Conference hydra::amiga_v1

454.0. "A2000: hands on !!" by CESARE::ZABOT (Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT) Tue Apr 14 1987 11:50

	Our Amiga Club has a A2000 since April 6th. I've had few chances to
	use it, but I can pass some of the impression I got from others.
	First of all is not as bad looking as it seams. After a while you get 
	use to it!! The keyboard is more gentle under your finger, closer to
	DEC type of things. Strange enough they have released A2000 with
	Italian keyboard immediately ( on A1000 they started with US and only
	after 6 months they went to the Italian one).
	To work with ROMed Kickstart is good, you turn it on... and alas! it's
	calling for workbench 1.2. But all your 1.1 stuff is gone!! No more
	duetto flites with FSii (sniff..sniff!)
	A confirmed preview is saying that soon a doughter board will be 
	available with BOTH KICKSTART versions (1.1-1.2) on diffrent roms.
	On the other side every thing is as supposed. The only strange
	impression ( not yet a FACT ) it seams to be a 10% SLOWER then A1000.
	No expansion is available. We have attached an homemade PANASONIC with
	a different circuit ( don't know the differences) which works nice.
	Memory. The mother board has 512k. The other 512k are on an expansion
	board which has space for another half mega, which requires a 
	different ( so I've been told!) of a PAL chip.
	If there are specific questions ( vital !!) please ask and be 
	confident: sooner or LATER I will try to answer.
	ciao.
	marco