Amiga - Project PowerUp - the next generation Amig.

             Draft PowerUp

       the next generation Amig.
music by DNK
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Firma Phase 5 to announce the launch of a new
Amigi model in 1997.

City Oberyuzel, may 1996.

 In accordance with planami firm Phase5,
nahodyascheysya in Oberyuzele about
Frankfurta, later in 1997 stanet turning point for all lovers 
of Amigi. HOW TO dalneyshee logical continuation of the design 
for project PowerUp, which podrazumevaet razrabotku

RISC-akseleratorov for existing models Amig, kompaniya obyavila 
that during the first six months of 1997. will vypuschena 
novaya kompyuternaya sistema, baziruyuschayasya nA OS Amigi. 
Eta sistema produce a complete revolution nA current computer 
market. "We will prodolzhat support platformy Amiga computers 
and any sredstvami sposobami because we were among the first 
polzovateley Amig and prekrasno aware of the possibilities and 
preimuschestvah this magnificent and with nothing sravnimoy 
system "- says Wolf Dietrich, the manager generalny Phase5.


  "Odnako, nastupilo time radikalnogo skachka technological 
advance, Amigu to bring into line with the vision of the 
concept nashim kompyutera XXI th century. By sozhaleniyu, we 
have seen too many polovinchatyh solutions za recent years. "

According to the Technical Directors Company
Phase5 Dzheralda Gardy should sdelat strong shag forward 
sravneniyu with the status quo order

realizovat to new approaches:
 "Concepts, osnovannye nA standartnyh,
nabivshih nauseam podhodah mira PC, et al
with them, not nikogda davali and dadut dazhe
those opportunities that predostavlyala
Model A1000 for over 12 years nazad. "In accordance with this 
philosophy, the new computer will osnovan nA 
vysokointegrirovannom spetsprotsessornom nabore which when 
tsentralnym element of the system will provide nevidannye 
hitherto harakteristiki new Amigi, daleko superior analogichnye 
harakteristiki any of the currently existing computer platform 
wide use: "We namereny prodemonstrirovat opportunities, which 
will be rezultatom protivopostavleniya nashey policy blinkered 
niggling, the pressures now nA massovom market IBM-compatible

computers, kogda radikalnogo any attempt to improve the system 
brings in sacrifice the desire to save date every zatrachenny 
nA razrabotku and production dollar, daby provide low price and 
selling massovy iznachalno defective products - prodolzhaet 
Dzherald Garda. Nevziraya nA vysheskazannoe should zametit that 
buduschaya Amiga does not stanet nedosyagaemoy dream for 
polzovateley, ogranichennyh in sredstvah. By slovam Volfa 
Ditriha - "Ha osnovanii nashih predvaritelnyh raschetov 
produkta future prices, we are able to zayavit an exceptionally 
low cost, kotoraya vsegda harakterizovala nashey products of 
companies belonging to amigovskoy platforme. Vysochayshaya 
degree integratsii realizatsiya components and innovative 
approaches to the construction of the system Architecture can 
achieve nevidannoy performance of the new system. Being

osnovannym nA tsentralnoi processor PowerPC, a new computer, in 
addition to speed raboty samogo protsessora, predlagaet 
apparatnuyu support multimedia (in chastnosti, MPEG) functions 
and generatsii dimensional izobrazheny. Naiminimalneyshaya 
konfiguratsiya system rabotaet razresheniem to 1600x1200 at 
24-bit color and kadrovoy chastote 72 Hz. At the same

time apparatnaya chast pooderzhivaet a wide range of functions 
spetsializirovannyh by obrabotke izobrazheniya, zvuka and 
sozdaniya razlichnyh effects. There are inputs and outputs 
kanalov stereo with CD-kachestvom zvuka compatible for 
videostandartam genlokam and 24-bit video and FBAS / S-VHS 
video input. In addition to conventional interfaces, the 
controller has sistema takzhe Fast SCSI-II, and ISDN-network 
interfaces. With all these features, sistema,

imeyuschaya 120 megagertsovy CPU PPC 603e, 1916
Mbayt The memory, SCSI-HDD with 1 Gb
and quad-speed CD-ROM, will be
retail value of no more than 3000 DM
(1400 pounds and $ 2000 respectively)
As prices nA nA Hardware Today
, ZF> According to the latest extant data
- Now $ 1000.

(Napomnim that Daily price nA components has a constant 
downward trend). "We nadeemsya that maksimum year after

nastoyaschego zayavleniya be able to offer
system taktovoy chastotoy protsessora from
150 to 166 MHz "- prodolzhaet Wolf Dietrich:" What kasaetsya 
performance, in "pure processor" calculus ona consistent 
protsessoram Pentium with the same taktovymi chastotami. 
Odnako, realnaya speed raboty with graficheskimi obektami

will nesravnimo higher than the TA, which
dostignuta nA PC-platforme and sorevnovatsya them here with Us 
krayne be difficult. We will postavlyat and more powerful nA 
system 604e processor 150 MHz costs 4000 DM (1800 pounds and $ 
2700 respectively).  NA despite the fact that Phase5 
utverzhdaet of zavershenii razrabotki concept of a new

system, there is no possibility opublikovat informatsiyu more 
about her. "At the moment we nastoyaschy zanimaemsya voprosami 
zaschity avtorskih prav nA those new system solutions, which 
are abundant in sozdavaemaya sistema. Therefore, danny time

We can not elaborate on the technical harakteristiki nashego 
produkta. HOW PROTECTION will only patentnaya obespechena 
corresponding dannye will immediately predany oglaske "- says 
Dzherald Garda:" For this reason polnaya spetsifikatsiya system 
will not opublikovana ranee kontsa June. "Porazhaet apparatura 
not only but also ensuring programmnoe sozdavaemoy system 
kotoraya postavlyatsya will be an entirely new operatsionnoy 
system skompilirovannoy nA native mashinnom code RISC-processor 
PowerPC, and Nevertheless, sohranyayuschey full compatibility 
with the third version of the OS Amigi. Dalee Dzherald Garda 
commented: "Since we are already in full razrabatyvaem 
PowerPC-orientirovannoe kernel is a library rasshireny and 
PowerPC-version CyberGraphX nashey in the context of future 
machinery, logically opravdannym shagom is takzhe radikalnoe 
improvement of other system components. Compatibility with the 
third version of the OS daet polzovatelyam opportunity 
prodolzhat ispolzovat exists for this release

OS programmnoe software, rabotayuschee with
bibliotekami CyberGraphX; at the same time
razrabotchiki who are already implementing
massirovannuyu support standarta CyberGraphX, will have the 
opportunity prodolzhat razvivat their products and for the new 
system without any problems. Therefore, y polzovateley Amig 
transition nA new system should occur absolyutno painlessly. In 
addition, a wide otkryvaetsya way to improve the entire 
radikalnogo programmnogo structure of the system software and a 
sharp rasshireniya spektra used system functions. "In addition 
to supporting 24-bit color palitry already stavshey standartom 
de-facto blagodarya CyberGraphX, Dzherald Garda takzhe 
upominaet coming standart CyberGraphX 3D and

multimedia user interface as a possible primera. Takzhe coming 
obschaya optimizatsiya system and revision of the concept 
polzovatelskogo interfeysa according to the latest 
funktsionalnymi and aesthetic views in these oblastyah: "During

many years of operating Amigi yavlyala a kontseptualnuyu 
realizatsiyu ideas rassmatrivayutsya many ekspertami HOW

revolutionary. This znachit that pereprogrammirovanie OS will 
allow more complete raskryt zalozhenny it kolossalny

potentsial and sozdat chrezvychayno powerful and
naisovremenneyshuyu operatsionnuyu system.
Razumeetsya, nasha sistema be otkryta
to emulate in terms of takih platform,
HOW MacOs or X-Windows. Kstati, existing nA these platformah 
discussion so-called operatsionnyh new systems tipa, according 
to is essentially a more market-trick

rather than searching realisticheskoy alternativy
tam existing system solutions. "Otrazheniem determination 
namereny Phase5 by sozdaniyu new produkta are finansovyh 
volumes of investments in its razrabotku: "By mid-1997 Year 
period the volume of investment will be calculated in 
semiznachnyh tsifrah - Wolf Dietrich said: "I nas

have the know-hau, komanda razrabotchikov, technical and 
oborudovanie podderzhka third firms (especially firms 
Motorola), a takzhe finansovye required resources for

successful implementation of zadumannogo. The only thing we 
zhelali - is massovoy support nashih nachinany with

the entire amigovskogo soobschestva. Nashe dostatochno rannee 
zayavlenie about the upcoming project, not least vyzvano 
ozhidaniem priznaniya nashey pravoty with hand predannyh 
polzovateley Amig. In After all, only for them delaetsya

and radi them. Therefore, we prizyvaem amizhnikov all mira 
pisat Us, posylat faksy or e-mail nA spetsialno

for this purpose by address:
 aproject@phase5.de. Date every positive
response nA nashu initsiativu will strengthen
nashu confidence pravilnosti izbrannogo kursa. "