Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!druxo!knf From: knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Availability Message-ID: <1001@druxo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 12:16:33 EDT Article-I.D.: druxo.1001 Posted: Tue Oct 1 12:16:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 08:03:06 EDT References: <1099@rayssd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 49 >After seeing a demonstration of the Amiga at my local dealer, I was impressed >enough to put myself on the waiting list for his second shipment of machines. >The first shipment was to be on 9/27; the latest word is that the first >shipment will be 'next week' (~10/9). I'd like to know if anyone has purchased >a non-development Amiga through a dealer. Nope. Local Dealers here in Boulder say the same thing. > Have any commercial shipments taken place yet? Supposedly, this will be the first one. >Having published software for the Apple II, I could easily justify >a development system from Commodore, but being a software type, I would like >the hardware support (however minimal) offered by a dealer (read as 'E.E.', not >'salesman') enough to spend the extra $$. Are all the potential 'developers' >scoffing up the production supply of systems? According to Commodore, we're only responsible for 800 or so Amigas, so I doubt it. > I am very interested in a developer's kit which supposedly includes the 'C' > compiler and technical manuals, however. What is involved in becoming an > Amiga software 'developer' in Commodore's eyes? There have been lots of articles published to this effect. Mail me if you need more info. >It is also disconcerting to hear that developers are not receiving the same >hardware that is being advertised in periodicals (different monitor). >In the demonstration, I saw no evidence of screen flicker with the 'mandrill >demo' or any of the other displays. The monitor was a high quality RGB. >Has anyone seen the output of the RGB monitor that is going to be shipped >with the production version of the Amiga? Does it have considerable >flicker? I have also seen this. The local store did not have their Amiga monitor hooked up, due to a missing cable, but I didn't see ANY flicker on the Mandrill on the RGB they had hooked up. I'll post something this week if I can get to see one. (The cable's supposed to arrive today.) >Have those people who did not receive their kickstart disk or manuals >eventually receive them? Was version 29 an improvement over 28? >Any information on any of the above topics would be greatly appreciated. Dunno. Eric??? > / !/ Jeffrey Jay Clesius !\ '`'`'` Ken '`'`'` Friends of Amiga- Boulder's First Amiga Users Group