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- From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcon Re: Amiga 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.055302.23988@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
- References: <14posbINN47q@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <1992Jul25.201542.2212@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Jul26.055003.23858@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:53:02 GMT
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- These seem to be more likely specifications for the Falcon... nice
- machine, some good features, good price/performance point. Not an Amiga
- killer, not an overwhelmingly compelling machine. No 24bit color... no
- real high resolutions. No hard disk, no monitor... beats out a Mac of
- any type, beats an IBM for equipment/price cost.
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- From cheshire.oxy.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!gene.fwi.uva.nl!kort Fri Jul 24 18:09:24 PDT 1992
- Article: 12442 of comp.sys.atari.st
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
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- From: kort@fwi.uva.nl (Jan Kort (I89))
- Subject: Falcon info
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.143614.15665@fwi.uva.nl>
- Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:36:14 GMT
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- Hardware:
- 16 MHz MC68030
- 32 MHz Motorola 56001 DSP-chip
- 1,4 or 16 MegaByte (No simms ...)
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- External connectors:
- parallel port
- serial port
- SCSI II-port
- Video out/Genlock
- stereo headphones-out
- stereo mike-in
- DSP / Digital audio interface
- RF-Modulator(TV)
- LAN-port
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- Cartidge ROMport
- Joysticks
- MIDI-In
- MIDI-Out
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- ST-joystick / mouseports
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- Intern
- DRAM expansion board
- Internal bus expansion-slot
- Internal IDE harddisk-connection
- Internal diskdrive
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- Resolutions:
- Mode Resolution Bitplns colors pallette
- ST Low-res 320x200 4 16 4096
- ST Med-res 640x200 2 4 4096
- ST High-res 640x400 1 2 4096
- 640x480 8 256 262.144
- true color 320x200 15 32768 --
- VGA/VIDEO x:320 or 640 1,4, 2,16, (overscan select)
- y:200 or 400 8 256 262.144
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- The DSP can do a 1024 point complex Fast fourier transform in 2.07
- milliseconds. The TT with coprocessor needs 145 milliseconds.
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- Since the DMA port has been removed you can't use the SLM 804 and 604
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- The IDE connector allows you to connect a cheaper IDE-harddisk.
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- P.S. I got all this information from a magazine called "atari st nieuws"
- edition 50/51. There's lots more info in the article (especially about the
- DSP ). I'm not gonna type all that stuff though :)
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- Jan Kort
- kort@fwi.uva.nl
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