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From: python@pnet01.cts.com (Gregory Scribner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP: A500 problems
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:16:19 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA

I recently purchased an A500 and have been encountering some problems. Fisrt
of all, when I boot from either WB1.2 or WB1.3, df0: will only validate a disk
that is not write protected. However, if the same disk is reinserted with the
write protect tab down it is validated. In addition, I have not been able to
sucessfully back up any of my disks including WB. Last of all, the screen will
blank out at random times after booting up from some of my disks. However,
some of the games I have are not affected when they are booted from a cold
start. For example, if I use the WB screen from my FA/18 disk to launh certain
programs, I do not encounter any of the problems above. 


Any help would be highly appreciated.


            Thanks in advance,
                                Gregory Scribner

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A2286 guru or Scott Drysdale from C=
From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Date: 29 Jul 92 07:31:11 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

Sorry about posting this to hardware instead of emulations, but they're 
to busy with that Emplant stuff.

I have a A2286 bb in my 2000.  I recently bought Borland C++ 3.0 to run on
it.   Well, I didn't read the fine print that I needed extended memory,
I meg no less!

I borrowed a PC memory board, configured it for extended memory, and 
stuck it in the 2000.  No problem...

I reinstalled TC++.  Now TC++ comes up fine and seems to compile OK etc.,
*BUT*  the keyboard doesn't work properly.  Now this is only with the
IDE of TC++ (which uses protected mode), All of the other apps I have
on the bb side work as usual.

I have a post that was forwarded by a fellow named Peter Ouzts that
was authored by Scott Drysdale of Commodore about a mod to the bb
that helps the fake HD run faster.  This mod has to do with the 8742
chip on the bb and installing a jumper between pin 6 of the 8742 and pin
30 of J17A.

Finally the question:  Will this mod solve my problem also?  Please E-Mail
or post.  Thank you.


			Fred,
			fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: drive alignment
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:22:02 GMT
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

Hi,

I have a problem with my inteernal disk drive on my A500 and I'm pretty
sure it is the alignment.

A disk written on my internal drive can be read on my external drive
but not on my friend's drives (noticed this with two different 
friends/amigas).  Likewise, disks written on my friends' amigas can
be read on my external drive but not on my internal.  I also have
trouble with new software, particularily copy protected games which
must be booted from df0: (I'm still at WB1.3 ;( sniff... 

A disk alignment kit costs about the same price as a new drive!

I am wondering if anyone out there knows what to adjust in the drive
to alter the alignment.  I believe I can carefully adjust it
and verify my progress by attempting reads on disks from my friends.


Please help!  It's really a pain and has plagued me for a LONG time.


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From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP! HD LED Light not lighting ???
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:18:24 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin) writes:

>	It seems that my LED light is not functioning on
>	Hard Disk access anymore. Does anybody know if this
>	indicates something further is about to happen to 
>	the Hard Disk or is this just the fact that the LED
>	is burnt out.

You don't say what machine you have, but I assume you have your HD light on
one of those little PC boards in the front of the machine.  After repeatedly
taking off and putting on the cover to my A3000, I noticed that my power
LED stopped working even though the computer was okay.  It turned out to
be a tiny crack in a trace on the little PC board that left the LED without
power.  I patched it with a small piece of wire and all was well.

David

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Subject: MFM Controllers
Summary: Autoboot/Non-Boot.....
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:32:15 GMT

 I friend of mine just got ahold of a MFM drive from an old PC XT.
 He has a A500, and was wondering what style of controllers support MFM
for the 500?. He also plans to upgrade to a 200 soon so he may just buy a
slingshot and use a 2000 card. But we need to know which types are out there
and which ones are auto-booting (if any)

Gene Pral  prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu


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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  HELP! HD LED Light not lighting ???
Distribution: world
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:26:40 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

In article <BrtCqq.K82@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon) writes:
>varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin) writes:
>>	It seems that my LED light is not functioning on
>
>taking off and putting on the cover to my A3000, I noticed that my power
>LED stopped working even though the computer was okay.  It turned out to

Seems to be a common problem.  My 3000 had the same problm with both the
POWER and HD LED's.  A friend of mine had the same problem as well.  In
both cases the joint between the track on the PCB and the LED was gone.

I think it's caused by the flexing of that board as you take off/put on
the cover from you machine.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rda732m@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au (J.P. Baker)
Subject: POWERGLOVE
Summary: CONNECTING THE PWRGLOVE
Keywords: AmigaHires
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:22:58 GMT

I have just connected a Mattel Powerglove to my A500, and tried the
amigahires.lzh programs for those that know what I am on about.

However, No values feed back to the glove, has anyone out there
tried this hack and had success, is there some special mode or 
something that the glove has to be set into.???????


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From: asl00@ccc.amdahl.com (Andrew Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Problem with Amiback 2.0
Date: 23 Jul 92 02:49:33 GMT
Reply-To: asl00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Andrew S. Lee)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I've recently run into a problem and need some help.
My hardware configuration is as follows:

Amiga 2000 (5MB)
A2091 controller
105S Quantum prodrive
40S Quantum prodrive
Archive Viper 2150s

I'm running Amibcak 2.0c and am having lots of trouble finishing a 
complete, or full, backup.  What happens is that the controller will
go into a solid lock, with the activity light on continuously, during
a backup operation.  I've rerun the backups many times with the controller
hosed up at different points each time.  The rest of the system is fine
but anything requiring going to the hard drive just hangs.  

I've checked all connections and terminators and they all seem fine.
Bad tapes don't seem to be the problem as I tried many different ones
and still haven't had any success.  The only thing I've done recently
is to replace my internal floppy with a new one.  I'm starting to suspect
my controller or tape drive as the culprit.  Any suggestions would be
highly apprecieated.  Thanks.

Andy
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:08:18 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <28JUL199207552041@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon) writes:
 >In article <1992Jul28.030730.8467@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, mjp3783@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes...
 >> 
 >>2.04 is (I believe) over 1 year old. There is a good bit more to programming 
 >>different revisions than that.

2.0 is even 2 years old, shipped first with the A3000. But the current,
released version for all models, 2.04, is ca. over 1 year old.

 >But 500's are still being released with 1.3 stuff (and 600's? not sure).
 >Since this is their more popular computer, It would be stupid to force
 >2.0 on people like this.  

NO. Every Amiga (with CDTV being the only exception) ships with 2.0 today,
also A500, A500+, A600. Also old samples from backstore should now be
sold, you shouldn't find any with 1.3 on the shelves.

 >The other problem is the Euro market.  Has 2.0
 >been accepted as well as it has over here?  

Well, as I said, also the Euro market *is* already purely 2.0.

 >Incidentally, is the upgrade just chips and software/manuals?  and can this
 >be done at home (i know that almost all the chips on the board are socketed,
 >so switching and relplacement are easy)?

Yes, it's easy. It's one chip (Kickstart ROM) and several disks, and the
Kickstart ROM is always socketed, even in the else SMT A600.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rnelson@ocelot.csc.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson)
Subject: 2630 ROM upgrate for 2.04
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 22:59:57 GMT

I purchased 2.04 over two months ago (after waiting several weeks on
backorder).
The dealer installed the ROM, but then the 2630 accelerator also needed
a ROM upgrade (Chips U1 and U2 I believe). These are also on backorder, 
which I have been waiting for since.  The dealer has no idea how long I 
will have to wait.

How long has anyone had to wait to get these ROMs?
Are these made up in batches? How often?

I also didn't get a registation card with 2.04.  Where can I send
a facsimile registration. (Not that It would make any difference,
I've had Commodore computers since 1982 and have never received 
anything (I.e. upgrade notices) from Commodore).

Thanks,  Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: papo@pyuxf.uucp (25241-anaya)
Subject: A1000 Newbie makes some questions 
Organization: BellcorePiscataway, NJ
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 19:39:32 GMT
Summary: What can I do with this computer??? 

Hi *

I've done this questions to several people and the answers I'm getting
about it are not very fulfilling.  So I'm trying my question again
for the first time in comp.sys.amiga.hardware.

I bough this used A1000.  I know that it is an old machine however
a couple of persons have told me that "You can put 8Meg's RAM and a SCSI(sp)
drive in it".  I started to read this group and you talked 'bout the
"Rejuvenator(sp)" board for $500 bucks.  Also about a lot of hack's that
a common engineer can do with a solder and a bunch of chips and dips.

So these are my questions:

1.  In a nutshell, what upgrades can be done with the A1000??

2.  What's the price range of some of them??

3.  What companies are selling upgrades for the 1000??

4.  If the peripherals that are sold for the 500 are also used in the
1000, what things I should be looking for??


I'm planning to upgrade my machine in the near future so I can do any useful
programming with it.  I'll appreciate any response and thanks in advance.


Cheers,


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata FSO)
Subject: Re: GVP multi-port card
Reply-To: ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO)
Organization: HFSI, McLean VA.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:17:33 GMT

In article <1992Jul19.072155.6069@afterlife.ncsc.mil> bkwilli@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bryan Williams) writes:
>I'd certainly venture to guess it'll do anything existing Amiga ports will do,
>with the driver compatibility constraints in some cases, looking specifically at
>the CIA chips rather than the driver, etc.
> 
> 
>Since you brought up the subject of GVP's new card, I'd like to GRIPE.
> 
>The MSRP of the board is $299!!!!!!!! 
> 
>WHY in the HELL do these things cost so much? Please, no bullshit answers. I've
>been looking into producing a serial board myself, and I KNOW how much it could be done for.  If it were not for the lack of a PAL programmer to make the 
>autoconfig PAL, I'd be finished already! And I could sell for under $100, a card
>with 4 serial ports (no parallel intended at present since I see less use for it
>-- ie, there aren't any digitizes that will work with custom boards' parallel
>ports that I am aware of)
> 
>When & if I finally do get money for a "development system", look for the 
>
>do it yourself kit. Or, take it upon yourself to beat me to it. Just price it 
>below $100!!
> 
>By the way, a company called Startech makes a 68000-compatible quad FIFO UART
>called the ST68C554. 4 ports, each with 16 bytes send and 16 bytes receive FIFO
>(GVP's board has similar UARTs, unlike all the other cards). Free samples avail-
>able, and the distributor cost is about $22 per chip if you wanna get large 
>qty's.
> 
>If you are familiar with the 16550 UARTS, these are basically the same thing. T
>are register compatible.

Well, Intel's Advanced Serial card cost about $180.00 at Comp USA, so that
MSRP doesn't sound too bad to me...(Yes, I know the feeling: how can one
justify cash like that for a serial card, but they are priced by some
manufacturers rather high.  I guess you pay for the quality)
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From: doctor@k9.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help me find a printer! Laser? Color DeskJet?
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:18:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: k9.doctor.017z
Organization: You have to be kidding...
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Jul22.204038.11330@cs.brown.edu> art@cs.brown.edu (graphics artists) writes:
> Hi - I'm looking to buy a good printer for my amiga 3000.
> My primary uses are graphics and maybe some DTP.  I need to produce
> good quality black and white transparancies that have a high
> degree of opacity.  
[deleted lines]
> The first question - should I get a laser printer or this nifty
> color deskjet?
> How's the deskjet stack up? Is its printout opaque? Can it do 24bit color
> printout in 300dpi?  Can it print transparancies? And can it be expanded to PostScript someday?

I have the DeskJet 500 (not color). It prints nicely on xerox-machine type paper.
I haven't tried transparancies yet. The paper can make quite a difference on an
inkjet printer. (Some regular printer paper I tried when I got my DeskJet produced
printouts that didn't look good. I tried some photocopy paper from an office supply
store and got excellent results. (Most phototcopy paper has some indication of
what side to print on [for best results] on the label [usually on the end of the
packet].)

I use Post 1.7 (a PostScript interpreter) to print PostScript documents and graphics
on my DeskJet 500. The results are pretty good.

One problem with the DeskJets (and most inkjet printers) is that when you print 
graphics that have a lot of black (or darker gray) the paper will curl up some.
Unless it is a really dark picture, it usually isn't too bad. Laser printers don't
have this problem though. If I was going to do it again, I'd probably buy either
an HP LaserJet of some kind or the IBM laser printer.

The best thing to do is go to a ComputerLand (or other computer store) and see
what the printer can do in person.

Apparently the newest PaintJet XL(?) can have postscript added later (along with 
an ethernet connection option).


> I'd really like to get a printer that I could add PostScript to later, if that's
> possible - unless there's something in this range that already has PS...

You can add PostScript to at least one (if not all) of IBM's newer laser printers.
(A plus here is you get up to 600 dpi resolution as well... ).

Did I say I liked something IBM makes? eek! :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Subject: Re: A1000 2-meg Agnes Hacks???
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:04:15 GMT

In article <oPwJoB1w165w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> toddo@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Todd Oberly) writes:
>
> 
>Has anybody hacked a 1 or 2 meg Agnes chip into their A1000?  I *know* 
>that
>it can't be that hard, basically it requires a "Megachip" type setup, but
>with an extra half meg on board and a different socket on the bottom to 
>plug
>into the 1000's rather slender and shapely Agnes socket.  Are there 

 Well I am in the stages of working on a hack to do just that.
 I figure on using the Megachip as my basis. The 2 meg agnes has the same
signals as our DIP agnus. Of course, on motherboard memory will be lost.
And I would not advise trying to get it back.. I have checked and the address
for the memory is too hard to try and include for the piddly 512k thats there.

 When I manage to finish this hack... I will be more than happy to post it
on a few FTP sites....

Gene Prall   prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu  |Look ma I is in college!|
-Standard Disclaimer - 90 Day warranty - Parts and Labor not included - Tags,
Taxes, and Titles may cost extra - Batteries not included - Allow 6-8 weeks
for delivery | A1000 Owner and damn proud of it! 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jyrkis@mits.mdata.fi (Jyrki Saarinen)
Subject: A2630 from USA/Germany?
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:51:44 GMT

This _may_ be a repost, but I ask again:

From where in the U.S. or Germany I can order A2630-card with possibly
cheapest price? Please state company name, phone, fax etc. And A2630's
price. I heard that they are quite cheap in Germany.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: milamber@engin.umich.edu (Daryl Scott Cantrell)
Subject: Re: Need Help - 50 Hz flickers
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 10:54:53 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <1992Jul21.123232.24994@funet.fi> po87553@cs.tut.fi (Pasi 'Albert' Ojala) writes:
>In article <Metin_Savignano.02pv@turttwo.tynet.sub.org> Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano) writes:
>>it's PAL, so it's 50 Hz, so it flickers! What can I do?
>
>If it is 50Hz, it does not flicker.. But as everybody knows, it is 25Hz. :-)
>
>>I won't get the NTSC modes in the Screenmode
>>editor. I always thought PAL/NTSC mode was controlled by Agnus solely?
>
>Yes it is, but if a program does not ask for NTSC mode, it will get a PAL-
>mode screen. And you might have done something wrong too.. :-)

Uh-uh.  You must have the ECS Denise to make all the fun video-mode-switching
available.  Note that ECS Denise won't do a thing with ECS Agnus..

>>Please help me, if you can, 'cause I can't stand that 50 Hz flickering any
>>longer!
>
>50Hz doesn't flicker here, but you just might be an extraterrestial being..

Hint: Use a 60 Hz display for a month or so.  Then try switching back to
50 Hz.  With my 3000, I could have an extra hundred lines if I switched
to PAL mode, but you'd have to pay me a lot of money to do it, I can't
stand the flickering display..

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: Sparc coprocessors
Keywords: coprocessors, sparc, bridgeboard
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:05:19 GMT

Doesn't the Sparc take a bit of a performance hit, running through the
ISA bus?

Thom

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sherman@panix.com (Sherman Chan)
Subject: 500 bus extension cable - Is there one?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:53:43 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Does anyone know if there's any ribbon cable thing with an 86 pin
edge connector on the end of it?  (Oh yeah, the female end is supposed
to plug into the 500's bus)  I'd like to stuff a few things neatly into
a PC case, and such a cable would make life a lot easier.

-Sherm
From: john@homebase.hacktic.nl (SysOp HomeBase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: FAQ request
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 17:31:53 CST
Organization: HomeBase BBS


Can someone mail me the FAQ of this group ? I'm kinda new here and don't
want to talk ages when it's in the FAQ.  Cheers ....


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