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- From: t92etr@tdb.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
- Subject: Re: amiga 1200
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.141243.25050@tdb.uu.se>
- Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
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- References: <1992Dec15.000417.15165@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:12:43 GMT
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- Lockie RJ (cs4gp6au@maccs.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
- : I was just looking at an Amiga 1200 today. Unfortunately
- : I couldn't change the WB screen to 800 x 600 mode. I couldn't
- : find it in the preferences. The salesman (an idiot) tried to tell
- : me that only the A4000 supports this mode because it's 'high end'.
- : Anyone care to comment on this? Since I only have one dealer in
- : my area I will be travelling 1/2 hour to a (hopefully) more
- : informed salesman.
- :
- : I'd also like to know if the PCMCIA card ram expansion
- : is 16 or 32 bit ram? That's what they're selling but I have heard
- : of a 'local bus' fast ram expansion from Microbotics that is
- : definitely 32 bit. I'd want 32 bit, so comments?
- :
-
-
- the PCMCIA expansion is 16-bit but there is also a slot on
- the underside of the computer (just like on the 500) with
- a 32-bit bus. As for ram-expansion you can have 4MB in
- the PCMCIA-slot and 4MB in the trapdoor slot.
-
- As for the graphics question the 1200 supports ALL the graphics modes
- of the 4000.
- It must have been a software problem. :-)
-