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From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Subject: A1000 serial port
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:54:45 GMT


I have an Avatex 2400 external modem that works for all intensive purposes. I 
cann hook it to my 1000 with a cable, and send it the AT commands with no 
trouble. But when I tell it to dial.. It will pick up the phone (no dialtone)
can be heard.. and then it hangs up... Someone told me this could be due
to the odd serial port in the 1000.. Can somone send me the pinouts on the
A1000's serial port.. or an answer as to why my modem isn't working...

Gene Prall   prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu  |Look ma I is in college!|
-Standard Disclaimer - 90 Day warranty - Parts and Labor not included - Tags,
Taxes, and Titles may cost extra - Batteries not included - Allow 6-8 weeks
for delivery | A1000 Owner and damn proud of it!
From: holler@holli.UUCP (Jan Holler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mike Sinz's tests? (was Re: Speeding up the A4000?)
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:18:05 GMT
Organization: my own mess
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Nov02.170950.786@zds-oem.zds.com> easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
> In article <alien.00n1@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
> 
> [ Running chips faster than they are rated]
> 
> >Suppose a chip comes in, say, 25 MHz, 33 MHz, and 40 MHz versions. This
> >does *not* mean that the manufacturer actually makes three different chips.
> >They make *one* chip, designed for 40 MHz plus a margin. All chips are
> >tested at 40 MHz; those that pass are sold as 40 MHz chips, those that fail
> >are tested at 33 MHz ... and so on down the line. You end up with four
> >piles of chips :

[stuff deleted]

> >The important point being that, if you buy a chip rated at 25 MHz, that means
> >that *that chip* (not just one of the same batch) has *already* failed at
> >least once at 33 MHz! Trusting it because "it seems to work OK for me..."
> >is *dumb*.
> 
>   Which is a great assumption until the chip fab has tuned the process
> to a point that they are yeilding 40 Mhz parts all the time.  Then it
> becomes a marketing issue.
> 
>   Say this month Motorola will sell the following breakdown of chips;
> 
> 	5000 40Mhz 68040's
>        10000 33Mhz 68040's
>        50000 25Mhz 68040's
> 
>   The chip fab yeilds 100% good parts.  The process has been pretty good

[stuff deleted]

I dare say that this all is not true. Take a look at the timing inside the
chip! The most important thing is the length of the signal way inside. You
just cannot go up with frequency for a chip designed for a certain range of
frequency. On the other side cooling is also important!

Take the Motorola 68020:

              RC12      RC16       RC20       RC25
            min max   min max    min max    min max

Freq         8 12.5    8 16.67   12.5 20    12.5 25

cycle time  80  125   60  125     50  80     40  80



What you say is, that they are all the same. Ok, so they are all 25Mhz
parts. True? No:

A RC25 fails the 25Mhz test, also fails all others, but not the 12.5MHz.

Timing is halved: Freq goes down to 12.5, wich is also the lower range for
an original RC25! Not possible to take that down to 8Mhz!

Cycle time is doubled: Let's say we had a cycle time of 80ns which was
the upper range of the RC25. So it's now 160ns. But that is way too high.
The RC12 is just designed for 125ns cycle time.

See! Don't make assumptions because of the ease of them! Sure it would be
great to have it your way. But there is also physics to concern about!

-- 

                    Jan Holler - Bern, Switzerland 
           uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmswi!augs1!holli!Jan_Holler
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: The A1200 is an CBM upgrade module!)
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:10:47 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <fgd3.02pb@nifty.UUCP> fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) writes:
> In article <1992Nov3.125239.14855@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
> >>>DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
> >>>>P.S. Of Course you all realize that if the 399 price becomes $399 in the
> >                                                 ^
> >                                                 |
> >Hey! For the first time ever I have seen a pound sign on my Sun
> >screen. How did you manage this? Everyone else uses # or `pounds'.
> 
>    On the Amiga ALT-L (or ALT-l) produces "" but I always figured it
> wouldn't survive transmission by uucp.  Now I'm curious.  "" isn't in my
> table of ASCII characters and I thought the high-order bit didn't survive
> its handling by the network.  "" is 0xa3 (10100011), definitely an 8-bit
> value.

I hate to add confusion, but a few days back I saw a message that contained
the backslash-pound sequence "\pound".  I wonder if the person who saw the
British pound sign was using a news reader that knew how to interpret such
escapes...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,     work:   to be avoided at all costs...
but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Does 399-pound A1200 have a Hard Drive ?
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:06:45 GMT
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>> I've asked before, and still haven't seen a good answer. Does the A600 (non
>> HD version) require a ROM change to use a hard drive? Do all of them require
>> this change, or only the very early ones?
>
>Most units would require a ROM upgrade.

	You should be able to tell by rom revision number.  Check the version
of kickstart (from WB or a shell).  If it's 37.299, you'll need a new ROM to
add an IDE harddrive.  If it's 37.300, you won't.  As george said, apparently
most A600's non-HD's have shipped with 299, though some have shipped with
300's for various reasons.

-- 
To be or not to be = 0xff
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{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: Matt Dillon where are you??
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:59:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.045057.12830@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett) writes:
>      I am trying to register my version of Dice by Matt Dillon.
> Apparently he has moved from Berkeley. Does anyone know his
> address either email or USsnail.
> -- 
> *******************************************************************************
> Bill Bennett              Dept of Radiology           The Ohio State University

Please post. I'm intereseted, too.

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:57:42 GMT


Just a question.. why don't Amigas coredump like UNIX?  Why do they
instead crash messily and reset?  Basically, I'm asking.. what allows a
UNIX to coredump, and relativeily, what does Amiga LACK that won't let
it coredump w/o crashing?

-- 
Sam Hulick          | "You can't discover new oceans unless you have the
shulick@indiana.edu | courage to lose sight of the shore."  --Anon.
(NeXTmail welcome)  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths)
Subject: Stopping the Printer from Initing!
Summary: How do I stop the printer from Initing?
Keywords: PRINTER INIT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:44:38 GMT

Ok, here's my problem:

I have an old Epson-RX80 printer, and no-matter which printer driver I
use, whenever the printer.device sends the "Init" code which resets
all of the styles, etc to normal the printer prints a "0" whereever
the head is on the page.

There's simply no way to stop it... I can take all of the style
commands out of the printer driver I'm using, that will stop it OK,
but then I don't have any style commands!

Does anyone know (kindly Commodore programmers?) if there's an easy
way of disabling the printer.device so it ignores the init command?
Perhaps a little bit of hex editing?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
Subject: Re: I've given up on recieving LhA.
Keywords: LHA
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:34:17 GMT

In <griffita.721447828@sfu.ca> griffita@fraser.sfu.ca (David Stuart Griffiths) writes:

>Well, I have to admit I hoped the time would never come, but I have
>finally given up all hope of recieving a registered copy of LhA from
>Stefan Boberg.  I really like the program, it's fast and efficient,
>however the author is not.

Oh well, all I can say is: I received my copy of LhA quite some time ago,
without a long delay, and Stefan has replied to all my Internet messages, and
has been very helpful.

I guess you can't please all of the people all of the time!

BTW I wouldn't be overly upset about not getting your reg'd copy: it's not
as if your current version is crippled in any way. The reg'd version is just
faster. :-)  Stefan has written a truly excellent piece of software, and the
amount of money he asks for it is really very small, considering how often you
probably use it...

The only thing I can think of is that he is holding off on sending out your
disk until v2.0 is released, which will apparently be a major upgrade. You will
thank him for this in the long run!

Barry.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: c8803330@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Phillip Eastham)
Subject: SID2 rego's
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:29:48 GMT

Can anyone tell me if Timm Martin (of SID2 fame) is still at the following
address:

  Timm Martin              
  P.O. Box 3205            
  Cincinnati, OH 45201-3205
  U.S.A.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: david@dflores.eagle.mission.tx.us (David Sergio Flores)
Subject: A3000/25 motherboard.
Summary: motherboards 
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:11:40 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Dave's Amiga
Keywords: A3000 motherboards 

Does anyone out there know where I can find a A3000/25MHz motherboard?

Is there any mail order place that sells them?  I do not have one to trade in.
Any ideas?  Any info would be very useful......

Thanks,

David Sergio Flores
david@dflores.eagle.mission.tx.us
dsf87f8a@panam2.panam.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
Subject: Re: AmigaGuide Distribution
Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:49:43 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1992Nov7.033231.2712@sth.frontec.se>, bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
>Hi.
>
>I'm a little curious about the distribution scheme for things like the
>amigaguide.library, locale.library and the other stuff on the DevCon disks.
>
>There's a file note stating that all software on those disks are provided
>'as is' with everything that implies.
>What rights/restrictions of distribution are there on the software of those
>disks?
>
>It would be nice to be able to provide my users with the reader for all my
>new & fancy guides without having them shell out half a fortune for SAS/C...
>
>Isn't CBM going to release these things 'for real' soon?
>AmigaGuide is the salvation of the world. I want it out *NOW*! :-)

The distribution scheme of these things is simple.  You must have a
Workbench license, and you *cannot* distribute them electronically.

Easy, eh?

Your users don't have to shell out any money at all if you get a
Workbench license (which SAS has), or they wait until Amiga OS 3.0 is
available for their machine (3.0 has AmigaGuide support as part of the
OS).

-- 
---------------
Jim Cooper
(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper

Any opinions expressed herein are mine (Mine, all mine!  Ha, ha, ha!),
and not necessarily those of my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: AGA, mode promotion, SwitchNTSC
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:15:48 GMT

In article <1do6hnINNpv@uni-paderborn.de>, magick@uni-paderborn.de (Mario Kemper) writes:
> In article <1992Nov8.224118.8566@cbnews.cb.att.com>, itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
> |> So basically this is just a warning.  Don't run SwitchNTSC if you are
> |> using promotion on an AGA machine...
> 
> Sorry for that. SwitchNTSC was one of my first 2.0 programs, so I knew 
> not much about monitors and so on.

Oh hey, I don't mean to sond like I'm complaining.  I just wanted to warn others
who might be using it.

> But I still see the need of such a program, because if an application
> requests a PAL-Screen, it gets a PAL-Screen and not a DoublePAL-Screen.
> There are also programs, that open oldstyle-Screen which look horrible.

I agree!  That is one thing I loved about SwitchNTSC!

> But I agree, SwitchNTSC does not work with mode-promotion. In fact it
> wasn't supposed to. The Problem is, that it gets the Screen-Request
> before IControl. So it patches the modeID to NTSC, which IControl does not
> promote. I saw this effect on my a4000 to :-) 

I would love to see a version of SwitchNTSC that didn't force a NTSC (or PAL)
screen but did the other cool stuff.  Or how about one that would let you
choose any type of screen to force open?  Anyway, I got a lot of use out of
it on my 2000 and I appreciate you for making it available!  Thanks!
 
BTW, are you planing a new version????  (hint hint)

> Mario Kemper                                   magick@uni-paderborn.de

Rich...
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From: dick@dickam.adsp.sub.org (Dick Frijdal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: ELVIS fails when Janus.Library loaded?
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:11:19 GMT
Organization: Commodore nl
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Oct29.060000.12126@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
> I just got my A2088 BridgeBoard up and running, and now I find that my
> favorite editor, ELVIS (no vi flames, please) fails sporadically with a
> guru #80000003.  It works just fine unless BindDrivers has loaded the
> Janus.Library into memory.  Why should this make a difference to ELVIS?
> 
> Does anyone else have this problem, and does anyone know what to do
> about it?  I may have to change editors...ELVIS is the only vi clone I
> know of, is there another?  Are there any other powerful text editors
> available?
> 
> -- 
you should have a look at Vim it is on one of the fish disks 900 series
it has great macro capabilities. ( ever seen an editor solve the hanoi tower
problem ???)

-- 
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Commodore nl			dick@cbmnl.nl.so.commodore.com
Voice: ++31 20 5806742
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Future Entertainment Show, London
From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:15:46 GMT
Organization: Shape Data (Division of EDS), Cambridge UK
In-reply-to: cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk's message of 9 Nov 92 12:18:42 GMT

>>>>> On 9 Nov 92 12:18:42 GMT, cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey) said:

> There now follows a summary of what I saw at the Future
> Entertainments Show held last weekend (6-8 Nov) at Earl's Court in
> London.

> Overview
> --------

> This show was probably the most popular home computer show ever held
> in London. On the Saturday there were a reported 15,000 visitors,
> and on Sunday (the day I went) people weren't being allowed through
> the outer perimeter unless they had advance tickets !

Same was true on Saturday, at least some of the time. I had an hours wait with a ticket.

> For those who don't know, the show's name comes from the fact that
> it was sponsored/organised by Future Publishing - who produce Amiga
> Format, Amiga Shopper and Amiga Power amoungst other magazines.

Including magazines for Nintendo and Sega (who were there) and Atari (who weren't).

> The Commodore Stands
> --------------------

> Well, what can I say ? I was VERY impressed by the Commodore stands
> at the show. They were large and well positioned and were showing
> the latest Amigas. The games stand was filled with A600's, A600HD's,
> CDTVs, a couple of A500+s with the A570 CD-ROM drive, and A1200's.

Very crowded though, and not as many people to answer questions as
last years "World of Commodore Show" (which was also Future Publishing).

> Leading between EC2 and EC1 was a corridor, with the CBM games stand
> at the EC2 end and a large partition at the EC1 end with embedded
> TV's running the new Amiga TV ad. This was great, as it meant that
> everyone going between halls had to walk past this large Amiga ad...

Hmm - I missed that. Told you it was crowded....

> At the "business" stand in EC1, there was mainly PC clones. The
> A4000 and A3000 were also there, the former running SCALA. I picked
> up a flier here that contains some interesting info...

Both 4000 and 3000 were being heavily pushed for multimedia presentations.

> Phillips
> --------

> On a more technical point, there was a demo disk running and showed
> off FULL SCREEN FULL MOTION VIDEO. This was very impressive, and if
> CDTV wants to compete then Commodore better have the same thing
> ready soon !

This (are Commodore committed to FMV for CD-TV?) was something I might
have tried to ask at the Commodore stand if it wasn't so crowded. The
FMV demo for CD-i was saying "available sometime in the future".

> Other stuff
> -----------

I was very disappointed compared with the "World of Commodore".
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: morcos@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Nader Morcos)
Subject: I Need a Cobol Compiler
Reply-To: morcos@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Nader Morcos)
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:15:47 GMT

       The title says it all. Where can I find such a thing ?

Thanks a bunch.
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Floptical...
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:48:09 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:

>Someone is selling me his old internal drive, because
>he is replacing it with a floptical drive..

>This sounds interesting, and I would like some more information
>on floptical drives, such as:
>	Storage capacity
>        Ease of use
>	Speed of use
>	Size [physical]
>	Controllers
>	and of course price!

PLI makes the only drive I've seen with Amiga drivers included, and it's
a SCSI drive.  This particular floptical drive uses 21MB diskettes, which
cost about $20 each, and costs about $650 with one "free" disk.  I understand
there's an internal 5.25" form factor drive, but I've only seen the external
drives, which are about the size of most external HD units.  The drive will
also read standard MS-DOS format diskettes (but not Amiga format) - both HD
and DD.  Unless the price of the drive comes down, it's actually cheaper to
buy hard drives until you get about 8 disks, so the only real use for these
things is if you need to get 21MB onto something you can put in your pocket,
lock up in a safe, hide behind a picture frame, or whatever (for example,
you might want to hide your collection of nude gifs from your SO and anyone
else with taste, so you could just slap them on a few of these disks and
put them somewhere safe (more serious applications do exist...)).  They're
definitely not for everyone at current cost... ...when/if they become
reasonably priced, they would be a nice replacement for completely magnetic
drives.

>  Scotty AJ

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Scotty A. Johnson     "The beast with the four foot tail."     Iguana@uiuc.edu
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From: leibrock@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de (Gerhard Leibrock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Parnet, CDTV, PCs
Date: 12 Nov 92 09:20:10 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, U of Saarland, FRG

Hello,
I just did buy myself an SM-DOS computer to get access
to the hd-drives. I use two AMIGAs at home (CDTV, A2000) which
are connected via parnet. This works great and makes life lots easier.
So it would be cool if anybody knows where to get a driver for the pc.

Yours,
       Gerhard



Gerhard Leibrock, Neuhaeuselerstr. 12, D-W6654 Kirkel 2, Germany
Voice: (+49) 6849/6134, E-Mail: leibrock@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de
E-Mail longer than 30kB: gele@stud.rz.uni-sb.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: need latest DMS
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:36:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.163447.22622@newshost.lanl.gov> tjf@beta.lanl.gov (Tom J Farish) writes:
>I've downloaded some files that say they require DMS 1.11;
>I can only find DMS up to version 1.03.  Where can I find
>the latest DMS?  I've checked all my usual sites...the only
>thing in the archivers section seems to be LhA!
>

   No problemo. wuarchive.wustl.edu  /systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive

      DMS111.SFX  <- note all-caps. its 41088 bytes
      DMS111.SFX.txt <- note some lower-case letters  113 bytes

          This is a self-unarcher...

    prompt>DMS111.SFX <cr> and it will unpack itself.

      There is also dms111.sfx  at 40960 bytes
                    dms111.readme at 43 bytes in the same directory.

    The one of all-caps was uploaded in May of 1992 and the all lower-case
  file was uploaded in June of 1992.

       There is also dms1_11.sfx of 40960 bytes uploaded October, 1992.

   Later, JimP.
 
-- 
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