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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: 1995 Production Status?
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 14:42:24 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dqv0g$cha@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4de07p$bbo@bandit.cyberwar.com> <6903.6590T111T2506@ci.educ.lu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: News reports
- Keywords: Things to look forward to.
-
- In article <6903.6590T111T2506@ci.educ.lu>,
- Manou BILLA <manou.billa@ci.educ.lu> wrote:
- >
- >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>):
- >
- >>Manou BILLA (manou.billa@ci.educ.lu) wrote:
- >
- >>: 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.
-
- Of course faster modem would mean more tacked onto the price.
-
- >>: 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),
-
- Thus the new "Paula" I was talking about that others are crapping on me
- for..if they are going this far, they should at least go with 16 bit
- sound also.
-
- >
- >> 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! ;-(
-
- I hope these drives will still be autobootable or are they just going to
- totally ignore this unique Amiga feature making our drives better then
- standard PC's
-
- >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.
-
- So Apple ported Quicktime and you have to register with IBM before March
- 31st to receive 100 free hours. Petro T. also said they would be working
- closely with IBM for software development, hmm.. I wonder who ported
- their Web Browser for the Amiga? >:->
-
- >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
-
- Do you think Netscape would want to be left out in the dark if the Amiga
- sells well and they can pose some competition for IBM's ported web software?
-
- >>: * 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... :-)
-
- But he also stated it would be compatible with AGA so they lose the OCS
- compatibility of AAA and keep AGA compatibility which has some ECS and
- OCS compatibility in it anyways.
-
- -=*George*=-
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