Some rumours on the Amiga

High-end chipset hardware compatible with ECS and software compatible with AGA (I know that doesn't really make any sense, but it is just a rumour).

AA+ would be for A1200, whilst AAA would be an A4000 upgrade.

"Official" news on the A5000 (ahem).

The case would be a desktop unit similar to the A2000.

The front design would have room for two 3.5 drives (one as standard) and two 5.25 (one for CD-ROM drive). It would include the 68060 processor, as well as two 68040 processors.

The 060 was clocked at 35MHz+ and the 040's were 25MHz.

The 040 processors would be fitted on the actual motherboard, whilst the 060 would be on a separate card in the CPU slot.

Kickstart/Workbench 4.0 will come as standard allowing the 040 to be assigned to different tasks. One may handle all screen and sound, whilst the other handles I/O devices.

Kickstart would be a 1mb chip that would be sold on its own card (?), or on the hard drive (??). It will also allow the user to choose which Kickstart they want to use, to maximise compatibility.

The A5000 should be capable of operating in all screenmodes using a palette of 512.

The maximum screen resolution is 4096x4096 with over 32 million colours on screen (obviously, someone will have to invent a few more!).

The chipset will be able to swap to previous chipsets through looking at the most suitable for the Kickstart version.

The new machine would include 16MB chip ram (expandable to 64Mb) and 16Mb fast ram (expandable to 1024Mb).

A 210Mb SCSI hard drive will be included, as well as a High Density disk drive and CD-drive.

16-bit sound, eight Zorro III slots, and 3 PC slots. There is no CPU slot (where would the 060 fit). PRICE- about $3499 with AMAX V3 Mac emulator and Golden Gate IBM emulator- $3999

This information is from a VERY, VERY old issue of Amiga Report. They claim that Commodore had confirmed this. It's quite probably an April fool.
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