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From: donnyj@htsa.aha.nl (Donny Janzen)
Subject: VIRUS CLEANING
Organization: School for the mental disabled.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:29:22 GMT

A few days ago my computer started to act weird. I consulted a friend,
he said that it could have been a virus and that I had to clean my
memory and disks. So I open the computer and removed all the chips.
I then took a bucket of water and some soap and started to clean them.
After I dried them and put everything back, nothing worked anymore.
What did I do wrong, the virus must be gone now. Maybe I should
consult a computer doctor or take it to hospital. 

Thanks in advance.
   (excuse my english, I am only 6.34216298 years old.)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: tschille@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Thorsten Schiller)
Subject: A500 serial blues
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:31:30 GMT

Greetings...

I had posted a while ago asking for help getting additional serial ports added
to my A500... the only concrete solution (out of the whole 2 replies I got :) )
suggested I sit down and do that magazine hardware hack...

Well, I'm not good with hardware :) I can program it but I think it's a good
idea if I don't get any hot objects near it... so, my next best alternative
appears to be getting one of the extenders available that permit the 500 to
use one or more 2000 cards...

Does anyone have any experience with these? Are they a good buy for what you
get? (upgrading to an A2000 is obviously not a good solution for me :) And
the prices on most of these extendoers (for lack of a more suitable word)
seems relatively reasonable)

My biggest concern is that I have a GVP Series II that would need to work in
conjunction with it (preferably I'd like something that is known to work
with an A530 as well since I was thinking of purchasing that soon). Also, it
would have to work with the ROM 2.0 chips and all this needs to work with 
A2000 serial cards... :)

Does anybody know if this is headed for disaster? Does anyone HAVE a setup
similar to this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated... if at all possible, please reply by
email since I'm unable to keep up with the traffic of late. I'll summarize
and post to the net.

Thanks.

Thorsten Schiller
tschiller@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
From: FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Concern (Not flames) over IDE for A4000
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 07:54:00 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

Adding to previous concerns:

If a tape drive is added to an IDE disk, can the drive DMA to the tape
or will the CPU hae to do all the work?

Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sting@ais.org (Marc Rucinski)
Subject: Amigavision/Video Disc Interface Needed
Organization: UMCC
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:00:39 GMT


Hello fellow Netters:

If anyone would happen to have plans on building an interface for a
Laser Video Disc Player to the Amiga to work through AmigaVision, I would be
most grateful.  I don't have all of the specifics on the LVDP here, as it is
my friends and I don't know the exact model.  I'm pretty sure it's a Pioneer
though.  I would prefer e-mail, but posting to the net is okay too.

Thanx in advance,

Marc           sting@umcc.ais.org


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: spoon1@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jonathon B. Witherspoon)
Subject: Re: A1950 Monitor Sparking! HELP
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 22:54:47 GMT



the 1950 has had problems sense it came out. take it back to the dealer!



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
Subject: Re: Info on A2024 monitor wanted
X-Reason: This message has been reposted because of configuration errors at heaven7.in-berlin.de.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:54:16 GMT
Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany

mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
> Nope, the A2024 uses 50Hz for 1008x1024 and 60Hz for 1008x800.

I was about to write that follow-up, but decided to check with the A2024
manual first. It uses 49.something for normal modes, and 72 Hz for the
extended A2024 modes.
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From: tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Concern (Not flames) over IDE for A4000
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:02:29 GMT

Davie Haynie!  

The CBM marketing guys were blaming the lack of SCSI on the A4000 on
engineering at WOC in Pasadena.  I don't beleive them since this type of
decision is usually done by marketing.  Care to comment?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Timothy Matthew Ciceran)
Subject: New Machines 
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:04:03 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.151717.10570@hubcap.clemson.edu> taylors@hubcap.clemson.edu (C. Taylor Sutherland III) writes:

>Is there a possibility of C= releasing a 030 based A4000 and with maybe
>fewer expansion slots for those people conscious of cost and who are
>afraid to buy anything else for fear it will be dropped two days after 
>the purchase?  Is this feasible and cost effective or would it be just
>a waist of time?  I don't know, I'm asking.

At the Canadian unveiling of the A4000, Commodore indicated that two
machines would be forthcoming, one of which would be the A1200. No details
concerning hardware specs or pricing were mentioned, aside from the fact
that delivery would be before Christmas. I'd put my money on the Fall
COMDEX (as was alluded to in the CBM follow-up to the Robinson article).

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: visconti@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Visconti)
Subject: HamE
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:08:32 GMT

   I recently purchased a HamE device (used) and am having some problems
with it.  My system is a 2000 R4.3 with an RCS 040 running 2.04.  I have
a deinterlacer hooked up to a VGA monitor and am running the HamE 
to another Commodore monitor.  Oh yeah, a 1 meg Agnus and old denise.
   I hooked up the appropriate cables and powered up the computer.
The first thing I noticed is that the HamE display had different colors
than the deinterlaced display.  Grey was blue, blue was red, etc...
I started perusing the instructions at this point and displayed one of
the startup images.  It looked like a plaid triangle.  I followed
the instructions for "adjusting" the display without much luck.  In fact,
adjusting the suggested potentiometer appeared to do absolutely nothing.
Since the manual states that the HamE device should display non-HamE
images correctly (i.e. no color changes), I must assume that there is
something wrong other than the adjustable settings.  I checked my monitor
cable and it appeared to work properly without the HamE.  I've booted
off the standard WB2.04 WorkBench disk incase it was an overscan problem.
   Another wierd thing I noticed is that when I played with the palette
preferences tool, the colors of the HamE display worked very oddly.
Red seemed to have very little effect.  Green seemed to effect intensity
(saturation?). Blue seemed to affect the actual color (hue).
   Is it just a setting problem and I can fix it with a scope ?  or is it
something more insidious ?


Any help is appreciated...
Thanks,
Mark
---------------------------
visconti@cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 1992 10:47:06 MST
From: <ICPCH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: CBM 020 accelerator RAM question

I have an A2000 and a CBM 020 accelerator with 2meg.  I was scoping
out the board and noticed that it had plugged sockets (solder filled)
next to the existing ram.  It looks like the board can be expanded to
8 meg.
Is this true?  Can I just plunk the ram and caps in and go to town?

I need to know!
Any info greatly needed and appreciated.
PCH

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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading Workbench on an Amiga 1000
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:39:21 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Sep27.092139.15985@krk.fi> jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren) writes:
>:Can Amiga 1000s use Workbench 2.0?  Can I get a disk based
>:Workbench 2.0 for use on the Amiga 1000?  

>No, not especially for A1000....
>Using KS 2.04 ROM is also possible, but it might not work.

	It works fine.  I just had a 2.04 ROM put into my A1000
using a "Kwickstart II" board, along with a 1.3 ROM.  Switching
between 1.3 and 2.04 simply requires a warm boot.

	My C.Ltd. hard disk controller (SCSIDOS 3.0) works fine
under 2.04 also.  It took some work to get it running, since the
C.Ltd. is not auto-booting and is not compatible with HDToolbox.
I had to put DevInstall and Mount commands on the boot floppy's
startup-sequence and then transfer control to the hard drive.

	BTW, there is no such newsgroup as "comp.sys.amiga.tech".
It was removed years ago.

                                                        Dan

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From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HD Floppy Weekend HACK time
Date: 26 Sep 92 03:54:24 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

Okay,

	It's time for some of us to whip out our soldering irons....

	... and abuse some IBM HD floppy drives.

	Yep, there's all sorts of different models of High Density floppies
for the IBM...

	...but I bet if we pick _one_, and decide that it's the lucky one
that gets to be modified...

	... we can convert it to a 300/150 RPM HD drive...

	Besides the fact that this will be lots of fun, there's some money
to be made here.

	C= is selling the HD FB-357A's for $140 or so.  Who wants to pay
that when a "vanilla" HD floppy costs $45 or so???

	Let's get some minds (and multimeters) together, and make it happen.

	Mail me.

	(I'll summarize)

	-steve


.............................................................................
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                          GEnie: S.WINOKUR  -or-
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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: A2091 roms - the saga continues
Organization: City University, London
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 11:45:31 GMT

So the 6.1 roms have a bug, but at 35 pounds ($60) for the fixed
version 6.6 roms I must try a less costly solution.

1. I slipped through the net and managed to talk to a CBM technical
   chap in Milton Keynes. He said that if you turn reselect _off_,
   then it will work ok. I tried turning reselect off (on both
   drives), but it still hangs. The guy said that I had not really
   turned reselect off if I did not re-format the drives. Is this
   true? Reformatting the drive is painful as I was going to use
   the 2nd drive to back up the first.

2. What sort of device is the 6.1/6.6 rom? Is it a ROM, PROM or
   EPROM? I was thinking of sending CBM the 6.1 roms to blow the
   bug fixed 6.6 into them, but I want a backup first in case I
   never see them again. Does anyone know what the pinouts are?



--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: New HAM-E or DCTV like devices for A4000?
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:43:20 GMT
Organization: Commodore Germany
Keywords: A4000, AA, True Colour


Now did anyone realize what big potential lies in the new A4000
video slot? Look, there you get *all* 24 bit lines plus other clock
signals, that together make a device like DCTV or HAM-E much easier
today, as Dave Haynie explained it.

Let's look at two possible scenarios:

1. 24-bit true colour in 426 x 512 (PAL)
   Drive your display in SuperHiRes laced, giving you 1280 x 512 (PAL).
   Use 8 bitplanes. Choose a palette of 256 Red values only.
   Always take 3 horizontally adjacent pixels and combine their 3 bytes 
   of Red to 24 bit RGB. The hardware for this is rather easy, just
   three 8-bit latches for the three components, plus a counter to three
   to trigger them.
   What seems impossible then, is using the built-in 24-bit video DAC for
   these signals, it would make it even more easy. You need an own one.
   As this involves a different organization of the bitplanes, this would
   not be totally transparent to existing software. You would need a new 
   graphics library or drivers for existing software, just like for the 
   mentioned DCTV and HAM-E.

2. 15-bit true colour in 640 x 512 (PAL)
   Same as above, only always take 2 adjacent pixels and take their 2 bytes
   of Red to 3 x 5 bits RGB. Do anything neat with the last bit :-).

When you look at the achievable resolutions, this would already be well
enough for video applications, I believe.

Someone volunteering to do this as a PD hack???

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From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Data exchange between Amiga and IBM PC
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:28:29 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Oct2.065336.28962@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, phsbs@marlin.jcu.edu.au (S
imon Spagnol) writes:
>
>Hello Netters,
>        I have some queries about the transfer of large amount of
>data between an Amiga and an IBM PC. I would appreciate any comments
>or suggestions on the following schemes under consideration from people
>who have attempted this sort of thing.
>
>Option 1:
>        Buy some sort of removable hard drive device (eg Bernoulli)
>for both the Ami and PC. Format the disk as in IBM-DOS, and write to
>the disk from Ami side using Crossdos or such.
>
>Option 2:
>        Buy a (probably SCSI) streaming tape device. What software is
>available on both Ami and PC to talk to tape device. Do we have to worry
>about file systems or what?
>
>Option 3:
>        Buy an ethernet card for both machines, connect both via
>cable. Transfer data using ftp/rcp or mabye NFS mount Ami (or PC) drive
>and just copy?
>
>Thoughts:
>        Option 1 is probably the least preferred option and might
>also be the most expensive.
>
>        Option 2 has advantage of data transfer and backup at same
>time. But the PC already has a tape streamer (non-SCSI, some dedicated
>card thing whose name escapes me at present) so this option would require
>purchase of another tape drive and a SCSI controller for the IBM.
>
>        Option 3 has a lot going for it as the PC already has
>an ethernet card in it, and is succesfully running NCSA Telnet
>to talk to mainframes here. Thus the amount of new hardware needed in
>minimal but the available software is an unknown factor. Any people
>out there networking between Amiga and PC reply now!!!
>
>        Any advice would be appreciated, please email to
>
>        phsbs@manta.jcu.edu.au
>
>        Many thanks,
>        Simon.
>
>+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
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> email: phsbs@manta.jcu.edu.au
> mail:  Physics Department
>        James Cook University,
>        Townsville, QLD, 4811,
>        AUSTRALIA
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>

I find Kermit on both machines acceptable.  Just connect them via the serial
port.  I have also used sneaker net.

Sneaker net - pc formated diskette on the pc and amiga and appropriate disk
reader on the amiga.  Run diskete from PC to Amiga and vis versa.

Phyle THEE McNasty
From: csirigna@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (csirigna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Fatter Agnus
Date: 30 Sep 1992 02:02:05 GMT
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada

Hello again.  I have just recently bought the Fatter Agnus Chip (1Meg 
Chip Mem.).  I have a question about it and how it works.  I also have 
an AdRam 540 with 2 Megs of memory on it.  Now when I connected the jumper
(JP2) to the jp2 hole on the GARY adapter and switched the agnus setting
How much memory should I have? 2.5 or 3 Megs.  Because when I run a memory
test it says I have 1Meg as Chip Mem and 1.5 Megs as other Memory.  
What I always thought was that the Fatter Agnus gave you an addition 512K
so a machine with 512K chip and 2 Megs other mem. would become 2 Megs other 
mem and 1 Meg chip.  Was I wrong to assume this?

I have another question about my AdRam board.  How should I set up the 
groups of 4 chips on the AdRam board. eg.U1 to U4, U5 to U8, U9 to U12, and
U13 to U16 or am I supposed to put them in a different order?

Carmine Sirignano
csirigna@thunder.lakeheadu.ca
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 14Mhz A500 mod info wanted
Date: 2 Oct 92 05:39:10 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <in2a505.717946124@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> in2a505@rzaixsrv1.rrz.uni-hamburg.de (Elvers) writes:
> e52382015@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (EDDY, JONATHAN GABRIEL) writes:
> 
> 
> >Anybody ever done this??
> >I got a file from wuarchive the other day that describes a processor swap
> >for the A500.  You take out the 7Mhz one, and put in a 16Mhz 68000, plus
> >a timing circuit(?), and viola, you have a 14Mhz A500, which should a 
> >+70% performance boost.  Does this work???  I would love to do it, but would 
> >rather be sure it worked.  Heck, at $25, I'll probably do it anyway, but
> >please warn me if I shouldn't.
> >Thanks!
> 
> >jon eddy.
> 
> I did it, and it works !! 

Of course it may not work on your particular machine, the A500 "Gary"
gate array and associated logic were not designed with 14MHz in mind
and it is a small miracle that it works at all on any systems.

If you want a real headache, start trying to work out all the details
required to make a "spec" 14MHz double speed processor speedup...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Subject: Re: Flaming The *Other* Guys
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 05:44:07 GMT


I just wanted to say that I liked your letter.  It is kinda sad that we tene
nd up in shouting put-down wars.  All it takes is one, and people tend to
respond in a similar way.  Tis human nature.  (ever notice that if you start
to whisper, everyone around you will start whispering, and no one will giveh
ought as to WHY? :>  Try it at party some time - it's freaky)

I've never been a flamer, but I've noticed that ever since I got my Amiga
I have become a bit "obnoxious" about it.  I tend to brag a bit about the
multitasking and express sympathy for those who say "let me log off  and
unzip this file - back in a few" and I can't help telling them that I am
debugging a Superbase program as we type while listening to some MODS. :> 
I dunno, it's interesting how an Amiga changes us, and in a way, I'm not
too sure that it is a good way.  It's hard NOT to become a "salesman" for
something you truly love and believe in.  What is hard, is to not be obnoxious
about it. :>
  I have been cowed by Amiga owners. I remember "apologizing" for having MS-DOS
when I spoke to a local Amigoid...first words out of my mouth were "Forgive me,
but I happen to be MS-Dos oriented, but could you help me with an Amiga problem
for a friend of mine?"  He laughed and said something like "Why apologize?  Get yourself one and see how sorry you HAVE been with that other computer". :>
He was right...I'm grateful that I was open-minded enough to bother pursuing
just what IS so great about the Amiga, and started asking Q's about how
different things compared with what I knew and how programs would fit my needs.

I don't know where this letter is leading, I seem to be rambling, but all in
all I think the Amiga people are much more friendly, helpful, and easier to
get along with than the *other* guys.  I found THAT out while searching out
the answers to my friend's dilemma.  They're all FAMILY (with a little bit
of sibling rivalry, but that's pretty normal... :>) and it's NICE to be part
of a family, rather than just a member of a user group.

Ok...I've said enough!

Crystal
  ;>

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mat@unh.edu (Mike Thomas)
Subject: WANTED: Xetec SCSI Controller for A1000 or any other SCSI
Organization: /home/mat/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:36:37 GMT


I'm looking for a Xetec SCSI controller for my A1000.  In case I can't
get the Xetec I'm also interested in other SCSI controllers, and information
about performance / compatiblity with Commodore SCSI implimentation (specifically)
can hdtoolbox work or FaaastPrep???

Mike
From: hennes@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Hennes Passmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HOW to open an A500 POWER-SUPPLY
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:12:08 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Carsten Rose (caro@uni-paderborn.de) wrote:
: Jeroen van Wees (jhgwees@cs.ruu.nl) wrote:
: : Hi there,
: : 
: : Has anyone ever tried an succeeded in opening an A500 power-supply?
: : I'd like to open mine because it isn't function anymore, but I don't
: : know how to.
: Yes I opened two. The first one contains screws (no problem), but
: the second one I had to damage the cover (no other possibilitie). The
: points where you assume the screws could be only plastic (I don't
: remember very well)
: : There could be four screws at the bottom (at least there seem to be, but there
: : covered by plastic), or is it just a squeeze-and-pull action ?
:
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^ NO, not mine

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Hi,

I only opened 1 powersupply (one of the old heavy ones).
After forcing it open with a saw _Yes_ _Yes_ I know that thats rough I discovered
that there 4 plastic pluggs that you could drill out and under which 4 screws apperead...

Try this first,

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