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From: rpowers@panix.com (Richard Powers)
Subject: Re: Info on CBM and VXL accel wanted...again..
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:05:29 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

>  I am looking for an accel for my A2000's.
>I am not looking at GVP's stuff because: 1) I dont care for their
>attitude because I've had dealings with them in the past.  2)  A friend of
>mine bought GVP and has had nothing but problems with it and he has a
>similar setup to mine.  BUT I WILL entertain GVP slanted suggestions.

I think your opinion of GVP is off the mark.  I have had no problems with
my 28Mhz GVP '030 accelerator which I've had for 2 years (?) now.  And I
bought the thing used!  A friend of mine has had a couple of problems with
his (same board) but he has had great service from GVP.  He has upgraded
now to a 33Mhz board.  (He got this before the '040 came out.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au (Paul Anthony Wilkinson)
Subject: Re: How do I replace my AMiga drive with an IBM 1?
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:04:43 GMT

OK. The HD Floppy thread refuses to die...

About six months ago my friend bought a second internal floppy for his A3000
through the local dealer - cost about A$160. When I heard about the new
HD floppy drives we checked his out and found that it did indeed support HD
disks.  Now with advent of Amax 2.5 with support for Mac HD disks I decided
that I would have to get one of these drives.  I got the part number of my
friends disk drive and contacted the local dealer and asked them to get a 
price.  They came back and said that Commodore said something like 
"We know what you are up to asking for a FD-357 and you can't have one"
although two days later someone else from the dealer called to say that 
Commodore claimed that an FD-357 was a PC disk drive and $190.

After all this I decided that the Commodore drive can't be too different from
the normal PC drive so I bought a 1.44MB 3.5 from a local pc parts dealer 
(A$76!!).  I had to solder in an extra wire to get the disk change line to 
work properly. I have not been able to get the Amiga to recognise the drive
as a HD drive.  I see from the include files that trackdisk.device is capable
of recognising a "3.5 inch 150 RPM" drive.  Does anyone know what signals the
Commodore drive sets to indicate a HD drive/disk or should I just go back to
trying to get a drive from Commodore?

Regards,

Paul

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From: michaelb@pdrome.UUCP (Michael Bruckheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:20:15 GMT
Organization: The PowerDrome BBS [(716)825-3614 CNet]

I've used 2.04 on a 3m A500, added 1mchip at the same time. I see no speed
loss. To emphasize, I do not have an accelerator.

          >>>---->  Mike
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From: alexm@leland.Stanford.EDU (alex matthews)
Subject: fried CIA's on my A1000?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 07:04:23 GMT


After moving my amiga 3000 miles, I put it all back together and was relieved
to find it was still working.  I just put together a msdos compatable, and
since I was planning to network them in some way via serial port, I put a 
switchbox between the A1000 and the PC so that I could switch to a null
modem once in a while.

I turned both machines on, both booted up fine.  Then I switched the a/b 
switch, and zap.  The Amiga screen turned grey, and never came back.
I think this might have something to do with the serial pinout being 
different, but unfortunately I left the pinout on the wrong coast of this 
continent.  I did use a A1000 specific serial cord to the switchbox, but all
the other cables were straight db25's.  However, before I put the switchbox
between them, I tried just hooking the two machines together with a null
modem, and did manage to get transfers of 4800 baud from the amiga to the
pc, and 19200 from the pc to the Amiga (why it could go faster one way I 
don't know... the serial port on the amiga was already weak?)

Anyway, the initials symptoms the A1000 displayed were that it would either
just turn on, the power led would not blink, and the screen would just stay
grey.  Occasionally, after an hour or so cooling off, the screen would 
turn white, it would play it's cute little A1000 kickstart tune, and then
df0: would start making a horrible noise like the head was stepping back
and forth between two tracks at 60hz.  

I opened up the case, and saw two chips with identical numbers
8520R2  --  3085S  .   I figured these must be the famous CIA's that
I've heard so many sob stories about.  I switched them around, and 
something different happens now.  The power led always blinks on powerup
like normal, the kickstart tune plays, and then the screen turns white, but
still no kickstart picture.   I noticed there are two smaller identical chips
next to those, but their numbers are slightly different (by one), so I didn't
switch them.   Is this what happened, did I fry my CIA's?  If not, what did 
I do.  How much do CIA's cost?  Are they readily available ( I do live in 
silicon valley now)?

This is the setup:

A1000
2 2meg Starboards (4meg fast)  (no small feat to get them to work together)
AdIDE + 85meg seagate HD (yup, had to ground the PAL's)
Moustime clock

Do any of you guys even remember an A1000, let alone how to fix it?
I'd love to use this as an excuse to toss this thing out and get a 3000,
but sociology majors don't make enough money to do that.  Please help!
From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  A600 PCMCIA & FASTMEM ??
Distribution: world
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:32:41 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

In article <378@cbmnl.nl.so.commodore.com> heuvdp@cbmnl.nl.so.commodore.com (Paul Heu vd Netherlands) writes:
>A large number of cards is available ranging from
>RAM/ROM/FLASHROM to SCSI adaptors, LAN adaptors, modems
>and so on..

It's nice having access (theorectically) to all theses wonderful toys,
but what about the software needed to drive them???

The Amiga has a standard parallel port right?  Why aren't there all
those people using those 'Xircom' (sp?) ethernet adapters that plug into
the parallel port?  The answer is no software to drive them that's why!

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Re: GVP multi-port card
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 00:34:57 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Jul19.072155.6069@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <62418@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Jul20.223156.22962@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <62493@cup.portal.com>

>From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
>
>I could port my 16550 driver to your board in an hour, but if you asked
>my answer would be NO WAY. You insult the intelligence of Amiga developers.
>Remember Checkpoint (I think that was the name), who tried a couple years
>ago to market a low-cost serial board with good features? Where are they
>now? Out of business, of course. Everyone bought ASDG's board (though it
>wasn't as good) because the ASDG name was better known.
>
>
>Dan
>

I think there may have been other important reasons too Dan.  Back
then (at least 2 years ago) there was much less need and requests for more
serial ports.  Today, seems like everyone wants more of them for one reason
or another.  Besides, the fact that ASDG was better known doesn't mean they
have to charge that much.  I have the CBM 7 port board for >$300 and am
happy with what it does so far.  I think a 1 or 2 port board should come in
under $100, especially for a company, like GVP, who already has their
manufacturing, advertising and distribution chains in place.

-Joel
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From: aristophanes@cc.usu.edu (Holographic Banana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Emplant questions
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:08:52 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Jul16.223935.8768@bsu-ucs.uucp>, 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
> 
> 	I will look around for the original Emplant articles.  If I find them,
> I will re-post them to c.s.amiga.emulations.
> 
> 	You might cross-post your questions regarding Emplant because the
> president of the company developing this product frequents there.
> 
> 	Emplant is, to my knowledge, a hardware device that lets you emulate
> any kind of computer as long as you have the roms (i.e. 512k boot roms for Mac
> II's, etc.)  Quadra emulation as well as 486 emulation has been  stated that it
> is possible too. 
> 
> 	It's supposed to be out real soon now, and I have suspended any doubts
> of its existence or nonexistence until I hear from Amiga World about it, and
> then decide for myself again.
> 
> 	Kyle-somebody ripped off my sig file

I've got a paper from UU (the developers), and posted a summary on
c.s.a.emulations. It's been a while since I've been on news, so I
don't know if it's still floating about.

It is a hardware platform for all Amigas (including the 500). They're
releasing it with Mac II/LC/etc. capabilities running as a task under
AmigaDOS. MMU is recommended.  PC emulation is to be released around
Christmas.  The last that I heard was that they were waiting for FCC
approval. (Lots o' things get hung up there.)

If it lives up to its specs, it'll be a killer product.  With Sybil,
it'll even read/write Mac floppies WITHOUT  a Mac drive (Hurrah!).

c.s.a.emulations was keeping up on it last I looked.....

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: Found out what 8 Flashes mean...
Keywords: 
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:22:18 CDT


   8 flashes on a ST296N means that the drive couldn't load the ram code
 from the media, eg. the platter.  Looks like I've got a *REAL BAD* bad
 spot on the drive.  Or the electronics could be messed up also.  We'll
 have to see.




      Daniel Baehr



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tnewmanda@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: A600 HD SCSI or NOT The man speaks : -)?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:10:49 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.045340.856@actrix.gen.nz>, keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:
> In article <33693@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>> sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle) writes:
>> >In article <1992Jul23.080500.9293@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr>,
>> >	barre@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr (Roland BARRE) writes:
>> >>
>> >>Does someone know the type of hard drive than I can put in an A600 (pc ide ?)
>> >>
>> >>and the price of this hard drive ( 20 mega or 50 mega)?
>> >
>> >Well this may come as a surprise to many, but the A600 has just been released
>> >over here in New Zealand and Australia, and is actually shipping with a 30meg
>> >SCSI drive, rather than the IDE drive that was previously mentioned.
>> >So basically any 2.5" SCSI drive should cause no problems.
>> 
>> Someone is trying to make one of your legs longer than the other.  ;^)
>> 
>> The A600 hardware *DOES NOT* come with SCSI and I know of no hardware available
>> for it that makes it work with SCSI.  The internal hardware is IDE.  The
>> internal drives are IDE.
>> 
> 
> The leg puller in question ( not me!!!!) ran HDTOOLBOX on the A600HD and it
> seems to scan the scsi bus and reported as if there was a normal SCSI drive
> present.
> 
> What a greatsoftware programme that can turn an IDE into a SCSI :-)
> 
> Anyway the A600 is a real cute and sexy looking machine
> 
>> /----------------------------------------------------------------------\
>> |      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
>> |     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
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>> \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
> 
> Keith

THERE IS NO SCSI IN ANY A600HD.

The IDE drive uses a device named SCSI.device, this is why you thought
HDtoolBox reported a SCSI drive.  I guess C= run the A600 IDE drive through
scsi.device is to aid in compability with software such as AMAX i.e. 
scsi.amhd will probably work.

David

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From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CDROM
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:29:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University

From article <1992Jul31.013712.15101@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, by dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee):
> 
> I've had one of the DAK cdrom's on back order for a couple months ago.
> Having given up, I was happy to see that CSC has a faster drive,
> which is also supported by CDROM-FS (the Toshiba XM-3201B, for 
> $250.  I've ordered one, and thought I'd let the net know, in case
> anyone else had been left high and dry by DAK.
>

I am thinking of getting one of those DAK CDROMS for our PC and
considered one for the Amiga as well, but when I called them and
asked, they said it wasn't scsi.  I am curious, how were you
going to attach one of DAK's BSR CDROMS to your Amiga? 
-- 
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Though all the world betrays thee.
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One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Mimetics A2000 Framebuffer
From: toddo@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Todd Oberly)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 18:23:26 EDT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

 
I'm doing some work in the Penn State University Amiga Graphics lab 
(well,
we have seven machines), trying to get the machines up to snuff on a 
meager
budget.  Anyway, I was digging through one of the A2000's and to my 
surprise,
I found a card that no one knew existed, or, at least, paid no attention 
to.
It's a Mimetics Framebuffer Board.  I would really like to get this thing
running, but unfortunately, we seem to have no docs and no software for 
it.
(The Amigas here have been moved around and divided between departments,
making it extremely easy for things to get lost.)  I haven't seem a 
Mimetics
Amiga product advertised in years.  Either they stopped producing items 
for
the Amiga or they just went under.  Does anybody out there have any idea 
how
to work this thing, or any idea where I might look for docs and software.
Any help would be most appreciated.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Todd
 
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From: Donald.Kennedy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Donald Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Sparc coprocessors
Keywords: coprocessors, sparc, bridgeboard
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:13:00 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

I've seen some Sparc clones on a card recently that are pretty much host
independant (much like the  CBM Bridgeboards, requiring a host system of
AT class or greater only for I/O). What would be the demand for a
parasitic Sparc system on an Amiga?

I've determined that there are 3 ways to do it:

1. Use a real AT Bridgeboard for I/O.
2. Use a Palomax-type bridge jumper with custom Amiga drivers
3. Use an Amiga ethernet card and run the sucker through X-windows on the 
   Amiga itself.

Another cool thing about these cards is that they have their own graphics
output, including optional frame buffers. I think it could be pretty cool
to run some of the free UNIX graphics utilities on a fast Sparc system....

Don Kennedy
Donald.Kennedy@bbs.oit.unc.edu


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From: armstrongmw@cgc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 386BB and 2630e
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:59:02 PST
Organization: Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Ca

In article <1992Jul30.093331.5391@enea.se>, tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
> aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes:
> - In article <63021@cup.portal.com> DennyA@cup.portal.com (Denny Lee Atkin) writes:
> - >Pat,
> - >
> - >Unfortunately, the 4MB on the 2630 is configured in your 8MB of RAM
> - >expansion room. With a 4MB 2630 and the Bridgeboard, you'll only be
> - >able to add 2MB of 16-bit RAM.
> - >
> - >Denny Atkin                | dennya@cup.portal.com          | "No matter where
> - 
> - Say WHAT???  I thought the whole 'beauty' of the 2620/2630 accelerator boards
> - was the fact that their *32bit* ram was 'outside' of the standard Amiga
> - autoconfig ram space, and thus with a BB, you could have 6Meg of 16Bit
> - ram in the 'standard' autoconfig address [+ 1Meg of chip / 2Meg of chip if
> - you have MegaChip/a 3000 for a total of 7/8Meg] and however much 32bit
> - ram that was supported by the board [like the 112 meg that you can stuff
> - on the DKB memory board for the 2630card] thus, making the BB system much
> - more viable/useable...
> - 
> 
> No, that's the 'beauty' of the A3000...
> 
> -- 
> =============================================================================
>  Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
> =============================================================================


No, that is correct, it does not fall into autoconfig space.  If the DKB 2632 112mb
ram expansion is used, all of the expansion memory(on the dkb2632) will fall into the
2630 32bit address space.
From: menzies@CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: RCS FF'040 + Trumpcard Pro
Date: 26 Jul 92 12:41:26 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, QC CANADA

tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang) writes:

>Finally got my RCS Fusion Forty a couple of days ago.  Had a b*tch of a time
>installing it though!  Looks as if RCS added a couple of millimeters when they
>measured how long the 2000 motherboard is.  But my real question is has anyone
>had a problem with RCS's Fusion Forty and IVS's Trumpcard Pro to work together
>O.K.  I had to install the software without the Fusion Forty in place, and now
>the hard drive crashes everytime I write to the hard drive...

>Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I'm trying the net because support here
>has been good, and I usually check here BEFORE calling tech support!

>Thanks again,

> 
>     ////////  
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>     //  eddy Wang                                    TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
>    //   Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
>         New Illusions      Albany, NY                  "Increase the Peace..."

From what I understand, the Fusion40 and the IVS Trumpcard Pro, do work
together. There are version problems however (with respect to the 040)
with the IVS software and it's not neccessarily the last version that works.
You may ve lucky and find someone here that has both working together and 
take the version# but your best bet is contact RCS with regards to the 
problems between this particular controller and their board.
	
-stephen

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From: aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:50:11 GMT
Subject: Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

| Well when I go around and try to ftp some GOOD software all I see is:
| KS 2.0 required...
...
| So then why is all this stuff now out for 2.0.. Whatever happened to downward
| compatibility?

Gene,                                         RE: 2.04 Bah Humbug....

HEAR-HEAR!  You tell 'em!  I agree.  What's with these folks?  Did 'they'
figure that the installed base of existing A1000 users would all jump up,
and throw another $2000 at the upgrade when they were already happy with 
the system they had?  (that's the power up thing...not a 2.0 upgrade)

I'm just glad that many of the hardware places are still supporting perifs!

I once tried suggesting that a 'good' developer would try to cover the bases
with both 1.3 and 2.0.  Guess what the response was?  "Catch-up with the 
*rest* of US!" <snicker> and "Why bother?"

Where _WERE_ these people in '87 anyway?  High shcool?  Please excuse me, but
my attitude seems to be showing.

Jim 8'(s | aites@hpsmpa.lvld.hp.com
From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A600 HD ?
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9
Date: 25 Jul 92 11:05:35 +1200
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <1992Jul23.080500.9293@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr>,
	barre@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr (Roland BARRE) writes:
>
>Does someone know the type of hard drive than I can put in an A600 (pc ide ?)
>
>and the price of this hard drive ( 20 mega or 50 mega)?

Well this may come as a surprise to many, but the A600 has just been released
over here in New Zealand and Australia, and is actually shipping with a 30meg
SCSI drive, rather than the IDE drive that was previously mentioned.
So basically any 2.5" SCSI drive should cause no problems.


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