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From: perley@einstein.steinmetz (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: commodore confirms and denies Amiga 3000 in same day!
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Date: 8 Apr 88 12:53:59 GMT
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Keywords: April 5th  users groups amiga 3000

In article <474@sdcc15.UUCP> cp50@sdcc15.UUCP (Seamans) writes:
>Last night at the San DIego Amiga Users Group, representatives from
>Commodore showed a prototype Amiga 3000. A prelim version of Workbench2.0
>was shown at 640x480 resolution, with 256 colors. (non-interlaced)
>They showed several popular Amiga images, and a few others using the higher
>resolution. The machine had a 68030, 8 megs of RAM, and was housed in
>an Amiga 2000 case, but there was an "Amiga 3000" decal on the front.
>
>I understand from a friend up in Northern CA that Max Toy was the
>guest speaker at FAUG last night. According to this friend, Max said
>that the Amiga 3000 did not exist yet, and was just an idea being
>realized (or something like that).

Are you sure it wasn't a 2000 with an "Amiga 3000" sticker?  In other
words, did you see anything that couldn't have been done with a
flicker fixer (or the already announced enhanced graphics chips), and
maybe the 68020 coprocessor board?  Maybe someone made up a '030
coprocessor board?

If Max Toy is right, than it was more likely a concept model than a
real prototype.

These views are just based on what I've read in this newsgroup, and
what I know of the way sales groups operate.

Now that I've gone and said it might be a fake, can I start drooling
like everyone else?


-Don Perley