Trevor Dickinson talks about the new Amiga X1000

Part 1 of 2 of the speech given at the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park, UK, 19th June 2010
Part 2 is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EaSN3IuZII

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Amiga
• A-EON
• Hyperion
• OS4
• X1000

[jsuttonus]

The X1000 is just a hoax. It was supposed to have been released back in Summer. After VCF they started showing a printed paper picture of the X1000 motherboard mounted in a case at shows. Then A-eon came up with a beta pre-sale program and announced that would begin in November. November came and no beta boards but A-eon started taking money. Now it's the end of November and the beta people have heard no word from A-eon. Starting to look very, very scammy!

[amiga1productions]

@jsuttonus

You are spreading FUD, all the successful Beta Testers are being informed this week of their acceptance into the A1-X1000 Beta Test programme. so things are happening. Of course not as fast as we would like, but I'd rather we get it right this time and not have to make track alterations and add resistors and missing codec chips to the board like we had to do with the Eyetech A1-XE. At least A-EON are trying to learn from past mistakes.

[jsuttonus]

@amiga1productions

And now it's 2011 and the betatesters - who paid a lot of money to be in the beta program - STILL haven't gotten their boards. A-eon has this to say about it on their website: AmigaOne X1000 Beta Testers should take delivery of their revision 2 Nemo motherboards during the first quarter of 2011

The beta boards still haven't shipped. That isn't FUD it's solid fact. The X1000 was due in Summer 2010, then Late 2010, now after Q1 2011. Fact not FUD.

[amiga1productions]

@jsuttonus

Maybe A-EON should give the same dates that Hyperion always give:

When it's Done

[0utcastAussie]

OMG where's part 2 ?

AKA Outcast/The_Editor

[amiga1productions]

@0utcastAussie

'tis processing and uploading now, patience my friend patience :-)

[drbilly100]

hello 2012 ??? still not out yet??? who the fuck is going buy high end in a recession ??

[notanfningain]

stable? This guy has all the leftover commodore computers that didn't sell in his basement.

[DevilMaster]

@amiga1productions Or maybe A-EON should not talk about their products at all until they're done.

[FullLifeRebel]

I would love to see the amiga resurface with up to date technology. But sadly amiga's history tells a different story. This new amiga will probably take years to surface for purchase, if at all.

The other major issue with the amiga is usually by the time hardware is released it has already obsolete for years. But hardware alone will not help the community, there MUST be new software (Games and Apps) available, or there is no point to buying new hardware.

[MstrSinister]

@Defcom96

Yep, definetely! Does anybody have some "Troll-B-gone" spray at hand?

[fighterpiolt1992]

i hope it has a powerpc cpu

[Defcom96]

@jsuttonus TROLL!