* Welcome to the Walker/AT Frequently Asked Questions v1.1 * This FAQ is compiled from what AT_Cebit and others have said on the IRC Updated: 17th March 1996 Copyright Anders Bakkevold - But please spread it. I CANNOT guarantee that all the information is correct! If you have more information, please send it to Goofy on IRC, or andersb@intercom.no!! --------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: 1. What is the Walker? 2. Where can I find pictures of the Walker? 3. Is the Walker going to look like in the pictures? 4. What do you [AT] want the Walker to be? 5. What will the price for the PPC Amiga be? 6. What will the price for Walker be? 7. What is new in the Walker machine? 8. What marketing will AT do for the Amiga? 9. When can we expect new Amigas? 10. Is there a big differece between a Phase V PowerUp plugin for A1200 and the new PPC Amiga? 11. Will there be a new gfx chip set and sound chip set with the upcoming PPC amiga? 12. Who designed the Walker? 13. What about PPC for my Amiga 3000? 14. What are the specs of the walker slot? is it the 1200 CPU slot or the 3000/4000 CPU slot or a Zorro III thing or something custom? 15. What's new in OS3.2? 16. Will it MUI be included in the OS? 17. How big will the harddrive in the Walker be? 18. Will it only have 1 Meg chip ram? 19. Is the 030 on a Socket? 20. Who is working on the Walker Project? 21. Is there going to be an InterNet+softwarebundle supplied with the AmigaOS or in the normal softwarebundle? 22. Will MagicWB be included in WB3.2? 23. Where can I get even more related information? 24. What's EPP? 25. What's PPC? --------------------------------------------------------------- --01-- Q: What is the Walker? A: The Walker is a new Amiga model, presented on the CeBit show. This is the '1200+' or '1300'. The Walker is only the working titles, it may change. --02-- Q: Where can I find pictures of the Walker? A: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~eeu013/walker.html --03-- Q: Is the Walker going to look like in the pictures? A: It probably will... But it is a prototype. --04-- Q: What do you [AT] want the Walker to be? A: We want it to be a universal machine designed for internet, homeworkingstuff etc... a *complete* solution for a good price. --05-- Q: What will the price for the PPC Amiga be? A: You will have to wait and see... --06-- Q: What will the price for Walker be? A: >1000$ --07-- Q: What is new in the Walker machine? A: · A new design · 68EC030/40 Mhz · 6 mb RAM (maybe 5) (Expandable to 128MB in total) · 4xSpeed CD-ROM · MIDI (this might not be true) · PC-Diskdrive (Maybe! Amiga-emulation) · External Keyboard (A4000 keyboard) · EPP Parallel port · Expansion slot for further upgrade to: PCI, Zorro III/IV · OS3.2 --08-- Q: What marketing will AT do for the Amiga? A: A big campaign in McDonald's restaurants in Germany has been rumoured. Hopefully they'll do more than that! --09-- Q: When can we expect new Amigas? A: The Walker will come in September, a PPC Upgrade for A4000 at the end of this year, a whole new PPC-machine in spring next year. --10-- Q: Is there a big differece between a Phase V PowerUp plugin for A1200 and the new PPC Amiga? A: There will probably not be much difference between a Walker with a PPC and a PPC Amiga. --11-- Q: Will there be a new gfx chip set and sound chip set with the upcoming PPC amiga? A: The new Amigas will use standard-chips, but the walker still has AGA. --12-- Q: Who designed the Walker? A: The case: Some german professor, a well known designer. The new board was designed here in Germany, too. --13-- Q: What about PPC for my Amiga 3000? A: We`ll see, the cpu-slot is enarly exactly the same as in A4000. --14-- Q: What are the specs of the walker slot? is it the 1200 CPU slot or the 3000/4000 CPU slot or a Zorro III thing or something custom? A: Neither, it`s something new, you`ll be able to plug in Daughterboards with Zorro, PCI, PPC, 060er and so on, it`s up to 3rd party developers... --15-- Q: What's new in OS3.2? A: It's just a minor update. Bugfixes, and support for the new things in the walker. --16-- Q: Will it MUI be included in the OS? A: No. --17-- Q: How big will the harddrive in the Walker be? A: Depends on the prizes in half a year. --18-- Q: Will it only have 1 Meg chip ram? A: Not decided yet, however Heinz Wretsel, central to Project Walker said that he didn'texpect it would have less than 2MB of Chip. It's difficult to buy less and it's not much cheaper. --19-- Q: Is the 030 on a Socket? A: No, it's PGA surface mounted. --20-- Q: Who is working on the Walker Project? A: Atleast Dave Haynie is! :) He's relocating to AT's headquarter, in Bensheim. --21-- Q: Is there going to be an InterNet+softwarebundle supplied with the AmigaOS or in the normal softwarebundle? A: Heinz Wretsel was quite adamant that he wanted to. --22-- Q: Will MagicWB be included in WB3.2? A: It was being considered. Certainly some cosmetic stuff should feature in OS 3.2. In fact I believe he said it would. [Heinz] --23- Q: Where can I get even more related information? A: Take a look here: http://www.doremi.co.uk/walker/ http://www.ozramp.net.au/~morden/ http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~eeu013/walker http://www.intercom.no/~andersb/AT_FAQ1_1.txt (this FAQ) --24-- Q: What's EPP? A: The Enhanced Parallel Port protocol was originally developed by Intel, Xircom and Zenith Data Systems, as ameans to provide a high performance parallel port link that would still be compatible with the standard parallelport. This protocol capability was implemented by Intel in the 386SL chipset (82360 I/O chip). This was prior tothe establishment of the IEEE 1284 committee and the associated standards work. --25-- Q: What's PPC? A: PowerPC, a processor. These are quite different (and faster) than the 680x0 series. --26-- Q: How about the future? A: The Amiga is back for the future, that's for shure!! --- END ---