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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking for _very_ versatile printer.
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:28:45 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1993Jan18.142733.9331@news.cs.indiana.edu> sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu (Stefan Berg) writes:
> 
>I'm looking for a printer where I can program the printer head and
>the friction feed manually to any position. 

Well, you can do this with practically every dot matrix (needle or ink jet)
printer I know: Set the line spacing to the value of your vertical resolution
and drive the head with (null) graphics data to the x coordinate you want.
If you want to speed up horizontal movement (only necessary for old printers
perhaps), you can send space characters for the first part of the move and
graphics nulls for fine adjustments.

I did this many years ago to plot in real-time with my Epson FX-85. Ok, I
did not plot dot-wise, but buffered whole 8-bit-height lines, but the rest
was done as explained above. The y motion of course in both direction, most
current printers should support this.

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From: shogun@admiral.uucp (Jay Brown)
Subject: 040
Reply-To: shogun@admiral.uucp (Jay Brown)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:17:31 GMT

I was wondering if someone could send me some specs on the 68040 (i.e.: 
cache(s) and size thereof, biult in fpu, or mmu, approx speed in mips).
        Thanks,
                Jay Brown

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From: alexb@sybase.com (Alex Burmester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: THE OLD A4000 MONITOR QUESTION....
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:07:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

Since I've seen many people rambling on about monitor problems and I'm
thinking of getting an A4000 in march I thought I had better start finding
a suitable monitor.  I have a small list of A4000 monitors but there are none
that are 15" and anything above that is way expensive.  First of all, would
anyone like to explain why they have 13" monitors that range from $350-$3000
and the scan rates are the same.  Are you basically paying for garbage 
components in the cheaper ones?
	OK my real issue is, I would like a 15 inch screen for about $500 that
will work well with an A4000.  I'd be willing to go up to about $700 but that's
pretty much it.  $500 is no problem for a SVGA monitor, but I've heard that
they don't support all the scan rates. So is it hopeless or what?  I'm hoping 
that someone on the net has good news for me.
				Thanx for all your help and advice!
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From: ps106363@cs.tut.fi (Sainio Pasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Problem with battery clock in old German made A2000
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:17:07
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
Distribution: comp
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	It all started a couple of mounths ago.  The machine had been
of over a week.  The clock was over two dates behind the real time.  I
corrected it and everything looked just fine.  Then just before
christmas it did it again.  I didn't use my Amiga at christmas, so it
was off 5 days.  When I turned it on, SetClock said "Battery backup
clock not found".  Well, I though that the battery must be dead so I
bought a new one and replaced it.  It didn't help.  SetClock I used
was from WB1.3.2.  I got a newer one from a friend to do some testing.
The clock is there.  If I use "SetClock save", the time stays there.  But
it ticks very very slowly, only about 2 minutes in 1 hour no matter if
the machine is on or off.  Please help me.  What might be the problem?

	- Pasi -

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From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: Put A4000 motherboard in IBm tower case??
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:01:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.152651.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> dseaman@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Has anyone tried to put an a4000 motherboard, etc.. into a tower case?
>I am planning to get a a4000/030 when they come out, and I would
>really like to put it into a tower case. What kind of mods are needed?
>I am handy with a soldering iron...
>
>All comments, suggestions welcome.

I've thought about doing something like this also, if only to get rid of
the butt-ugly stock case.  :-)  You might have to drill new holes in the
case to match those on the motherboard, and it might be tough to line-up
the openings for the expansion boards.  Also, most Clone cases have a 
keyboard port and maybe a couple of other openings for connectors, but 
none of are likely to line up with the A4000's ports.  Also, the mouse
ports are on the left side of the machine and would be on the bottom of
most tower cases.  Depending on where the motherboard is mounted, you
may or may not have enough clearance.  The power supply, fan, drive bays,
and that sort of thing should be no problem, but you will need extra-long
cables for the mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc.

I'd love to have a different case for my A4000 and may try it myself at
some point.  When you get your A4000, if you put it into another case, 
please write again and tell us about it.

>Derek
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From: nugget@genesis.nred.ma.us (Ralph Barbagallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:21:21 GMT
Organization: Genesis Public Access Minix  +1 508 664 0149

In article <74037@cup.portal.com> BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer) writes:
>>I've heard some talk of the 4000 and 1200.  From the description
>>of the hardware, they sound like they're worth the upgrade.  However,
>>I've heard some people advise others either not to get one or to
>>sell the one they have.  I was thinking of getting either a 1200 or
>>a 4000.  Can anyone tell me if this is a good idea or not?
>>____________________________________________________________________
>>COREY GRAY                       | A wet dog swims in the rain
>>IO00198@maine.maine.edu          |    But a dry martini laughs.
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>It's a great idea!  Much better machines, and the only things they wont run of 
>the old
>stuff, is the stuff that was written wrong in the first place, read, hacks, dem
>os and
>non OS friendly games...  If you like these the best the hackers will eventuall
>y catch
>up to the new chipset...
>
>Bob Comer
>
  Well...there are 3 volumes of patches out that allow a few dozen or so games
to be played on the 1200.  I forget the name of the .dms files...and the games
that it fixes but it does quite a few...  I'm sure more patches are on the way.

------
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  nugget@genesis.nred.ma.us
From: hardin@ee.ualberta.ca (Hardin Brett Arvid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: KEEP ME FROM BUYING AN IBM!
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:43:42 GMT
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada

Memory protection can be done with hardware, I wonder if CBM has considered doing
this?  (Next computers do, and it doesn't slow them down) 
The 68000 has hardware support for memory protection, and I understand that
the IBM chips do not.
 
 (Programs that follow commodore's system rules cannot overrun other programs
 anyways, not without reallly trying)(

 Some programmers really try unfortunately.  Haven't had any problems with the                           
 newer software in this regard.  BEWARE OF HACKS!!!
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From: brandt@point.cs.uwm.edu (Robert Allan Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Some A4000 questions
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:50:59 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.5


I have recently came to the decision that I would like to buy the new A4000.
I have been following the comments posted the last few weeks or so, but a
few of the questions I have seem to not have been addressed, or I just
missed the answer.  I hope these weren't asked recently, so here goes!

    1)  Other than the fan problem and some HD's formatted with the OFS,
        are there any other major problems with the 4000?

    2)  Can the OS be mapped to 32-bit ram as on the 3000?

    3)  Since the 4000 doesn't have a flicker-fixer, how well does it
        handle the flicker on resolutions > 200?
        I have a 1950 monitor so should I have any problems? 

    4)  I have a 1950 and I was wondering is the 1960 any better?
        What is its max resolution?
        What frequencies does it support?

    5)  How well does this scan-promotion feature work?
        Are there any problems associated with it?
        What are its advantages?
        Is it compatible with older (2 yrs or less) software?
        Does it work with any software such as games?

    6)  How downwardly compatible are the AGA chips with the ECS chips?
        Can I boot the machine in the old ECS mode to use non-AGA software,
        or does ECS compatible software work fine under AGA?

    7)  How well do commercial games run on the 4000?  I assume faster,
        but are there any major problems getting them to run?

Thanks again for any help that can be provided concerning these questions.

Bob

brandt@point.cs.uwm.edu
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Where to get a floptical drive?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 09:31:40 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I tried to send you mail with information, but it bounced.  I sell
the drives for $270 and can answer your questions.
From: dmann@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Dave Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Virus
Date: 28 Jan 93 01:45:40 GMT

HI All,

	I know this is probably not the place for this message, but this
is the only Amiga-based discussion section that I frequently read off of,
so here goes. I own an Amiga 1000 (running WB 1.2) and have never
experienced a virus in my life. I don't have any virus checkers or anything
related to virus detection or expulsion. Just today I rebooted the system
and got the "Your Amiga is Alive [SCA virus]" message... So can someone
please HELP? What do I do now? I am not sure where I got it, or what disks
its on... Does that message only appear once? Any help/insight is
truly appreciated. Thanks in advance...

Regards,
Dave Mann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: nrichers@trentu.ca (NIKOLAJ RICHERS)
Subject: Re: HD floppy on A3000 problems
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: HD floppy
Organization: Trent Computing and Telecommunications Department
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:18:00 GMT

In article <llucp7INNre@news.bbn.com>, leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick) writes...
>chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh) writes:
> 
> 
>>I recently bought a HD floppy for my A3000.  After changing the jumper 
>>on the motherboard and the jumper on the drive itself to be df1, the
>>machine boots fine and both drives are accessible (the HD floppy and
>>the regular LD one that came with the 3000).  They both read, write,
>>and format DSDD floppies fine.  Now for the problem.  I had bought
>>HD floppies some time ago anticipating this purchase, and had formatted
>>them with the LD drive.  The new HD drive cannot read these disks,
>>which is to be expected, as the drive detects the hole in the disk
>>and expects high density, so it spins at half speed.  But when I try
>>to reformat such a disk, it either complains about bad sectors and
>>aborts the format, or finishes (after stuttering on some tracks) but
>>the disk is only 880K!  What's up?  I read in this group that you just
>>format a disk and voila!  It's 1.76M.  Is this true (and therefore,
>>I have a bad drive)?  Or do I need to do something funky with a
>>mountlist entry?  Or does formatting an HD disk with an LD drive screw
>>up the disk such that it can't be reformatted with an HD drive?
> 
> 
>I have seen similar problems trying to format a disk on an IBM that
>has been previously formatted on another machine, like an Amiga.  This
>was ot specifically a DD->HD change, but maybe a DD->DD change.  I
>thought it was just an IBM problerm, but maybe it is a common disk
>drive anomaly.  It doesn't seem like it should happen, at any rate.
>When I did the same thing you were trying to do, going from DD->HD
>with my floptical drive, it worked fine.  My suggestion would be to
>"blank" out the disks by rubbing a magnet around on the outside of the
>case and then trying to format them.  I suppose this is okay to do,
>anyone know anything to the contrary?
> 
> 
>	Lee

I haven't tried this on my A3000, which came with a HD floppy already,
but I read on some other non-Usenet newsgroup that the signals passing
from a DD floppy won't let a HD floppy drive work properly. The cure
is to make your HD floppy DF0, and your DD flopyy DF1. According to the
source this should solve your problems.

You might want to try this...

Nikolaj (1)

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From: hhoff@toklotum.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Need printer driver
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:25:07 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: toklotum.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

cg18fgg@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Greg) writes:


>Anyone know where I can find an Amiga driver for a Cannon BJ-10e printer?
I remember a package of printer drivers (containing one for your printer) that was released
on a fish disk, somewhere between #650 and #750. Just look for something called drivers or so.

Bye, hhoff.
From: rmbyers@bfield.uucp (Randy Byers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: System Crash - Red Screen, Flashing Power Light - What to do?
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:27:26 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

I'm running a BBS here, and I've been getting system crashes several times a
day for the last couple of days....  not nice....

Here's the problem...  the system crashes, the screen goes bright red, and the
power LED flashes.  I hit Ctrl Amiga Amiga to reboot, and I then get the GURU
(black screen, red box) screen.

I'm running on a 2000 with version 6.something of the motherboard, 1 meg Agnus
and a GVP 22mzh 68030 combo board with 5megs of 32bit FAST RAM.  I have the
2.04 ROMS and the 2.1 software.

I went through a text file that a user uploaded to me.  It said the
following...

Red screen at boot - bad ROM checksum... I never get a red screen at boot, so I
will ignore this...

Red screen, power LED blinks 9 short 1 long continuously - yes, I think this is
it.  Reason: bad RAM with open.

What does this mean??  It seems to happen only occasionally.. I ran several RAM
testing utilities a couple of days ago, but they couldn't find anything wrong.

I talked to one of the service people at a local dealer a couple of days ago,
(before the user uploaded the file) but he wasn't very helpful - he didn't know
what a red screen meant...

Is it the RAM on the motherboard?  Or the RAM on the GVP board?  I have three
hard drives in my system, and the GVP card, and a GVP IO Extender board...
could I be sucking too much power from the power supply?  Or could the system
be heating up?  Or is it just bad RAM?

Randy

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Subject: Driver for Star NX-1000 Rainbow Printer
From: mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:35:17 EST

I'm looking for a printer driver made specifically for the STAR NX-1000 Rainbow
printer.  I already have a couple of them, but they do not take advantage 
of the printer's 240x240 hi-quality density mode (best I can do is 172x120, and
that mode screws up if it's printing in multiple colors).

Anyone out there who can help?
From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Touch screen interfaces?
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:30:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

I'm looking for information on amiga touch screens -- to add on to
an existing large TV monitor.  I understand that there are a couple
of vendors out there with drivers.  Does anyone know of any
addresses or has anyone had any experiences? (regarding touch
screens -- I don't want any: I never thought it would happen to me
stories)  ;-)

Regards,
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From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matt Simmons)
Subject: Re: A1200 Complaints...Not enough manuals
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 10:40:16 GMT
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Paula Lieberman (Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP) wrote:
: In a message dated Thu 15 Jan 93 22:40, Hamish.macdonald@bnr.ca (hamish Mac
: wrote:
:  HM> Message-ID: <1993Jan14.192733.5246@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
: >>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 1993 12:25:50 GMT,
: >>>>> In message <-192719999@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>,
: >>>>> ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton) wrote:
:  HM> Commodore is getting rid of the CLI in AmigaDOS 4.0, and will use a
:  HM> Workbench-only interface.
:  HM> They are just getting you used to the idea.
: <glyph of vomiting coyote -- no I don't know -who- came up with that line,
: it -might- have been Judith Tarr, author of a number of fantasy books and
: stories, and a few science fiction stories, then again, it might have been
: someone else -- anyway, I picked up the term -- oops, it should be "<glyph
: of barfing coyote>" from somewhere on GEnie's Science Fiction Round Table>
: I -DESPISE- interfaces which are WIMP-only.   To quote Norm Harmon, at a
: conference (I wasn't there at the particular session) on a different topic,
: "The fuckin' things DON'T WORK!" 
: Some people like them, some people don't.  For me, the fuckin[' things
: don't work that well.  If my LIFE depended on it, I couldn't win at a
: pinball game without doing something like using a Big Magnet.  Otherwise,
: "TILT"!  PLEASE let those of use who are terminally coordination impaired
: KEEP the quantitative aspects of shells, etc. etc.!

Well, whomever started this "rumor" suckered in another idiot...  Can we
get a tally?

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From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: Which machine can use these simms
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:31:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.235521.5923@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> chienhua@simplex.ecn.purdue.edu (Chien-Hua Hsiao) writes:
>
>Please help me to identify which machine can use following simms.
>
>+---------------------------------+
>| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
>| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
>| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
>||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||
>+----------------^----------------+
>       |                  |
>    32 pins            32 pins
>
>These simms have 8 chips on it. The code on the chip is  AAA1M300J-08
>                                                         NMBS    9130
>Are the simms 1Mx8-80NS.

  Maybe they are GVP's proprietary SIMM?  Real JEDEC standard SIMM's
are two banks of 36 pins (72 total).

>Chien-Hua Hsiao
>chienhua@ecn.purdue.edu

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From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Packet radio modems
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:04:56 GMT
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd


Hi!
	For the IBM PC there are available packet radio modems that
connect to the serial port.  It is fairly easy to build such a beast:
the technique used is to generate the packets in software and pulse
them on the DTR line, receive data on the CTS line, use RTS to key the
transmitter, and send continuous NULS on TxD to power the modem.

Has anyone written software for the Amiga to do this?  The hardware
part is relatively easy -- in fact there's a design in the January
edition of Electronics Australia magazine -- but the close timing for
generating the packet in software would require a bit more nous.


			Regards,

				- Peter Chubb

Softway Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, AUSTRALIA
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From: db562s445@sycom.mi.org (Dave Birdsong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ADIDE for A500
Distribution: world
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.976
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:24:30 EST
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange

ICD will replace your odd AdIDE with the new one that supports 2 drives and 
they all have the 44 pin contectors now...
in the states it cost $40.00 for the upgrade..
Dave Birdsong
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