10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
2:55 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:47:56PM +0100, Deano Calver wrote:
So every post A1000 Amiga has 'Extra Halfbrite
mode' with a 6 bit plane
graphics mode but only a 32 entry CLUT. The top 32 colours are simple
the palette colours divided by 2.
And many of us dropped a few bucks for a newer Denise.
It expansion connection is pin compatible with a A500
but not physically
compatible, at least without a hack saw and as somebody else mentioned
its parellel and serial ports are the other sex from all other Amiga's
and PC.
However, you usually _could_ put an A500 expansion on an A1000...
I stuck with my A1000 as a daily machine until I got an A3000, but by
then, I'd put 3.5MB of FAST RAM on/in it, a SCSI port, a Rejuvinator,
(1MB of CHIP and ROM Kickstart), plus a ROM switcher so I could
choose between 3 versions of the OS, if I really needed to.
And at the time, the A1000 was on the UUCP maps as kumiss.uucp (check out
deja.com for references)... I was using it to pick up mail and a seriously
reduced netnews feed in 1987, at first on a pair of ST-225s hooked up
through an ISA MFM HDC - a 20MB news spool!
I don't recall too many Macs being directly connected to Usenet in 1987...
-ethan
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