CompuServe Thread

This is something I got off my local BBS. Think of it what you want. I think its BS but then again mabe not: Amiga 5000 -4 custom chips -32/64 bit wide VRAM (allows simultaneous access, increasing bandwidth) -57/114 Mhz pixel clock -support for chunky pixels -24 bit planes -CD-ROM ready ***Frame Grabber built in with up to 60 frames per sec -1024 x 1024 screen resolution (that is, with the framegrabber) ***16 bit audio, samples up to 100 kHz, AT&T 40 Mhz DSP chip -On demand DMA, asynchronous instead of synchronous now being used **12-20x bandwidth increase over AA chipset! -32-bit blitter, 8x performance of AA (p.s.–AA is AGA) ***Built in hardware compression/decomp for video (MPEG, I assume) -Improvd genlock support -72 Hz refresh rate ****SCSI-II Zorro III 32 bit bus master controller on motherboard -CD-ROM with PhotoCD capability (about time!) *******Full-motion 24-bit video!! —shipped with plug-in 33 mhz 68040 (mentions 68060 as possible alternative) ***Up to 8 MB Chip (!) RAM —Up to 16 MB Fast RAM —Built in 72-pin SIMM slots (for autoconfigurable additional memory) —AmigaDOS 3.1 —programmable resolutions -Right and left stereo in (! Built-in 16-bit digitizer) and out RCA ports -200-pin CPU slot -5 Zorro III expansion slots -3 PCAT slots -Extended 24-bit video slot, in line with standard 100-pin ZOrros for integration ***Built-in 3.5-inch VERY high density drive (d 2 front 3.5 inch bays -1 front 5.25-inch bay for optional CD-ROM Graphics: AAGA-2 custom chipset produces res from 320×200 to 1280×1024 with on-screen at once in all modes Sound: AT&Ts DSP chip at 40 Mhz with 2 16-bit analog/digital (for digitizing) converter -16-bit volume -100 mhz sampling Dimensions: 15.25 deep x 16 wide x 6 high, 22 lbs, 250 watt power supply AM, 200 MB SCSI-2 (Hooray!) hard drive Okay, now for the even bigger surprise: 8x bandwidth increase (over AGA), 2x blitter performance, 800×600 256 color mode at 722hz, 16-bit "true color" erial port, 8 MB chip RAM, support for 4 MB floppy –This part is the official press release, so ignore some parts above… 14.32 mhz 680201v processor, 2 MB chip ram, 16 mb fast ram, 150-pin trapdoor bus 2 PCMIA-2 slots –separate numeric keypad and cursor keys, mini-trac ball + separate mouse –same res as 5000, only 256k colors at once (oh, darn), color LCD monitor (don't know whether it's active or passive matrix) outputs to external monitor ***same 16-bit setup as 5000, built-in digitizer lbs. with 5-hr (!!!!) battery and LCD color monitor (only does 640x4external monitor) –built in 2 MB RAM, 1.76 MB floppy, 80 MB IDE HD This part is just speculation and well-informed rumors, but it sounds pretty ident… CDTV-II has Amiga Portable motherboard (AAGA chip set and 16-bit stuff,6Kodak Photo CD and Philips CD-Interactive standards (ALL RIGHT COMMODORE!!) Supposedly all of this sork World of Amiga Shows, this month. I'm pretty curious about the prices; whatever they are, they h the floor (by the way,both new chipsets are fully compatible with AGA, so those machines will certainly not become obsolete any time soon). We might expect A1200 prices about $300 and A4000 prices around $1200-1400 Pretty damn exciting sstuff. I figure that I'll waint until about sept.30 (the end of my summer break), then see what prices look like for the 5000 and Portable. I can't decide which I'd like better (probably the 5000, but I t know). I want to see IBM and Apple match this new shit. I'm going to write Commoore death threats if …. Well this is it.