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Article #623Re: Buying a multimedia system
From: John Dudley
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:04
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:04
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ATTENTION: To the future purchaser of the Amiga 2000 or 3000...... DON'T GET IT! I strongly urge you to consider the new Amiga 4000.... it has much better graphics WITHOUT additional hardware. The newly released Amiga 4000 (a mailorder house I know of is selling it for $2800) comes with the new AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) chipset.... (Yep! A bunch of new names for chips like Dorothy, Lisa, Alice, etc.).... But this new chipset(which might not be compatible with earlier Amigas) includes higher resolution modes, and a palette of 16.8 million colors. Some screen modes allow you to get a full 256,000 colors (from the selectable 16.8 million) on screen at one time. This new machine may make it so that you would not need to purchase the A3000 with DCTV, etc... Plus, this system comes standard with the Motorolla 68040 microprocessor. Check out the amiga newsgroups (comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, and comp.sys.amiga.misc) for more information on this new machine. If you do decide to go with the 3000, make sure your dealer is giving you the free CDTV Multimedia Machine WITH your 3000... if not, call Commodore and find out why not. Once again... a new machine was released this weekend.. Check it out!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!cebaf4!dudley From: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system Message-ID: <1992Sep14.210424.24673@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 14 Sep 92 21:04:24 GMT References: <kdarling.716259240@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> <1992Sep4.234254.11508@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> <1992Sep4.151113.3583@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Sep4.182640.16397@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Sep8.171910.29493@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) Organization: CEBAF Lines: 28