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From: rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: FALCON VS AMIGA
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 18:50:17 GMT
Organization: HIN - Disaster Area

In article <1992Sep21.091512.12732@dhhalden.no>, (Rune hyldmo writes:

> Rune Hyldmo

Atari has no OS, or would you call TOS an OS ?

Rico Jansen (rico@disaster.hacktic.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: a4000 an possible deinterlacer.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 01:40:34 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.045128.368@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin E. Black) writes:
>I would like to ask if it is now possible to have a deinterlacer.  deinterlace
>superhires.  That is for the 800x600 mode on a 50khz monitor.  I ask this
>because if i got an a4000 i would like to get a good monitor for the future
>and it is hard to find HIGH frequency multiscan monitors.  I usually see
>monitors going from 30khz - 60khz or so.  And they don't often drop down to 
>below 30khz.  

   It's possible, but it would require a card with four times as much memory 
as a standard Amiga "flicker-fixing" card.  Worse, the memory would have to 
be at least fout times faster to boot.  The costs of such a card would likely
be enormous.  Heck, the standard Amiga flicker-fixing cards still go for well
over $200.  Would there be a market for a card that deinterlaces the
Super HiRes and Super72 modes that costs about $1,500?  If there is, somebody
will make it.

>Marty

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Subject: Re: Is DCTV Hardware or software?
From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:52:31 GMT
Organization: Shape Data (Division of EDS), Cambridge UK
In-reply-to: batman@amigans.gen.nz's message of Mon, 28 Sep 92 18:47:19 GMT+1

>>>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 92 18:47:19 GMT+1, batman@amigans.gen.nz (Kerry Emerson) said:

> I have been looking for a cheap(ish) 24bit graphics card for my A500 and 
> I noticed in a magazine that DCTV was ~$500US.  Is this software or 
> hardware or both?  Plus, does anyone have any details about cheap and 
> inexpensive (below $1500US or so) 24 bit cards for my A500?
>  

DCTV is hardware (though it comes with some software, e.g. 24bit paint program)
It actually uses digitised composite video, so is sort of pseudo-24 bit.

I have recently seen adverts for the PAL version at 500 pounds in the UK. Does
anyone know if the PAL version is that much more than the NTSC version in the
States (if PAL version is available), or are we just seeing the traditional
1$ = 1pound exchange rate for computer stuff?
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From: M-Santi@cup.portal.com (Michael Mark Santiago)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP SeriesII & A4000
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 92 21:48:01 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Hi Netland!

I currently own a GVP Series II SCSI host adaptor (2Meg RAM on board,
gvpscsi.device V 3.15), that I'd like to use with an A4000 (should
I decide to upgrade to an A4000).

Will this card work in an A4000?
If not then why not? Could this problem be fixed by e.g. disabling the RAM
or upgrading the firmware?

Peter Joachim (joachim@urz.unibas.ch)

There was a problem with DMA to motherboard RAM on the A3000 with DMA
controllers (not just GVP's), but the chip that had the problem (not
sure if it was RAMSES or BUSTER) has been upgraded on the A4000, so the
problem should not surface.  YOur 3.15 FASTROM should be ok.  Any changes
made since are not important.

Michael S
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: pooler@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
Subject: Re: HELP with SCSI DAT drive
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:58:52 GMT


I, too, am interested in a SCSI DAT drive...  there are a few reasons...
(1) Great way to back up my hard drive, plus any future hard drives I may add.
(2) I'd like to be able to take a DAT with audio information recorded on it
and read that audio data into my A3000, storing it in RAM to be processed or
on the hard drive.  (I've heard of the computer music lab at UIUC doing this
on NeXT machines, I'd like to be able to do it on my Amiga.)
(3) Bulk storage is neat, I'm sure I'd find other uses...

Someone mentioned the Technics DAT drive, but is this real SCSI or some
proprietary standard?

Can I actually do (2) or is there a major obstacle to overcome?

Anyway, someone should post info about this to the net... I think there's
sufficient interest.

Rob Poole
pooler@rpi.edu
pooler@cs.rpi.edu
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From: warhawk@netcom.com (Jason Martin)
Subject: Need the exact type of memory of a 3000
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 01:40:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I am look to buy some memory for my 3000.  I think 1X4 Zip SCRAM-80ns is
needed.  Is that correct?  Either way please help.
Thanx.
Jason

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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: RTG and Amiga3000
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:34:58 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

h_hucke@bdb.bs.open.de (Henning Hucke) writes:
>Ok now.
>
>In the meantime whe had to realize that the AGA chips can not be run in
>Amiga3000 computers. So here comes a question to clear the chance to over-
>come this problem (I think only Commo-people are competent to answer this
>question or at least give a hint):
>
>  Since I suppose that such plans are developed: Will RTG also support
>  the 3000 computers or at least this "combined" graphics/zorro-slot
>  in the 3000T. Will there be a lack of colours against the Amiga4000
>  which has some more signals with its graphics slot ????

When RTG is completed, any machine that can take external devices and
run this kickstart will be able to run.  External devices do not need the
video slot or anything like that.  For example, the DMI Resolver board
or the Ameristar graphics board or (etc) would be usable.  As it turns out,
most high-performance video boards made today require Zorro-III since
Zorro-II is just too slow.  (The 24-bit DMI Vivid-24, the Ameristar board,
and a few others are all Zorro-III)  The fact that these are Zorro-III boards
will mean that you need an A3000 or better machine to run them.

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From: 5marte_f@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Vector anyone?
Date: 4 Oct 92 01:14:04 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

Hello Out There,

	Has anyone laid their hands on the IVS Vector accelerator? I have been 
waiting for it to come out but so far I don't see anybody putting a price out 
for it in their ads. It sounds pretty good - or at least the ability to hold on 
to the hard drive and memory in 68000 mode does. 

		Thankx in advance for any replies.
		Bye
		Felix Marte
		(E-mail-> 5MARTE_F@spcvxa.spc.edu)
From: whiz@whizbbs.UUCP (Michael Wotzka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help!
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 27 Sep 92 09:39:25 EST
Organization: WHIZ BBS

I just bought a Fatter Agnus for my Amiga 2000. I've tried to install
the chip, but the Instructions are very bad. Can someone please explain
me exactly, how I can install the chip myself.
I have a Amiga 2000, Revision Motherboard v4.4.
Thanks in advance.
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From: ruocco@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (sergio ruocco)
Subject: Monitor 4 the A4000 ?
Keywords: Amiga Monitor A4000
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:40:05 GMT
Summary: Monitor 4 the A4000 ?



before Xmas I 'll buy an A4000.
I'm considering a good monitor for it.

My needs are:
big screen area for big sources editing
good image quality to not strain my eyes
(almost) all A4000 screen modes be visible 
price under 1.500.000 italian lire or 1200 US$

I read in a back issue of Byte that 
Viewsonic 7 has the best price/performance ratio among 17'' monitors. 
If I remember well it should have:
17'' screen
1280x1024 non interlaced
anyone using it with the Amiga (4000 ;-) ) ?

Any suggestions ?
Where in Italy can I buy the Viewsonic 7 ?
Thanks in advance,
						Sergio

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From: phil@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Spirit IN1000 Clock
Date: 25 Sep 92 00:53:48 GMT
Reply-To: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au


In article <Bv1H1H.EBL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, pejanes@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Janes) writes:
> My temporary fix is to set it one day ahead, so that it sets the 1000's date
> correctly.  But it's a strange problem...  Did Spirit go and do something like
> not take leap years into account?

That is it exactly.  I use to have an IN1000 and if you look at the
documentation that comes with it, it even says that you have to set the
clock one day forward in a leap year!


Phil.

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From: garyf@wang.com (Gary Field)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Attaching SCSI devices to A2091
Keywords: SCSI, A2091, cable, terminator
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:45:58 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:


>Objective:
>I am simply trying to attach a 2nd hard drive (Fujitsu 130MB) to the
>external connector on the A2091-40 which already has a drive (Quantum
>40MB) on the card.

>Setup:

STUFF DELETED

>Results:
>Everything almost works. I can access the Fujitsu by reading and
>writing to it from memory, or from and to itself.  However, when I try
>copying from the Quantum to the Fujitsu - both drives hang up after a
>few seconds. Inspection after rebooting shows that a few files have
>transferred across ok, but there are checksum errors on the Fujitsu
>presumably caused by the rebooting.

MORE STUFF DELETED


I am 90% sure that your problem is due to the famous disconnect/reconnect
bug in the version 6.1 PROM on the A2091. Version 6.6 fixes this problem.
Ask your dealer how you can get new PROMs.


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From: kshobaki@jarthur.claremont.edu (weasel)
Subject: Imagewriter II w/AMIGA
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 23:34:38 GMT

Hi!

Would anyone out there be able instruct me on hooking up and using
my imagewriter 2 with my a2000?

Thanks!

-KaL

ps, email is preferred for help  ;-)
From: h_hucke@bdb.bs.open.de (Henning Hucke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: RTG and Amiga3000
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:08:00 GMT
Organization: BDB * Die private Z-NETZ Box in Braunschweig (Germany)

Ok now.

In the meantime whe had to realize that the AGA chips can not be run in
Amiga3000 computers. So here comes a question to clear the chance to over-
come this problem (I think only Commo-people are competent to answer this
question or at least give a hint):

  Since I suppose that such plans are developed: Will RTG also support
  the 3000 computers or at least this "combined" graphics/zorro-slot
  in the 3000T. Will there be a lack of colours against the Amiga4000
  which has some more signals with its graphics slot ????

Henning

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From: mike@Turing.ORG (Mike Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help with SetCPU and fastrom option
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:03:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: murdoch.1992Oct5.190339.18380
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
X-Disclaimer-1: This posting contains the opinion of an individual and does
X-Disclaimer-2: not necessarily reflect the policy of The Turing Project.


I'm having trouble with the fastrom option of setcpu.  99% of the time, it
works fine, but sometimes, when reading large files (animations, etc.),
the drive light comes on and stays on, locking up the drive...

Here's my system:

A2000 w/ GVP Impact 28mhz 68030 board (8 megs 70ns ram)
1 meg chip.
2091 SCSI controller w/ 200 meg maxtor.

I wish I could figure this out, because fastrom does give a very good increase
in speed.
From: cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: High Density Drives in A500 Plus
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:27:40 GMT
Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.

Does anybody know if it is possible to replace the internal DD drive for 
a high density one in an Amiga A500 Plus.

Will I need a separate mountlist entry for the High Density drive or 
should Kickstart 2 recognize it and therefore boot from a HD drive?

The unit I am thinking of getting is the A3015(I think, the internal HD drive
for A3000 owners.)

replies by e-mail please

Thanks

Carson Cheung
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: A4000 and SCSI disk controller
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:21:01 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <1992Sep22.112106.9700@rdg.dec.com> goldstein@arrods.enet.dec.com (Steve Goldstein) writes:
=	I have just heard that the full production version of the A4000 WILL 
=	have an ONBOARD SCSI controller. 
=
	Hmmm, what would be REALLY cool is to have a standard SCSI
	motherboard and a standard IDE motherboard for all future
	4000's. The high end servers and people who want SCSI could
	order the SCSI motherboard and the 'el cheepo people could
	order IDE.

		-Rob
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Rad or not.
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:17:23 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.


In article <cg82s85.02h0@instem.uucp.UUCP>, cg82s85@instem.uucp.UUCP (Chris Golchert) writes:
> I have a GVP Impact A2000-SCSI Plus 8 (oooooooh  aaaaah) in a 2000 with 6 meg 
> (for the BridgeBoard. The problem is I can create a rad disk but it isn't 
> recovrable.  I can't boot off of it and loose everything upon reboot.  The 
> only reply from GVP was "why would you want to do that?" anyone out there know 
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH   I just LOVE it!!  This must be pasted on the wall
 in front of the GVP tech support people.  That is the SAME answer
 my friend got when he called to ask them why it wouldn't boot up in
 68K mode.  ....what a riot!!! HAHAHA

> or understand the problem...and a way to correct it?

   Daniel Baehr

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From: meisl@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Wolfgang Meisl)
Subject: Re: Opinion about 2024
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:37:59 GMT

In article <sven.04cn@laire.hotb.sub.org>, sven@laire.hotb.sub.org (Sven Wachter) writes:

|> I am going to buy a 2024-Display from C=
|> 
|> I would like to get short mails from you telling me about
|> the quality of that monitor (sharpness, is it flickerfree,
|> contrast).

The sharpness of the A2024 is really good (its best feature after all).
It is flickerfree, if you define this as 'non-interlaced'. But it still flickers at 50 Hz.
I prefer using NTSC mode with 60Hz. (A 2024 can handle both modes).
Someone told me, he has got one with a green tube (huuh, ugly!), which seems to me to be 
a cheep trick to reduce flicker. So be careful, which colour you will get. (my screen is
paper-white) 

|> 
|> My system is an A3000/2.0/10Mb/100Mb

It will work with every Amiga, but needs OS 2.0 or higher. (With my monitor a disk
called 'Jumpstart' came along, which was a pre-pre-Release of 1.4. I never used this hack.)
|> 
|> I know that there are Problems with slow data-transfer
|> and the screensize. I know that it's 2 bit deep and b/w.
|>
There are no problems with normal Amiga Modes (e. g. 640x512).
At 1008x1024 mode, the screen image is cut to 4 pieces, wich are being transmited 
one by one. Really funny effect moving a window in the middle of the screen. You see, how
transmission works. Effective refreshing rate of the internal A2024 buffer can be switched
between 10Hz and 15Hz.
 
|> Will it work with AMAX? This is a very important point!
|>
Definitly with the normal resolutions. The A2024 mode needs a special copper-list, which
is set by Amiga-OS. If it should work with AMAX, AMAX must provide this list. Maybe new
versions will do it. I don't know. 
 
|> I heard rumors (i think in this group) that i can link the
|> framebuffer card in the 2024 to an 21" screen. How about that?

I guess, this is possible. You will need a multisync monitor able to cope with 31 khz and
(for lack of documentation at the moment) roughly around 60 khz. Since this monitor will
be _very_ expensiv (> 2000 $$), I will not recommend this.
If You really want to spend this amount of money, You will be better on by buying an 
internal graphics card (Domino, VGA-Adapter ...). You will not need a soldering iron and
the quality may be even higher.  

Finally, I may say, that I rarly use the 1008x1024. A 15"-Monitor is just too small for it!
If enlarge your system fonts, you will get terribly slow text scrolling and the same amount
of character on the screen!
But in 640x400 NTSC it is a really fine monitor to work with, much better than the 1084.


Have fun!

            Wolfgang
From: QCZUSEA@grove.iup.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Windows optimizations?
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:59:00 GMT


	Greetings!

	A while ago some one had posted a bit on what was need to optimize an MS
Dog based Windows system...

	I seem to remember something about MS reccomending no less than one meg
of video ram, and some god awful amount of base ram.  Could the origional poster
please repost this?  I am trying to draw up a proposal, and need this info.
	Many thanks,
		Rabid Spinach
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From: Marcus.Mroczkowski@p5.f509.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Marcus Mroczkowski)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Spirit IN1000 Clock
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:45:02 +1000

To: All

At 21:27:32 on 23-Sep-92, Bob Campbell said this about
        Spirit IN1000 Clock :

 BC> Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO

 BC> Yes, I have the exact same problem. (In1000 clock 1 day off)  I seem
 BC> to remember a patch for the readclock program, but I may be thinking
 BC> of the Insider board, which had the same problem (?).  Every once in a
 BC> while I look for it, but I can't seem to find one.  Have you checked
 BC> teh Fish disks? -- 

If you do find the patch I would greatly appreciate a
copy.

Having investigated the problem it seems that READCLOCK
makes allowances for the Leap Year and DOS does as well,
therefore the day behind.

Oh by the way, does anyone know where I might get the
Autoboot kit for the Spirit Technology HDA506 hard drive
adaptor??


HRFNMPM

Marcus Mroczkowski.
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