HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dmiller@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (David L. Miller)
Subject: Re: To *ALL 1200/4000* multisync owners!
Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 01:39:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.181755.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu>, dseaman@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
|> 
|> Any comments from 1302 or 4FG, or any other VGA-only owner would be
|> more than appreciated!
|> 
Another monitor to take a look at is the MAG (*not* Magnavox) 15 or 17 inch multisync.
They work great with all modes.  They are a little more expensive than some of the 
others, but if you can afford them, they are well worth it.  Even the big workstation 
monitors I use at work can't beat the MAG.

|> Thanks in advance!
|> 
|> -- 
|> DSeaman@Oread.cc.ukans.edu
|> Derek Seaman

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
Subject: Re: amiga in a sun case
Organization: Alien Dreams Department
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:16:46 GMT

In article 23908 Metapope writes:

>well, i've taken the plunge and purchased a sun 3/60 case to mount my
>500 in. i'll post full write ups when the move is complete. this will
>be post xmass.

That's nice, how much is the case ?


/Mattias

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Mattias Myrberg

m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga:342 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:9840 misc.forsale.computers:44213
From: Anu.Kapoor@launchpad.unc.edu (Anu Kapoor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: FOR SALE
Summary: A500 IDE FOR SALE
Date: 26 Dec 92 21:15:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

Hello.

I have several things for sale.

An Amiga 500-- With 1 MB of memory, battery backed clock and running the
2.04 operating system in rom. It even has a mouse :). Asking Price: $250.
Negotiable: Yes.

A Dataflyer 500 IDE Hard Drive Controller-- Just take above computer this
controller and add  low cost IDE hard drive for a complete home computing
system! This controller will allow you to use up to two IDE drives and add
up to 8 megabytes of memory with the optional memory card. Backed by a
5-year warrantee from Expansion Systems. I still have the blank warantee
card so you can take advantage of the warantee. This controller is brand
new and has never been used. Asking Price: $115. Negotiable: Eh.*

*--Eh lies somewhere between yes and no.

If you are interested please mail me at the above address or at
	kapoora@voyager.bxscience.edu.

A Happy Holiday season to you all.

Cordially,
Anu Kapoor

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: tim@lenti.med.umn.edu (Tim Leonard)
Subject: Re: PCTask won't load DOS
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:54:41 GMT

Turned out that the problem was my formatting my DOS startup disk 
on a high density drive.  Once I did a "format a: /f:720 /s"
it worked fine.

Thanks for all the advice.

Tim
From: jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: HD support - When?????
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 22:15:49 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>When is the HD support for MAC apps going to be available?  Will HD support
>be available for the A1200?

Right now.  I had an existing AMax partition on my HD, and Emplant boots
from and operates with it with no problems so far.

>Also, how much faster is the video on the A1200 with the AGA chipset compared
>to the A3000 - say for a 16 color desktop.

Video drivers for Emplant are about to get a dramatic improvement.  Jim
Drew now has an MMU based routine that updates much faster than the old
routines, and with less CPU overhead.  Only the 2 and 4 color modes are
finished right now, but he will provide a 16 color version after
Christmas.  16 color is supposed to run 60 FPS, and be faster than the old
2-4 color modes.  It should be only slightly slower than the new 2-4 color
modes.  The 1200 without an MMU won't benefit from this, and so I expect
that the A3000 will produce a faster display than the 1200.  The A4000 of
course has both advantages, and should produce an awesome display,
possibly 256 colors at 60 FPS.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: Bob.Smith@launchpad.unc.edu (Bob Smith)
Subject: Windoze on a '286 or '386 bridgeboard????
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:50:24 GMT


Hello,

I believe this is possible, but having not yet bought a bridgeboard, and
needing to run Windows 3.x, I wanted to get some advice from someone who
had perhaps already done it.  I plan on using an ATI Graphics Ultra VGA
card, and will get one of the bridgeboards that have an IDE hd and
floppy I/F.  The questions are, how well do the existing bridge boards
run windows, and is it worth the extra money to buy one of the newer
'486SLC boards from Vortex?  Anyone know if Commodore's plans on
releasing a '486 bridge board?

thanks for the space,

-bob

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From: hhoff@blefusco.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Spectrum emulator
Date: 23 Dec 92 10:46:35 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: blefusco.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Summary: where can I find the latest version?
Keywords: spectrum, emulations, amiga

Hi!

A long time ago I downloaded the Spectrum-emulator for the amiga from
the good old ab20-ftp-site. It was version 1.4. Since the shutdown of
this site I never found a site which has a later version and I wonder if
this is really the latest version because it does not work at all with
the PerfectSound-Digitizer 3.0 althogh the description says that it should
do so.

If anyone knows a ftp-site which has a later version of the emulator,
please post or mail it. Thanks in advance

H.Hoffmann
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com (Hans)
Subject: A2088 configuration question
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:58:44 GMT

I received and old A2088 from St. Nick, but it apparently came from a C=
dealer's discount table so it's missing the user's manual.  :-( But it
did have all the Janus 2.0 software.  The local dealer said that Janus
2.1 wasn't out yet (which from reading here seems to be wrong,) so I
orderd the A2088 user's manual instead.

In the meantime, I've been able to get the Bridgeboard to boot from
floppy, and it seems to be working.  This is all under Kickstart 2.04 (I
had to manually install the Janus software.)  If I manually start up
PCDisk, AMouse, and TimeServ on the Amiga, I can use AREAD, AWRITE,
AMOUSE, and ATIME on the Bridgeboard.

My main question is how do I get the Bridgeboard to use an Amiga
partition as a C: drive (and make it autoboot?)  I managed to get MakeAB
to create a (huge) ABoot.CTRL file, but I don't know how to get MS-DOS
to use it.  Running ADISK on the Bridgeboard says "Could Not Open
AutoBoot File."

I'd also like to know what is the usual way to get the services started on
the Amiga side?  Just put them in user-startup someplace?  What about in
the WBStartup drawer?

System:
   A2000, 1M Chip
   A2091, 2M Fast, 105M Quantum
   A2088

Any help would be appreciated. ;-)

-hans
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  DECwest Engineering, Bellevue, Washington, USA
  "I'd rather be writing MACRO-20!"
  Any opinions expressed are not those of my employer, honest.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Franke)
Subject: Emplant 1.5
Summary: Please upload Emplant V1.5
Keywords: Emplant Emulation
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:56:17 GMT

Hello,

Would anybody please upload the newest (amiga device supporting) version of
the Emplant software (V1.5 I think). It's very hard to get updates from
europe. Probably someone can mail me the newest versions and I could put them
on aminet for us european users,

PLEASE.....

greetings franke (franke@cs.tu-berlin.de)
From: ccocstt@prism.gatech.EDU (Dr.Love)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: How to make A-Max II+ work on an A4000????
Date: 3 Jan 93 22:21:26 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Someone has just recently posted that A-Max II+ and A-Max II doesn't work
with an A4000...

So I have found out myself.  :(

I REALLLLLY hope Readysoft will have a newer version to make it work!!!!


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From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT for 1200?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27 beta (Nov 22 1992)
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:17:01 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA


> >Actually, there is AmigaDOS "device" support for EMPLANT.   So, ANY
> >device that supports a HiCyl/LoCyl format (Such as, but not limited to,
> >hard drives, recoverable ram disk, etc.) will work fine.  There is no
> >need for "device drivers".  If the device works on the Amiga, it will
> >work with our emulator.  :-)
> >
> > 
> >Jim Drew, Vice-President
> 
> Jim, how can you post this stuff with a clear mind?  We all know how EMPLANT
> does not have HardDrive support, but here you are telling us that if we
> have a HD hooked up to our system EMPLANT will use it.
> 
> C'mon, give us more credit than that.
> 
Huh!!??!?  Where have you been????  There *IS* indeed hard drive support!
Like I said above, the MAC emulation storage support is NOT limited to
just hard drives, however, they are supported!


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: wbrand@krishna.shearson.com (Willy Brandsdorfer)
Subject: Re: BridgeBoard VGA
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:32:54 GMT

In article <Rob_Morewood.056e@panam.wimsey.bc.ca> Rob_Morewood@panam.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Morewood) writes:

	  ( Should it be possible / has anyone tried ) to write a bridgeboard
   video driver to produce VGA-like output on an Amiga screen?


There is a reference to a new product in this month's Amiga World called Monitor Master.
You'll find it in the Overscan section. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dca@shell.portal.com (David - Albrecht)
Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 & A-Max II
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:35:46 GMT

In article <1h9pagINNits@aurora.unice.fr> beust@aurora.unice.fr (Cedric Beust) writes:
>Well, I'm having a problem with A-Max II and my Amiga 2000. The problem is not
>with the emulation which works fine but with the Mac drive which is not
>recognized (it's like if it was not connected).

Well, the only help I can give might be totally useless.  Long ago I remember
having a similar problem with a Cutting Edge drive when trying to connect to
an Amiga 1000.  The following mod to the AMAX cartridge fixed the problem:

On the cartridge is an 74LS139 chip.  Cut the trace between pins 1&3 and
add a jumper between pins 13&15.

This might or might not fix your problem and for all I know the cartridges
have changed since this mod was necessary (mine is circa 89).

Obviously this is a try at your own risk item of information.

David Albrecht
From: vishart@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Joseph Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: could someone post a good EMPLANT review please ?...thanks...
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:33:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I am considering the purchase of an EMPLANT board.
I have been looking for a detailed review of EMPLANT,
but somehow I have been sucessful in not finding it
yet.  If someone who has used EMPLANT extensively could
post a detailed review, I think many of us would greatly
appreciate this....
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From: givler@bermuda.cbm.commodore.com (Greg Givler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: A2088 configuration question
Date: 30 Dec 92 03:08:30 GMT
Organization: Another Amiga UNIX System

In article <1992Dec28.075844.13837@ninja.zso.dec.com> ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com (Hans) writes:
>I received and old A2088 from St. Nick, but it apparently came from a C=
>dealer's discount table so it's missing the user's manual.  :-( But it
>did have all the Janus 2.0 software.  The local dealer said that Janus
>2.1 wasn't out yet (which from reading here seems to be wrong,) so I
>orderd the A2088 user's manual instead.

If you can get Janus 2.1 things will be much simpler.

>
>In the meantime, I've been able to get the Bridgeboard to boot from
>floppy, and it seems to be working.  This is all under Kickstart 2.04 (I
>had to manually install the Janus software.)  If I manually start up
>PCDisk, AMouse, and TimeServ on the Amiga, I can use AREAD, AWRITE,
>AMOUSE, and ATIME on the Bridgeboard.
>
>My main question is how do I get the Bridgeboard to use an Amiga
>partition as a C: drive (and make it autoboot?)  I managed to get MakeAB
>to create a (huge) ABoot.CTRL file, but I don't know how to get MS-DOS
>to use it.  Running ADISK on the Bridgeboard says "Could Not Open
>AutoBoot File."
>

Makeab should create a file that is not called ABoot.ctrl. I mean it
could be called that but it shouldn't be. Since that big file is nothing
but a big Amiga file you can change the name with the rename command
I would recommend calling it something like DRIVE_C or some such name.

Now in your sys:pc/system drawer you should create a file called. Aboot.ctrl
The only thing in this file should be a line that points to your makeab
file. So if you had it on Work: the aboot.ctrl file would look like this:

Work:Drive_C

Make sure that the file just contains one line and that the line
ends with a linefeed. Then when you reboot, you should be able to 
install DOS 5.0 the normal way. If you have an earlier version of 
DOS then you have to FDISK and FORMAT your "Drive" be advised that
you can only have a virtual hard drive of a maximum size of 32 MB
regardless of the version of DOS that you are using. 

>I'd also like to know what is the usual way to get the services started on
>the Amiga side?  Just put them in user-startup someplace?  What about in
>the WBStartup drawer?

Add them to your User-Startup especially PCDisk. Run it to nil:
A line such as:

run >nil: sys:pc/pcdisk

>
>System:
>   A2000, 1M Chip
>   A2091, 2M Fast, 105M Quantum
>   A2088
>
>Any help would be appreciated. ;-)
>

No problem.
>-hans

Greg

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
Subject: Does Amax work on 4000? 
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Reply-To: nwickham@nyx.UUCP (Neal Wickham)
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 05:32:42 GMT


Did I here that Amax doesn't work on the A4000?  


Thanks,


                                      NCW
From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-Task v1.11 and Norton SI
Date: 22 Dec 92 06:44:35 GMT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27 beta (Nov 22 1992)


> |> Norton SI Computing Index for Amigas running PC-Task v1.11:
> |>  
> |> System Config       Norton SI 
> |> -------------       --------- 
> |> A2000 with FastRAM      0.3    
> |> A3000/030/25MHz         1.6    
> |> A2000/GVP/030/40MHz     2.4   
> |> A4000/040/25MHz         4.4   
> 
> A 1.0 rating being the speed of a plain vanilla IBM PC running at 4Mhz ?
> 
> Didnt Jim Drew say he could tell the PCTask authors how to speed it up
> or something?  What became of this I wonder?
 
The wonder is part of our IBM emulation for EMPLANT.  SoftPC for the MAC
gets a Norton SI rating of 2.0 with a MAC Classic (8Mhz 68000)...my
routines are even better....


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT for 1200?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.27a beta (Nov 30 1992)
Date: 1 Jan 93 02:40:13 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR USA


> What hardware and software are you running (and in what configurations) 
> that you see these results?
> 
> - Dale Adams
I am running REAL MAC's.   My MAC II is only 5-10% faster than the MAC+,
the MAC IIx is 4-5 times faster....but I am running REAL MAC HARDWARE for
these comparisons....our emulator beats the real MAC's (even in 16 color
mode now).


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Michael Franke)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT for 1200?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:54:39 GMT

Oh... There is amiga device support ??? Is it the rumored V1.5 software ???
If yes, could a kind sould please upload it to wuarchive ?

thanks in advance franke (franke@cs.tu-berlin.de)
From: app@shamash.cdc.com (CDII Advanced Pkg/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Fuzz for Amax 2.50 available yet?
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:27:24 GMT
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN

Hi!

Does anyone know if there is a version of Fuzz that works on Amax 2.5
yet?  The last I heard was that it was still being worked on.

(Fuzz is a software flicker reducer for amax users)

Thanks

Mike Lundberg
app@shamash.cdc.com
or: michael.s.lundberg@cdev.com
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Reasons for a notebook amiga
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:23:37 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <Opal_Sullen.01jp@republik.fidonet.org> Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen) writes:
>In a message dated Tue 15 Dec 92  9:08, Magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca wrote:
>
> MM> I was talking to a CBM guy at WOC Toronto.  He said a batter powered
> MM> notebook was impossible at the moment because of the power drain, but
> MM> the next chip set was going to be CMOS making it possible to have a
> MM> notebook.
>
>my question is WHY get an amiga notebook when there is NO DECENT
>productiviyt software avialable?

There are many other situations where a notebook (or laptop) would have
been wonderful to have: Presentations. We have already experienced many
occasions where we had prepared some presentations (general business,
not only Amiga related stuff) on an Amiga and had to take a full Amiga
equipment with a whole CPU box and a monitor with us (it's not always
in-house!). This would have been much easier with a notebook version.

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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: Amiga em. for Sun?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:27:25 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

Farid Rahmi (fr@eagle.mumath) wrote:
> There was an AmigaDOS emulator (note : AmigaDOS, not Amiga !) for Sun-3 a long time
> ago. The Sun-3 is no longer sold, since it used 68020 and 68030 chips, which became
> too slow for the applications running under SunOS.

It was done by one of the people involved in the Amiga Unix project, Mike
Ditto and posted to comp.unix.amiga at least 12 months ago.

Only AmigaDOS calls were emulated, but apparently it was good enough to
run some of the standard CLI commands.

I still have it somewhere in my archives...