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From: Dan_E_Babcock@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Moving 500 to 1200, BAD NEWS
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:00:37 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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  <1davn7INNfhf@cs.tut.fi> <1992Nov7.235338.5456@ntg.com>
  <1992Nov10.040940.12848@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>

>Hmm.. count the probability of errors that get detected by parity and

If you get a parity error, 8/9 (89%) of the time it is caused by a data
(non-parity) bit. That seems like a favorable ratio to me!
As for the "parity logic" ( a couple XOR gates), the failure rate can be
ignored.

Dan
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From: thieleke@icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Ray Thieleke)
Subject: Re: Picking up HAM radio transmissions on A3000
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:47:21 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

rsc@hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell) writes:

>My father has a HAM radio with a serial port.  He bought it under the presumption
>that he had seen a program that allows you to connect HAM Radio via the
>serial port, and tune in on the weather satellites.  I vaguely remember seeing
>something to that effect a while ago also, but I have yet to find it.
>Does anyone know if such a program exists or not, and where I can find it?

This kinda defeats the purpose, but anonymous FTP site, vmd.cso.uiuc.edu,
has the latest weather satellite images.
From: smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Possible to "hack" C= 1351 mouse into Amiga mouse?
Date: 8 Nov 1992 21:26:44 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: world
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I have a C= 1351 (or is that C= 1531?) mouse that I used to use with GEOS
on my awesome but now sitting-in-a-closet C= 128.  Now, the Amiga mouse and
the old C= 1351 mouse look identical on the outside, but the C= 1351 will
not work as an Amiga mouse.  I'm thinking that they couldn't be *that*
different on the inside, so is there a way that I could hack the C= 1351 mouse
into an Amiga mouse?  Why?  To play the 1 game that requires two meeces :-)
... two player Lemmings!

Any and all help is *greatly* appreciated!

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From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The Vector.....
Date: 4 Nov 92 12:08:39 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

        I've seen the name mentioned a few times on the net, but I've never
seen it in a Magazine.  I figure from what I've read it's a sort of expansion
chassis.  I would like some more (basic) information on the product.
                Jay Brown
From: snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: How do you know if you have an HD floppy?
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:02:49 GMT
Reply-To: snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
Organization: 7th Communications Group

In article <1992Nov3.184503.1247@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>, tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
|> In article <12565@hq.hq.af.mil> snolan@marge.hq.af.mil writes:
|> 
|> >Ok, my Uncle now has his new A3000/25-100.
|> >How can he tell if he has a HD floppy inside?
|> 
|> Try formatting a HD floppy. If it formats to 1.76 MB, you do. If
|> it formats to 880k, you don't :).

You mean there are no command line arguments?
Will "info" work?

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 14.xx & 7.xx Mhz, why?
Keywords: 68000
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:22:52 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Nov5.224246.25432@ifi.uio.no> stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen) writes:
>
>Can some guru :-) here tell me why C= are clocking the processors below what
>they were made for? They do not seem to do it with the faster processors,
>but why are the Mc68000 just 7 and Mc68020 in the A1200 14Mhz? Has it something
>to do with dma-cycle timing? 

No, it's *video* timing. Simply dividing those clock frequencies by 2 or 4
(or so :-) gives you the base frequency for NTSC (or PAL) video, so that
it's no problem to generate video-compatible output and to integrate the
Amiga into video equipment.

>And why are the 68030 in the A3000 running at the
>full 25Mhz, if this is a problem?

As far as I know it's a special feature of the 68030 processor that it can
be easily clocked asynchronously, i.e. the rest of the machine still runs
at some video-compatible clock (at least the part around Chip RAM and the
Custom Chips), while the processor is clocked higher.

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From: dac@dacami.cmhnet.org (David Culberson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AGA monitors.
Distribution: world
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Date: 11 Nov 92 11:17:20 EST
Organization: Connectivity Inc, Culberson Plaza

In article <1992Nov9.233614.29593@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
> But does the Diamodscan do overscan like the Commodore monitors?  Are there
> any of the *VGA monitors and/or multiscan monitors that do overscan?

  The Diamond Scan handles overscan beautifully.  Goes right to the edges,
and beyond if you want it to.

            David

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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A1200 specs and HD floppy infor wanted
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:25:44 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov4.231023.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> traynor@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
> Will someone please e-mail me the specs on the Amiga 1200?  I have asked
> before without a reply.
> 
> Also, can someone definitively state whether there is a chance of my 
> obtainaing an external HD floppy for my 500, or should I just give up and
> by a standard 880K floppy?

As far as I know, there are no immediate plans to release an external
high-density floppy.  When the drive itself becomes available as a
service part, it wouldn't be too hard kludge it into external form,
but then service parts tend to be $$$.

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From: jbono@tension.UUCP (John Bono)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Networking?  WHY?!?
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:35:02 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

>>
>> Right now, I'd be willing to pay the $100 each for ethernet capabilities in
>> my two machines.  However, ethernet cards are $250 each, parallel<->ethernet
>> and SCSI<->ethernet are even more expensive.  Additionally, the parallel
port
>> adapter will take up my parallel port (Which ParNet already does), and I
>> won't gain anything.
>
> You and, mw, we do. But the normal Joe Dumb on the street, the one with an
> A500, 1MB and 2 Floppers, not to forget the Joystick, will not.
> I belive Dave Haynie already told us about the fact why C= hasn't brought
> up a simple network (standard hardware) for all Amiga's yet (besides Sana,
> but this is Software, and the costy ethernet).
>
 
The big problem with an El cheapo networking solution like appletalk is that 1)
it far too slow to be used in any real, heavy-duty large scale networking
environment, and 2) the additional costs aren't justified for the bulk of the
users out there(not just for Amigas, but all users).  If you notice, very few
PCs are sold today with networking software and hardware built in.  OS/2
doesn't have it, DOS doesn't have it, and Windows doesn't have it.  Ethernet,
T/R, and ARCnet are more important because even though it is more expensive, it
is more useful in a large scale environment, and the extra bandwidth easily
outweighs any other consideration.
 
John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sikorsky@ee.ualberta.ca (Mike Sikorsky)
Subject: Documentation for ADDMONITOR needed.
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:53:52 GMT

Does anyone have a complete breakdown of what all the options in the
ADDMONITOR command do?  I'd like to configure my display a bit, but I
cannot find any kind of reference on the setup of the monitor definitions.



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From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: AGA monitors.
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:27:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.233614.29593@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu
(Val Kartchner) writes:

>But does the Diamondscan do overscan like the Commodore monitors?  Are there
>any of the *VGA monitors and/or multiscan monitors that do overscan?

Yes, I have a MAG Innovision MX14S (Trinitron) which supports full overscan
and has a micro-processor for retaining screen preferences through presets.

It will not scan below 30 kHz however.
 
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From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: A1200 AIBB_5.0 BenchMark Tests
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:54:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.193432.17808@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, beesonm@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Mark R Beeson ) writes:
>Okay.. we've got the Amiga 500, 600, 1000, 1200, 2000, 2500, 3000,
>and 4000.
>
>Where's the 300?  Where's the 2400?  Where's the 9600?
>
>I WANT THE AMIGA 14.4k, CBM!  Develop it before I go crazy!
>
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Not a NEW machine NOW!!!!
Think about all the people which has bougth one recently!!!1
THEY WILL LOSE MONEY!!!!!

>Mark Beeson
>beesonm@gas.uug.arizona.edu
>University of Arizona
>(Please forgive me.  Fortran programming on VAX/VMS does this
> to a guy.)


Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
From: skyluke@skylink.sublink.org (Luca Spada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI - IDE A4000
Date: 3 Nov 92 13:01:36 GMT
Organization: Sky Link (Amiga BBS) - VA, Italy, Europe

In article <keijovh.720202125@mits> keijovh@mits.mdata.fi (Keijo V{h{hyypp{) writes:
>I've been thinking of buying the new A4000, but there is one point
>still unclear. I now have an A2000 with GVP Series II & two 100MB
>Quantum drives. With the A4000 having this IDE is it possible to
>just connect those drives to it? If not, is it possible to use the
>GVP board in an A4000 to gain a SCSI interface?

Yes,  the GVP Series II works just great on the A4000 (along with other
SCSI controllers).

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From: mrosen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael David Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Portable A600?
Date: 7 Nov 1992 04:29:43 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <68981@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>>But wasn't it some *Democratic* president who 1. triggered the Cuba
>>invasion at pig bay (sp?) and 2. stopped those russian missiles from
>>Cuba???
>
>Please, the bay of pigs was a disaster.  He withdrew air support and
>thousands of militia were sent to their death or imprisonment.
>
>The missiles were indeed stopped, though Cuba is hardly as much a threat as
>the USSR was.
>

I didn't even realize that a portable Amiga 600 was used during the bay of
pigs. Obviously this indicates the Amiga was originally developed by some
super scientist working for the CIA and only much later released with the
well-known cover story years later. 

No, really ;^)

BTW, Kennedy *withheld* air support, he didn't withdraw it as you state. 
That's a *big* difference.

Isn't this comp.sys.amiga.hardware? Oops! 
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From: knyal@ils.nwu.edu (Jarrett Knyal)
Subject: Re: Amiga -> X-10 or IR control
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:16:14 GMT

I
(Stuff about X-10 deleted.)

 I found it too hard to
>use. I uploaded both of these programs to the X10 area of Genie about 3 years
>ago. If there is enough interest I could upload them to Wuarch as well.

I'd be interested to see how the PD  controllers compare to my commercial one. 
Could you upload those?
>

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From: groenewo@fwi.uva.nl (Ferry van het Groenewoud)
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:03:52 GMT

grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:

>In article <1992Nov3.185053.44366@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> In article <36617@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>> > In article <1992Nov2.090012.44313@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> > It has an 880Kb floppy.
>>             ^^^^^
>> Thats too bad, i guess i won't be getting a A1200!  Why is it that Commodore
>> is the only computer manufacturer who doesn't have a HD floppy as its
>> least common denominator? (granted I don't know about Atari but then again,
>> they don't really count :)) I mean its bad enough that commodore came out 
>> with the 2 speed kludge so late but now they are still not making it standard?
>> A HD floppy should be standard on all Amigas introduced since the 3000! 

>Arghh, I post a simple answer and get a petite diatribe in return.  I'll admit
>that a HD floppy would be nice, perhaps very nice, but I'm not sure whether
>it is really essential on a machine with a built-in hard drive capability.

>Is this really a buy/no-buy point for you?

I'm afraid that you guys at Commodore have underestimated the importance
of an HD floppy. Todays software needs much diskspace (look at the newest
Workbench release: 5 floppies) and the HD floppies are at least 50% cheaper
than DD diskettes for every stored byte. Also it can read HD MSDOS diskettes,
a very important thing since the A1200 will probably be able to simulate
an IBM at a usable speed. Another feature is that it can read standard
Macintosh HD-diskettes, taking away the need to convert them first. Very
handy with Amax: just pop in a HD macflop and go! 

Also: why isn't there a clock inside? It really baffles me: it costs
next to nothing and should be standard in every amiga!

I have an old Amiga 500 with 1.2 roms, and I am really in need for an
upgrade. I would have bought an A1200 if it had a HD drive, now I will
wait. 

>-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Flicker fixer for A4000
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:45:25 GMT

In article <hanscs.43.721490954@dhhalden.no>, hanscs@dhhalden.no (HANS CHRISTIAN SANDER) writes:
> In article <1992Nov10.120850.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>>From: cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
>>Subject: Flicker fixer for A4000
>>Date: 10 Nov 92 12:08:50 GMT
>>Is there a flicker fixer coming out for the new A4000 that will flicker fix
>>all resoultions in 24bit or at least 640x400 (640x5120). I hear that there
>>might be a flicker fixer coming out that fixes 1280x400 but is there one
>>coming out for the A4000.
>>
>>Si.
> You do not need a flicker fixer in 640x512 on an A4000, ever heard of DblPAL 
> 640x512. Even the Super 72 800x600 is pretty much flicker free(NOT! well 
> almost then). You'll need a fixer for the 1280x400 mode though. If you don't 
> have it, get it.

Yeah, I have a monitor that will not sink below 30khz. Startup screens,
guru screens, startup-sequences, games etc do not use mode promotion. Also
my monitpr cannot handle 24khz (800x600). Neither 1280x512. So back yo my
original question Is there a flicker fixer coming out for the new A4000 that
will flicker fix all resoultions in 24bit or at least 640x400 (640x512) and of
course 640x256.

thanks,
Simon.
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: I've seen the 1200
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:38:30 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov6.150151.1432@cranel.com> watters@cranel.com (David Watters) writes:
> In article <1992Nov2.145952.13270@decuk.uvo.dec.com> hilton@bahtat.dec.com writes:
> 
> >4mb 32 bit fast memory in CPU slot, additional
> >4mb of 16 bit in PCMCIA slot
> 
> Is PCMCIA 16bit???

16-bit, but "fast" in the sense that there is no chip memory contention.
In the A1200, depending on video modes, this may or may not be faster
than chip ram.

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From: leto@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Manuel Fischer)
Subject: Re: A2024
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:05:41 GMT

Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin) writes:

>Does the A2024 monitor drivers for Release2 require ECS or not? 

No, you don't need ECS to run the A2024. Fact!

>If so, would it work with an A1000?

I don't now, some people say yes another no...

>I know 512Kb of chip ram would be very limiting with this monitor, not a 
>single bitplane workbench of 128Kb should be acceptable. In any case, the 
>A2024 should work as a eight grayshades flickerfixed monitor for hires/lace 
>screens, right?

It has only 4 grayshades. But with an 8 color WB under 2.04 I can display
8 different colors, but some colors have little black or grey horizontal lines,
so there are only 4 ground-colors.

The hires/lores/lace modi are Flickerfixed and there is a special
1008x1024 (PAL) and a 1008x800 (NTSC) Modi with two colors.

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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: Large IDE HD in A1200
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 21:33:22 GMT

From article <36806@cbmvax.commodore.com>, by grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins):
... 
> As mentioned before, the problem of the different pin pitch between the
> 2.5" IDE connectors and the 3.5" IDE connecors also precludes a simple
> ribbon cable solution.

If the pin-out is the same, then a simple ribbon solution (but a touch
iffy) is to make up a narrow ribbon with the 2.5" on on end, and at the
other end use the 3.5" connector at 45 degrees so that the effective
width is 2.5".  The tynes will be angled to the wire, of course.
This can be alleviated by marking the 45 deg line on the ribbon and
taking a scalpel and separating the ribbon wires where they join.  A
slit the size of the connector would do (1/4"), then offset the two
sides of the cable like so -

	\
	\\
	\\\
	\\\\
	\\\\\
	\\\\\\
	\\\\\\\
	 \\\\\\--
	  \\\\\--\
	   \\\\--\\
	    \\\--\\\
	     \\--\\\\
	      \--\\\\\
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From: phill@nebula.equinox.gen.nz (Phillip Coxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Date: 6 Nov 92 08:35:53 +1200
Organization: Editor, Amiga Christchurch Inc.
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George Robbins (grr@cbmvax.commodore.com) wrote:

> > post it was said that the 1200 had an 880K floppy instead of the 
> > new 1.76M floppy.
> 
> It has an 880Kb floppy.

If  a  1.76M  drive  could  be  ordered  as a spare part, is it possible to
install it into the A1200 without any problems?


Thanks,

Phill