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From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Re: Panasonic KXP-1124 driver wanted
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:52:02 GMT
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Dan Sorenson (viking@iastate.edu) wrote:
: Amiga folx,

: 	Please respond via e-mail.  A friend of mine has a
: Panasonic KXP-1124 printer (Epson 24-pin and IBM Proprinter
: compatible) hooked onto his Amiga 500.  He's running Workbench
: 1.3, I think it is, with 1M of RAM and twin floppy drives.

: 	Is there a driver available for this printer, and if so
: where is it installed?  If anybody has the driver and uuencodes
: it I'll be happy to let him borrow my modem to download it.

: 	If it's on an ftp site so much the better.

: < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
: <  ISU only censors what I read, not what I say.  Don't blame them.  >
: <  "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother  >
: < to my girlfriend, about me.  "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >

Ditto...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cjdn@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: A4000s dieing in the heat.
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:48:29 GMT


A4000s are regularly over heating. My machine died 3 times yesterday. 

The Environmental specs in the A4000 manual state that the room temperature
should be between 0 - 45 C (32 - 113 F). The room temperature yesterday would
not have exceed 27 Degress C. So whats the problem. Other A4000 owners are 
experiencing the same difficulties here in Perth.

The A4000 seems to have very poor air flow, so the internal temperatures
probably do exceed the rated parameters.  The 040's heat sink can your
hand to touch.

Should the heat sink be replaced with an 040 mounted fan?

I haven't seen similar postings on the net but that is probably due to 
worlds population of 4000's being in the northern hemisphere, so you guys
are currently suffering the cooler months. The A4000 has only just arrived in
Australia (2 weeks ago) and it doesn't like the summer.

I had better end this before my machine die again (its another nice day) 

See Ya.


David Newman : cjdn@cc.curtin.edu.au
From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  SCSI PHASE ERROR using Archive 2150S
Distribution: world
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:30:32 EST
Organization: No such thing as organization. Life is chaos!

In article <iann.726724051@cnw01> iann@storesys.coles.oz.au (Ian Nicholls) writes:
>jperkski@kentcomm.UUCP (Jim Perkowski) writes:
>
>> Use the command GVPSCSICTRL <unit #> DCOFF and see if it helps. If I
>> don't have this command in my user-startup my drive will lock up on
>> Ami-Back and QB 5.03.
>
>I have a 2000 with a GVP series one card, and several SCSI devices.
>
>I had a problem with SCSI disk read failures when the tape was running,
>This was solved by the gvpscsictrl command, with a side effect that the
>SCSI bus hangs until the tape finishes it's command (rewind, write,
>etc.).  I discovered that I was only transferring 2k at a time to the
>drive.  Set the jumpers on the 2150S to transfer 16k blocks (the maximum
>which my GVP card could transfer in one go) and you can omit the
>GVPSCSICTRL command.
>
>Having done that, I haven't any trouble with Ami-Back writing to my
>tape drive.
>--
>"In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw
> it into the river with lead weights tied to its feet" - Terry Pratchett
>
>Ian Nicholls         Phone : +61 3 829 6088   Fax: +61 3 829 6886

Thanks for the information. I will see if I can do the same with my Sankyo
and get back to you with the results.

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From: igraffma@mail.stx.com (Ira Graffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Display Devices
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:35:14 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


          Hello!  I am giving a weather presentation in the local
          elementary school next month and want to supplement the
          presentation with a computer slide show using my Amiga 2000.
          My question concerns how to get the output to a large screen
          monitor rather than the standard 1084 monitor.  I see two
          options at present:

            My local dealer suggesed a $120 device which puts the
          video into a "SVHS" format via a RCA phono cable.  I
          obviously need a monitor that accepts that format.

            Two, I can get the $40 device that allows Amigas to hook
          up to any TV and go directly to a monitor or a VHS player
          and be able to use any monitor that the school has.

          Question is then, which alternative is better (if any) in
          terms of quality?   Will they both work?  Are there any
          other alternatives?

          Thanks for any adivce!

          -Ira
From: Jim.Fang@f550.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Jim Fang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound Samplers
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 14:04:08

> From: guru@hotcity.COM (Darren Schroeder)
> Organization: BBS
>
> I have an A500 with 2 megs of ram. What I'm wanting to do is sample sound
> directly to disk for under $100. I was looking at DSS8 from GVP but they
> said
> their software doesn't support direct to disk sampling. Talking to someone
> else
> they said they thought there was some other software out (Perhaps PD?)
> that
> would possibly work with that digitizer and would sample to disk. Anyone
> know
> what it is or another way to get around it?

The Black Knight Peripherals company is working on something called
"ZoundTastic", 8 bit direct to disk recording.

QUOTE:
ZoundTastic is a low cost hardware/software solution to one BIG problem -
how to digitise sound directly to disk.  ZT is not a replacement for your
current digitiser, but an enhancement that works with most of the
available 8 bit samplers.  WHen you plug this amazing product between
your sampler and the parallel prot the magic begins.  ZoundTastic turns
your Amiga into an 8 bit stereo read/write CD system, that will digitise
sound directly at your hard disk at 27KHz per channel in stereo.  On an
accelerated Amiga even faster rates can be obtained.  ZT also enhances
your existing sampler with crystal locking, resulting in jitter free
samples.  ZT features a fully transparent pass thru that also acts as a
buffer for your parallel prt.  Record and playback software is included
ENDQUOTE:

Price is A$129
They can be contacted at:
ADDRESS:    PO Box 197, Torronto, NSW 2283, Australia
Ph/FAX:     (02) 901-3624

I have no association with BKP at all.
This was taken from an advertisement in the Australian Commodore and
Amiga Review, January 1993 Issue, Volume 10, No 1, page19


Regards,

Jim Fang

 * Origin: Empire BBS +61(3)592-5662 (3 lines) (3:635/550)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: A4000 Front Drive Bay Too Small for SyQuest?!
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:46:31 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Randy Gault (randy@stagetwo.uucp) wrote:

> So why is my SyQuest 5110 too long to fit in my Amiga 4000?
> 
> I'd REALLY like to know.

I found the same thing trying to fit a Seagate 296N in there.  It was
just barely (1/4"?) too long to go in, and nothing I could do without
damaging my computer would get it to go in.  I managed to get an Archive
DAT unit in there, but only by cutting off the back end of the plastic
part of the SCSI connector - otherwise it was about 1/8" too long.

The problem seemed to be that the back of the 5 1/4" device would hit
metal grating over part of the power supply, or maybe the power supply
itself.

  - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: uubell@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jeff Bell)
Subject: Phantom ECS Denise?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:44:09 GMT

I've got a wee problem here.

Installed a Derringer last weekend.  Runs great, very zippy, etc.  My problem is
that my system now thinks that I've got the ECS Denise installed.  In the
ScreenMode settings, SuperHiRes is now available to me (though it displays garbage
when selected, obviously), and SysInfo and AIBB both report the ECS Denise.  This
would be all fine and dandy, due to the fact that I don't have a NEED to select this
mode, thus would never have any problems with displaying trash.  EXCEPT, when
displaying Overscanned screens, the right half of a pic is completely black, until
I shift the screen to the left.  BLAM, the whole pic then displays correctly.

My question is, what the heck could I have screwed up installing the Derringer,
and why would it cause the funny effect of 'installing' an ECS Denise for me?  I
made sure to dissipate static electricity, was carefuly removing the 68000 and
installing the Derringer, etc.  So what's up?
 
CBM people, if you have any clue as to why the OS suddenly thinks I've got a chip
that I DON'T have, I'd REALLY appreciate some help.  I can no longer do unattended
single frame recording, and it's quite a bummer.
 
My setup:
A500 Rev 5 motherboard with 1meg Agnus and 1meg CHIP activated
Xetec HD controller updated to latest specs
WB2.04
CSA Derringer with 25mhz 030/882 and 4meg RAM

Haaalp!  Please?  :)
 
Thanks muchly in advance,

Jeff

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From: jperkski@kentcomm.UUCP (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Science Project Help
Distribution: usa
Date: 9 Jan 93 11:28:35 EST
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <Brian_Casiello.07t6@amicol.UUCP> Brian_Casiello@amicol.UUCP (Brian Casiello) writes:
>My son is doing a project for school (4th grade) entitled 'How does my
>computer work?'. As part of this, he needs some detailed descriptions of
>the workings of the CPU and custom chips of an Amiga 1000 - his (and my)
>computer.
>
>Does anyone know where he could write to get this? He needs more detail
>than, say, the Byte article, but probably not *too* much more; nothing
>proprietary, anyway ;-).
>
>Any pointers to articles, or people/addresses to write to at Commodore or
>Motorola, perhaps, would be much appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>Brian Casiello
>
>Brian_Casiello@tegra!amicol
>
>-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

 There are some hires iff pics of the Amiga 1000 on Fred Fish disk 19.
The drawer is named JayMinerSlides. They are drawings of the internal
works of the Amiga 1000.

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              Where am I when I need me!?
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From: Owen_Mckeith@saug.UUCP (Owen Mckeith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP crap
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Jan 93 12:46:39 CST
Organization: Saskatoon Amiga Users' Group

In a message dated Sat  9 Jan 93 12:37, Cg82s85@instem.uucp (chris Golchert
wrote:

 CG> Computing can give GVP their award for "Best Service/Customer
 CG> support" (Dec. 1992) when a call to GVP about the RAD/Impact II
 CG> problem (rad is will NOT survive a reboot w/ the Impact II)
 CG> resulted in a "why would you want to boot from rad?" reply.  If
 CG> the are going to be the best company in that field shouldn't they
 CG> at least make their products work with the operating system?

I had no problems in dealing with gvp.  I found that I had a problem on my
g-force 50mhz with 8 megs of ram.  I did a number of tests, faxed them the
info. I phoned them two days later, they revied my fax and said send her
back, We'll send out a new one to you today.

Two days later I had a new 100% working g-force.

If I were you, I'd send a letter or FAX to the head of the service dept and
express your dissapointment with the service you recieved.    It would be
interesting to see what (if any) their responce might be.

 ....Owen McKeith

     uucp:   telepro!saug!owen_mckeith@access.usask.ca
     fido:   1:140/58
     SysOp:  SAUG BBS (306) 244-6396

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From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Scanner software
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:32:37 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


Is there any Amiga software available that lets you use a full-page
SCSI scanner?

	Lee
From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SupraDrive 4x4 (A1000)
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:45:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1993Jan6.174502.9437
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

In article 7918@ugle.unit.no, rogers@brosme.dhmolde.no (Roger Storvik) writes:
>
>Is there by any change a Driver update to my old Supradrive 4X4 (A1000)
>software? Series II v 1.09 SupraMount won't work with v2.04.
>

There is indeed an update to the software.  You need to upgrade to the
Series III software before the 4x4 will work with 2.04.  When you call
Supra, make sure that you tell them that you don't need the ROM upgrade,
just the disks.  I think both upgrades are the same price (about $40,
though.)


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From: Mitch_Halpern@qm.sri.com (Mitch Halpern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A-Max II and the A4000?
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:00:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: SRI International

Does anyone know about the current or (planned) future compatibility status
of the A-Max emulators with the new Amigas (A1200, A4000)?

Thanks a lot for your responses!

Mitch Halpern
SRI International
Menlo Park, CA

These opinions are my own. No one else would want them...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: vmkiili@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ville-Matti Kiili)
Subject: A3000 in tower case?
Organization: University of Helsinki
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:50:18 GMT


I have an A3000 and I want to put it into tower case. Does A3000
motherboard fit well into some cheap PC tower case, or is more work
needed? Has anyone done this before?
No, I don't want to buy an A3000T. :)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: QIC 40 Tape support
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:07:40 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

William D McClendon (mcclend@infonode.ingr.com) wrote:

> I recently found a backup tape device meant for PC's that is
> QIC 40 and uses the floppy controller.
> Will the Amiga floppy controller work?
> Will this device work at all?

I doubt it would work.

Hanging the tape off the floppy controller on PC's is a kludgey way to
get a cheap interface.

This is about 3rd hand information by now, so I might have some of this
wrong, but this is how I think the PC "floppy" tape thing works based on
an explanation I heard from a friend who knows a lot about PC hardware:

  1. The PC floppy bus was initially designed for 4 floppies (ala
     TRS-80).

  2. There are four lines which control the floppy address (0-4).  (4
     lines would usually give you 16 possible devices, but there is no
     decoding logic - they just use one line per device, meaning 4
     possible devices).

  3. There is single line which controls the floppy motors - all of
     them.  Note that since there is just one line, you have to turn
     *all* the floppy motors on or off at once - again, ala TRS-80.

  4. IBM found this (turning all motors on at once) unacceptable.  They
     then reduced the bus to supporting TWO floppies (needing two select
     lines) and used one of the free'd select lines as a motor select -
     low for one floppy, high for the other.  This let them run just the
     motor in the active drive instead of all motors at once.  Why they
     couldn't get this directly from the floppy select lines, I don't
     know.

  5. Doing 4) meant that there is an unused select line on the floppy
     bus that can be used for a tape drive, sort of.  (Ie, two lines to
     select the drive, one for the motor select, and the free one).  I
     suspect they have to do some funky things to make the tape drive
     look kind of like a floppy to the floppy controller, but who knows.

That should be at least close to the story.  At any rate, the Amiga
floppy system isn't set up like that (I dunno how it works, but I
suspect it is much less kludgy), and doesn't use the same floppy
controller, so I doubt you'd have much luck.  With enough detailed
knowledge of what's going on, and a full set of specs to the drive, you
might be able to patch something together, but I personally wouldn't
attempt it.  A SCSI drive, on the other hand, is easy to add to the
Amiga if you have a SCSI controller already.  You just plug it in, set
the bus address to something unused, pick up tar and BTN-tape, and
you're all set.

   - steve
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Taking A2500 to Europe - 50vs60 Hz
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:22:50 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

nrichers@trentu.ca (NIKOLAJ RICHERS) writes:
: In article <1993Jan6.221628.529@StarConn.com>, mark@fsi.fusion.com writes...
: >My wife has been offered a job in Rome and there is a fair chance that
: >we will take it.  I would like to bring my A2500 with me.  The question
: >is, what (besides converting the 240v power down to 120v) would I need
: >to do to get it to work properly.
: > 
: >Please reply via mail since I only check in here occasionally.
: > 
: >-- 
: > 
: >+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
: >| Mark H. Zellers                                          Mark@fsi.Fusion.COM|
: >| Fusion Software, Inc                    455 Sherman Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306|
: 
: You need a step-down transformer, which are availble at electrical supplies 
: stores. They will not only convert 240V to 120, but also up the frequency from
: 50HZ to 60. Cost is around $40-50.

????????????

I have never heard of a step-down transformer that converts the
frequency and costs $40-50! When I brought mu USA-bought A3000 to
Sweden and inquired about this, I was told to buy a simple step-down
transformer (for about $30) since the American A3000 doesn't mind
50Hz line frequency. A frequency converter was said to cost about $500!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kaltenha@informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Raoul Kaltenhaeuser)
Subject: Re: Getting rid of PARNet
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:10:41 GMT

jperkski@kentcomm.UUCP (Jim Perkowski) writes:

>In article <C0G0Ks.4qs@NeoSoft.com> gregw@NeoSoft.com (Greg White) writes:
>>Is there a way to "unmount", "dismount", or otherwise get rid of
>>the PARNet device so that I can use my printer without having to
>>reboot?

>If you are using 2.04 or above you can get rid of a mounted device by typing
>ASSIGN <device> DISMOUNT.

I  tried this, and device net: disappeared in the assign list. But _not_ the
Network icon. And when I mounted net: again, the machine crashed :(

And now for a related parnet problem:
I have two Amigas connected. If machine A crashes, I reboot, mount net:
and can access machine B from A again. But using net: on B freezes B.
Do I have to reboot B, too, before reinstalling net: or is there a work-
around for this problem? BTW, I use NetPatch 1.1 .






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From: F67406@BARILVM.BITNET (Yudy Fryd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Printing problems with 2.04
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:13:54 GMT
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel

Hi

I am having problems when I try to print with the 2.04 workbench.

This is my situation:
I have an Amiga 2000 with the 2.04 ROMs in it, and a PANASONIC KX_P1124
printer. I set my printer driver as generic and I am booting my Amiga
with 2.04 workbench software.
I am trying to print a text file and I get the response that the printer
is probably off line. I can't even reset the printer by double cliking
over the InitPrinter icon.

When I boot my Amiga with a 1.3 workbench diskette, however, I can
print, reset my printer using the same InitPrinter icon (which belongs
to the 2.04 workbench that resides in my hard disk).

As far as I recall, I was printing with this Amiga in the past with the
2.04 workbench.
I even tried swapping the 8520 CIA chips and it didn't help.

Is my problem software or hardware ?
What should I do to solve it ?

Any help will be appreciated.

Yudy Fryd
f67406@barilvm.bitnet
Bar Ilan Univ.
Physics Dep.
ISRAEL