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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 09:53:39 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4im073$clb@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <4ii1kf$8fi@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Comments/questions
-
- In article <4ii1kf$8fi@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
- > * Welcome to the Walker/AT Frequently Asked Questions v1.1 *
- >
- > This FAQ is compiled from what AT_Cebit and others have said on the IRC
- > Updated: 17th March 1996
- >
- >
- > Copyright Anders Bakkevold - But please spread it.
- > I CANNOT guarantee that all the information is correct!
- > If you have more information, please send it to
- > Goofy on IRC, or andersb@intercom.no!!
- >
- >
- >--06--
- >
- >Q: What will the price for Walker be?
- >
- >A: >1000$
-
- Is this confirmed or will it be more? I assume this is DEM also. Is
- this SRP or MRP?
-
- >--07--
- >
- >Q: What is new in the Walker machine?
- >
- > ╖ 6 mb RAM (maybe 5) (Expandable to 128MB in total)
-
- If it doesn't contain 2 MEG Chipram, a lot of old AGA software will not
- work, I cannot see how they can even contemplate putting 1 MEG chipram into
- this new machine.. it should be 2 MEG chip, 4 MEG fast... minimum.
-
- > ╖ PC-Diskdrive (Maybe! Amiga-emulation)
-
- Uh-oh, software problems again. This would be nice if they could provide
- an INTERNAL drive bay to hold the Amiga double density floppy drive and an
- external port to connect a PC High Density drive to.
-
- >--09--
- >
- >Q: When can we expect new Amigas?
- >
- >A: The Walker will come in September, a PPC Upgrade for A4000 at the end
- > of this year, a whole new PPC-machine in spring next year.
-
- SWo the PPC upgrades and PPC machine have been pushed back a bit.
-
- >A: There will probably not be much difference between a Walker with a
- > PPC and a PPC Amiga.
-
- So the people buying the Walker will find it cheaper to upgrade to PPC
- then going out and buying a whole new PPC machine?
-
- >--11--
- >
- >Q: Will there be a new gfx chip set and sound chip set with the upcoming
- > PPC amiga?
- >
- >A: The new Amigas will use standard-chips, but the walker still has AGA.
-
- I thought Amiga Tecnologies were going to be working on their own new
- Amiga chipset to provide 24 bit color and 16 bit sound and not use off
- the shelve chips? Will this not kill the video output and other Amiga
- specific characteristics?
-
- >--12--
- >
- >Q: Who designed the Walker?
- >
- >A: The case: Some german professor, a well known designer. The new board
-
- Hmm.. "Dark Helmut" from the movie Spaceballs? :)
-
- >--18--
- >
- >Q: Will it only have 1 Meg chip ram?
- >
- >A: Not decided yet, however Heinz Wretsel, central to Project Walker said
- > that he didn'texpect it would have less than 2MB of Chip. It's
- > difficult to buy less and it's not much cheaper.
-
- As stated above, this would be so stupid to do and I can't even see how
- they even thought of using 1 mb of chip memory.. 2 MB minimum - they
- should be trying to expand it to go up to 4 or 8, not back down to 1.
-
- >--19--
- >
- >Q: Is the 030 on a Socket?
- >
- >A: No, it's PGA surface mounted.
-
- Isn't this the more expensive surface mount one?
-
- >--20--
- >
- >Q: Who is working on the Walker Project?
- >
- >A: Atleast Dave Haynie is! :) He's relocating to AT's headquarter,
- > in Bensheim.
-
- COOL! Is this just a temporary thing.. as in AT contracted Dave out of
- Scala or is this a permanent thing? Will Dave be working on the Power
- Amiga also?
-
- >--21--
- >
- >Q: Is there going to be an InterNet+softwarebundle supplied with
- > the AmigaOS or in the normal softwarebundle?
- >
- >A: Heinz Wretsel was quite adamant that he wanted to.
-
- This would be nice.
-
- >--22--
- >
- >Q: Will MagicWB be included in WB3.2?
- >
- >A: It was being considered. Certainly some cosmetic stuff should
- > feature in OS 3.2. In fact I believe he said it would. [Heinz]
-
- That is nice also.. will they fix the "pen"/color problems in different
- screenmodes/settings?
-
- -=*George*=-
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