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From: johnl@crash.cts.com (John Lindwall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: NEC 3D with A3000/A4000?
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:06:34 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

In article <35870@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>Check the spec's and see if says "non-interlaced", some NEC's don't
>do interlace very well and are best avoided it you want to either
>do NTSC video or play with the new A4000 super-72 interlaced modes.
>
>On the other hand, if you want want a general purpose monitor for
>text and graphics, it'll work fine...

Thanks for the reply George.  Forgive my confusion, but are you saying that
the "non-interlaced" feature is desirable or undesirable?  Assume that I 
Do want to do NTSC video and super-72; do I want the monitor to be
"non-interlaced" or not?  And what would be different in a interlaced
monitor vs non-interlaced monitor?  Thanks!

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John Lindwall                                    johnl@crash.cts.com
"...always use the formal attribute mechanisms for changing any field;
do not poke the objects." -- Jim Mackraz
From: acs_johnson@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help with GVP Series II needed
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:33:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: rivers.1992Oct12.133327.88
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls


Hello,

	I recently bought an Amiga 2000 used through the net, and it came
with a GVP Series II hard drive controler. I have purchased 4 1x8 Simms
for it, but I need to know the proper settings for the jumpers (I didn't
get an owners manual). So if someone who has one or knows which jumpers
need to be set to what, could E-mail me and let me know I would be greatly
thankful.

					Thanks in advance,
					Benjamin J. Johnson

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Subject: Re: Where to Buy new Floppy Disk Drive
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware.[D
Summary: Another theoretically cheap component.
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:26:42 GMT



The C= high density floppy drive is another case of the 
"theoretically inexpensive" component. Only problem is it's
single source.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: A4000 graphics
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:52:29 GMT

In article <35868@cbmvax.commodore.com> grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <Bw3098.Bn@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>    Not quite.  Amber did everything in hardware, but the deinterlacing and
>> scan-doubling on an A4000 is done almost entirely in software.  They is no
>> "deinterlacer" built into the Lisa chip.  They are using a combination of some
>> new resolution modes programmed from software and some software to detect an
>> attempt to open an interlaced screen and open a non-interlaced screen.
>
>Marc, the "de-interlacing" is all in hardware in Alice/Lisa, though we refer
>to it as scan doubling.  The software component is simply to determine when to
>enable the scan doubling and build an approrite copper list.
>You should really shut the fuck up when you're clueless, which seems to
>be most the of the time.

   Why don't you explain more clearly where my explanation of what is going
on is in conflict with yours?  I am saying that Commodore reprogrammed the
Productivity mode to generate the DblPAL and DblNTSC modes, and has written
some routines into the OS to determine when one of the DblXXXX modes is needed
bring up the appropriate one.  If this is wrong, say so and state what is
really going on.  Don't insult me and expect me to be satisfied because it
won't work.

>>    BTW, you say that AGA can do "everything that the Amber chip did and MORE."
>> I will not believe you until you can show me "Beauty of the Beast" running
>> on an A4000 with a VGA monitor, with no scan-lines.  The Amber chip can do
>> it easily.  Can the A4000?
>
>Who cares what you believe.  Have you tried your purity test or are you
>must making more noise?  Do you own an Amber chip or are you just comparing
>the virtures of Rolls Royces and Bentlys to create an illusion of knowledge?

   I have used A3000s extensively for the past year.  I do not actually own
one, but I have easy access to one during school breaks.  Besides, you did
not contest the statement, you just insulted me personally.  Fairly typical.

>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

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      Slick Willie Clinton: JUST SAY NO!!!
From: plevy@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Paul Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Photo-CD on Amiga/CDTV
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:45:36 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Anyone catch the CD-I commercials on TV..It had some nice morphing of
objects into the Terminator 2 chrome blob and then to a CD..
It didn't really show what CD-I could do, but it was nice to watch..

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David Loyd)
Subject: Will Sony 1304S Multisync Monitor Work w/ C= Flicker Fixer?
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:54:43 GMT

Is anyone in Netland using this monitor w/ their C= flicker fixer?
I (hopefully!) will be purchasing a flicker fixer soon and want
very much to use this monitor. I have always used Sony monitors for
my computing needs as well as for television use. I like their
product line.
If you have any info redgarding this subject or are selling this 
monitor please email me.
THanks

-- 
                       Amiga 2000     9megs Ram       52Meg Quantum HD  
loyd@seq.uncwil.edu    2400 Modem         Sony KV-1311CR Monitor 
                       VXL '030 w/ 25mhz 68882     Epson LQ-510 Printer 
                                Tanberg 60meg QIC Tape Drive
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Hard drive in box - safe or too hot?
Organization: City University, London
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 15:13:01 GMT

The second question concerns putting the 130M Fujitsu in a
metal box just big enough for the drive. The drive is full
height 5.25, very massive. Box is aluminium and steel,
about half to one inch gap all round.

I am proposing taking power from the A3000. Will the drive
get too hot? I could cut out some slots at the back and
front. I could even drill holes all over the place! How
far need I go?

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Info on A2024 monitor wanted
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <35641@cbmvax.commodore.com> peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.135819.6739@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
> 
> >>50Hz for 1024x1024 and 60 for 1024x800 is correct. I have one at home and I
> >>really like it. You don't really see, that it's 50 or 60Hz.
> >
> >Yes, the monitor has a long persistence phosphor.
> 
> I believe the monitor indeed scans at 72 Hz.  The data update rate (rate
> at which the Amiga feeds bitplane data to the A2024) is independent of
> the monitor refresh rate.  Thus, even though the A2024 screen is composed
> out of NTSC or PAL screens, the imagery is refreshed 72 times per second,
> which is very steady and flicker-free.

Per the designer of the A2024 (not me), it is *not* 72 Hz, rather something
a little bit higher than 60 in either mode.

> The data update rate is really 10 or 15 Hz (NTSC), or 8.33 or 12.5 Hz (PAL),
> because the A2024 modes are composed of 4 or 6 NTSC or PAL panels.

This is correct.
From: batman@amigans.gen.nz (Kerry Emerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Installing my Rembrant card into my A3000... HELP!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 23:16:17 GMT+1
Organization: Wanganui Amigans, Wanganui, New Zealand

I am having trouble installing the data disks for my Rembrant card.  I 
have tried using the wire-imagery programs and they are excellent, but 
the extra scalable fonts won't seem to install.  Help!  I have tried 
re-formatting my HD for the correct configuration (think that WB3.0 was 
affecting the Rembrant.execdrive) but it still doesn't work.  Why?
 
Any help would be appreciated.  I have considered ringing up TVNZ (as 
they use Rembrant cards for their titling) but they probably wouldn't 
answer me plee's for help.

--
     Kerry Emerson.  User: `Darknight Si'  UUCP: Batman@amigans.gen.nz
      Co-SysOp of Silent Imperium: +64 06 3471763 2400bps (8pm-8am).
     Home:  19B Somerset Road, Wanganui, New Zealand. +64 06 3446499.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: schouten@sp95.csrd.uiuc.edu (Dale Schouten)
Subject: CIA chip burned out
Organization: Center for Supercomputing R & D
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:14:38

I believe one of my CIA chips might be bad (serial port is screwed
up).  I noticed there are 2, one labeled even and one labeled odd.
Are the chips identical?  Are they interchangeable?  Can anyone give
me a good idea what each affects?  (I noticed that at least one is
involved with lights, mouse and joystick control, and at least one
has something to do with the serial port).
Am I way off base assuming that it is the CIA chip just cuz my serial
port doesn't seem to work?

Any suggestions would be helpful.
email is always welcome.

Thanks!

     ///
    ///		Dale Schouten
\\\///		schouten@uiuc.edu	(and Nothing else . . .)
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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: 13 Oct 1992 23:56:55 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <Bw31A0.y9@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>THERE ISNT A SINGLE GRAPHICS MODE THAT THE A3000 CAN DO THAT THE A4000 CAN'T.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   ****YOU ARE WRONG****!!!!!
>   ****YOU ARE WRONG****!!!!!
>   ****YOU ARE WRONG****!!!!!

You seem happy.  It's a shame that you're technically incorrect.

>   The A3000 can deinterlace NTSC overscan, all the way to 724x480.  The
>DblNTSC mode -- which is used as a substitute for the deinterlaced NTSC mode
>(and which is the mode that you get when you "promote" an NTSC mode) can 
>only handle 676x480.  The DblPAL mode is also constrained to 676 pixels in
>the horizontal resolution.

>   From the A3000 to the A4000, the non-interlaced resolution **WENT DOWN**
>from 724x480 to 676x480.  You just cannot handle this point. 

Except there's a difference:  The deinterlaced modes on the 3000
weren't actual screen modes.  You had to flip a switch, didn't you?
You either had the Amber on or off, no real selection of resolution.

So technically, they DID add resolutions.  DblPAL/NTSC non-interlaced
and interlaced.

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading AMIGA floppies on a SUN
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:43:14 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <67713@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
>I don't mean to be dense, but can't you tell the IBM controller
>that instead of a 512 byte sector your have a 5632 byte sector?

No, it can't swallow this much. It's a hardware limit in that chip. Though
512 is not the maximum, I believe. Back in my head, I remember figures
like 1 K or 2 K what this chip achieves as maximum.

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From: Arrakis@cup.portal.com (Duane M Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP: Checksum errors on my HD
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 92 07:17:09 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Try selecting VERIFY DATA ON DRIVE. 

BTW The drive will map out and add bad blocks to the  list automatically.
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Genlocks and the A4000
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:54:25 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri) writes:
>>
>>   I'm going to call CATS tommorow for the full scoop, but let's see if I can
>>get some answers here:
>>
>>   Will existing Amiga genlocks (namely Digital Creations' SuperGen [external])
>>work on the Amiga 4000, or will A4000 owners have to wait for new "next
>>generation" encoders to hit the market?
>>   Will the genlock encode all resolution modes to NTSC video?
>>
>>   As an Amiga videographics person, this is a must-know.
>
>All external genlocks will work just fine.  The internal ones may
>require some work (but the ones I have tried all worked except for the
>A2300 that we make :-()

I should amend that to say that the A2300 works except you must have video
feeding into it in order to boot the machine.  The problem lies in the A2300
and the way it generates the clocks when no video is connected.

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|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
|     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
|    ///   BIX:  msinz      UUNET:  mks@cbmvax.commodore.com           |
|\\\///    Programming is like sex:                                    |
| \XX/     One mistake and you have to support it for life.            |
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From: d8sunch@dtek.chalmers.se (Christer Sundin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: VXL DMA dilemma...
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:48:10 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:

>What I'm getting at is: if I can only DMA to the first 8M of 
>FAST RAM, I would have to trash the 2M on the A2091 if I were to buy the 8M 
>RAM-32 board, right?

Yes. If you want the VXL-RAM to be DMA-able then it should be mapped to
the normal autoconfig space, which means you can have a total of
8 megs of FAST RAM.

The alternative is to map the VXL-RAM high (outside the original 24-bit
addressing range). In this case you can have 8+8 = 16 megs of FAST RAM,
(8 megs of 16-bit autoconfig'ing memory and 8 megs of 32-bit on the
RAM-32 board). Nice, huh? :-) But then you can't DMA to the 32-bit
RAM. Supposedly this can be fixed (more or less) with a program
called DMAFix.

On the other hand, 32-bit RAM is a LOT faster than 16-bit, so my advice
is: Skip the old 16-bit RAM and get a fully populated RAM-32 board!

>Rob Whapham
>Etc. Publishing

Christer

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Quantum LPS 120 discontinued?!?!
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:11:44 -0500

I just called Computability to order a GVP Series II controller for an
Amiga 2000 with a 120MB Quantum drive. According to the sales person
GVP was still shipping the 120MB Maxtor drives, so I asked for an
alternative option. The man offered me the ELS 127MB harddisk and told
me that the LPS series was discontinued. Huh? What? I thought the ELS
series was an attempt of Quantum to introduce some cheap products into
the market. From what I heard is that the ELS are not as good as the
LPS, but are a bit cheaper. So why would Quantum want to discontinue
their high quality series? (HQS? :-)

Does anybody know something about this?

Stefan

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From: sirawa@awaki.toppoint.de (Ulrich Diedrichsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Joystickport fuse ?
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:07:12 GMT
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

Hi folks !

A friend of mine destroyed his +5 volt fuse on the joystickport on
his A2000. The fuse looks like a small green resistance.

Anybody who knows the correct model designation?

Thanks in advance,

--
   Ulrich Diedrichsen                            sirawa@awaki.toppoint.de
From: Chris_Lynn_Minshall@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 6.9 ROM for A2091
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 10:52:16 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

The syquest will work fine with 6.6 roms...I am not sure if 6.9 ever made it
out Commodore's doors.

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: johnl@crash.cts.com (John Lindwall)
Subject: Re: Novice question--RAM and the A1000
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:49:09 PDT

In article <1992Oct14.102609.855@altair.selu.edu> pcs$1610@altair.selu.edu writes:
>I recently bought a Microbotics external RAM expansion for my A1000. The
>problem is that the one piece of software I have that supports expanded
>memory locks up every time I try to load it with the RAM in place. 

I had the same problem with my A1000 and StarBoard II.  Grounding my PALS
fixed the problem. Look on ftp sites or BBS for instructions on grounding
your PALS in your A1000.

---
John Lindwall                                    johnl@crash.cts.com
"...always use the formal attribute mechanisms for changing any field;
do not poke the objects." -- Jim Mackraz
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: broken clock = 8520
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:53:09 PST
Organization: BBS

Well the "broken clock" problem I asked for help on earlier turned out to be a
toasted 8520 ... it became obvious when I tried to use the printer and my name
came out as "Paqh Kiajipz" ... so now I have a question requiring more advanced
knowledge.

Is it okay to use an old 8520 from an A1000 in an A3000?  Since I am now so
broke I can't afford a new chip, that's what I'm doing and it's working so
far... one of these chips was, I think, labeled 8520A1 and the other was
labeled 8520R2 or something.  Should I be chewing my nails in terror hoping
nothing blows up before I can afford a new chip?

email replies only please
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 + AIBB = ERROR ?
From: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (LaMonte Koop)
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:25:35 -0600
Reply-To: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Organization: SCS GP/Engineering Cluster

In article <Bvwzqv.Ksx@lysator.liu.se>, boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg) writes:
>jorngh@dhhalden.no (JORN GUNNAR HALONEN) writes:
>
>>I just saw a report generated by AIBB 4.5 on an A4000
>>and it said that the chip ram had 'Bus Port Size = 16 Bit'.
>
>>What's that suppose to mean ?
>
>  It means that it is not possible to detect bus widths from software

No, it is possible to do so on the 680x0, using a little bit of forethought
and work.

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           LaMonte Koop -- SCSU Electrical/Computer Engineering
 Internet: lkoop@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu -OR- f00012@kanga.stcloud.msus.edu
              "You mean you want MORE lights on this thing???"
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From: kontos@clipper.ingr.com (Thorne Kontos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Wanted: Zorro-II/III experimenter perfboards
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:22:42 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Advanced Processor Division - Palo Alto, CA

Does anyone know where I can find an experimenter's perfboard
for the Amiga. I have seen this product for pc's and am interested
in a board for the Amiga. Could someone send me an address if this
product exists?

                                           Thanks,
                                           Kris Kontos
From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floptical and MS-DOS
Date: Wed,  7 Oct 92 18:34:35 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Does anyone know if CrossDOS can read and write MS-DOS 720 kb and 1.44 mb dis
>with the Floptical drive ?

Yes. CrossDOS V5 is preferred (although it should work fine with most older
versions if you set up the right mountlists).

Dan