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From: sjg1@cec2.wustl.edu (Seth J. Golub)
Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
Keywords: amiga virtuatlity game observations questions
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:40:10 GMT


These games are actually becoming fairly common.
I've played the one you described in St. Louis, New York, and even in
a remote mall in Connecticut.  All the ones I have seen allow four
players at a time.  One of them also had two pairs of the players
linked with headsets so they could talk to eachother and team up
against the other pair.  Another game they have at these "Virtuality"
places has you driving a tank around.  Same visor, but the only other
input is a joystick.  Not as impressive as "Dactyl Nightmare".  The
cost I've heard is closer to $55,000.. but you may have been quoting
Canadian dollars, and I am thinking in US$. 

There's a new game coming out for the same system.  It is played on
the tank simulator, but uses one more joystick.  So far there is only
a demo, but it looks pretty good.  You get to fly a spaceship around
and blast away enemy ships.  

The cost of playing these games over here is $4 for 3.5 minutes of the
one you described, or $3 for 3.5 minutes of the tank.  The one in NY
had slightly higher prices, but that's typical.  (These are all US$)

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Seth Golub                                         sjg1@cec2.wustl.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: summ50@cse.unl.edu ()
Subject: Re: A3000: Heating up?
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:56:57 GMT

smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:

>In article <aqyFqB1w164w@qed.cts.com>, analogki@qed.cts.com (Jeff Robertson) writes:
>> 
>> I have an Amiga 3000 (25Mhz) with 52meg Quantum HD, two internal floppy
>> drives, 2megs of CHIP RAM and 4megs of FAST RAM. My mom-board rev# is 8.9.
>> 
>> It occurred to me one day that my power supply's fan shouldn't be BLOWING
>> air INTO the machine, as every power supply I have ever seen on a 3000 was
>> SUCKING air OUT! The same is true for every other power supply for any
>> computer I have ever seen. Makes sense, too. Sucking air OUT of the machine
>> seems more efficient in cooling than forcing it in. This action also keeps
>> DUST from piling up on the IC's.
>>
>I would disagree. If the fan sucks air out, then the incoming air gets in
>through  all the holes in the case, and is not filtered. By making the fan
>blow air in, you can put a filter over the fan intake & screen out the
>dust (I haven't got an A3000, I don't know if there is a filter there, but
>that's commonplace on larger systems).

>As to cooling, if the hottest objects are near the fan, making it blow
>in gets the cool ambient air straight to them. Sucking it out means that
>the air has already been heated up by the rest of the system by the time it
>gets to them.

>My preference would be to leave things as C= did, at least that way if it
>does die your warranty is intact!

>Steve


Hmmmm.....   Odd....  I just stuck my hand behind my A3000/25-50, and, lo
and behold, the fan was blowing air OUT of the Amiga....  and that is
exactly how it came from the factory!

By the way, no problems here, either, but it also gets dusty inside.


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From: dmcelroy@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Denise McElroy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Info on GVP Accelerators wanted
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:14:28 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS

I want to buy an accelerator for my A2000, but before I do, I would appreciate
it if anyone out there who owns a GVP accelerator already could send me the
results from running the SysInfo program. (BTW, what version number is that
program up to now?) If you want to help me do some comparison shopping, just
send me some e-mail describing what sort of setup you have, and what sort of
performance SysInfo (or any other such program) says it gives.

Denise McElroy
(no witty .sig for today!)
From: lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Question about A500 w/Super Denise > (no flicker)
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:17:59 GMT
Reply-To: lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Kelly)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Just wanted to know if anyone out there has any cost effective ways
for flicker elimination on an A500 (wb 2.04/Ecs Agnus/Ecs Denise)??
At this point, I do not require color, as I will be mainly using this
setup for Amax (which currently does not support color).  I have heard
about possibly using a monochrome vga display, and running in productivity
mode under amax, or using a long persistance composite monitor.  Will
either of these solutions work effectively??  Any trade-offs?? I have
seen in the latest AmigaWorld an ad from Grapevine about the refurbished
CBM 1403 monochrome vga monitor's.  Any comments using this monitor
for the purpose of flicker-elimination?   Btw, what is the magic scan
frequency that I am looking for for the productivity mode??  I believe
that 15.75 is ntsc video, would it be 31.2??

     Thanks for any help!!!
     -Larry
From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2620 ram speed
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:07:20 GMT
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada

In article <1992Sep2.123540.5714@news.uit.no> terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
>Does anyone know what the differentjumper settings on the J500 jumper on the 
>A2620 cards means?
>
>The manuall only says that the default settings is for 100ns ram timing which 
>is the speed on the ram. This should as far as I know make the 68020 run at one
>wait-state. However, I tried to move this jumper to the lower position (which
>I believe is 80 ns) and everything seems to work just fine, with the additional
>bonus of a small but noticable (and measurable) increcment in speed.

That's what it does. Commodore doesn't ship them set for 80ns because
the RAM is unreliable that way. Dave H. explains this better, but
running 100ns RAM at 80 could cause chip failures or wrong bits.
Without parity, you'd never know that your data was wrong, or your
program crashed because of a RAM failure. If you desolder all the
100ns RAM and replace it with 70ns RAM, I think the board will work
*almost* reliably, but one of the other chips may be pushing its
design spec.

If you want BLAZEMONGER to run 5% faster, and you don't care if the
game screws up once in a while, go ahead. If you do anything important
on your machine, or have a low tolerance for flakey operation, don't.

Now, wet blanket stuff aside, I've run an A2620 with 2M original RAM
and 2M of faster RAM under heavy use for months at a time without
rebooting. I consider myself either lucky it works, or ignorant that
it doesn't. You mileage may vary.

>Terje Marthinussen
>terjem@stud.cs.uit.no


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From: mohr@educom.adsp.sub.org (Frederic Botton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 38,400 Telebit Qblazer Modem ($299.00)
Date: 28 Aug 92 11:05:10 GMT
Organization: Educom
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.29 4/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <78459@ut-emx.uucp> violator@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Violator) writes:
>Where did u find this modem for 300 dollars?  I was told it was selling for
>about 600 dollars.  Where did u buy it?   Is it a 14.4 modem which suports
>.32 bis .32 .42bis etc....
>

SupraFaxModem V32bis does all this... and more !!! for less than that !

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From: pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP! PARNet DEATH on ACCELERATED A2000!!!
Summary: gvp rendered parnet useless!
Keywords: parnet, network, amiga
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:36:23 GMT

Hola.. I use an Amiga 3000 and A2000 which used to be connecvted together thru ParNET... the a2000 was plain vanilla (just an ooold 2090 HD controller and
3 MB of mem) and an A3000/25/105. The problem is, when the A2000 was upgraded 
with a GVPG-Force board (25/100/6MB) ParNET refused to work. I even copied the
entire a3000's system partition to the A2000's HD, and it still wont work.

HELP .... MEEE!
(Boy do I hate SneakerNET)

--Alejandro Garza -- mail @ academ01.mty.itesm.mx or
        		    luisk@men_at_work.mty.itesm.mx

--We don't need no stinking 80586 to play dem games!!!
From: bugs009@bugs.mty.itesm.mx (Isaac Guajardo Leal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 struck by lightning, which chips to replace?
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:37:47 GMT

I must join in the "Struck by Lighning" Club ... In my case I had a full
lighting arrestor electric hookup (including the phone line), so that
saved the modem -the whole phone system was not so lucky- BUT the A3000
started to act weird regarding the serial port. At first I blamed the
modem but then I found out that the serial videotape deck controller was
not working also (I have an A/B switch box so both can share the one an
only serial port) so I changed the CIA and still the serial port would
work for just a little time.

I called my C= dealer and he arreanged a CPU swap because I was still on
warranty zone. He sent the A3000 (CPU only) UPS red and got a new one
(same case, brand new motherboard 8-) in three days, just paid shipping
expenses which the insurance company paid (grin).

If you are under warranty or have insurance against lightning call your
dealer or C= directly. If not I still would go for an authorized repair
center, an A3000 is a pice of hardware to be taken seriously. It's worth
the repair cost and the assurance that is going to work in the future,
maybe under a brand new warranty.

          Isaac (PSYCHO) Guajardo
         bugs009@bugs.mty.itesm.mx
"The one who dies with the most toys wins!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dg@sundog.caltech.edu (DALE GARY)
Subject: Need advice on getting rid of WB1.3 partition
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.40    
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:17:00 GMT

I just added a 120 MB hard disk to my A3000, and I would like to take this
opportunity to get rid of the WB 1.3 partition that came with the existing
50 MB drive.  My plan is to copy all of the files from the 50 MB drive
(partitions SYS and Work) to the 120 MB drive, then reformat the 50 MB
drive, getting rid of the WB1.3 partition, and finally recopying all of
the files back.

My problem is that I don't know how the system determines where Kickstart
is.  Is it hardcoded in ROM to look in some directory of SYS, for example?
If I merely follow the above procedure blindly, will it work, or will
I overwrite some hidden file or file structure, never to boot my machine
again?  Where is the hard-disk-based Kickstart, anyway?

Any advice will be appreciated.  Thanks

Dale Gary
dg@sundog.caltech.edu
From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Zorro <> CAMAC Bus interface needed
Keywords: Zorro, CAMAC, bus interface
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:14:26 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas



We are in need of an Amiga to CAMAC bus interface card. The CAMAC bus is a
scientific instrumentation bus with 16bit data, 20bit address.

I would be seriously interested in discussing this matter with someone who is
technically competent to make such a bus interface for us.

Please contact me at:

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
UUCP     : $ {cs.utexas.edu, gatech!petro, sun!texsun}!swrinde!kent
Phone    : (512) 522-2882

US Mail  :

Kent Polk - Div 17
Southwest Research Institute
PO Box 28510
San Antonio, TX 78284
USA
From: dwong@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Quantum hard drives: A Tale of Woe and Heavy Sarcasm.
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:33:40 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <36909@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
> Did ghazi@wizofhoz.uucp really type:
>> 
>> 	That's nice, some people got lucky, some people got screwed, some
>> people read this group before investing in a flawed product.
> 
> Anyone who buys a *new* Quantum 240/120 from any of the mailorder houses
> will get the corrected drive.  The drives that have been shipping since
               ^^^^^^^^^
> March have had the update.
> 
>> 	The LPS120( smaller brother of the 240) is also a horror story for
                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> some.
> 
> I'll pay you a dollar per meg for your Quantum...
> -- 
> John Adams - Sysop - Beachside BBS.  (Amiga/Cyber/Fido/UUCP)     _
> Internet: jma@cis.ufl.edu      John_Adams%lamia.uucp@ufl.edu  _ // Amiga
> Fidonet: 1:3612/57.0         UUCP: uflorida!lamia!John_Adams  \X/ Forever
> Cybernet: 57:2163/57.0  AT&T: 1-904-492-2305 (Pensacola, FL)
-- 

I remember starting up this thread of discussion about Quantums a few weeks
back now.  I must have missed some of the discussion in between then and now -
is there REALLY something wrong with the new Quantum 120/240LPS drives?  If
there is, what's the problem - I'm still waiting for my second replace drive to
come back...

Despite the experiences so far, I still think Quantums are worth a
recommendation.  I can't afford a Wren or HP drive...  8^(

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From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Questions about A2090 HD controller...
Distribution: world
Date: 28 Aug 92 10:17:05 PST
Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Fri 28 Aug 92  2:40, kopackm@lonex.rl.af.mil (Michael A.
Kopack) wrote:

 MAK> I recently purchased a used A2090 SCSI controller for an old A2000.

The A2090 also supports two MFM ST506 drives. 

 MAK> Can a 3.5" Hd be mounted onto the card to act as a hard card?

No, but you could buy a frame I would think (even one that sits in the IBM
slots.

 MAK> Also, how would one Low-Level format this drive?

If you're adding another SCSI drive, no need to low-level format.  HDPREP
is as close to a low level format as you'll need.  I believe I'm using the
version that came with WB2.04 on my old ST251 MFM drive.  HDPREP did change
from the original version in 1988 (?) but as I recall the 1991 version is
ok.

 MAK> Does this interface support the FFS? 

Yes! FFS runs fine as I'm using it via the WB2.04 ROMs with my A2090.

 MAK> Thanks for the help. Please reply via E-Mail to
 MAK> kopack@lonex.rl.af.mil

Sorry, I have to reply to All.


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From: rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Spurious Write Protect
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:07:18 MET
Distribution: world
Organization: Disaster Area

I just bought an Amiga 500+, now I have a problem.
The external drives give spurious writeprotects, when the disk is not write
protected. This disables me from formatting or copying disks in the
external drives. A problem that also occurs is that booting from external
drive brings up repeately the requester : 
You must replace volume XXX: in drive dfx:

I don't why this is, the external drives have worked fine for about 3 years
connected to my old Amiga 500.

Anybody got any idea what can be the problem ?

--
Rico Jansen (rico@disaster.hacktic.nl)
From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 8520's
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 92 09:49:29 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

>Are the 8520's just relabeled 6526's (I think I read this in the

If memory serves the main difference is in how the TOD (time of day)
counter works. On the 8520 the TOD is a 24-bit binary counter, while
on the 6526 it's in some other format.

Dan
From: jmt@legend.cma.fr (Jean-Marc Tanzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing noisy fan in A2000
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:31:55 GMT
Reply-To: jmt@legend.cma.fr (Jean-Marc Tanzi)
Organization: INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

In article <1992Aug25.122128.9@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk>, tscarpenter@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk writes:
>    OK I can't stand the noise of the fan in my A2000 any more,
>    Has anyone ever changed it before ?, and what type of fan was the
>    replacement.

I've slowed down the fan on my A2000 by inserting a few small diodes (1N4148 or
similar) to lower the operating voltage. That makes the fan much quieter, but
still efficient. Noise is just energy wasted. Each diode gives around 0.7V drop.
Try 4 or 5. 

I first tried with a resistance, but the fan wouldn't start: it needs a much higher
current at start, and that makes a much bigger voltage drop. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
Keywords: amiga virtuatlity game observations questions
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:41:53 GMT
Reply-To: laukee@canon.co.uk
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

geac@uunet.UU.NET writes:

[ ... on the Virtuality system ... ]

>	At first, I thought this might be SGI showing off.  Not that I
>don't like SGI, I just don't have any hope of affording one. Then I
>noticed the keyboard on top of the box was a standard Amiga keyboard.
>I was very intregued.  Apparently, then whole thing is run on an Amiga
>3000.  In fact, since you are fighting against one other player, there
>are two Amiga 3000's to each setup --- connected together in some
>way... but I could not tell how as the cabling was obscured.  My
>interest was definately piqued here, though, as I can definately
>afford a 3000.

The Amiga is used for generating sound, hosting "the rest" of
the system, and very little else. Buying a 3000 is not going to get you
very close to a Virtuality system.

David
From: gkropf@bfield.uucp (Gary Kropf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Very strange DF0: problem
Date: 22 Aug 92 06:44:18 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

 
>> Here's an odd problem: a few days ago my DF0: stopped reading, writing, and
>> formatting Amiga disks.  However, it still reads and writes MS-DOS disks 
>> using MessyDOS.  Obviously the drive has not died and the heads are still
>> there, so does anyone have a clue as to what could be wrong?  (A2000/2630,
>> WB2.04).  Thanks.
>> -- 

>My amiga did the same thing yesterday (same setup) anybody have any ideas?

It could be that you both have a virus...

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                 *         Gary Kropf  C/O BakersField BBS    *
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From: violator@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Violator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HOW TO BOOT 286BB on a A3000
Summary: How can it be done?
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:57:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UT

I have recently bought a used A2286BB and I do not know how to get it to
boot off of my Amiga 3.5 drive.  Does anyone know how this could be done?
What are my options.  I know there have to be a few A3000 286BB users out
there.  I would appreciate any help or recommendations.

Mike


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