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From: Papushka@student.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Chips/Comp.Sys.Amiga.Tech
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Date: 20 Dec 90 04:38:06 GMT
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To all you people out there from C= in West Chester:

I'm not a very technical person, as many of the Amiga users are.
Yet, all of us tend to wonder just how easy/difficult it would be to
build a new, rather low-cost custom chip-set that would be:
A) Backwards compatable with the current chips
B) Adress either 24 bit color or some variation (a higher resolution with
more colors.. .at least up to VGA standards

I've read many posts from you at C=, which seem to say that the current
(original) chipset is so set in its ways (no pun intended) that is nearly
impossible to build into the Amiga a higher standard of graphics and
sound without creating an entirely new machine.

So, my question I guess boils down to this:
Is it possible at all for you engineers to produce, within a reasonalbe
amount of time, a new custom chipset for the Amiga that is backwards
compatable with earlier (current) versions and software and yet sports
features (more sound voices/16 bits... more colors) that are superior
to today's standard Amiga equipment?

Any reply would be appreciated. (If my original post does get through
the relay alive..... <sigh>)

-Paul Antico / University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
"We use Cybers and can't stand 'em"