i've not had the pleasure of owning an A600, but there are alot of people out there with them tweeked and chipped up with all kinds of addons that wern't thought possible. i like its small form, but hate its "i'm an A500 in a different case" thing going on. when it was released so long after the A500. i mean surely they could have done something with it? i mean the A3000 was the only 32bit incarnation of the ECS chipset. surely that could have gone in there? onboard 020 for the 600, 030 for the 1200, couple of simm slots in each..
other than that, i've owned every machine except the A1000 and 3000 series which i would consider to be the best designed, most thought out, and properly done machine of the entire Amiga line.
its a real shame about the A4000/AGA series though. it could have been so much more. the R&D guys were playing about with DSP sound chips, the AAA chip set, a processor beyond the 68k series, blah blah blah. it was supposed to be released with 31khz video out (amber), scsi and IDE, 16bit audio via DSP with paula emulation, the good ol' 8Mb chip ram
etc. etc. ....
and the actual build quality of the A4000D machines themselves? the front didn't fit properly, the power switch on the front was a long plastic stick that went to the power supply switch, the PSU fans were crap, scratched/bleeding knuckles from fitting CPU boards, Zorro daughterboard not lining up with the case leading to occasionally worryingly bent zorro cards... the list goes on... but fair play for making it a fairly small form desktop machine though.
but anyway, damn you commodore! you could have been so much more!... other than seemingly being a tax avoidence scheme....
whats the topic of this thread again? i seem to have lost it somewhere.... :lol:
