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- From: img4@aber.ac.uk (Ian Gledhill)
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- Subject: Re: CD32 acellerator?
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 09:42:19 GMT
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- In article <4j3ppp$ioi@newsbf02.news.aol.com> peteroo@aol.com (Peteroo) writes:
- > :-- I have an '030 design accelerator Design for the CD32. I have not
- > :built it for a variety of reasons.... It is based on the M1230XA,
- > :which I also did.... In all praticality... how many people would want
- > :such a thing?
- >
- > You have a point, and you'd probably still have a point even if this
- > machine was still a live issue in the marketplace. Peripherals of any sort
- > have had little impact on the Amiga game market (apart from hard disks);
- > the low end drives the market.
- >
- So you think that Breathless, XTR, AB3D (1 and 2), Fears, Gloom (& Deluxe),
- Sim City 2000 and Dungeon Master would all exist without accelerated Amigas?
-
- > However, if Escom releases an 030-based A1200 with a built-in CD-ROM
- > drive, as has been reported/speculated, and the game companies respond
- > (this is the key), I can imagine a 100,000 or so CD32 users who might like
- > a way to upgrade their machines to the same level. :->
-
- Reported. Check out http://www.amiga.de/gb/index.html and look at their
- press release about the Walker (read 'Hoover').
- 4x CD-ROM, 40Mhz 68(EC?)030, 5Mb RAM etc. etc.
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