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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!wmu-coyote!22black
- From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
- Subject: Re: 1200 owners, please answer these questions..
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.004038.2317@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
- References: <pati.725482342@milton>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:40:38 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- pati@milton.u.washington.edu (Pati Irish) writes:
-
- >Im really debating getting a 1200 because of the follwing I have heard, could
- >someone please answer if these thing are true or false..
-
- >I heard the the 1200 will only run %25 percent of the software out there..
-
- No way the percentage is much higher than that, say about 70%,
- if you only count the stuff released in 92 then it is up to 90%,
- and if you use skick to drop down to os1.3, it increases even more,
- especially older stuff.
-
- >heard the try'n to add a 2.5 int. drive such as the maxtor 80 meg, just doesnt
- >work at all...
-
- No prob here, you do have to buy a special small cable, a lot of mail order
- places have that cable for sale for as much as $15, and a 80meg 2.5 is about
- $270, not bad pricing.
-
- >And is a 1084 good enuff for the 1200, i mean do you really need a multisync
- >to use the AGA software??
-
- No way, I really doubt that commercial software will require you to have
- a multisynch, they may put it into interlace, and then you need an a1960
- or one of those not released quad synchs, to promote to no flicker, but
- that won't happen until a cheap monitor is out that can handle promoted
- synchs and ecs synchs.
-
- >someone please get back to me, im really sick of this slow 500.. i wanna
- >faster amiga bad.... Thanks..
-
- Yep I like mine a lot. I am waiting for some cheap fast ram to be available.
- I have seen that 881/ram board, yet it costs $200 with 881 and no fast ram,
- and then you have to get 4megs of ram. I would like to get a cheap 2meg
- ram board, for about $200 or less. Should increase the speed by about
- 2 times or more.
-
- Martin
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- Bill SATAN LIVES Gates is the biggest enemy to personal computers ever.
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