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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: AmiTech Press Release on 1200 Surfer
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:21:08 GMT
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- ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net (Eric Szulczewski) wrote:
- >
- >In a message dated 01-13-96 17-32 Starblazer writes:
- >
- >S> The '600 was kind of a bad idea, but I agree that the C16 & +4 were
- >S> pointless! Why the hell bother to spend money on development of something
- >S> with no use. (doorstop maybe). The C128 was only o.k., I had one, and it
- >S> seemed like a c64 with 128k ram, a z-80 card slapped into it, and a CHEAP
- >S> 80-column card hacked in there too. Fast mode was cool, but CBM should
- >S> have put money into a 2mhz Vic chip instead of wasting time on the 16 &
- >S> +4.
- >
- >You know, you guys are right about the 16 and the Plus/4. How I could
- >have forgot about those is beyond me. Actually, I'd put the 600 right
- >up there with them. Maybe I should have said that the 600 was the
- >biggest piece of Amiga crap C= ever put out. The 128 was a valiant
- >attempt to extend the life of the 8-bit system, but the handwriting was
- >already on the wall with 16-bit systems.
-
- Well, I never had a C64, but I did have a C128, I still have it, and I admit I
- would have been better off buying a real C64 as I never did anything on the 128
- side other than messing about with BASIC a bit. To think, If I had persevered I
- would have been a half-decent programmer (IMHO) ;)
-
- I still dig it out to play Lords of Midnight from time-to-time.
-
- >S> Now...onto the A600, I'm stuck with one.
- >
- >My sympathies.
-
- Ouch.
-
- >
- >S> They could have at least socketed the CPU though, that way I could have
- >S> given it the royal ten-dollar 68010 upgrade. But the geniuses at CBM
- >S> decided to surface mount it instead.
- >
- >One of the big reasons why I denigrate the 600. Yes, surface-mounting
- >is cheaper, but the ability to replace socketed chips is one great
- >thing about the Amiga that I truly admire. When my phone line was hit
- >by lightning a year and a half ago, it fried my modem, then went
- >through my 2000, blowing out the serial chips and damaging the CIAs and
- >the Paula. I felt good about being able to immediately replace the
- >CIAs and Paula from a dead 2000 that I had handy, and only the serial
- >chips had to be replaced professionally. The repair facility (which
- >has gone out of business, tragically) was smart enough to put the
- >serial chips on sockets for me. AT should keep the DIY repair nature
- >of the Amiga. It really minimizes dead time, and it shows that someone
- >trusts a user to actually do minor repairs on a system, warranty
- >violation or not.
-
- Well, there is the Apollo A620 28Mhz 020 trapdoor upgrade. Goes for 199 UK
- pounds, I suspect it has 4Mb of RAM onboard (as with the A1220/4) but don`t
- quote me. Simply speaking, though, you`d be a whole lot better getting an A1200
- since the A600 is such a limiting beast. I`m not so sure about the warranty
- thing, though it always impresses the hell out of me when I can install a HD,
- replace a ROM chip, install some RAM, and generally muck about with my bog-box
- Amigas, and not pay an engineer 25 quid for the priveledge (sp?).
-
- >
- >S> Hmmm.. Maybe CBM should have put the money for A300/Junebug (A600)
- >S> development into the A1200/4000 instead.
- >
- >The worst part was that the 3000+'s development was curtailed in favor
- >of the 600. That is truly a sin of omission.
-
- That`s all in the past now, what we should be concentrating on is the critical
- subject of the spec of the next 2 Amigas that AT should be wheeling out:
-
- The A1200Plus and the PPC Amiga. If the spec is high and the price is right,
- then they have a deal. If not, then wheel on the fat lady. :(
-
-