The A3000 will be based closely on the standard Amiga, but with a hall meg ol RAM. fewer expansion ports, and no numeric keypad. Suggestions that the keyboard could be dispensed with altogether - thus creating a console-like machine - seem to have been overturned in favour of more or less reproducing the performance of the original A500s The A800, on the other hand, is expected to utilise the superior Motorola 68920 processor, and include 16-bit (ie CD quality) sound as standard. It may well come bundled with a hard dnve and a monitor, putting it (irmly within the Archimedes low-end Apple Mac class. The A4000 will be the new top-ol-the-range model, with a Motorola 68040 processor. 16-bit sound, and 24-br! graphics. This sort ol specification sees the Amiga finally aiming itself at the workstation market - it‘ll be well outside the range ol most gamesptayers, bul could pioneer new technology that will eventually filter down to game playing Amiga owners. The new models, should they actually see the light of day. will ensure the Amiga's the most versatile and pice-effective home computer tor quite some years yet. Imagine playing a 3D shoot- em-up with CD-quality music and effects and over 16 million colours on the screen at once Now that's definitely technology worth paying for1
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