amiga-news.de - Pegasos 2: First user report

27.Dec.2003
ANN (comments) Pegasos 2: First user report
Treveur "Nowee" Bretaudiere has released a short report about the Pegasos 2 he received:

My Pegasos 2 finally arrived this morning, in its nice protective box, along with its 1 GHz G4 CPU module, the MorphOS installation CD, two booklets, and a backplane.

The two documentations are very clear. A VERY simple booklet, written in English, French and German, explains how to install both MorphOS and the computer itself, whilst the other, in German, is a fairly detailed technical documentation, with ports description and such.

The motherboard in itself is very well made, and once filled with a DDR 333 memory module and my radeonVE, booted MorphOS 1.4.1 without any problem straight from my DVD burner.

I'm still astonished by the speed difference between my already fast Pegasos 1 and the Pegasos 2. The G4 behaves very well, the stability so far seems okay, the computer sound is perfect. Ambient opens a 300+ files folder in less than a second (!). I performed many MD5 sums test over 800 mb files and no problem occured.

As for the installation process, it was especially simple for me that already had MorphOS 1.4. I simply copied the boot.img from the supplied CD to my MorphOS partition, rebooted, and typed 'boot hd:0 boot.img' (Where 0 is the partition number of my hard disk).

For someone that would prefer a clean installation, though, there is a slight problem: the install script checks for a bad MD5 sum. The solution here is to copy the installation script in ram, and remove the MD5 check with ed. Another solution, even simpler, copy the whole CD to the freshly formatted HD. The problem was already known and a fix should be available already.

Finally, it makes several hours the computer is turned on, I had no crash so far. Compatibility seems to be perfect with the Pegasos 1, without the bugs of its predecessor.

My comment: It's been so many years we've been expecting a G4 Amiga compatible system, I think the product fulfills more than a necessity. It's a dream come true.

Nowee^SKT (snx)

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