf they have an Aone, OS4 is not hard to get then..

That still does not make the 405 suddenly have a 750/7400 type FPU and MMU...

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@DaveAE

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Without audio chip???

As I remember, the processor on the board is a PPC 405-alike: An IBM STB (set top box) controller. It has on-chip MPEG decoding (audio and video) and a simple audio codec, plus support for two popular DVB encryption standards (market usage requires license agreement). The framebuffer is intended for simple overlay graphics and lacks any particular acceleration.

The last time I saw this used was in Hauppauge's MediaMVP product.

@nine

The 405 might have an audio controller, but no codec. The board that is shown in the picture doesn't have audio connectors and probably doesn't have a codec. Anyway, doesn't matter, it's vapour (or is it vapor, heh) anyway.

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@rickardr

What is the name?
That's what we want you to help us with. Give us the best name in this thread and the winner will be enrolled in our beta program.

Amiga Revolution... yeah Nintendo WAS using it for its next generation console, but Wii don't have to worry about that anymore now do Wii (I mean we)?

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@Rogue

Without being specific, is there new Amiga hardware on the way???

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@Jez

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Jez wrote: @rickardr In keeping with the whole Fransexy / Whizkid / Spanish naming convention thing ... how about 'Novia' ?!? Chao, Jez

Isn't that what Eyeam called his machine/os?

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@rouge

ok. but does aos4 work on a PPC405?

anyway.. I want one anyway..

@Rogue

edit: oops, I thought you were saying AmigaOS4.0 would not run on 4xx PPC and so I was talking about "AmigaOS4 running on an existing PDA" as you stated (->750-based PDA???)...whereas you were just saying that there is no PUBLIC version of UBoot & OS4 for 4xx and rickardr did not contact you about his "project" -> the board won't be able to boot
OK.

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