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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 11:00:38 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dg0gm$9hg@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960108.77A4120.F5EA@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> <4cv93a$ujo@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4da56d$roe@otis.netspace.net.au>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Proposed vs. probable
- Keywords: Something new!
-
- In article <4da56d$roe@otis.netspace.net.au>,
- Paul Dossett <astroboy@netspace.net.au> wrote:
- >gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel) writes:
- >
- >>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.
-
- You left out the other part of my post where I gave a probable more
- realistic view of the A1200+ I only said new chipset due to a blurb I
- saw in an interview stating new graphics and sound in a new model by
- March. Seeing as how no one else remembers this, I will find the article
- seeing as how I have most press releases/interviews posted here saved.
- More then likely they will save the new graphics until the Power Amiga to
- go alongside the whole new architecture and set it aside even more from
- the older generation but there is always that possibility! :)
-
- >
- >>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?
-
- Again a blurb here someone let out they were talking to Dr. P. K.
- directly in which he said that Paula was old technology and needed to be
- upgraded badly and could be done by the time the next shipment of the new
- production line of A4000ts were complete! Now Dr. P. K. never commented
- on this directly so it is only third party vaporware for now.
-
- >
- >--
- >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/
-
- -=*George*=-
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