At least one shop in Belgium advertised with it
in "Amiga-Magazine". Back then, I didn't know if
the Walker was gonna produced or not.
They made it look like if they where already in
production and selling them.
The Walker was NEVER sold to the public. The only cases in existance are flimsy plastic and obvious prototypes. Only very preliminary work was done on the "3.2" kickstart for it... as you can see from
Greg Donners site:
"Heinz Wrobel contributes a lot of notes:
Within Amiga Technologies/Amiga International no real work was done on a true Workbench v3.2. Talk is cheap; Walker ran with a v3.1 Workbench with minor tweaks.
The Walker contained a modified, mostly 3.1-based Kickstart ROM. Due to the hardware changes, a plain Amiga 1200 3.1 ROM would not have been working. The hardware, however, was prepared for a 1MB ROM.
Toni was the system controller and did, for example, implement the DRAM interface. The FPGA used on the prototypes had a few frequency problems and were not completely stable at 33MHz. Later investigation showed that CeBIT would have been easier by running the machines at 25MHz.
The motherboard contained a SuperIO chip and a Dallas Clock as major enhancements, aside from the "Toni" custom chip (really an FPGA). The original prototypes did not contain the Dallas clock due to some kind of hardware problem not found before CeBIT. No drivers were actually written for the new hardware. ESCOM died too fast.
Several Walker units were built. The three Walker units shown at CeBIT were put into the "fancy" case. One other machine exists in a standard PC case, which wasn't a problem as the Walker was intentionally a Baby AT like design. The prototypes were brought up in less than a week before CeBIT and were run at 33MHz.
Using a Coldfire was discussed for about a millisecond but the idea was dropped in another nanosecond due to basic Coldfire V2 68k compatibility issues. There never was a thought to use an '040 in the base design and a 50MHz '040 doesn't really exist anyway. The main discussion revolved around using a 33MHz '030 or a 40MHz EC '030. The decision was made against the MMU and for the higher speed even though for the prototypes chips with MMUs were used.".
