Conference hydra::amiga_v1

3595.0. "AmiExpo rumors" by BAGELS::BRANNON (Dave Brannon) Wed Mar 21 1990 01:54

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From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Summary: really: rumors from AmiExpo east coast
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Date: 19 Mar 90 18:35:22 GMT
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>	Wayne, this isn't directed particularly at you, but unless
>people are willing to put up evidence it is ridiculous to keep making
>claims about availability. I have heard all sorts of things. Some
>people say it probably won't be out next year, other's say that our
>favorite hacker Hazy has one on his desk and it'll be out at CeBit.
>Basically, if you are a developer you can't say anything and if you
>are Commodore you won't say anything. Everyone else is just guessing.
>Let's stop the guessing game which someone may accidentally take as
>fact!
 
The following aren't guesses, but things that reliable people said at
AmiEXPO in Washington D.C. this past weekend.
 
Gail Wellington, CBM special projects, said to expect at least four *BIG*
announcements from Commodore in the next few months.
 
The editor of Amazing Computing, (sorry, forget his name) said he did more
business after 6:00 pm (when the exhibit hall closed) running around looking
at all of the sneak previews in private rooms.  He also said to expect
a lot of exciting announcements fairly soon.
 
Jay Miner, father of the Amiga custom chips suspects (he is not under non-
disclosure and has no inside info) that Commodore is well along with a new
set of killer mutant ninja custom chips with features like 2 (easily) to 4
(just maybe) time the speed, 8+ bitplanes, and 6 bits/color (total 256K colors)
and possibily improvements to HAM mode to get all 256K colors on the screen
at once.
Jay also made either a simple mistake or freudian slip an said "Amgia 4000"
when he meant to say "Amiga 3000."  Now that's a rumor.
 
>	-- Ethan
>
>Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
>Compu$erve    : 70137,3271

    
    re: .0
  
    QUOTE:  
    Jay Miner, father of the Amiga custom chips suspects (he is not under non-
disclosure and has no inside info) that Commodore is well along with a new
set of killer mutant ninja custom chips with features like 2 (easily) to 4
(just maybe) time the speed, 8+ bitplanes, and 6 bits/color (total 256K colors)
and possibily improvements to HAM mode to get all 256K colors on the screen
at once.
    ENDQUOTE:
    
    Jay Miner was at the Paris DevCon in February, he saw the same things
    I did, and therefore MUST have signed the NDA. I would seriously
    doubt the authenticity that the above came from Mr. Miner.
    
    					Alan T.

Re: .0

>    Jay Miner, father of the Amiga custom chips suspects (he is not under non-
>disclosure and has no inside info) that Commodore is well along ...

Re: .2

>    Jay Miner was at the Paris DevCon in February, he saw the same things
>    I did, and therefore MUST have signed the NDA. I would seriously
>    doubt the authenticity that the above came from Mr. Miner.

The quote attributed to Mr. Miner might be an old quote that is now
out of date.  I remember reading a magazine interview with Mr. Miner
published in the last six months where he did make some "guesses"
about what Commodore might be doing, and where he stated that he
had no inside information from Commodore. 

So, Mr. Miner might have been in the dark until Paris DevCon in February.

    re:.1
    
    It sounds more like a RGB to composite video converter, with a
    video digitizer tossed in.  Nice combo, usually it's just a 
    genlock, not a digitizer.
    
    -Dave