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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Help me buy a printer for my A500+
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 02:20:04 GMT

In article <10560@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> cbenson@cs.strath.ac.uk (Calum F Benson CS90) writes:
> 	Having read a number of `best buy'-type articles in the UK magazines,
> the two which seem to regularly come out top are the Canon Bubblejet BJ10ex,
> and the Panasonic KXP1124i.

Add the Epson LQ570.

The BubbleJet looks pretty flimsy to me. In contrast, the Panasonic 1124i
and the Epson LQ570 are built like tanks. There is a replacement LQ driver
fro the 570 that gets MUCH better output on it than anything else I've seen,
and the font capabilities are excellent.

It might be for sale under the name "Action Printer 5000". It costs a little
less than the 1124i in the states.

I'm totally happy with mine.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   "Heeft u vandaag al uw wolf geknuffeld?"
  'U`
From: rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Series-II HC+8 (updated) *PROBLEM*
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:49:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine


I've hooked up a GVP series II A500 HD8+ (with 120MB maxtor & 4 meg ram)
to my A1000 and have had the same problems.

I haven't called tech support yet... I'm a student and either in classes
or at work during normal working hours & cannot find the time to call them.


Any solutions out there?



--
Russ Caslis
rcaslis@uci.edu
From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Reoccuring system crash 80000003
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:46:34 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In an article dated
9/29/92 08:19 22/759 christop@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Christophe Liekens)

>A few months ago I bought an A2000(I don't know which revision, it is sold
>as model E) with OS2.05 and the ECS chip set.
>
>Since then the machine crashes occasionally reporting error 80000003 or
>80000005. Sometimes it is possible to suspend the crashed program,
>sometimes not.
>It also happens when I stop all programs running in background,
>so it can't be one of them. Also I have the correct versions
>of all disk libraries and handlers and devices installed.

Even though you say you still crash when all backround programs are stopped,
I still suspect faulty applications.  This kind of problem was discussed
at length (ad nauseum :^( really) a couple of months ago when various
people were trashing 2.04.  It turns out that 2.04 and I guess 2.05 too,
is very strict when it comes to addressing addresses that aren't there.
Under 1.3, this was no problem and even well known commercial applications
have had to get there act together and follow C= 's developer guidelines
more closely.

This problem is exacerbated in machines with OS2.xx and a 68000 cpu.
68030's don't seem to have this trouble.  I think some developers
used A3000's to write and test programs and never tried  them out
on 68000 machines.

What applications are you using?  New Horizons (ProWrite and Quarterback 5.0)
were often culprits, in addition to various freely distributable programs.

Hope this helps.
  
Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re:  AA Features
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:40:27 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <dej.01k9@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca> dej@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones) writes:
=In article <35280@cbmvax.commodore.com> kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking) writes:
=>Yes, but there was this neat book known as the Hardware Reference Manual
=>that explained how to use the Amiga's chips.  There isn't going to be a book
=>that describes AA features.  
=>
=
=What happens if you want to write your own OS?  Not that I'm planning
=this in the near future, but I'm curious.
=
	But C= doesn't WANT you to write another OS! Don't you know AmigaDOS
	is the ONLY OS you'll ever need? (Note B^) for the sarcasm impared)
	If C= wanted other OS's to run on the Amiga they would have done
	more with UNIX/Mach...

=Will developers have access to AA docs?
=
	I doubt it since ADOS is the only OS you'll ever need to do the
	nich job of video work, all other markets have been abandoned by C=,
	i.e. business, research, etc., so no other OS is needed on
	the Amiga as it does video stuff just fine.

		B^(,

		-Rob
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 MMU?
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:36:26 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Per_Salmi@augs.se (Per Salmi) writes:
: Does the A4000 have an MMU? Just in case AmigaUNIX will work on an 68040 some day I would like to know if there is an MMU in the A4000...
: 

Yes, but a different one from the 68030 (hence porting problems for Unix)

-- 
=============================================================================
 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
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From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re:   Help me buy a printer for my A500+
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:11:06 EDT
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <1992Oct05.023925.24603@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <fgd3.0271@nifty.UUCP> fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) writes:
>>    If you can spare the desk space for a slightly bigger printer, my
>> recommendation is for the HP DeskJet series.  The DeskJet is built a little
>> sturdier than the Canon and I believe you'll find the operating costs a bit
>> less.
>
>However it costs significantly more than either of the impact printers that
>have been noted so far, and they're at the high end of the poster's price
>range.

   I don't know how much the impact printers cost but I've seen DeskJet 500s
advertised for around $350.  The DeskJet will probably be more reliable than
the impact printers, too.  There is very little in the DeskJet that is
subject to wear.  The print head is replaced with each new ink cartridge.
It depends a lot on how much the output quality is worth to you.

   I'm not knocking the other printers.  I've known some people who bought
Canon BJ10es and later wished they had spent just a bit more for a DeskJet.

--Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
   350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South   | GEnie:    F.DUFOE3
   St. Petersburg, Florida  33705 | internet: fgd3%nifty@tct.com
   813-823-2350                   | uucp:     ...tct!deep6!nifty!fgd3
From: tpang@fraser.sfu.ca (Tsui Ting Debbie Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 local bus
Date: 2 Oct 92 10:00:44 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>(Are there even any Macs with 68ks anymore?)

Yes, the Mac Classic is still using a 7.8MHz 68000, and on current product
list. The PowerBook 100, which has just been phased out, but still selling
is a 16MHz 68000.

>I don't know, but they do make 16-bit systems with '030s in them, which are
>only marginally faster than 68000 systems as the same clock speed.  

And that includes the LCII, and Classic II, which will be renamed soon for
new product lineup. I wonder if Commodore will do what Apple is doing about
this? Apple has since been very quiet about the 16 bit data path since
the first LC is out, with 68020. At my old work place, I had accessed to
all the Apple reference manuals, and even that is hard to find. But clever
people will know when you know the simms work in multiple of pairs, not
by 4. :)
>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      BIX: hazy
>	"Work like a horse, drink like a fish"	- Psychefunkapus

David Tse
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: apel@physik.uni-kl.de (Martin Apel (SAGA))
Subject: Re: Help: red screen,flashing led
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:15:12 GMT

hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl (Dick Verweij) writes:
: HELP!!:
: 
: Since I did something with the hardware (replacing rom) my ami went dead.
:  (I am sure that roms were placed correctly) 
: The only thing I got was a red screen and a flashing power led.

A red screen means that the ROM checksum is invalid. The flashing LED
simply means that the Amiga is continously rebooting. If you have
changed something in the ROMs you have to recalculate the ROM checksum
before using it.
--
Reachable as:				I do hate sums. There is no greater
apel@gypsy.physik.uni-kl.de		mistake than to call arithmetic an
(Martin Apel)				exact science. There are .. hidden
					laws of number which it requires a
					mind like mine to perceive. For
					instance, if you add a sum from the
					bottom up, and then again from the 
					top down, the result is always
					different.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: A2058
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:47:08 GMT

tommyl@stud.cs.uit.no (Tommy Larsen) writes:
> I have a problem with a CBM A2058 Ram-Card which I recently installed in my A2000.
> 
> With the card installed my harddrive (a Dataflyer with a 105Meg Quantun) takes
> up to three minutes before it starts booting. 
> 
> This problem does not exist with other RAM-cards...

I have a 2058 in this system, w/o any problem.  I have it in the first
slot so that it addresses at 200000.  Maybe the Dataflyer wants this
slot.

Allan Duncan		ACSnet	 a.duncan@trl.oz
(+613) 253 6708		Internet a.duncan@trl.oz.au
Fax    253 6664		UUCP	 {uunet,hplabs,ukc}!munnari!trl.oz.au!a.duncan
    Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.
From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is anyone out there using a Mega Midget Racer w/ GVP HD8 II
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 22:28:06 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In an article 9/29/92  seeley_bob@dneast.enet.dec.com (Bob Seeley) writes:
 
>My question is whether the Mega Midget Racer will function with the GVP HD8+ 
>II.  That is, are there any of you who have the combination functioning in 
>the real world on an A500?  It's slow tracing with the 68000 :'(

I presume you mean GVP Impact II A500-HD+.  Yes I run an MMR with a
68030 with no real problems.  A minor problem is with the fact that
the GVP cannot DMA any 32 bit ram you may have on a MMR daughter board.
This slows down reads and writes quite a bit.  I use a program called
DMAfix which is FD. This has brought my HD back up to speed.

I recently got hold of a new GVP prep program, from their BBS, which
seems to speed up HD access even with out DMAfix.

If I were to upgrade now I would consider several options.  The GVP turbo
may be offered in some kind of a  trade up and VXL which apparently
allows DMA access as does the GVP turbo.  And of course contact CSA
and Memory World to find out what kind of a trade-up deal they offer.

Call CSA and find out if your 68020 board can be made to work!?

Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3640 in A3000 PROBLEM
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <2+9Mr*iD0@video1.bs.open.de> achim@video1.bs.open.de  (Joachim Gothe) writes:
>In article <35528@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Dave Haynie writes:

>>>I plug the A3640 in my A3000, switch power on, and nothing happens....(Black sreen)

>>You need to change the following jumpers (as I recall):

>>	Jumper	Name		Position
>>
>>	J100	CLK90 Source	3-4
>>	J104	CPUCLK Source	2-3

>Now it runs with Disk BUT.....the A3000 can't find the SCSI-Drives.
>HDtoolbox find them, can read the Drive-Type(Quantum LPS250) but after
>the Reset, no HD appears.

Could be that you need the jumper block as well, in U103.

>A Guy from Commodore Braunschweig say, that in the A3000T they install
>a different PAL (U701).

That's because the A3000T with '040 doesn't have an '030 on the motherboard.
You don't want that PAL.

>Thanks for your Help, and also to Michael Sinz (I have no U103)

What does that mean? You have a jumper block in U103?  You have no U103 on
the PCB (you must)?
-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Cool Advanced High-End Systems You Can't See Yet)
 "The Crew That Never Rests"  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh   BIX: hazy
              "I got a pocket full of kryptonite" -Spin Doctors
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floptical - recent Insite upgrade?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 12:07:05 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep25.175222.29614@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>

From talking with Instite, the original ROM is the standard rom.
It has the drive come up in the write locked state.  They also said
that there was a changed rom that would allow you to not have the
drive be write locked.  The engineer also said it would make the drive
non-standard.  Because of the way he talked, I wrote the program I
posted.  With it, you can use the standard rom.  I also talked to
him about the AmigaDos trackdisk format(sorta begged was more like
it) and asked that they support it.  He did say they were looking into
the format but had not implemented anything.

DMI sells Instite flopticals, unless they are producing a modified
rom, they do come up write protected and you need a command sent
to the drive to enable them.

Oh... any the Company is Custom Services(my company).
From: mani@raunvis.hi.is (M'ani Thorsteinsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Installing KS2.0 in rev.5 A500 - bend up pin 31?
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:55:43 GMT
Distribution: comp


   I am about to install Kickstart 2.0 in a rev.5 Amiga 500.  I
know that I have to solder a wire between pins 1 and 31, but I'm not
sure if I also have to bend up pin 31 for it to work.  My local dealer
says that I should *not* bend the pin, but in the directions I got from
Grapevine it says that I should "make sure that pin 31 is bent up."!
   I hope there is someone who can help me out here - I don't want to 
experiment with these things.. (pin up + pin down = pin off :)
   And, erhmm.., while you're at it: You wouldn't happen to know also
about installing KS2.0 in a rev.4.x Amiga 2000?  Any soldering needed?
   Thanks in advance,
                                   Mani      
                                   mani@raunvis.hi.is
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sting@ais.org (Marc Rucinski)
Subject: Needed: Plans for Inter. for Video Disc -> AmigaVision   
Organization: UMCC
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:47:59 GMT


Hello!

I need plans to build an interface to connect a Laser Video Disc Player to
the Amiga, for use with AmigaVision.  If anyone could send me plans, or
steer me in the right direction, I would be most appreciative.  Thank You!

Marc                           sting@umcc.ais.org
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: dead!
Date: 2 Oct 92 05:21:07 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <Rob_Semenoff.0ine@saug.UUCP> Rob_Semenoff@saug.UUCP (Rob Semenoff) writes:
> 
>      My A500 has bit the big one! Luckily I have a A2000 too!. The problem
> has been finding the problem. Here it goes..
> 
>      While making a new plug for the power supply the entire plug was
> reversed. This immediatly killed my 500.
> 
>      We replaced the Cia's
>      we replaced all the socketed chips ( tested them first on the 2000)
>      we replaced all 256x1 memory chips.
> 
>      Now we get a solid green screen. The caps lock key flashes steady, and
> the power led flashes 10 short - 1 long then resests. if any one has any
> idea on what to do next please let me know!!!

A green screen means that you still have some problem in the memory area.
If you've replaced all the memory chips and replaced/tested the Agnus and
Gary chips, then I'd look at the address and data buffers

The flashing keyboard led means you've blown the keyboard micro or some of
the associated circuitry on the keyboard.

Sure you couldn't pick up a used A500 for less $$$ and misery?
From: harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi (Harri P Pesonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DOMINO-graphic-card?
Date: 6 Oct 92 04:13:27 GMT
Organization: Fipnet, Helsinki, Finland
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article ??? mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
> In <h08f.717945188@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de> h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Faroul) writes:
> >I'm searching for any info I can get about the "DOMINO" graphix card,
> >which has a built-in flicker-fixer, use 4096 colours and can use
> >a 70Hz display (as I know).
> 
> The Domino card has not a built-in flicker-fixer and does not use 4096 colors.

But the ad in Amiga Magazin says that the DOMINO IS a 72 Hz flicker fixer.
It also says that it lays in Zorro (II ?) slot and doesn't use the video
slot so I don't understand how can it be a flicker fixer...

> To be exact, it is a VGA card based on a ET4000 chipset. You can use it
> for a resolution of 1280x1024 (I believe in 16 colors). At 1024x768
> it supports 256 colors and at 800x600 it can do 32768 colors. Up to
> 1024x768 can be used in 70Hz and of course you need a monitor that
> supports such a display.

This sounds believable.

> There is an "Intuition driver" that wedges into the system graphics routines
> and redirects them to the board. This works under AmigaOS2.0. Due to
> limitations in AmigaOS2.0 and other software it can only support up to
> 16 colors since the 256 and 32768 color modes use chunky pixels. This
> also limits the palette to 4096 colors as no program can choose other
> colors. The board itself has a 18bit palette (i.e. 256k colors).
> You get a picture viewer program to display graphics in all resolutions.

And VISIONA TV-PAINT.

> The board can pass through the original Amiga video signal which is used
> to display other screens as the workbench.

Are you saying that Amiga video signal goes through Zorro bus?  The ad says
that the board has a fallback mode for unsupported screens but it supports
workbench, of course.

> Regards,
> -- 
> Michael van Elst
> UUCP:     universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve
> Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
>                                 "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

-- 
    Harri Pesonen               harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi
    Helsinki, Finland, EC?      hpesonen@vipunen.hut.fi
From: Per_Salmi@augs.se (Per Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Xetec's Phn #?
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:33:34 GMT
Organization: Amiga User Group - Sweden
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

William Bardwell (wb24+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Might someone please send me the tech or customer
: support number at Xetec?

I've got a number here, (913) 827-0685.
I don't know if it is the tech support or not but you could try it out...



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From: eyeq@hongkong.WPI.EDU (Brent Burkholder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GForce 40MHz OVERCLOCKING........
Date: 1 Oct 1992 00:56:15 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: hongkong.wpi.edu

In article <35487@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>menegon@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco menegon) writes:
>>
>>
>>Hi, I have a GVP G-Force030 40Mhz and I want to overclock this board...does
>>anyone know the MAX clock rate for a 40MHz processor ???  ( I think 46-48MHz
>>but I don't know....)
>
>Simple...  A 40MHz chip's *MAX* clock rate is 40MHz.  Some parts may happen
>to run a bit faster, but if they all ran faster, Motorola would sell them
>as, say 46MHz parts rather than 40MHz.  (People pay more for high speed
>parts)
>
>So, the answer is simple:  Read the value printed on the chip.
>

  Actually, 40MHZ isn't the MAX... its the MAX that each and every single one
of these type of chips should operate reliably under. ;) Nitpicky perhaps,
but very true. Out of a given batch of chips there are going to be
variations and rather than testing all of the chips to determine the exact
point at which they fail, they'll choose a lower number that all of the
chips can handle without problem.
  Btw, I'm not condoning overclocking... its got to be more trouble than it's
worth, but some chips might be able to handle an extra couple megahertz, some
won't.
From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP Series-II HC+8 (SCSI+RAM) *PROBLEMS*
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:45:34 GMT
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Organization: System Information 2.0 Development
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <BvHzvG.CIv@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman) writes:
> I've had a GVP Series-II HC+8 with 120 MB Maxtor drive and 8 MB for a few
> days.  Intermittently I get a requester
> 
> ----
> "gvpscsi.device": unit 000
> 
> Unexpected status $82/$00
> 
> ----
> And then after that the drive reports read errors and can't be used.  Rebooting
> clears the problem up completely.

> What does this status number mean?  The one manual I got (User's Guide) says 
> nothing about status messages.

These seem to be used for GVP debugging and should not appear normally.

> 
> Also previously I have gotten something like "Ignoring status $64/$80 (???)"
> followed by "Unexpected status $42/$00" followed by read errors.

Darn! I had that same problem when I tried to connect a second Quantum 105LPS
or a 44MB SyQuest to my HC+8. The problems only cleared when I disconnected
the second unit. I've checked around in the GVP tech Support echo on FidoNet
but they had no cause/solution for it either. It might be termination jumper
problems. Try removing or adding the Maxtor terminators and see if it makes 
a difference.

CYa, Paul

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