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From: roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Kickstart 2.0
Message-ID: <4022@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 04:14:27 GMT
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In <47722@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:

[blah blah]

>didn't (you didn't say whether you did).  As for the ECS Denise, I don't
>know why they don't sell them in the US.  Someone told me (although I can't
>be sure) that they are available in Australia.  (Correct me if I'm wrong.)


Yes, they are.  I bought one for my A2000 about 3 months ago for $52 Australian.

I don't think they are being sold directly by CBM Australia(*), as I bought mine
from a private dealer who seemed to have little trouble procuring them.
	All in all,the new chip is just an improvement over the old Denise
(hardly surprising considering the new chip is pin-compatible).  It is certaily
NOT a long-term solution to the Amiga's (now) underpowered graphics.

Roddi.

* - CBM Australia are the biggest bunch of losers I have ever seen.  Incompetence
of that magnitude needs to be actively worked for - no matter how naturally
talented they are, they can't totally f*cked up.  After fruitless months of
trying to get an A2320 from them (ha ha - they need to sell their entire stock
of the obsolete Microway Flicker Fixer to an unwilling public before they
carry the A2320) I gave up.  Similar story with the gadget (forgot the part
number) that goes between the Amiga and the multisync monitor cable to
fix up Productivity mode (without this gadget, the top two inches are totally
distorted).
	They also sent a developer friend of mine an A2000+Bridgeboard
instead of an A3000UX, 200MB Harddrive and all the other goodies.  Go figure.