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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
- Subject: Re: 4000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.043008.25454@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Sep12.214452.27040@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:30:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep12.214452.27040@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu
- >(Jeff Bevis) writes:
- >
- >>>>Unfortunately CBM left an equally important half of the "MultiMedia"
- >>>>equation off their list. The new machines still do only crappy 8 bit audio.
- >
- >>Well, this is the most disappointing aspect of the 4000 for me. I was
- >>really looking forward to great new graphics and sound. They got 1/2 of it.
- >
- >Aren't you guys being a bit presumptious, considering the fact that Jim Dionne
- >indicated that a DSP board would be available within 6 months? A DSP
- >board is certainly much more versatile than a revised Paula and the
- >possibility is very strong that such a card will be available for the
- >existing Zorro-based machines (A2000/3000).
-
- The problem with putting the DSP on an 'optional' card instead of making it
- standard hardware on at least one system is software. There already is at
- leastone third-party Zorro II card available which uses the same DSP that
- Commodore will be using, but how much software is available for it? The
- Commodore card will almost certainly sell better than the one from the third-
- party company, but not much better. After about a year, I will be amazed
- if the installed base of Amigas with Commodore DSP cards is even 1% what
- it would have been had Commodore released the DSP as standard hardware in
- at least one system.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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