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From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
Subject: Chip RAM Accelerator?
Keywords: Black Knight
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:10:56 GMT

I just noticed a small ad in the November issue of Amiga World (p. 50).
Black Knight Peripherals claims that they have a product which can
significantly speed up access to Chip RAM:

"The Fast Lane Chip RAM acclerator & 2Mb chip ram expansion removes the
biggest bottleneck in the Amiga - slow access to chip RAM. TFL gives super-
fast access to display memory by allowing the CPU & custom chips to access
chip ram transparently and simultaneously. Works with 1 & 2Mb Agnus chips.
With TFL unaccelerated machines can access display ram at the same speed as
fast RAM. Acclerated Amiga willl have up to 3 times this bandwidth (depending
on how they access the Amiga address space) The Speed Demon CPU Acclerators
from BKP will access CRAM at the blinding speed of 21.6 Mb/sec (6x the
bandwidth of fast ram)."


Has anyone heard of/know about this product? Or even what benefits could
be realized if it worked as advertised?

Francis

P.S. The ad also says that they're coming out with a 32-bit graphics card
     called Brightspark for $299.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin)
Subject: Re: 3M MCD-40 Tape Drives & HDBackup
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:25:36 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

Are you trying to upgrade a single floppy 2000 by adding a second internal 
floppy drive?  Did you set the jumper on the motherboard to enable df1: as
an internal drive?

Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com
From: Don_-_Hirschfeld@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: wangtek tape unit
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 11:52:14 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I just last week connected a Wangdat drive (Wangtek is the same company, but
is the 1/4" tape division). I have the Supra Wordsync running externally.
Be sure to use a MAC compatible 50 to 25 pin adapter to connect the Supra
to your drive. Use Quarterback or Amiback to access the drive (no mount list
needed). Make sure you have a unique SCSI number. If the drive has a set of 3 
jumper positions, usually that means SCSI 1,2,4. Jumpering none gives 0, 1 and
2 gives 3, 1 and 3 gives #5, etc.
From: Don_-_Hirschfeld@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Genlock/Amiga 1000
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 10:15:21 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I have one of the A1300 genlocks for the A1000. I bought it so I can see if 
it will work on my A2000. If it can't, I'll sell it to you. Leave me E-mail
with what you'll be willing to pay so I can keep you reply on file.
If anyone knows if this will work on  an A2000 with a cable between the two
devices, let me know.
From: ghazi@wizofhoz.uucp (Ozzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Mega-Midget Racer info (problem solved)
Date: 23 Nov 1992 00:54:52 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Nov21.030601.8462@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
>vexar@watserv.ucr.edu (Joe C Solinsky) writes:
>>it worked for me, and I am happy now.  Other things that do not work with the  
>>MMR are ALL PSYGNOSIS GAMES, but I don't mean to pick on any one company in  

>Well I have found that to be true to.  Even though many of the games that won't
>work on my mmr will work on an a3000.  Seems odd, but perhaps they didn't have
>an mmr to test it on nor did they care since compatibility isn't of there
>biggest attention.

	I use a similar unit to the MMR with a lot of things that didn't
work on it that seem to work on the 3000. A lot of them will work if I do
a couple of things, one is turn off the burst and caches, 2- take VBR out
of fast memory. I really don't know what this does but it seems to work,
so does falling back to the 68000. To take VBR out of fast memory requires
a program called CPU_Control which is similar to SetCPU or CPU, but I don't
recall seeing the VBR mentioned in either one, you'll likely find
CPU_Control on a local BBS if you care to try it. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: A1200 Add-Ons
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:28:46 GMT

In article <13563@ecs.soton.ac.uk> efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
>In <1drhdrINN7d4@agate.berkeley.edu> kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes:

>>From what I understand, the A1200 has no hard drive either.  Will I be able
>>to EASILY add a hard drive (IDE or whatever)?  I don't want to buy the 
>>machine and then find out that I'm stuck with a floppy-based system. NEVER
>>again!
>
>Just buy any (!) 2.5" IDE Hard drive and connect it up!

  Ah, but does the base A1200 come with the short ribbon cable that
connects the motherboard to the drive, or do we have to scrounge one
ourselves?  Maybe George Robbins could give us a quickie explanation
on whats required.  Is a cable needed or does the motherboard have a
right angle connector pointing to a slot where a drive slides right
in and makes connection?

  How about one of you UK guys telling us what was required?
I'll post in early December when I get mine if no one else has
done it by then...  :-(

>>kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu
>E.F.Pritchard                       ///

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From: al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68020 vs 68EC020 (pin compatible?)
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:25:27 GMT

peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

>I'm afraid no. The EC version has 8 data lines less and I guess accordingly
>fewer pins. And it is soldered on in SMD, there's no socket.

  Ha! Gotcha! The EC020 has 8 ADDRESS lines less, but a full 32 bit data bus,
I would believe it to be for microcontrollers that need large data bandwidth
but have no need for full 32 bit addressing, makes sense to me.

-Gus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: AGA monitors - squishy squishy
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:11:10 GMT

In article <37116@cbmvax.commodore.com>, spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
> In article <1992Nov17.005006.3634@cbnews.cb.att.com> itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
> >...  This makes all
> >the dblntsc stuff looked squashed.
> >
> >Is this a product of my particular monitor, or has this been noticed on other
> >monitors?  I'm considering getting a new monitor and would like to know if
> >this is to be expected from multisyncs.
> 
> No, it is the software (although some monitors display the problem worse than
> others), and is a problem that I am trying to address.

Interesting.  You mean software as in the 3.0 system software?  Would you be
willing to explain the problem real quick?  I'm just curious about it.

Thanks for your response!
 

Rich...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: christim@ifi.uio.no (Christian Moen)
Subject: Re: '030EC - Uses for MMU on Amigas?
Keywords: 68030EC, 68030, GVP A530
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:06:12 GMT
Originator: christim@sognsvann.ifi.uio.no


In article <7445@stan.xx.swin.oz.au>, h8eg083@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (Darren Gower) writes:
> Anyway, I discovered that it has the '030EC. A (possibly unknowledgable)
> friend is of the opinion that the MMU is not disabled in these units, just
> unwarranted. I always thought it was disabled in the 'EC. Could someone
> clarify?

As far as I know, they're unwarrented. That's why it's so hard to detect
an MC68EC030. They can seem operational but they're not warranted to be so.
In some cases they might be more or less usable. 
The 'EC030s are possibly '030s which got MMU damage under production.

> Further, just how much use is the MMU in an AmigaDOS environment? I know
> enforcer uses it (and I do a fair amount of 'C' programming), but is it
> worth forking out approx. $400 more to get it just for that? Are there any
> other uses?

If do a "fair amount of 'C' programming", I'd recommend the Enforcer.
It's a very useful tool - indeed. Other useful programs which use the MMU,
are the several virtual-memory applications.

Don't forget that the OS will probably support MMU in a future version.

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From: kent@stanley.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AGA scan rates
Keywords: monitors, scan rates
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:45:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: swrinde.1eb7iiINN1sf
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
NNTP-Posting-Host: stanley.nde.swri.edu

I finally got my A4000.

Question:
Why are the monitor mode scan rates different for the A4000 than for the A3000?
For example:

A3000 DblNTSC - 59Hz, 29.2 kHz
A4000 DblNTSC - 58Hz, 27.66 kHz

A3000 SUPER72 - 72Hz, 24.62 kHz
A4000 SUPER72 - 71Hz, 23.21 kHz

I had to buy the 4000 and monitor at the same time. I had to have a multisync
that supprted 1024x800 for my GDA-1 card and I figured that DblNTSC would be
an acceptible compromise so I got a Mitsubishi that would scan down to 29
kHz. I tried it with the A3000 (with the deinterlacer) and it could sync very
nicely. Unfortunately, the A4000's lower rate won't work. So I appear to be
stuck in MULTISCAN mode with a 640x400 screen with no overscan that fills up
1/3 of the real estate of my monitor. Looks like PIP without the outside
picture (Hey, I'm trying to look on the bright side and I'm having trouble at
this point, ok?)

What's going on? I don't have the articles anymore, but I know good and well
that I remember several talking about using Super72 at 24.62 kHz on the
A4000.  Before I get really peeved, I thought maybe there's something wrong
with this particular A4000 to cause it to generate the lower scan rates.
Can AGA not support these scan rates???

Thanks,
Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
UUCP     : $ {cs.utexas.edu, gatech!petro, sun!texsun}!swrinde!kent
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.unix.amiga
From: "Jonathan Sobel" <jsobel@sandshark.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: A3000 w/ Quantum P425S under Amix: SCSI bus hangs randomly. Help!
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:02:25 -0500

In article <1992Nov19.154535.4376@bernina.ethz.ch> wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild) writes:
>In article <sticht.0d0j@edith.deg.sub.org> sticht@edith.deg.sub.org (Stefan Sticht) writes:
>>But the SCSI bus hangs randomly.  The  A3000's  and  the  drive's  LED  are
>>burning forever.
>>
>
>You don't have per chance the 'sync-enable' bit set in battmem on one computer
>and not set on the other? The bit must be *cleared*, or you get such or
>similar problems.
>
>-Markus
>-- 

Could you please go into more detail about this?  I have an A2000 with
a WordSync Interface and a Seagate drive, and I have the same problem.
Sometimes (especially when the machine is cold) the system freezes
accessing the drive and all the lights stay on.

What is the 'sync-enable' bit?  How do I clear or set it?  Help...

				Jonathan Sobel
				jsobel@cs.indiana.edu
From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2090 w/ 2.0?
Distribution: world
Date: 21 Nov 92 10:44:44 PST
Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Thu 19 Nov 92  2:57, kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason
Balicki (KodaK)) wrote:

 JB(> I know this is a FAQ, but I can't seem to find the list anywhere. 
Does
 JB(> the 2090 work under 2.0?  I plan to trade for one soon and I'd like
to
 JB(> know if it's going to work on my 2000 under 2.0.

Certainly, yes.  My A2000 and A2090 were purchased as soon as they were
available so even the old A2090 ROM still holds up under WB2.04.  In my
WB1.3 days I abandoned using the A2090 on my ST157N Seagate as it could not
seem to keep up, but the A2090 has always worked fine with an old (slower)
ST251 MFM drive.

So my only caution is not related to WB2, it's related to the speed of a
SCSI drive you may want to use.  That was my experience on the A2090; all
SCSI problems went away when I upgraded to a Micobotics HardFrame
controller which now runs a quick Quantum LPS 120S... zounds that's
irrelevant!


 -- AEd V1.37/Eval

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Rick Lang - please respond publically as I do not have netmail.

A M I G A   U S E R   G R O U P ,   V I C T O R I A ,   B C   C A N A D A
From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Looking for info on MAST's Colorburst
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:55:04 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

Hiyas.

A friend of mine has one of the (few?) M.A.S.T. Colorburst boxes in
existance.  He's looking for the other souls who purchased one.

He's also wondering if there's "newer" software than the versions he has:
	Manual (April 91)
	Show24 (8 Feb 91)
	CBPaint (17 Jul 91)
	Readme (20 May 91)

He called Centaur (the people who bought M.A.S.T.) and got a very snotty
reply from them on the order of: "Send us your box and $500, and we'll give
you an Opal Vision board).

Not very nice of them.

He's also looking for any development/programming documentation for the
colorburst.  (We're trying to make it a useful device; Rendering module for
ImageFX, CineMorph, ADPro, etc.)

Mail replies please  (If you want the info, let me know and I'll send
whatever I get)

Thanks!
	-steve

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From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news
Date: 22 Nov 92 18:32:12 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Distribution: world
Organization: System Information 2.0 Development
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16g (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <69868@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
> >
> >6 Nov 92 02:57:20 GMT bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:
> >[stuff deleted]

[Lots of political babble deleted]

Boys and Girls, please take this to another group. It is not of interest
to most of us outside the US (Yeah, the rest of the world is in here too!)
and it also very OFF-TOPIC as it has nothing to do with Amiga hardware.
So please check your headers and remove any references to C.S.A.HARDWARE!

Thank you for ypur time, please carry one with what you were doing. :-)

CYa, Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: lofaso@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Bernie Lofaso)
Subject: Re: 4000 problems! PLEASE READ
Organization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:53:24 GMT

benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin) writes:


>Ok, My 4000 has died (again!) this time 2 days after being returned
>from CBM Express.
>First off I want to know how many of you 4000 owners have had flawless
>performace?  Does the 4000 suffer from being rushed? or do I just have
>a lemon?

I've had mine for less than a week. It has performed near flawlessly. I
say near because until yesterday it wouldn't format or write to HD floppies
although standard floppies worked fine. The problem was that the drive cable
wasn't seated correctly. No problems now.

>Secondly I was wondering about a few abnormalities that may be symptoms
>of whatever the heck is wrong with my system.
>I noticed that file-requesters were never updated correctly.  If I saved
>a file and then went to load another file from the same program and same
>volume the file I had just saved would NOT appear in the requester unless
>I re-entered the volume name and forced it to look up the directory again.
>?? Has anyone else noticed this?

I think this has always been the case. I don't even know if a programmer
can get update events for this sort of thing, I suspect not.

>Also when I hit CTRL-A-A to reboot the hard drive parks and spins-down
>then back up again. (seems kinda weird)! 

Yeah, I agree. But mine does it too.

Bernie Lofaso
Applied Research Labs
lofaso@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone have a list of suitable IDE drives for the 1200?
Date: 24 Nov 92 05:08:58 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <13681@ecs.soton.ac.uk> efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:
> In <1992Nov16.220156.24949@maths.tcd.ie> mike@maths.tcd.ie (Mike Rogers) writes:
> 
> >IDEs confuse me. I assumed that there was a standard, but any PC mag I've
> >looked into rambles on about inter-IDE compatibility issues. Is this just
> >a drive/drive thing, or will there be problems hooking a bog standard one
> >up to the 1200?
> >-- 
> 
> Any 2.5" IDE Drive should work, the tricky bit is the cable... there is
> a crossover in the 44 pin connector which means that it is non-standard.

Nonsense.  It is a standard 1-1 cable.  The only issues (beyond finding
one at all) is that it needs to be quite short and some varities of the
ribbon connectors I've seen are too tall and you get interference between
the connectors on each end of the cable when the cable is plugged in.

> Just get a specific Amiga IDE Drive Lead from an Amiga Dealer and you
> should have no problems.
-- 
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but no way officially representing:   uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
Commodore, Engineering Department     domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:04:54 GMT

In article <torban.721896754@csuvax1> torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett) writes:
>kevin@msus1.msus.edu writes:
>
>>In article <1e2imsINNr9e@mozz.unh.edu>, ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) 
>>writes:
>>> 
>>> '>Actually, what use would you have for it except shooting people and use 
>>> '>it to threaten them?  
>>> 
>>> 	You can say that about any rifle or pistol.  Yet Congress has 
>
>>	.....or baseball bat or kitchen knife or a 2 x 4.  It's the person
>>weilding the object that makes it threatening. 
>
>Wow! You're right!  I wonder why the US army doesn't have a crack 2 x 4
>commando squad!  You could make a million selling baseball bats to re-arm
>the front line troops.

Naw, the Iraqis already tried that... :-)

>OK, so basically any solid object on the planet that you can pick up, can be
>used in an offensive manner.  The point is though, somethings are just a tad
>more effective than others.

No, I basebal bat with a nail through it can kill as can a gun.
It may be easier or more convienient with a gun, but they are both lethal
if used a certain way.  There is no variation of DEATH, mind you.

>As a simple experiment, walk into a crowded shopping mall, weilding a 2x4,
>see how many people you can maim or kill in 30 seconds.
>Now repeat the experiment with a semi-automatic rifle.
> (lets use a domestic brand, and help the balance of trade figures, who 
>   wants our money going over-seas? ;-)

Come on- so we are talking about a time-rate-of-kills, now?  And we better
get rid of that 2X4, too, since it could kill more in 30secs. than, say,
forced food deprivation.

>Torban Bennett - adding to the thread that will NOT die.  I'm taking bets
>	on which will last longer,  FEMALE BIMBO v. CLINTON/GORE.  Actually
>	this thread is now a hybrid of the two.

Heh heh.  Pinch Paula's butt and 'FEMALE BIMBO' will long outlast
CLINTON/GORE.

>>Kevin Whyte						kevin@msus1.msus.edu
-- 
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lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!" 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jesmith@gdfwc3 (Jesse Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Running an A3000 on its side
Date: 21 Nov 92 00:37:03 GMT
Reply-To: baumann@gdwest.gd.com
Organization: General Dynamics, Fort Worth Division

Does anyone have any experiences with running an A3000 on its side,
ala a tower?  What are the potential problems / side effects with
doing this?

Thanks,
Jesse Smith
smith@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu
From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Which HD-Controller is better? 2091 or GVP
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 23:12:09 GMT
 <p3kXr*qg0@disaster.hacktic.nl>
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <p3kXr*qg0@disaster.hacktic.nl>, Rico Jansen writes:

> Yep, me. SCSI supports something called LUN's.
> (look at the SCSI scanning of HDtoolbox).
> This means the every SCSI device can be subdivided in 8 sub units.
> You need a LUN-controller for that. If you use this method
> with *one* SCSI controller you can get 7*8=56 HD's of your system.

Yes, but few SCSI devices or controllers will actually work with LUNs.  (At
least that is what I've been told.)


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
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