AmigaOne

AmigaOne is a trademark exclusively licensed from Amiga, Inc. to the U.K. computer vendor Eyetech Group, Ltd for the purpose of running the upcoming AmigaOS 4 operating system.

Originally, AmigaOne was the name of a project for new Amiga hardware, 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 optionally attached Amiga A1200 or an A4000 respectively, in order to utilise the old custom chips of an Amiga. 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 was that the AmigaOne SE had a soldered-on 600MHz G3 PowerPC processor, whereas the AmigaOne XE used a CPU board attached to a MegArray connector on the motherboard (there were G3 and G4 options with a maximum clock of 800MHz and 933MHz, respectively). The SE has since been discontinued. Recently, Eyetech have released a Mini-ITX formfactor version called the Micro-AmigaOne. The Micro-AmigaOne is offered in two configurations, under the Micro-AmigaOne I and Micro-AmigaOne C labels.

Currently these boards ship with a "developer prerelease" version of AmigaOS 4, which does not have all the features proposed for the full version.

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• Pegasos

• Amiga, Inc.
• Eyetech Group, Ltd.
• Hyperion Entertainment
• www.amigaworld.net - Eyetech's official site for AmigaOne support
• AmigaOne model comparison table
• Mai Logic