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From: eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Welcome!
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 21:30:46 EDT
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Hi,

	Well, here's my first attempt at answering some questions.
I will begin by telling everyone what I got in my developer's package:

	For $1900:

			1 256K Amiga PC
			1 256K Memory Add On
			1 External 3.5 inch floppy
			1 Analog RGB Monitor - 640x200 (Model 1070)
			Lattice C Native development system
			Lattice C MS-DOS Cross compiler
			Assembler and Linker
			AmigaDOS User's Manual
			AmigaDOS Developer's Manual
			AmigaDOS Technical Reference Manual
			AmigaDOS User Interface Guide
			Amiga Hardware Reference Manual
			Amiga ROM Kernel Manual
			Lattice Manual (Preliminary)
			Various Updates to certain manuals

I don't know too much about the marketing end of this machine. Commodore
has said that they are still deciding on what their policy regarding ROM
upgrades will be. The OS is very robust, though the documentation needs
a little more. I am having a little trouble figuring this whole mess out -
I am hoping that the next release of the documentation will be more complete
(some sections like sound are missong from my set now). There are no
schematics in my documentation, and I can`t make total sense of the expansion
bus pinouts (though I'm no EE).

I have a few different releases of the OS - V27, V28.9 and V28.11. The latest
version does crash now and then, but V29 is supposedly available now. I
managed to grab a beta-release of graphicraft and musicraft. The colors and
sound are both crisp and impressive. My stereo does a nice job - I can't
wait for the final versions of these programs (and Marble Madness too!).

More to follow.
Eric
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