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- From: zool@outland.cyberwar.com (Joshua Galun)
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- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
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- Date: 15 Jan 1996 16:43:37 GMT
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- Manou BILLA (manou.billa@ci.educ.lu) wrote:
-
- : but here's what I did found in an interview with GBO and Petro Tyschtschenko in
- : th French 'Amiga News' mag:
-
- : the initial production line for 1995 supposed to be
-
- : 25,000 A4000T and
- : 100,000 A1200
-
- : but due to delays in the production the numbers estimated for 1995
- : (source from Petro at the Cologne fair in Nov'95) are:
-
- : 6,000 A4000T
- : 80,000 A1200
- : 14,000 Amiga M1438S monitors
-
- Still ok numbers, IMO.
-
-
- : for 1996 the goal AT want to reach is:
-
- : 400,000 AMIGAs !!!!
- : 100,000 monitors (not just the M1438s but also the new 15" and
- : 17")
- : 50,000 CD-ROM players
- : + the to be (CeBIT '96 ???) introduced set-top boxes!
-
- The numbers for the monitors and CD-ROM players are OK, IMO,
- because they're not really neccesary, but the Amiga numbers are
- dissapointing both because they had predicted 550,000 Amigas, and because
- I think they need to make more then 400,000 Amigas if they want to
- revitalize the market well. Oh well, I suppose beggars can't be
- choosers, and atleast it's getting there, I suppose...
-
- : Yep! The same mag writes that the surfer packs includes either a 14,400 or
- : 28,800 PCMCIA modem (the user has the choice).
-
- Oooh, that's nice! A 28.8 modem is going to sound much better
- (and it is), because we all know that new computer users think that the
- bigger the number the better, and so faster modems means a better look
- for the Amiga.
-
- : If I do remember right, I did somewhere read (mags, newsgroups???) that the
- : internet-software will be available later as stand-alone for all other AMIGA
- : owners who do already own a modem.
-
- Yeah, I heard that too from a friend who went to the Cologne
- show, where Gilles Bourdin said the stand-alone pack would cost about $65.
-
- : Let's hope it will be available with the sufer & magic pack too! ;-)
-
- :-) Let's hope so. I think that a 1300/030 with CD-ROM, 14.4
- modem, Internet pack and Magic pack would sell very well, if it's priced
- correctly.
-
- : The still same mag also reports that (according to GBO (source AMIGA Expo Paris
- : 8th of December))
- : * the new A1300 (or A1200+) will have a modified chipset in order to use
- : standard HD floppy drives (from MSDOS/PCs),
-
- Does that mean that you will be able to put a standard PC HD
- flopyy drive in your machine and still read Amiga disks? Will the disk
- drive go faster now? Will we need new file systems? etc...
-
- : * the next to be released version of the OS will the the PPC-AmigaOS!
- : (beginning 1987)
-
- 1987? REALLY? :-)
-
- : * and that all *NEW* AMIGASs to come will have a *NEW* specific chipset!
- : with the possibility to use PCI gfxcards!
-
- This sounds like the current system, though, where you have the
- custom chipset but graphics cards for more specialized tasks...I wonder
- how this will serve the Amiga in the future. OTOH, a new custom chipset
- may be a good thing, if it helps to bring video companies back to the
- Amiga (can you say NewTek? :-). But what about CHRP Amigas? What about
- the AmigaOS running off other machines, like PCs, say, as AT has said
- they want to do. If you're going to have a new chipset you're going to
- have some pretty damn good RTG, I think, and make sure that programmers
- don't crash the hardware any more.
-
- : (though it wasn't mentioned if this will be the rumoured gfx chipset.
- : It wasn't said neither that these new chips will be in the new A1300 (that
- : would really be great;-))
-
- Somehow I seriously doubt that... :-)
-
- : * in 1996 we will see AMIGA Techno ads in PC magazines!
-
- Well, I personally am not sure whether I'd rather see ads in PC
- mags or more employees at AT...AT is in dire need of more workers...
-
- : * there will probalby be an international developper conference in Germany
- : in February 1996
-
- Excellent!
-
- : * the article about the IPISA'95 in Italie mentioned Doc. Kittel, saying that
- : this new chipset will allow 24bit gfx, planar and chunky modes, 16 bit audio
- : plus some ideas and functions from the AAA chipset (though AAA is dead 4e4
- : :-()
-
- Well, I think I could deal with incompatibility with old software
- if I had a chipset like this in my Amiga... :-)
-
- : The Doc also told the audience that the highend PPC Amigas will be CHRP
- : (Common Hardware Reference Platform, that is compatible with APLE & IBM PPCs)
- : compatible, so it is possible to use standard components (read price
- : reductions :-)). But the lowend PPC AMIGA will *NOT* be CHRP compatible.
-
- Does this mean that the lowend PPC Amiga will use the standard
- chipset but not the high end Amigas? And what is the point of making
- some Amigas CHRP compatible and not others?
-
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