It's here !! Sam 440 and os 4

Pics coming but a parcel is sat here!!

Case arrived tooooooo


Is it Christmas?

Mike.

Okay ,

popped it in the case and eventually found a DVI to VGA adaptor (after i ordered one! )

still waiting on a sata dvd rom and HDD to arrive so no booting tonight..

SPECS
Sam440ep


Sam440 running AmigaOS 4.1.
Sam440ep was the first modular motherboard produced by ACube Systems Srl
400/533/600/667 MHz AMCC PowerPC 440EP SoC processor
Cache L1/L2: 32KB/-
128/256/512 MB 266 MHz DDR SDRAM soldered to the motherboard
1× 32-bit, 66 MHz PCI slot
1× Flash memory device controller
4× USB2 ports, 1x USB1
2× Ethernet 10/100 ports
4× Serial ATA ports
Cirrus Logic CS4281 and Realtek ALC655 audio
ATI Radeon Mobility M9 graphics with 64 MB VRAM, s-video and DVI out.
GPIO expansion connector
Lattice XP expansion FPGA

http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.p...hardware&pid=1

SAM spec and download links for Linux and SAM updates

Awesome! Look forward to the pics :thumbsup:

I'm hoping my parcels will arrive soon, I'm expecting an XBox 360 Wireless Steering Wheel + 7 Games and my Highway USB is coming back from Germany where it was repaired!

Might have both when I get home, so maybe it is Chrismas :cool:

Happy amigo-computing mate. :)

we need piccys now

:thumbsup:

okay okay , pics up :-)

@mjnurney

Awesome my friend :thumbsup:

Looks very nice, my congrats & welcome to the AmigaNG World :)

Thanks , looking forward to playing with new amiga software :-)

Looks great mate very envious :thumbsup:

Thanks John , I thought you had os4 ?

no mike no ppc systems here other than an emac

Nice pics Mike, have fun with it.. If you like beat em ups try beats of rage (streets of rage remake)

:-)
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Thanks Steve ill be trying loads I imagine :-)

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oh come on John , i thought we all had os4.1 these days....

;)

Only joking :-) I'll do vids and a review of it later :-)

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Damn shame I don't have a hdd to plug in :-(

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oh come on John , i thought we all had os4.1 these days....

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oh yea im not rich enough :oops:

cant you use a cf card

me niether :-(

i was going to leave my body to science but they rejected it.

So i'll have to sell some comp stuff

:rofl3

too cold for the town hall steps too...

so some spectrum and Commodore gear to go

I might have a spare sata hdd mate, lemme check!
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oh yea im not rich enough :oops:

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I'm not rich enough, but I have only 4 full expanded A1200s here, 3 A4000, 2 A1000, CD32, CDTV and 589 A500s... :run:

:p

congrats ! I had great fun with my first OS4.x setup (my old Samflex@800) :)

It's funny how things build up in time ...

68060 acceleration and now ppc amiga

The total bill for a couple of amigas could buy a secondhand car...

( a very cheap one :-) )

So how's OS 4.1? I'm actually quite tempted to perhaps buy a samflex system! The temptation to try it is getting unbearable... especially with Windows 8 looking crap! :D

i dont know yet , my hdd hasnt arrived...

Slight update - sata hdd added

I had one spare all along ! No DVD rom yet and USB booting doesn't seem keen ...

Ill have to wait till tomorrow.

good luck buddy chassis and board look great.

and just seen a new post we are getting an office suite for OS4.1 so more goodies lol



Oh just a little note for everyone being the nutter I am I asked ACube about an upgrade program their answer is below:

Me

2012/10/17 <info@acube-systems.com>
message = Have you setup a system where an existing user can upgrade their system by trading in their old motherboard please?
nome = Alan Barton


Acube

Hello,

No, we cannot offer such service unfortunately as everybody can sell the old hardware themselves.

Thanks.
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Best Regards,
Enrico Vidale
ACube Systems s.r.l
www.acube-systems.biz

Lol well you won't have any trouble selling Amiga stuff secondhand

well after many hours of trying it seems we have life!!!!

errors so far...

bad sata cable.
bad disk media
sata cables in wrong way around (hdd as ide0 and dvd as ide1) should be opposite.
old dvd rom drive

So...i could not wait any longer ! Off to PC World to buy a DVD rom (sata) and then try a few disks.

OS4.1 rebooted the sam....debian refused to load, Uboot update rebooted ..

but then , i popped a new sata lead in and tried debian again !!! and bingo...

life!!!

My congrats :thumbsup:

Some times it's a bit hard to get NG system working as desired, but with patiente.... :thumbsup:

Sometimes I've bought some "cheap-but-good" SATA cables, but finally all is working with HQ cables, a bit expensive than the cheaper ones but everything works :)

Again, my congrats a good NG system is on the World now :thumbsup:

glad you have her working mate nice too :)

well at the moment Amiga OS stops at the logo shown and the dvd spins down - thats it...

im loading debian at the mo just to see something working.

its funny , the things you find when your not tired..

Sata power to molex
cpu paste
VGA header lead

all the things i ordered from Ebay last night,

well it seems ive eventually found the problem.

the SAM 440ep wont fully boot from the OS4.1 cd-rom , i had to download and burn Update 4.1.1 iso and boot from that... looks promising so far..

Now after the kickstart is loaded and the OS4.1 logo appears the cd keeps loading and boots to the workbench options screen.

That's great news, you're good to go and install B-)
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on the internet now...swapping over to OS4 on Amibay...

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first post via Origyn web browser!

great stuff mate have fun :thumbsup:

whats the browser like

thanks guys , its just nice to get it going...its been a real pain but only because ive spent hours trying to get OS4 cd to install and it doesn't...

anyway.

im installing update 2 at the mo.

Internet is a breeze to set up...click the wizard and select DSL and its pretty much done.
open up a browser and google appears.

ohh update 2 done , rebooting.

upacking update 3, 4 and 5 . update 2 installed.

http://youtu.be/h6-dXps_-rM

quick vid

Looks Schweet! Congrats! :thumbsup:

thank you , i love OS4.1 its really nice to use and is very Amiga as you would expect it to be.

http://youtu.be/yc6fBAZdPN8

time for games!!

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i love OS4.1 its really nice to use and is very Amiga as you would expect it to be.

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No argurement with me on that one! :thumbsup: ;)

In general it's great , one or two of the annoying amiga traits seem to of come with it but I won't moan untill I've used it for a while and got the hang of it :-)

I will do a review of os4 and how it works in a week or two for people like me who took a long time to jump onboard or are still wondering.

thanks mike a review would be nice :thumbsup:

http://youtu.be/hkCDDD1D654

Quake 2 on the old girl ...


http://youtu.be/jd18y2Q9olQ[/url]

A little (wobbly) video on web browsing in OS4

http://youtu.be/4cHwTcoxzmU

Doom & Quake

i'll do a better one later.

Awesome stuff MJ :thumbsup:

Makes me want to fire up my AmigaOne - however otherwise engaged with other cool stuff right now as a job lot of goodies arrived yesterday :D

thanks Steve

oh whats the goodies youve snagged then?

Hey MJ, posting from my AmigaOne - seeing your thread inspired me to finally updat to update 5 and it's fixed my Network issues (had to create a new connection each boot and random crashing) All is well now =D

As for the new stuff - check the 'what did you buy' thread :cool:

nice steve , pleased its running well now :-)


Wipeout 2097
http://youtu.be/QISzW4tNqLs

Wipe out is fun , come one we need more PPC games!!!

Warcraft , halflife , soilder of fortune , carmageddon ,thief etc etc !!!!

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Wipe out is fun , come one we need more PPC games!!!

Warcraft , halflife , soilder of fortune , carmageddon ,thief etc etc !!!!

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Nice, it's a shame about the shadows as it runs super smooth on NG hardware, Warp3D driver still needs some work for the Radeon's I guess or maybe Wipeout2097 needs a patch for OS4.1?

Would be great to see some more conversions of higher profile games to PPC for OS 4.1. Im all for that too.

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Yes it would but who would do it ? Hyperion didn't make money out of the Amiga ports of pc games, poor sales. i think they ended the licencing for pc ports in 2002/3. Only a bounty system would get ports done now.

Yeah its a shame, but until more PPC systems are sold to people who want to play games its a chicken and egg. Maybe some kind of kickstarter too? But then there needs to be someone willing to do ports to start a kickstarter. I wish I could code! :D

I also think alot of the good programmers on NG OS 4.1 aren't really into games and spend their time coding applications.