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While at the moment their only one official AmigaOne supported, many third party developers have deliver their own idea of an AmigaOne. Their will also be other PC boards that will be capable of supporting AmigaOS4.0 this is where they will be listed.
Bplans Pegasos
info / pics / spec & price
/ links
Merlancia
info / pics / spec &
price / links
Classic Options info /
spec &
price / links
Bplan Pegasos
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The first project to be developed by bPlan is a CHRP-influenced PowerPC system, dubbed 'Pegasos'. Despite their continual denial, the specifications are heavily influenced by past Phase5 prototypes, such as the pre/box and the AMIRAGE K2. Like these machines, it is designed to fit into a multi-processing PPC niche. The system is designed to be scalable, allowing licensed OEMs to scale the system according to the market.
While the Amiga team had continuous input into the project, the Pegasos is designed to fit a range of markets, not simply an Amiga-based system. It will be initially shipped with a Linux variant, and may be bundled with alternative operating systems, such as QNX, VxWorks. Due to the crossover with MorphOS development (many of the MorphOS team are employed by bPlan) it may form the basis of a standalone AmigaOS 3.x compatible system, how ever Amiga don’t seam to like the MorphOS project and could come in direct competition with Amiga OS 4.0.
Very interesting at the Amiga 2001 show was the first official presentation of a running capable Pegasos machine utilizing the operating system MorphOS. Gerald Carda presented a test program, which displayed plasma effects. Un-accelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS.Between 100 and 200 developer systems are to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a registration page at bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations than boards available, it will be selected by program priority. The developers should send bug reports, if any problems occur.
Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later (March 2002). Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro (Around £600) and are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
- 8 MB AGP graphic board
- 128 MB RAM
- DVD Drive
- 20 GB HD
- Mouse and Keyboard
The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively adapt their programs to this system.
Read the Pegasos press release
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| Motherboard | microATX Main board with 133 MHz processor Slot |
| CPU | 350 MHz G3 PowerPC® / 512k Cache - Dual G4 PowerPC® / 2 MB Cache |
| Memory | 2 memory slots for PC133 SDRAM |
| Graphics card | Matrox G450 Dualhead or user specified graphics card |
| Sound | AC97 Sound Subsystem with Mic. In, Line In/Out and
Headset support Optional Soundblaster Live! (uses one PCI Slot) |
| Expansion | 1 AGP slot for graphics card (such as the one
above) 3 PCI slots, 4 USB I/O connectors |
| Network & communication | 10/100 MBit Ethernet, IRDA for communication with PDAs and other IRDA devices |
| Input | PS2 compatible keyboards / PS2 compatible mouse |
| Ports | two RS232 serial port, Parallel port, Gameport (PC
style joysticks/gamepads) FireWire (100/200/400 MBit Transfer rates) |
| Drives | DVD/CD - Rom, Floppy IDE |
| Price | Around £600 (1000 Euro`s) |
| Release | Around March 2002 |
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For more information please visit
bPlan web site
bPlan Pegasos page
Morph OS News Site
Merlancia AmigaOne compatible computers
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There are are quite a few Merlancia units in development
Merlancia MMC Radian
Merlancia MMC Apocolyps Leopard
Merlancia MMC Apocolyps (DT)
Merlancia MMC Tsunami
Each one will have its own case design and different specs, however each will be CPU powered by PPC and each Merlancia unit will be designed for a number of OS systems, these include AmigaOS, AmigaDE, BeOS, LINUX, and QNX. It should also run any OS that can run on PPC hardware. Most of the units are a bit over price and are no due until the middle of 2002, find a lot more information by using the links. As I wont be covering the units in more detail until there out.
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These specs are board for all of the Merlancia units
| OS | AmigaOS, AmigaDE, BeOS, LINUX, QNX |
| CPU | All PPC based |
| Memory | From 64mb to 512mb |
| Graphics card | usually Maxtroxs G450 |
| Drives | CD-Rom / DVD- Rom |
| Price | From $1499.99 (£1,000) to $4999.99 (£3,400) |
| Release | Sometime in 2002 |
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For more information please visit
http://amiga.emugaming.com/amiemachines.html
Classic Options
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There area quite a few solutions for the classic Amiga to run AmigaOS4.0 and effectually becoming an AmigaOne system. You will need a top of the range Amiga system though, PPC, Graphics Card (AGA wont be good enough), USB card etc. The best solution and cheapest way to upgrade is though PCI boards where top of the range graphics cards can be used and PPC card, like the Shark PPC should be out soon. Below are the basic specs that a classic Amiga would need. One area I`m not shore of is the Sound, will OS4.0 use the classic Amiga sound or will you need a PCI sound card like the Soundblaster. I will have more information on the classic Amiga options at a later date.
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These specs that will be most likly required by AmigaOS4.0 to run on a classic Amiga system.
| CPU | PPC Solution ( Cyberstorm / Bizzar /Shark ect) |
| Memory | From 64mb to 512mb |
| Graphics card | usually Maxtroxs G450 (PCI will more and likely required) It may run on classic Amiga graphics cards, like Cybervision. |
| Drives/Ports | CD-Rom / Disk Drive / PCI / USB card |
| Upgrade Price | From a basic A1200 it would cost around £1000 to upgrade to the basic specs of an AmigaOS4.0 system |
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For more information please visit
http://amiga.emugaming.com/classicamiga4.html
To find out Currency rates visit http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
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Why isn't MorphOS covered on this site more?
Answer its not an official Amiga, so why should it be, otherwise I would be covering BeOS, QNX and Linux more than what I'm currently doing, OK!