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- From: ah802@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Pat Kushko)
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
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- Sender: ah802@torfree.net (Pat Kushko)
- Reply-To: ah802@freenet.toronto.on.ca (Pat Kushko)
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- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:10:44 GMT
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- In a previous article, dreed@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Duncan Reed) says:
-
- >Shaun C. Murray (scm@mfltd.co.uk) wrote:
- >:
- >: Let us stick our own PCI graphics cards in and our own sound cards from the
- >: PC donor bank. On the cheap A1200 style box, presuming there still will be
- >: one, maybe just include a small daughtercard with a cheap VGA chip (W32p?) and
- >: a cheap 16bit sound solution.
- >
- >: If anybody wants to do 15khz video still, let them pay for video cards.
- >Sorry but I think the 15knz option should stay, after all a lot of amigas
- >are brought as first computers by parents for kids and they probably
- >don`t want to get hold a monitor as well and might not realise they
- >need a seperate card, and then little johnny will be all upset.
- >
- >Beside when I blew up my monitor a few years ago if I had not be able to use
- >a tele I would have not been able to finish my degree project.
-
- I'll second that, nice to have a video engine that turns any amateur into
- Steven Speilberg, gives games a bit wider birth for family time, allows
- moniters to act like a second TV on occasion, and caters to the niche
- multi-media/display area. But of course I'd personally like a PCI 24 bit
- card display.. but that's an option that my pocket book talks about.
-
- Let's put to-gether a base empty box, with a low res-video engine, cd-rom
- drive slots for memory and pci cards and some sort of internet system.
- Tout it as the Surfer Solution, while giving more for the box than you
- can shake a stick at (3rd party cards have at it). Market it with a
- knockout video CD game, surfer package, and video titler and hint that
- video people will be very happy soon (direction toaster).
-
- --
- VERBOTTEN WORDS 96:) Angry white male, basically, big government, oj,
- web surfing, culture elite, cutting edge, cyber anything, the dreamteam,
- dweeb, edited for telivision, morphing, slut, the other white meat, amiga
- having it all, multimedia, sucks, nerd, world-class, ah802@torfree.net :)
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