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From: martini@heaven7.in-berlin.de (Martin P. Ibert)
Subject: Battery-Backed-Up Clock And Unix
X-Reason: This message has been reposted because of configuration errors at heaven7.in-berlin.de.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:46:06 GMT
Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany

Hi everybody,

I'm wondering if is possible to set the battery-backed-up clock of my A3000T
without shutting down Unix and booting (urk) AmigaDOS. I tried several
things, all circling around date(1), but to no avail. After the next boot,
when the system time gets set from the BBUC, it's way off again. Problem is,
my BBUC is losing quite a bit (up to a minute a day).

Thanks for any help!
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From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin E. Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: a4000 an possible deinterlacer.
Date: 4 Oct 92 04:51:28 GMT
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.

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.  

I know superhires couldn't before be deinterlaced without a smudging effect.
But with the new chipset superhires has changed a bit.  

It would also be nice to be able to do a 640x960 non-interlaced too.

And it sounds fairly doable technically speaking.  You would take the 2 
screens that come out in interlace and display them simultaneously as opposed 
to one before another.  Then display the one image twice to get the 60hz or
so scan rate.  

Marty
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From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Urgent - should I buy this accelerator?
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:16:52 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Distribution: world
Organization: System Information 2.0 Development
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Oct1.173205.1582@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
> Sorry about the `urgent' bit - I've only got 1.5 days to back out.
> 
> I have been offered an SSL A5000 Plus accelerator for my A2000
> (WB2.04, A2091, A2058, FF). It has a 20MHz 68020, 25MHz 68882
> and 1Mb 32bit RAM (upgradable to 4Mb). A500 and A2000 compatible.
> 
> 225 pounds 2nd hand with documentation.
> 
> I have never heard of this accelerator. It is apparently
> distributed in UK by Solid State.

Yes. I've heard of it. 

> Is it a good buy?

Depends. It seems to have messed up the MMU lines a bit. There is
no MMU on it but tells every program there is. Which crashes most
System Information type programs. (The notable exception being my  
System Information 2.0b or up, that's how I know of that problem)
I've no idea how it acts with 2.04. better check before you buy.

> Would I do better with an A2620?

Not really as the A2620 seems to have problems with 2.04 also. :-(

> What is the speed penalty for having a 68020 rather than 68030?
> Will it be a lot better than a 14MHz 68000 with 68881?

Yes it will be faster than an 14MHz 68000 especially since the 68882
is more powerful than the 68881 and the A5000 has some 32bit RAM to
work with... It will of course be a lot slower than an 68030. But it
should also be cheaper...

> Most importantly:
> Will the 68882 be usable by PPage3.0 and other graphics printing
> applications?

It should. Although I don't think PPage uses the 68882, or 68881 for
that matter.

CYa, Paul

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From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Photo-CD on Amiga/CDTV
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:04:49 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Distribution: world
Organization: System Information 2.0 Development
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <OA92-901-231p24_14c39e40@piraya.bad.se> Anders_Lattermann@p24.f231.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Anders Lattermann) writes:
> Does anyone know if and when the CDTV (or Amiga) will support Kodak Photo-CD?

I have been informed that there is Photo-CD software for the CDTV.
It's locked in C= vaults though, until they strike a deal with 
Kodak for the licensing fee's they have to pay. I was in the lucky
spot last saturday to play with a CDTV and CD-I next to eachother.
In my honest opinion, CDTV in it's current form won't cut it for
Photo-CD. Too little resolution, too few colors... :-( I'd prefer
a CD-ROM XA compatible drive for the A4000 with the appropriate
Photo-CD software. Such a combo would be very nice...

CYa, Paul

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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GForce 40MHz OVERCLOCKING........
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 92 19:16:39 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> it's just that when pushed beyond the limit can cause
> mechanical problems due to heat dissappation (sp?).

On certain chips, this may be true. But the real limit is often timing 
problems that beings to appear at higher clock speeds. This can basically be 
divided into two different types, I think:

o Signal Degradation: As the speed increases, the signals amplitude will
  decrease. This is rahter simple. Think of a digital signal. It's either
  1 or 0. But, between these states, you have a rise and fall time period.
  Like this:
       ____      ____
  ____/    \____/    \____ (almost square here...)

  Let's do it faster:
     __    __    __    __
  __/  \__/  \__/  \__/  \ (little bit less square...)

  Even faster:
    _   _   _   _   _   _
  _/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \ (hmm, begins to look like a sinus signal)

  Even faster :)

  /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ (a sinus signal)

  The rise and fall time for a driver is the same, so when the speed
  increases, the signal will be less and less square. When the signal is
  like in the last stage (which is rather common for a CPU clock signal),
  the ampliude of the signal will be less as the speed increases, since
  the rise & fall time is still the same. The signal doesn't manage to
  change enough fast to keep up with the speed. This means that the signal
  will be more and more sensitive to noise, and will enventually be too
  small to be interpreted correctly as high and low signal.

o Sync problems between several clocks: Often, a system has several
  different clocks that different parts of the computer uses. Usually,
  however, these parts work together and therefore must sync up to
  eachother at some stage. If you mix with one clock, and does not
  change the others, or change the sync-up timing logic, the sync-up
  will fail, if you increase the speed too much.

  For an example: On an accelerator card, you have typically have at
  least the 7MHz Amiga 16-bit bus to sync up with. Also, perhaps have
  an onboard DRAM controller that uses the CPU clock speed to calculate
  refresh rates and other timing factors, a SCSI chip that have it's
  own clock etc.

In other words: There's no simple answer to "Can I overclock my accelerator 
card?"! There's many complex factors you have to take in to account. The best 
way is to simply try it out, and see at what rate it will run stable on, 
maximum.

                        _       .    __
    Roger Nordin     _ //      /!Net /est Bench
 2:203/602.0@fidonet \X/  Internet: Roger_Nordin@bad.se

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From: miker@tpsun6.Prime.COM (Mike Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help needed Re; BRU Tape errors
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:17:27 GMT
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.

Keywords: BRU Tape errors...help

I just added a tape drive to my 2000 and can test write an archive with:

BRU -cv

and get a listing of the current directory being archived with the letter "c" in column 1 of each line
as it writes to tape. (I am assuming it makes it to tape, because the drive wirls away with no errors.)

When try to get table of contents of the tape (archive) or restore (x) it, I get the following:

bru: warning - info block checksum error
bru: warning - my have to use -F option to read archive
bru: warning -file synchronization error; attempting recovery ...

I have tried using -F and  get:

bru: warning -missing archive header block; starting at volume 1

Does anyone have any clues.....

Help....!
From: rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Subject: easy monitor question ...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:05:51 GMT
Distribution: ca

This is an oldie ...

	I've got a 500 and need a larger screen and just want to know if I
need a flicker-fixer device to use a multi-sync monitor (in interlace mode,
that is).  Also, any recommendations/info on monitors (about 15" or larger)?

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.
From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: A4000/Alice
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:51:09 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

In article <1992Sep28.142725.26472@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc
N Barrett) writes:
>In article <jbono.04bq@tension.UUCP> jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep25.201919.15792@microsoft.com>, iank@microsoft.com (Ian
>>Kennedy) writes:
>>>Of course others have said all of the custom chips in the AGA machines
>>>are surface mounted. In that case there will be no upgrades at all.
>>>
>>All the chips in the A4000 are surface mount.  However, the entire board with
>>the graphics chips on it is designed to be replaceable.  This means that when
>>the fast chipset comes out, you will yank the board with AGA on it, and swap
it
>
>>for a board with AGAGA on it, and keep your '040 and zorro III boards.
>
>   Bullshit.  The "board with the graphics chips on it" is the motherboard, 
>and Commodore in their entire history has never offered motherboard upgrades
>for older Amigas.  
>
>>John
>
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>-----------------------------------------------------
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Bullshit yourself.  If they didn't design it to be upgradeable, *Why* did they
put the cpu on a separate board, and the board for the zorro slots separate
from the board with the graphics chips on it?  If cost was a consideration, it
would have been far cheaper to integrate the '040 into the motherboard with the
ram and leave a connector for a faster cpu on the board.  Secondly, the layout
of the 4000 is such that the board with the graphics chips is removeable. 
Thirdly, the only reason why CBM has not offered motherboard upgrades in the
past is that very little extra functionality is gained.  The difference between
a 1000 and a 500 is very small.  Like wise with the 2000.  You can in effect
upgrade a 2000 to a 3000 with an A2630.  Where is the improvement?  
 
John
From: ram@cats.ucsc.edu (Ronald Andrew MacCracken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Network between Amiga and Sun?
Date: 26 Sep 1992 15:42:47 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


Would it be possible to network an Amiga and a Sun 3 together?  Would there
be any way to access each other's files, use the other's processor, etc.?
I assume I would need Amiga UNIX, but am not sure.

Thanks for any help,
Ron
From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Re: A4000/Alice
Date: 27 Sep 92 17:39:36 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

In article <1992Sep25.201919.15792@microsoft.com>, iank@microsoft.com (Ian
Kennedy) writes:
>
>>In article <20.1615@bdb.bs.open.de> h_hucke@bdb.bs.open.de (Henning Hucke)
writ
>es:
>>>
>>>Where is the modularity?? The processor board?? I think you also know that
>>>the processorcard of the A4000 also runs in an A3000T. Graphicschips?
>>>You only have *_2_* of the custom chips which are not SM. So if you would
>>>upgrade to the future chipset which was told about to be a bunch of four
>
>Actually, C= said there are TWO new chip sets in the works beyond AGA.
>One of them uses TWO CHIPS and the otner one comes on FOUR CHIPS.
>The 4 chip chipset is a total dream. The two chip chipset is pretty
>damn nice too. I expect the 4000, if the new AGA chips are indeed 
>not surface mounted, to be upgradeable with this two chip chipset.
>
>Of course people here have been saying that Paula is surface mounted. This
>makes even less sense if C= was planning to upgrade the sound in the
>AGA machines.
>
>Of course others have said all of the custom chips in the AGA machines
>are surface mounted. In that case there will be no upgrades at all.
>
>Ian.
>-- 
>/* IanK@Microsoft.com                          */
>/* Waiting for what comes after the A4000!     */
>/* In the meantime I think I'll pick up a      */
>/* '486 box...                                 */
 
All the chips in the A4000 are surface mount.  However, the entire board with
the graphics chips on it is designed to be replaceable.  This means that when
the fast chipset comes out, you will yank the board with AGA on it, and swap it
for a board with AGAGA on it, and keep your '040 and zorro III boards.  The
upgrade will be more expensive than replacing a single chip, but will probably
be *less* expensive than upgrading them all, and because they are surface
mount, will be faster as well.
 
John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: hello@bnr.ca (Ken Orford)
Subject: Re: 2091 -> GVP Combo backup. Possible?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:10:56 GMT

Sorry, not used to VI and truncated article lines - here's a repost.

 Jon (s084@brems.ii.uib.no) wrote:
 : Tim McAuliffe (mcauli_t@cs.uwa.oz.au) wrote:
 : : Recently, a friend of mine bought a GVP Combo board with hard disk. I have 
 .. text deleted
 : : 
 : : Any help is appreciated.
 : 
 : As far as I know, it won't work.  I bought my GVP Combo six month ago, but
 .. text deleted
 -
I had a 2091 and 52 Meg Quantum plus another 260 Meg SCSI drive before I
bought my GVP 33/30 Combo (also with a 52 Meg quantum drive). I changed 
the bootpriority on the 2091's drive to something less than that of the 
Combo's drive and was immediately able to boot up the Combo AND!! see and 
access both drives.
 NOTE - the dealer ALSO said that they didn't think it was possible but could
offer no technical reason for this - just goes to show you!!! In addition, I 
carefully noted the partition information for my 260 Meg external drive (which
was attached to the 2091) and attached it to the Combo, setting up the 
partition information with GVP's prep program, and was then able to access 
that drive from the Combo.  All three drives live in harmony now.
 
 -
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            Ken Orford      |      Bell Northern Research Limited
            hello@bnr.ca    |      Ottawa, Canada. (613) 763-2325
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From: wgeoffr@a.cs.okstate.edu (WEBER GEOFFREY MAR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000 is HERE :)
Date: 3 Oct 92 16:40:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: a.1992Oct3.164042.13719
Distribution: na
Organization: Oklahoma State University

From article <1992Oct2.222943.14942@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, by gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin):
> 
> Wow!  I got my 4000 this afternoon.  It's VERY fast.
> I'm very pleased with it.  Kudos to the Crew that Never Rests.
> 
> I noticed an interesting jumper on the motherboardwhen installing my
> memory.  it read CHIP RAM.  The default position was 2M and the other
> position was 8M.  Hmmm.... very interesting.
> 
> I only have one complaint.  What happened to the
> high density VGA connector that was on the 3000?  I liked
> having both ports.  Oh well, this will work.  Anyhow, back to playing ;>
> 
Can someone PLEASE tell me what kind of monitor connection the 4000 DOES have?
I have a 4000 coming along with a MAG MX15F MultiSync...If I can't connect
them straight up, will hacking a cable work (By this I mean : What are
the graphics modes' sync frequency? 15.75(YUCK)? 31.5 kHz?)? This is 
important, so would some kind soul out there fill me in? THANKS...
			Geoffrey Weber 
			wgeoffr@a.cs.okstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin)
Subject: Re: Have I naffed my A1000?
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:09:02 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

Deja Vu!

You probably only need to replace one of the 8520 CIA chips for a total 
repair.  Don't know the current exchange rates but the chip should be 
around $10-15 (US). 

I just picked up a dead 1000 real cheap because the former owner had done 
the same thing you had done.  In my case and I suspect yours, replacing one 
of the 8520 chips fixed the problem.

Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com
    
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: geirh@solan.unit.no (Geir Haugen)
Subject: Monitor for A4000
Reply-To: geirh@solan.unit.no (Geir Haugen)
Organization: University of Trondheim
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 19:52:35 GMT



I'm planning to buy the A4000 soon (available next week here in Norway,
price: 25000-26000 NOK = 4100 - 4300 US$), and I would like to have a
monitor supporting screen resolutions, including 800x600. My local
dealer says the NEC 3 FG supports it, but does it go down to 15kHz?
Will I need a 4 FG instead?

Also, the 3 FG is said to display 1024x768 "interlaced", while the 4 FG
diplays this resolution "non-interlaced". What effect will this have on
the Amiga, will the screen flicker when using 800x600 on the 3 FG?
Is the flicker acceptable?

Besides from this, is the 4 FG in any ways superior to the 3 FG?

I would like to hear from people who has actually used the A4000 with
a NEC. Please let us know what it looks like in different resolutions,
as lots of people (including me) seem to be confused.


Thanks in advance.


Regards, Geir Haugen, NTH, Norway.
From: acs_mogged@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: ImageWriter II problem..............
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:06:35 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

	I need help for a friend who is trying to hook up his ImageWriter II to
his amiga.  We have the cord to connect the ImageWriter II to the Amiga. 

	The problem is when I print out graphics to the printer the first two
to four lines are all okay but after that it either
	1)Skips a few lines and continues printing
	2)Prints random garbage and then continues printing...

	The programs I tried are PageStream 2.2, Final Copy 1.3, and Deluxe 
Paint IV.  I printed a dir opt a >prt: and that seemed to work fine.

	I have the ImageWriter II hooked up through the serial port on the
Amiga.  I have the preference set on ImageWriter II and set on the serial port.

	Could anybody help?????   PLEASE!!!!!!!

(If you need more detail I am glad to provide more detail..  I thought I would
just provide the simple facts so it could be kept short....)

		Brian.s.mogged@uwrf.edu

	All grammatic and spelling mistakes is just your active imagination
working against me....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: stheophy@Condor.mcs.kent.edu (Sophia Theophylactos)
Subject: Damn Amiga Monitor
Organization: Kent State University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:02:59 GMT


I just bought a used 1080 monitor.

It works perfectly when you first turn it on (I'm using the RGB input),
but about 20 minutes into whatever I'm doing, the top of the picture
starts to become wavey; gradually at first, then it get wavier and
wavier until the top third is unreadable.  If I turn it off and let it
sit for about an hour, I can get another good twenty or so minutes out
of it before it happens again.

The composite input has no problems.

One other odd thing: when the jittering happens, I can definitely see it
responding to my presence in the room.  I mean, if I wave my arms in the
air, it moves in a direct correspondance to my movements.  And yet,
during the first twenty minutes (of stable picture), nothing I do can
get it to move.

Help me!

-Sophia


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: Re: A4000/Alice
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:27:25 GMT

In article <jbono.04bq@tension.UUCP> jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.201919.15792@microsoft.com>, iank@microsoft.com (Ian
>Kennedy) writes:
>>Of course others have said all of the custom chips in the AGA machines
>>are surface mounted. In that case there will be no upgrades at all.
>>
>All the chips in the A4000 are surface mount.  However, the entire board with
>the graphics chips on it is designed to be replaceable.  This means that when
>the fast chipset comes out, you will yank the board with AGA on it, and swap it
>for a board with AGAGA on it, and keep your '040 and zorro III boards.

   Bullshit.  The "board with the graphics chips on it" is the motherboard, 
and Commodore in their entire history has never offered motherboard upgrades
for older Amigas.  

>John

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mcauli_t@cs.uwa.oz.au (Tim McAuliffe)
Subject: 2091 -> GVP Combo backup. Possible?
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:44:55 GMT

Recently, a friend of mine bought a GVP Combo board with hard disk. I have 
quite a bit of data on my 2091 HD that I'd like to give him. We installed both
cards in the same machine but it wouldn't recognize my HD. Then we rebooted the
machine using the CPUctrl program and it booted from my HD and wouldn't 
recognize the other one! Is there any way to make the machine recognize both
hard disks? A mountlist entry perhaps?

Any help is appreciated.
-- 
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