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From: fischers@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Samuel Fischer)
Subject: Re: very very Old Keyboard Problem
Keywords: Keyboard A2000b
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:44:45 GMT

Thanks to all the people who answered. It seems the number of the condensators 
are C900 and C901.

I wanted to answer BEFORE I try to cut them:)

bye,
Sammy
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From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Re: Floptical, Tape, Syquest, WORM, comments needed.
Date: 16 Dec 92 10:24:27 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:

>The cost per MB for a floptical is $0.80 and the speed is about
>equivalent to a 20 MB hard drive (65ms access time).  With a good
>chunk of buffers, it is as fast as any HD which is why I choice it
>over the syquest.  The media cost for 80mbs is the difference.

But it is not.  A floptical writes and reads about twice as fast as
a normal Amiga floppy drive which is _much_ slower than any modern
hard disk.  The access time only tells how long it takes for the
drive to move the R/W head to the specified track and locate the
data block.  It says nothing about read/write speeds at all.

After using a decent hard disk the flopticals feel as slow as floppies.
When the floptical disks become badly fragmented they can be even slower
due to the higher amount of data stored on them.

I'm not saying the flopticals are useless.  They are nice, but they
are not as fast as hard disk, not even close.

  Jukka Marin

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From: andy@onkyo.incubus.sub.org (Andreas Goehler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Intel vs Motorola
Date: 9 Dec 92 01:29:37 GMT
Reply-To: andy@onkyo.incubus.sub.org
Organization: Wanda Designes
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--

As it seems that no one replied to my question, here it is again.

Who knows ANYTHING about Intel's new 586 alias P5 alias Pentium ???

Will it be 64-bit Data and Address Bus. Will it be 8-bit internal as all
other x86 ??? Does it include a 386 unit as planed earlier ??? Is it any
competition to the new MC68060 as soon as both of these processors are out.
Another thing, what power usage will the 586 have ???

OKay, I hope to get some answers this time.

Thanks in advance...

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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Parallel ports
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:36:33 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> I am looking for information about a card that adds more parallel
> ports to the A3000T. I would like to have my printer and scanner
> plugged at the same time and do not particularly like the idea of
> using a swithbox.

Have a look at the MultiFaceCard2 from BSC, it has two parallel ports and two 
high-speed serial ports. It's a Zorro II card, and you can plug in up to 8 
cards for a maximum of 16 serial and 16 parallel ports. I have one here in my 
A3000, and it works really great.

                        _       .    __
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From: hhg@ludd.luth.se (Hakan Hellberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Using a A1000 keyboard with a A1200 ?
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:23:41 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd

I've just purchased a A1200 and i can't really live without a detached
keyboard, so i wonder if i can make use of my old trusty A1000 one ?
Is it just a question of connecting the serial wires right or is it
more to it than that ?
Since i havent got any schematics for the 1000 machine i really don't
know if there's some sort of buffers between the 8520 and the connector.
Is there any other problems like different software on the keyboard
processor ?

Any suggestions ?

/Regards Hakan

email:	hhg@ludd.luth.se
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From: msnider@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com (Marc A. Snider x0193)
Subject: G-LOCK opinions?
Organization: Sanders Associates
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:27:38 GMT

I am also interested in people's opinions of the G-LOCK.  Please post or
also reply to me.  How does the quality look compared to a supergen?

thanks,

M. Snider
msnider@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com
From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Applied Engineering High Density on WB 2.0
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:24:42 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Distribution: world
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In article <csieh.724011502@boise> csieh@boise (Constance Sieh) writes:
> I recently have a need to install a Applied Engineering High Density
> DISK drive on a 3000 with wb 2.0 .  The drivers that come with the
> drive do not work on 2.0.  Does anyone know of drivers that will
> make this drive work on 2.0.  I have gotten the drive to work in
> high density mode on a CDTV with 1.3.

I doubt if there are any. AE left the Amiga scene a while ago in a huff
it seemed. And showed no inclination to produce a 2.0 compatible version
of the drivers. Your best bet would be to keep it on the CDTV and buy a 
C= HD drive for your A3000...

> Thanks in advance

Your welcome. Sorry that the news isn't better...

CYa, Paul

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From: isc0005@amazon.austin.ibm.com ()
Subject: How does Derringer differ from MMR?
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:39:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: IBM, Austin

Howdy,

I just read the c.s.a.r review of the new CSA Derringer accelerator board
for A500/A2000. Having bought the MMR for my A500 several months
ago, I am wondering what CSA changed in the new product.

Why is it cheaper than the MMR? It seems to come with the same
choices of CPU and math chip. Only the 32-bit memory interface
seems changed.

Rob Tulloh
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From: gerrit@laosinh.stgt.sub.org (Gerrit Heitsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 8372A vs. 8375 (hello LSI-guys)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:41:25 MET
Distribution: world
Organization: Lao-Sinh project (private UUCP site)

In article <Bz7E7p.Ho@cs.dal.ca>, Todd Darrell Raymond Hart writes:

> Well I upgraded my 500 to 1meg chip ram... I asked for the 8372A and got a
> 8375.  I was told they were identical, just a name change.  Well I went home
> and installed the thing in my machine.  It works just fine!!!  If there is
> a difference in the pin-outs then they must reconfigure :)
> 
Can you switch between NTSC and PAL with Pin 41 tied to GND or VCC? If not, 
the 8375 is not really compatible with the 8372A.

Gerrit

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From: thecure@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew aardvarkious)
Subject: Re: The Shimmer is *NOT* AGA (dongle in aus)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:32:37 GMT

cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:

>>>>>On all of the AGA machines, a fine pattern of vertical lines could
>>>>>be seen on the screen.  The lines were 8 pixels apart.  On one machine,
>>  
>> Several people in the Amiga Roundtable on GEnie have reported the same
>> thing.
>
>pixels apart. Pretty damn annoying, so I went back to my flicker fixer. Later
>on I was wanting to use a B2000 and used the A4000 supplied dongle to connect
>to the back of the Amiga 2000 and guess what? Vertical lines every 8 pixels or
>so. Cponclusion, it is most definetly not AGA and it seems as though the
>supplied dongle is at fault. There is a chip inside it, is that at fault I ask
>myself?

>Has anyone tried to connect their monitor with out the converter dongle? If so

I have tried in Australia on a 500, a 600, a 1000 a 2000 and 3000 (phew)
with 3 different dongles, and each time the screen failed to sync in.

It appeared to be generating the signal starting from the middle (like NTSC)
of the screen instead of the extreme left (like PAL) - Upon speaking
to commodore they told me I must have had a faulty dongle (3 !?)

I am yet to see it work.
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From: cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:37:38 GMT
Organization: Kingston University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ceres.kingston.ac.uk
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matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
: tdkeeler@ualr.edu wrote:
: 
: : The Amiga 1200 is not the answer either.  There is no box to put stuff in.
: : The cost of the 1200 and a box is not effective either.
: 
: My suggestion is that you wait for the A4000/030, it fills the gap
: between A1200 and A4000/040.

Hmmm... C= UK has said to magazines, that there will NOT be a 2000 replacement.

Do you know something we don't ???
;-)

Regards..

Vlod
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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: World of Commodore Notes
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 05:40:22 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <71439@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec11.013701.29451@trl.oz.au>

>|> Monkey Island II
>|> Search For The King
>|> Links
>|> Castles
>|> <many more that I won't depress anyone with>
>|>
>|> The only bad part about the stuff that breaks is for the most
>|> part, the companies have no plans to fix it.
>
>Have you tried this stuff with the ECS mode enabled by doing the
>mouse-button push down thingy when the computer boots up?
>

Yes. I know this fixes Monkey Island II and Links, but nothing else.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
From: lee@rose.brandeis.edu (charles lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: That little half-line of flicker on my A3000
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:44:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brandeis University

jayscott@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason Scott Anderson) writes:

>   Okay, I've been pretty patient with my computer for some time now with
>regard to that half a line that flickers on my Amiga 3000 screen...but I'd
>really like to find out if there's anything that I can do about it.  I
>think I remember hearing that there was a program or something which could
>take care of it, but I'm really not sure.  Is this just my monitor, or is
>it just a "side effect" of the Amber?

Look on amiga.phsyik.unizh.ch or its mirrors and pick up the newest
version of Qmouse. It has a mode that will eliminate that half line
of flicker.


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From: peters@server.uwindsor.ca (Peter Steeves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Piggy-Backing 2 DKB INSIDER 1MB Boards
Keywords: DKB INSIDER
Date: 13 Dec 1992 13:47:21 GMT

DKB originally put out the INSIDER 1MB board about 5 years ago. I remember
hearing that two (or more) of these could be installed on an A1000. Could
some one please tell if this is correct and how it can be done. Also, can 
these boards be used in an A500?

Thanks.
                                                       PETER
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From: dkbrown@dkbsoft.UUCP (Dean Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DKB with AGA card.
Distribution: world
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:25:57 EDT
Organization: DKB Software

In article <petter.09pa@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org> petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org (Petter Nilsen) writes:
> Rumour has it that DKB will have a AGA card for the A2000/A3000 ready in the
> first quarter of '93 for $500...

Rumour is EXACTLY what this is!!

> 
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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: RTG? And Graphics Cards???
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:22:23 GMT

In <1992Dec11.213437.21764@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>Interesting approach. Does the card then incorporate the TSENG chipset,
>or does the oMniBus card require an additional AT VGA card (similar to the
>case with Golden Gate Bridge)? Any idea as to the MSRP?

>Also, is the performance quite reasonable under this strategy?

It uses a standard AT VGA card which resides in one of the IBM slots
(so you can't use a bridgeboard). The Domino card (hardwarewise similar
to OmniBus) carries a standard VGA board on top. The Retina card incorporates
standard VGA electronics on its own PCB.

All these cards are Zorro-II and thus slower in operation than a standard Screen
(640x512x4 colors) but faster than a DMA saturated Screen (640x512x16 colors).

Regards,
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From: pault@terapin.com (Paul Tibbals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hurricane '030 incompatible with 2.1 setpatch?
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:18:45 GMT
Organization: BBS

Rob,
Thanks for an exhaustive review of your attempts.  I have an ICD Advantage (the
full-card predecessor to the AdSCSI) and I can autoboot just fine!  I have a
couple of questions on your other stuff:

You mention that you use Hurricaneconfig without -r, so it does load up the
256K of ROM.  But then you mention that you use Addmem32.  Are you saying that
you are using Hurricaneconfig -a to avoid loading the memory at first?  It
wasn't clear.  I use -a -r as I previously mentioned.  I might consider losing
256K of memory to get that last 10-20% of performance back with the data
caches, if that works for me.....

You also asked about booting in 2000 mode.  It isn't a bootup selection like
onthe Commodore card.  There is a jumper on the board that disables the
Hurricane card so that the machine uses the 68000.  I have mine hooked up to a
switch on the back panel.  It necessitates a power-down, but erases the board
and memory from the system.  Still useful for some games that I haven't been
able to get running in 68030 mode.  Let's see, do I have docs that show which
jumper?....no, not in the manual I have.  I'll have to look.  Message me back
to remind me about this one, as I'm planning to open the machine to look for a
jumper that will supposedly allow me to go from 4 megs to 16 megs by installing
the larger chips. (one source tells me no, you need a PAL change, the other
tells me it's only a jumper, so I'm gonna look).
PaulT
From: jayscott@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason Scott Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: That little half-line of flicker on my A3000
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:29:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <Bz9zrt.K6M@unix.portal.com> danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock) writes:
>In article <Bz9MFD.3uG@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>>In article <Bz9HpJ.CLB@unix.portal.com> danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock) writes:
>>>In article <1giefkINNln3@bigboote.WPI.EDU> jayscott@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jason Scott Anderson) writes:
>>>>
>>>>   Okay, I've been pretty patient with my computer for some time now with
>>>>regard to that half a line that flickers on my Amiga 3000 screen...but I'd
>>>>really like to find out if there's anything that I can do about it.  I
>>>>think I remember hearing that there was a program or something which could
>>>>take care of it, but I'm really not sure.  Is this just my monitor, or is
>>>>it just a "side effect" of the Amber?
>>>
>>>It's an Amber bug. QMouse (fish 731) will blank the top line of the display
>>>to eliminate the effect.
>>
>>   Two people mentioned that QMouse will blank the top line to eliminate the
>>flicker.  But on my machine, under AmigaOS 2.1, that feature of QMouse 
>>blanks the WHOLE DISPLAY and not just the top line.  Is there a new version
>>with this little bug fixed?
>
>Ahem, that's why I mentioned *Fish 731* above. The original version was not
>compatible with overscan.
>
>Dan
>

Well, I obtained QMouse from Fish 731 last night, and it doesn't like to work with
my WB3.0 setup.  Haven't tried it under 2.0 yet, but I don't really use 2.0
anymore.

Any other suggestions, anyone?


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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: High density drives
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:07:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.120917.4605@memstvx1.memst.edu> cse_stu@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>Why doesn't someone come out with a floppy control card for 2000/3000/4000 that
>can handle high density and 4meg ED floppy disks. Make a card and a driver and
>everyone can quit complaining. Maybe come out with an adatper card for the
>500/600/1200 also.

   Better solution: just buy a floptical drive.  MacZone sells them for the
Mac for $400 now.  This would have been even more workable if Commodore had
put SCSI into the A4000; buying a SCSI II card just to use a floptical drive
would be overkill.  But there are enough SCSI cards for the A500, and SCSI
cards should start becoming available for the A600 and A1200 soon.

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From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: CBM's Quad Synch monitor ?'s
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:12:01 GMT

I heard during the toronto show, there was an announcement of having a
quad synch monitor introduced in february.  Now my question is has anyone
heard anything about it.  Is it to be cheaper than the a1960, is it to be
better at overscan than the a1960.  Will there be less convergence than
the a1960.

I plan on picking up an a1200 and a monitor as soon as the a1200 is available
which seems to be in January, but I need to know about this new monitor
first.

Oh by the way it isn't an a1200 and monitor for me.  It is my parents present
to my brother, and I will be getting another one for one of my brother's 
friend.  Too bad I am in college and couldn't afford one of my own.

Martin

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 - 68020EC ??
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:49:42 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany
Keywords: A1200 68020EC 68EC020

In article <1992Dec11.093004.10703@walter.cray.com> walterb@sequoia.cray.com (Walter Boese Jr.) writes:
>
>What does the 'EC' in 68020 mean foe the Amiga A1200.

It means "Embedded Controller" and is thought for intelligent machinery
control.

>How can you economize (sp) a chip that is pretty basic to begin with?
>What great features can you remove?

In comparison the full 020, this EC version has a smaller address bus,
so that you only have 16 MB address space total. This is a reasonable
amount for a home machine.

>And if they did remove something, WHY?  The 68020 is getting outdated
>already, why degrade more than its age already has?

Cost, cost, and cost. A bigger processor wouldn't give you so much (or
even any) more performance in such an environment. Main issue being here
is that the base configuration doesn't have any Fast Mem, so that the
burst capabilities of a 68030 wouldn't have a chance to fly. Also, the
smaller pin number of the EC020 helps keeping the whole mechanical design
pretty (in all its meanings) compact.

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