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From: stephan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Mark Stephan)
Subject: Need a Hard Drive List that works with A3000
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:48:22 GMT



I have one of the first Amiga 3000 with the 40mg hard drives.  I have
heard that there are problems connecting different hard drives to the
Amiga 3000.  Does anyone have a list of the Hard Drives to stay away
from
???  Also, can someone with the same configuration as I have tell me
where I can get a 200mg or bigger Hard Drive (The type of the drive, 
size of the drive, how long you have had it, are you running straight
2.00 or are you running both 1.3 and 2.0 )  Because I know there are
several people out there are wanting to add a extra hard drive to their
system but they do not want to pay for something that does not work.  
Since, Commordore is not going to help the custmer with this problem
I thought I might get the ball overing.  I forgot to ask where you got
the drive and how much the drive costed you.

Thanks,

Mark Stephan
internet: stephan@cwis.unomaha.edu

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TFL Chip Ram Accelerator
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:24:39 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov5.012915.24875@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
> In article <36672@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> <much deleted>
> 
> >density or custom parts.  Something like today's Bridgette chip could have 
>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
> What's this Dave?  We've all heard of Agnus, Denise, Paula, Gary, Buster,
> DMAc, Alice, Lisa, Ramsey, and Gayle, buy who/what is Bridgette?
> 
> Inquiring Amigans need to know!  :-)

Bridgette is the A4000 data path gate array.  It implements the gateway between
chip memory and the processor bus and handles the details of the 16/32 bit chip
memory bridging.

The A1200 contains a chip called Budgie that does pretty much the same thing,
but also includes memory decode and control.

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From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Reference Manual?
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:34:46 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

<K3023E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET> writes:

>Dear People,
>...
>I wondered if someone knows when the new (AGA) Hardware Reference Manual
>will be published or if it's already been released.
>...
>I'm really looking forward to have a look at it|||

Don't expect too much: A(G)A registers will _not_ be published.

>...
>Thanx, Werner.
>..............

winnie.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: brianc@iastate.edu (Brian J Cerveny)
Subject: Re: AGA monitors.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:06:49 GMT

In <1992Nov9.233614.29593@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:

>: The 1960 has almost identical stats (.28mm dot pitch, etc.) except for
>: the persistence and composite video.  I'll most likely go for the 
>: Diamondscan though, simply because of the persistence.

>But does the Diamodscan do overscan like the Commodore monitors?

Yes, it handles overscan quite nicely.  (Remember, it also handles composite
video, which goes hand-in-hand with overscan.)
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Portable A600?
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 21:58:07 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Nov1.073246.4734@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <Bx2Lyv.4Cp@news.iastate.edu>
  <9986@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>

>But wasn't it some *Democratic* president who 1. triggered the Cuba
>invasion at pig bay (sp?) and 2. stopped those russian missiles from
>Cuba???

Please, the bay of pigs was a disaster.  He withdrew air support and
thousands of militia were sent to their death or imprisonment.

The missiles were indeed stopped, though Cuba is hardly as much a threat as
the USSR was.

>
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From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TFL Chip Ram Accelerator
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:09:06 GMT
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science

In article <36687@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.012915.24875@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>> In article <36672@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>> <much deleted>
>> 
>> >density or custom parts.  Something like today's Bridgette chip could have 
>>                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
>> What's this Dave?  We've all heard of Agnus, Denise, Paula, Gary, Buster,
>> DMAc, Alice, Lisa, Ramsey, and Gayle, buy who/what is Bridgette?
>> 
>> Inquiring Amigans need to know!  :-)
>
>Bridgette is the A4000 data path gate array.  It implements the gateway 
>between chip memory and the processor bus and handles the details of the 
>16/32 bit chip memory bridging.

Does this replace the rather large number of chips to the left of the 
daughterboard connector in the A3000?  I'd wondered why this was not
implemented as a gate array.  

You should have called it Ramona, sister of Ramsey.  :-)

>The A1200 contains a chip called Budgie that does pretty much the same thing,
>but also includes memory decode and control.

Budgie?  Have you been reading those British children's books written by
ex-royalty or something?  :-)

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Skip Sauls, soon to be A4000 owner (finally got paid :-)
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
From: dolittle@halmuc.muc.sub.org (Ludwig Hurt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Any flicker fixer for Super Hires coming soon?
Date: 4 Nov 92 10:57:44 GMT
Organization: HAL (ECG089)
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.8m

In article <1928@vall.dsv.su.se>,
	matt-dah@vall (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
->There are no doubt that I will go for an Amiga 4000. So, now I just
->wonder if there are any plans on a de-interlacer that manages to display
->all pixels on a super hires screen. Anyone?

Yes.

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Date: Monday, 9 Nov 1992 10:07:52 CET
From: <TPATTERS@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject:    A570 CD ROM, A500 and a GVP HD

I have an A500+ and an external GVP hard drive. I would like to have one
of the A570 CD units but unless I'm mistaken I'll have to keep unplugging
and swapping over the Hard Drive and the CD Drive - which I obviously
don't want to do. Is there a way of having all 3 linked up at once.
(I take it there is NO through connector on the CD Drive - stupid omission
but C= again!)

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 keyboard (A600 owners?)
From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
Date: 05 Nov 92 09:22:01 GMT
Organization: Shape Data (Division of EDS), Cambridge UK
In-reply-to: masc@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de's message of 4 Nov 92 19:46:48 GMT

>>>>> On 4 Nov 92 19:46:48 GMT, masc@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Martin Schulze) said:

> bell@ufp.enet.dec.com writes:
>> Hi.  I got the A1200.gif, and I notice that the A1200 keyboard is
>> different from my A500 by two keys.  The left shift key is shorter than
>> on mine, and there's a new key because of that (left of the 'Z').  And
>> the RETURN key has been shortened; there's a new key at the end of the
>> "ASDFGH" etc. line.
>> Does anyone know what the heck they are?  I assume that they're on the
>> A600 and A4000 keyboards as well.

> Well, I think you've just found the difference between the German and a US-
> Keyboard...

The 500+ also had these keys - the difference between a German and a UK
keyboard is not whether it has the keys, but whether there is anything
printed on them. I would guess the 1200 is the same.
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From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1200 and LD vs HD drives
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:03:20 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

> About this guy who ranted for the lack of an HD drive in the 1200:
> 
> Cut him some slack!  Staying with the 880K drive is no problem in the
> Amiga market and may have been necessary to hit the price point since
> the 1200 is not aimed at business markets.  *BUT*  (notice how big 
> this 'but' is??)  I can attest personally to the fact that double
> density drives are becoming a thing of the past in the Clone
> world and Macintoshes are following suit.  Which means that 1200 you

As a sales person that actually has to sell the machines to customers
I can tell you that it is hard to tell a customer that it doesn't have
a high density drive and then to tell them it's a better machine than a clone.
I have to start making excuses.  And then when they say "well, can I have
you put one in it?" I have to tell them no becouse Commodore won't sell me
the drive by itself.

Lets just say that it *has* made me loose sales becouse people don't think
the Amiga is keeping up with the competition.

And the HD drive can't add over $100 to the cost of the machine... I know
pleanty of people that would have *gladly* laid dow annother $100 for a
HD drive... just becouse that's what everyone else has.

CBM should seriously consider shipping the 1200 with an HD drive in the
US... I think they would gain more sales from having the HD drive than the
extra cost would loose.

Besides?  What market research went into the decision to have a low density
drive???  You *certainly* didn't ask us which would sell better!!!!

If marketing has any questions, maybe they should ask their dealers before
they decide whats best for them.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
Subject: Re: My A4000 HD performance
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:38:48 GMT

In <1992Nov10.034248.12352@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:

>>DiskSpeed 3.1 reports that my Maxtor 7120 / 2091 is doing 29 K/s
>>(Yes, that's 29000 bytes) reads with all contention turned off.

>No. It is pretty normal. The A2091 cannot DMA to any memory but chip
>memory in your A4000. Thus the filesystem will allocate a single buffer
>(512bytes) in chip memory to do file transfers. 

I have been told that my program DMAfix will solve this problem quite nicely.
It was really intended for use on something like an A2000/A2091/CSA MMR, but
it comes in very handy if you need to use an A2091 in an A4000.

E-mail me if you can't find a copy elsewhere...

Barry.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:06:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.175226.6176@gw.wmich.edu>, x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
 > In article <36732@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
 > > 
 > > Get a clue.  If you're comparing IQs, the Bush/Quayle administration set an all
 > > time low (its only close competition was the Reagan/Bush administration).  I'm
 > > proud to have helped to elect a President and Vice President with at least above
 > > average intelligence (you don't get to be a Rhodes Scholar by being a "stupid
 > > hillbilly").  
 > 
 > 	Um, hate to tell you this, but even the press agrees that
 > Bush was one of the most intelligent presidents we have ever had.  
 > Quayle is a different story but let's not kid ourselves.  Clinton is
 > no brain.  I don't see what caused people to vote for Clinton over
 > Perot or Bush.
 > 	By the way, I am from the south too and I don't think Clinton
 > is a hillbilly by any means but he is certainly quite a few steps
 > from being worthy of being president.  But it is useless and irrelevant
 > to debate it now.  I think history will show thathe Americna people
 > made a grave mistake by electing Clinton.

Great!  Just what I want to read in c.s.a.a.  Political debates!  Isn't there a
newsgroup ('alt.politics.bitch.about.clinton' :) you can go to?  This is an
INTERNATIONAL AMIGA newsgroup, and unless Clinton is gonna change the Amiga in
some way, I don't want to hear about him!

 > 						-Brad

-Eyvind

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From: Eric_J_Rainbolt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HD Blues-Who knows about SupraFormat Series III?- no docs
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 92 09:15:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I need to zero partion #0 of my SupraDrive500XP, and I have
the SupraFormat Series III software, but it is radically
different that Series II, and they gave me Series II docs
with it.  The tech support line is dead, and I don't want
to accidentally erase partition #1 by selecting thethe
wrong gadget.

Please Help...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PEOPLE!  Why do you have to leave every FREAKIN' line in a FOLLO
From: batman@amigans.gen.nz (Kerry Emerson)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 09:54:33 GMT+1
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, New Zealand

wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner) writes:

> I have had it up to "HERE!" with all of the (F)ollow-ups that I've seen latel
> that use every *FREAKING* line from the previous post (80 or 90 lines long), 
> just to make a comment on the previous poster's .sig or something!
> 
> If you've got one particular point/argument to make, please delete all of the
> unnecessary lines.  If you don't know what I'm referring to, then look at som
> of the recent "stop me from buying a PC" posts.  It seem like everyone and
> their brother decided to not only include the original post, but his damn .si
> as well!  I get tired of scrolling through pages of those:
> >>>>> (original post, 80 lines)
> >>>   (3 line followup, now 86 lines incl. .sig)
> >>    (1 line comment on last guy's sig, now 90 lines incl. his .sig too)
> >     (etc.,etc.........)
> 
> Get the picture?
> I end up seeing the original post as many times as someone follows-up!
> That's not only ridiculous, but also a waste of BW/storage space, and my time
> 
> I do understand the case where the new argument involves the context in which
> something said previously is pertinent.  
> So please, no flame wars.
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From: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: controlling video output on both ports?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:59:26 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

  This may just be a pipe dream, but...

I was thinking (that's not the pipe dream part, Mr. (Ms.) know-it-all! Sheesh!)
Is there any way (software or simple hardware) to, for example, redirect 
certain video signals through the rgb output while still displaying an image
through the monitor output?

  Let me give an example...say, for instance, I had a video monitor or VCR
hooked up to the rgb output on the Amiga.  I also have a computer monitor
hooked to the monitor output on the Amiga.  For the sake of argument both
can sync externally.  Now, I would like, through sw or hw to, say, have
the wb displayed on the computer monitor while I display, say, my favorite
iff or ham image on the video monitor or VCR.  Is such a beastie possible?
How much trouble would it be?  Is it available now? (Yes, I know DCTV
exists, thanks...I wanted something simpler...)

thanks,



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Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 17:33:34 CET
From: <K3023E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Hardware Reference Manual

Hello Folks|
...
Is it true that the descriptions for the AGA Custom Chips will *not*
be released?
Well, I hardly believe that. I mean that makes no sense to me|
The Amiga comes into real life just with the Hardware References and I am
not really looking forward to spend whole nights disassembling and testing
just to come up to informations I might easlily find in nice and relaxed
(book) format instead of ugly and though (assembly) format.
(Reminds me of good old C64 days...)
...
Please tell me it will be released soon...
...
Regards, Werner.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:44:08 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <1992Nov5.175226.6176@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
=	By the way, I am from the south too and I don't think Clinton
=is a hillbilly by any means but he is certainly quite a few steps
=from being worthy of being president.  But it is useless and irrelevant
=to debate it now.  I think history will show thathe Americna people
=made a grave mistake by electing Clinton.
=
	Possibly true but history has already recorded that the American
	people made a VERY grave financial mistake in electing Reagan
	followed by Bush. I didn't vote for either but I have paid and
	will continue to pay, along with many others, for their debt
	building orgy. B^(.

	Reagan was a smoke and mirrors pretty boy that convinced people
	to believe the smoke was solid. Bush wasn't much of anything
	really. My guess is Clinton will be an average/so-so President.

	Nothing left to do but let time pass and see.

	By the way, has anybody figured out that it doesn't really
	matter what the President does/is as their main job is to distract
	from the REAL power?
	
	As a practical matter, it is the congressional STAFF, who's never
	elected or reviewed by the public, that actually writes and pushes
	through laws.
	
	Most of the time our US congress critters just rubber stamp
	what their staff shoves in front of them. Who's President doesn't
	effect this MAJOR part of law making although it does effect
	the entertainment factor comming out of the white house and
	Washington... B^(.

	I found it humorous that Clinton said he wanted to reduce staff
	levels; HA! The staff will be able to immediately nix any legislation
	that would do this, they filter EVERYTHING a congress critter sees so
	if the staff doesn't like it, the elected critters don't see it.

	Maybe we should worry about the REAL problems rather than who's the
	current figurehead/chief entertainer?

		-Rob
From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New CSA '30 accel for 500, 2000?
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 10:18:55 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>: This leads me to ask; what is the largest 32bit SIMM available?

I saw an ad somewhere for a 32MB SIMM for $1700. It uses pricy 16Mb DRAMs.

Dan
Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 12:30:23 CET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: staferne@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Stefan Taferner)
Distribution: world
Organization: RISC, J.K. University of Linz, Austria
Subject: Re: Can my A4000 be a tower???

In article <1992Nov10.021558.3320@wuecl.wustl.edu>, cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy) writes:
>    I will have a 4000 on my desk in about two weeks, but there
> is a small problem.  Specifically, I have a small desk.  My
> 1000 and monitor leaves 1/3 of an inch clearance over it.
> (Before you suggest a bigger desk...  I have a built into
> the wall dorm desk with a shelf permenently above it.)
>
>    Anyways, the 4000 with a monitor on top of it will be too
> high for my desk.  So what shall I do?  Would there be any
> problem putting the 4000 on it's side?  How long are the
> keyboard and monitor and mouse cables?  How hard would it
> be to get extended length versions.  Any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated...
>
> 	Chris Dunphy (cmd1@cec2.wustl.edu)
>

I am using my A3000 side-up as a "quasi-tower" for 2 years now.
No problem.
A friend of mine used his A2000 this way. Also no problems.
Another friend of mine tried to use his A2000 the other side up
(that means with the disk-drive on the upper side) -- it didn't
work.
So: Try it, it should work the one or the other way.

I use keyboard and mouse adapter cables of approx. 2 meter. Works
fine.

Hope that helps.

Stefan