From: dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Request for A600 Spec
Date: 5 Apr 92 09:37:45 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <AHANSFOR.92Apr4040756@wpi.wpi.edu> ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford) writes:
>
>Sorry to take up the space but I missed the A600 specs.  Could someone
>please email them to me or repost them.  Thanks
>

	I do not have the specs on hand, but they
are definitely on ab20.larc.nasa.gov (for now).

	Basically:

	smaller case - size compares to commodore 64

	no numeric keypad

	uses rom cartridge port for games or 
	memory expansion via a special ram
		-similar to a thick credit card

	the unit is one big slant, and the floppy
	drive is inline with the slant, not
	horizontal

	may have 512k or 1meg

	internal 86pin A601 trapdoor slot

	color video composite output for TV,
	no more A520 video adapter needed

	surface mounted chips, except Kickstart

	may be cheaper than A500, but I have heard
	that it may be the same price as the A500

	it is shipping in some parts of Europe, probably
	definitely in Germany since it is a primary
	European market

	internal IDE hard drive interface
		-may ship with hard drive as an option

	Workbench 2.05, Kickstart 2.05 combo to handle
	IDE drive and external rom port (known by many
	names)

	cartridge port is similar to CDTV port; expect CBM
	to hopefully modify the CDTV port for compatibility.
		-CDTV port was designed before the newer standard
		became more popular among whoever develops
		those things

	otherwise, same specs as A500 or A500+.




	This machine will most likely be known as the successor
to the A500 line, and hopefully it will get the hardware support
that it needs. Entry hardware should be 86pin ram expansion cards
of 1 meg. Within a few months 2-4 meg boards will pop up. It should
handle 9 megs easier than the A501. Actually it may be 10 megs now,
since it probably uses the 2 meg Agnus chip. Expect some accelerators
also to use the A601 port but not upon the initial release of the
A600. All other hardware add-ons popular with the A500 will trickle
down much more slowly, such as ethernets, IBM emulator boards, and much
needed graphics boards, which will be much unlike and A500 graphics
boards because the A500 has a socketed Denise. People have also
suggested that a modem can be used in the external cartridge port.

	there no longer is an 86 pin reversed zorro thingy on the side;
but the cartridge port may address up to 128 megabytes of ram/rom,
although don't expect more than 4 megs or so within the first year
because they are expensive...possibly $100 or more for only a 1 meg
cartridge. Any games that use this port initially will be expensive,
but it will be very easy for developers to port games over once the
cards are inexpensive. And believe me they will port them over since
A600 will be up by that time.


	No foolin'.
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