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'Has Any Developer Received the Developer Board from ACK?'

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 20:57 UTC

Not too long ago, we announced that ~~pigs could fly~~ AmigaOS4 had found hardware to run on. In the weeks following the announcement, the specifications of the two different boards (high and low end) were announced, and ACK Controls, the manufacturer, promised to release the first developer boards mid May. It is now June, and there are no developer boards. No photos, nothing. The community also wonders, has any developer received the developer board from ACK? Believers say that the legal troubles in Amiga land are preventing ACK from releasing the boards, but they forget that ACK has actually promised the boards despite the legal troubles. It seems that they can't fly after all. Update: Adam of ACK Controls said in the linked thread on AmigaWorld: "There will only be a total of five developer systems sent to OS4 developers that will be responsible for drivers, HAL ports. When some of the smoke settles, more information will be released."

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RE: ACK had another prototype...

by humppa on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 23:04 UTC in reply to "ACK had another prototype..."

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...called the PowerVixxen LT that generated some excitement among Amiga circles. It was an accelerator for the Amiga 1200 that would add a Radeon mobility graphics card and CMedia sound chip along with a PowerPC 603e series processor. He said he had a prototype anyway, but nobody ever saw it because he cancelled the demonstration before anybody could see it.

The (canceled) demonstration was for the CPU modules, not the Powervixxen LT. Adam never managed to show any of his announcements working, let alone any photographic evidence that they existed.
In an IRC chat around Xmas 2005 he even lied by saying that the Powervixxen LT was "in production" and only the "docs are being polished up".

Edited 2007-06-03 23:06

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