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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Walker Project
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 16:55:55 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Message-ID: <4ipdar$ovp@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : >A: >1000$
-
- : Is this confirmed or will it be more? I assume this is DEM also. Is
- : this SRP or MRP?
-
- Guesswork, the final machine hasn't been made yet, whasname in the IRC
- conference said it was not too late to make suggestions on the design.
- One IRC log mentioned $1500 DM. 1 DM = 1.08 CDN.
-
- : > ╖ 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.
-
- It was said that 2 MB was likely, just 1 MB in the prototype.
-
- : > ╖ 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.
-
- Chiton doesn't make amiga specific drives anymore and At can't find anyone
- to take up the low volume.
-
- : >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.
-
- The upgrades for the a1200 etc from Phase V have nothing to do with this
- date. Spring '97 is still the first part of '97, nothing new there.
-
- : >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?
-
- One thing that will be different is that the PPC machine will have standard
- graphics for a change. Price was not mentioned and would be guesswork
- anyway.
-
- : >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?
-
- There are PC solutions for video out there already and at cheap prices. AT
- is making the correct choice here in not reinventing the wheel.
-
- : >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.
-
- Think prototype George.
-
- : >Q: Is the 030 on a Socket?
- : >
- : >A: No, it's PGA surface mounted.
-
- : Isn't this the more expensive surface mount one?
-
- No, it is the less expensive surface mount one.
-
- : >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?
-
- AT has found that it takes amiga people to make amigas apparently.
-
- : >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?
-
- Wasn't mentioned, 3.2 is supposed to be a minor update fixing bugs and
- stuff.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
-