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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: What's happening to the Amiga!
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Nostromo
- From: damocles@nostromo.gate.net (Randy Vice)
- Message-ID: <damocles.3hx6@nostromo.gate.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 09:47:34 EST
-
- On Tue 26-Mar-1996 10:30p, Anders Karlsson wrote:
- AK> In a message of 26 Mar 96 Nickolas Marentes wrote to :
-
- AK> NM> This new 'Walker' thingy that looks like a black vacuum cleaner would
-
- AK> NM> look ugly next
- AK> NM> to my beige colored Commodore 1942 monitor. Does this mean that I
- AK> would
- AK> NM> have to buy a new Black monitor to match? Kinda expensive isn't it?
-
- AK> Black and white is a nice combination. ;)
-
- A can of spray paint can solve the entire problem. Or take the case to a body
- shop and let them paint it for $30 and get a cool color scheme.
-
- AK> NM> And now that the Triple 'A" chipset is all dead and buried, does this
-
- AK> NM> mean that AT will
- AK> NM> also use a PC video chip on the new RISC based Amigas?
-
- AK> Probably, yes..
-
- Shouldn't that be *HOPEFULLY* yes? :^)
-
- AK> NM> Jay Miner would roar in his grave if he knew what was happening to
- AK> his
- AK> NM> Amiga.
-
- AK> Not necesarely.
-
- I actually think he would be upset that we didn't go SVGA chipset earlier.
- Mr.Miner was ahead of his time and wanted his system to be ahead of the pack.
- SVGA is clearly superior as we see our own third party video boards are using
- them. I think he would have always wanted Amiga to be somewhere in the lead
- and not waddling about like AGA.
-
-
- AK> NM> To quote Fabio Bizzetti...
-
- AK> NM> *** We don't need expensive hardware, we need clever solutions ***
-
- AK> And today a clever and cheap solution is to use SVGA-chips.
-
- Absolutely. Depending if I go Walker or a PowerPC clone, it's going to have a
- decent video board in it so I don't care even if the Walker comes with ECS or
- AGA.
-
- : damocles@nostromo.gate.net : Bruce Morrow,a man before and after his time:
- :"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the :
- :United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." :
- : - Samual Adams : Morrow Project Recon: The Expendible Ones :
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