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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 02:01:10 GMT
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- On 14-Jan-96 10:43:41 astroboy@netspace.net.au Paul Dossett wrote:
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- >gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
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- >>Its not the A600 all over again.. look who we are talking about.. these
- >>guys at AT have some brains in their head and have some sense for
- >>marketing a particle machine/technology that they own!
-
- >>You can bet that either the A1200+ will have a complete new chipset
- >>giving better resolutions and better graphics (SVGA chipset with AGA
- >>built in and an extra chip giving Amiga qualities to the SVGA chipset if
- >>not built in also) or a reworked motherboard with new processor, SIMM
- >>sockets and a built in CD-ROM drive with faster AGA chips (CMOS) thus
- >>faster graphics. This will improve the quality of software to the point
-
- >I for one would be willing to bet that this *won't* happen. New chipsets
- >don't just appear like that, especially if you expect backwards
- >compatibility.
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- >>where it will seem like a new chipset anyways as people will be doing
- >>more with the hardware that they wouldn't be tak1ing the chance to do
- >>with it before. THE LEAST the A1200+ will be is reworked motherboard,
- >>new processor, SIMM sockets and NEW Paula chip supporting HD drives and
- >>16 BIT audio with possibility of built in HD drive instead of DD. In
- >>this short amount of time, they should at least have ONE new chip built!
-
- >16-bit audio? Where is your evidence of this?
-
- Maybe he's thinking of AAA. Don't forget, Dave Haynie said that $500,000 would
- probably be enough to finish it. AT has already spent *much* more than that,
- so it wouldn't surprise me to find AAA finished. BTW, AAA included support for
- CD-ROM through the floppy port, so I think it could handle HD floppies. It
- also had 16bit audio in eight voices with a sampling rate of about 100KHz.
-
- Dave, *PLEASE* correct me if I'm wrong.
-
- >>-=*George*=-
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- >--
- >Paul Dossett | Yamaha, Epiphone, Pearl, Paiste | Amiga 2000/040/21/365/3.1 __
- >-------------| Looking for a band to play with | Amiga CD32/020/2/CD/3.1__///
- > mail me! : astroboy@netspace.net.au.. | '76 Toyota Corolla 1.2 \XX/
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