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MOO RANI expansions

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Progressive Peripherals

GVP Series 2 HD

(12.500)

Magneto Optical

Herd D isk

- . Progressive 040/3000

Directly accesses 32-hit memory on A3000 Over

Four times the speed of a standard A3000

- Amiga DOS 10 compatible

4MB £999

28141Hz Motorola 68040

4m111

; Progressive 04012000

28M1-lz Motorola 68040

Built-in maths co-processor

Expandable up to 32MB of RAM

Software compatible with 68000 processors

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Up to 8MB Fast RAM on

52QMB OMB £369 105QMB 0 • 9

53(..)MB 2MB £419 105QMB .ThIB £529

52QMB 4MB £469 105QMB 4MB £579

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New style case with built-in power supply

.High power cooling fan

SCSI ID switch for instant ID switch

25-way & 50-way SCSI ports itmc may used a, thrtipon)

Compatible with all major SCSI controllers

Up to 128MB on each removable cartridge

Compatible in speed with many hard disks

128MB III) (internal ﬁtting £999

128MB HD (external cased £1199

128MB 3V.," optical cartridge £39.95 each

SCSI controller card for A1500/A2000 £199

empathic v,001A41,1g.4. PC, ALA A SC51, —ran 41c1 1, reck,m0.1 on th,

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40MHz 68030EC accelerator

Optional 68882 maths co-processor

Up to 8MB 32-hit Fast RAM on board

tklit882 Upgrade kit 5,239

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Up to 40 times the speed of the standard A500

4MB of high speed 32-bit RAM

68000 fallback mode

Upgrade to 33MHz and 8MB of high speed RAM

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Bare £199

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For the Amiga 2000

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Avideo 24

24-bit graphics for the A5uo

768 x 580 quality resolution

16.8 million colour frame buffer

Small easy to ﬁt circuit board

Overlay Amiga graphics & animations

Fully genlockahle

Hans on a standard A500 (IMB of chip RAM)

Comes with 24-bit paint package

Allows picture in picture -tom , lu d t, T V Pa in !'

52QMI3 2.MB £339 I05QMB 2MB £539

52QMB 4MB 5,399 105QMB 4MB 5599

Built-in ﬂoating point processor

64MB

1 52QMB OMB 1279 105QMB OMB £479

IP Fast SCSI-2 DMA hard drive controller

28MHz -IMB £1899 33MHz 4MB 5,2189

OVP 0-Force

ReffTibraridt

tIMP2 Maths co-processor

11 24-hit colour

16 million colours

K1 8MB of high speed video RAM

‘'' 4CMHz 4MB RAM 5,949

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Find drive mount kit £35

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A1500/A2000

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s IMAM L3.95 04I1 x 8Sirmn $30

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New software

Fr amegr abber v2_0

OMILL 'column RAM 522

Bare 5,199

105QMB OMB £479

105QMB 2M13 5539

105QMB 4MB £599

105QMB KMB £749

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52QMB OMB £279

52QM8 214111 1,339

52QMB 4MB £399

52QMB 8MB £469

1m:a 32 x 11111-60 565 (Amu* int GAT ASCItr

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204 Erdman , chip only' £39.95

20$ Licitstan ROM chip, workbench software.

Bare SCSI Hard

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Blitz copier built-in tswitchablei

Virus Blocker built-in tswitchahle

Anti-click & PSC included

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Expand up to 8M11 Kik installed)

Memory & 68000 CPU can run with doubled clock

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Fast 68000 processor already installed on board

Fully autoconﬁguring. DMA comrxitible fast RAM

Optical 512K shadow RAM on extra memory hank

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Viruses, diskswapping, clicking drives, disks which

won't kick up. is there no end to the %tingeing

Features

100-400 DPI scanning resolutions

- 64 Greyscales

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Full screen image editor

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Edit true greyscale & colour images

Fully multi-tasking

intelligent disk drive. Insert a disk.

New Kick-Off

Automatic ROM sharer

Kick-Off is the latest Amiga add-on ham Power.

Now you can back up at lightning speeds using

the inbuilt Blitz Amiga hardware', with free soft-

, ware, (even if the disk is atari or PC) and it' your

computer has a virus the PC8801I will stop it being

Z,•%.• ne of the most advanced Kickstan ROM sharers

available, a clever design onto a small reliable board.

• Fits thew Amiga.; - MOO, A500+, A600. A150a.'2000

Kickstart ROM can be selected from the keyboard

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Cut rectangle, cut lasso°. crop, ﬂip, rotate. scale.

draw,lines. circles, boxes elipses, freehand,

zoom mode

L written to the bootblack of any of you drives.

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Scanning

Unique 'True real time scan mode - know

instantly if you are scanning the image too quickly

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