AmigaOne Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
AmigaOne is a trademark licensed from Amiga, Inc. to the U.K. computer vendor Eyetech Group, Ltd for the purpose of running the upcoming AmigaOS PowerPC native version, currently in a near beta testing by Hyperion Entertainment.Originally, AmigaOne was the name of a project for a new Amiga PowerPC upgrade board, managed by Eyetech and designed by the German company Escena GmbH. The AmigaOne motherboard was to be available in two models, the AmigaOne-1200 and the AmigaOne-4000. It was to have connectors for an Amiga A1200 or an A4000 respectively, in order to utilise the old custom chips of an Amiga. This AmigaOne project was cancelled in 2001, due to problems and delays from Escena.
Once the Escena design was consigned to the scrapheap, Eyetech looked around for an alternative route. The result was that they licensed a PowerPC reference platform from a company called MAI Logic and modified it to get two new boards, called AmigaONE XE and AmigaOne SE.
The main difference between the two is that the AmigaONE SE has a soldered G3@600MHz processor, whereas the AmigaONE XE uses a socketed processor (currently are available G3 and G4 with a maximum clock of 800MHz and 933MHz, respectively). Recently, Eyetech has anounced two new boards the µ-AmigaONE-C and µ-AmigaONE-I boards, these are two Mini-ITX form factor boards with onboard audio and video chip and an expansion slot for PCI riser cards, somewhat like the A1200.
Currently these boards ship with a developer prerelease version of AmigaOS 4, which does not have all the features proposed for the full version.
For a full feature list of the currently selling Amiga boards take a look here at the AmigaOne model comparison table
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