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Guru / ADiCT now brings to you very interresting News !!!
Thanx to Alchemy for capturing the news on the Usenet !
Announcing NEW AMIGA MODELS! The AMIGA 600, AMIGA 2200, and AmigaStation!
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AMIGA 600
The new Amiga 600 is "a very upgraded Amiga 500" which includes the
ECS for 2MB Chip RAM. The mother board will hold the 2MB Chip RAM as
well as an additional 1MB or 4MB of Fast RAM by using either 1Mbit or
4Mbit chips respectively. Stock systems will ship with 1MB Chip and
1MB Fast RAM. The Amiga 600 brings up the low end with a 68000 CPU
that clocks at 14.3MHz. Addressing Fast (system) RAM at this speed
makes the Amiga 600 twice as fast as the Amiga 500 in most operations.
The A600, housed in the standard low-profile A500 case, also comes
standard with one builtin High-Density floppy drive which can
read/write standard Amiga 880K floppy disks as well as the Amiga
1.76MB High-Density format. The Amiga 600 also includes the standard
serial, parallel, dual mouse ports, dual audio, floppy drive port,
NTSC video and expansion bus as the Amiga 500. Pricing adhears to
traditional A500 low-end pricing stratagy.
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AMIGA 2200
A "killer no-nonsense" midrange Amiga system is finally here. The
Amiga 2200 is actually more like a "slightly scaled down Amiga 3000."
Housed in a box which is actually smaller than the A3000's case is a
mother board which holds a 68020 CPU clocked at 14.3MHz. There is
also a socket for an optional 68881 FPU. This is a "real 32 bit"
system running on a 32 bit memory bus. The Amiga 2200 includes the
ECS to support 2MB of Chip RAM. Up to 8MB of additional Fast RAM may
be added to the mother board using 4Mbit RAM chips (or 2MB RAM using
1Mbit RAM chips). Stock systems will ship with 1MB Chip and 1MB Fast
(system) RAM. A de-interlacer circuit is included on board as well as
a 32 bit SCSI hard drive interface similar to the A3000. There are
three expansion slots including two full 32 bit bus expansion slots
"ala A3000 style" on a verticle daughter board and a direct CPU
expansion connector which can take a 68030 or 68040 CPU accelerator.
The Amiga 2200's low-profile, compact case has room for two internal
3.5" drives. Stock systems will ship with either one 1.76MB High-
Density floppy drive and a 52MB Quantum hard drive or two HD floppy
drives. I/O ports include standard serial, parallel, dual mouse
ports, dual audio, SCSI, floppy drive port, NTSC video and
de-interlaced 31KHz video. The Amiga 2200 with hard drive is priced
substancially less then the A3000/16/50 which is being phased out of
production. The Amiga 3000/25 will continue as the high end of the
Amiga personal computer line.
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AMIGASTATION
An all new line of powerful Amiga WorkStations is now ready to leap
Amiga computing to a new high level of processing capability. The
AmigaStation line initially includes three basic models. All three
models incorporate the Motorola 68040 CPU, 32bit SCSI-2 hard disk
interface, ECS, video de-interlacer, WorkBench 2.0 and contain up to
32MB of system RAM on the mother board. Additionally, All models
include enhanced digital audio capability which inludes dual channel 8
bit audio output at up to 44Khz and single channel 16 bit audio output
at up to 22 KHz sample rate. All models also come with the option of
UNIX System 5, Rlease 4 which can be pre-installed. An EtherNet board
is available for standard network interface capability on all models.
The High-End A4300, housed in a "Tower Style" case, incorporates the
MC68040 CPU clocked at 25MHz, 8MB system RAM, 2MB ESC Chip RAM, 330MB
hard disk, 1.76MB floppy drive and a high resolution coprocessor based
video graphics card with 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution and 8 bit color
from a 24 bit palette. Video RAM expands to support 24 bit color
displayed from a 24 bit palette. System RAM can be expaned to 32MB on
the mother board which also contains five 32bit expansion slots for
further memory and peripheral expansion. The video card occupies one
expansion slot. A CPU direct slot supports an optional high-speed
cache memory card. The system enclosure provides room for four
internal 3.5" drives and two 5.25" drives. I/O ports include standard
serial and parallel ports, SCSI port, NTSC video, de-interalced video,
high resolution RGB video, dual mouse and dual audio ports.
The A4200, housed in a very low profile "pizza box" style case,
incorporates the MC68040 CPU clocked at 25MHz, 8MB system RAM, 2MB ESC
Chip RAM, 210MB hard disk, 1.76MB floppy drive and a high resolution
coprocessor based video graphics card with 1280 x 1024 pixel
resolution and 8 bit color from a 24 bit palette. Video RAM expands
to support 24 bit color displayed from a 24 bit palette. System RAM
can be expaned to 32MB on the mother board which also contains three
32bit expansion slots for further memory and peripheral expansion.
The video card occupies one expansion slot. A CPU direct slot
supports an optional high-speed cache memory card. The low profile,
low cost system enclosure provides room for three internal 3.5"
drives. I/O ports include standard serial and parallel ports, SCSI
port, NTSC video, de-interalced video, high resolution RGB video, dual
mouse and dual audio ports.
The A4100, housed in a very low profile "pizza box" style case,
incorporates the MC68040 CPU clocked at 25MHz, 4MB system RAM, 2MB ESC
Chip RAM, 105MB hard disk, 1.76MB floppy drive. System RAM can be
expaned to 32MB on the mother board which also contains three 32bit
expansion slots for further memory and peripheral expansion. A CPU
direct slot supports an optional high-speed cache memory card. The
low profile, low cost system enclosure provides room for three
internal 3.5" drives. I/O ports include standard serial and parallel
ports, SCSI port, NTSC video, de-interalced video, dual mouse and dual
audio ports.
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NOTES:
Amiga 600: With a 14.3MHz 68000, and 6MB on board RAM (2MB Chip, 4MB
Fast RAM), this brings the low-end, consumer level Amiga
to a respsectable capability. Processing speed meets or
exceeds any cheap 386sx clone. Just add another HD floppy
drive and you've got a very capable system for a very low
price.
Amiga 2200: This system is for the true Amiga enthusiast. Due to the
very "cost reduced" mother board and system enclosure it
is NOT BridgeBoard capable. It also has "only" two main
expansion slots. However, with SCSI and up to 10MB RAM on
board (2MB Chip, 8MB Fast) you may not need an expansion
slot for a while. With a 14.3MHz 68020 running on a true
32 bit memory bus, you've got enough processing power to
handle almost any task. When you are ready to expand, go
ahead and fill one of the two 32 bit expansion slots with
a 32MB memory board. And add a 28MHz 68040 to the CPU
expansion slot. You'll be in "Amiga Heaven" with this
kind of power. This system enclosure only holds two 3.5"
drives. This is the most useful low-cost configuration and
is due to the low-cost, small footprint inclosure. But
you can still add floppy and hard drives externally to the
built-in floppy and SCSI ports if necassary. The 68881 FPU
is not included in stock systems, but at least the socket
is there when you decide to plug one in. The A2200 will
significantly out-perform the Mac Classic II and Mac IILC
because these Macs use a 16 bit memory interface to their
32 bit processors. At list $1295 with one high-density
floppy drive, a 50MB hard drive and 2MB RAM (1MB Chip and
1MB Fast) this system will sell like hot cakes. At $995
street price this is a low-cost-Mac and clone killer for
sure. In fact, a new factory may be needed to keep up with
demand. The A2000 will remain in production for those who
need a system where they can plug in the "kitchen sink."
AmigaStation: Wow! What else can you say? If you need high power
in an Amiga, well, here it is! These systems are the
ultimate for Amiga creativity for the power user. For
professional or personal use in anaimation, ray trace,
CAD and Desk Top Publishing, the AmigaStation really
makes it possible - in a hurry! These systems are
fast. But the optional low-cost, high-speed CPU cache
card increases processing throughput by 20 to 30% and
is well worth the extra cost. The A4300 tower system
costs some $$, but will handle almost any peripheral
expansion need internally. That, together with it's
high-speed processing make it well worth the price for
those who need this capability. For those who need
only moderate internal peripheral expansion, the A4200
and A4100 will out-compete, in price/performance, any
high-end personal computer and compete well with any
mid-range UNIX workstation. The 68040, known to be
pretty fast, is still under estimated. It's at least
50% faster then the 486 at a given clock speed in most
situations. So if you need a fast Amiga, or, for that
matter, if you need a fast computer, GO FOR IT! One
more note - The A3000 can essentially be brought up to
the level of the AmigaStation series by adding a 68040
accelerator and a high-res graphics video card.
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