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From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:25:48 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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In-reply-to: bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu's message of 13 Sep 92 19:53:48 GMT

>>>>> On 13 Sep 92 19:53:48 GMT, bdnee@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Bandes Dessinee) said:


bdnee> Time to stop buying Commodore products, i think, unless they
       get their act together and start treating their userbase decently.
bdnee> Charley

Well if there are technical reasons that it won't work then it won't
work.  I do not blame C= for coming out with new technology that
makes the amigas they made last year a little dull.  What I would like
to know is could not have such a move been anticipated and allowances
made to upgrade 3000s?  Maybe not.

Perhaps a low end model will come with AGA on a motherboard that fits
in a 3000 case.  Probably not.  

If C= moves to a more modular design and standardize on a motherboard
form factor, then perhaps motherboard upgrades will be possible.
Already we have the SCSI, and CPU moved off the mother board.  So lets
hope that the 4000 and some tower version will be standardized so that
when the 4200 or 5000 comes along we can pop out the 4000 motherboard, and
put in the 5000 motherboard with the AAA chipset, and still keep our
same SCSI-2 card, our 060 CPU card and our AT&T DSP Card.

Modularity adds to production and sales cost but certainly makes
upgrading easier.  (I'd much rather pay $600 for a new motherboard
that only has the custom ships, the port controls and the bus
controller. )

I do understand the feeling of the 3000 owners.  The 500, and 2000
owners had a way to expand to 3000 capabilities (Although this was
not cheap if you wanted all of the 3000 options sans Zorro3.)
The 3000 owners seem not to have these abilities.  C= would do well to
give the 3000 owners a good deal.

Andrew
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From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:28:53
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
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In-reply-to: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi's message of 14 Sep 92 10:41:06 GMT

>>>>> On 14 Sep 92 10:41:06 GMT, jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen) said:

jpelkone> In article <1992Sep14.180411.90091@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>

>        I have only 1 thing to say re: Amiga + RISC.
>
>        Please, please, please, please, please, please, ALPHA!
>        (although MC88x00 is the more obvious option).

jpelkone> Alpha is a bit expensive, atleast currently. It costs more
jpelkone> than $10,000 even in large quantities.

I though that they were going for about $3000.

There are several choices for RISC if you want to go that route.

MIPS R4000 is respectable and was supported until Intel convinced
everyone that P5 with perform as well without radical code changes
(probably true)

SPARC or SuperSPARC - Option of running SUNos/Solaris

Power/PC - Put the same uP that Apple AND IBM have running and run
there OS and get those apps.  Then flip back to AmigaDOS.

ALPHA - VMS and OSF/1 now running (at least VMS is beta testing RIGHT
NOW) and Windows NT.  There is internal code in the ALPHA that changes
for each OS.  An amiga version may best run on an OSF/1 or Windows
version.

88100/88110 - Well, a respected design, but Motorola is having trouble
pushing it to 50Mhz according to rumor.  Rumor also has it that
resources are being pushed to the PowerPC.

I would rather see C= focus on getting an 060 board ASAP. Not 1.5
years after everyone else does.  The modular design should expedite
matters.

-- Andrew Hansford
   ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 4000 (Software????)
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:08:10 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University

Will existing Amiga software work on the 4000?  If not, I think I
may keep my 2000 with the GVP 68040 card for a while yet.
-- 
"Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath
Though all the world betrays thee.
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas Moore)
From: brendan@gu.uwa.edu.au (Brendan Langoulant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 3D
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:01:06 GMT
Organization: University Computer Club --- Perth, Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au

yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German) writes:


>	For anyone who does modeling on an AMIGA either using Lightwave,
>Imagine or anything else I strongly suggest taking a look at something
>new. The ANIMATRIX MODELER is something that will make your life alot
>easier. 
>	I have been using it for about 3 months now and the latest version
>even got me exited to use it. Besides being able to load and save in 2 of
>the most popular formats (and others as well). The modeler has something
>no one else does. .... REAL 3D!! No not the program but actually 3D on the
>screen. If you use the multicolored 3D glasses or the Heitex goggles you
>will get a real 3D view of the 3D object in 3D. Confused???

You can get a "Real 3D" image from Real 3D too.  But not using the
multicoloured or heitex goggles or even X-Specs.  You can do this with a
few mirrors and a lot of crossing your eyes.

>	Its a must to see.. and even better to be used. I have almost
>forgoten about the modeler in Imagine after starting to use this one.

-- 
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| Brendan |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: pwappy@well.sf.ca.us (Jeff Walkup)
Subject: Re: DCTV flickers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:16:29 GMT


mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema) writes:

> a friend of mine recently purchased a DCTV and it flickers.

DCTV's output is composite NTSC video.  By definition, it is
interlaced, so it will flicker.


> We connected it to an A500 and it didn't flicker anymore.

This puzzled me at first, until I realized that perhaps your
A500 only has 1 meg of memory (or less?).  If DCTV cannot grab
enough memory to open an interlaced screen, it will open a
non-interlaced one, which will not flicker.  Be aware this is
not a legal NTSC video signal, so if you are recording it to
tape, be sure to use interlaced mode, or run SetLace/DoLace
to force interlace ON.

The de-interlacing card should not interfere with DCTV operation.
The Toaster might, and I've found that you need to run the Switcher
program to correctly sync the Toaster, otherwise you'll end up with
the problems described earlier.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Saturday, 12 Sep 1992 19:11:35 CDT
From: Jason Kratz <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Lacepointer

In article <92251.232107U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>, Jason Kratz
<U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> says:
>
>Thanks much to all the people who responded to my post about Lacepointer. For
>future information I wanted to tell everyone that the program isn't on
>wuarchiv
>e anymore (at least from what I could see).  Once again thanks much!
>
>Jason Kratz

A while after posting this I realized that I never gave the address
where the program is located.  It's at ftp.ludd.luth.se in the
pub/amiga/util directory.  The file is called Lacepointer.lha

Hope this helps!

Jason
From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Problem with No New Copper in A4000
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:03:11 GMT
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep15.023838.16397@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>
>   There is one thing about the AGA chipset that I've forgotten to mention. 
>This is the drawbacks to the lack of improvements to the copper.  In the
>ECS, the copper requires 2 scanlines to update the palette registers between
>pull-down screens.  The AGA Lisa chip now has many more palette registers,
>but the copper has not been updates accordingly.  The result is bigger
>blank space between pull-down screens on the AGA chipset.  A total of 11
>scanlines of space, in fact.  Thus, you can write off enhanced equivelents

Marc, the inter screen gap is really no big deal - it doesn't look too bad. But
then, you wouldn't know that, would you? You are preaching as gospel about a
machine you have not yet even seen.

In fact, we had a simple solution to the extra lines in the inter screen gap,
but we felt it would be too much work for very little gain. In other words, it
wasn't worth it.

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: paulh@DIALix.oz.au (Paul Huxham)
Subject: IFFtoASCII
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:04:53 GMT
Summary: IFFtoASCII posted to ALT.SOURCES.AMIGA
Keywords: text, ascii

Hi,
  Anyone who was interested in the IFFtoASCII program, it is been posted
to ALT.SOURCES.AMIGA

  Any queries to:

  PAUL HUXHAM

  paulh@DIALix.oz.au


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From: murphyjp@convex.cl.msu.edu ("!clue")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *How soon to ADos 4.0?
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:38:29 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University


I, too, would like the AGA chips in my 3000.  I think I could
"make do" with a seamlessly accessed DMI Resolver board. :)  So,
how long until AmigaDOS release 4.0, the version reputed to 
contain RTG?

-jp
From: randy@cardinals.ctron.com (Randy Manchester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: OS3.0 & SAGE
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:31:17 GMT
Organization: Cabletron Systems Inc.

The new A4000 with it's new AGA chip set sounds very nice, but I like
my A3000 just fine.  I plan on adding a 24bit graphic card in the near
future, most likely the DMI Resolver or something similar.

Does anyone know if SAGE has been, or is going to be, part of the new OS?
I'm thinking of something like seperate device drivers, say one driver
for the AGA chip set, another driver for the Resolver, and another for
OpalVision, etc..

Randy Manchester
randy@cardinals.ctron.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: rend24.... jpeg???
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:39:02 GMT

In article <65416@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
> >
> >OK, I downloaded Rend24 to try and view some jpegs, but when passing
> >a .jpg file to it, it just tells me it isn't an IFF file...  I don't
> >see any mention of jpeg in the docs.  So how do you view jpegs with this
> >thing????
> >
> 
> Are you using Rend24's interface or are you calling it as a shell
> command? Since you didn't say I'll have to guess :) 
> Try using its interface. Run the program and click on the button
> in the upper right hand corner for the source image. A requester
> opens up. Feed it a filename of a .jpeg image on your system,
> wherever it is. Cycle thru the choices for the type of display
> (color, HAM, grayscale etc). and then click the begin conversion
> button at the bottom to start it. If you want to save the image to
> an IFF file (HAM, Hi-res, whatever mode you selected to view it
> in) then feed a filename to the "destination picture pattern"
> string input gadget or use the requester button next to that gadget
> before selecting "begin conversion." Use dithering for hi-res
> color output unless you like globs of banded color. 
 
 
Thanks Harv.

I'm calling it from a shell.  I'm missing rexxarplib.library that is
needed for the front end interface - any hints on where to find it?

I've only tried one jpeg file.  I'll try some others to see if that makes
a difference.  BTW, I'm getting the jpegs from ftp sites....


Rich...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: cahduns@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Henry Dunsmore)
Subject: Re: amiga+toaster used to
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:37:19 GMT

I use the Toaster with video.  If the NewTek folks don't come up with a
solution to the lack of S-VHS in the Toaster then they' in deep sh*t.

The third party stuff is geared to S, but the Toaster is composite.  It's a
great addition to a composite video editing suite but forget it if you want
to get higher quality...it won't come out of NTSC or PAL composite signals!
From: stacysm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Stacy + Audra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Digi-View Problems
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:18:08 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

I have Digi-View 4.0 Gold and a problem has occurred. It exceptes the 
video signal but the program will not get an image.  It will say wait
and that is about it.  Any similar problems or solutions ?


-Thanks

stacysm@sage.cc.purdue.edu
stacysm2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Subject: Max Headroom
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Organization: Somewhere in Bloomington, Indiana
Distribution:  world
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:31:30 GMT

I would like to know where I can ftp or email an animation of
Max Headroom.  

I know at least one exists, because I saw in on an Amiga in a computer
store back in 1989.

Thanks, 

Jim Graham 

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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Problem with No New Copper in A4000
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:13:55 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:


>   There is one thing about the AGA chipset that I've forgotten to mention. 
>This is the drawbacks to the lack of improvements to the copper.  In the
>ECS, the copper requires 2 scanlines to update the palette registers between
>pull-down screens.  The AGA Lisa chip now has many more palette registers,
>but the copper has not been updates accordingly.  The result is bigger
>blank space between pull-down screens on the AGA chipset.  A total of 11
>scanlines of space, in fact.  Thus, you can write off enhanced equivelents
>to the Dynamic HiRes or SHAM modes for the AGA chipset.

Oh darn it!  You mean there's no way an Amiga 4000 can display 
800x600 with 16.2 million colors on screen at once that sucks up all the
CPU cycles?  Man, how can C= be so foolish.  That's it, I am buying a 
286 box to run Mac software.  Like Marc said, C= is hopeless. <grin> ;)

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------

Marc, seriously, what exactly do you want C= to do?  what is your dream
computer... just tell us.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:38:09 GMT

taylors@hubcap.clemson.edu (C. Taylor Sutherland III) writes:

>>>Unfortunately CBM left an equally important half of the "MultiMedia"
>>>equation off their list.  The new machines still do only crappy 8 bit audio.
>>>Worthless for any real professional applications.
>>>Really a shame.

Most users wont ever need anything more than 8 bit 4 channel sound.  Having
said that, the new chipset has more than enough bandwidth and free timeslots
for 16 channel 8 bit sound or 8 channel 16 bit sound.  Expect it.

>> 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! ;-{

There will probably be a new paula with enhanced audio and disk dma.  The 
problem with real HD drives is that you need twice as many timeslots.  If they
have to be evenly spaced, that places the extra timeslot right in the middle of
video dma.  The only way around this would be to have the new paula chip have
a double buffer in it, and grab both bits of data before scan start.  Or use
the extra bus width.

>The 4000 does have a high density floppy drive.  (880K/1.76MB)
>I'm getting this right off the "original" press release.

Yes it does, but it is a special mechanism,, costs twice as much as any other
HD drive, and runs at half the speed of a real HD drive.  A new paula chip 
would be nice.  Remember C= will neew future expansions to keep the ball 
rolling.  (and the cash flowing.  new development like these cost $$$$$)

>> Until Paula (weak sister) is upgraded, both audio and floppy disk
>>performance will suffer.

True, but most people don't need better audio, especially when the new lower
range machines come out with the same chipset.  The HD drives may be a problem,
but they can sell the same mechanism to 3 million current owners. ($$$)

>>			Regards, Aurelius@cup.portal.com


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk throughput speed ?
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:48:11 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

In article <copes.716015341@marsh>, copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
> msnider@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com (Marc A. Snider x0193) writes:
> 
> >What kind of throughput can I expect from a stock A3000?  How about the
> >numbers for a GVP combo accelerator (do they make an '040 based combo)
> >using their scsi interface and an aftermarket drive?  Finally, what is
> >the fastest throughput possible today on an A3000 and by what means?
> 
> >Thanks,
> >M. Snider
> >msnider@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
> 
> My A3000 25/50 with 6 megs fastram runs around 850K/sec to 1M/sec depending
> on disk usage and fragmentation.  Thats set up with 100 buffers and the stock
> Quantum 52LPS drive.  Sling in a Quantum 240LPS and you can expect around
> 1.3-1.6 M/sec, sustainable.  GVP's 040 for the A3000 doesn't have a scsi
> controller onboard, even if it did it would be slower than the standard one
> unless it was a FAST scsi-II controller.  
> Dave Haynie said they have a Maxtor Magic drive in the C= software department
> that runs 3.9M/sec through the filesystem and 4.2M/sec direct to the driver.
> I don't know what particular drive this is.  Perhaps Dave could post the
> model no. for us :-)
> The A3000 scsi controller is probably the fastest scsi controller you'll find
> on anything under $10000.
> 
> --
> copes@cs.curtin.edu.au


Hi, 
I wonder how you get such high speeds I am using an A3000 and a Quantum LPS105
HD, but I only get a diskspeed (reading) of 820k/sec, and I have 16M FastRam and
have allocated 1600 buffers for the drive. I measured that with Diskspeed V4.2.
Why does Diskspeed hang my machine when it does it's byte allignmenttest at a
4096 byte buffer??? After a reboot then, the disk has a checksum error.

Arthur.
					Arthur Hoffmann
					hoffmann@pandanus.ntu.edu.au
From: htweedie@madhat.actrix.gen.nz (Hamish Tweedie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiport IO, what are my options?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:21:06 PST
Organization: The mad HATter's madhouse

In article <1992Sep7.212950.14914@sbcs.sunysb.edu> lmsobier@csws18.ic.sunysb.edu (Linette Sobierajski) writes:

> 	What ever happened to the multi IO expansion project from the
> 	Puzzle Factory.  I have a huge archive with parts list, drivers,
> 	and schematics...but I heard they are no longer producing the
> 	boards...does anyone know of another supplier of these boards?

	I emailed one of the authors (Jeff Lavin) and he said that they
were no longer supportingf or producing circuit boards/packages for the
IOExpansion project. No known alternative suppliers were producing the boards 
either. 

> 	lmsobier@ic.sunysb.edu
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From: tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Quantum Charge
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:51:38 GMT

A friend just mailed me a description of a strange, supposedly well
known problem with Quantum drives.  Since I haven't seen it hear before,
I'll restate it here.

Quantums have a design flaw that causes them to become charged
(electrostatic or magnetic?) and can fail on powerdown.  The fix is
equally weird.  Take the unit out, set it on a table, and slowly rotate
it back and forth (like a water faucet) about 20 times and this is
supposed to dissipate whatever charge their is.  This charge causes them
to not be able to read the label.

My friend tells me that Sun told him this.  Has anyone heard of this
one?  It's hard for me to swallow.
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