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From: Keith.Radley@launchpad.unc.edu (Keith Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP crap
Summary: huh??
Date: 10 Jan 93 23:56:53 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <73251@cup.portal.com> THX1138@cup.portal.com (William Tony Leventry) writes:
>>
>>memory.  GVP has their accelerators that are supposed to be "Top of
>>the line" but kill the SCSI drives and the extra memory.  If top
>>of the line means a big name makes it, the smaller companies are
>>going to get more of the business. 

>>Plus I don't see how Amazing
                       ^^^^^^^
>>Computing can give GVP their award for "Best Service/Customer
  ^^^^^^^^^
>>support" (Dec. 1992) when a call to GVP about the RAD/Impact II
>
>My good fellow, you've touched on a matter dear to me heart.
>
>
>If you look at the advertising in "AmigaWhirled", it becomes obvious why they
>think GVP is best. I dare say that the rag would cease to be without GVP's 
>sizable investment.

Not a flame, but a fact that invalidates your whole argument:  Amazing
Computing gave the award to GVP, not Amiga World.  (which I hate becasue
of the way every issue talks about mostly video and their 'games' issue
was the crappiest ever!! but have a subscription cause they are the best of
the worst to subscribe to in USA w/o heavy costs.)

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From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: Re: Science Project Help
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:11:37 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
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Brian Casiello (Brian_Casiello@amicol.UUCP) wrote:
> My son is doing a project for school (4th grade) entitled 'How does my
> computer work?'. As part of this, he needs some detailed descriptions of
> the workings of the CPU and custom chips of an Amiga 1000 - his (and my)
> computer.


I'm sure it contains much more detail than you require but, in my opinion 
every Amiga owner should check out the article in the April 1992 addition 
of the AmigaWorld Tech Journal titled, "The Amiga Custom Chip Set" by Dave 
Haynie. (Now where have I heard that name before.) 

Once you read this article you will know what makes your Amiga special.

Call 1-800-824-5499 to order your back issue. This line is for credit card 
orders only.

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From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone else use a Bernoulli drive on thier Amiga??
Distribution: world
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:34:05 EST
Organization: No such thing as organization. Life is chaos!

In article <1993Jan11.215446.8582@seq.uncwil.edu> loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David Loyd) writes:
>I picked up a Bernoulli A110H 10 meg removable hard drive from
>a friend and want to use it on my A2000.
>
>Anyone else have any idea as to how I can do this? It is scsi and
>it should work. I don't know if I need to make a mountlist for it
>or what.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>Thanks in advance!
>

What brand SCSI contoller are you using?

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From: toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services)
Subject: Is there an MFM controller for the A500?
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:40:16 GMT


	This may be a stupid question, however, is there an MFM controller for
the Amiga 500??  If so, how much is it???

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
Subject: Re: US A2000 going to Germany.
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:10:56 GMT

In <10404@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

>Even most monitors have no problem syncing to 50 Hz, *if* they are
>60 Hz capable.

It only occurred to me a couple of months after I got my SVGA monitor that
it was working perfectly in 50Hz mode, when the specs in the manual said it
would only do 60Hz. Quite amazing, really. In fact, it appears to perform
better in PAL mode, rather than NTSC, since the latter "vibrates" some pixels
on the screen a tiny bit, which is rather distracting. This may be a 
"feature" of the A2320 though (or the way I have adjusted it).

Barry.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
Subject: Re: EPROM programers and Amiga
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:55:07 GMT
Keywords: EPROM GAL GALER

eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards) writes:

>I've decided to try my hand at building Zorro II/III boards.  For this I
>will need to program EPROMS (Autoconfig) and preferably, GALs as well.
> 
>Does anyone have any ideas?  Better solutions?  I'd hate to have to buy a
>clone just so I could build hardware for my Amiga.

I would not trust a home-built GAL programmer, because the programming
algorithms on these chips seem to change quite regularly.

So what is the solution for the Amiga??  One thing you can do is run a PC
programmer under a bridgeboard.  Another solution is to use my
GoldenGateII bridgecard along with your favorite PC programmer.  If you run
CrossPC (or soon PCTask), you can run the PC software under the emulator
and use your programmer.  You can run Xeltek programmers that way, and they
are the cheapest universal programmers around.

Email me if you are interested.

David

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From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Combo board not recognizing 870meg SCSI on cold boot.
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:47:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

Could be the spin up time on the drive - have you tried the Tosh on its own? - a lot
of controllers will wait quite a long time to allow at least one drive to spin up
before defaulting to floppy. The only quick fix I can think of is to arrange that the
Tosh drive powers up before the rest of the machine - messy.

Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: C=2232 multiser @ >>19.2Kbps??!!
From: mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:47:32 EST
Distribution: world

In article <gGcfs*Hm1@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca>, hugh@kink.PhaedraV.On.Ca (Hugh D. Gamble) writes:

> If anyone has data on CPU load at high serial in/out speeds for
> different boards, I'd love to see it. Especially a comparison of the
> A2232 running one port at 115.2k with its on board CPU vs. one of the
> other boards using the Amigas main CPU (but with a larger buffer than
> the 1 byte motherboard CIA chips). I find that running the motherboard
> serial port at 38.4k (uucp using ser_f_radboogie) puts the CPU load of
> an A2500/20 at about 50%.
> 

Does anyone know if there is a replacement for the CIA chips that has a
input buffer >> 1K?  I'd like to see one with 16K or so...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: umbadiu0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ted Babiuk)
Subject: Booting the 'software' version of KICKSTART 3.0/2.0
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:26:05 GMT


I just recieved the beta/developers version of the software version of
Kickstart 3.0 that uses the rekick (think i got the filename right :) )
program to load the ROM Kickstart file into RAM and run it. 

One problem...

Rekick states that i need a meg of free memory at $20000....

I have an amiga with an ICD ram expansion card, 4 megs....none of this
memory is located at $20000....

is there anyway around this problem so that i can boot the 3.0 OS? 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: djmccoy@netcom.com (Daniel J. McCoy)
Subject: C Ltd Address Inquiry
Keywords: CLTD SCSI 1000 AMIGA
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:03:32 GMT

There's a user on a local BBS that just lost her original C Ltd. boot disk to
her C. Ltd harddrive controller attatched to her 1000.  Since C. Ltd is no
longer, I've seen a few mentions about someone picking up support.  This info
is probably in a FAQ but since I've seen inquiries recently in an Amiga
based magazine and saw no replies, I figured I'd get the skinny here hopefully.
I'd appreciate any information as to whom I can refer this individual to to
replace her boot disk.  Please respond via e-mail.  Thanks.

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is there an experimenting board
Keywords: zorro, zorro2, io
Date: 8 Jan 93 14:07:16 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <wolf.726186536@diodediode> uucp@diode.fipnet.fi (Tapio Heiskanen) writes:
>I was wondering if there was an experimenting board for the ZORRO slot.
>Most preferably for A500. And it should have the logic for AutoConfiguration.

The german company Edotronik in Muenchen offers a Zorro II board with
autoconfiguration logic. They are on the net. Contact
   heinz@edohwg.adsp.sub.org

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bill@bnr.ca (Bill Brocklebank)
Subject: Printer problem with Final Copy II
Keywords: Genlock Final Copy Printer
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:32:08 GMT

Don't know if this is the right group, so I hope someone can help.

A friend has an amiga 2000, 80meg hard drive, 2 - 3.5 floppies,
1 - 5.25 floppy, bridge card, and a Commodore Genlock. It's connected
to a Star NP-10 printer. He just had Workbench 2.0 installed.

Two problems:

1. He just got Final Copy II for Xmas (and had to upgrade to 2.0
   Workbench). When he tries to print documents, it won't print text
   or pictures. If he chooses the postscript print option, the
   postscript text prints fine on the printer. Printing from 
   Notepad, or Paint works fine. We went through the printer setup
   panel when I was there, and tried a number of different 
   combinations, all to no avail. Interestingly, the resolution
   selector, which goes from 1-7 always shows 300/300 DPI although
   the manual seems to indicate they should change. Anyone who can
   help?

2. Because the Genlock is installed, he cannot boot the amiga unless he
   plugs in a video source and turns the video source on. (This was 
   also true when he had the Workbench 1.3 ROM installed.) This is a
   major headache. Any one know a solution (short of removing the Genlock)?

Please e-mail responses since I'm not a regular reader of this news
group, although I'll scan it for the next couple of days if thats the
only way you can send it. Thanks in advance for any help.
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From: Magnus_Thelander@p18.f602.n203.z2.fidonet.bad.se (Magnus Thelander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with Accelerator needed
Date: 27 Dec 92 16:53:53 GMT
Reply-To: Magnus_Thelander@p18.f602.n203.z2.fidonet.bad.se (Magnus Thelander)
Organization: The final frontier, Lund, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

In a message of Thursday the 24 December 18:17:00, steven joseph chmura wrote:

 sjc> Now that the A1200 is out in the states, when will that
 sjc> 8meg+68882 expnsion from Microbotics be ready?

   I saw the actual P.C.B.  in a shop here in Sweden yesterday.  I
didn't see it in operation though, since the shop for obvious reasons
was closed.

Yours truly, Magnus

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From: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz (Pete Moore)
Subject: What is Hardware Error 9?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Equinox Networks
Reply-To: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz
Summary: 
Keywords: 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: 13 Jan 93 11:33:54 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks

Can any of the Commodore gurus out there tell me what Hardware Error 9 is?

I have a hard drive which has been producing intermittent Read Errors, and
when I ran the `Verify Data on Drive' option of HDToolbox it stopped after
a few seconds with the message `Hardware Error 9'
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: manacsa@l13ff.jsc.nasa.gov (Gerry Manacsa)
Subject: Re: Display Devices
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:44:13 GMT

In article <9300057262.AA726251684@mail.stx.com>, igraffma@mail.stx.com (Ira Graffman) writes:
> 
>           Hello!  I am giving a weather presentation in the local
>           elementary school next month and want to supplement the
>           presentation with a computer slide show using my Amiga 2000.
>           My question concerns how to get the output to a large screen
>           monitor rather than the standard 1084 monitor.  I see two
>           options at present:
> 
>             My local dealer suggesed a $120 device which puts the
>           video into a "SVHS" format via a RCA phono cable.  I
>           obviously need a monitor that accepts that format.
> 
>             Two, I can get the $40 device that allows Amigas to hook
>           up to any TV and go directly to a monitor or a VHS player
>           and be able to use any monitor that the school has.
> 
>           Question is then, which alternative is better (if any) in
>           terms of quality?   Will they both work?  Are there any
>           other alternatives?
> 
>           Thanks for any adivce!
> 
>           -Ira

I use an RGB encoder (like the Commodore A520) to connect my A500 RGB 
output to my 27" TV's composite video input.  Works fine, though my
encoder (an ancient C Ltd model) puts out a pretty noisy signal - I'm not
sure about the A520's quality, but it must be better than this unit!  Don't
forget that ordinary televisions have some limitations compared to the
1084, so don't use overly-fine lines or highly saturated colors in your
presentation.

S-VHS should give you better quality, but since I don't have an S-VHS TV, 
I'm not speaking from personal experience...
From: Jonathan.Benson@f550.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Jonathan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Chip Ram: Freeing It
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:48:00

Hi

B> via the "avail" command. Is there anyway to force the things
B> that I load in my Startup into Fast RAM vs Chip RAM? Is there

Try FastMemFirst, this is a standard workbench command that makes all
programs that can use Fast Ram before Chip RAM.  cya.

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From: gromyko@sputnik.rhein-main.de (Michael Grom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: (Full)overscan not functioning on all Amigas?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:30:35 MET
Organization: private Amiga Site


Hi folks,

when I visited a friend of mine, I was shown the rather strange behaviour
of his A2000 dealing with overscan. When adjusting the text or graphics
overscan using the overscan preferences program, the screen bearing the
numerous handles to move or size the view is flickering in a horrible
fashion, presenting a "ghosted" picture of the imagery.  If you then size the
handles to gain maximum overscan, after confirmation by depressing the
return key and choosing either "save" or "use", the entire display "breaks
down", flickering and jittering awfully. This also happens if you try
to open a hires-interlace screen with full overscan from within DPaint IV.
I wonder why this Amiga behaves in such a silly way, I never heard of
such symptoms before.

The equipment: A2000B, Rev. 6.2 PAL, KS 2.04,
               A2630 4MB, GVP Series II,
               Commodore Genlock and VLab digitizer.
               1084S Monitor.
               additional 2 MB of 16Bit ram .
It is supposed the problem is _not_ due to vlab or C= genlock, since
the machine behaved in the above mentioned way before these things
were added to the machine.
Since I am using a rather similar equipment, at least running 2.04 too, I
suppose this is a hardware (timing?) problem.

Any chance to fix this bug?

Best regards,
		Michael

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: black@ll.mit.edu (Jerry Glomph Black)
Subject: Re: EMPLANT for 1200?
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 21:38:23 GMT

In article <2154@celia.UUCP> celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond) writes:
>
>I believe you will have to have the Emplant with the SCSI option. Jim has
>stated that he uses AmigaDos devices which rules out a true Mac Drive from
>working without the SCSi option. Makes me wish I had purchased the option
>with the SCSI interface. Later.
>neil

I just got Emplant, not that you can do much in the Mac arena with 1.2 Meg
of usable memory (8 Meg A3000).   The "documentation" (quotes should be
in some clown font) says: be sure to put the scsi device driver in DEVS:
Next sentence: more info forthcoming when the scsi driver is finished.

ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!   
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: uteca036@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (Ruediger Kaatz)
Subject: Re: Bridgeboard trouble.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:02:35 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld

In article <C0JpHs.Mz8@ufrima.imag.fr> soudan@boole (SOUDAN sebastien) writes:
>hi!
>i've installed the janus2 on the amiga side, but there a problem:
>on the pc side, amouse isn't working any more. Are new version
>needed on the pc side too?
>thank you for help
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The Update included an update for the PC-side as well. So you probably
need that disk, too.

Bye Rudi!
From: FELIX-ONE@cup.portal.com (Dan A Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: more mac questions
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:59:56 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

tra
oops...
besides a mac that is...
a couple of questions..

does emplant work

where on a scale using the current macs would you place Amax 2.5+ and 
emplant?

( i'm running a 2500T)

can you see the whole mac screen at once?

is it compatible with flickerfixer by microway ?

how do you go about getting system software ?

can you write a 1.44 meg disk with AMax ?

any and all answers appreciated...
dan


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From: halo@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dr. Strangelove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: AmaxII+ and System 7!
Date: 4 Jan 1993 09:32:41 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamsun.tamu.edu

In article <Rob_Dangel.07s6@amicol.UUCP> Rob_Dangel@amicol.UUCP (Rob Dangel) writes:
<How do I put system seven on my Hard drive using Amax if my system can only
<read 800K disks?  Is there a sys 7 on reg low density disks?

It's been a long time since I've messed with this stuff but our university
offers it free.  You just bring in the disks and copy it using a program they
have installed on one of the Mac II's.  The program offers copying Sys 7 onto
low density drives.  You might check apple's ftp site...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: manacsa@l13ff.jsc.nasa.gov (Gerry Manacsa)
Subject: Re: AMax & A1200/4000
Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:49:54 GMT

In article <jdrew.0nc4@cryo.rain.com>, jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew) writes:

[previous quotes deleted]
>  
> In all fairness to our neighbors up north, the AMAX II+ software update
> for the cartridge works on our A1200's.
> 
> 
> 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

Let me make sure I understand this correctly - AMax II does work with the
A1200 under version 2.51 of the software?


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