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Annika
Germany
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Posts 19
28 Apr 2011 08:30
| Hi my name is Annika,
I'm the head of our Natami-IT and Testing-Department.
This Easter we got a new piece of computing device
to replace our old and outdated Windows 7 and Intel-CPU IT-infrastructure.
Please join me for the next days, on an exciting journey testing the new hardware and exploring new computing concepts .
Today we will focus on a totally new idea in the IT field.
Its called "plug-and-play"
Here you can see the NATAMI MX Board.
As you can see it its rather small.
The board is actually smaller than the CD Drive.
We have plugged the NATAMI together with existing
devices like mouse, keyboard, monitor, harddrive and CD-Rom
The NATAMI MX comes with IDE-Ports.
My dad told me that these IDE connectors allow you to plugin in any existing AMIGA IDE drive and so you can use it without the need to install it.
Does this sound easy?
Yes, and actually this is easy, all you need to do is to go down into the basement and pull one of those metal boxes out of one of the old computers that your dad is collecting there.
As you can see the NATAMI will recognize the hard drive immediately.
If you are in the basement you can also pull out of of those smaller drives called "floppy drives".
The NATAMI can use any floppy drive (AMIGA or PC) and can use it to read and write AMIGA floppies.
Now this was easy.
And after I've installed a nice backdrop image of a favourite fairy, we have a system ready to play!
More to come tomorrow
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Ed Dream
Russia
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Posts 28
28 Apr 2011 08:37
| Please lay out pictures in high resolution.
For example, as additional links.I am pleased to be joined to the test. If there was an opportunity to buy.
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Lord Aga
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Posts 129
28 Apr 2011 08:42
| Finally, NatAmi is in the right hands !
Sorry Thomas und Gunnar :)))
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Miroslav Parvanov
Bulgaria
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Posts 13
28 Apr 2011 09:03
| Thank you Annika for the detailed information. :)
I'm telling you guys, that girl has a great potential. So young and in the same time so smart! :P
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Bartek "Banter" K.
Poland
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Posts 2277
28 Apr 2011 09:33
| I would love to see a video! Also a close-up photo of Workbench could reveal how much memory do we have on this amazing board:D
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Bolkonskij .
Germany
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Posts 25
28 Apr 2011 09:42
| haha, lovely diary, great idea!! I hope 'lil Annika will show us more of her favorite computer soon ;-)
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Lorenzo Vivarelli
Italy
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Posts 9
28 Apr 2011 10:36
| this is great! very very great!
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Evil Igel
Germany
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Posts 154
28 Apr 2011 11:24
| The new genaration show us the new generation! :-D Screenshots from WB please! How many Chip/Fast-RAM worked already!??
Is SAGA working in any way?
Is it running the 68050 core?? Cant wait to plug my A1200 HD in the final version and see what happed :-)
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Kowalski .
Italy
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Posts 43
28 Apr 2011 13:28
| Annika has taste for computers :-) I myself can't wait for mine. Cheers, Andre
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Loïc Dupuy
France
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Posts 253
28 Apr 2011 13:39
| It smells retirement home for me if so young and smart people take the lead :-) Thanks for the update, hope to have a regular diary of our head of Natami-IT and Testing-Department.
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Christian Kummerow
Germany
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Posts 314
28 Apr 2011 13:53
| Evil Igel wrote:
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Is it running the 68050 core??
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There is the FE(EC in Plastic) Processor board on it, so i guess it runs still on 68060 without MMU/FPU.
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Andi Friede
Germany
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Posts 24
28 Apr 2011 14:01
| Hi Annika !!!!! WOW - thank you very much for sharing this wonderful day with us. That's really great news.
And I'm really a bit jealous - you have access to the world's most wonderful an coolest machine ever!
May you have a lot of fun every day you switch on that pretty little lady! And please tell a lot of greetings to your Daddy for all his work! Ohh - when comes my first MX Day? All the best so far! Andi
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Wawa Tk
Germany
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Posts 581
28 Apr 2011 14:30
| good shots. telling. but now lets focus on details.
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Rune Stensland
Norway
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Posts 871
28 Apr 2011 14:40
| This is very good news! I hope we get a busy summer in the development team to give you the software and drivers we need to Run the SAGA at peak performance.
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
28 Apr 2011 15:54
| Ed Dream wrote:
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Please lay out pictures in high resolution.
For example, as additional links.
I am pleased to be joined to the test. If there was an opportunity to buy.
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this needs software support. There is no info - at present - about status of that.
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Niclas Aronsson
Sweden
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Posts 57
28 Apr 2011 17:53
| Man i hope i doesn't die on you. A naked NATAMI on wood ?!? Guess I'm damaged from my time at Ericsson and clean rooms, EPA areas and ESD-tools, chairs, floors, shoes.
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Amiga Ppc
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Posts 246
28 Apr 2011 20:47
| Annika, the future is in your hands... I hope Team will presume good old C= custom, and mention Annika somewhere within Natamy system Easter eggs.
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Joe M
Norway
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Posts 500
29 Apr 2011 01:15
| Great to see the system up and running. Looking forward to see Annika presenting some more Natami-stuff in the days to come. :)
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Chris Dennett
United Kingdom
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Posts 135
01 May 2011 06:49
| How does Natami read Amiga disk using PC drive by the way? :D I thought the hardware is slightly different, or something.
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
01 May 2011 10:03
| HD (1.4 MB) PC drives had a higher bandwidth than the original Amiga floppy interface could handle. This is fixed in Natami. That's why Amiga HD floppy drives were so expensive, because they were special Sony drives probably for some other purpose than PC use.
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