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From: proctori@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Proctor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A1200 Commodore response sucks
Summary: Commodore are doing my head in
Keywords: Commodore, over 2 months != 4 days
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:03:18 GMT

Hi, I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but it will have to do. Maybe it should
have been in a law related group, as I would very much like to know what my rights to compensation are.

Let me explain.
In Very early November 1992, I bought an A1200 from Game store in Manchester. After about a week of
slight use, the modulator was producing rubbish on the screen, and from the start, the sound output
was totally unacceptable. I didn't notice the sound at the start, due to the fact I was putting it
through my hifi, and it tolerated it. I reported this immediately to the Game store, and they said, no
problem, and all I had to do was register this with Commodore and they would send an engineer round, and
fix it (I had sent my warranty slip off by this point).
 Well, I rang commodore helpline, and reported it, and they said they would ring back within a couple of
days, and it should be fixed very soon.

Situation now:
I have spent over 15 pounds phoning commodore, every single time I am bullshitted about there are no parts and other very poor excuses, an example

Last Friday, I rang up, and the man at the other end, said he had rang through to the schedulers, and
they had contacted an engineer to ring me, to make an appointment. No appointment was made. I rang back just on Monday, and I was told they hadn't got the parts, and they should have them by Wednesday, and they would ring me back before the end of the week, emphasising I was a 'priority' case (just a small note, my despatch number I was given right at the start of all this is now too old to be traced on their computers... how convenient!). Result now? No phone call, no fixed Amiga, and one VERY angry custo



mer.

Commodore - if you are listening, I don't care if you have had technical problems, if you guarantee to
fix my computer in 4 days you *should* *be* *able* *to* *do* *it*

I get the feeling I have been messed around for 2 months, because admin people have made mistakes.
I do not believe for one minute they haven't received the parts to fix my computer....

Does anyone know if there is any sort of legal action I can take, or any sort of compensation I am entitled to? What are my rights regarding the contract Commodore include with their computer ?

 - Dave (extremely annoyed at Commodore's incompetence).
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From: an752@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andrew N. Rodak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP 030 Accelerators
Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:46:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I am in the process of purchasing an accelerator for my A-2000.
I have looked at a great deal of literature and have narrowed
the choice down to the GVP 030. Why GVP? I have purchased several
of their products in the past and have had no problems whatsoever.
Before making the purchase, however, I would like some feedback
from the Amiga community with regard to either the 40mhz or the
50mhz versions.  Please provide details as to ease of installation,
operation and overall speed increase over a stock 2000. I understand
that the 30mhz is the economy 030 while the 50mzh possesses a full
blown mmu.  Thanks in advance and hope to hear from you.
P.S. Is it worth the extra money to just go directly to the GVP
G-Force 040?  Its about $500 more.  Thanks again.
From: nudd@zikzak.apana.org.au (Nai Ying Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP: 2.5 in IDE HD prices
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:55:15 +1100
Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: zikzak.apana.org.au


Hello people,

Since C= in their infinite wisdom saw fit to make the 1200 so small as to
accomodate only 2.5 in IDE Hard Drives, I would like to pose this question to
the general usenet community:

Where can I get cheap 2.5 in Hard Drives, and how cheap is typically cheap?
Where is the best place to mail order said Hard Drives? The prices here in
Australia seem to be in the A$900 range for a 125 meg 2.5 IDE. This is
around US$595 or 395 British pounds...

Could some kind souls please post/email me the prices and
recommendations as to a good mail order company with good prices and
reasonably fast turnaround? The drive itself need only be reliable,
doesn't have to be blindingly fast, like around 19 ms seek/access times will
do...

Thanks in advance...

NY

PS Why the hell didn't they just make the casing slightly bigger? *moan*

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From: IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Just some weird dude)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: hardware hack
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:05:00 GMT
 <C92CAREN.93Jan24212057@styr2.IDA.LiU.SE>
Organization: University of Maine System

Actually, we've discovered that it only has problems now with NTSC.
If I'm using PAL the switch works fine.  If I'm in NTSC the switch
won't work with my Supraram-RX turned on.  Is this a problem of
connecting a wrong pin?
______________________________________________________________________
Corey Gray              |   A wet dog swims in the rain
IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU |      But a dry martini laughs
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr. Peter Kittel, Commodore Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga monitor 1080 on a '286 at-clone?
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:56:40 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmger!peterk@cbmvax.commodore.com
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1993Jan27.141208.28312@cnmss.tredydev.unisys.com> dgs@cnmss.tredydev.unisys.com (Dave G. Sokolowsky) writes:
>Can an Amiga monitor (model 1080) be used on a '286?  I know the answer is
>'yes'.   I have already done the simple connection of my CGA card's composite
>out to the composite in of the 1080.  

Yes, and it also can work with the RGBI output of a CGA card. No problem. BUT:

>But can this monitor go beyond that, and
>how far beyond - EGA, VGA?  If it can do either of these, I'd like to know
>details of how to configure it.  

It can't do neither of them. And "configuring" it for these modes would
mean a complete redesign, complete new electronics, please note: *complete*.

>Also, if it can only do CGA, would a RGB connection be much better than my
>composite connection?  Can I use a standard CGA RGB cable?  

Yes and yes.

>How would I set
>the RGB switch on the 1080 - options being analog or digital(pos. or neg.)?

Umm, in the *digital* RGB position! Don't have such a switch near me, so I 
can't tell details, sorry.

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From: cje@unix.brighton.ac.uk (evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A500+ and I*M monitors - flicker?
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:24:34 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

I'm sure this a FAQ, but I've scanned this group for several weeks and
not seen the answer to my query which is...

I've been given an I*M monitor which I assume is CGA; I've made the cable,
which I'm sure is O.K. as I've got the wiring diagrams but ...

THE DISPLAY IS UNREADABLE!!!

If there were such a thing as diagonal hold I would be able to see the
display clearly (get the picture ;-)).

I'm vaguely aware of something called a 'flicker-fixer' ... is this
what I need, if so, where can I get one, how much does it cost etc.??

Thanks in anticipation...

Chris Evans
University of Brighton, UK
CJE@UK.AC.BTON.VMS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: A1200 Commodore response sucks
Organization: City University, London
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:23:36 GMT

Not just for the A1200. Beginning of November 1992 I sent my
A3000/25 to Wang for repair. I paid GB#176.25 for a new
motherboard. Ten weeks (and many phonecalls later) they sent
the A3000 back. But yesterday I ran sysinfo and it showed
68030 + 68881 @ 16MHz. I could not believe this so I looked
in the machine. Sure enough it was an 16MHz board with '881.
I wondered why it seemed rather slow.
Never mind, I am a loyal C= advocate so I will not complain.

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From: clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: M68000 at 14kHZ
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:29:47 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <justin.02zw@hybris.UUCP> justin@hybris.UUCP (Justin Richards) writes:

>There are files available that explain this process on how to build
>an "accellerator" for the Amiga by replacing the processor with a
>faster one, and rigging up a clock.  Put a switch in there, and you can
>change your speeds to fast and normal.  I almost did this, but found
>an ICD AdSpeed for $80, and bought it insted.  If anyone wants the files
>they are somewhere on FTP, or I could mail them to you...
>
Unfortunatelly for you, for this $80 you can buy almost 2 of the
mentioned speed-up sets, and achieve the same speedup as AdSpeed (as
all this does is exactly the same as that described in the files).
On the other hand, AdSpeed saves you a lot of trouble, which might
be worth the extra $40 or so.

Louis
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: Jules@learnlink.emory.edu (Sean P. Murphy)
Distribution: world
Organization: Project LearnLink: Linking Educators Everywhere!
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:40:05 EST
Subject: Re: Mag Opt Drive on A3000: suggestions

I can't give you much information, but I have tried to get a Pinnacle
REO-650 MO drive to run on my 3000 with no luck.  MO drives apparently use
non-standard block sizes (2048k?) and the only way I know of to access them
would be with a CD-ROM filesystem (no-writes) or with a custom one.  If
anyone else knows different, I would love to know, as I would greatly
prefer moving 600 megs at a time instead of the measely 44 megs on a
SyQuest cartridge.

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From: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com (Hans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Mag Opt Drive on A3000: suggestions
Date: 28 Jan 93 06:19:47 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering

In article <1993Jan22.104005.5291@learnlink.emory.edu> Jules@learnlink.emory.edu (Sean P. Murphy) writes:
>I can't give you much information, but I have tried to get a Pinnacle
>REO-650 MO drive to run on my 3000 with no luck.  MO drives apparently use
>non-standard block sizes (2048k?) and the only way I know of to access them
>would be with a CD-ROM filesystem (no-writes) or with a custom one.

I don't have an MO drive on my Amiga but I mess with them here at work,
so I can tell you what I know.  ISO standard 5.25 inch 600 Mbyte MO
disks are formatted at the factory with 512 or 1024 byte sectors, and
cannot be changed.

As far as SCSI is concerned, they behave mostly like a SCSI "direct"
(disk) type device (not to be confused with Amiga SCSIDirect) with a few
extensions for optical media.  The biggest difference is that MO drives
usually return a device type of 7 (optical) to a SCSI Inquiry command
instead of 0 (direct,) which is probably what HDToolBox (or equivalent)
is expecting.

Many MO drives allow you to change the device type using a vendor
specific Mode Select page, but you need the SCSI manual for the drive
(or some insider information) and a little programming to do that.

>/========/	Sean Murphy, LearnLink Administrator

-hans
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr. Peter Kittel, Commodore Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help, 1084 problem
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:09:06 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmger!peterk@cbmvax.commodore.com
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <27JAN199323203684@summa.tamu.edu> mwm5535@summa.tamu.edu (MADDOX, MICHAEL WAYNE) writes:
>
>  I'm having a problem with my 1084 monitor.  It seems that sometimes the
>green color component goes away partially or sometimes completely, making
>the screen appear purplish.  Does anyone know what component could be
>causing this?  

In most cases simply cabling and connectors. If that appears only sometimes
one can also look for cold solderings on the monitor's PCB. After my
experience such errors have mostly rather harmless reasons.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
Subject: Re: Missing Mode Promotion
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:07:37 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: aga promotion a1200

In article <38643@cbmvax.commodore.com> ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:
>In article <934118104127@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> STUCS206@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
>>==============================================================================
>>After a few weeks of fiddling with my A1200 I still havn't sussed out Mode
>>Promotion. Ticking the box seems to have absolutly no effect (no screen reset
>>or anything). I have a 1960 monitor (yes, I KNOW its crap) and have got the
>>Multisync, Pal and DblPal monitor types in the drawer. Adding the VGA only
>>type causes wierd effects such as all of the higher resolution screens scrollin
>>g horizontaly. 
>
>First of all, since you have the 1960, you have no need to use VGAOnly.  It

This is not true. I cannot get a screen centered on my 1960 without the
VGAOnly monitor driver. However, the productivity screens end up
scrolling horizontally a few pixels. So I don't use them. I use
DBLNTSC and everything works fine.

The AGA chips put out a really funky signal that seem to not work so well
on my 1960, thus I use the VGAOnly driver.

Ian.

P.S. Mode promotion works finr on my A1200. It of course will not
work with hardware hitting games or poorly written software.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jma3716@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.M. Adamo)
Subject: Re: List of AGA compatible monitors
Summary: Panasonic C1391??
Keywords: Panasonic C1391 monitor - AGA mode?? 
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:11:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.163914.6052@sth.frontec.se> bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
>Hi folks.
>
>Here's a list of monitors able to display all modes of the AGA chipset:
>
>                                            List          Horiz     Vert
>Model             Manufacturer              Price   Size   kHz       Hz
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>PanaSync C1391    Panasonic Communicatio    $899     13   15.5-36   40-80

>		-- Bjorn
>
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I have one of these little jewels connected to my A500 with Fatter Agnes
and Super Denise.  When I bought the monitor, I had the standard Denise.
All the video modes were just dandy - crisp, the flicker is less than my
old 1084.  However, after I put the Super Denise in, I noticed that my
monitor doesn't seem to like productivity mode very much.  The auto
centering and all that other stuff doesn't seem to work very well with
Productivity mode.  Whereas my Samsumg SyncMaster 3 monitor hooked up to
my 386 box gets the productivty colors and size and everything
perfectly.  My Panasonic shows workbench as being REALLY DARK.  I have
to change colors to things that really stand out for it to be readable.
However, Prowrite 3.2 and Amax both look OK in productivity mode (aside
from having to recenter the picture.

If anyone out there has a C1391 monitor hooked up to their Amiga, I'd
appreciate any information you may have regarding how well it displays
productivity mode.

Also, if you have an unaccelerated machine like I do, do the ECS modes
take as big of a hit on your system's speed as they do on mine?

For instance, in hires interlace, my Kramden SI is 1.0. (speed demon!)
However, in Productivity or Super Hires modes, my SI is 0.5, 0.6
(respectively).

SHEESH!

Thanks for your help.

John Adamo
JMA3716@ultb.isc.rit.edu
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 won't power up with SyQuest 88MB removable
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:29:47 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

wille@egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Wille) writes:
: Hello netters.  I tested my 3000 with a SyQuest 44MB removable
: media SCSI hard drive and it worked great, so I put out $1000
: for a SyQuest 88MB drive w/ 5 cartriges and now my 3000 refuses
: even to power up.  The power light doesn't come on and the fan 
: doesn't run unless I power down the SyQuest.  Please help.  Any 
: insights will be greatly appreciated.  I tried it with and without
: the terminating resistor pack plugged in.
: 
: 	-Jeff

I can't help you much, more than saying that it seems like a short in the
SyQuest. I have a SyQuest 88 at work that I took home and tried on my
A3000T, and it worked without problems.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: wuethri@dgp.toronto.edu (Charles Wuethrich)
Subject: Sun 3 mouse --> Amiga
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:44:23 GMT

Can anybody help me and tell me whether it is possible to hook
up a Sun 3 mouse to an Amiga? I just got hold of an old Sun 3
mouse, and I wondered whether it might be of some use to me.

The mouse looks identical to the Boing! mouse (Mouse Systems
produced both mice, and they looked identical), so
somehow it should be possible to connect the Sun mouse to the Amiga.
Do I need additional electronics, or is it just "change plug and go"?

The sun 3 mouse I have here has a "US-Telephone-like" plug
with (apparently) three wires connected: red, brown and black.
Is there anybody out there that can help? I remember that the question
was discussed before.... but can't find the file any more.

Thanks in advance

                        Charles
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From: Edward_Swatschek@mindlink.bc.ca (Edward Swatschek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ADIDE for A500
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:01:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

> Justin Richards writes:
>
> ... (not a problem, i have an AdSpeed). But I have a question about the
> internal controller.  Am I correct in thinking that the AdIDE44 allows you
> to put a drive internally, and keep the internal floppy?  (its the one that
> uses the 2.5 inch hard drive.) if so, could a person get that, and stick
> another IDE 3.5 inch in the floppies spot?  Correct me if I am wrong..
> thanks!!


   Yes, you are correct about the AdIDE/44. However, it can only control one
drive, and I don't know if it is possible to stack an AdIDE/40 on top to
control the second HD. Note that stacking the AdIDE and AdSpeed will not
allow you to put the keyboard back in the 500 (but they do have a combination
AdIDE/AdSpeed that'll fit).


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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Virus
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:21:34 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>HI All,
>
>	I know this is probably not the place for this message, but this
>is the only Amiga-based discussion section that I frequently read off of,
>so here goes. I own an Amiga 1000 (running WB 1.2) and have never
>experienced a virus in my life. I don't have any virus checkers or anything
>related to virus detection or expulsion. Just today I rebooted the system
>and got the "Your Amiga is Alive [SCA virus]" message... So can someone
>please HELP? What do I do now? I am not sure where I got it, or what disks
>its on... Does that message only appear once? Any help/insight is
>truly appreciated. Thanks in advance...
>
>Regards,
>Dave Mann

The SCA Virus was the first Amiga virus and one of the easiest to
deal with. It is a bootblock virus meaning it can only affect a floppy
disk, not individual files and not hard drives. However it can be
passed from one floppy to another by booting your Amiga with a disk
that's infected with SCA and then inserting other floppies later. 

The remedy is fairly simple: use the AmigaDOS "install" command
on any suspected/infected floppies. The downside of this is if
the floppy has some custom bootcode on it (as some commercial
game disks do), it will be wiped out when you install the disk
and the game may refuse to run in the future. 

Do you FTP a lot of files from foreign sites? It was recently
discovered that the SCA virus is living in a .DMS file of a
Porky Pig animation that is currently on amiga.physik.unizh.ch
and a lot of other sites. If you downloaded and unpacked this
file recently, then that's prolly where you got the virus. 

Any of the current virus checkers will detect SCA since it's
been around so long. The only way to totally purge it from your
system is to power of your Amiga and then power back on a few
seconds later. That'll wipe it out of memory. 

Then boot your machine with a known CLEAN Workbench (if you don't
have a hard drive), get a virus checker, run it, then insert your
recent floppies one at a time and see if the virus is detected.
If it is, the virus checkers will give you an option to install
the disk and wipe the virus from it.

Look around for SteveX Tibbett's VirusX program. You'l find it
on Fish Disks and a zillion other places. It'll run fine under your
old 1.2 (yikes!) operating system and it'll detect and remove the
SCA virus.

Harv