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MILL<br />
Remember, folks, these arc RUMORS, and that<br />
means that they may or may not be true.<br />
Don't bother getting mad at us about them; we<br />
don't make them up, we just report them.<br />
—> We have heard that the 64C is proving so<br />
popular that it is deeply backordcred even<br />
though Commodore is running the 64C<br />
production lines on two shifts.<br />
-> All of those rumors about the imminent<br />
death of the C128 may have some basis in fact.<br />
We have heard that the C128 will be "deemphasized"<br />
to free up production lines for the<br />
64C and to free working capital needed to<br />
import Commodore's IBM/PC clones.<br />
--> The latest word online is that the last C128<br />
will roll off the lines in December of 1987.<br />
--> We also hear that the Z80 chip may be the<br />
only thing missing from an enhanced C64 that<br />
will offer faster operating speed. It will have<br />
additional memory, but will apparently access<br />
it like the 1764 RAM expander, rather than as<br />
contiguous memory like the C128 docs.<br />
Whether it will have 80-column capability or a<br />
numeric keypad is anyone's guess.<br />
--> The latest rumor from the West Coast<br />
concerning the new, improved Amiga says it<br />
will be called the model 2500, will have 2 megs<br />
of chip RAM and new graphics and sound chips<br />
that can address two megs, and will have a<br />
new ZORRO architecture that is IBM/PC cardcompatible.<br />
--> On the other hand, the latest rumor from<br />
the East Coast says the new, improved Amiga<br />
will have 7 slots, 3 Amiga-compatible and 4<br />
IBM-compatible. The Sidecar will be built in,<br />
it will have one and maybe two megs of RAM,<br />
and cards will be available to upgrade<br />
internally to a 68020 or 68030 as well as<br />
allowing the addition of an IBM/PC-AT cloncon-a-card.<br />
--> The new reduced-cost Amiga may come<br />
bundled with the famed Commodore 64<br />
emulation software. The cost will be about<br />
$495 and it will have version 1.2 of the<br />
operating system in ROM, but no word yet on<br />
whether the price includes a drive.<br />
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--> We keep hearing that Sony has a<br />
box/monitor that displays interlace video (as in<br />
the Amiga's 640x400 mode) as non-interlaced,<br />
thus removing the flicker.<br />
--> Another Sony rumor says that their latest<br />
full-blown Beta video recorder (the SL-I000)<br />
will have stop-frame animation capabilities, a<br />
must feature for Amiga video artists.<br />
TRUE FACTS<br />
The title you just read indicates that the<br />
following information is stuff you can bank<br />
on, things that we know for certain to be true.<br />
Just wanted to make that clear.<br />
--> From what we hear inside at Commodore,<br />
even they haven't decided yet what will or<br />
won't be included in the new Amiga models.<br />
—> At least some (and maybe most) of the<br />
engineering work on the new Amiga models is<br />
being done not in Los Gatos, but in<br />
Commodore's West German plant, where the<br />
Sidecar was developed..<br />
--> Ashton-Tate was not showing Amiga<br />
product at the Comdex show, but they did seem<br />
to be very interested in what everyone else was<br />
showing for Amy. Hmmmmm....<br />
--> The Apple IIGS is in very short supply and<br />
will probably ship less than 10,000 units this<br />
year. The problem involves production delays<br />
and bugs in the IIGS's special chips.<br />
--> One of the original members of the Amiga<br />
Development Team says that one possible<br />
project that was discussed early on and then<br />
shelved was an Amiga-on-a-card which would<br />
plug into an IBM/PC system. Though it was<br />
agreed that such a card is possible, it will never<br />
sec the light of day.<br />
--> How good is Commodore's PC-10 IBM/PC<br />
clone? Well, ComputerLand of Canada has<br />
named it their official PC clone. Our contacts<br />
there say it is selling like the proverbial<br />
hotcakes.<br />
--> We hear that an Amiga hopped up with 8<br />
megabytes of RAM, a 68020 cpu chip, and a<br />
15mHz clock actually ran for about five<br />
minutes at the Amiga Developers Conference.<br />
With that kind of turbocharging stretching the<br />
Amiga's chips well beyond their designated<br />
specifications, no one reasonably expected it to<br />
be able to run at all.<br />
--> It seems that IBM has finally built itself up<br />
to a level of retail success comparable to that<br />
achieved by Commodore when they first<br />
introduced the PET computer almost a decade<br />
ago. Robert Crowell, chairman of the fourstore<br />
Neeco computer store chain, quoted in<br />
Computer and Software News, says: "Demand<br />
for IBM's AT 339 is higher than demand for<br />
any product I've ever seen since the<br />
Commodore PET in 1978-79."
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