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Re: Amiga History Help needed!

Posted on: 2010/4/16 18:10 #1

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@TrevorDick

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TrevorDick wrote:
@Troika

You can always check the "Amiga Retrospective" series written for "Amiga Future" magazine by someone called R.T.Dickinson, whoever that is?

Part 18 is included in issue 84 which will be released in early May. The series which started in "Total Amiga" magazine and transferred to Amiga Future attempts to cover the complete history of the Amiga.

You mean the Incomplete history of the Amiga.

Trevor I'll put you down for one of my signed copies if your nice !

My shameless plug.

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: Amiga History Help needed!

Posted on: 2010/4/15 14:27 #2

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@Slayer

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Slayer wrote:
@Troika

I'm sure there was a link via the site EAB to a website filled with the exact information you seek...

try there, I don't go there very often anymore...

English Amiga Board

ahhhh yes, been to that board a long time ago but didn't know that info was there. Thx

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: Amiga History Help needed!

Posted on: 2010/4/15 14:24 #3

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@A1200

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A1200 wrote:
@Troika

Is this to be a book like "On the Edge" but with total emphasis on the history of the Amiga?

Yes

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Amiga History Help needed!

Posted on: 2010/4/14 19:58 #4

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Greetings All,

With the up and coming
1) 25th anniversary of the Amiga,
2) The off, and on writing of my memoirs.
3) The need to preserve the history yet unknown to the public.

I find myself writing chapters and subchapters of material that I have had locked away and preserved regarding the Amiga etc. Stuff that brings out the popcorn!

While this is a part time project and may take from 6 months to 18 months to finish it, yet it needs to be done.

To be fair and balanced I have a few ?open holes? in the material that needs to be researched fully. One such area is the failed attempt by parties who attempted and failed to purchase the Amiga assets from Gateway. This is the time period of what would become ?Amiga Inc.?.

Looking for those parties involved with, or with direct knowledge to confidentially contact me. The material can be attributed as ?Anonymous? or with a footnote.

Understand fully this is a book of ?Truth? not any spin! The full truth of those years needs to be preserved, explained and told without being ?Rewritten?.

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: An open discussion on where we go from here

Posted on: 2009/7/29 19:48 #5

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@abalaban

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Let's stop adding gizmos and ?new features? to the mainboard and lets focus and getting it to the market.

Don?t think you understand, after many years in the Amiga market its time for me to take a long and well deserved ?holiday?.

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: An open discussion on where we go from here

Posted on: 2009/7/29 2:22 #6

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@Rigo

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Rigo wrote:
@Troika

Is Troika in a suitably good financial state to help finance such efforts....

We have no ?contract? or access to source code.

DaveP says it well Quote:

The "company" structure might have changed but business is still business.

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: An open discussion on where we go from here

Posted on: 2009/7/28 21:27 #7

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@DaveP

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If so, then I suspect the Amiga Inc contract that has to be challenged and broken in order for AmigaOS4.x to survive and provide reasonable return for the Hyperion and team investment in it over so many years. It is also this contract that perhaps, when we are down to our last 100 malfunctioning Mac Minis, and our last barely functioning Pegasos 2s, Sams and A1s, needs to be ripped up for all our sanities. After all, as time goes on there are going to be less and less working hardware in circulation, not more. That is the importance of projects like Sam, to replenish the working hardware pool.

We ignore any possibility of improvement at our collective peril.

Let me offer another possibility. First and foremost let?s get a perfect operating OS4. Frankly I?m disappointed this is 2009 and we don?t have USB 2.0 fully running without issues. The Amiga invented "plug and Play" and we can't get the new version USB working?

Let?s stop adding gizmos and ?new features? to the OS and lets focus and getting it to work flawlessly on PPC, whatever core that comes along.

The great workaround the license, lawsuit and poor management is to refocus our efforts.

Step 1 Debug Os4 as we are stuck with PPC for a while.

Step 2 Offload all new features to the Coprocessor ie The General purpose GPU. For more info on this read the tech paper located here.
No misunderstanding: For those who don?t read the manuals?.this program ties in with this news, http://www.amigans.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=882
?New HIS Radeon 4350 is a PCI one - it is usable.? Ie the GPGPU

Step 3 This program needs a leadership DaveP, programming skills, and can be accomplished using any current HW with PCI slots.

Let's stop playing catch-up and create!

Edited by Troika on 2009/7/29 2:23:25
Edited by Troika on 2009/7/29 19:41:41

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Re: About window on OWB

Posted on: 2009/3/27 17:17 #8

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@samo79

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samo79 wrote:
@Slayer

:-O

No image at all using OWB ??

Damn they works ok on Firefox :-/

M$ Internet Explorer doesn't support URI encoding (at least versione 6.0 and 7.0)

Do "Slideshows" work under OWB?

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: Amy Motherboard Sneak Peak

Posted on: 2009/2/6 15:03 #9

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@Rudei

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No disrespect, but haven't you take enough of a bashing on the other forum this was posted on?

Plans sometimes go bad. No excuses, it happened.

Our wish was to give something special to this web site then point the other sites to the link. We ran into a password issue and the info never went out.

If we obtain the poll info and user feedback then any bashing is worth it. Sides trolls will be around no matter what right?

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: Amy Motherboard Sneak Peak

Posted on: 2009/2/6 14:52 #10

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Part 2

Starting point for Athena is the Freescale model MPC8349E-mITXE reference board

This is one of our Software development and testing systems used in our development program. Basing Athena on a very reliable reference design has allowed us a working system running Linux from day one.

Mods note: This image is too large, click the link to view it separately
Picture 1

The case is an Antec Aria case, shown inside is the reference design motherboard and the graphics card used is a Radeon HIS9250. All components used to build this system, including the graphics card, were procured from Misco. A suitable card is http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/S ... p?EdpNo=236374&CatId=2694, good value at ?31.31 inc VAT.

Mods note: Again, click the link for the picture
Picture 2

We hope you have enjoyed this "Sneak Peak"

Edited by Rigo on 2009/2/6 15:32:54

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Amy Motherboard Sneak Peak

Posted on: 2009/2/6 14:20 #11

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Part 1

Dear Amigans,

Back in 2007 at TroikaNG, we changed our product development goals. The system codenamed Prometheus/Amy05 had taken us into one direction, grown and as time progressed became costly, and slightly dated with regard to the technology used.

A new project, codename Athena, was commenced. This was a lower cost system which provided a more effective price point for the current markets. The initial hardware was developed and tested towards during 2007.

We are very pleased at this point in time to present a sneak preview of the updated design of this new motherboard designed for Amiga OS4x. The focus is a low cost entry level system designed to kick around Os4, and maybe do some developer work. Our new series will be known as the Amy Developer.

In addition we have an active development roadmap around a higher higher performance core, with a 1 GHz processor and numerous enabling technologies. The part we have designed in for this next model after this first Athena adds some additional costs. It provides a good price/performance/power ratio.

Since this is a sneak peak we won?t reveal all the specifications only that she can compete with other motherboards running at speed of 500-700 mhz. The feature set includes USB 2.0 high speed, Gigabit Ethernet, SATA and support for DDR RAM (DIMMS).

Graphics are provided by an off the shelf PCI card as this provides the most cost effective solution, to you, the end user.

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Customer feedback is important to us. We realize that in the past, our announcements have not always been universally well received. It is because of this that we have spent the best part of the last two years developing and testing our system before announcing the product.

If you could futher help us with your feedback, we have a poll running on AW regarding the price point of this model.
We ask the question: Would you purchase an Amy Developer Series MB for $300-350 US /227 Euro?

Troika NG www.Troikang.com

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Re: OWB (1.18) bugs and feature requests

Posted on: 2008/7/7 0:49 #12

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@joerg

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joerg wrote:
@SKOLMAN_MWS

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http://acid3.acidtests.org

http://crashlog.os4depot.net/cl23
Unlike all other crashes this one is a bug in the AmigaOS4 parts (actually 2 bugs, and that it tries to download SVG images at all will be changed in the next version as well, I'll use my original version to only download application/#? mime types), will be fixed in the next version.