Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Message-ID: <919@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 16 Dec 89 23:16:41 GMT Lines: 46 Return-Path: To: German To: board" To: Amiga2000?" To: van-bc!rnews In <7550@sybase.sybase.com>, clem@frenzy.sybase.com writes: >I've heard of a good deal on getting an early model Amiga2000 that has a >"German board". It is described as an Amiga1000 with slots and doesn't have >an Agnus chip. What advantages if any would I have if I got this guy? >What dissadvantages would I have too? Are there any problems I might have >with the certain boards in its slots? The German designed 2000 was a real winner . You cannot upgrade it to the fat Agnus. There is no composite video output (RCA jack) The video slot only has one connector (I ran a flickerFixer on it, by adding 8 wires frm fF to chips on the motherboard. It was not a pretty sight) The memory at $C00000 was slow. I mean slow.. not 'same speed as first 512' It had built-in wait states, all the time, in order to get around their kludgy way of adding the second 512 on a separate board in the first place. The coprocessor slot is 'different' than on a US 2000. You may or may not be able to add a 2620 or 2630. >I have an Amiga1000 now to which I was considering adding an expansion box, >but this sounded like a better setup. Would it be? Probably. >I have the options of keeping my 1000 and trying to expand it, trading it in >for a new model 2000, or going for this "German board" 2000. Any recommendations >would be appreciated. I would go for the new 2000, money issues aside. You will have less problems with expansion, and needn't worry about whether a new board in a slot will work or not. My feeling, after having used a German 2000 for about a year, is that if CBM _ever_ lets the German team near any Amiga stuff again, it will be too soon. -larry -- " All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head." - Thomas Alva Edison - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+