mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) (06/03/87)
In article <331@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
< I just found out that the local (SLC, Utah) Amiga dealer has an A500 in
<store! I'll be checking it out tomorrow in person, but it's nice to know
<that the A500 isn't vaporware after all! How's the rest of the country
<doing on the new Amigas?
The local dealer here (Winner's Circle, Oakland) got one (exactly one)
about 36 hours ago.
As expected, it's an Amiga. Everything I tried on it ran like a charm,
or didn't (thus emulating the A1000 :-). Haven't tried typing at that
keyboard for very long yet. Other things of interest we haven't tried yet:
1) Plugging a monochrome monitor into it (I'm considering picking
one up with monochrome (paperwhite, maybe?) just to have a
spare system).
2) Plugging any kind of expansion (other than the second floppy)
into it. Almost tried the Microbotics hard disk, but decided
not to after checking the pinouts on the || port.
It even booted off of an A1000 wb (33.47). I noticed that it's got a
newer wb (33.56), and contemplated trying a copy of that on an A1000,
but decided not to.
Anyone want to tell us what's different between .47 and .56 (just the
code for the clock?), and how upset people will be if we, uh,
"borrow" a copy for use at home?
<mike
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Before you end up walking? mwm@ucbjade.BITNETpage@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (06/03/87)
An interesting note is that you no longer can say "left-amiga" or
"right-amiga" since the "left-amiga" is now a "commodore". The
Amiga checkmark has been replaced by the CBM chicken-head.
I bet the inside cover doesn't have any signatures, either.
Sigh.
..Bob
//
\X/ (looks good on an Amiga, anyway)
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet} grr@cbmvax.UUCP (06/07/87)
In article <1339@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: > An interesting note is that you no longer can say "left-amiga" or > "right-amiga" since the "left-amiga" is now a "commodore". The > Amiga checkmark has been replaced by the CBM chicken-head. > I bet the inside cover doesn't have any signatures, either. > Sigh. No, we were more concerned about getting the casework done than with getting our signatures on the cover. You will find the initials of the major players on the PC board though. Having a "Commodore" key and an "Amiga" key is a little statement of its own. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) (06/09/87)
Just back from COMDEX I'd like to report that Commodore has sent a 500 to all (?) dealers! That means that they've manufactured at least 500-1000 of them and "large-scale" shipping of the 500 should be in 2 or 3 weeks they say... The 2000 is a little farther away I'm afraid, though. I'll submit a longer report of COMDEX after reading the rest of the backed up news (sheesh!) to be sure I'm not duplicating others' information... Gary
dca@kesmai.UUCP (08/14/87)
Just thought I would post for those interested in buying an A500. Mind you there may be better prices available but this is the first one that I have seen explicitly advertised. J&R Music World is selling the A500 for 599.95 (no monitor). They don't give a price quote on the monitor but I would expect 250-300 range. Makes a $850-$900 system. That is better than I thought the A500 was going for. ****** warning -- commercial announcement ****** Air Warrior is now available free for the cost of the download from the GEnie Information Service. Warning, it is rather large thus downloading it is time consuming and sometimes it is hard to get a download without any errors. Air Warrior is a multi-player air combat simulation which allows aerial combat between human players located in physically disjoint areas of the country via a 1200 baud connection to the GEnie Network. The program can be operated standalone and used as a flight simulator to practice takeoffs and landings etc. To combat other humans you must connect to GEnie which has a special host program which interacts with the remote Air Warrior program. The GEnie host program will also operate robot drones if you get on when no other humans are flying. Air Warrior is presently available for MACs and the Amiga. Lots more, but in the interest of keeping the flames low I'll cut it short here. GEnie is a trademark of the General Electric Corporation. ******* end of commercial announcement ******** David Albrecht -- I am in no way associated with J&R. I am very associated with Air Warrior as I am responsible for some of the MAC code and all of the port from the MAC to the Amiga.