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Feb 23, 01:16 PM
Martin Heine

Nothing spectacular, but I thought I might share some pieces of information given by Thomas Rudloff (met@box) in an interview printed in the latest issue of the german magazine "amigaOS":

· in addition to the flyer I quoted January 31st, a further difference of the amijoe for A2k and A3/4k from the amijoe1200 is that those for 2/3/4k will have a 100MHz-frontsidebus.

· the 3/4k-boards will be available about one month after the aj1200, the 2k-version will take about three weeks longer.

· the price for the "k"-boards will be about 100 DM more than the same version of the aj1200 because of the bigger board and the more expensive technology.

· asked why they use a G3 instead of G4, Rudloff answered: "We can offer today 500MHz-G3-boards, while the situation of supply of the G4 is still not clear. All I can say about this for reasons of NDA is, that the first quarter of this year will bring completely new perspectives." (Original of the second part: "Alles, was ich aus NDA-Gründen dazu sagen kann, ist, daß das erste Quartal dieses Jahres ganz neue Perspektiven bringt.")

· regarding 68k-emulation: met@box has two emulations in development, optimized for the pipes of the G3/G4. The first one is in a Flash-ROM and will reach about the niveau of a 030 - 040. An update for this emulation will only be necessary in case of any bugs. The second emulation will be loaded from harddisk at booting and brings the full speed. For this one there'll be regular updates for improvement. Current calculations show, that a PPC needs about 3.5 cycles (? - german: "Takt") for the emulation of one 8/16-bit-68k-command;
32-bit-commands are emulated in ca. 1.5 cycles, so that, regarding Thomas Rudloff, already their entrance-model will be better than an overclocked 68060. Important would be the possibility to switch between 68k- and PPC-code, so that a partial port of AmigaOS and applications would be possible. The second generation of emulation is already planned and will be much faster.

Bye, Martin.

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older AmiJoe news

IIRC someone asked for the amijoe-prices recently? That's from a Metabox-flyer I received from a local Amiga-dealer who's based in Hildesheim, like Metabox.

AMIJOE 1200

PPC 750 (G3), Backside Cache, PCI-Bridge
68k-emulation
up to 512 MB RAM (PC66 SO-DIMM)
realtime-clock (amijoe1200 only)

upgradeable through:
· PCI-compatible connectors for SCSI-controllers, graphic cards,
USB-controllers, IEEE1394
· DMA-IDE-connector for additional harddisks, CD-ROMs, DVD

planned extension-modules:
· I/O-interface
· graphic card

prices:
· amijoe1200 250 MHz/512 kb
895 DM (incl. german VAT) or 400 EUR (without tax)
· amijoe1200 300 MHz/512 kb
1095 DM or 480 EUR
· amijoe1200 333 MHz/1 Mb
1395 DM or 615 EUR
· amijoe1200 400 MHz/1 Mb
1549 DM or 680 EUR

AMIJOE 2000

· uses the A2000-processor-slot
· G3 up to 466 MHz
· up to 768 MB (PC100)
· everything else as amijoe1200, except for realtime-clock

AMIJOE 3/4000

· uses the A3/4000-processor-slot
· G3 up to 466 MHz
· up to 768 MB (PC100)
· everything else as amijoe1200, except for realtime-clock

Bye, Martin.