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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:13:43 GMT
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- Message-ID: <6903.6590T111T2506@ci.educ.lu>
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- On 15-Jan-96 17:43:37, Joshua Galun (zool@outland.cyberwar.com) wrote to All ()
- about Re: 1995 Production Status? (<4de07p$bbo@bandit.cyberwar.com>):
-
- Hi Joshua
-
- >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.
-
- Yep!
-
- >: 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...
-
- Probably they would like to produce more but where to get the $$$$
-
- >: 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.
-
- $65! Great! I will buy it then!
-
- >: 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...
-
- Sorry, Nothing more was said! ;-(
-
- >: * the next to be released version of the OS will the the PPC-AmigaOS!
- >: (beginning 1987)
-
- > 1987? REALLY? :-)
-
- Oops! Of cours that should be 1997! Sorry! :-)
-
-
-
- >: (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... :-)
-
- Me too!
-
- >: * 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...
-
- They do have more already! The latest AMIGA COMPUTING MAG writes that software
- companies who never produced AMIGA soft before will *SOON* publish AMIGA
- software ported from PCs and MACs.
- According to GBO there will also be some very highend pro WebBrowser! But
- definetly there will be *NO* Netscape version for the AMIGA, as AT doesn't deal
- with NetScape.
- OTOH the article about communications says something about
- rumours that there will be an AMIGA Netscape. But I doubt this as the lines
- before were offically revealed by GBO at the AMIGA show in Paris. They did show
- the A4000T with AT's 68060 card and TV-Paint 3.6 with Wacom ArtPad! This Paint
- prog really goes off! (though it will cost about 2-3x the AMIGAversion price for
- Windows!)
-
- The other rumours that Apple has ported QuickTime are confirmed by Apple
- themself! And that a deal with AT was confirmed too!
-
- Sounds really good!
-
- (BTW the new multimedia prog (demo on the mags disk) ImageVision from ImageLab
- is really great, It even runs on GFX boards! This will be hard for SCALA MM400,
- if IMAGELAB does include the missing features!)
-
-
- >: * 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... :-)
-
- I really don't understand the upset about incompatibilty with older software.
- All the older software which doesn't run on my AMIGA, is because of the WB/KS
- 3.1 and not my TIGA A2410 gfx card with the EGS driver.
- OK for games that seems to be true, but then who wants to play old games
- forever?
-
- >: 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
-
- No not standard chipset, but lowend PPC (602?) and all PPC will have the *NEW*
- gfx/sound chipset. The lowend will be much cheaper than the highend, so the
- components for the lowend needs to be less,less expensive.
-
- >some Amigas CHRP compatible and not others?
-
- Price! CHRP AMIGAs will not be cheap (IMHO cheaper than PPC MACs and PPC PCs)
- but for a mass product (lowend AMIGA) the price must be reduced to a minimum.
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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