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From: asp@trail.sharpstone.com (Alexandre Sasha Polozoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Could someone e-mail FAQ to me?
Date: 11 Sep 92 03:42:58 GMT
Reply-To: asp@trail.sharpstone.com
Organization: Sharpstone Trail Productions - Austin Texas USA
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

Subject says it all.  I don't have ftp access.  Could someone e-mail
the FAQ for this group to me?

Thanks

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From: yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Questions about A2090 HD controller...
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:12:22 GMT
Organization: LLNL_LIS

In article <1992Sep2.125653.607@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, someone writes:
>>  MAK> Does this [A2090]interface support the FFS? 
>> 
>> Sorry my other posting was a bit hasty: the first partition needs to be the
>> old filesystem, but that can be one cylinder (of wasted space); all other
>> partitions then can be FFS via mountlist entry, for example:.
> 
> it's necessary to have a OFS boot partition only if you're running wb1.x,
> with wb2.x the 2090a is quite happy booting off a FFS partition, making
> it possible to have _all_ the drive as one big FFS partition. Just prep
> it as normal, then when dos-level formatting it specify FFS (needless to
> say this isn't in the 2090a manual since they predate 2.04 by a few years:-)
>       John Davis - davis@chem.canterbury.ac.nz        

If the original poster was asking about the 2090A, then your info is correct. 
If he was referring to the 2090 (with out the A), then...

  The 2090 does not Auto-boot.  You MUST have the first partition under OFS,
but the other partitions can be FFS under 1.3/2.0. (Not sure if 1.2 even had
FFS).

Joe
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: SOLVED!!!! Reboot with 1.3 using SetCpu under 2.04
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:43:31 GMT

pwappy@well.sf.ca.us (Jeff Walkup) writes:


>tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:

>> Just thought I'd mention that I added this last night.  It now KICKROMS
>1.3
>> and allows you to use your hard disk.  Any other Suggestions?

>Yes, make it recognize and add the 3000's fastmem.
>(I think you mentioned this, just want to make sure ;^)


I already tried this.  Somewheres in my code there's a bug I can't find, and
the machine hangs.  So I've added an option to disable fastram.  And one to 
boot straight into a FASTKICK.  Unfortunately this will cause you to loose 512k
- 768K of fastram (I needed somewhere to put the mmu tables, so I had to steal
the bottom meg of fastram for them.  the kickfile goes into the top, ala
bootroms) so I added an option to map this to c00000 ram, which the system 
thinks is DMA'able, but isn't and causes the scsi.device to hang.  So I added
an option to disable the scsi.device.  Pretty sick hey.
When I get a terminal program I will mail the source to DaveH and the binary to
a couple of people who have offered to test it on some GAMES.  I may put the 
binary in the ftp site here, if they let me.

A better idea will be to do a completely new program to do it the same as the
bootroms.  This will be HEAPS more stable and use less ram.  I may do this over
the weekend, and make it a cheapo shareware thingo.  No I'm NOT going to copy
any C= code, I already know how they did it.  Very clever.  :-)

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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: aga in 500/2000/3000?
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:52:19 GMT
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep12.4509.20766@dosgate> "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com> writes:
>
> Now that the Amiga 4000 has been officially announced and the AGA 
>custom chips has been officially announced. Can anyone from Commodore
>confirm if the AGA chipset will be offered for the Amiga 3000 and if it
>will work in the Amiga 500/600/2000 systems!

OK - I will answer this question just once.

The AA (or AGA as it is now known) chip set is NOT pin compatible with ECS or
the original chip set. In other words, you CANNOT just plug AGA into an
A3000/2000/500/600 or 1000. AGA requires a whole new motherboard.

A motherboard upgrade is a marketing decision, and I cannot answer for them,
because I don't know if such an offer is planned.

>
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From: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A4000 :(
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:54:24 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

	The A4000 specs are disapointing in two counts, IMHO.
First, that IDE controller in a high end machine, should 
have been SCSI (hopefully they will release an A4000SCSI).
Second is the old Paula chip (Paula is asking for retirement!)

	I guess I'll pass any power up deals for the time being.

	Regards,
	Edval, A3000, Santos
esantos@ee.cornell.edu
From: Armando_Galan@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Armando Galan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The HD LED on the front of the A2000.
Distribution: world
Date: 10 Sep 92 00:35:34 CST
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

I have two Seagates connected to my Amiga 2000's 2091 HD Controller and
guess what: The same
thing happens with mine, the HD light on the Amiga is always on. All 3
drives are working 
beautifully though, so if you find the answer to this please let me know as
well.
      good luck.
         Armando

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Subject: Re: RAM chips and the A3000
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 15:56:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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In <copes.716016392@marsh> copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
>Import them from the US.  They are much cheaper there.
>When I bought mine they were $25 + tax, which came to $30 a chip.  They are
>now down to $22 + tax.  About twice what you could get them for in the US, if
>you look around.  I've seen $14 a chip advertised.
>I hope any new machine from C= will use simms.  They are only $45 each here,
>heaps cheaper than zips. 

i certainly hope they don't. ZIPs have a number of advantages over simms, not
the least of which is their density - you can pack 16meg of very fast ram onto
the 3000 motherboard into a space no bigger than a pack of playing cards!

and at the current U.S. price of $14 a chip, thats $112 for FOUR meg, or
less that $450 for sixteen meg. Hell, i spent $344 for ONE meg of ram only
four years ago.

in four more years, ram will be cheaper than mechanical (harddrive) storage.

-- 
paul theodoropoulos                          damiel@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: Postscript support in OS , means what ??????????
Summary: PS
Keywords: PS
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:17:48 GMT



  OKay I am a novice. What does it mean when you that an OS fully
  supports Postscript  ????

  Short : If I have a laser printer that does not support Postscript, will
  that OS help me print the postscript file from it ?

  If not, what the hell I thought I could print a postscript file from a 
  Postscript printer anyway.

 Confused .

Mubashir.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kjetilja@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjetil Jacobsen)
Subject: A500 keybd. failure
Keywords: Caps lock missing in action!!
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:12:52 GMT

I've owned an a500 since '87, and it's been marred by a quite irritating
hardware "failure" since I bought it. The keyboard sometimes locks up and
refuses any input from the user (i.e no characters appear on screen). The 
caps lock key, flashes once a second while this is going on, and according
to the Amiga Hardware Manual this means some RAM failure. This bug usually
disappears after having the machine turned off a while. But, the worst of
all is that the reset function is disabled, so I can't reset my machine
at all. Is this as the Hardware Manual states, only a RAM failure, and in
that case, how much repair is needed...is it worth the time and money?

Kjetil.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: aciceran@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (A. J. Ciceran)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:16:18 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.043008.25454@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu
(Marc N Barrett) writes:

>   The problem with putting the DSP on an 'optional' card instead of making it
>standard hardware on at least one system is software.  There already is at
>leastone third-party Zorro II card available which uses the same DSP that
>Commodore will be using, but how much software is available for it?  The
>Commodore card will almost certainly sell better than the one from the third-
>party company, but not much better.  After about a year, I will be amazed
>if the installed base of Amigas with Commodore DSP cards is even 1% what
>it would have been had Commodore released the DSP as standard hardware in 
>at least one system.

It was revealed at the engineering seminar that 3.1 will incorporate support
for the DSP. The likelihood is also great that the DSP will become the
de facto standard, as it will invariably be bundled at some point.

And premasticated press releases don't constitute anything. The fact that
CBM has made the unprecedented move of giving some indication of future
direction is what most of us have been waiting for. Count your blessings.
From: pschaap@blackhl.hacktic.nl (Peter Schaap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga 3000 - Static Column RAM's
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 14:14:24 GMT
Organization: The Black Hole HIN.BBS, Utrecht Netherlands

In response to those articles posted last week in this newsgroup
concerning the use of static column mode ram in the Amiga 3000, I would
like to mention the following: 
 
1. Use those chips instead of page-mode RAM's. Running your A3000 in
   in burst mode will make it MUCH faster.
2. Use 4Mbit ZIPPS (code: 514402-I believe from Toshiba)
    They offer you 512K ram each, so you will be able to expand 
   your Fast RAM with blocks of 4Megs, giving a total of 16MB fast ram.
   I usually order my chips in germany, where they cost between
   30 and 33 DM (German Marks) each, which is about 1-3 DM more the Page
   Mode RAM.
3. At boot-up, the A3000 will always boot in PAGE-ram-mode.
   So, you should use the following command in your startup-sequence:
   cpu datacache databurst instrcache instrburst >nil:
   Use >nil: at the end if you execute it before executing IPrefs.
   SysInfo will give a speed increase of more than 2 Standard A500's!


| Peter Schaap (pschaap@blackhl.hacktic.nl)
| BBS The Black Hole : +31-30-940197
From: warda@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: zkicking 1.3 under 2.04 ?
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:33:05 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <copes.716189976@marsh>, copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
> gsimon@COLOSSUS.ACUSD.EDU (Greg Simon) writes:
> 
> 
>>Is there _any_ way to zkick or something like that KS 1.3 under 2.04?
> 
>>I realize that you can use SetCPU, but that requires an MMU.  I'd like to
>>see some program that zkicks 1.3 under 2.0x the same way zkick does it
>>now under 1.3.
> 
>>I have tried to hack zkick, but I'm afraid I don't know enough about it..:-(
> 
> C= changed the times when the reboot vectors hook in on reset (cool capture 
> etc) in 2.04.  I think this is why Zkick won't run under 2.04.  Not really sure
> though.  It should still be possible to do....
> 

The story I heard, although I don't know enough about systems programming to 
confirm/deny, is that the 2.04 kickfile was specially rewritten to enable it 
to be Zkicked from RAM.  Since a file copy of 2.04 ripped direct from the ROM
doesn't work with Zkick, it seems to me that you'd need a similarly rewritten
copy of the 1.3 ROM in order to be able to Zkick it. Talk to Commodore :-)

   Bill Bennett                           JANET: warda@uk.ac.oxford.vax    
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:31:49 GMT

ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen) writes:

>Consider the differences between the GEnie crowd and the internet crowd
>and the difference in consensus between the GEnie crowd and the internet
>crowd. Can we learn anything here?

Hmm .. most INTERNET people aren't ones to sit around and pay an hourly
fee to telecommunicate... :)

>Something I *can* afford that is supposed to be a technology upgrade
>(but is a reversal on the HD i/f and a total stagnation on the audio,
>the two things that concern me most) and is priced above comparable
>machines from other vendors is *definitely* overpriced.

This was my point in my original post, which the C= guy misinterpreted.
Where's that bang/buck ratio that C= used to be so famous for?

>Consider a 486 machine with one of several advanced audio boards and
>you have (IMHO) a heckuva lot better price/performance figure than
>you do with what the A4000 looks to be.

Right.  Sad, in a way.  

>Soooo, unless you are the type who *has* to have the advanced Amiga
>graphics (do you want to target your market that tightly) you are
>probably a lot better off looking around first.

For my upcoming work I also need an (at least) '386 bridgeboard, due to 
the lack of certain engineering packages on the Amiga.  I'd *like* to
buy a better Amiga and such a bridgeboard, but if C= doesn't start
lowering the prices or actually *release a middle-of-the-road Amiga*
(*NOT* the 3000, but something with AGA and upgradeable later on), I'll
be forced to buy a clone instead.

>I've been waiting a *long* time for an audio upgrade on the Amiga.
>This should be an easy thing to do given the state of the art in
>audio electronics and the current status of the Amiga's audio. If I
>have to buy an add on card to do this it makes me consider other
>machines that accept decent audio add on cards.

Same here.  I've owned Amigas since '87 and have been waiting for better
audio since about '90.

>This is not a flame. This is one of your customers responding.

Same here. 

>* Eric Jacobsen        Honeywell Inc.                           *

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From: jayscott@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason Scott Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Beginner A3000 questions on hardware
Date: 10 Sep 1992 15:42:45 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


Thanks very much for the info on the hardware specifics on the 3000...I found
it all quite interesting, in fact. "Kel from Hell," eh? That's got to have the
most pin connections on any sucker I've seen.  I don't know why I didn't
guess that was the CPU slot - it was connected to just about everything. I
guess I was assuming the CPU slot to look like the one on the 2000.

While I'm thinking of it, there's a whole heckuvalot of jumpers on that
motherboard.  Some are for 16/25 mhz, but others are completely unlabeled.
Are these inhouse development/test modes? Agnus selection, etc.? (Sorry about
so many questions, but I'm an EE student, and these things intrigue me.)

Thanks again for the reply.

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From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 06:40:17 GMT

In article <65745@cup.portal.com> Aurelius@cup.portal.com (Mark Christian Barnes) writes:
>
> Does this mean that the same old Paula chip is used? That would mean
>that floppy disks are still limited to 880k full speed drives. We still
>will not be able to read standard HD (1.44M) floppies! ;-{

   Paula is the same. However, your assumption about the disk drives is not
correct - the A4000 has 1.76MB drives, which can read MS-DOS 1.44MB disks.
That's why Workbench 3.0 has CrossDOS built in. :-)


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From: shane@peeker.uucp (Shane R. McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Flicker fixer and S/VGA monitor
Date: 7 Sep 1992 03:55:42 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <htweedie.04gl@madhat.actrix.gen.nz> htweedie@madhat.actrix.gen.nz (Hamish Tweedie) writes:
> 
> 	Can anybody tell me if Microways Flickerfixer board will work on a
> VGA or failing that A SVGA monitor. I'm not sure what frequency the S/VGA
> monitor scans at, ut was wondering if anybody had something along these
> lines set up.

   You should have no problem connecting an SVGA monitor to a Flicker
Fixer.  I am currently using a FF with a SVGA monitor now.  You may need to
make your own cable.  The flicker Fixer manual has examples showing
pinouts to different monitors.


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From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 38,400 Telebit Qblazer Modem ($299.00)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 17:50:27 EDT
 <78459@ut-emx.uucp> <mohr.0210@educom.adsp.sub.org>
Distribution: world
Organization: Private UUCP "Twig" Node
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <mohr.0210@educom.adsp.sub.org>, Frederic Botton writes:

> In article <78459@ut-emx.uucp> violator@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Violator) writes:
> >Where did u find this modem for 300 dollars?  I was told it was selling for
> >about 600 dollars.  Where did u buy it?   Is it a 14.4 modem which suports
> >.32 bis .32 .42bis etc....
> >
> 
> SupraFaxModem V32bis does all this... and more !!! for less than that !
> 
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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:41:33 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
>bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson - Amiga Networking) writes:
>
>>Word on GEnie (from folks at the WOC show) is that Creative Computers is
>>taking orders at $2900.
>
>Good.  At least that ridiculous list price isn't hanging around.

Could you please show me where the ridiculous price is?

Let me see:  $3699 for:

	A 68040 CPU (with built-in FPU) at 25MHz.
		(50MHz DX2 equiv in iNTEL 486 terms)

	2 Megs of 32-bit CHIP RAM

	4 Megs of 32-bit FAST RAM

	120 Meg hard drive.

	A very fast 32-bit bus (Zorro-III is on par with 32-bit Microchannel
		and better than EISA)

	8-bitplane, 24-bit colour video system with more video modes
		than you can shake a stick at.  And it is "32-bit local bus"
		to use a term from other systems.  And it has a graphics
		co-processor and a display-list processor.  (Blitter & Copper)

	Parallel, Serial, Audio, Mouse, Joystick (and keyboard) ports...

I say, that sounds like a rather good price to me.  If you don't believe me,
look around at IBM Clones or Macs with the same specs.  (Note that 32-bit
bus and 68040, so the Macs are called Quadra and the IBM machines would need
to have Microchannel to be fair or EISA to be not as good...)

>I think I speak for more than one Amiga user when I say that before I plunk
>down >$3000 (I'd need a new monitor too, since the 1080 won't cut the new
>video modes)

Well, you don't *need* a new monitor, you just don't get the non-interlaced
x400 modes.  The more colours and speed are still available to the 1080.

Oh, and there is *no way* to make a 1080 do non-interlaced VGA resolution.
It can not sync to those scan rates...

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From: Rudolf_Neuhaus@ouzonix.bo.open.de (Rudolf Neuhaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: WANGTEK Streamer & A3000
Distribution: world
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:13:38 CET
Organization: Ouzonix Bochum

Hi there,
i have heard and experienced, that there are quite a few problem the Amiga
3000 has with some SCSI-Tape-Drives. Maybe you read my post about the
Tandberg one. My question now is:
Can anyone guarantee, that any streamer other than the commodore one (which
is about $1000 here) works just fine with my A3000? I have heard that
Caliper(that's what Commo is using), Wanktek and Sankyo work ok, but might
there still be problems because of wrong firmware, eproms or whatever?
I am thinking of buying a Wangtek W5150ES. I saw it in an add of a PC
magazine - they could not have some strange Eproms for Adaptec Controllers
in there or something similar? Will that one work fine with my A3000?
Hope to hear from you,
Rudy

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