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From: beesonm@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Mark R Beeson )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 AIBB_5.0 BenchMark Tests
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:34:32 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Okay.. we've got the Amiga 500, 600, 1000, 1200, 2000, 2500, 3000,
and 4000.

Where's the 300?  Where's the 2400?  Where's the 9600?

I WANT THE AMIGA 14.4k, CBM!  Develop it before I go crazy!

Mark Beeson
beesonm@gas.uug.arizona.edu
University of Arizona
(Please forgive me.  Fortran programming on VAX/VMS does this
 to a guy.)

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From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Composite video input on a 1084
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 92 23:57:52 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

In article 11/1/92 robi@md2.huji.ac.il (Dr. Wartenfeld Robi) writes:

>     Hello.
>  I have a 1084 monitor connected to a Amiga 500. On the rear of the monitor
>there is a composite video inut (CVBS).  I try to connect it a VCR but i got n
o
>picture. I pressed the button on the front pannel and got nothing.
>I read once that the CVBS input was disconnected on the 1084 monitors. Is that
>true? Is there a way to get the composite input work?
>        Robi.

On my 1084S there are push buttons on the back which allow use of
composite video.  I have used this monitor with a VCR several times.

Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Subject: a completely different chip ram question
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:51:06 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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Relax, I'm not going to ask about the 4 Mb "sex and free beer" jumper on
the 4000 motherboard.

However, I am going to ask about expanding CHIP ram on the 4000 in other
ways.  It has become apparent to me that this machine *really* could use
a lot more chip ram, since the new display modes are very hungry.  It is
quite easy to eat up a a meg of chip ram with a single screen.  I'd like
at least 4 Mb of chip ram available, and 8 would be nicer.

Even though the Agnus(?) chip is on the 4000 motherboard, would it be
possible for C= to produce a new version of the CPU module with a new
"genetically obese Agnus" on it, which supported lots more chip ram and
effectively ignored the old Agnus on the motherboard?  Although I'm not
a hardware type of person and am woefully ignorant of such matters, I
don't see why not.  It has a full 32 bit data path to the chip memory
from the processor card.  In fact, perhaps they could even put a SIMM
directly on the CPU card for the new Agnus to talk to.  On the other
hand, maybe there is too much support hardware also on the motherboard
that couldn't be used if the Agnus was on the CPU card.  Or maybe I just
don't know what I'm talking about at all :-)

Anyway, does such a thing sound possible?

  - steve
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From: storch@pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu (Matthew Storch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Is it possible to use a SCSI WORM drive on an Amiga???
Summary: Is it possible to use a SCSI WORM drive on an Amiga???
Keywords: WORM worm scsi drive hardware question
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:41:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: pertsser.storch.721615293
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL

Does anyone know if it is possible to use a SCSI WORM drive on an Amiga
2000 or 3000?  If on the 2000, then with which SCSI controller?  Does
ANY controller manufacturer explicitly support WORM drives?

It would seem to me that special support would be needed to make the
drive look like a regular hard drive ("deleting" files by hiding them,
etc.).  But if all I do is copy stuff to the drive and then just read it,
might it work without any special support, since after all it IS a 
block-oriented SCSI device?

Any help at all on this matter would be greatly appreciated!!!

	Matt Storch (storch@cs.uiuc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: "roger bouchard" <roger.bouchard@canrem.com>
Subject: moving 500 to 1200,
Reply-To: "roger bouchard" <roger.bouchard@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 11 Nov 92 07:29:50 EST

GH>If I had gone the PC route, and started with an 8088, I could have taken
GH>SIMMS and SCSI all the way up through '286, 386 and 486.
GH>

if yhlou had gone the PC route at the 8088 level , you would have had to
trade 3 times , 8088 to 80286 to 80386 to 80486 .

you would have had to go from 64k chips to 256k chips to SIMMs
then you would have had to start with ST506 drives ( no SCSI to speak of on
XT ( if AT ALL!!)
so you would now have to buy an SCSI controller who are only now getting
popular after going from st506 to IDE .

by all means BUY a PC , you'll be swapping machines once a year and NO
POWER UP DEALS in the PC world . you usually JUNK the machine and start
with a higher one .


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From: Midknight-Rider@cup.portal.com (William Greg Stoudenmire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Practical Modem 9600SA-need HELP!!!!!!
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 92 21:29:36 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

 Thanks to all for the info/help!!!

Come to find out the modem had a trouble in the Data Compression end
I called P.P. and talked with them and they crossed shipped me one back!

As for the RTS/CTS that I have know about from the days of the 64, as I
have always before used a USR 2400 Courier and talked to it as fast as
what ever computer I had could go.

 Also to let all Sysops know you can get the P.M.14.4/fax if you run a
BBS for $250.00 if you do it before Christmas/end of the 1992 year.
Just wish I could come up with the 250 ofthe I picked up my 120 Q. LPS
drive.

 By the way, I have an Amiga 500 not A3000. The A500 is docked to a
Bodega Bay (one of the first, you never know when a co. will bite the di),
with a GVP SCSI+Ram card 7of ram and 1Rodine 45meg H.D., 1Conner 100meg, and
my new 120 LPS H.D.. Now if I could just get someone to sell me a M.M.R. or
a VXL cheap I'D have almost all the system I need.

Thanks again for all the help/info!!!!!

midknight-rider@cup.portal.com
(Greg Stoudenmire)
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From: idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: US -> UK amigas.
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:18:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6296
Organization: /etc/organization

>Using a 120/240 autotransformer to feed your Amiga with the right voltage
>will still leave its PSU with a frequency it wasn't designed for. Usually that
>won't matter, but if that PSU has a transformer which is running close to its
>limits, and you then feed it with the correct voltage but at a different
>frequency, you may just push it over the edge & cause it to eventually fail.

But wouldn't 50Hz generate less heat than 60Hz?  So, wouldn't that make a
US Amiga less likely to fry in the UK?
                                  - Ian Romanick
                                    Dancing Fool of Epsilon

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Date: 4 Nov 92 15:37:07 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
>How about Commodore calling some more chips by -male- or sex-neutral names,
>or better still, leave out the anthropomorphisms........ 

Hmm, I always considered Agnus a male name. And I myself don't object to
such anthropomorphisms, it makes such a cool device much more like a
good friend of yours. Yes, I know you should much more talk with your
real human friends and not spend all your nights with a computer, but
then, this is perhaps one of the mysteries of male humans, as such
behaviour obviously is found rather rarely with women.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Why I need Hardware References.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:29:17 GMT

In article <37019@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>Does it really?  If it does, these basement hackers have lots something
>over the last 5-10 years.  Do you think their forerunners sat around
>waiting for the C64 or C128 internals to be documented?  Hell no!  In
>fact, it was one of these guys, not anyone at C=, who found how that
>interlace mode in the C128 80 column chip actually worked (we thought it
>was broken, when in fact the designer forgot to fully document it before
>moving to Texas). 

   ( Warning!  Unexpurgated self-promotion follows)

   Actually, I was one of those guys.  I had a utility written to 
display four mono 320x200 C64 pictures at once using the C128 80-column
interlaced mode, before very many people knew anything about the mode.
I gave my utility to some hackers at a Commodore Expo, and some people
grealy improved on it, but I was one of the first to do it.  I wish I was
as good at hacking on the Amiga, but I am not.  The C-128 really was a
joy to hack on.

>Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
> "The Crew That Never Rests"  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh   BIX: hazy
>		SCIENCE:	"I'll believe it when I see it"  
>		RELIGION:	"I'll see it when I believe it"

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From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 and LD vs HD (marketing? what marketing?)
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:16:15 GMT
Organization: Utah State University

> ]> As a sales person that actually has to sell the machines to customers
> ]> I can tell you that it is hard to tell a customer that it doesn't have
> ]> a high density drive and then to tell them it's a better machine than a clone.
> 
> Gee, I can think of several tacks to take with such a customer:
> 
> 	"Oh, if high density drives are all you're interested in, let's cut the
> 	 computer our of the equation altogether!  I can sell you SEVERAL HD
> 	 drives for that price!"
> 
> 	"Are you here to buy a computer or a disk drive?"
> 
> So on and so forth...

Sorry, it's a little different in real life.

> ]> I have to start making excuses.  And then when they say "well, can I have
> ]> you put one in it?" I have to tell them no becouse Commodore won't sell me
> ]> the drive by itself.
> 
> Um, gee, I guess the ones I've seen three of the 5 dealers here in SDiego
> selling are frauds, counterfeits, vapordrives?  The part number for getting
> these little devils was announced quite some time ago.

Oh really?  Gee, then why did they call us and tell us that the drives weren't
going to be made available anymore and that our order was being cancelled?
Just becouse a few dealers got them doesn't mean all of us got them.
And the last time I tried to reorder they still weren't available.

> Not entirely your fault... C= dealer support bites.  But maybe this too will
> improve with time.  Keep at 'em!  And if they don't want a 1200 with a LD
> drive in it, sell 'em a 3000!  The drive is all that counts, right?  Right?

Well, the better graphics would help too.  ;-)

> ]> If marketing has any questions, maybe they should ask their dealers before
> ]> they decide whats best for them.
> 
> Amen.

Yea, like when they announced at a dealer meeting that they had done market
research with the dealers and it had said dealers couldn't sell a portable 
Amiga.  And the dealers started the old "bulls***" cough gag.

Market research... yeah... right... sure...


As long as were ragging on CBM's dealer support... why is it that  they
don't give dealers any advanced warning when they are going to have a
special on machines???  It would be nice if the dealer rep would call
a month in advance and tell us which machines to unload so we aren't stuck
with them!  Even two weeks notice would let dealers get rid of existing 
inventory before it's made unsellable.
Our reps refuse to admit the existance of the 1200, but were sure it's
introduction is close.  So we don't order any 2000's and we order less 
3000's so we don't get stuck!
How about letting us know when the machines will hit the market so we can
continue to sell 2000's in the mean time?


James

Usual "My opinion only" disclaimer applies.
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Question about high density drives on the Amiga
Date: 10 Nov 92 07:56:30 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <BxF9w0.KFG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
>This is probably a really old question, but I just don't understand
>why IBM (for example) high density drives cannot be somehow hacked
>and used on the Amiga.

This is a very often asked question, so please tell all your friends the
following answer, perhaps then some day everyone knows: In the Amiga,
we do not use a standard floppy controller chip. The basic functions
are performed by the Amiga custom chip Paula. And this chip is simply
(yet) not fast enough to deal with standard HD floppy drives. You must
know that the doubled density of such a drive stems from a doubled
write density, so the bits are written at double speed/frequency. And
Paula only can handle the simple frequency. And as the clocking of these
Amiga custom chips is a very peculiar thing, all chips interwoven with
one another, you can't simply increase their clock frequency. So there
is no way because of the hardware. The now used "dual-speed" floppy
drives in the A4000 thus use a different approach: When in HD mode, they
halve their rotational speed, so that the bit frequency is again the same
and can be handled by Paula. But this is a special trick, that only certain
drives are able to do.

>We know that adequate driving software can be written, since multi-dos,
>messy-dos and cross-dos all exist.

No, software can't cross hardware limits.

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:15:32 EST
From: <FAA102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject:    A fews ?'s

I have a few questions about the 4000 and the Zeus accelarater.


   Is Zeus a 16bit board or a 32bit board? (I don't know what's the size of the
   of the 3000's cpu slot)
   If so, will it work with the 4000, and is that worth doing?


   The reason I ask, is that putting a 16bit accelarater into a 32bit machine
   (I know the chip in Zeus is 32 bit) may not use the chip to its fullest.



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     Please email and post all replies.

     That way, if your wrong someone will see it and sed the right answers.

     Thanks in advance.



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From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How to tell if A4000 has OFS or FFS
Date: 13 Nov 92 22:07:15 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Nov13.205454.22735@ra.msstate.edu>, skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>Okay, I finally got the A4000 and have installed the networking software
>so that I can transfer the files from the A3000.  But I don't want to do
>anything until I find out if the HD is one of the ones that is formatted
>wrong.  HDToolbox says that the filesystem is "custom" and I can't figure
>out what the hell that means.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?

Don't worry about what HDToolBox says.  The OFS/FFS issue is determined
by the AmigaDOS FORMAT command.  Just do a

        format drive devname: name whatever FFS

on the drive before you start the copy, and everything should be fine.
This way, you can be sure it is right, whether you got one of the "bad"
ones or not...

-- 
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and not necessarily those of my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cmd1@cec2.wustl.edu (Christopher M. Dunphy)
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:17:36 GMT

  Ah George, but the problem is some of us do not have the deskspace for
two monitors.  I live in a tiny cramped dorm room and my original
Amiga monitor (before they had numbers) works great hooked
up to my hi-fi VCR...  Gorgeous picture.  But now I am getting a
4000 an want a multi-sync.  But I also want to keep my VCR functional.
Sure I could keep two monitors on my tiny desk, or I could 
get one that can do both.  Any suggestions?
	Chris

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: guido@iastate.edu (BP Walenz)
Subject: NO A3000 Power Light!!!
Keywords: Dead Light
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 08:38:35 GMT

Here's the sceneraio.  I was working on a small C program, it compiled, so
I executed it.  The power light died, the machine DID NOT lock up or crash.
(And, no, the program was not supposed to do this.)  So, I reboot.  The light
is still off.  So, I kill the power, wait a couple of minutes, power on again,
and (guess what) NO light.

Everything else appears to be working fine.  Ideas??

bri
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: A570 CD ROM, A500 and a GVP HD
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:07:30 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.154141.9294@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:
><TPATTERS@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:
>
>>I have an A500+ and an external GVP hard drive. I would like to have one
>>of the A570 CD units but unless I'm mistaken I'll have to keep unplugging
>>and swapping over the Hard Drive and the CD Drive - which I obviously
>>don't want to do. Is there a way of having all 3 linked up at once.
>>(I take it there is NO through connector on the CD Drive - stupid omission
>>but C= again!)
>
>Here's another question...
>What does anyone think the odds are of C= coming out with a CDTV drive
>for the A2000 series?
>-Doc

NIL!

Edsel Adap
adap@andrews.edu

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From: jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Old Bru
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:32:33 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

I am looking for a version of bru for AMIGADOS 1.3. I have a version of bru that
doesnt crash the machine but produces lots of complaints while writing to and
reading from floppies with UNIX bru'd material on them. 

thanks
jea@cvs.rochester.edu
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: does this device exist?
Date: 8 Nov 92 06:20:12 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <BxD6o6.E34@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
> Martin Black (22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu) wrote:
> 
> > Well Any genlock should work.  Just bring up a black screen on your amiga,
> > and you will be able just amiga m to it.  Of course they are like $200.
> 
> That is the wrong direction.  All the genlock advertizements I see say
> "NTSC Composite video out".  That's not what I need; I want NTSC _in_, and
> analog (separated) RGB out.  But thanks anyway.

All the Commodore genlocks have had both RGB and Composite out.  Still, it's
pretty expensive.  If you want a nice composite monitor for your TV or VCR,
just pick up a spare 1080 or one of the Commodore C64 color monitors.  Even
the cheaper computer monitors look beautiful as composite video monitors.

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