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From: Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com>
Subject: Re: A3000/Toaster
Originator: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:05:44 GMT

In article <32858@darkstar.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:
>In article <3750@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ee23042f@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
>>[asks how to modify the toaster to fit in the 3000]
>...The mod consisted of moving the bnc connector on the top to a lower
>position on the rear panel and running a new cable to the board. This
>only involved drilling a new hole in the rear plate of the toaster card.
>No mods were made to the A3000.  This will obviously void the warranty
>on the toaster, but they may have a way around that.
>     It is quite probable that other dealers, and individuals, have
>other ways of doing the mod.

Yep, I posted last week how to make a *reversible* modification to the
Toaster so that it would fit into the A3000 (I don't know about the
A3000T) without "hacking the case" (as most people seem to like doing,)
or drilling any holes.

The modification consists of removing (unsoldering) the "top" BNC
connector, and then moving the connector plate "down" one hole position
on the remaining connectors.  This now leaves an open hole at the
"bottom" of the plate.  Insert the removed connector in this hole and
then reconnect it with shielded wire to the pads where the connector was
originally mounted.  ("Top," "bottom," and "down" here are in reference
to the normal Toaster mounting position in an A2000.  "Top" is away from
the edge (bus) connector.)

Simple, clean, and reversible, but probably still voids the warranty
unless you're good at soldering and can undo the modification without
leaving any traces....  (Actually you want to leave the traces on the
board ;-})  If these instructions aren't sufficient for you to do the
modification, you probably shouldn't be doing it anyway.

>| Terry Ricketts			|  Internet: terry@helios.ucsc.edu

-hans
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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Considering switching to IBM
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:49:10 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

> Second, about the 486's using V8086 mode: This mode does not mean
> you can only use the 8086 instruction set. That is wrong. V8086
> mode just traps certain things and handles little bits and pieces
 
What is this mode FOR?  Mainly, it's for running programs that only
use the 8086 instruction set.  The other instructions may be
available but they almost never get used.
 
Aren't you the same guy who said the 486 was ahead of the '040
because it had 16 16-bit registers, and then said registers don't
matter much for performance?  HAHAHAHA ...
 
I remember several years ago, the IEEE benchmarked some 386s against
the lowly 68020, and found the 386 was slower at everything but
string processing, at the same clock speed.  And now I hear people
telling me that 386s can be faster than '030s.  Eh?  And now they say
that a 486 that does maybe 11 mips is cooler than an '040 that does
19 at the same clock speed, or thinks that intel mips count for more
real work than moto mips, when anyone who has programmed both knows
the opposite is true.
From: David_Braun@panam.wimsey.bc.ca (David Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: re: Toaster on a 3000????
Distribution: world
Date: 10 Apr 92 11:36:09 PDT
Organization: Commodore Computer Club / PaNorAmA

In a message dated Fri 10 Apr 92 09:32, Ee23042f@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (zaphod Be
wrote:


 EB>   Does anyone have a Video Toaster working on a 3000?  I've heard
 EB> that the board needs to be hacked off to make it fit, is this true?


   I've seen a toaster running on a 3000T, but they had to do horrible
things to the Amiga's case with a hacksaw to make it fit.

/db

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From: dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Seagate Drives
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:08:50 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

>Just a question.
>For curiosity.
>What did your Maxtor LXT-100S suffer from ?
>I have the same one, bought 1 year ago.
>
>P-chan.

	It worked fine, but made the most annoying squeeking noise..
I dealt with it for months, then said forget it!..(I heard it over the 
Seagate drive! .. thats how loud it was!)...it seemed to go away if I
pressured the drive (ie. pressed it into the mounting card with my finger)
even though it was mounted correctly and securely!

	Oh, the new drive they sent is the 213 SY (NOT LY)


						Dave
From: kalkan@ramz.uucp (Ove Kalkan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Connection between Kick-ROM and Amiga?
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:32:27 GMT
Organization: Tu Braunschweig Mechanikzentrum, Germany

Who knows how long can I make a cable connection between the
Kernel-ROM-socket and the ROM.
Cause I have installed a 14MHz Accelerator, I wont be able to
use normal ROM-switches.
If anybody knows how long I can make a cable connection, I would
be happy, if he would mail me a note or post it here.

Thanks in advance, Ove

try: kalkan@ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
     kalkan@otto.ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
     kalkan@ramz.ramz.ing.tu-bs.de
     kalkan@ramz.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: pak3@ellis.uchicago.edu (Philip Klatte)
Subject: SCSI-Ethernet adapters
Keywords: networking 
Reply-To: pak3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:57:00 GMT

I have recently seen ads for SCSI-to-Ethernet adapters (Asante has one
they advertise for the Macintosh).  I'm wondering if anyone knows of
one with Amiga drivers (or an Amiga driver for the Asante)?

				Philip
				pak3@midway.uchicago.edu
From: rowebm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Brian Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP me design an AMPLIFIER board for my Amiga
Date: 17 Apr 92 04:52:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

I will soon be living in NJ.  Sea Isle City.  If anyone knows of an Amiga user
group in that area, or of a BBS of any kind I would like to hear about it.
Retailers would also be helpful.  Thank you.
          -Brian Rowe
From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000/Toaster
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:13:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: darkstar.32858
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory

In article <3750@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ee23042f@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:

>  What exactly does the modification entail?  Is it just widening the slot
>  opening to accomodate a BNC connector?  I'm having some trouble picturing
>  this, since I haven't actually seen the Toaster card.

>  Also, there was some mention of having an Amiga dealer do this.  If I could
>  find one that would, would it still invalidate my warranty?

    First a disclaimer. I do not own a A3000, nor do I own a toaster. I have not
actually seen the mod. 
    Recently when visiting my amiga dealer (HT Electronics
in Sunnyvale, Calif) one of the techs there mentioned to my son, who had just
got a A3000, that they were succesfully modifying the toaster for the A3000. The
mod consisted of moving the bnc connector on the top to a lower position on the
rear panel and running a new cable to the board. This only involved drilling a
new hole in the rear plate of the toaster card. No mods were made to the A3000.
This will obviously void the warranty on the toaster, but they may have a way
around that. 
     It is quite probable that other dealers, and individuals, have other ways
of doing the mod. This is what the tech reported to me. In looking at the
toaster board this looks like a simple mod. Please don't flame me if this is
just a piece of misinformation. I am only repeating what I was told.

						Terry

| Terry Ricketts			|  Internet: terry@helios.ucsc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Slingshot.
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:54:27 GMT

I'm looking at the Slingshot as a cheap ($40 new, used presumably less)
way to get an expansion slot for my Amiga.  Specifically, looking at a
hard disk or memory expansion.

Any experience, comments?

T.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: paws@cray.com (Daniel Baehr  1252)
Subject: Re: Seagate drive to slow at boot time!
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:42:57 CDT

In article <3139@cs.rit.edu> dsg6397@cs.rit.edu (David S Greenberg) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.072410.20648@u.washington.edu> eylerken@u.washington.edu writes:
>>
>>      Is there a hardware/software patch that I can apply to my system to
>>allow my seagate 296N boot up the FIRST time with the rest of my system.
>>Right now I have to do a warm boot after the cold boot just so the drivce
>>can catch up.  I am using the GVP combo card with a 105 quantum.  So if
>>anyone has any ideas to fix this, drop me some mail.
>>
>>
>>                                                  Ken Eyler
>>                                                  eylerken
>>                                                  eylerken.u.washington.edu
>
>
>	If your main boot drive (AmigaDos) is the Quantum, you can change the
>drive ID of the Seagate to a higher ID, thus giving it more time to spin up
>before the controller tries to automount it. (The MAX ID is 7, but most 
>controllers use this as their own ID, so Try ID=6 first and see if it mounts
>ok, then try 5, 4 ,3 ..etc Remember, each unused id between the first drive
>and the second drive will cause a small delay (actually a timeout).
>	
>						Dave
>
>p.s. I am not farmiliar with the GVP card, so this whole Idea may not work!
>

    Yes, there is a hardware patch you can apply to your system to get the 
 Seagate drive to auto boot.  Its real easy.  Get a trumpcard SCSI controler.
 I've been ragging on GVP for a long time now about their problem and I'm
 told "Seagate needs to do a change to their microcode".  The funny thing
 about that is that the drive I was having problems with WASN'T a Seagate
 drive but a IMPRIMIS drive (Imprimis was bought out by Seagate AFTER the
 ST1239NS drive was made).  There are 3 types of drives that will work on
 GVP controllers, Quantum, Maxstore and Connor. (sorry if spelled them wrong)
 THATS IT!  The Trumpcard boots from my Seagate drive in 32 seconds.  GVP
 has at least a 45 second delay on powerup.  I have little good to say about
 GVP controlers.


     Daniel Baehr    paws@artgate.cray.com


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen)
Subject: VGA->Amiga3000
Originator: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:26:38 GMT

I have recently purchased an A3000/16 and now am looking for a monitor for it.

I would like to hook up a relatively inexpensive SVGA monitor unless there is
a good reason not to.  I don't do video work and I don't much care about
overscan but I do care about the cost of mulitscan monitors compared to VGAs.

Is the A3000 port a "standard" VGA port? Can I "plug and play" so to speak?

Also, if these VGAs are a good option, what are good models to consider and
should I purchase a non-interlaced model or will the A3000 de-interlacing
hardware make this unnecessary?

Thanks, mrosen

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From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Atari Falcon (wasn't: Amiga Falcon)
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:52:22 GMT
Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <mykes.2417@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>Total time is less to write a flood fill routine than it is to set up all
>the stuff needed to make the OS routine work.

	move.l	4,a6
	move.w	mybitmap+bm_BytesPerRow,d7
	mulu	mybitmap+bm_Rows,d7
	move.l	d7,d0
	move.l	#MEMF_CHIP,d1
	jsr	_LVOAllocMem(a6)
	move.l	d0,mychipram_ptr
	beq.s	error
	move.l	GfxBase,a6
	lea	mytmpras,a0
	move.l	d0,a1
	move.l	d7,d0
	jsr	_LVOInitTmpRas(a6)
	move.l	#mytmpras,myrastport+rp_TmpRas
	lea	myrastport,a1
	moveq	#0,d2
	move.l	xcoord,d0
	move.l	ycoord,d1
	jsr	_LVOFlood(a6)

	I'm waiting for your 17 line flood fill. Note that to be fair,
your flood fill must handle bitplane masking, patterns, both ECS
and old blitters, all screen depths, and both flood modes (fill to
pen #, and fill to different pixel color). Also, you'll have to include
clipping to non-rectangular regions. Also note that the first 7 lines of
the initialization give you part of the initialization that you
that you would need for polygons and ellipses.

	I can agree with you about some of the speed complaints,
but to say that it is less work to write the routines yourself
than to set up the required structures is carrying it to extremes.

	Believe me, I've written all the graphics primitives multiple
times on different platforms and know the amount of work involved,
and it is non-trivial. If you absolutely need the speed increase
gained by writing the primitives yourself, and if the benefits offset
the loss (to the user) than go for it, but otherwise you are just
making work for yourself. Also note that there is nothing stopping
you from writing your own primitives AND keeping the OS alive. Writing
to the bitplanes of your own non-public screen without windows is perfectly
legal. So is poking the blitter registers inside of OwnBlitter.



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From: icicle@cats.ucsc.edu (Andrew Christian Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: I Need Hard-Drive Drivers...
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:20:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz


 I have a file I got somewhere that tells how to hook up old IBM-style hard drive
interfaces to the Amiga. What I need, however, is driver software that will work
with these. The file gives commercial sources in Germany, but I'd rather use
something public domain or shareware (or something from U.S.) If anyone can help
with this, I'd appreciate it.
                                                   icicle@cats.ucsc.edu
From: tlee@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Timothy Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Power a SCSI HD from SCSI CONNECTOR PINS??
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:38:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr9.223809.6759
Organization: University of Hawaii


 HI.. I was thinking of using my QUANTUM 50MEGGER HARD DRIVE to be a PORTABLE
 Hard Drive.. That is, I want to put it into a SMALL EXTERNAL CASE with
 NO POWER SUPPLY.. And, I wanted to power the Hard Drive from the Power and
 Ground pins from the SCSI PINS..  

   What I needed to know is that if this is POSSIBLE.. basically I'll need
  a cable that has the 25PIN Male Connector on one end and a SCSI 50PIN on the
  other... Is this possible ??  or is the hard drive going to draw too much
  power..??

			thanks for any info
			--tim
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: 2.04WB Questions (Prod mode, XT BB)
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:24:03 GMT

Hello

I have a couple of questions regarding the new productivity
mode (640 x 480 I believe) available with the new ECS Denise and
the 1 mb Agnus chips. I have a stock A2000 with a 1084D monitor and
I would like to use this new mode.

I have not purchased the new ECS Denise but I do have the 1 mb Agnus
in my machine. I am not sure whether or not I can use productivity mode
on my current machine with the addition of just the new ECS Denise or
whether I need a VGA monitor and possibly a flicker fixer type display 
board. If there is any way to use productivity mode w/o buying another
monitor and/or display card I would be grateful if anyone could give
me info.

Secondly, my machine is also equipped with an A2088 XT Bridgeboard.
Since I installed the new 2.04 rom and OS on my A2000, the bridgecard's
360K 5.25 disk drive gives me frequent errors when I attempt to read a
large file from it, i.e. greater than 150K or so. I suspected the drive
itself was the culprit so I attached my brand new ALPHA DATA 3.5 Amiga 
style external drive to the external drive connector on the rear of the 
XT board, edited the config.sys file to recognize the drive as a 720K
IBM type drive and it works beatifully except when I attempt to read or
write large files to/from it.

My question here is has anyone with experienced similar flaky behavior 
from their machines when running a bridgecard with 2.04. If so how can I
clear up the problems.

I hope Commodore introduces new Janus software or something soon that will
allow the use of AREAD and AWRITE w/o frequent gliches as well.

All in all I have to applaud C= for an excellent job with 2.04. All we need
now is a similar update to the Janus software. P.S. I have the newest 
version of Janus, the one that discusses the A2286 board if that helps.

Thanks 

Eric M. Edmonds
UMASS at Lowell (formerly ULowell)
Dept. of Chem/Nuclear Engineering
From: QCZUSEA@grove.iup.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AdIDE w/A500 rev5 Motherboards
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:16:00 GMT


	Seems that there are some problems with the AdIDE and the rev 5
motherboards that ICD doesn't seem to want to recognize.  I personally have the
rev 6a motherboard with the Novia 2i, and have no problems at all with any
slow downs, but a friend of mine has the rev 5 motherboard, and recently got rid
of his Prima (the AdIDE that replaces the internal 3.5 fd) package because of
some major slow downs.  When he tried to contact ICD about this he got the same
answer that you did, that he was basically wasting their time with a false
complaint.  But every time that he removed the controller, the problems went
away.  I want to point out that I HAVE NOT HAD THIS PROBLEM with my rev 6a! and
think that the controller is the next best thing since sliced bread.... :-)

	My friend sold his Prima package to another friend that has the rev 6a
board, and the thing works perfectly..... Seems to me that ICD should get a hold
of one of the old models and do some revisions, since you two are not the only
ones that seem to have had this problem.

	Sincerely,
		Rabid Spinach
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From: twells@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Tabor J. Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Death of Pirating
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:16:13 GMT

dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) writes:


>One way to prevent pirating (at least for the time being) that really is
>infeasable of defeating is to release software on CDROM, and really use
>all the data that a CD can hold.  Until writable CD's became reality,
>the sheer amount of data is going to prevent anyone from copying these things.

This is the same reason that will prevent such things from ever coming out
on the market at a reasonable price. The sheer amount of developed data will
make such a product total unfeasible. Not that it couldn't be done mind you,
its that nobody would buy it. Would you pay ~$250-300 for a CD-ROM game
will 600 Mb of data on it? WOuld you pay the other ~$1000 (?) for a CD-ROM
drive to play it on? I doubt it. To date all of the reasonably priced
(read similar to disk releases) CD programs have nothing to distinguish them
from the disk versions. CDTV's Shadow of the beast and other games are prime
example of this. There is nothing more on them that the disk game didn't 
already have. As long as that is the case, there will still be piracy
of CD-ROM titles. There is no extra data therefore there is not a reason
to stop the pirate from distributing this product.

Go read the article at the end of Computer Gaming World's Issue #94 (current)
for more of this. Not from a anti-piracy standpoint, but more from why such
programs aren't being readily produced. 

>Plus, the software that takes advantage of this will be really really
>cool.

Sure it would. But you'll have to pay through the nose for it too...

	Tabor Wells
	twells@rigel.cs.pdx.edu

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From: riesermc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Rieser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: DMI Floptical drive.
Keywords: 20MB floppy, floptical
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:34:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Purdue University

I find the ads for this attractive.

The 20 MB floptical is a SCSI drive apparently a laser aided floppy that
reads/writes standard floppies plus its own 22MB floppies.

I think I want one.

What does anybody know about this drive?

I saw DMI has them for $645.
I saw BriWall has them for $545.

Is there another vendor for these devices?

Thanks
Mike

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From: Devin_Smith@telepro.UUCP (Devin Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help Needed - Friends 500 dead!
Date: 13 Apr 92 05:07:14 GMT
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Sun 12 Apr 92 19:49, Anthony_horan@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (an
wrote:

 A> responsible chip. Others have recommended to me (and these are people
at
 A> computer dealers, no less) to raise the computer to a height of 2
inches
 A> from the desk, and drop it! This method may be a tad dangerous, but it
 A> DID fix a dead keyboard problem I had once... :-)

That's gotta do wonders for drive alignment....

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