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6 Jan 10 Hello Amiga supporters. Well the cat is finally out of the bag. And what a cat it has turned out to be. Hyperion and A-Eon are releasing a high end Amiga motherboard/full computer system with a few surprises. Everyone welcome the X1000. Rather than add my personal comments all I am going to do is post some of the specs and a discription from the site. 10x USB 2.0 1x Gigabit Ethernet 2x PCIe x16 slots (1x16 or 2x8) 2x PCIe x1 slots 1x Xorro slot 2x PCI legacy slots 2x RS232 4x SATA 2 connectors 1x IDE connector JTAG connector 1x Compact Flash  www.a-eon.com "At the start of this journey, we posed the question 'what is X?' The answer is that X is many things. X is the Xena/XMOS chip, and the Xorro slot that accompanies it. X is the mystery CPU, and above all, X is the AmigaOne X1000, the new complete desktop computer system from A-EON." "It's almost 25 years since Commodore released the A1000 model that launched the line in the summer of 1985, and with the launch of the X1000 we will usher in a new beginning for the AmigaOS platform. Just as Commodore did with the A1000, we're aiming at the high-end first, with a powerful desktop computer aimed at the professional and serious hobbyist markets (although you won't have to wait until summer, and it should be a little cheaper!) The launch of the A1000 offered something new, and the X1000 will do the same. The world has moved on and custom chips no longer make much sense, but the X1000 offers a customisable chip as standard instead - 'Xena'." "Thanks to Xena and the Xorro interface, the X1000 offers extraordinary flexibility. We believe that with this easy gateway to the world of 'Software Defined Silicon' and a path to massive parallelism, the X1000 will once more make the AmigaOS platform the best choice for truly creative and unique applications. For custom hardware control from robotics to theatrical lighting, for hobbyist creativity, for hardware hacking and for a multitude of applications we haven't even imagined yet, the X1000 is a dream platform - and therein lies another meaning of 'X', the unknown. It is you, not us, who will define the future." "Of course that's far from all there is to the X1000. Even if you have no interest in the co-processor concept, the X1000 is by a large margin the most powerful and up-to-date platform for running AmigaOS. With a fast dual-core CPU and a full range of modern interfaces such as PCIe x16, SATA and USB 2.0, the already extremely responsive AmigaOS will at last have a truly high-end platform to run on. While AmigaOS has progressed massively over the last few years (and continues to develop more and more features at an impressive rate), the hardware to run it on has not kept pace. There was a time when we had great hardware as well as a great Operating System, and with the AmigaOne X1000, we can finally say that time is come again. While the entry level is currently well catered for by ACube's SAM motherboard, it is this return of AmigaOS to the high-end that truly ushers in a new beginning." All I can say right now is WOW!! 3 Jan 10 Happy New Years! And what a happy New Years it has turned out to be. Just incase you have not been following the latest Amiga news, Hyperion has just started dropping some subtle and not so subtle hints about their "MAP". (The Most Ambitious Project) and what a project is it turning out to be. After spending a 2 hours of my time going through the 53+ page, 1000+ post comments thread on AmigaWorld.net. we discover that on 31 Dec Hyperion went live with the site www.a-eon.com asking us "What is X?". From that point on every day a new piece of the puzzle has been given culminating to todays latest tease. It would seem that Hyperion has been secretly working on a NEW Amiga motherboard. WOW. Who saw this coming? Well it does not take a genius to predict good things are soon coming our way! 17 Oct 09 In case you haven't heard the good news the court case is finally over! On 17 Oct 09 Hyperion and Amiga Inc. have finally reached a settlement! And with that GREAT news I will keep this brief. After MANY years I have *finally* MADE some time to rewrite the site. Here are a few of the newly planned features -Fully dynamic (Courtesy of PHP & MySQL) -Local search engine (No third party add ons) -File hosting (Work in progress) -A simple message board (Work in progress) -Plus a few more things... Work in progress #1 Work in progress #2  Animated Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz Email Webmaster - Scott A. Pistorino
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