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This is the text content of the SDL ad, uploaded in reponse to Chris Shepard's query – and to anyone else who is interested. I make no apologies for any typo's in the following as I should have been doing something else at the time! 😉 BTW – This is the text which accompanies the picture of the beast (fridge?) currently residing as A4000.IFF in 'News & Reviews'. ————————————————————————– Never has a computer been more flexible. The powerful Amiga A4000T bridges the divide between home and business computing. Equally effective as a standalone worstation or as part of a local area network, it features pre-emptive multi-tasking and high specification proprietary graphics, video and sound systems. Yet, it can also emulate current PC technology throught the use of a PC emulator. ————————————————————————– THE LATEST IN 32-BIT TECHNOLOGY The premier Amiga A4000T system is the most significant technological advancement in the Amiga series since its introduction in 1985. Based on Motorola 68040 and 68060 32 bit processors, it shares the multitasking of earlier Amigas and is available with the latest and most powerful graphics and video application software. ADVANCED GRAPHICS ARCHITECTURE The A4000T's Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) chipset provides the Amiga's display with modes of up to 262,144 on-screen colours from a palette of 16.8 million. On-screen displays of 800×600 pixels or 1280×512, (more with overscan), are further supported with 2 dedicated video slot and up to 5 expansion slots for power intensive use. Such power brings desktop photo-realism to the Amiga 4000T's graphics, video, animation and presentations. PC EMULATION AND CONNECTIVITY Compatability with documents and graphics from other systems is supported in two ways. First, for IBM PC compatible environments, the Amiga 4000T allows easy file transfer between MSDOS and Amiga Environments, which can be enhanced and extended to running PC applications with optional PC emulator. Second, as a networked computer in the Novell environment, the Amiga is fully supported, both as a terminal and file server able to share resources with other machines. CONFIGURATION The Amiga A4000T comes with 6Mb RAM as standard and a 1.2Gb SCSI hard disk drive. It includes a 1.76Mb 3.5" floppy disk drive, detachable 94/96 key keyboard, 2 button mouse, AmigaDOS v3.1 and manuals. A monitor is required to complete the system. ————————————————————————– ARCHITECTURE -Motorola 68040 CPU both with optional Maths Co-Processor or 68060 CPU both with built in Maths Co-pocessor. (Removable processor module on a plug-in card upgradeable) -25MHz 68040 or 50MHz 68060 -32-bit throught machine -Battery backed clock -Auto configuring MEMORY -6Mb RAM as standard -2 Gigabytes Maximum total RAM Easily expandable to 18Mb via 32-bit simm modules on motherboard -Additional standard RAM supported by Auto-Config capability -512K 32-Bit ROM operating system size OPERATING SYSTEM -AmigaDOS System v3.1 (Workbench) -Supports programmable resolutions -Supports outline fonts -CrossDOS 4.0 enable reading/writing of MS-DOS floppy disks -Optional IBM MS-DOS Emulation – Via additional hardware and/or software -Optional Macintoch emulation – Via additional hardware and/or software GRAPHICS -Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) Chipset -16.8 Millon collour palette -262,144 on-screen colours -1280×512 maximum resolution (800×600 requires multisync monitor) -Vertical and horizontal hardware scrolling EXPANSION SLOTS -32-bit CPU Slot (200 pin) -2 x extended 24-bit video slots -5 x 16/32-bit Zorro II/III Slots -4 x PC/AT ISA bus slots DISK DRIVES -High density 880K/1.76Mb 3.5" Internal floppy disk drive -1.2Gb SCSI internal hard disk drive SOUND -8-bit PCM stereo sound -4 voices -Internal speaker HARDWARE INTERFACES -Serial RS-232 port (25-way D Socket) -Parallel prot -SCSI-2 interface as standard (supports SCSI-2 fast mode) -RGB analogue/digital output -1×16-bit AT/IDE interface -2 mouse/joystick ports – 2 button mouse included -Keyboard connector – for 94/96 key detachable keyboard with 10 function keys and numeric keypad -Right and Left stereo audio RCA jacks -Internal 200 Watt PSU ————————————————————————– I don't think I've ever seen such an ad. in a non Amiga Mag. Regards, Stuart Blackwell Studio Digital Media