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- From: hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser)
- Subject: Re: AT MindWalker and A500
- Message-ID: <hrlaserDMGux7.2xq@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:53:31 GMT
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-
- Tony McCreath (mccreath@vossnet.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : Is the new internet pack compatible with older machines?
-
-
- : -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- : Tony McCreath mccreath@vossnet.co.uk
- : Software Engineer
- : Nortel Ltd Amiga4000/030,6Meg
- : -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- For any of its software that requires MUI 3.2, you'd need to
- be able to run MUI 3.2.
-
- For any other net software, such as browsers, that don't require
- MUI 3.2 but require datatypes for image display, you'd need
- at least OS 3.0 or 3.1 to have datatypes.
-
- Trying to do this stuff on a stock 68000 Amiga 500 would be
- to tempt fate.
-
-
- Suggestion: if you plan to keep your 500, accelerate it at least
- up to an 020 or preferably an 030, shove more RAM in it and
- get the WBench 3.1 kit for it. Doing this, of course, you'll
- end up spending many times the $$ that the computer is worth.
-
- Alternate suggestion: lookin c.s.a.marketplace for a nice
- used, beefed up A1200 and retire your 500, or give it to a
- friend, friend's kid, or someone you know who is computerless.
-
- Or: wait for the A1200 "Surfer pack" and buy one new. (Then
- put more RAM in it cuz 2 Meg isn't much.. I'm not saying
- "isn't enough" yet).
-
- Ultimately, you can only take an old computer so far, as in trying
- to hit a moving target, technology marches on, etc. etc.
- You can do perfectly usable work on an A500. There's nothing
- wrong with the machine. You just can't do the "cutting edge"
- stuff on it till you make some modifications to it, all of which
- are easy to do, and all of which cost some amount of money.
-
- The guys developing the new Amiga net software (browsers, etc.)
- are using the latest tools available to them. There aren't
- enough guys doing this kind of work (nor is there enough money
- in it for them) to also simultaneously release versions
- that are back-engineered to work in older WBench versions.
-
- Harv | "Do you recognize the
- harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
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