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AmigaOne is a computer platform based on the Teron series of PowerPC
PowerPC

PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple Inc.?IBM?Motorola alliance, known as AIM alliance. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded system and high-performance processors....
 POP mainboards
Motherboard

A motherboard is the central printed circuit board in some complex electronic systems, such as modern personal computers. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple Inc....
, mainly intended to run AmigaOS
AmigaOS

AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000....
 version 4.0 created by Hyperion Entertainment
Hyperion Entertainment

Hyperion Entertainment VOF is a Belgian software company which specialises in porting Windows games to Amiga, Linux and Apple Macintosh. They were also the company contracted by Amiga Incorporated to develop AmigaOS 4, which runs only on the AmigaOne and MicroA1 PowerPC systems, "classic" Amiga systems with a Phase5 "PowerUP" PowerPC acceler...
 in Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
. These motherboards are based on Articia northbridge chipsets designed by MAI Logic, Inc., a fabless
Fabless semiconductor company

A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the semiconductor fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a Foundry which may have several Semiconductor fabrication plant, or "fabs"....
 Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
ese-American integrated circuit (IC
Integrated circuit

In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin Wafer of semiconductor material....
) company.

The trademark name AmigaOne is used with agreement of Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc.

Amiga, Inc. is the company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer , including the Amiga trademark....
 by UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 computer vendor Eyetech Group Ltd., exclusively for the purpose of selling various hardware for running AmigaOS 4
AmigaOS 4

AmigaOS 4 is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. "The Final Update" was released in 24 December 2006 after five years of development by the Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment under license from Amiga, Inc....
.

inally, AmigaOne was the name of a project for new Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
 hardware, managed by Eyetech and designed by the German company .






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AmigaOne is a computer platform based on the Teron series of PowerPC
PowerPC

PowerPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple Inc.?IBM?Motorola alliance, known as AIM alliance. Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded system and high-performance processors....
 POP mainboards
Motherboard

A motherboard is the central printed circuit board in some complex electronic systems, such as modern personal computers. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple Inc....
, mainly intended to run AmigaOS
AmigaOS

AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000....
 version 4.0 created by Hyperion Entertainment
Hyperion Entertainment

Hyperion Entertainment VOF is a Belgian software company which specialises in porting Windows games to Amiga, Linux and Apple Macintosh. They were also the company contracted by Amiga Incorporated to develop AmigaOS 4, which runs only on the AmigaOne and MicroA1 PowerPC systems, "classic" Amiga systems with a Phase5 "PowerUP" PowerPC acceler...
 in Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
. These motherboards are based on Articia northbridge chipsets designed by MAI Logic, Inc., a fabless
Fabless semiconductor company

A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the semiconductor fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a Foundry which may have several Semiconductor fabrication plant, or "fabs"....
 Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
ese-American integrated circuit (IC
Integrated circuit

In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin Wafer of semiconductor material....
) company.

The trademark name AmigaOne is used with agreement of Amiga, Inc.
Amiga, Inc.

Amiga, Inc. is the company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer , including the Amiga trademark....
 by UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 computer vendor Eyetech Group Ltd., exclusively for the purpose of selling various hardware for running AmigaOS 4
AmigaOS 4

AmigaOS 4 is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. "The Final Update" was released in 24 December 2006 after five years of development by the Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment under license from Amiga, Inc....
.

History

Originally, AmigaOne was the name of a project for new Amiga
Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer....
 hardware, managed by Eyetech and designed by the German company . The AmigaOne motherboard
Motherboard

A motherboard is the central printed circuit board in some complex electronic systems, such as modern personal computers. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple Inc....
 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
Amiga 1200

The Amiga 1200, or A1200, was Commodore International's third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home market. It was launched in October 21, 1992, at a base price of ?399 in the United Kingdom and $599 in the United States....
 or an A4000
Amiga 4000

The Commodore International Amiga 4000, or A4000, was the successor of the Amiga 2000 and Amiga 3000 computers. There are two models, the A4000/040 released in October 1992 with a Motorola 68040 Central processing unit, and the A4000/030 released in April 1993 with a Motorola 68EC030....
 respectively, in order to use the old custom chips of an Amiga. This AmigaOne project was cancelled in 2001, mostly due to the inability to find or design a suitable northbridge
Northbridge (computing)

The northbridge, also known as a memory controller hub or an integrated memory controller in Intel systems , is one of the two chips in the core logic chipset on a PC motherboard, the other being the Southbridge ....
 chip.

After the Escena design was abandoned, Eyetech sought an alternative solution. The result was that in 2002 they decided to use the Teron CX PowerPC evaluation motherboard for a product named "AmigaOnepointfive" which eventually became the AmigaOne SE. Later, the AmigaOne XE was based on the Teron PX motherboard, followed by the Micro-A1 (also known as µ-A1), based on the Teron Mini. The Teron is based on IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
's PowerPC Open Platform specification, and uses the U-Boot firmware.

The main difference between the ATX
ATX

The ATX Motherboard form factor was created by Intel in 1995. It was the first big change in computer case and motherboard design in many years....
-format AmigaOne SE and XE was that the AmigaOne SE had a soldered-on 600 MHz PowerPC 750CXe
PowerPC G3

PowerPC G3 is a designation used by Apple Computer to a third generation of PowerPC microprocessors from the PowerPC 750 family designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor....
 processor, whereas the AmigaOne XE used a CPU board attached to a MegArray connector on the motherboard. While the MegArray connector is physically similar to the Apple Power Mac G4
Power Mac G4

The Power Mac G4 is a series of personal computers that were designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. between 1999 and 2004. They use the PowerPC G4 series of microprocessors....
 CPU daughtercard connector, it is not electrically compatible. There were G3
PowerPC G3

PowerPC G3 is a designation used by Apple Computer to a third generation of PowerPC microprocessors from the PowerPC 750 family designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor....
 and G4
PowerPC G4

PowerPC G4 is a designation used by Apple Computer to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various different processor models from Freescale Semiconductor, a former part of Motorola....
 options with a maximum clock frequency of 800 MHz and 933 MHz. The G4 module originally used a Freescale 7451
PowerPC G4

PowerPC G4 is a designation used by Apple Computer to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various different processor models from Freescale Semiconductor, a former part of Motorola....
 processor which was later changed to a Freescale 7455
PowerPC G4

PowerPC G4 is a designation used by Apple Computer to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various different processor models from Freescale Semiconductor, a former part of Motorola....
, both without level 3 cache. The G4 CPU runs hotter and requires a better heatsink than that supplied on some machines. Consequently, the G4 is often supplied underclocked to run at 800 MHz. The last Teron motherboard used by Eyetech was the Teron Mini, series of motherboards, which were somewhat similar to the Teron PX but made in a Mini-ITX
Mini-ITX

Mini-ITX is a 17 x 17 cm low-power motherboard form factor developed by VIA Technologies. Mini-ITX is slightly smaller than microATX. Mini-ITX boards can often be passively cooled due to their low Thermal Design Power, which makes them useful for home theater systems, where fan noise can detract from the cinema experience....
 formfactor and with some additions, such as onboard graphics, and a better 750GX
PowerPC G3

PowerPC G3 is a designation used by Apple Computer to a third generation of PowerPC microprocessors from the PowerPC 750 family designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor....
 CPU. The Micro-A1 was announced in two configurations, under the Micro-A1 I (Industrial) and Micro-A1 C (Consumer) labels. Only the C configuration was produced.

When the AmigaOne boards first became available, OS4 was not ready: they were supplied with various Linux distributions. From April 2004 onwards, boards were shipped with a "developer prerelease" version of OS4.

The full version of OS4 was launched in early 2007 for AmigaOne computers only, with the "Classic PPC" version being released in December 2007. AmigaOS 4.1 for AmigaOne has been released on September 2008.

Models and variants

Model nameMain Logic evaluation board developed fromTimescaleRAM (base)OS VersionAdditional Information
AmigaOne SETeron CX2002 - 2004Varies(pre)4.0, 4.1ATX format motherboard
AmigaOne XETeron PX2003 - 2004Varies(pre)4.0, 4.1ATX format motherboard
Micro-A1 - CTeron Mini2004 - 2005256 MB(pre)4.0, 4.1Mini-ITX format motherboard
Micro-A1 - ITeron Mininever produced256 MB -Mini-ITX format motherboard


Operating systems

  • Linux for PowerPC
  • AmigaOS 4
    AmigaOS 4

    AmigaOS 4 is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. "The Final Update" was released in 24 December 2006 after five years of development by the Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment under license from Amiga, Inc....
     versions 4.0, 4.1.


Current status

MAI Logic Inc. went bankrupt, and consequently the supply of a major part for the Eyetech AmigaOnes dried up. Eyetech Group Ltd stopped the production of the MicroA1 due to a lack of bridge chips and supply issues of processors from IBM.

Because the AmigaOne boards were produced in a relatively small quantity (perhaps 1500 or so of all models combined) and are no longer being manufactured, they are now difficult to obtain.

See also

  • Amiga models and variants
    Amiga models and variants

    This is a list of models and Clone of Amiga computers....
  • Pegasos
    Pegasos

    Pegasos is a MicroATX motherboard powered by a PowerPC G3/PowerPC G4 microprocessor, featuring 3 Peripheral Component Interconnect slots, 1 Accelerated Graphics Port slot, two Ethernet ports , USB, DDR SDRAM, AC97 sound, and FireWire....
  • AmigaOS 4
    AmigaOS 4

    AmigaOS 4 is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. "The Final Update" was released in 24 December 2006 after five years of development by the Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment under license from Amiga, Inc....


External links

  • - AmigaOne, Amiga Classic support site (Dutch)
  • - Fan-site with an AmigaOne support forum
  • - Public software and files for AmigaOS 4
    AmigaOS 4

    AmigaOS 4 is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. "The Final Update" was released in 24 December 2006 after five years of development by the Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment under license from Amiga, Inc....
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  • -Andrew Alexander runs the first AmigaOne BBS
    Bulletin board system

    File:Monochrome-bbs.pngA Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running list of BBS software that allows User to Telecommunication circuit and Logging to the system using a terminal program....