Still Waiting for my Amiga-One to Arrive

Posted by Hans de Ruiter

I thought that I should provide a quick update. Basically, I am now in New Zealand, but am still waiting for Canada Post to get my Amiga-one (A1-XE) to me. It has now been two months since I shipped it from Canada. Canada Post said that it would take four to six weeks to get here, so it is now well overdue. All the PCI cards, fans, etc., are sitting here waiting to be reinstalled into the A1-XE. The only thing left for me to do, is to copy this project's Trac files and SVN repository from my backup onto my newly set up development server; a task that should only take a minute or so. Now that the the hectic days of moving are well behind me, I would love to get back to working on the RadeonHD driver. All that I need is for my A1-XE to arrive. 

A few things have surprised me over the last few months. The first is that news of the existence of the RadeonHD for Amiga OS 4 project is still being posted on Amiga news sites. Evidently there are people who are still only just now discovering that this project exists. Having said that, the news did spread rapidly initially. The other thing that surprised me is how some still manage to be negative, despite this project's potential to push Amiga OS forward. I sincerely hope that those who think that putting a Radeon HD 2400 in an Amiga is stupid/crazy meant crazy in a "good way." And, those who wonder what on earth an Amiga would do with one of these cards may wish to have a look at what other people use these cards for. Learn to think beyond the limits of what current Amigas can do.

Of course, one should expect all sorts of opinions, so it is not surprising to find a few skeptics. We'll see what everyone thinks once the driver has finally progressed to the public beta phase. In the meantime, stay tuned to this development log for progress updates.

Comments (0) | 25 December 2008