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- From: bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Bandes Dessinee)
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- Subject: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.195348.25807@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:53:48 GMT
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- Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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- You know, I love my amigas, particularly my a3000, but Commodore's REALLY starting to piss me off here.
- This AGA chipset incompatibility thing wouldn't piss me off nearly so much if
- they had introduced DIG/RTG/whatever the hell they choose to call it FIRST.
- Commodore would be nowhere without the existing userbase, couldn't they have the
- decency to look out for us first, before introducing something that makes our
- machines obsolete?
- I have faith that some brilliant third party developer will find a way to
- incorporate the new chips, I remember people telling me that my a1000 could
- never be upgraded, that the 2000 was dead when the 3000 appeared. And you know,
- they were wrong. This new development just isn't going to get me to buy an
- a4000, unless Commodore offers a REAL upgrade deal, something that isn't going
- to cost me my life savings.
- What I don't understand in all of this is howcome there can't be some sort of
- motherboard replacement? I'm no engineer, so there's probably a very simple
- reason that i just don't get, but couldn't it be done?
- And with all those slots, you'd think they could mount the chips and a new
- bandwidth thingy and make it all work.
- And more to the point, there just HAS to be a way they could have developed a
- gizmo that would plug into the RGB port like a DCTV, HAME, Colorburst, Opalvision?
- That would have served the same graphics purposes. I mean let's face it, if
- all these different third party people can do it, it can obviously be done.
- So much for Gold Service, eh?
- Time to stop buying Commodore products, i think, unless they get their act
- together and start treating their userbase decently.
- Charley
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