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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Project Walker
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 19:18:24 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Lorne Laliberte (llaliber@cyberspc.mb.ca) wrote:
- : That quote about a Walker with a PPC card would basically be the same as
- : the PowerAmiga has me wondering if we might be better off buying the
- : Project Walker machine than the full PowerAmiga when it arrives?
-
- A walker with a PPC card would still need svga and whatever sound the PPC
- amigas will include as standard.
-
- : For those of us with an extensive AGA software library, the existence of
- : the AGA chipset in the Walker would be a good fallback for compatibility.
- : If the Project Walker machine's "Walker slot" can really handle a lot of
- : expansion, and is as fast as the PowerAmiga's bus will be, then a person
- : could upgrade a Walker to be everything that a PowerAmiga will be, and
- : MORE. More, because it would have AGA to run old non-OS friendly software,
- : whereas the PowerAmiga would not.
-
- The walker would be a good buy for someone who wants a gradual upgrade path
- for sure, although if you have an a1200 already, why not keep it and buy a
- PPC amiga as well. The answer to that will probably be price.
-
- : The question is, will an expanded Project Walker machine be able to
- : really match a PowerAmiga? And another good question would be, how much of
- : the software in our libraries wouldn't run on an RTG OS?
-
- Have to try it to find out.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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