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From: davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn)
Subject: Re: 1200 Questions (George?)
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:27:24 GMT

In article <17793@umd5.umd.edu> jake@melmac.umd.edu (Rob Borsari) writes:
>
>  I have heard several conflicting and confusing things about the 1200
>  and I was wondering if someone could clear them up.
>
>  I heard the 1200:
>	
>	comes with a socket/no socket (or pads) for a FPU.

Comes with pads, but no socket.

>	floppy model is shipping with no HD controler.

With IDE, the controller is built into the drive, so the computer doesn't
need one.  The floppy model does have the IDE interface, so you can add an HD.

>	has no internal clock.
>	has pads on the board for a clock
>	has a header for a clock

All true.

>	has room on the back for a scsi D25

Has room on the back for a port of whatever sort connected to the internal
32-bit expansion card.  If you had added a SCSI card (none are available yet,
that I know of), it would have its external DB25 connector here.

>	cannot use 3.5inch ide harddrives externaly because the
>		connector has the wrong number of pins.
>	""	""	because the cable would be too long.

The IDE interface is a bus standard and is not meant to be able to drive
external peripherals.  Yes, the cable would be too long and the environment
may be too noisy.

>	has the HD controler as part of the custom chips.

No, as I said, the controller is built into the drive.  The interface
electronics (much simpler than a controller) were incorporated into a gate
array.

>	can use the same expansion cards as the CDTV

No, CDTV is PCMCIA 1.0, while the A600/A1200 use the newer 2.0 standard.

>	Has the same trapdoor as the 500.

No, the A500 trapdoor is only 16-bit.

>  I have heard these things from dealers, mailorder places  and clubmembers.
>  Some questions I have are:
>
>	Are the 8520's socketed or better protected than 500/2000?

No, they're surface mounted and have the same (lack of) protection.

>	can the ram be expanded to the same as the 4k or do the ports
>	limit the amount that can be accessed.

Because the A1200 uses an EC020, only 8M of fast RAM can be added.  If the
PCMCIA slot is in use, this reduces to 4M.  However, an accellerator added
in the internal slot can have as much ram as you can cram onto it (at least,
I don't think we'll see 4GB on a board that size for a while yet!  :-)

>	Is there a way to add a second HD to the 1200hd?

You'll have to wait for a SCSI interface to become available.

>  Any correct information would be welcome.      -R-

Hopefully, my facts are straight.  What I've written here I've gleaned from
the net.


>jake@melmac.umd.edu   Rob Borsari     "Bourne to be whiled"

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: A1200 colour problems (was Re: A1200 Monit
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:55:23 GMT

cnbp41@ccsun.strath.ac.uk (Ian MacIntyre) writes:

>Are you using the internal modulator, or the RGB port ?
>On my A1200 when using the modulator the colour sometimes dissappears
>but from the RGB port it is fine. (How is the sound from your A1200 - is
>it distorted in any way ?)

On a few tests with my neighbor's 1200, I found it to work fine, except the 
composite out (he says) wasn't that good a quality.  Sound output was 
fine, though, through a Pioneer SX311R receiver.  I noticed no distortion
(Or none that didn't happen on a 500 too, to be accurate.)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: IDE Cable for A1200
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:52:18 GMT

jperkski@kentcomm.UUCP (Jim Perkowski) writes:

>In article <mkane.0ft0@vsbbs.UUCP> mkane@vsbbs.UUCP (Mark Kane) writes:
>>Hey anyone know where to order the "special" ide interface cable for those
>>A1200 owners who wanted more than 40Meg HD. I am having a hard time finding
>>one. Aren't they standard like laptops use???

>Isn't the same as the 40 pin IDE cable that the clones use? Ofcoarse leave it
>to CBM to come up with some non-standard cable.:)

If it's a different cable than the laptops use please correct us now!  I will
be rather miffed if I have a perfectfly good 2.5" IDE drive here beside
my sparkling new 1200 (when it finally arrives!) and then I have to wait
*longer* for a "special" cable so I can use it!!!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Subject: No clock in A1200?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:16:11 GMT

	I figured an A1200 was a step up from the A2000, because it featured
a 68020 and the AGA chipset. But, then I catch wind that the computer has
no battery backed up clock! I don't use my Amiga to play games, but to dev-
elop software. File creation/modification dates are very important especially
to programs like "Make" that go berserk if this info is incorrect. In some
of the other groups there is a thread entitled "Don't let the Amiga Die".
Commodore should take heed, because if this omission is in anyway exemplary
of their design strategy - the Amiga will certainly perish.

Jeff





Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: taylors@hubcap.clemson.edu (C. Taylor Sutherland III)
Subject: Re: Does ECS fix flicker?
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:15:33 GMT

dead@well.sf.ca.us (Bruce Fancher) writes:

>	Does the ECS chipset deinterlace (like the flicker fixer)?  Is this
>chipset available for the A2000?  Please respond through mail.

>Thanks

No.

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From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AdSpeed
Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:22:43 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

A friend of mine is selling his AdSpeed 14 Mhz accelerator.  I would be
interested in getting it for my A2000 w/ GVP Series II HD (with a 100MB
quantum).  I also have 4.5 Megs fast 512K Chip RAM.  Is there anything I
should know?  Anyone have any problems?  Good Comments?  Anything to
say?

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
At: University of Minnesota, Duluth

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
Subject: Re: IBM internal modem in Amiga
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:57:55 GMT

bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

>        There's a tiny problem here. The CPU in the Amiga can't talk
>to the AT bus in the A2000, A3000 or A4000. The AT bus is seperate
>and the only way to use PC cards is to get a "bridgeboard" which will
>connect the Zorro bus to the AT bus. The AT bus gets power from the
>internal power supply, but the data and address lines are seperated
>from the Amiga's data and address lines.

No, there is an alternative to a bridgeboard: my GoldenGateII board.  The
GoldenGateII allows you to run PC cards as Amiga devices, instead of having
to use IBM software.  So, you can run a PC internal modem using VLT, Term,
or whatever program you like.

Anyone who is interested can email me for the specs.

David

--------------------------------------------------------------
David Salamon                Physics Graduate Student (Slave)
d-salamon@uiuc.edu           University of Illinois
--------------------------------------------------------------
From: gkropf@bfield.uucp (Gary Kropf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Clock reseting constantly..
Date: 12 Jan 93 06:28:24 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

In article <16B52B70A.WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU>, WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
>My clock keeps reseting to the default time (1-Jan-78) every couple days
>for no apparent reason.  I wouldn't think that I have crashed the machine
>bad enough as many times recently as I've noticed the clock lose it's
>time.  (I've crashed her enough times and nailed the clock, so I had
>thought of that.)
> 
>I suspect after a while the battery dies.. :)  After lifting my 500
>keyboard and taking a peek, I suspect it's a fairly easy battery to
>get ahold of?
> 
>I have an A501 (the case is off because I chopped a line for the 1 meg
>hack) and it's about 3 years old..
> 
>Any suggestions?
>   ___________________________________________________________________
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The first thing that comes to mind is a virus. Check your software to make sure
it is clean. It could be a weak battery but I have heard if the battery goes in
the A501 you throw it away and by another new unit...

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                 *         bfield!gkropf@tdksc.waterloo.on    *
                 *         Gary Kropf  C/O BakersField BBS    *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: feuchtwa@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Feuchtwanger)
Subject: Re: Help: Why can't i write to my floppies?
Keywords: A1000 floppy drive write protected
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:13:36 GMT

I wonder why my .signature wasn't included.
You may contact me at
                         feuchtwa@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject: Formatting a tape in a 3M MCD-40 drive w/btntape?
Reply-To: scott@statsci.com
Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc., Seattle, WA USA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:47:13 GMT

Hello!

I've got a 3M MCD-40 drive that takes DC2000 tapes. If I buy them
pre-formatted, I need the "Gammamat"-formatted tapes. This drive is hooked up
to a Supra 4x4 Series II (v1.10) SCSI interface on an Amiga A1000 computer
running AmigaDOS 1.3.

I send the command to the drive as mentioned in the BTNtape docs, but it
doesn't work. I think I used to get a "blank check" error back (no kidding). I
think I got "illegal request" errors when I tried again the other day. I was
wondering if anyone had suggestions about things to check out to get this to
work. It'd be nice to be able to buy the unformatted tapes (cheaper and more
easily available).

Hmmm...the drive is in a box with a disc drive and is sold packaged for a Mac.
I could try hooking it up to a Mac and use the provided software to format the
tapes, maybe. That's a pain, though.

Ideas?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: meixner@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Matthias Meixner)
Subject: Re: DD vs HD floppies
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:04:14 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Keywords: Amiga CrossDOS

>Hello,
>
>I'm having a problem finding an IBM compatible machine which will accept
>my DD (Double Density) floppies. All the I've seen PC's seem to have the HD 
>(High Density) drive as standard. I would really like to use the Amiga 
>CrossDOS facility for transferring work from the PC's at my university to my 
>A1200 at home.


HD floppies can format DD Disks. Therefore it would be the easiest way to 
use DD Disks to transfer the data. The A1200 can handle these disks, which
are formatted to 720K by using CrossDos that comes with Kickstart 3.0


- Matthias
From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 040 vs Rocket Launcher
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:21:46 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

	I have the CBM 2630 030 board in my A2000. I would like to upgrade
to a faster processor. I don't want to have to buy a 4000. I saw that
the CSA Rocket Launcher doubles the 25mhz 030 to 50 mhz. Anybody use
this? What advantages do true 040 boards have over the RL? the RL is only
$499 mail order vs >$1000 for the 040 boards. I heard that 040's have
compatiblity problems with some programs. I use my Amiga only for graphics
inclusing raytracing.
	Any comments about the RL or 040 boards will be appreciated.
	Thanks.

		DonH
From: Per_Salmi@augs.se (Per Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030 AGA machine rumors
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:15:07 GMT
Organization: Amiga User Group - Sweden
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

David Crooke (dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Lots of people are floating rumors about the imminent release of such a beast. 
: I have heard of a revised 3000 (unlikely I think) and also an 030 cpu card for the
: 4000 (very likely). Some people were bandying about the name A4000/030 as if it
: was common knowledge and due any day now. Does anyone have more positive info?
: PLEASE?
: 
: Dave

If you take a look at the box that the A4000 comes in you will find something like this:

CPU:  X   68040 
          68030
          Other

Where the 68040 is marked on the ordinary A4000, I think this is an indication that there are going to be a 030 version of the machine!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: smith@spezko.enet.dec.com (Ed Smith)
Subject: XT BridgeBoard help
Reply-To: smith@spezko.enet.dec.com (Ed Smith)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:01:42 GMT



I have an XT BB with a 5 1/4" 360K disk as drive A and a 3 1/2" 720K as drive
B.  The 720K disk is external.  I would like to dump the 360K and leave the
720K floppy on the external port but have it come up as drive A.  I had heard
there was a hardware hack that could be made that would allow this.

Anyone know how to modify the XT BB to make drive A on the external port?

Thanks,

..Ed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun)
Subject: Postscript tool on WB3
Organization: City University
Date:  8 Jan 93 09:35:32 GMT



Problem

Could somebody tell me if I'm doing something wrong here.

I want to do a graphic dump of the workbench screen to a laser printer. The 
steps I take are

1. Select printer using Printer/PrinterGfx  printer preference editors (ppe).
2. Select postscript output by using PrinterPS <ppe> 
   (...therefore overriding any option made in 1.)
3. Use the CMD tool to redirect printer output to a file.

4. Move file to MS-DOS formatted disk.
5. Upload file at University and send to laser printer (can't afford one
   of these!).

After reaching step 3, I view the created file. It is unreadable! Basically,
I thought that the file would contain device independent (DVI) o/p which 
could be sent to any postscript printer. A bit like the following...

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: groff version 1.04
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier
%%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset grops 1.04 0
%%Pages: 1
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%Orientation: Portrait
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%BeginResource: procset grops 1.04 0

/setpacking where {
	pop
	currentpacking
	true setpacking
} if

/grops 120 dict dup begin 

% The ASCII code of the space character.
/SC 32 def

/A /show load def
/B { 0 SC 3 -1 roll widthshow } bind def
/C { 0 exch ashow } bind def
/D { 0 exch 0 SC 5 2 roll awidthshow } bind def
/E { 0 rmoveto show } bind def
/F { 0 rmoveto 0 SC 3 -1 roll widthshow } bind def
/G { 0 rmoveto 0 exch ashow } bind def
/H { 0 rmoveto 0 exch 0 SC 5 2 roll awidthshow } bind def
/I { 0 exch rmoveto show } bind def
/J { 0 exch rmoveto 0 SC 3 -1 roll widthshow } bind def
/K { 0 exch rmoveto 0 exch ashow } bind def
/L { 0 exch rmoveto 0 exch 0 SC 5 2 roll awidthshow } bind def
/M { rmoveto show } bind def
/N { rmoveto 0 SC 3 -1 roll widthshow } bind def
/O { rmoveto 0 exch ashow } bind def
/P { rmoveto 0 exch 0 SC 5 2 roll awidthshow } bind def
/Q { moveto show } bind def 
/R { moveto 0 SC 3 -1 roll widthshow } bind def
/S { moveto 0 exch ashow } bind def
/T { moveto 0 exch 0 SC 5 2 roll awidthshow } bind def

% name size font SF -


etc,etc,etc
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Have I misinterpreted the use of the PrinterPS tool on Workbench3? The manual
helps but not enough. Any input from this group would be appreciated.

Sheun
From: u2d92@seq1.keele.ac.uk (MJ Gumbley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Making A2090 HD Interface autobooT
Date: 4 Jan 93 12:45:28 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

Hello all,

  I've got an old A2000, Revision 4, with a A2090 hard disk controller.
There are two hard disks on it, and at the moment, I have to boot from
floppy, because the A2090 does not support autoboot. As soon as the boot
starts, I run BindDrivers, and mount the hard drives, and continue from
there.

  Is there anything I can do to make the card into an autoboot controller?
Is there a later version of the ROM? If so, where do I get one from?
(Commodore presumably.)

  Thanks folks. 

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From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Science Project Help
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 19:58:47 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <C0K8JE.BHK@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>

One of the very early fish disks(first 10?) had a slide show that
had graphics pictures of the Amiga custom chips(done by Jay Miner).
You could use this with the A1000 and create a little computer show.
From: walterb@sequoia.cray.com (Walter Boese Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AdSpeed and DKB quikstart
Date: 5 Jan 93 05:34:24 GMT
Organization: Me Myself & I

Has anybody put the DKB quikstart board in with an AdSpeed??
I still have a 1000 (no flames), works great !yet!, but I would like 2.0.
Does this combination work??

Walter Boese Jr.       
walterb@sequoia.cray.com
                       
Short and Sweet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cgould@oracle.uucp (Colin A. Gould)
Subject: Re: ***HELP ME!*** HDToolBox problems...
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:28:58 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1ijls4INN9sr@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_e365@ceres (James Simmonds) writes:
>x90townsen12@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>: I have been attempting to use the HDToolBox program with my Quantum 100MB
>: hard drive but everytime I run the program I get a "Driver not installed"
>: error message.  What devices are supposed to be located in the devs drawer?
>: I currently have gvpscsi.amhd and asdg.vdisk.device in there among the other
>: standard devices.  Is something missing?  If you have any idea why I get this
>: error could you please send me some e-mail?  Thanks!
>
> As it happens, in this months Amiga Shopper (U.K) the same question is asked.
> Their reply (if I remember correctly) was that you need to set...
>
> DEVICE=yourdevice.driver
> 
> in the HDToolBox programs info (icon).
> I think its DEVICE, possibly DRIVER? Look in the manual!!?
>
> I'll check if this is right, if not I'll post their exact answer.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>James Simmonds cs_e365@kingston.ac.uk
>BCS2 Computer Science
>Kingston Universit

No, it's SCSI_DEVICE_NAME. there is also XT_DEVICE_NAME, since the
2091 etc. supports XT disks also. HDToolbox defaults to "scsi.device"
and "xt.device", since that's what the 2091 uses.
And, these ToolType options are NOT in the manual that I saw. I had to
hexdump the file to find it (my usual way of hacking things...)
Note that the device driver names are for the system, not the file, so
cases ARE important (since Exec lists aren't case insensitive like
DOS.)

Use SiND or SYsinfo3.01 to find out what your device driver name
is...it's probably on the autoboot ROM, so may not be on any disk
anywhere.

Colin
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Insite Floptical: How to get 720K/1.44M AmigaDos disks
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 08:17:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Did you try to format a CrossDos disk?   You did a manual mount of
the disk and used the 720K/1.44MB disk that you mounted?  It should
work, I have not formatted one yet, but was able to mount, read/write
one with no problem.
From: boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: PAL/NTSC/Agnus 8370/500's HELP!!! Euro-people, C= Guys??
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:01:21 GMT


	I recently quit fighting the "MY A3000 won't run games/demos
	blues and purchased a striaght stock 1.3 A500.  Rev 5.  I
	would like to know if there is a 8370 (The Fat Agnus .5 megs
	with just half birght) that is PAL.  I want this to be a demo/games
	machine and I don't want to upgrade to a 8372a if there are significant
	differences that will make hardware hitting demos not run.  So Dave?
	are there any differences between the 8370 and 8372a other than pal.
	Things like hardware hitting differences that is???  I want to 
	remain demo compatible.  HELP!!!!!!!

	boing
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