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From: phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Random US Politics (Was: Re: Portable A600?)
Followup-To: alt.politics.usa.misc
Date: 6 Nov 1992 00:07:54 GMT
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Adelaide
Distribution: world
Reply-To: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au
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In article <Bx64q3.IHu@news.iastate.edu>, skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank) writes:

>      Excuse me, I have to jump in here again.  What about Greneda?  What
> about Panama?  I don't care what Ronnie Ray Gun called them, Police
> Actions or whatever.  We sent a bunch of troops to both places to wipe
> out people we didn't like.  Sounds like a war to me, just a little closer
> to home with a heavier media blackout. 

Excuse me, how about taking all this crap out of this newsgroup.

Followups directed to alt.politics.usa.misc


Phil.

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 01:02:12 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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>In article <BxD6o6.E34@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
>> Martin Black (22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu) wrote:
>>
>> > Well Any genlock should work.  Just bring up a black screen on your amiga,
>> > and you will be able just amiga m to it.  Of course they are like $200.
>>
>> That is the wrong direction.  All the genlock advertizements I see say
>> "NTSC Composite video out".  That's not what I need; I want NTSC _in_, and
>> analog (separated) RGB out.  But thanks anyway.
>
>All the Commodore genlocks have had both RGB and Composite out.  Still, it's
>pretty expensive.  If you want a nice composite monitor for your TV or VCR,
>just pick up a spare 1080 or one of the Commodore C64 color monitors.  Even
>the cheaper computer monitors look beautiful as composite video monitors.

You STILL don't get it.  He wants an EXTERNAL COMPOSITE input to be
transcoded to an RGB output.  The CBM genlocks only give you the AMIGA VIDEO
as RGB out.

Transcoding baseband video to RGB won't be cheap.  The unit must break the
video into 3 descrete colors and output them.  The Sunrize color splitter
does this, but only on one color at a time.  I can do it with my VideoMaster
Genlock (transcodes Y/C and composite video as RGB, composite or Y/C) but
that unit runs around $1000. 8-/  

Sorry I can't point you to any other solutions.  Since most people need to
go the other way (from better quality RGB to "worse" quality composite).
Going from composite to RGB would only make crummy looking RGB :-)

>George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
>but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!g
r
>r
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-Joel
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: Mac monitor on Amiga?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:10:17 GMT

In article <lfoh7iINNr0q@news.bbn.com>, leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick) writes:
> 
> What is the scan rate typically used on Mac monitors?  Would it be
> possible to use a Mac monitor on an Amiga?  Are the voltage levels
> used the same?  How about one of those tiny monochrome monitors used in
> the "Mac Classic" type models?

My friend just got a Mac IIsi.  In trying to find out what sort of resolutions
the thing was capible of (I cound't find it stated anywhere, btw) I noticed
the monitor ran at I think 30kHz scan rate.  Maybe 31, which ever makes more
sense.  It definately wasn't mutli-sync.  I assume it would be usable with
a deinterlacer but having never tried it I don't know for sure...


Rich...
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From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
Date: Mon,  9 Nov 92 05:02:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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  <1davn7INNfhf@cs.tut.fi> <1992Nov7.235338.5456@ntg.com>

Dale Luck writes

>A parity error will help find faulty/flaky memory instead of
>just having to guess whether the failure to boot is due to an unseated
>agnus chip, power glitches from your washing machine on the same outlet,
>or a zap from having just touched the front of your TV screen.

Words of wisdom. I used to think parity was useless until I experienced the
trauma of a flakey memory problem. No, parity doesn't fix memory problems,
but it happens to be an incredibly cheap and useful diagnostic tool.

Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: traynor@fnalo.fnal.gov
Subject: A1200 specs and HD floppy infor wanted
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 05:10:23 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Will someone please e-mail me the specs on the Amiga 1200?  I have asked
before without a reply.

Also, can someone definitively state whether there is a chance of my 
obtainaing an external HD floppy for my 500, or should I just give up and
by a standard 880K floppy?

					-Mike Traynor


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From: Gene_Ruebsamen@republik.fidonet.org (Gene Ruebsamen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Perversion
Distribution: world
Date: 8 Nov 92 03:28:30 PST
Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County

There is another way of getting those old games to work on the 3000 or
4000. THere is a program called Degrader (current version is 1.10 i
beleive), it is software and it allows you to run most of the old games
that only work on a 68000 processors, it even allows to you run PAL games,
and games that require 1 meg or 512k of chipram only...
-Gene

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: hilton@leechs.lzo.dec.com (Greg Hilton)
Subject: REALLY confused about monitors - for a1200
Reply-To: hilton@bahtat.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Company
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:58:35 GMT


Hi,

I hope someone can explain something about monitors 
to me.

I'm considering buying a 1200, now I've heard it will
work on SVGA monitors, however as I understand it the
1200 has a number of different modes:

    So according to my reviews the 1200 has the following 
modes:
    
    1280 x 400
    1280 x 200
    800 x 600
    640 x 690
    640 x 480
    640 x 400
    640 x 200
    320 x 400
    320 x 200
    
    All modes offer 256,000 colours from a palette of 16.7m.
    
    Would a SVGA monitor be able to DISPLAY all of these, 
    with/without flicker?
    Would a multisync be able to DISPLAY all of these 
    with/without flicker?
Would the 'standard' C= 1084 monitor work ok?
    
If anyone could explain what overscan and interlace mean,
and what they would mean to a user, I would also be grateful.

    Cheers,
    
    Greg
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: UPS Question
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:15:11 GMT

From article <1992Nov7.150641.873@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, by agb16@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk (Alan Baxter):
> Hi. I just bought a second hand Micro Guard 500 UPS. It came without
> manuals. I was wondering how to use it. I thought it would all be
> very easy until I noticed two huge terminals on the back labelled
> (+) and (-). Does this mean I need some sort of battery set up as
> well? Or can I just plug and go?

If you can pick it up one handed, it uses an external-only battery,
otherwise it probably has provision for additional battery capacity.
The above measuring criteria assumes it doesn't have a boat anchor of a
transformer.
If it is not sealed, there is always the screwdriver.

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From: lawsons@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Shannon Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Installing A3000 in a tower?
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:48:16 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA


I've seen a conversion kit advertised which allows one to install an A2000 in
a tower case.  Does any such beast exist for the A3000?  How difficult (and/or
expensive) would it be to roll my own 3000T?

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From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Secondary CPU cache for the Amiga
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:51:03 GMT
Reply-To: Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen)
Organization: Drexel U. - CCD - E4

In article <OD.6BadNetOA92-901-231p0_52c45b1f@piraya.bad.se>
Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen) writes:
>> CHEAP?! Do you have ANY IDEA of what you're talking about? While DRAM may be
>> cheap, FAST SRAM is NOT. As DaveH and some others have told, 040 is cheaper
>> and more effective power boost than 030 and external cache.
>
>Yes, but if you've already got a A3000 (with '030), wouldn't it be rather nice

>to double performance using - say - 512k SRAM? This wouldnt have to be very 
>expensive; less than one tenth of an average '040 accelerator for the A3000...
>
>--- 
>

	While Mac's get nice speed increases with caches (up to 25% NOT 200%) I think
most of that is because of the "cheesy" memory controllers that Mac's use. They
don't seem to use the bursting ability of the 68030 and Apple normally supplies
the MAchines with "slow" memory (80 ns) for machines that can use faster.
From: lassa@cbmvax.commodore.com (Paul Lassa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 memory
Date: 14 Nov 92 04:17:36 GMT
Reply-To: lassa@cbmvax.commodore.com (Paul Lassa)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <69126@cup.portal.com> RCarris@cup.portal.com (Randy L Carris) writes:
>Can you put SIMMs of greater than 4M capacity in the A4000.  I just need to 
>know if it will be possible to expand the memory beyond 16M without using the
>precious slots.  Four will fill up pretty quick, and who knows when there will
>be a tower version.
>Thanks,
>Randy Carris

No.  SIMMs of greater than 4MB capacity are not supported in the A4000.
The memory controller, RAMSEY, only supports 16MB of motherboard
FastRAM.  This is the same as the A3000 and A3000T.  For RAM expansion
beyond that, you'll have to rely on the ZorroIII bus, which allows
various sized memory cards up to (only) 1 GigaByte. 

As for your precious slots, there are several combo boards available,
and most Zorro SCSI cards also support extra RAM (Ex: A2091).

Sorry, I can't answer _all_ of your questions.
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Large IDE HD in A1200
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:41:15 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov2.121045.26993@ulrik.uio.no> jawil@hpx12.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens) writes:
> 
> I have an 130MB Segate half-height 3.5" HD for my A500.
> I'm going to sell this machine soon to upgrade into an A1200. Now I'm
> wondering if I can keep the HD to use it with the 1200.
> 
> Since my HD is 3.5" is it to big to fit inside the machine?

Yep, too big.

> If it is, can I extend the cables from the machine and place the HD outside
> the machine? (Like I'm doing right now. I've got an internal ICD controller.. :)

You might be able to kludge something up, but a long cable would cause problems
with the system (not to mention FCC/EMI issues) and you'd need to adapt between
the 2 MM pin spacing 2.5" IDE header and the .1 inch spacing on you 3.5" drive.

> Is the A1200 blitter faster than the A500 blitter?

It's not really faster, but in many display modes, more memory cycles are
available for blitter access, resulting in better performance than perviously.
In other modes, you have more planes to blit, which might appear to give
slower performance.

> When will a decent memory exp. be available? (4 megs fastram would have been
> nice...)

How about will be nice?  I'd expect the A500 3'rd party hardware folks that were
frustrated by the lack of opportunities in the A600 to jump on the A1200 real
fast...

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Portable A600?
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 18:26:24 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <36501@cbmvax.commodore.com><1992Nov1.073246.4734@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu><Bx2
 Lyv.4Cp@news.iastate.edu> <CSHORT.92Nov6145403@sparta.nmsu.edu>

>ahem, clinton _was_ elected by a landslide. the democrats control the
>presidency and most of the congress.

Hehehe.  This IS funny.  42-3%.  Yep, _real_ landslide - not even a majority of
the populace, but _real_.  Not even 300 electoral votes.  Yep, "real"
landslide, fer sure.  Bwahahaha.  NOT!!

Besides, this crap belongs in alt.politics.neverend.eternalhell.

>commodore has started releasing competetive machines again. they've
>even started advertising.

True, but there is still room for improvement.  Unfortunately Philips has
increased their budget for CD-I adverts and CBM is being left in the dust
there.  Bummer.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tim@tsp.med.umn.edu (Tim Leonard)
Subject: Final Copy II and 2024 monitor a good combo?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:01:13 GMT

I have an A500 running 2.05 and I recently bought Final CopyII,
which I absolutely love, except that it seems to be designed
to look best in interlace, which, of course, flickers for me.
In talking to my local Amiga dealer, last night, he suggested
the 2024 monitor. One of the features that I love about it is 
its' capacity to display whole pages for word processing and 
CAD.  I want to order the monitor tomorrow but I have a couple
of questions:
	1) Does Final Copy look as good on the 2024 as it
	   does in interlace? ( 2 color mode is OK with me)

	2) My system 2.0 manual mentions the 2024 but doesn't
	   say whether it requires the ECS Denise, which I do
	   not yet have (the dealer wasn't sure either).

	3) Are there any drawbacks to the 2024?

email would be greatly appreciated.

Tim Leonard  tim@lenti.med.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mike@Turing.ORG (Michael Chapman)
Subject: Re: Question about high density drives on the Amiga
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:43:43 GMT

In article <BxF9w0.KFG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
>This is probably a really old question, but I just don't understand
>why IBM (for example) high density drives cannot be somehow hacked
>and used on the Amiga.
>
>We know that adequate driving software can be written, since multi-dos,
>messy-dos and cross-dos all exist.
>
>So what is the big hangup?  It seems to me that the ability to use a HD
>IBM drive on the Amiga would be a mini-revolution for Amiga owners...
>
>Just curious...
>
>Scotty AJ
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I hate to toot my own horn... 

But I guess being flexible has its advantages.
From: colint@spider.co.uk (Colin Tinto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is a 6mb 1200 available???
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:26:52 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK

In article <1992Nov9.114238.10578@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>: In article <1992Nov4.120216.1453@decuk.uvo.dec.com> hilton@bahtat.dec.com writes:
>: > 
>: > So I started off thinking I couldn't move my SIMMS 
>: > and SCSI drive to a 1200.
.
.
>: > Is this available yet? How much?
.
.
> 
>2MB PCMCIA cards are available, but I haven't seen any 4MB's.
>

I have seen a 4Mb card advertised in a UK mag.

Was selling at 180 pounds I think.

I'm not sure if this was one of these "available Real Soon Now" adverts, but
I don't think so...


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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A2024
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 92 23:43:18 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 

Does the A2024 monitor drivers for Release2 require ECS or not? According to 
the prefs info for Release3, they does not. If so, would it work with an A1000?
I know 512Kb of chip ram would be very limiting with this monitor, not a 
single bitplane workbench of 128Kb should be acceptable. In any case, the 
A2024 should work as a eight grayshades flickerfixed monitor for hires/lace 
screens, right?

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From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: Re: AGA monitors.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:44:28 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Chris Ringe (chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca) wrote:

> Sorry, but the 1960 works terribly with the A4000.  When I played with the
> machine at a local computer show, I tried the different video modes.

Well, I've been using a 1960 with a 4000 for 3 weeks, and that's news to
me.  I think your monitor just may not have been adjusted correctly.
(There is a panel on the front with some potentiometers which you can
mess with to adjust the size and position of the screen).  I'm running a
896x628 screen which is entirely (100%) visible.  When I first booted in
this mode, the monitor wasn't adjusted correctly and I couldn't see all
of the screen (like you mentioned), but I've fixed it and haven't had to
touch it since.

  - steve
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Giggleing:Clinton:Hardware Question about the 2000 was: Re: Portable A600?
Summary: Stay on topic?  Never!
Keywords: Clinton, ChipRAM, 2000, Sex, Beer <- to get daveh's attention :)
Date: 7 Nov 92 05:39:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: mentor.BxBzpq.Iz8
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dr. Spanklebuckets School for the Sexualy Deprived

In article <CSHORT.92Nov6145403@sparta.nmsu.edu> cshort@nmsu.edu (MetaPope, Internet in a Day Tour.) writes:
>ahem, clinton _was_ elected by a landslide. the democrats control the
>presidency and most of the congress.

Not by the popular vote.

>commodore has started releasing competetive machines again. they've
>even started advertising.

A good thing too.  How many times have we had to explain what an "Amigre"
is to the guy across the hall?  Here's a question, what's everyones dream
Amiga ad?  Anything, TV, magazine, radio (too bad narrator.device is gone :)

ObHardware:  where's the jumper to shut off the top 512k of chipram on
a rev 6 2000?

Note followup.

>c. (who giggles himself to sleep every night)

You are one sick individual.  :)

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From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030 ACCELERATOR NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 10:34:15 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <BxIMoK.HDG@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>

Your accelerator performance numbers are a tad off. Actually an AdSpeed is
consistently faster than a 40Mhz VXL-30 with no 32-bit memory (source:
AmigaMagazin 8/92). On a Lattice C compile the AdSpeed was 1.66 times
faster compared to 1.49 times for the 40Mhz VXL and 1.40X for the 25Mhz
VXL. This does not consider flotating point, of course.
The VXL is a prestige item (40Mhz '030! Wow! Must be FAST!)

Dan