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From: wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ALF
Message-ID: <0605.AA0605@sosaria>
Date: 1 Sep 89 01:39:50 GMT
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In message <4726@brains.UUCP> Michael Dinn wrote:

> Anyone out there ever heard of Prespect Technics? They sell a
>hardware/software combo called the A.L.F. (Amiga Loads Faster). It lets you
>use IBM hard drives with any Amiga. They offer a package deal... HD, ALF, and
>power supply for $630 US. The HD is a 40 meg with an RLL card; not sure of
>the make. Any ideas? Anyone ever order from them? They claim a 460K/s
>transfer rate, can anyone verify it?

Well...I don't want to bring up the old discussion "my controller is better
than yours" again, but...

I can only repeat my statement that the best thing you can do is do buy
only Commodore products for your Amiga, or at least hardware you are 100%
sure (that means you saw with you own eyes) that it works together with
everything you've got or you plan to buy (e.g. turbo boards, flixer fixers,
genlocks and so on.)
It seems that especially harddisk controllers are quite a problem there.
With the 2090a (or better the 2100 when it's out) you can be sure that all
software works (and if anything doesn't work it's not worth using, because
it must be written in such a dirty style that it should be avoided at all
costs).

The fact is that I've heard of lots and lots of problems with the ALF
controller. Try looking into European BBS's and you'll certainly find
many messages like "I have the following problem with my Amiga and my ALF
controller".


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