Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!fernwood!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: New baseline Amiga? Message-ID: <1991May5.114613.24114@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 5 May 91 11:46:13 GMT References: <58430@sequent.UUCP> <1991Apr30.225022.372@mac.cc.macalstr.edu> <1991May4.193613.6143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 21 In article <1991May4.193613.6143@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick) writes: > a hyper-quantum defoobilizer... No, no, it needs a dilithium containment chamber! > I still think that > an Amiga cartridge based game machine would be a winner. Great minds think alike. 512K of RAM, or 1M? After all, it does have the ROM in the cartridge to hold code, >512K would probably never be used even by the folks who JPEG compress disks within an inch of their lives. > mouse, or disk-drive, just a small, slick looking box with a cartridge > port (and possibly other ports so a person could turn it into a real > computer). It could use the CDTV IR controller to bridge the two products. Basically a 500 w/o keyboard and a cartridge slot where the disk drive goes. Leave the expansion slot on the other side, it's effectively free. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .