Some more news bits from the Samantha presentation

- the board has been developed entirely in Italy, the three italian Amiga dealers behind the project have all the board's schematics.

- when asked about the OS4 licence status, it has been said that the talks with Amiga inc. are proceeding well

- the first batch of boards will be likely destined to Linux developers, rather than Amiga customers

- there are two other projects running alongside Samantha: Moana is a higher specced motherboard. At the moment it seems that they're waiting for some sort of clearance, but they couldn't reveal more details (like if it's related to the OS4 licencing). Another project, called "Bridgette", is an even smaller version of Samantha.

- the three dealers are going to form a company together in order to manage the marketing of the board(s)

Disclaimer: these news are not official, I'm not part of the team behind Samantha, so there might be some errors in my news.

I'll post more news if I remember anything more ^^

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Samantha have sisters.

she does.......you talking about Amy?

shamless plug:

ya know Amy also has a sister that likes Pandas. Strange thing those Pandas, cute and all.
But they turn out to be very powerful

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@all of you patiently waiting for this

*Information concerning Pianeta Amiga*

1st:This certainly deserves it's own thread, but we already have other info
about Pianeta Amiga in this thread. Therefore, I post this here in hope this
helps keep all on-topic information concerning Pianeta Amiga in one place.

A big thank you to @Varthall for consolidating these bits of information and
relaying them to me.

A tremendous amount of thanks to all of you involved in putting together this
information so soon after the Pianeta Amiga show. It must have been a lot of
work to do this, and we appreciate it greatly!

Please correct me if I leave anyone out of the credits. These are not written
in my native language, and I may miss someone.

Lecta (Stefano Guidetti):considering everything else you have been involved in,
wow! How did you find the time?
http://lecta.altervista.org

Amikit (Jan Zahurancik):If others were involved with this, please have them
post so we can give them a round of applause.
http://amiga.probers.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1297&Itemid=108
Added:Thanks also to Prober!

Fabio Ferriccioli: Simply a "stunningly beautiful" presentation.
http://www.quantum-leap.it/default_frame.asp?id=163

I am extremely impressed with what you have all done here. Thanks a million!

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@Interesting

Yeah, and Pandas apparently smell terrible...

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@number6

Thanks for the links.
I didn't know about this article at QuantumLeap...

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Thanks, nice to see also something from avd.

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"Bridgette", is an even smaller version of Samantha.

A nano-miggy? I'm intrigued...

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@Legion

MobileMiggy ? PDAmiggy ?

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@Varthall

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the three dealers are going to form a company together in order to manage the marketing of the board(s)

Since it's Italians working on a next-gen Amiga, is their company going to be called Triumvirate?

@Legion

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Legion wrote: @Varthall Quote: "Bridgette", is an even smaller version of Samantha. A nano-miggy? I'm intrigued...

Sadly, they won't say anything more, I guess it's still early to talk about it.

Varthall

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@number6

More photos from Szaman here:

http://ggua.exec.pl/pic/PA/SZAMAN/index.html

Varthall

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CodeSmith wrote: @Varthall Quote: the three dealers are going to form a company together in order to manage the marketing of the board(s) Since it's Italians working on a next-gen Amiga, is their company going to be called Triumvirate?

I'd suggest Troika Reloaded

Varthall

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CodeSmith wrote: @Varthall Quote: the three dealers are going to form a company together in order to manage the marketing of the board(s) Since it's Italians working on a next-gen Amiga, is their company going to be called Triumvirate?

/Bad joking on my country reputation - mode on - /

As a matter of italian mafia we could call them "The Triad"...

Uhm...

No... Sounds not good. Triads are the chinese mafia...

But... sure I have heard elsewhere about this triads regarding Samantha team...

/Bad joking on my country reputation - mode off - /

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Yeah, and Pandas apparently smell terrible...

Come closer zero......




btw: a lightsaber would be great in my mouth.

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@Varthall

I posted an additional link in the "news" thread here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3335

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@thread

Just a reposting of the link to the "news" story (now off the front page of AW)
which contains the link to the transcript done by Severin of the Pianeta Amiga
chat session.
For anyone that missed this:

http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3330

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@thread

Marvelous 1st hand account of his trip to Pianeta Amiga, the town, the people,
the Pianeta exhibitors, and the developers' conference from Nicolas Mendoza:

http://polarboing.com/article/rapport_fra_pianeta_amiga

Thanks nicomen for taking the time to do this!

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@number6

You welcome, hope someone found it useful.

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@nicomen

Thanks for the link to the Samantha project PDF, very interesting read even though I can only understand a few words of Italian. Grazie!

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