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SOME TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AMIGA 1200 COMPUTER
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CPU: Motorola 68020 1×MHz (be careful, you cannot
compare with pussy megahertz! Processors
Motorola have greater performance with the same
at a higher clock speed than Intel processors. On the go
loy AMIGA works great multitasking, without
loss of quality music is played, without braking and
twitching works any 2D effects! And if you are just
just expand the memory, then the bare AMIGA will work
almost three times faster!). Data bus width -
32 bits. Has 16 independent 32-bit registers. When
In this case, each register has the properties of an accumulator
(on Spectrum), i.e. you can do with each register
anything. The processor is built on CISC architecture.
In general, documentation for Motorola processors
can be found in any kizhik on a MACINTOSH computer, because
they also have the same processors installed.
ROM: 512K with AmigaOS operating system,there is a possibility
possibility of replacing with RAM (if accelerator is installed)
rator). In this way, you can replace operating system versions
new system without changing the ROM.
RAM: 2MB, can be installed additionally on bare AMIGA
8MB, with the accelerator you can set up to 128MB, although
The theoretical limit is HGB.
AUDIO: PAULA music coprocessor with four DMA channels
la 8 bits or two 14 bits. Number of tracks (music
nal channels) is not limited. There are a bunch of hardware effects
effects, such as hardware notes, interpolation, smoothing
transition from note to note, noise reduction, etc. Maximum
Low sampling frequency - bOKHz (for comparison,
CDs are played at a sampling rate of 44.1KHz). On
Playing music takes almost no time -
the presence of DMA channels allows you to reproduce digital
nal samples without the participation of the CPU.
VIDEO: Maximum resolution with TV or monitor
from Spectrum - 1280x512. With SVGA monitor - 1280x1024.
Color palette - 16.7 million colors, there is an appa-
Military support for the HAM image compression method
(Hold & Modify). The presence of 2D coprocessors, which pose
will move sprites by superimposing them in OR, XOR, AND and
etc. usingmasks, draw lines, fill
closed surfaces, move rectangular parts
screen of any size and much more. All this happened
dit without the direct participation of the CPU, it only sets
coordinates, dimensions, etc. Thus, for such
everyone is familiar with the things that go on the Spectrum
almost all the processor speed is not wasted on AMIGA
practically nothing! The presence of a coprocessor called
COPPER allows you to display multiple graphics on the screen
ical modes simultaneously, organize interrupts
relative to any point(!!!) of the screen and many others
useful things. It is possible to synchronize video
deocontroller from an external signal source: this is the extreme
not useful for video studios. The graphics chipset is called
AGA is available. There is hardware emulation of ECS and OCS. Subde-
Laugh PAL and NTSC.
HDD: IDE hard drive controller, available on accelerators
SCSI controller. AMIGA perfectly understands screws,
matted on the pussy, works with them as if they were your own!
CD-ROM is usually connected here, although it is also possible via
PCMCIA.
FDD: DD 88OKB or HD 1.7bMV. AMIGA understands pussy perfectly
Carbon discs formatted at 720/800 or 1.44.
Drivebuilt into the body.
SLOTS: connectors for connecting a printer, modem, external
drives, PCMCIA, RGB, Video, HF, system connector for
connecting accelerator cards, etc.
AMIGA is designed from the ground up to be a true multitasker
and a multimedia computer, Workbench practically does not waste
memory and does not write crazy swap files to the screw, unlike
Windows95, which, not only eat up all the resources of the PC,
Multitasking also works there so well that we can say that
she's not there at all. By the way, the pisyuk has a single-tasking architecture
it has never been a computer or multimedia, so
you see, on a single-tasking typewriter, multitasking
will never work properly.
Accelerators for AMIGA are currently available at the following
processors: 68030/5OMHz (this is what I have), 68040/CHOMHz and
68060/50 and bbMHz. They speed up by 10, 30 and 50 times respectively
relatively bare AMIGA 1200. The accelerator has
hardware clock (with battery), SIMM72 connector for expansion
memory, panel for math coprocessor (only for 68030,
on other processors it is built-in), SCSI controller.
The 68060/5OMHz processor is approximately 30% faster than
PENTIUM 133, but the accelerator on it is not cheap - at least
$570. Production of accelerators will begin in May 1997on
PowerPC for AMIGA 1200.
AMIGA works great with networks like Fido and
Internet. With the Amiga you can easily “climb” through a variety of
WWW pages, so popular now, chat with people
around the globe, find friends in Europe, America,
Africa, etc., download “free” software every day, in general,
enjoy all the delights of modern technology.
And most importantly, on the Amiga you will never have to WAIT!
While one program is running, you can launch another and
do whatever you need! And at least two hundred can work on an Amiga
programs at the same time! Multitasking Rules!
// Best regards, LooKER/MS!
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