Subj : Re: My A2K died :\
To   : DENNIS SMITH
From : Rene Laederach
Date : Thu Sep 18 2003 21:49:30

DENNIS SMITH wrote to RENE LAEDERACH:
DS> The power light is steady all the time now.

Dim or fully lit? If it's dimmed down, calls are open to what could have 
died.

DS> Well, I'm more interested in the A1 than the old A2Ks. Could I live 
DS> without a classical Amiga? Hmmm...that's hard. Amiga is a class of it's
DS> own. I will scrap one of them to save the other.:-|

I emulate it now, and with a AMD 3200, it doesn't work too badly if you have 
GB RAM.

DS> though this in a KDE desktop. If I go with Gnome, it's a lot snappier,
DS> like an '020 at 14MHz roughly. Do you think its prgs in the background?  

Couldn't tell it from afar. If I can make UAE compile on the p670 in my 
office,
 I'll let it run against some real CPU power.

DS> Any particular linux in mind? BTW, Yellow Dog v.3 is shaping up! It would
DS> be nice if the installer for A1 was ready around OS4 is released.

Yellow Dog is nice, but I can't make it run with it's fan on a new Powerbook
yet, and I don't have a brand-new desktop Mac to test with. Else....
 


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