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From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Transputer cards for A2000 - info. wanted
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:46:28 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Does anyone know where I can get information about Transputer cards for my
A2000. I've just about had enough of using inmos' TDS on the office PC and
want to switch development to Amy ASAP.

advTHANXance

Angus

P.S. reply directly by e-mail please - I will summarise if anyone else is
interested.

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From: manfred@edomdo.UUCP (Manfred Dolag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Looking for Prototyping board
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:41:07 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <RVILLARI.92Aug29095037@lynx.cat.syr.EDU> rvillari@cat.syr.EDU (R. Alberto Villarica) writes:
>In article <ERICJ.92Aug27174455@lagos.cfsat.Honeywell.COM> ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:
>
>>   Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
>>   Path: newstand.syr.edu!psinntp!psinntp!rpi!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!hwcae!ericj
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>>   In article <RVILLARI.92Aug26223931@lynx.cat.syr.EDU> rvillari@cat.syr.EDU (R. Alberto Villarica) writes:
>
>>	I'm looking for an autoconfiguring prototyping board for either Zorro
>>	II or Zorro III.  I remember seeing someone posting about this several
>>	months ago.  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
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:
:Could you give me an idea of what the current exchange rate is?
:
 the current exchange rate is approx. 1.4 DM = 1.0 $

:Does this include sample software to read from memory locations within
:the autoconfig'ed space?  Do I have to burn in PALs for the
:Manufacturer's ID?
:
 it is not neccessary to burn PALs:
    1.	you may have an standard PAL with an Global Manufacturers ID
    2.	we can calculate and burn a special PAL for you

:Sorry about all the questions but I would like to do as little work as
:possible to make an A/D board.
:
 we can also deliver a A/D-Board. Please send  specs you need.

:What do you mean by complete applications and custom versions?
:
 we prefer to do a complete solution.

:Last question (finally):  How would I go about paying for one of these
:boards and how long do you think it would take before I get it (is
:mail the only way?)?
:
 we would send you a proforma-Invoice - then you would send a international
 check.
 we can also deliver by any other service

:Thanks very much!
:
:~Al
:


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From: wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild)
Subject: Re: Questions about A2090 HD controller...
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:39:20 GMT

In article <37599@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:
>>I recently purchased a used A2090 SCSI controller for an old A2000.
>>Also, how would one Low-Level format this drive?
>
>If you have an a2090a, the software should be the same.  You should
>get a disk with this (program is "prep").  Maybe 2.0 has hard disk
>software?  All the software does is prep the first cylinder to put
>information there.

I'd claim you'll have major problems if you really want to low-level
format the drive, ie. send the SCSI_FORMAT command to the drive. All the
hddisk.device does (when asked to by prep) is scribble 0-buffers on the
whole disk, using WRITE commands. It does *never* use the SCSI FORMAT
command. Now if you wanted to issue this command the drive using
SCSI-direct commands, you'll face the tons of bugs lurking in hddisk.device
regarding scsi-direct. There are kludges to get around some of them, but
I guess it's not possible to really define a reliable protocol to execute
scsi-direct commands with hddisk.device.

-Markus


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
Subject: Re: Flickery HAM Display?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:24:14 GMT

In article <t_jnb9p.fuzzy@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
>Subject: Flickery HAM Display?
>Date: 1 Sep 92 03:34:15 GMT

>I have an A2000 rev 4.2.  On some HAM display screens, the colors
>flicker wildly, usually in the lower half of the screen, but sometimes
>all over.  (This is not interlace flicker - it appears that memory is
>not always being read correctly by the video chip, though RAM tests
>always come up fine).
>
>The problem is strange.  Some HAM images cause the problem at all times.
>Other HAM images exhibit the problem only rarely.  Most pictures display
>just fine, rock-solid.  I can't seem to find a correlation for where the
>image loads in memory.  I tried loading many many HAM screens at once,
>and switching betw4een them.  Some display with a little bit of flicker,
>others with a lot.  All the same IFF image, too.

I've noticed something like this happening on my KS1.2 amiga 500.
A strip along the right hand side of the screen flickers.  I also 
catch in the corner of my eye characters disappearing from a CLI 
screen on the RHS when I resized the screen and left it alone for a 
while.  Anyone knows what's going on?

I thought it was just my eyes at first...


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From: wfaust@venus.UUCP (Wolf Faust)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Parallel port switch box
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:29:30 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <64782@cup.portal.com> Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com writes:

>You can **NOT** add a parallel port switch box to your DCTV, even though the
>manual itself suggests it.  It SEVERELY degrades the quality of all 
>video digitizations.

There is an electronic switch box available specialy for these
cases. It's called the "arXon switchbox". This switchbox can also
be  controlled  by  software (you can connect a control cable to
your mouse port and still use that mouse port).

The arXon switchbox is specialy designed for speed and does not
use the "normal" chips as used by most electronic switch boxes...

I also do support this box in my printer drivers, so here a part
of my readme file:

"The  driver  supports  the  arXon  parallel switch box.  The arXon
switch  box is an external 1 to 3 centronics switch controlable by
software.   You  can  ask  the  driver  to automaticly switch to a
wanted  port  for  printing and switch back to the previously used
port after printing.  This enables you to use a scanner, digitizer
and  printer  from  your  Amigas centronics port without switching
between the devices "by hand".  Specify the wanted printer port in
"sbox_printer"  and the default port (which should be set up after
printing)  in  "sbox_active".   If  you specify 0 (default) as the
port, no switching will take place.

Note:   "sbox_active" MUST be specified before using the driver in
order  to  enable  the  "sbox_printer"  command.   This is because
"sbox_active"  is  used  to  determine  weather  a  switch  box is
installed or not.   Information  about  the  switch  box  can be
obtained from:

                          arXon GmbH
                      Assenheimer Str. 17
                      D-W-6000 Frankfurt
                            Germany
                    Tel:  (++49)-69-7896891
                    Fax:  (++49)-69-7896878

"

Hmm.... price... don't know the price... but should be arround
$120.

>-Fred

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From: glewis@fws204.intel.com (Glenn M. Lewis ~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with GVP G-Force 040 on 16MHz A3000
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:37:48 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: ICD, Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA


	What I have received so far have been good suggestions from
people who do not have the same setup as I do.  And the suggestions
vary, most of which do not help.  The ones that I have avoided trying
are "take out the RAM", and "Change chip-X".

	Soooo... Is there *anybody* out there that has a 16-MHz A3000
and has *SUCCESSFULLY* got a GVP G-Force '040 to work on their
machine???  Dave H... have you tried out this combination???

	Anybody?  Please?  E-mail would be great.  Right now I have to
boot in 68030 mode because the system randomly crashes with different
GURU numbers.  The previous message of mine has all the details, but
basically, I have 2Megs RAM on the G-Force, 4Megs Fast RAM, 2Megs Chip
RAM, RAMSEY Version $D, GARY Version $0, DMAC type "Old", Unknown
version of BUSTER, V2.04 of the operating system in ROM.

	Thanks a million.  22 Million, even!!!  I had this puppy for
over 2 weeks, and still can not use it.  GVP, by the way, has absolutely
no clue what is the matter.  :-(

						-- Glenn Lewis
						(co-author of Essence)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: copes@pride.cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: Reboot with 1.3 using SetCpu under 2.04
Keywords: SetCpu ROM 
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:20:52 GMT

I'm reposting this because I'm not sure if it got through first time.

keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:

>I am trying to reboot using SetCpu KICKROM DF1: . I have a 1.3 Kickstart
>disk in df1:

>I have 2.04 in ROM and A 2630 board w/4meg of RAM and GVP Series II with 4 meg

>After executing setcpu I get the kickstart hand on the screen and kickstart
>is loaded from df1:
>The computer resets and I get a green screen and then thats it.

>Any ideas. I have tried SetCpu FASTROM dh0:rom with a 1.3 ROM image but
>the screen only goes wavey after rebooting 

>Any help please reply

>Keith

If you are running 2.04 roms, you can only FASTROM a romfile of disk if it is
the same version.  What you should be trying is SetCPU KICKROM dh0:rom to boot
1.3 of your hard disk using setcpu 1.6.  If this doesn't work, how much chip ram and C00000 ram do you have?  The kickrom option uses c00000 ram or chip ram for the rom image and mmu tables, as it survives a reboot better.  You will need  
1 meg of c0+chip ram as a 1.3 boot will need 256Krom+128ktable and a 2.04 fastrom will need 512krom+128ktable.  Setcpu 1.6 should work on your machine as its
nearly identical to dave haynies setup.  Don't use the bits 32 option either. 
bits 31 is ok, but 32 brings out a bug that doesn't show up in most machines.
(it shows up on my A3000.  you get some pretty patterns on screen).  I'm going
to mail the fix to daveh soon.
If you still can't get it to work,I would guess it's something to do with the ram on the gvp board.  You could try removing that ram and trying it. (only a guess).
BTW a guy I know can't use KICKROM on his B2000 as his particular revision pas
a problem with the pals, and hangs up whenever you execute two reset intsructions in a row, ala SetCPU's KICKROM code..... perhaps you have the same rev. no.

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From: pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: My A2000 doesn't always want to boot!!
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:11:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3292
Reply-To: pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu (Pete Ruttman)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI

When I cold boot my A2000 (rev 4.5x).  It may take up to 10 warm resets
to get the hard drive to boot my amiga.  Once it does boot it works
fine and I can warm reset it as many times as I want.  I can't even
boot off a floppy  on that first initial cold boot? Anyone know
what may be happening?


Pete
pruttman@cerebus.cc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@nectarine.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Can I use C= Ethenet card on A500 with A2000 slot adapter?
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:27:01 -0500

I have an Amiga 500 with a GVP Series II controller sitting on my
expansion port. I read recently in an Amiga magazine, that there
is a company, which sells a device for the Amiga 500 expansion port,
which passes through the original expansion port (!) and allows
you to attach a standard A2000 card on it (soon they will also sell
it with two A2000 slots).

With this device it should be possible to attach my original GVP
controller plus one of Commodores Ethernet cards on it. I wonder if
such a configuration would work. If anybody knows about certain
problems of such a configuration (like: A500 expansion port cannot
handle two "heavy duty" devices), please let me know.

I'm running currently KS 2.04, all ECS, and 9MB RAM, 68010. If you
know of some "alternative" ways of networking an Amiga, IBM system,
please let me know.

Stefan
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From: abryson@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Aaron Bryson)
Subject: Re: Changing noisy fan in A2000
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems, Inc., Phoenix Product Division
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 02:30:47 GMT

I think the fan you want from Radio Shack is RS#273-243B
(3" brushless, 12v dc) should sell for around $14.95.

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From: manfred@edomdo.UUCP (Manfred Dolag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking for Prototyping board
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:44:09 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <RVILLARI.92Aug26223931@lynx.cat.syr.EDU> rvillari@cat.syr.EDU (R. Alberto Villarica) writes:
>I'm looking for an autoconfiguring prototyping board for either Zorro
>II or Zorro III.  I remember seeing someone posting about this several
>months ago.  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Email would be fine.
>
>~Al
>(email:  rvillari@cat.syr.edu)

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From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Size of a Zorro II card
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:28:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BtyoJ1.94v
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


>phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes:
>>Could someone please tell me the maximum physical size of a Zorro II card.
>>That is, from the bottom of the edge connector to the top of the card.
>>Why you ask?  I am thinking of building a Zorro II cage for my A1000 and I
>>need to know how big to make it.

The card dimensions are the same as an AT card, just with an extra 100 pin
connector for the Zorro bus.  The exact dimensions are in the Hardware
Reference Manual, but I believe the height is 4.5 inches (2.54 cm/inch).

David

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From: faith@amiganet.chi.il.us (Fred Drummand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: WHATS WRONG WITH THE SUPRA14.4?????
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:28:10 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems


Screw the ROMS For Supras Modem, Why Dont they find a fucking SPEAKER THAT WONT
GO DEAD!

Has this happened to anyone else??  I have had mymodem REPLACED TWICE Due to
thisproblem, and now my speaker has gone out a third time! JESUS! CHRIST!


Get Real, Dont Get Supra/
 

Fred Drummand
Collumbia College
Graphic Arts Major
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
Subject: Re: A3000 struck by lightning, which chips to replace?
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:41:34 GMT

stewartm@bfield.uucp (Stewart Mckinnon) writes:

> RE: TOASTing the Amiga...... ;-)
> 
> This is certainly going to sound like 'closing the barn door after the horse
> has gone', but it's my opinion that you should completely disconnect ALL
> computer equipment during thunderstorms. And it really makes no difference
> whether or not the computer is off. It's easier to do this, if you have all
> your equipment plugged into a switcher unit, or a protected strip. I have hea
> about SO many people who fry their serial port (usually people who run BBSes)
> Disconnecting the phone line from the modem is also very wise. This is
> something I adhere to myself.....
> 
 
Yea, verily, being out here in the deserts of Arizona, where thunderstorms 
tend to pop up somewhat randomly during the summer, it's imperative that if 
you *think* it's going to storm, the phone line and the computer strip with 
everything on it is unplugged.
 
Automatically.
 
Have yet to lose an item to lightning strikes in close to fifteen years 
doing that small thing.

> *****************************************************************************
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> *****************************************************************************


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From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP:  I need to hook up TWO (2) monitors and TWO (2) keyboards!
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:49:05 MDT
Organization: Utah State University


  Sorry for posting an I*M question here, but I only read comp.sys.amiga.*
  newsgroups.  Anyways, I need to hook up TWO keyboards and TWO monichrome
  monitors to ONE 8088 computer.

  One set (monitor and keyboard) is already hooked up to the computer.  I
  want to hook the other monitor and keyboard up, only I want them located
  about 50' away from the computer.  

  How can this be accomplished?  Is there enough power in the one monitor
  output to support TWO monitors?  Same with the keyboards.  Keep in mind
  that these will be around 50' away from the computer.

  Any help what-so-ever is appreciated. 

  Greetings,

     Travis Carter
     slbfn@cc.usu.edu
From: amorsin@cs.vu.nl (A. W. Morsink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
Keywords: amiga virtuatlity game observations questions
Date: 31 Aug 92 10:14:56 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

In article <1992Aug28.164010.28932@wuecl.wustl.edu> sjg1@cec2.wustl.edu (Seth J. Golub) writes:
> 
> These games are actually becoming fairly common.
> I've played the one you described in St. Louis, New York, and even in
> a remote mall in Connecticut.  All the ones I have seen allow four
> players at a time.  One of them also had two pairs of the players
> linked with headsets so they could talk to eachother and team up
> against the other pair.  Another game they have at these "Virtuality"
> places has you driving a tank around.  Same visor, but the only other
> input is a joystick.  Not as impressive as "Dactyl Nightmare".  The
> cost I've heard is closer to $55,000.. but you may have been quoting
> Canadian dollars, and I am thinking in US$. 

Does anyone have a 'complete' list of locations where one can find
those games? If you know of just one location, that's cool too. 
Please mail, I'll post the results...


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From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Weird interlacing gets up my nose.  HELP!
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:14:52 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <tp924353.714709591@gum> tp924353@gum.canberra.edu.au (Jason Hecker) writes:
>When I go into interlaced mode, often the screen goes into
>non-interlaced mode, but displays the odd and even lines on top of each
>other still giving a flicker.  It'll switch between these `modes' 
>intermittently. It looks bad and gets VERY annoying.  Could someone 
>please give me a reason for why this happens and even a fix?

Which monitor do you have?  It could be your monitor.  Try checking your
system with another monitor.

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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Changing noisy fan in A2000
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:55:58 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <1992Aug25.122128.9@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk>, tscarpenter@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk writes:

>    OK I can't stand the noise of the fan in my A2000 any more,
>    Has anyone ever changed it before ?, and what type of fan was the
>    replacement.

Yes, I've replaced mine 2 or 3 times with the 12V fan from Radio Shack.  It is
relatively easy to do.  (My A2000 is one of the early machines - rev 4.(0|1|2))


                                                Jim Pritchett


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