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From: bill@vyper.uucp (Bill Staudt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP 3001 Accelerator
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:50:04 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

I am looking at buying a used GVP 3001 28mhz Accelerator.
I would hear from GVP 3001 owner. What you think about the 3001?
Or should save and purchase the newer G-Force accelerators?
Any input would be appreciated.

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From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2320
Summary: try this
Keywords: A2320, jitter, adjustment
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

[...someone is having problems with an A2320 Display Enhancer...]

Two things: 1) Have you tried the coarse adjustment procedure as described 
in the A2320 manual?  That might work.

2) You seem to have a pretty heavily loaded system.  If your power supply is
a little weak or overtaxed, the A2320 may not be getting exactly the
voltage(s) it needs, which can cause jitter problems.  Try pulling all the
extras out of the box, and see if it the problem remains.

Spam content of the above: medium.  I'm no engineer, but I did write the A2320
manual.  If you continue to be stumped, you could try contacting a certain
Great Valley-based company with whom I believe you are familiar.  Last I
knew, A2320 designer Scott Hood had gone there seeking greener pastures.
Don't tell him I sent you.  ;-)

Good luck!

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From: rcaslis@anansi.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis)
Subject: SEGA glasses
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:54:01 GMT

I have a pair of X-specs glasses that I love dearly, and I was wondering how
the sega glasses match up against them.  Anyone have any ideas?

On the interface box between the X-Specs glasses and the amiga, there
are two earphone jacks.  One jack is used by the x-specs glasses.  Could I
plug the sega glasses into the other jack?  I read somewhere that the sega
glasses use the same type of earphone jack, is that true?

Thanks.



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From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: b2000 crashing part 3
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:14:08 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

More information on this persistent problem I've been having..

Hardware: B2000 Rev 6.2 motherboard
          Microbotics HardFrame SCSI controller, driver v1.5
          ICD 8 MB RAM board, 2 MB populated
          1 MB Agnus, normal Denise, KS 1.3 ROM.

Problem: Frequent gurus during WB operation.  Most of them are either
         00000004.002xxxxx or 00000003.002xxxxx.  Other crashes feature
         garbage pixels on the screen, frozen machine, software
         failures (requestor instead of flashing red alert).

Scenario 1 - Expansion RAM and HD installed, booting off HD or WB disk.
    It DIES.  Gurus like above, often at random times during the startup
sequence, sometimes it goes through the startup-seq and dies when I run
a program.  Sometimes it stays stable for 10-15 minutes, and then dies
when I run a problem.  Definitely unstable.

Scenario 2 - NO expansion RAM, NO HD, booting C= 1.3 WB disk
    It WORKS..  I can't seem to crash it.  There's not much I can
    run w/o a HD and more than 1 MB RAM, but I opened a lot of windows,
    moved them around, ran a few clocks, a few CLI's doing lists/dirs
    and a few of the box/line/dot demos.  Ran for half an hour solid
    without problem..

Scenario 3 - NO expansion RAM, but HD installed.  Trying to boot from HD
    The HD seems to automount on startup, but it won't boot.  Goes to
floppy instead.  Once the floppy boots, I try to access DH0: but it's
not accessible.  Yet ASSIGN shows it's mounted, and attempting to
remount it yields "Device DH0: already mounted".  I suspect the
HardFrame doesn't like to boot when there's no fast mem.  Can anyone
confirm this?  Will moving to 1.9 of the driver help? (I don't want to
pay >$50 for the upgrade if it won't).  What jumpers do I set on the
motherboard to force the 1 MB Agnus to only give me 512 K chip?

Scenario 4 - Expansion RAM, NO HD.
    Attempted the same things on this setup as in scenario 2.  It
doesn't GURU, but it does freeze when I try moving windows around a lot.
The mouse pointer just freezes and the machine stops working.  Sometimes
happens when loading a program/opening a drawer, in which case the
floppy stops spinning as well.


I need help badly..  This doesn't make any sense to me.  The only thing
I can think of is that somehow most of the motherboard works, except for
the chips/circuitry that deals with the expansion bus.  What chip
controls timing and access to the bus?  Can it be replaced easily?  Are
there are motherboard testing utilities that go through each chip etc to
see if it's functional?  Is there any way to test the bus?

HELP!!
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From: karkan@msdrl.com (Jim Karkanias)
Subject: CD-ROM
Organization: Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 18:11:35 GMT

Here and elsewhere, I've seen some posts regarding the use of CD-ROM units on
the Amiga.  Just how straightforward is this?  What I mean is: can you just
connect a SCSI compliant (say Sany) drive to your system and have access to
the available CD-ROM titles?  Surely, you must need specific drivers to access
the data on the disk (e.g. Microsoft Library, etc., etc.) or do you have to
write your own (or are they already written???).  Inquiring minds want to
know.  :-)  Thanks.


Jim
From: l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: CIA questions
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:17:42 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Originator: rittle@hew2.cs.uiuc.edu

I have two quick questions about blown CIAs.  I know this is old news
(i.e. FAQ type stuff), but please help determine if someone using my
software is having HW related problems or software problems.  Thanks.

1: What problems can a bad CIA cause under OS 1.2 - 1.3 on an A500?

2: How can one check for a bad CIA?

I'm only posting because they can't.  Please post or email replies.
I will followup this post, if you email me.  If you email me, please cc:
jadiel@altair.csustan.edu (Jose, the person with the problems).

Thanks for your time,
Loren
From: fritsch@fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de (Lothar Fritsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68881 vs. 68882
Date: 6 Apr 92 06:04:02 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, U of Saarland, FRG

The main difference between the 68881 and the 68882 is the internal concurrency
and pipelining of instructions. The different logical units of the FPU can
run concurrently. For example, move operations between FPU registers that are
not used at the moment FMOVE is executed do run at the same time as a floating
point operation an a register, eg. fsin. There are some other FPU instructions
that can execute concurrently. Therefore, code should be optimized to run on
the '882 as the '881 still can execute that code but it is possible to get a
speed of 160% on the '882 compared to the '881.
 See the Motorola Manual for FPU's for more details.

Yours,

Lothar

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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Death of Pirating
Date: 12 Apr 92 01:59:53 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:

>Crossposted:
>Summary: Special hardware to stop piracy, using the AFD-technique
>Keywords: chip, piracy, AFD, Gail
>Message-ID: <1203@lysator.liu.se>
>Date: 8 Apr 92 09:36:51 GMT
>Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
>Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
>Lines: 31

>One use of the Gail-chip I have not heared someone on the net mention yet, is
>that it incorperates the AFD-technique.
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From: asl00@ccc.amdahl.com (Andrew Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum hard drives
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:00:22 GMT
Reply-To: asl00@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Andrew S. Lee)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Can anyone tell me the basic differences between a Quantum 105S prodrive
and the Quantum LPS105?  I know the LPS is a low profile drive but what
else is different?  All I know is the 105S has a 64k cache and 17 ms
response time.  Thanks.


Andy
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From: slg54@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3000/Toaster does work!
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:47:59 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

The toaster does work in the A3000.  What you need to do is cut away the back
part of the 3000 case so that the last BNC connector fits out and can be
connected.  Next, depending on which version of the toaster software you have,
locate the denise chip. If you have toaster 2.0 software leave the denise
alone. If you do not have 2.0 of the toaster software you will have to replace
the super denise chip in the a3000 with the old denise chip from a 2000 or
500.  Install the toaster board and cover the top side (it is on top in an
A3000) with some sort of plastic (an insulator).  The installation is now
complete.  Just replace the cover.. By the way, this will void your A3000 and
toaster warranties......
From: janin@v785.stanley.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 1MB chipram with 8371 Agnus.
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:57:13 GMT
Reply-To: janin@v785.stanley.co.jp ()
Organization: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. R&D

Hi, P-chan desu !

I've read a couple of questions about the 0.5Mb Agnuses (8370/8371)
that "could" be configured as 1Mb CHIP instead of 0.5Mb CHIP + 0.5Mb Slow/Fast.

For sure, their signals are just like 1Mb Agnus (8372A) ones,
so that if you cut both /EXRAM signal and A19 signal links
then wire A19 to 68000's A19 (instead of A23), the 1Mb on-board memory
will be configured at $000000...#0fffff,
which are CHIP ram locations, and the system will report a 1M of CHIP.

But **BEWARE** of this.
Agnus now sees contiguous 1Mb of Ram, but STILL 0.5Mb ARE REAL CHIP RAM,
other 0.5Mb are put at CHIP addresses, but INTERNAL AGNUS REGISTERS
DON'T ALLOW YOU TO ACCESS THEM AS "CHIP".
There is a missing bit somewhere in registers,
and that bit has been added in the 1Mb Agnus revision.

So that this contiguous 1Mb is still made of 0.5Mb TRUE CHIP
and 0.5Mb slow/fast : you simply moved the second 0.5Mb from $C00000
to $080000, and you will NEED the 1Mb Agnus to have a FULL 1Mb of CHIP.

Due to that contiguous 1Mb, softwares may think that the second 0.5Mb
is also CHIP ram, but in fact is NOT, so that's why some instruments
may be corrupted when playing with trackers or else...
Ram detection is automagically made at boot, and
will mislead software if they thrust it too much...

So that this hack is not a safe one.
Go back to the 0.5Mb at $000000 and 0.5Mb at $C00000 : nobody will
be mislead !

Clear ?
Read my Agnus articles I posted here a couple of months ago.

P-chan.
From: slvj6@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: FDHD
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:20:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Apr9.122020.54339
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Apr09.070853.19618@public.sub.org>, peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
> ree88132@zach.fit.edu (Keith Ledig /ADVISOR Kozaitis) writes:
>> 
>>Please tell me more about your HDfloppy drive on your 3000
>>I heard some 3000's were released with the 1.44 meg drives.
>                           ^^^^^^^^
> Wrong word, use "shipped". These HD drives are not yet officially
> released. In HD mode, they still are not reliable, in normal DD
                             -----------------------
> mode, they work reliably.

I never experienced reliability problems with the drives I've seen.

>>Can us 3000 owners hook up a 1.44 floppy and make it work???
> 
> No, it's a very special sort of HD drives that slow down their 
> rotation speed to half in HD mode, and the stability of this
> rotation is also their problem.
> We hope to find drives that are stable enough.

BTW, I've tested the drives on several machines and they seem to work fine as
df0 on any Amiga with 2.04.  (they work with any workbench on DSDD disks)

But from this post I wonder if the speed tends to deviate as the drives get
older.
From: DrBob@cup.portal.com (Robert A Rethemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HDBackup
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:42:57 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Edwin Cikan writes...

>After upgrading to AMIGA DOS 2.04 (successfully) I wanted
>to backup my harddisk using the inclueded HDBackup program.
>I have SCSI streamer (TEAC 60MByte) and I tried BTNTape handler.
>But the program keeps asking me to insert the first volume in
>the tape drive. I tried another tape-handler also (called
>MT-Tape, written by an Austrian AMIGA Developer), but still the
>same result. Could anyone post the exact mountlist entry for
>BTNTape to work with HDBackup (I use A2091)? Or is there anything
>special to consider?

I'm not directly familiar with HDBackup, but as I understand it,
BTN will *not* work with HDBackup.  HDBackup should come with
everything you need to make it work, you don't even need BTN.

BTN in combination with TAR can be used *instead* of HDBackup,
if you wish.  Be sure you have the latest (BTN 2.1).

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From: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Will the Blitter become redundant?
Date: 5 Apr 92 02:34:23 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

u6637dy@vms.ucc.okstate.edu (Geoff Weber) writes:
>  Yes, this is true. I own a 3000, and I run CPUBlit early on in my 
>startup-sequence. It speeds up the blitter quite a bit. For example,
>when ANSI color coded characters scroll, it no longer 'flashes' the
>text - the CPU can move all the color planes faster than the normal
>blitter could ever hope to.

Just a quick clarification here. The loss of "flashing" is because CpuBlit
moves all the bitplanes simultaneously rather than one after another. This
guarantees that any bitplane misalignment is restricted to a single rasterline
rather than the whole bitmap, and so there is no real visible interference.

Nice to hear you find it useful.
Eddy
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From: 517chan@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Epson LQ-570....
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:36:58 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

I need some help....

       What do I need to setup the new Epson LQ-570 to my Amiga 3000.
       Do I need a special cable to connect it to my AMIGA??

Thanks.

Max.


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From: schaem@sgi.com (greg schaem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Will the Blitter become redundant?
Date: 7 Apr 92 10:41:12 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Apr4.220542.482@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>In article <1992Apr4.122939.4626@cccan.uucp> entity@cccan.uucp (Cybernetworx) writes:
>>Actually, if the amiga is going to support 8 bitplanes, and we need to change
>>256 colors for the next screen, the copper will probably have to be sped up
>>too!  You certainly can't change 256 colors in one scanline...
>
>   This is a very good point.  Hypothetically speaking, if you significantly
>increase the numbers of palette registers, and do not speed up the copper
>proportionately, this has dire effects on the chipset as a whole.  Right now
>it takes 2 scanlines for the copper to update the palette registers between
>pull-down screens.  If the palette registers were increased to allow 256
>colors, and the copper was not sped up, would anyone like to make the 
>calculations to show how many scanlines would be required to update all of
>the new palette registers between pull-down screens?  I'll give you a hint:
>it's a LOT more than 2...
>
>>
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 You will have around 6 lines blank in betwen screens, it will work...
Make the Copper QUAD alligned, Agnus 32bit and you are down to 3
scan line... But this could be available only on A3000.
 A better thing would be an extra copper instruction to do multiple
copy... CMOVEM	ADR,NUM,ENTRY1,ENTRY2 etc... This could offer 3
scan line colors/plane/sprite reset for any amiga.

 The A3000 solution is not possible, CBM SHOULD use those 7 BIT unused
in the COMVE instruction.(I dont think we will ever have a register
table list with 32,000 entries).Limit it to 16,000 and add the CMOVEM :-)

 Anyway, this enable you to set 96 custom register per scan line.
And look at all the new screen mod HACK possible :-)

 ho well....

							Stephan.
From: sworkman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michael Sean Workman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: USR 16.8k Dual Standard
Keywords: modem dual standard 16.8 amiga comm
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:33:00 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Has anyone out there used one of US Robotics' new 16.8k Dual Standard's
with StarNet BBS software?  I've got one on order and am wondering if I'm
going to be one of the first people testing these things out? Any info
would be appreciated!

  //AmigaX (503)342-2144
\X/Sean Workman
From: igreenaw@hemel.bull.co.uk (ian greenaway)
Subject: Re: Adapters to Connect Multisync Monitors to Amiga RGB
Organization: Bull HN UK
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 12:43:56 GMT

8939527@hydra.maths.unsw.OZ.AU () writes:

>In article <7618F24FA47F024B5E@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU> P_TROIA@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU writes:
>>
>>     I would like to connect a multisync monitor to my Amiga, and I was 
>>wondering if someone knows of any adapters that will let one plug 
>>a standard 15-pin Multisync monitor to the regular Amiga RGB port. If 
>>someone knows where I can get such a product (if it exists) please let me 
>>know.
>>
>	There is an article in Amazing computing. cant remembet the issue but
>You it on the cover.
>	CYA hope it helps. (A note to make you will need a deinterlacer 
>to get rid of the flicker. And the deinterlacer comes with the socket.
>	CYA again....

As many people keep asking about this 23Pin RGB to 15Pin VGA adaptor, I thought
someone better point out that ...

             COMMODORE MAKE ONE !!!!!!

Ask anyone who has an Amiga 3000 - It was supplied with mine.

You should be able to get your dealer to order one.  I can't remeber the exact
part number, but I can find out when I get home if anyone is interested.

Yes, they can be ordered seperately, and here in the UK they cost in the order
of 29 pounds - mail order (that`s about $50 at todays rate).

If anyone needs more details, let me know.

Cheers

Ian  alias  igreenaw@hemel.bull.co.uk
From: gkropf@bfield.uucp (Gary Kropf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Epson LQ-570....
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:56:39 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

In article <1992Apr10.203658.3785@gw.wmich.edu>, 517chan@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>I need some help....
>
>       What do I need to setup the new Epson LQ-570 to my Amiga 3000.
>       Do I need a special cable to connect it to my AMIGA??
>
>Thanks.
>
>Max.
>
>
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I have the same printer hooked up to my A2000 and I don't think that it would be any different from you A3000 and I am just using a regular printer cable.

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From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A1000 connector specs for passthru (Dave?)
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:12:12 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.


	Ok, a week or so ago I posted about the C.LTD passthrou I had.
It is just a card (about 3/4 inch wide) that is a copy of the A1000
connector card edge. It has NO chips. Just a straight trace for every
line on the bus.

	I received almost >50< requests for it!

	Now, I only had one, but it seems that maybe a lot of folks
could be helped if someone in authority (Dave H. or someone with
specs) could give a little how to on how to etch a homebrew one of
these (with that r-shack etch kit maybe?).

	Thanks!

 
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