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From: gkropf@bfield.uucp (Gary Kropf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1084 monitor problems.
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:44:50 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

>>I seem to recently be getting a problem with my 1084 monitor.  I believe
>>it is a problem with all the monitors and can be fixed.  Every once in a 
>>while the screen flickers off, but by tapping the monitor, the display can
>>be returned.  It seems that there is some kind of short circuit occuring in
>>the monitor because of some contact or arcing.  
>>
>>Does anyone know what I am talking about? How can I fix this?
>>
>>
>>+    Paulo F. Ferreira                        + University of Waterloo +  
>>+ email: pfferrei@undergrad.math.UWaterloo.ca +    Waterloo, Canada    +


>I think I know what you're talking about. Mine did the same thing. Every time
>the monitor flickered off a very high pitched whine (some people can't hear
>this) came from the monitor. The noise went away and the screen came back if I
>tapped on the side. The problem only got worse until I could no longer get the
>monitor to stay on for any length of time. 
>
>I'm afraid I don't know how to permanently fix it. My only advice would be to
>start saving your money. If you do figure out what went wrong and how to fix
>it, please post or E-mail the solution to me since my old 1084 is still
sitting
>around somewhere.
>
>
>                                             --- Chris Clarizio
>                                                 csc@amiganet.chi.il.us

Well I also had this problem and took my monitor in for repair. They replace a
capacitor and resoldered the board in the monitor. This was a total of $80 plus
taxes...

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From: Aurelius@cup.portal.com (Mark Christian Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 11:19:33 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Sep12.132520.7820@hubcap.clemson.edu>
  <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu>

joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:

>Unfortunately CBM left an equally important half of the "MultiMedia"
>equation off their list.  The new machines still do only crappy 8 bit audio.
>Worthless for any real professional applications.
>Really a shame.

 Does this mean that the same old Paula chip is used? That would mean
that floppy disks are still limited to 880k full speed drives. We still
will not be able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies! ;-{

 Until Paula (weak sister) is upgraded, both audio and floppy disk
performance will suffer.

			Regards, Aurelius@cup.portal.com
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: 4000
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 01:21:11 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <65745@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Sep13.064017.13800@nntp.uoregon.edu>

>In article <65745@cup.portal.com> Aurelius@cup.portal.com (Mark Christian Barn
e
>s) writes:
>>
>> Does this mean that the same old Paula chip is used? That would mean
>>that floppy disks are still limited to 880k full speed drives. We still
>>will not be able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies! ;-{
>
>   Paula is the same. However, your assumption about the disk drives is not
>correct - the A4000 has 1.76MB drives, which can read MS-DOS 1.44MB disks.
>That's why Workbench 3.0 has CrossDOS built in. :-)
>

Yes, we can read 1.44M floppies, but at the normal slow speed.  As for the
reading speed, in the current high density mode, the drive spins at half
speed, reading the data at the same slow speed.  On normal HD drives, the
speed stays the same and the data is read twice as fast.

>
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From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:56:33 GMT

mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:

>copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:

>>BTW, does the C= 040 board have an external cache and any ram on board?  The
>>latest AmigaWorld I could find here was July.

>The 68040 board does not have CACHE or RAM on it.  It is designed to not
>cause any extra wait-states to the motherboard (which is not easy since
>the 68040 bus has to be converted to the 68030 bus within the timing
>window of the 68040 cycles...)

Then is the new CPU commands EXTERNALCACHE option for future use, or are
there some 040 cards that have one?  If I find a job over the break I will be
buying one, but I don't know which.  I would REALLY like a MERCURY 33Mhz card
but it could be REAl expensive down here.  The 25Mhz version is around A$3500,
I'd hate to price the 33.

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>|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
>|     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
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From: bthompso@reed.edu (Benjamin Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: So what about that damn'd kludgy pointer?
Date: 14 Sep 92 07:26:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep14.072630.21175
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

What do you think C= has done about the kludgy sprites in the new chip
set for the A4000?  Are we still going to be subjected to a 320x200
pointer on a 1280x512 screen?  Does anyone know the specs on the
blitter and sprites in the new hardware?  The obvious answer is you
get 4x more bandwidth to do stuff in, but does that translate into
more sprites or more resolution, or just more colors in the same
resolution.  Hardware hackers want to know....  


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From: jmpiazza@acsu.buffalo.edu (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: aga in 500/2000/3000?
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:59:43 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

In article <9585@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>In article <35077@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
>>
>>The AA (or AGA as it is now known) chip set 
>            ^^^
>A little remark here: Perhaps Germany can't follow this renaming. Because
>AGA is already occupied here by, guess who?: yes, Commodore. We had an
>AGA card (Advanced Graphics Adapter) in our stoneage (and also not so very
>old, say 2 years ago) versions of MS-DOS PCs. Many people here *still* 
>know about this device, and it sported such amazing features like CGA and 
>Hercules on one board, wow! Obviously we should not try to make people 
>confuse the AA chips with that old board. *Nobody* here knew about that 
>name change in advance, it's really amazing.

	Maybe this is a Good Thing?  It could conceivably attract the
interest of an otherwise disinterested PC oriented market.  Too bad the
name's not known here in the US ...

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

CS Dept. SUNY at Buffalo 14260
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From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:31:10 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

In article <1992Sep13.150820.7338@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
>JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>>In article <1992Sep13.001509.5041@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
>>charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) says:
>
>>>I'll believe it when I se, er hear it... :)
>
>>Probably said the same thing about the aa chipset, the 040 amiga, etc.
>>They are here.
>
>But the sound card *isn't* here.  And isn't it the AGA chipset? :)
>
>And the '040  4000 is overpriced as is.  Will there be any "lesser" models
>or a substantial educational discount for those of us who can't *afford*
>to shell out almost 4 grand?
>
>(Only model I've heard of so far is the $3700 one with 6mb and a 120mb IDE)
>
>-- 
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$3700 is cheap for an '040 machine!  Compare the price with a quadra 900 or an
HP workstation.  Both have prices well over $7k, and at least in the case of
the quadra, the Amiga will beat the pants off of it performance wise. 
Secondly, the $3700 retail price  is much higher than the dealer quote I have,
which is from Infotronics in Southbury, CT(it could be Woodbury, I'm not sure)
which was $2995!  This is cheaper than the A3000/25 when it came out.  I
believe the A4000 is not a high end Amiga, but the first midrange system in a
series of AGA equipped systems, which will be both faster and slower than the
A4000.  
 
John
From: alewis@vx9000.weber.edu (ALEWIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: SetCPU
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:28:00 GMT
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Okay, I'm thoroughly confused here.  I read some messages about SetCPU from 
dave, but I don't know what it is.  Could someone please explain it to me?

I noticed in another message daves explanation of RAMSEY and SCRAM and such,
where he indicated the OS (2.04 I'm assuming) automatically detected SCRAM
and used it, but in another message someone left a CPU command with options
for cache and burst.  Are these different utilities, and where can I get them.
I've looked in the AmigaDOS 3rd edition for SetCPU and it wasn't in there.

My real question is how can I get the best performance out of my 3000 if I'm
using the startup-sequence the 2.04 installer installs and nothing else.  I 
remember hearing about a way to copy the ROM to Fast-RAM, how do I do that?

Thanks!
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 local bus
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:14:36 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <ERICJ.92Sep11094228@manila.cfsat.Honeywell.COM> ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:

>The 030 and 020 buses are basically the same. An EC030 would be a good
>choice for a low end machine. 

Basically, the '030 bus is a superset of the '020 bus.  You can drop an '030
into anything an '020 goes into, but the '020 can't necessarily replace the
'030 in an '030-specific system.

>I am continually amazed at C='s decisions to continue putting 68000 cpus in 
>new machines (A600, A2500, etc., etc.)

The A2500 came out in 1988, that's hardly a new machine.  And, while it did
have a 68000 fallback CPU, the main processor was a 14.3MHz 68020.  In 1989, 
that was upgraded to a 25MHz 68030.

The A600 is a low end machine.  As long as the OS will run on a 68000 and
the 68000 is noticably cheaper than a 68020, it makes sense to build cheaper
and cheaper 68000 machines.  Plenty of people will buy a $200 computer who
wouldn't buy a $500 or $1000 computer -- that's one reason we sold 3 million 
C128s before we sold half a million Amigas.  If Motorola builds a 32-bit 680x0 
that makes sense to the low end folks, I'm sure they'll use it instead of the
68000.

>*Nobody* makes PCs with 8086s anymore, 

I'm sure HP and nearly every other "Palmtop" computer maker would take issue
with that.

>and there are *very* few 80286 machines being made anymore. 

I'm sure Tandy and most of the other "home PClone" makers would find that
kind of funny, too.  Sure, older processors eventually yield to newer ones,
but just because the hottest thing on the block is based on [X]XX4XX[X] or
whatever, don't assume there's no use for the older systems.  Also, the '286
is faster than the '386 at the same clock speed on 8088 code -- the reasons
for '386SX are [a] Only Intel could make '386s back when AMD started building
fast '286 clones and [b] the '386 software model finally moves into the 80's
in terms of programmer's model -- the 680x0 family has always been there.

>(Are there even any Macs with 68ks anymore?)

I don't know, but they do make 16-bit systems with '030s in them, which are
only marginally faster than 68000 systems as the same clock speed.  
-- 
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From: epa@cis.ksu.edu (Eric P. Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 68030 Accelerators for the Amiga 500
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:55:40 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: cygnus.cis.ksu.edu

I am looking at buying a 68030 accelerator for my Amiga 500 since I
cannot afford to upgrade to a A3000 :-(  I have a Xetec FastTrak HD
controller w/4 Meg of memory on the daughterbord.  I am looking for
specs on the various accelerators.

I want a 68030 w/MMU  (None of this EC crap!), I'm not too worried
about the FPU since I don't do anything that really uses floating
point.  I would prefer that the board has simm slots so I can put my 4
1Meg simms on it as 32 bit memory.

I am looking for un-biased(hahahaha!) information on any boards that
exist, compatibility problems encountered.  My motherboard is Rev 5.
and has the 1Meg agnus installed.

Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide.

(Post in comp.sys.amiga.hardware if you feel the information will be
useful to others or email epa@cis.ksu.edu)

-- 
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       "I plead the fifth, because I'm too dumb." -- Karl S. Hagen
From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Will 2.0n work with a 512k Agnus?
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:39:01 GMT
Organization: LLNL_LIS

In article <1992Sep3.212652.21672@picker.com>, SHERMAN@engvax.picker.com (MIKE SHERMAN) writes:
> 
> 	My Amiga 2000 has a revision 4.1 motherboard and a 512k Agnus.  Will
> I need to upgrade my Agnus chip to run 2.0?  If it will run in this
> configuration, will the performance be degraded without a 'fatter' Agnus? 
> 
> 				Thanx,
> 					Mike Sherman


No, you do NOT need a 1 or 2 MEG Agnus with 2.0.  I've been trying to upgrade
my A2000's Agnus for awhile now, but I received a bad Agnus.  My Amiga is
running fine with 2.0 and a 1/2 Meg Agnus, but I sure would like to have more
Chip Ram!!!!!!!

Joe
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From: 10754555@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (DAVID RICHARDS)
Subject: IBM HardDrives on Amiga500
Keywords: amiga harddrive ibm
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:04:58 GMT

If the answer has been posted already, sorry I missed it but...

I have heard that IBM harddrives can somehow be connected to an amiga 500.

Can this be done and if so, how, what advantages/disadvantages/restrictions 
are there etc.

I have an A500, A590+ harddrive, 1meg chip, 2meg fast.

Thanks for any help.

 
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Subject: IBM Keyboard --> Amiga 2000
From: <DI3QC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Sunday, 13 Sep 1992 11:54:11 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

     I have a shot 2000 keyboard that needs replacing so I picked up an IBM
Keyboard. I was wondering if there is any file on an FTP site on how to
connect it to a 2000 or can someone out there help me out. Thanks.



                                                        Alex Jeannopoulos
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: 4000
From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:40:07 +1200
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9

In article <65730@cup.portal.com>,
	joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>
>Unfortunately CBM left an equally important half of the "MultiMedia"
>equation off their list.  The new machines still do only crappy 8 bit audio.
>Worthless for any real professional applications.
>
>Really a shame.

CBM also said at the show that they were sorry the sound wasn't ready, but
an upgraded sound chip would be available, or words to that extent.


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From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Whether to buy a Canon BubbleJet or a HP DeskJet500
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 14:27:09 GMT

joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
[stuff deleted]

>well.  I know that the Epson dot matrixes that claim 360 can place a huge
>180dpi dot at a 360dpi spacing.  Not true 300dpi.  I don't know about Canon.

I'm not sure of the exact size of the dot printed by the BJ, but it looks to
be a lot less than 180dpi.  24-pin Epson output is nothing compared to the
BJ ... (one of the reasons I *bought* my BJ :) )

>>
>>Wolf Faust's drivers really do take advantage of the BJ series' power.  Also
>>very nice is the ability to select any Amiga font (bitmap or Compugraphic)
>>and have it downloaded to the printer automatically.
>There are also some highly tuned commercial drivers for the DJ and DJC.
>Real nice.

There's no extra expense (at least if you have FTP access) to get Wolf Faust's
BJ drivers.  I seem to recall hearing something about him having a 
shareware PostScript intrepreter for the BJ series, though. (Somebody please
correct me on this if I'm wrong...)

>-Joel
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From: abarnes@bbs1984.chi.il.us (Anthony Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga 1000 & Serial Ports
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:30:43 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

Is there any way (reasonably priced) to add an extra serial port to an Amiga
1000?  I know of a sysops that wishes to add a second (or more) nodes to his
system and doesn't know how to go about it.  Anyone with any suggestions please
let me know.  TIA.

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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:30:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.214452.27040@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.162639.1888@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu
>(Jeff Bevis) writes:
>
>>>>Unfortunately CBM left an equally important half of the "MultiMedia"
>>>>equation off their list.  The new machines still do only crappy 8 bit audio.
>
>>Well, this is the most disappointing aspect of the 4000 for me.  I was
>>really looking forward to great new graphics and sound.  They got 1/2 of it.
>
>Aren't you guys being a bit presumptious, considering the fact that Jim Dionne
>indicated that a DSP board would be available within 6 months? A DSP
>board is certainly much more versatile than a revised Paula and the
>possibility is very strong that such a card will be available for the
>existing Zorro-based machines (A2000/3000).

   The problem with putting the DSP on an 'optional' card instead of making it
standard hardware on at least one system is software.  There already is at
leastone third-party Zorro II card available which uses the same DSP that
Commodore will be using, but how much software is available for it?  The
Commodore card will almost certainly sell better than the one from the third-
party company, but not much better.  After about a year, I will be amazed
if the installed base of Amigas with Commodore DSP cards is even 1% what
it would have been had Commodore released the DSP as standard hardware in 
at least one system.

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From: cemn@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Nielsen)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 00:28:59 GMT

>>Soooo, unless you are the type who *has* to have the advanced Amiga
>>graphics (do you want to target your market that tightly) you are
>>probably a lot better off looking around first.
>
>For my upcoming work I also need an (at least) '386 bridgeboard, due to 
>the lack of certain engineering packages on the Amiga.  I'd *like* to
>buy a better Amiga and such a bridgeboard, but if C= doesn't start
>lowering the prices or actually *release a middle-of-the-road Amiga*
>(*NOT* the 3000, but something with AGA and upgradeable later on), I'll
>be forced to buy a clone instead.
>

	I've owned an amiga since 1988, and I have been waiting for the
common engineering packages to be released for the Amiga, however It
looks like the only way to get these packages is to buy a clone, where
by the way you do get quite good graphics at an affordable price.  

	I am not intending to flame, however is merely stating a fact
SAD but true.

	mike

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