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> It’s also quite affordable. The x5000 model (which is the power system) retails at around €1650, I think there's the problem right there. 1650EUR seems like
by blippage 4y ago
> It’s also quite affordable. The x5000 model (which is the power system) retails at around €1650,
I think there's the problem right there. 1650EUR seems like a lot of dough to me to tinker around with a toy system, basically. Show me it running on a Raspberry Pi or something like that, then we're talking.
It's a shame that Pi is not used more for Operating System experimentation. We should see an abundance of toy OSs for Pi, but we never do.
We are entering an interesting phase wrt to microcontrollers and RISC-V systems in general. Maybe one day someone will put together a cheap system that is readily accessible that people can pick up and say "hey, I can build my own system with this." It doesn't even need to be a particularly powerful system.
I did try out Aros (a free AmigaOS clone) earlier this year on an x86, but installing it was rather ponderous. That in itself is a barrier to entry.
What I find impressive is that Aminet is receives new packages on a daily basis. So clearly the spirit of the Amiga lives on.
- indigodaddy 4y agoPimiga is pretty amazing: https://youtu.be/uw4GXLq2E9Q https://youtu.be/uw4GXLq2E9Q
- hakfoo 4y agoI suspect it might be that the whole mainline Raspberry Pi ecosystem was sort of a hackjob based around "let's repurpose a bunch of bargain-priced Broadcom ARM chips". I suspect they had a lot of headwinds with the propriatery GPU. In contrast, if you want to start with toy stuff on x86, at least you can expect the VGA card to be initialized and there's a character buffer at 0xB8000 by the time boot finishes.