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- NEWS ROUND-UP
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- Compiled by Defacto
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- -The Amiga 1200 is being re-released at 400 pounds (UK) with a bundle
- called the `Amiga Magic`, it will come more productivity software then
- before and 2 games.
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- -The Amiga 4000T/060 will be available in November and come with Scala
- MM300 installed on its 1.2gig SCSI-II hardrive. It comes with 6megs as
- standard. Uk price roughly 2500 pounds!.
-
- -Softwood have released FINAL WRITER 4. This is another product from the
- company who bring you the final range of productivity software. This
- time you 2.5megs free and a harddrive to use it. It promises to rival
- MicroSoft Word.
-
- -Virtual products, released there I-glasses for the Amiga, which are
- virtual reality glasses, but the amiga versions will be the `Video` only
- version and have no motion detectors!, so there only good as sort of
- close up monitors, not proper VR!, The PC version has proper VR, why
- doesn't the Amiga version?, who knows.
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- -Visage computers they will be distributing the new Apollo accelerator
- range of products, including the 040 card for the A1200 clocked at 33mhz
- and with a SCSI-II transfer rate of 3.5megs/s.
-
- -AMiGA Technologies have/are releasing a Amiga only monitor that can sync
- to all the Amigas screen modes, it is basically a microvitec 1438 monitor
- with internal speakers and the new AMiGA logo on it.
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- -The Panasonic `PD` drive is now available in the UK, this machine is a
- CD-ROM and 650Mb optical storage device, expect to pay about 600-650
- pounds.
-
- -The Power Computing SuperXL 3.5inch drive is now back on sale, it allows
- you to store 3.5meg on normal HD floppy Disks, 129.95 from Power
- Computing.
-
- -CitaDel, a new doom clone is due for release soon, it even works on ECS
- machines!, ie a500+/A3000 etc.
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- -Cinema 4D the new 3D rendering package is due for release soon from
- Hi-Soft.
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- -Escom are now selling 540meg HardDrives for 116 Uk pounds, including VAT
- these drives are seagates with 12ms access times, they are also selling
- 72pin simm modules, 4meg will cost you 116 pounds as well.
-
- -Future Publishing were at Live95 showing two new A1200`s, but were
- they?, reports indicate they were old A1200`S with New logos on em!.
- Unconfirmed of course!.
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- -Visage computers are now stocking the New Decathalon Seagate HardDrives
- these 3.5inch HardDrives are 3/4inch high so they fit easier in your
- A1200
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- -Real 3D V3 is now out, there are many new features such as 2/10 faster
- B-spline rendering, Lens Flares, Glow etc contact Jim Hendry on his BBS
- Activa International for more details.
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- -Mobile Phones are now selling for ridiculous prices some for even a
- pound!, watch out though, there are hidden extras such as line connection
- and rental and call charges!.
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- -PCMCOM.device is available now so you can use those flash PCMCIA modems
- in your A1200/600 that allows bbs owners to have to lines coming in to
- there machines, if the card port is not taken up.
-
- -Rumours are flying high that AMiGA technolgies have subcontracted all
- hardware devlopment to a company known as `ICE`, they will be responsible
- for all future devlopment of hardware for the AMiGA.
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- -Also Rumours are abound that in the new year the A1200 will be uprgraded
- to 030 at 33mhz and will have 4meg ram as standard, the price is expected
- to be about 400 pounds. The reason the current A1200`s haven't been
- modified is that they wouldn't have been ready for Christmas this year.
-
- -Windoze 95 is supposed to have some routines that delete all your
- compuserve files of the HardDrive, so that you cant logon to Compuserve
- using Windoze95, even after you remove it!. Alledgedlly!.
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- All information compiled from various sources, if you`d like to include
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- like.
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