Had brief contact with Trevor; no change in relationship is expected but discussions are ongoing.

Thing is there doesn't appear to be a PPC equivalent processor :(

AmigaOS isn't on ARM - which frankly is something that would open up a whole world of possibilities. PowerPC is losing an awful lot of funding as time goes on from what I can see.

In the meantime getting AROS onto the Pi is a fantastic project - but forgive my wish, ClusterUK,that Amiga OS4.2 was coming to it.

Ok - looking at it from another perspective. The A500 especially was a paradigm shift from the computers general available for home use when it was released. To repeat that paradigm shift - is x86 really the only way? Clearly at a "home computer" price point it is impossible to compete with a £2000 PC in a toe to toe fight in the same way that the A500 at £399.99 obliterated a £2000 PC in 1989. However is there another development thread, or is it simply just a case that the games consoles now completely own that space with people having to own a games console and a cheap PC to do what the traditional home computers did?

I kinda feel sorry for my kids not having the opportunity to have something like my A500 or A1200, and alongside the PS3 (the 360 barely ever gets switched on), the Raspberry Pi might fill in some of the gap, hence my train of thought.

The price is the entire point in this case for me. An entry level Amiga that plugs into a TV at around £100-£150 with the OS - a modern A500/A1200 that's the same kinda low cost compared with PCs as the A500 and A1200 were back in the day. That's what the name Amiga means to me - an accessible home computer that kids can learn computing/programming etc with as well as play games. A true successor to the A500 and A1200, which, due to price points, none of the AmigaOS 4.x hardware are (though to be fair, the price points of the AmigaOnes, and Sams are as low as you can expect thus a different approach may be needed, and even the touted netbook sounds expensive for what it is, especially in the current environment.)

Well £100 for the hardware at least as I guess AmigaOS 4.2 would be £s more.

I am also trying to think back - Hyperion 100% ruled out AmigaOS on x86/x64, and even with AmigaOS 4.x pushing forwards to 64-bit, I personally feel that a supported port to low cost 32-bit ARM achitecture would be massively beneficial (ie the ability to purchase AmigaOS 4.2 for Raspberry Pi would allow the production of licensed Raspberry Pi boards as low coast entry level home computers in very much the traditional sense... just have to add a geek port ;))

Question is would Hyperion even remotely be interested in such a move, being as PowerPC seems to becomming less and less end-user targetted with the technology seemingly exiting from the console market, and having little penetration into any end user product?

Hey all,

Not being at all knowledgeable on all things PowerPC outside of the Amiga side of things, and considering the huge sucess of the Raspberry Pi and the achievement the foundation have managed already with much more to come, I am left with some thoughts and queries.

Considering the design of the Raspberry Pi, is it concievable that such a board could be produced with an equivalent PowerPC processor. The problem is from looking at AppliedMicro and Freescale, unless I am going blind, there appears to be no "true" SoCs from either company using PPC - only ARM based product. (By "true" SoC I mean something that would be suitable for home computing like the Broadcom processor on the Pi with a GPU core and sound capabilities).

Obviously this is due to ARM becomming rather dominant in mobile tech.

So to be more succinct, would a PowerPC based variation on the Raspberry Pi concept be possible, at a cost not too far away from that of the Pi, and would it be possible to build a plug-into-the-tv wedgie AIO Amiga running OS4 perhaps with two SD card ports to allow use as two floppy drives would have on our A500s, and have the cost at around £100...?

... no really? The fact it's not on my CV is a slight giveaway - I am just surprised no-one gave me the heads up at the time so I could at least take the mick at the time!

I was just surprised when someone pointed it out to me today... can't believe it!

Hell if I had this much power things wouldn't be the way they are now!

http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/ ... ad.pl/amiga/expand/135530

ROTFL!

Glad he survived - he's a decent bloke, and having spoken to him on a number of occassions I am convinced all the, shall we say, "dubious" workings within Amiga, Inc and it's legally questionable promotions were not of his doing.

Hey all - Was that Fleecy just on the extended news bullettin on the BBC? Looked and sounded like him?

Sven

@Mikey_C

Plug at the ready.... lol

@Mikey_C

Would it be worth aiming the event at the pre-xmas markets and target the Halloween-ish time slot?

If it helps October half term around here ends on Halloween weekend, and I guess its probably the same across the country which might help.

Obviously I will push it as much as possible if and when it goes ahead. Might be worth looking at it from the point of view that if things are picking up as they are supposed to be in the fourth quarter of the year, but with the threat of the VAT increase at the end of the year, it might be the kind of time where people might consider spending a little money this year.

Anyhow, assuming I can book it off work (well assuming I have a day job still !!!) I will come along.

Has there been much more interest? :S

@Mikey_C

I am very interested - just a case of wether its worth me doing as a table holder or attendee.

However the idea has been mentioned in a bit of writing so it may be worth seeing how much interest that generates.

:)

Sven

@xeron

if you mean hdcp to stop people pirating stuff, yeah, not that it matters if that is implemented on the miggy, as its only when the output device doesn't support it and the input device demands it that there is a problem.

It's only really there to stop people copying Blu-rays and the like, so I suppose macrovision is also evil?

In any case all I wanted to know is if the HDMI ports that are appearing on cards are supported being as HDMI is essentially the international HD SCART, giving you a much better option for connecting upto those nice 1080P TVs that state "do not use a DVI to HDMI convertor with either HDMI port".

If any new Amiga hardware does appear, frankly a HDMI out is a necessity if its to be taken seriously (along with a million other things).

Any chance of a HDMI Radeon being supported in the future (assuming there is a PCI HDMI Radeon...)

@Atheist

With all due respect the PS3 is bascially what a new gen Amiga should have been - all its missing is the OS and the only thing stopping that is this bloody court case, once Hyperion win then they can approach Sony and voila it will be licensed (hell they'll license anything with the right cut of profits).

If Amiga, inc win its game over. But we all know this don't we?

NatAmi is a nice idea and I hope it does come to fruition in a form that makes sense (Coldfire doesn't imho as it will no longer be fully compatible with classic Amigas and significantly faster).

Frankly its pretty much game over for the next few years anyway as we have missed a tech plataeu. Perhaps its time to start laying the foundations for utilising the technologies that will be coming to the fore in 2010 onwards - such as the ultra high-res OLED displays (ie better than 1080P res) and be ready for the PS4 etc generation. Thing is we need to lose Amiga, Inc first otherwise the only thing using the name Amiga will be in your pocket and not actually be Amiga like in anyway :(

Bumpimus Prime.