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From: johan@swi.psy.uva.nl (Johan Henselmans)
Subject: A2386BB problems
Summary: Can't change cmos setting anymore
Keywords: setup cmos
Organization: Social Science Informatics
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:33:20 GMT


I know I shouldn't have done it: I have a 2386Sx Commodore bridgeboard and
recently bought 2 MB extra ram on top of the 1 MB that was installed.
Everything worked, apart from the thing that i couldn't get emm386 to
shift  devicedrivers to upper memory. (with emm386 x=d000-dfff noems).
So I tried all kinds of memory configurations in bbsetup, including one
that considered the machine to have 385 kB of base memory and 0 kB of 
extended memory. 
From that moment on I could not reconfigure the brdigeboard, neither
by BBSETUP nor CTRL-ALT-ESC. The display will just freeze the moment
I try the command. I have tried everything: reinstalling the software,
booting from hard disk, floppy, with or without VGA-card, but everytime
the message returns:

384 K Base Memory, 0000 K Extended
Invalid configuration information
Janus Handler Version 36.85
Janus Library Version 36.83

Press <Ctrl-Alt-Esc> to run SETUP, F1 to continue, or use PCRESET to retry

Someone at Commodore Holland suggested to use some other kind of
setup utility, but the one I used (setup of an Amstrad 386 and cmoser,
a PD util i found on Simtel) did not solve the problem.


Anyone a suggestion? I am pretty desperate, as I am trying to make a living
on this machine and promised to get something done by this evening..

Johan Henselmans, From the Crew That Would Like to Get a Decent Sleep.
From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: I HAVE EMPLANT!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26 beta (Oct 19 1992)
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:46:00 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR


EMPLANT NEWS FROM ME...
 
First of all, yes, EMPLANT does work....however, evidently not on ALL
systems.  We can not fix what we can not see...  So, we have acquired
some systems that fail and hopefully we have fixed the problems.  Bill
Coldwell was kind enough to post the latest software via FTP
(Incomming/Amiga/Hardware I think).
 
There was a problem with interrupts under OS2.x/3.x and they never
effected our test machines.  OS1.3 had this same problem, but since OS1.3
uses the LEVEL2 interrupt only for trackdisk.device, the problem was
never noticed.  
 
There are a lot of people who are happy with EMPLANT (really), and I
don't think that it was released prematurely (really).  It was
unfortunate that there were problems that we did not see happen with our
test machines.
 
As far as "Jim" charging credit cards...BS.  I do not deal with the
business end of this company.  Although I do own 20% of it, I do *not*
work for Utilities Unlimited, and I rarely (Fridays) even see the office.
I was contracted by Utilities Unlimited to create products.  However,
Utilities Unlimited was within the laws when it came to charging cards.
All of the cards are entered in by hand into one of those little
machines...each taking several minutes to process.  Imagine processing
thousands...it took nearly two months to catch up, and I know that a lot
of orders went out before they were even charged.
 
Anyways, the thing works, I am happy with it for the most part.  The
problem with Seagate hard drives is a bit disturbing, however, I do not
think it is a problem that is caused direcly by our emulation as
Quantams, Rodimes, Maxtor, etc. drives work without a hitch...
 
The delay in answering my mail was due to me going to Portland, OR to get
parts/talk to Amiga dealers here (and visit with Bill Coldwell).  :-)
 
Updated software (bug fixes or merely enhancements) will be posted to FTP
sites and BBS' throughout the country.  You are welcome to pass the
software along to anyone as obviously it wont work without our hardware.
 
 
Recently, MicroPace dumped all of their SYBIL's to dealers for their cost
(they didn't like the fact that we are not going to be selling EMPLANTs
through ANY distribution chain).  These units are almost 2 years old! 
They have OLD software.  So, if you purchase a SYBIL from a dealer and it
is missing a bunch of files (different from what our ads have been),
please contact our office, or you can download the latest software from
our BBS.
 
Speaking of BBS....someone out there decided to convience the phone
company that I was moving and needed my phone service terminated (the BBS
# is one of my home lines)....I just wanted to say "thanks".  :-(


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
From: mrubino@csws2.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael N Rubino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT NEWS
Date: 16 Nov 92 01:52:04 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Nov15.222243.15122@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna) writes:
>In article <1992Nov15.203540.23652@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mrubino@libws1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael N Rubino) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov15.034258.57087@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> gcl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE C. LIN) writes:
>>>
>>>I think after a week or so, he then made a post about how he/they will follow
>>>the 2.0 OS guideline to make everybody happy... I GUESS NOT...
>>
>>It is possible to simulate the 2.0 look and feel under 1.3 and thus follow
>>the C= Style Guide.
>
>Theoritically, yes.  But, the whole point is to not have to bother with 
>"rolling your own" interface.  Why re-invent the wheel, when the OS will give
>you a very nice interface with less programming involved?

The point is that it CAN be done and Jim may in fact deliver on his promise.
Just because the software was developed under 1.3 does not mean that you can
assume that it does not follow the C= Style Guide.  I have not yet seen the 
software and do not know what the interface is actually like, but it MAY look
just like any other 2.0 program EVEN when run under 1.3.

>If you were to take the time to program a complete 2.0 looking interface for 1.3
>I mean, make it look "exactly" like 2.0.  Then run it on 2.0 machine, it would
>be pretty damn slow.  Why? because system calls that can be handled by Kickstart 
>would now be processed by software.

Are you saying that Kickstart is not software?  It is possible to write a
custom interface that is just as fast (or at least nearly as fast) as the OS.

> Also, you are limiting the future compatability of the software severely.

What makes you say that?  As long as it doesn't break any programming rules it
will work just fine on future versions of the OS.  In fact compatibility is
enhanced in that even 1.3 users will have the same 2.0 look and feel.

I'm not trying to say that this is how I would write code.  No programmer
likes to reinvent the wheel (unless he thinks he can do it better), but
commercial developers have other factors to consider.  Not everyone has
upgraded to 2.0, so many developers are writing code to simulate 2.0 so that
their 1.3 users will have the same functionality.

Why Jim prefers to develop under 1.3 and claims that 2.0 has problems
multitasking is beyond me.

- Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Need info on 'EMPLANT'
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:25:26 GMT

Sorry, I'm well aware that I totally missed out on something that
everyone and their brother probably knows about at this point, but
life is like that sometimes.  I've never heard of this 'EMPLANT'
(hardware? software?) but my girlfriend just got an Mac LC and it
would be interesting if I could share software with her on my A2500.
Is this possible?  Would someone be so kind as to send me some contact
information for the individual/company responsible for this product(?)

I was thinking of getting an AMAX-II+, actually, I've heard it works
well with my Trumpcard Pro (will work in its own partition).

				Jordan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Subject: Re: Golden Gate 486!!
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:24:32 GMT

tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:

>In article <41459@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cg18fgg@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Greg) writes:

>>>Before we get too excited, let's not forget one thing: those boards
>>>use Cyrix's 486SLC, not Intel's 486DX.  A 486SLC has a lot of 486 specific 
>>>commands, but is not comparable to a true 486.  I would say it is an 

>>Can someone tell me why the Intel processors are not used in these emulators?

>Expense.

Sorry, but things are not that easy. The difference is that the Cyrix chip
is a 16-bit cpu and pin compatible with the 386SX. There is no easy way 
to install a 32bit cpu (386DX, 486SX, 486DX ...) on a 16bit backplane...

Cyrix's 486SLC is _no_ 486 CPU, it's a kind of overloaded 386SX: internally
a bit more optimized, two 1KB caches (486's have two 4KB caches), but it's
16bit and doesn't have an integrated FPU. 

The reasons why they called that beast 486 are to be found in marketing...

winnie.
From: Don_-_Hirschfeld@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Here's how to FTP to/from Wuarchive.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:52:04 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <70043@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov22.213842.9493@sbcs.sunysb.edu>

When I try get file.readme - ,it doesn't send it to the screen. I'm 
using Online on Portal not UNIX.
From: ESRLPDI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Ivan Ivanick)
Subject: Re: I HAVE EMPLANT!
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:40:36 PST

In article <1992Nov17.235214.28644@panix.com>, on 17 Nov 92 23:52:14 GMT,
rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers) writes:
>In <1992Nov17.070559.17976@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>>In article <Ivan_Pintori.02l6@mas.sublink.org> Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori) writes:
>>>I propose a toast to UU and Jim in particular!
>
>>I don't know about a toast, but he certainly deserves an apology from a lot
>>of people. My only connection with the Amiga world is a CDTV, but I've always
>
>Apologies (forget toasts) are not in order.  Not until a _single_ person
>who has an EMPLANT gets _any_ useability will I have any respect for Jim
>and U.U..  After that (if it happens) we'll see.
>
>Richard Powers  | Amiga 2000 w/28Mhz 68030 & AmigaDos 2.1 |  rpowers@panix.com
>(NON-standard disclaimer: My keyboard is messed up.  Any missing
>characters are NOT MY FAULT!)    Hail Eris!  All Hail Discordia!
>

Rich -
 The principles of discordianism seem to have nailed you there -- the
 first report came in right before this particular biting remark!
 I think "Bob" would not be pleased...

Ivan Ivanick    esrlpdi@mvs.oac.ucla.edu
Whore For Merchandise / Mediasink Productions
From: Gene_Ruebsamen@republik.fidonet.org (Gene Ruebsamen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Golden Gate 486!!
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Nov 92 23:45:22 PST
Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County

I belive there is a powerup program for upgrading to the golden gate 386
and 486 bridgeboards.. its a little over $100 off for the 486 BB, and a bit
less than that for a 386 BB, good deal for you XT bridgeboard owners, but
not such a great deal for the A2286 bridgeboard owners..

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Without Fools, there would be no Wise Men..
From: gip@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (G.I.P.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Could someone send AMAX FAQ?
Date: 22 Nov 92 12:53:33 -0500
Organization: Legoland

	Could someone please mail me the AMAX Frequently Asked
Questions List. I had it a while ago but lost it and haven't 
seen it posted in quite some time. Thanks in advance.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    //	George I. Papadopoulos	 | 'A restless, young romantic who
  \X/ gip@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu |  wants to run the big machine...'
	  gip@drycas.bitnet	 |			-Peart
From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re:  Who has a working EMPLANT?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26 beta (Oct 19 1992)
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:24:15 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR


> advice???
>   Also, stop the DAMN power light from blinking every time emplant accesses
> the disk drive!!! It's annoying as hell and gives the impression of a
> childish Euro-hacker that wrote the thing.
>   And, is there a way to keep the pointer from freezing every time the drives
> are accessed?
> 
>   Comments. Jim???
> 
Ok, I will make an option to disable the LED, however, it is *very* handy
for seeing what is going on.
 
No, there is NOT a way to make the pointer not freeze while accessing
floppys....this is the way the MAC is, and in order to maintain
compatibility it has to be this way.  I hate it as much as you do.  Be
greatful you are not using a real MAC, the problem is much worse...
 
Jim


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
From: jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: EMPLANT - anyone got it running ?
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 18:15:50 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>...description of 32 bit memory problem deleted ...
>
>We did not release the product KNOWING this problem existed.  It worked
>on all of the machines that we used.  Remember, there is only two people
>working on this entire product, and we don't have the financial backing
>of MicroSoft to allow us the luxary of one of everything made for the
>Amiga.  We also can't trust beta testers (at least not all of them) as we
>are suing a company in England for stealing the software/hardware for
>Super-Card Ami II (even left my copyright message and my name in the
>code).  We did sell our houses and pratically everything else that we own
>to get enough capital to produce boards.  The EMPLANT deluxe model costs
>us a little over $150 just to make, not including labor.
>
>Please believe me that our intentions were honest from the start and have
>not changed.  The product worked as far as we knew, there were problems
>(which have been corrected), and now it is time to get on with the MAC II
>SI/CI/LC support.  I appreciate those of you who believed in the product
>and stuck it out with us....someday, this is going to make an
>unbelievable book...
>
I think those of us that preordered Emplant have shown our trust.  The facts
as I've found them, are that no one posting on the net, your BBS, or GEnie
could get the first units to work.  I tried my board on four different style
computers, including a 2500 that you've mentioned exists in your supplies.
It would not have costed much, and you wouldn't have had to trust anyone, to
find other Amigas to personally test your board in.  Based on your level of
financial commitment to the product, it would have been very wise to do
everything you could to determine if there were any potential problems.  Not
to mention as a service to your customers who would have liked to receive
working product.

The bottom line is, working product will cure all wounds -- and I am happy
that except for the A3000, people were able to get up and running with a
simple software update.  I am still excited about the product, and beleive
it will be supported.  I hope we can be treated to better testing procedures
in the future.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:06:48 EST
From: <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Accessing Mac partitions from amiga dos.

In article <41164@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) says:

>I'm trying to understand why ReadySoft did not try to
>have a hard disk transfer program that worked from the amiga
>side.  It seems to me that this would be a lot more useful,
>especially in terms of the bootstrapping proccess where it

Indeed, this would be nice. Basically what you want is a Mac filesystem
ala CrossDOS. Thus far no one has developed such a beast, probably
because a) much smaller market potential than IBM Xfer software and
b) most users have no way to access 800K (Mac only) or 1.4MB (IBM & Mac)
formats. I'm still hoping. :-)
From: jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Who has a working EMPLANT?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 18:31:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

** Working Emplant **
U.U. new release of the Emplant software, available as NEWEMP.LHA on their
BBS, appears to be operational!  The emulator runs on an A2000 with A2630
accelerator.  It runs slower in 16 color mode than it does in B&W, but it is
really great to see.  HD and Amiga devices are still not supported, but it
runs, in color, multitasks, and hasn't crashed yet!
From: quang@yosemite.cs.csufresno.edu (Quang Ngo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: RE: AMax-2 crashed my drive
Date: 15 Nov 92 08:06:44 GMT
Organization: California State University, Fresno


>From: mhoesing@cwis.unomaha.edu (Michael Hoesing)

+---------------
|   Does anyone know what could have  caused  my  entire  AMax
| partition  on  my  hard drive to go bad?  I am using an A590
| with a 105meg Connor hard drive.  I had the last 20 meg par-
| tition set up as a mac partition.  It ran fine, but was gra-
| dually showing more errors every time I ran  AMax.   Finally
| the whole partition was bad.  I have tried doing a low level
| format of the entire drive,  and  everything  else  I  could
| think of, but the top 20 megs of my drive appears to be use-
| less.  Any ideas as to what caused this,  and  what  can  be
| done to prevent it from happening again?
+---------------

You might want to check for virus.  Get the virus checkers from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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From: tom@microsoft.com (Tom McConnell)
Subject: A-MaxII 2.51 and printing
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:01:13 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


OK.  I've got a couple of questions to put to you gurus.

1. Is there an A-Max FAQ?

2. Has anyone every gotten this thing to PRINT!?!?!?

More Detail:
   I have a HP-DeskJet (not DeskWriter) which is hooked up to
my printer port.  I have A-Max set up to use Port B as printer port
with NO emulation.  I have a HP-DeskWriter printer driver which says
that it will use the "Serial port" to communicate.  
   When I select the driver via the chooser, I select the printer icon
and not the serial icon. When I try to print, the app (Word) complains
it can't find theprinter.

Has anyone ever hooked one of these beasts up?  Is there something I
am doing wrong?

Any guidence is appreciated in advance!

Thanks!

-Tom

p.s. This is on a A1000 BTW.

to find a HP driver which sakl

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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Here's how to FTP to/from Wuarchive.
Date: 22 Nov 92 16:02:58 GMT
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland


	Any way to read a txt file while at the ftp prompt without d/l-ing the
	readme file?

Yes, if you're on a UNIX system, do:

	ftp> get <file> /dev/tty

And out it will come on your tty.  If you wanted to be really clever,
you could send it to a named pipe instead of /dev/tty and have an lpr
process reading from it or something.

					Jordan
From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Remember when?
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:06:35 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:


>Remember back in June when Emplant worked with all Amigas, all hard drives,
>all 24 bit video boards, and had a 2.04 interface as well?  Remember when 486
>emulation for Emplant was going to be available by Christmas?

>"Why own all the other computers when Amiga can emulate them all!" (by July)

>Ahhh, Camelot!

Pete, no offense... what would you like to see happening?

Jim Drew publically apologize for spreading rumor, stop finishing EMPLANT,
refund every one's money and go out of business?

Would that make you happy?

Quite frankly, b*tching and whining doesn't help anything.  Let's give
Jim a chance to fix the bugs.  

If you have purchased EMPLANT, yet feel you have been cheated, feel free
to return it.  Just don't sit here and whine.

Again, no offense.  I personally would love to see EMPLANT up and running. 
Also, I would hate to see another Amiga developer goes out of business.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: emulators
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:25:44 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

In article <1992Nov13.172929.23315@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jhp3x@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Jeffrey Howard Porter) writes:
> >>  I think I once saw an Amiga emulator on an IBM bbs...  was probably crap
lots of stuff deleted here.

> Actually, the emulator does exist, but you are correct, we couldn't
> get it to work.  The emulator runs 1.2 but it will only read from the
> A: drive on the computer which happened to be 5.25..... I eventually
> got a copy of WB 1.2 on an Amiga 5.25.. but I we still couldn't get it
> to boot.  I seriously think the thing was a joke - I don't think the
> emulator could read an Amiga formatted disk (more data?) - dunno, but
> I wanted to see it running ... to see how slow, etc.. it was.. Oh well
> - Anyone else get that thing to work?
> 
> Jeff
> 
I can tell you one thing look at the size of the so called emulator. The whole 
So called emulator is smaller than the roms of the Amiga. Do you still believe it
is an emulator? :)

Arthur.

					Arthur Hoffmann
					hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au
From: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ryan K. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re:  Emplant ideas
Date: 23 Nov 1992 23:55:36 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Distribution: world
Reply-To: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

In article <jdrew.0jxj@cryo.rain.com>, jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew) writes:
>
>>   Ok here's one. Will emplant work *properly* with a standard commodore
>> monitor? By that I mean will it look at the displaysize set for workbench
>> and open Emplant *that* size. Opening a 640x400 emplant on a screen that
>> is 710x476 loses quite a bit. Hardcoding 640x400 went out when KS1.2 was
>> released.
>> 
>Again, we are dealing with a MAC here.  The video size is hard coded in
>the declaration ROM.  We can make various video sizes, however, the MAC
>software *must* support them or *boom!*.  The MAC doesn't have the
>features of the Amiga.  ;-)
>
>
>Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.

AMax does it just fine.  The Mac supports almost any size screen and all the
OS calls support varying screen sizes as well.


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