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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: 23 Jan 1996 00:42:00 GMT
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- Message-ID: <4000.6595T99T1817@ci.educ.lu>
- References: <4dqv0g$cha@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- On 20-Jan-96 15:42:24, George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote to All ()
- about Re: 1995 Production Status? (<4dqv0g$cha@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>):
-
- Hi George
-
- >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:
- >>
-
- >>>: 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.
-
- The new chips will have 16 bit sound! But as said before I don't know if they're
- already in the new A1300. But then the next batch of A4000T (Feb/March??) are
- rumored to already include the *NEW* GFX chips! (perhaps on a ZORRO III card?)
-
- >>
- >>> 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
-
- Sorry I have no idea about this,
-
- >>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? >:->
-
- Of what I heard the Surfer WEB Browser is done by a PD programmer!
-
- >>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?
-
- AT didn't say that Netscape doesn't want to port it, but that AT does not deal
- with them at the moment (perhaps at another time!).
- But then who needs NetScape (OK PeeCee'er don't have any other choice:-)
-
- >>>: * 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.
-
- I just hope the GFX is hyperfaaaast!
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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