Hyperion, som efter några år av domstolsarbete mot Amiga Inc nu tydligen får göra lite vad de vill med sitt Amiga OS och Amiganamnet, har börjat året med vad som kan vara det mest spännande som hänt Amigascenen sedan glansdagarna.
Genom sin kryptiska hemsida What is X? har de varje dag presenterat en pusselbit till vad de tidigare bara pratat om som ”our most ambitious project”.
Mycket gotta gömt i HTML-kod, GIF-animationer, Javascript och kryptiska siffror.
Det hela rör sig om en alldeles ny high-end-dator baserad på PPC, så långt är ju allting ganska klart, kanske. Men vad är X?
To start, just look at the very first page,
To follow, begin where Nemo entered into a rage.
Then add to that what the Phoenicians used to see,
The end was found, fricatively wound, in the branches of the very first tree.
My whole was born in a place where a Celtic river was by Saxons, crossed,
A new incarnation of a parallel, once thought lost.
Okay, okay. You want something more solid? Hrm. I can’t really say much here. So let me just address a few rumours. No, you haven’t seen this motherboard before. Yes, it’s a desktop. No, the A-EON partners didn’t design the Nemo board in their garages, and no it’s not an evaluation board! Goodness. It was designed by a highly experienced design team to A-EON’s specifications. Yes, it’s high-end hardware. No, it doesn’t have the number of cores you are thinking of. Whatever number you are thinking of. At least, not necessarily. No, we don’t have a release date. Yes, it will be fairly soon. Yes, the software team does have functioning boards to work on already. Yes, it is the most powerful AmigaOS hardware ever. By a big margin. I did say high-end. Yes, it will come with a case. It’s a computer we’re making, not just a motherboard. Yes, Nemo IS just the start.