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/ hpgnd149:comp.sys.amiga.misc / Jonathan Robert Avrach <ja2z+@andrew.cmu.edu> /  1:30 am  Jan 20, 1993 /
> I have an A500.  It's an old machine, a dinosaur in fact.  I am
> seriously considering getting the GVP A530 turbo (40 MHz 68030/120 mb
> drive/1-8 meg RAM) to plug into the side port (the so called "scuzzy"). 
> I would like some feedback on this idea.  I could really use some more
> speed and memory to do all of the multitasking I would like.

I own a GVP 530 120 Mb HD and 4 Mb 32 bits RAM.
First thing, it really flies, sysinfo gives an acceleration ratio about 13.
It's faster than an A3000 25 Mhz, especially when you relloc kickstart in 32
bits RAM.
Yes, it can have 1 to 8 Mb of 32 bits RAM but in fact you have only two
places where to plug RAM memory so you can have 1,2,4 or 8 Mb not 3 or 5 for
example.
So, I recommend you to take 4 Mb as it can be expanded to 8 instead
of 1Mb than can only be expanded to 2 Mb if you want to keep your first Mb.
One thing, I don't like there's a switch that allow you to boot in 68000 but
then you haven't access to RAM and HD.
It has its own power supplier but no power on/off button. It just starts when 
you boot your 500 which is great I think regarding previous GVP HD.

Hope this helps,
Gael


Gael Marziou : gael@hpgndl71.grenoble.hp.com or Gael_Marziou@hp6330.desk.hp.com
From: Thomas.Herlyn@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Herlyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: E is impressing, but there are problems!
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:26:26 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

I am using the compiler about a week now and the possibilities
and the compilation speed are quite impressing. To play around
with lists isn't easy, but i think i got it now.

But unfortunately there are a few things doing wrong:

1. Try this: (from the reference manual)
OBJECT myString
 len:CHAR, data[9]:CHAR
ENDOBJECT
DEF a:myString,b

a.len:= ... is right, BUT
a.data[2]:= ... gives you an ILLEGAL USE/REFERENCE TO OBJECT error

Does this mean i will never be able to use an array as a component
of an object and access it later, or is it just a bug???

2. strangeness with lists:
do the following:

DEF a[4]:LIST
    ListAdd(a,[<here you place any EString>],1)
    WriteF('\s\n',a[0])
this writes the content of the EString, works fine. But if you
allocate the List dynamically (absolutely legal), like
DEF a
    a:= List(4)
the two program lines ListAdd..,WriteF.. does not write out ANYTHING!

All helps are welcomed,

    Bye, Thomas Herlyn
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: Edward_Swatschek@mindlink.bc.ca (Edward Swatschek)
Subject: Re: Amiga Alert Colors
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:34:26 GMT

> Sam Hulick writes:
>
> Can one of you C= folks out there list all the colors that can happen on
> reboot, and what they mean?  For instance, someone said that a blue
> screen at re-boot means bad CHIP RAM.  Etc.  Thanks.


I'm not a C= folk, but here's what I have on boot colours:

Dark gray      The initial hardware tested OK.  The 68000 is
               running and the registers are readable
Light gray     The software is coming in and seems OK
White          The initialization tests were all passed
Red            There is an error in ROM
Green          There is an error in the Chip RAM
Blue           An error was found in the custom chips
Yellow         The 68000 found an error before the error
               trapping software (the guru) was up and running


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From: dat91lho@ludat.lth.se (Lars Holmgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Stupid C= handling of diskerrors!
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:35:01 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden

Hi world!

The following problem has been bugging me alot, and I'm pissed off!

   Say that I have a floppy that is not 100% OK and I save a file
   to it. If it is my bad luck that my Amiga selects a bad sector
   to save at; what happens? I have to press CANCEL several times
   in the system requester and still the file will be corrupt!

It seems that the Amiga tries to save at the sector with the error
a number of times and then thinks: "Sorry, can't save at that sector,
lets try to save the NEXT block of the file at the NEXT sector!"
What I would like is: If an error is found, mark the block as bad
in the (can't remember the name of the block that tells which sectors
are used and which are free) and then try to save the block at another
sector, and NO SYSTERM REQUESTER IS NEEDED!

About the sys.req:s: ARE THEY NEEDED AT ALL?
Most of them will not take no for an answer, some do nothing when
I press RETRY, and some programs lock up if you press CANCEL when
asked to insert a specific volume!

Are you satisfied? I'M NOT!

/Lars

PS. I'm running KS & WB 2.1

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    Topasvgen 32    (+46)(0)46- 70 99 02
    S-240 21 Lddekpinge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: joek@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Josef Karthaus)
Subject: Re: Need details on programming AGA chipset
Organization: University of Sussex, School of Cognitive Sciences
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:58:51 GMT

In article <C1A20J.CHA@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>In article <43859@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan20.144727.10156@ugle.unit.no> mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen) writes:
>>>(CBM - f*ck you for not releasing a HRM).
>>
>>>Morten
>>
>>Come on man, surely you know the reason--if they did that,
>>everything would break again with every chipset upgrade,
>>and it would take another 8 years for the next (post AGA)
>>chipset!
>
>   Bull.  "Everything" would not break.  Only the few demos and games written
>to the AGA registers would break.  And such software would not have a very
>long time to accumulate if Commodore releases the next chipsets soon enough.
>
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>"I suppose if I had two X chromosomes, I'd feel hostile too."
>                              - Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes)


I supose you guys have heard the rumours? Apparently an internal draft of the
HRM for AGA has been leaked to the cracking/demo scene. I have reports that
people that I know have copies buy I haven't seen one yet!!!

Have a nice day!!!

Cheers,

    Joe!

------------------------  -------------------------------------------------
Josef Karthauser          Remember... Today is the first day of the rest of
joek@cogs.susx.ac.uk      your life. Use it well. :-)
------------------------  -------------------------------------------------
From: sswell@cup.portal.com (Steve - Stockwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: EVE or edt/tpu for Amiga??
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:16:29 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Hiya!

   I'm very interested in obtaining REDT as I use EVE (configured
for EDT keypad) at work extensively.  Please enlighten me.


                              --Steve Stockwell

                            sswell@cup.portal.com
From: Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: best way to save disk space?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 09:10:27 GMT
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Distribution: world
Reply-To: lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan.Lucenius)
NNTP-Posting-Host: tel.vtt.fi

 
What are the experiences from XPK? Is it the most convinient way to
save HD space, if you have only one HD partition and wants to use it
only on some subdirectories? Is that possible or would also other files
be affected? Does XPK work reliably and fast enough on a A500? Is 0.5+
0.5+2 MB memory enough ?

How does XPK perform in comparison to lha, compress, powerpacker etc.?
Is powerpacker freely distributable or commercial?

Jan


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mathys@utopia.sps.mot.com (Yves Mathys)
Subject: HELP NEEDED: Cannot boot from Supra HD with OS2.1
Organization: Motorola, Semiconductor Systems Design Technology
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:28:28 GMT


By installing 2.1 on my Amiga 2000 I cannot boot from the hard disk
anymore.  If I boot from a floppy I can mount the filesystem on the HD
and normally access all files stored on it. The hard disk is from
Supra Corp. (50 Mb) with Seagate controllers. It is on the SCSI addr 0
and LUN 0. The new utilities 'HDToolbox' cannot see it, the error
message 'Device not installed' is displayed and no action is possible.

I've copied the harddisk.device and the mountlist file in the Devs
drawers which does not do much.  When the Amiga tried to boot from the
HD I got the following GURU message but have no idea what it means:

	Error 01000 000F Task: 00c034f8
	
The SupraFormat utilities shows that the first partition HAS the BOOT
flag correctly set.


Any hints? Help would be greatly appreciated, I've spent hours on this
one already.

-Yves

------------------------------------------
	Yves Mathys
	Motorola Inc/Design Technology
	mathys@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com
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	Yves Mathys
	Motorola Inc/Design Technology
	mathys@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com
From: dgriff@unixg.ubc.ca (David Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Stefan Boberg not replying on LhA registration?
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:35:16 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: kynok.ucs.ubc.ca

In <1993Jan25.142314.2135@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Stefan G. Berg" <sgberg@avocado.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:

>I send in a registration form for LhA on 10/2/92 together with US$ 20
>in cash to Stefan Boberg (that is not _me_.... my name is Stefan Berg).
>Meanwhile I have written him email asking him what has happened to the
>registration, but never did I even get a letter from him. That is now
>almost 5 months ago. What can I do?!? Is he not working on LhA anymore?

>At least would I like to get some notification from him (even if it is:
>"Sorry... never got any letter from you."). If somebody can help me out
>on this please do...

I'm not really surprised, I've been waiting for around 8 months now
with still no word.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: markm@zerbin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Mark Montminy)
Subject: Serial laser printer
Originator: markm@dnu6.dev.cdx.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:09:57 GMT


I just hooked up my HP compatible laser to my a2232 serial board and
I'm having some troubles with the buffer.  It prints fine, but the
serial device doesn't seem to flush the buffers after sending
something to the printer, thus I don't get the full page.  It's been
set up using the printer prefs under 2.1, selecting the default unit
number for the port etc.  If I lower the buffer size to 512 it's
better, but I still lose part of my page.  Suggestions??  For those
who are about to suggest running off the parallel port, it's in use by
parnet to my 1200, and a switchbox/rebooting isn't an option, nor is
purchasing a second parallel port.  I'm sure it's something simple I'm
overlooking, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
Subject: Right border cut off on WB in SUPER72 overscan?
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:51:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

When I set the horizontal overscan on my Super72
interlaced workbench beyond 832, the pixels
beyond the 832 mark are cut off, invisible. My
mouse can move over the cut off area and I can grab
windows in it. I just can't see what's there.

What's the deal?

How do you have your AGA WB set up? I remember the Skip
Sauls seemed to have a pretty big WB. How doeshe have it set up?
Skip?

Ian.











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From: CHENRY@cup.portal.com (Hypermedia Concepts Inc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: to be or not to be
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 05:42:23 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <73989@cup.portal.com>

	To order, send a list of the disks you want, and payment in U.S.
	funds to:

		Fred Fish
		Amiga Library Disks
		1835 East Belmont Drive
		Tempe, Arizona  85284
		USA

	The per disk fee as of December 1990 is as follows:

		1   to 9 disks		$6 per disk
		10  to 49 disks		$5 per disk
		50  to 99 disks		$4 per disk
		100 or more		$3 per disk
		complete library	$2 per disk	(see note below)

	The price includes cost of media, mailing materials, and postage.
	Domestic (USA) mail is sent first class.  Overseas mail is sent
	via Air Mail at no additional charge.  Time and other jobs
	permitting, all disks will be mailed within 5 days of receipt of
	order (most are filled the next day).
From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AmigaDos version 2.1 documentation comments
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:32:45 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

lordbah@amusing.Bah.Rochester.NY.US (Jeff Van Epps) writes:

>One thing I noticed about the 2.1 manuals, in several places they say
>"floppy device or credit card device".  Was this some sort of humor
>(gotta have a large credit line to buy a hard disk!), or does this
>have some sort of real meaning?

I am not sure what you are talking about... but are you refering to \
the PCMCIA slot?  PCMCIA (exists on both the 600 and 1200) is often 
refered to as "credit card slot."  Many vendors have manufactured
RAM cards, Modems, harddisk drives for the slot... is that what you
are talking about?

>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Jeff Van Epps    uunet!amusing!lordbah
>                     lordbah@amusing.Bah.Rochester.NY.US

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
From: slhmz@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Is it possible with WB 2.1 to assign an IFF picture as backdrop?
Date: 25 Jan 93 12:26:32 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Hello,

  Is it possible to assign an IFF picture as a backdrop in WB 2.1?
  I read that you could, but find no way of doing so.

  The WB 2.1 manuals are of no help on this subject, so I am assuming
  that you cannot have large IFF pictures as backdrops without using
  NickPrefs or Backdrop or something.

--
Faith Gibson
From: "Dietmar Heidrich" <UKGV@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Strange wierdness in E-language!
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:04:15 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: world

From what I have read about E in the the newsgroups up to now, I get
the strong impression that E is something that should have been
released on April, 1st.  A language that strictly evaluates expressions
from left to right or requires variables  to be written in lower case
and all the other weird stuff I read should simply NOT BE USED AT ALL.
Compiler speed is not as important as a correct transformation of
source into target code or convenience in naming variables.  People
who need such things as ultimate compiling speed or other things
should use assembler.  By the way, you spend most of your programming
time writing source text and NOT compiling !  Therefore, a fast and
good editor is more important than compilation speed.
Safety checks are also very useful.
Nobody gains in compiling only for a few seconds and then browsing
through the memory using any    debugger for some hours to find an
error that a sensible compiler would have prevented from the
beginning.

Dietmar Heidrich, Germany
From: wanderer@tcsi.appleton.mil.wi.us (K.T. Wieringa)
Subject: Re: Early A3000 2.1 ROM upgrade
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Distribution: usa
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:37:49 CST
Organization: The River

Mark D. Nagel (mark@tc.fluke.COM) wrote:
: I haven't been able to determine what I need to do in order to
: upgrade an old A3000 to 2.1. This machine did not have the OS
: on ROM: There are two locations on the mother board which have
: the stamps "ROM 1(?)" and "ROM 2(?)", no sockets though.

I've got a similar ROM-less a3000 and just went through this with the guy 
at Safe Harbor.

According to him:

 - as long as you've got a recent version of Kickstart (KS v37.175) all 
   you'd need would be the 2.1 software upgrade package. 

 - if you have an old version of kickstart you'd also need to get the a3000
   version of the 1.3->2.04 upgrade package with ROM.  You'd end up with an 
   extra copy of WB2.04 this way but as far as he knew this was the only way 
   to get the a3000 2.0x ROM.

 - the '2.1 upgrade package with ROM' now available is for the a500 and
   a2000 machines.  As far as he knew, a '2.1 upgrade with ROM' for a3000 
   machines was not yet available.

If he got any of that wrong, I'd like to know.

I ordered the 2.1 software only upgrade package, too.
From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 with 68EC040?
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:24:48 GMT
Organization: Privately owned and operated UUCP site.
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1993Jan26.071724.2050@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> mark@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim) writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just bought an A4000.  I was looking through the user's guide and it
> says.
>
> "A4000 models shipped with a 68040-level microprocessor on the
> processor module may have the 68EC040 variation of the chip. The EC
> chip omits the internal FPU and MMU present on the full 68040.
> ..."
> it goes on to say that the full 68040 would have dramatic increases in
> math operations over a 68EC040 68882 combination, and that the EC is
> chip replacable with the 68040 for those who want to upgrade.
>
> I'm kinda surprised...  I got the machine intending to do some heavy
> math. I just assumed it'd be full 68040, especially after reading
> reviews and stuff on the net.  Did this subject come up? Guess I
> should have done more research...
>
> How do I tell if I've got an EC?  (can't open the box without voiding
> warrantee). Showconfig and CPU programs say I've got a 68040/68882.
> (looks kinda bad...though doesn't say 68EC040 explicitly)
> Are all current A4000's EC's or full 68040's?
> Does anyone know just how different they are? (besides no MMU)
>
> thanks
> mark
> mark@killdeer.stanford.edu

 Ah! Now that's the trick isn't it? They get you all upset and thinking that
you bought an 040 machine that's been castrated so you'll open up your brand
new A4000 and void the warrenty.:) I know plenty of people who have and they
found that they have a fully functional 68040. I don't know what bone head
put that literature in the packaging, but they should fire him.:) Maybe this
is a topic that should be in the new book and video tape from Promography
Productions?:)

--
____________________________________
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From: KurtS@cup.portal.com (Kurt Gregory Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Backup on DAT?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:53:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Call Sunrize, the makers of those 12 and 16 bit audio sampling boards.
 I recall seeing some info on an internal board they were about to sell
 for digital I/O for their samplers. I do not know if it works indepen-
dently of the sound hardware. One of it's listed features was allowing
HD backup to DAT using the consumer digital ports.
 
Hope this helps...
 
 kurt
From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  New machine sales
Distribution: world
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:03:48 CST
Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations

In article <1jmb0fINNstr@pith.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
>James R. Burley II (jrb@jrb.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>: Does anyone know how well the new AGA machines are selling? Commodore
>: had a terrible last quarter and their stock has been sliding ever since.
>: I'm hoping for a turn around with the next quarterly earnings due out at 
>: the end of Jan '93.
>
>   The local Software Etc. is now down to two shelves of Amiga software -
>maybe a maximum of 20 titles. That's downright pathetic. Even the A600 that 
>was on display for a couple weeks is no longer around. It's do or die time
>for Commodore. No more futzing around, no more trying to turn a profit on
>margins... it's time to sell some friggin machines so developers will start
>writing software for the machine.

For what it's worth, my local Amiga dealer has sold at least 10 A1200HD's in
the last week, although I suspect mostly to previous Amiga owners.

--
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From: gael@hpgnd149.grenoble.hp.com (Gael_Marziou)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:16:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Yak's mouse blanking
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, GND
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc

Yak 1.3 does only blank mouse pointer sprite.
Check out for 1.3a, it's available on most ftp sites.

A+,
Gael
From: slbrbbbh@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Le Breton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Is it possible with WB 2.1 to assign an IFF picture as backdrop?
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:05:46 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de

In <10606@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

>In article <1993Jan25.122632.63160@cc.usu.edu> slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>
>>  Is it possible to assign an IFF picture as a backdrop in WB 2.1?
>>  I read that you could, but find no way of doing so.

>If you want it do officially via system-provided utilities, then sorry,
>this feature only came with the 3.0 WBPattern prefs editor. When you
>want to use PD utilities, there should exist some.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes there is e.g. NickPrefs:
3 Pref Editors
1. WBPicture
2. Disk: Clicking,Delay,Step are adjustable
3. Sound or Beep (don't know): DisplayBeep: Sound instead of flashing
   obsolete since WB2.1
SLB
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