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Amigaworld.net News   Amigaworld.net News : The answers to AWompetion quiz.
   posted by tomazkid on 24-Apr-2007 1:05:08 (4539 reads)
AWompetition is now over, thank you everyone who have participated.

We had fun making the questions, and hope that You had fun answering them.
We will now go through the answers, and plan to announce the winners this coming weekend.

A big thank you to all of our sponsors as well (in no particular order):

DiscreetFX , GGS-Data, Jan Zahurancik (AmiKit), Stephen Fellner (DVPlayer), Darren Eveland (RemoteDesktop), Tomasz Wiszkowski (FryingPan), Robert Williams (Total Amiga) and Andreas Magerl (Amiga Future).

The winner will get a secret bonus prize as well.
(No mousemat )




Here are the correct answers to questions 1 to 19.

Q20 answers now included!

AWompetition

The questions with answers



1. Who hasn't been a member of aw.net staff?
A: Sibbi
B: number6
C: Herewegoagain


Answer: B


2. Who won a Micro A1 in a competition here on aw.net?
A: Mikey_C
B: MikeB
C: Bodie_CI5


Answer: A


3. Whose occupation is: "Pressing business elsewhere"?
A: tonyw
B: olegil
C: saimo


Answer: B

4. Whose signature is this ?
"When replying, please keep it short and sweet, and I will read it. If it is long, I read only the first few lines to decide if I want to read the rest."


A: Carl-S
B: hazydave
C: billmc


Answer: A


5. Who has made most news comments here on Amigaworld.net?
A: Helgis
B: Bodie_CI5
C: Toaks


Answer: C




6. What was the name of the closed support forum for AmigaOne owners here at amigaworld.net?
A: A1-owners
B: AmigaOne-owners
C: Eyetech-A1-support


Answer: B


7. Which computer was the first one for Sibbi?
A: Commodore 64
B: Sinclair Spectrum ZX
C: Amstrad CPC 464


Answer: B


8. What was the name of Jay Miners dog?
A: Mitch
B: Dakota
C: Sparky


Answer: A

9. Who sang at the Lincoln Center in New York, in July 24, 1985?
A: Madonna
B: Paul Young
C: Debbie Harry


Answer: C


10. Who sold and wrote Termite TCP?
A: GfxBase, Inc
B: Nordic Global
C: Oregon Research


Answer: C


11. When did Microprose release Pirates! ?

A: 1984
B: 1987
C: 1993


Answer: B


12. Who made the game Superfrog?

A: Microprose
B: Team17
C: Bitmap Brothers


Answer: B


13. In which game does this quote belong: "Ergonomically Terrific!" ?
A: Populous II
B: Mega-lo-Mania
C: Monkey Island


Answer: B

14. David Braben created the worlds most well known space trading game. Which machine did he originally create it for?
A: Acorn Electron
B: BBC Model B
C: Sinclair ZX48 Spectrum


Answer: B


15. Which of these machines could display the most colours?
A: C64
B: C16
C: C128


Answer: B


16. Which is not an original Amiga 500 cpu-speed?
A: 7.15909 MHz
B: 7.09379 MHz
C: 7.230421 MHz


Answer: C


17. MegAChip from DKB Software, increases the RAM from 1 meg to 2 meg in Amiga 2000.
Which A2000 motherboard required a trace to be cut to enable the MegAChip?

A: revision 4.3
B: revision 6.2
C: revision 3.8


Answer: A


18. Which model of Amiga featured the Amiga "checkmark" logo?
A: Amiga 500+
B: Amiga 3000
C: Amiga 1000


Answer: C


19. The CDTV shipped with an unreleased flightsim demo. Who made it?
A: D.I.D
B: Domark
C: Psygnosis


Answer: C

Bonus question, can give an extra point:
Which other CD based machine also had a version of this unreleased flightsim?


Answer: FM Towns


(This last question has multiple answers, it can give more than one point, and we want you to motivate the answers to get full points.)

20. Which of the following Amiga motherboards differs to the others and why?
A: CD32
B: A1200
C: A4000


The following answer was the originally chosen correct response, and gains 2 points.

(C) because both the CD32 and A1200 have a codename/song printed on their silkscreen. The A4000 did not feature one on its PCB.

Answers granting an extra point include:
1) A4000 has Zorro slots as standard, the others do not.
2) A1200 has a clockport, the others do not.
3) A4000 shipped with 030/040 as standard, the other two only had 020's.
4) CD32 lacks a harddrive controller, the other two have them integrated
5) A4000 has a battery backed up RTC built in, the others did not.
6) CD32 has an S-Video output the others do not.
7) A1200 has a PCMCIA credit card slot, the other two do not
8) A4000 CPU was mounted on a separate card not on the motherboard, unlike the other two.
9) A4000 featured on board SIMM sockets for ram expansion. The other two require add on cards for adding more ram initially.
10) CD32 has the Akiko chip for chunky to planar operations, the others do not.
11) CD32 shipped with KS3.1 by default (a slightly modified version of 3.1 to be exact)
    

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Re: The answers to AWompetion quiz.
Posted on 24-Apr-2007 9:46:49
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In the interest of public embarrasment, I'd like to see how I did ranked against the others. I'm guessing about the 20% mark, maybe.
Is there a prize for worst score?
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I still think these questions were way too geeky and a bit too hard

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Just a bit too hard I think, put me off entering.

I did wonder about question 20 though - what sprang to mind first: Wasnt the CD32 board double-sided? I dont think it had a B52s reference either. It also of course had Akiko for C2P modes (was this ever used?!!!)

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Some questions were too hard for me also.

Yes, Akiko has been used by at least one CD32 game: Wing Commander, and by some of the Doom/Heretic/Descent ports.

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@Magic
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I still think these questions were way too geeky and a bit too hard




Well, one has to be a geek to win in the Amiga land. LOL

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I might have gotten 14 out of 19 right. And I didn't have a clue what the answer to the bonus question was.

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Well, it is always hard to set the difficulty level with quiz questions.

The aim here was to make it so much of a challenge, that it would take more than just a little help from Google or some other search engine


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@Magic

Well, we didn't want to make them overly easy otherwise selecting winners would be much more difficult. Admittedly some were a little technical, but then most of us Amiga owners are a little more technical in our knowledge.

You can blame me for the retro styled questions too (I've been going through a bit of a retro phase recently )


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A big thanks to the AW.net staff for putting on the quiz!


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It was not entirely _Steve_'s fault


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Allthough my answers suck I would like to thank AW.net stuff one more time.

I didn't have this much fun for ages.


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You can blame me for the retro styled questions too (I've been going through a bit of a retro phase recently )




I feel cheated can I have my money back please?


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Updated with question 20.


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Question 20 answer 8 isn't entirely correct. the A4000 Rev D has an 68030 on the motherboard...


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@Severin

Bah grumble mutter mutter

That is true. I'd forgotten about the Rev D boards (both my 4000s are Rev B and the Towered AI 4000s also have separate CPU modules), but being honest, it doesn't affect the overall scores by still including it.

Come to think about it, I haven't actually ever come across a Rev D board at all...not even those listed on amibench or ebay. I assume that not many of the "cost reduced" Rev D's were either manufactured or sold then.

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@_Steve_

My A4000 is a Rev D (bought July '94 from White Knight), it has several differences to the older models;

No Chip ram simm, it has the same ram as A1200s
Soldered on lithium battery with incorrect +/- markings on the MoBo
68030 On Board (really annoyed me as I bought a warp engine at the same time and had a buyer for the 68030 card )
Faster slimline HD floppy drive
2mb/8mb chip ram jumper


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