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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: WHAT is THIS?! (bizarre error)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:41:42 GMT

In <crystal.716515432@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>In <kehBjuG00WB_0b24UB@andrew.cmu.edu> Steve Neas <sn15+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>>>In article <9209131139.AA23562@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> z3kpw@TTACS1.TTU.EDU
>>>   ("Wheeler, Kevin") writes:
>>>>Argh.  The weirdest thing happened yesterday.  I was trying to connect an
>>>> audio cable behind my Amiga setup and in the process I wiggled the monitor
>>>> cable amongst the nest of cables.
>>>>The screen become "garbled" and the 'puter locked up, so I had to reboot.
>>>>Lo and behold, BOTH of the disks in my floppy drives had been corrupted!
>>>>So if anyone can please tell me a) what the hell happened
>>>>

>I have noticed that IBM's and Apple ][+'s seem to be less vulnerable to
>simple monitor cable switching (used to do it all the time with mine on),
>but the Amiga is *extremely* sensitive to such things - like even the modem
>being on when it gets unplugged (my IBM clone - no problem) but on Ami - I
>thought I killed the serial port.   Again, rebooting was all that was needed
>to clear the stray "command" out of the circuit, but *geez* I gotta be more 
>CAREFUL!

 On my A500 I didn't have to unplug the modem, but just shut the power off
on it.  The A500 most always freaked out and came back with some GURU message.

 Don't know why it would do that.  But I just decided from there on never
to turn the modem off while the computer was on.
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From: ccjy@bristol.ac.uk (APATHY=)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: DSS sampler from GVP
Date: 15 Sep 92 09:11:49 GMT
Organization: University of Bristol, England


Can someone please e-mail me any information they have on this sampler please.
I am very interested in finding out more about this product and the company.

Thanks in advance

My friends

U4ia

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From: besst+@pitt.edu (Brian E Schwadron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Next generation chips in A4000?
Keywords: new chipsets, WOC
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:41:15 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep15.071650.12652@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.201543.16050@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) writes:
>>>I would also like to know if the 4000 will be upgradable to that 'high-end
>>>chip set' or if it will be part of a brand new machine?
>>	Louis Eggebrecht (the person who made the presentation) seemed
>>to imply that the A4000 is modular to the extent that you will
>>be able to upgrade your chipset.  Perhaps a Commodore engineer
>>could comment on the modularity of the A4000 (please)?
>You probably won't get any reply from C= if you can't; they won't
>want to hurt possible sales.  Looking at the provisional specs. for
>the next "high-end" chipset, IMHO there is next to no chance
>you could put it in the A4000.   
>Reasons:
>
  --- lots of good reasons deleted  ---

    However, the one big possibility you are missing is RTG.  Assuming
ADos 4.0 is fully retargetable, then you could upgrade your 4000 by 
simply dropping a Zorro III card in.

    In fact, if ADos 4.0 is RTG and is compatible with the A3000, then
us orphaned A3000 owners could also get the AA+ (or whatever) chipset.  
If C= so wished, they could probably make a Zorro II card for A2000s as 
well.

    Good luck to C= software people on ADos 4.0.  If it is RTG, they have
a LOT of work to do.  And so will Amiga software developers.

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From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!  1960, Flicker Free Video 2
Date: 13 Sep 92 04:47:39 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <trat.080q@amiganet.chi.il.us> trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer) writes:
>Hey hey!  I own a 1960 multisynch and I purchased and installed the new Flicker
>Free Video 2.  Well, everything looks awesome except a couple things...I am
>using Jr-Comm now and am in interlace---Heres the problem
>
>The scrolling is giving me a headache!  No joke, I never get headaches, but my
>eyes just can't handle the jump jittery scrolling!  Not to mention the font
>that is way to small and hard to read!
>
>Everything just looks so bright it hurts!  What can I do?  Is there something
>out there that smooths the scrolling, yet doesn't slow down anything?
>
>Thanx!  I waited so long for this FFV2!  Although everything is so sharp..I may
>just stop using interlace mode!


You need to get a copy of a freeware program called CPUBLIT.  It hands some
of the blitting requests over to the CPU, since it can do them faster.
You can find this program in the utilities directory of disk two of any version
of TERM.

Oh, CPUBLIT really only shows a speed increase when you use it on an acceleratedmachine (68020 or higher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
Subject: Re: Interlace video (Was Re: PC (OS/2) / Amiga debate)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:44:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.225517.12947@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>In article <1992Sep05.031953.27917@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>>
>>If one does not like interlace flicker on their Amiga then they can
>>get hardware to fix it. It's cheap and you can fix ANY amiga to solve the
>>interlaced video flicker "problem".
>
>   Not in the SuperHiRes or Productivity interlaced mode on the ECS, and not
>on the Productivity or Super72 interlaced modes on AA.

I'm curious about the Super72 modes..  what advantages or use do they have over
the other ones currently available?  And I'm _really_ curious about Super72
superhires interlaced  (800x600). :)  I realize that the A3000 deinterlacer
has no effect on Productivity modes, but it seems that it at least _attempts_
to deinterlace Super72 superhires interlace.  Is it that the deinterlacer
works and that the monitor can't handle 800x600 at 72Hz (is that what is meant
by Super72?) or that the deinterlacer itself fails.  If it's the deinterlacer
that is at "fault", why?

>
>>-- 
>>/* IanK@Microsoft.com		*/
>>/* I want my 32bit chip set	*/
>
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------

Francis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: DRAM and Commodore?
From: castleaw@brandonu.ca
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:32:13 CST
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Two questions for those who are more informed than I (thats everybody!) 
1.  Whats CATS phone number for Toronto, Ontario, Canada's CBM
	I'd like to become a developer but without a local contact...
2.  DRAM, there seems to be alot of them.  My Supra 500RX HD takes
	DIP DRAM, but what kind?  SC DIP DRAM, Paged DIP DRAM, or is
	there another type?
Thanks in advance for responses.

General Romeo
Terren Technology...
E-Mail:Castleaw@Brandonu.CA
From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Re: SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon...NOT
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:09:10 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep9.121526.27883@nntp.hut.fi>
  <1992Sep9.133310.12716@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>

In an article 9/9/92 11:33 22/1085 rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:


>EXACTLY!  So I'm not crazy.  I cleaned out all "extras" from my startup and
>still got errors with ToolsDaemon & SiliconMenus.  What WB are you running
>under?  I've been getting mail telling me that everyone else has gotten
>them to peacefully coexist under 2.04...but I'm running 2.1.  Hmmm...
>
>R.W.

ToolsDaemon2.0b is a hack.:
Nico states in the docs -

"ToolsDaemon  is  no  longer  a 100% legal program!  It patches certain
Intuition  functions  to  attach  menu items to Workbench's menu strip
(which  it  shouldn't touch) and redirects Workbench's message port in
order  to  trap  IDCMP_MENUPICK  messages  before Workbench sees them.
Everything  has  been  done  as  cleanly  as possible and should be as
future  compatible  as  it  can  be, but there is no real guarantee it
will  still work on future versions of the Amiga operating system....."

So it might very well be incompatible with OS2.1.

Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com
From: tscarpenter@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Print drivers needed.
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:38:25 GMT
Organization: Inmos Limited

   Does anyone know where I can get  a driver for a color HP Deskjet
   or a Canon LBP8 Laser  printer.  Either uuencoded E-mail or via anonymous
   FTP.


   Thanks in advance.
     Darren.
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From: john@igd.fhg.de (Werner John)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A2090 problem with large drive
Keywords: A2090 problem HD Disk space
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:27:40 GMT
Organization: FHG, Germany


[my own stuff deleted]
|> Did you format by using old file system or fast file system? If you want
|> to format a partition which is bigger than 40M, you have to use the old
|> file system.

Hi, thanks for your reply, but I've been using partitions larger than 40MB
with the FFS for more than two years without any problem.
The case here is either a hardware problem or has to do with hddisk.device
I already received some interesting mails this morning and I'm going to check
things this evening.
Of cause, I will post how I got it to work finally.

Read you
		Johnny

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From: clin@zeus.calpoly.edu (Chihtsung Jeffrey Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
Date: 14 Sep 92 02:45:15 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <65793@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>>lindblad@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jarkko Lindblad) writes:
>>
>>>This information sounded so unbelievable that I find it almost hard to
>>>believe. That is why I'd love to see someone to confirm this

If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably not true.
I can't believe everyone is getting excited about these news. When are all
these suppose to be accomplished? 2 yrs? 3 yrs?


Jeff
-disappointed owner of A3000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: lcline@agora.rain.com (Larry Cline)
Subject: Re: Jay Miner gets first A4000
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:18:48 GMT

In article <65821@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
>>Jay was wheelchair-bound due to a recent health problem and was being
>>pushed around the show by a tireless member of a user group who
>>volunteered the task.
>
>Anything further on this???? minor illness? kidney problems? What!
>

According to my information, he requires dialysis several times a day.
The user group member is Donald Malm from N.A.G. (Northwest Amiga Group,
Portland Oregon)

>Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
>DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine


-- 
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C_________   Industrial Graphics

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: phsjs@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stephen J.Smith)
Subject: Re: Next generation chips in A4000?
Keywords: new chipsets, WOC
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 12:23:01 GMT

In <1992Sep15.120435.17841@marlin.jcu.edu.au> phsjs@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stephen J.Smith) writes:

>In <1992Sep15.071650.12652@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:

>>In article <1992Sep14.201543.16050@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) writes:

>An interesting point is that the "future specs" from Eggebrecht said the
>new low-end chipset would have 100K transistors. There was no ~100K
>figure here. The new high-end was 750K to 1M, which IMHO gives the
>impression that the new low-end may already exist in prototype form, but
>the high-end is some time away.

OOOOOOPS... Sorry, It did say "about 100K". Silly me.....


>>>Andre Yew                             andrey@tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.48.100)

>>-- 
>>Colin Adams       Honours Student - James Cook University of North Queensland
>>  "And if I seem a little strange, well that's because I am." - The Smiths 
>-- 
>Stephen J.Smith - Physics - James Cook University of North Queensland
>Technical Officer         - phsjs#marlin.jcu.edu.au
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rsc@flower.hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell)
Subject: Re: Jay Miner
Reply-To: rsc@flower.hao.ucar.edu (Bob Campbell)
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:38:59 GMT

Absolutely.  I went to an Amiga show in Washington DC a couple years ago, and
ran into him at a dealer's booth.  He was totally shocked that I wanted to 
shake his hand just for the sake of saying I had.  Then he asked me where the
lecture hall was to get to his speech on time, so I showed him.  Brilliant man.

I also ran into Jim Sachs at the WOC in Pasadena.  He was showing off the new
version of Defender of the Crown for CDTV.  I was impressed.  All new music,
better graphics, more scenes, and the plot had a LOT more depth. (for one, the
object is to get $20,000 to pay the ransom of Richard the Loinhearted, who is
being held captive in Germany)  The game was MUCH more historically accurate.
However, the poor guy is mighty disillutioned with C=, if anybody knows how
to reach him, send him some support!
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From: jpotter@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Designers Names Please C=
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:16:45 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.itd.adelaide.edu.au

In article <AHANSFOR.92Sep14131240@wpi.wpi.edu> ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford) writes:
>
>040 designer
>

I heard that the 040 was designed by a school student doing work
experience at Mororola one week

Jon :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "earl pottinger" <earl.pottinger@canrem.com>
Subject: animplayer
Reply-To: "earl pottinger" <earl.pottinger@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 15 Sep 92 07:10:42 EST

Hello,
      BigAnim will do what you want, there is also a second program with
a wierd name also.  DISKANIM will do what you want but you need to buy
TASS at the same time.

  Earl Colby Pottinger (Amiga Lover, Hacker & CyberNerd)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: AA & A3000???
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:50:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.174410.20796@nntp.uoregon.edu> ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles) writes:
>In article <92256.230906JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>How will the AA chipset be installed in existing 3000 machines?  A ZorroIII
>>board, something in the CPU slot, or a more radical mother-board swap?
>>Inquiring 3000 owners want to kNOW.
>
>   I think I answered this in another newsgroup already, but here goes:
>   You can't put the AGA chips in the A3000. Plain and simple. The AGA chips
>require more system bandwidth than the A3000 has (four times more, as a matter
>of fact). It's not going to happen. Even if a hack got the AGA chips running
>in an A3000, the chips couldn't make use of the new graphics modes because
>the bandwidth isn't there.
>   Did I say that the bandwidth isn't there? Well, it isn't.
>   Oh, BTW, the bandwidth isn't there.
>   It's not going to happen.

   Remember when the A3000 came out, and Commodore reps and engineers said that
it was 'impossible' to get the 2M Agnus chip to work in A500s and A2000s?  A
friend of mine recently designed a 2M Agnus adapter board for the A500 and
A2000 in his free time that uses ONE chip in addition to the Agnus chip.  Third
parties have had adapter boards available for about a year.

   OK, the bandwidth isn't there.  Yes, I realize that the bandwidth isn't
there.  I assure you that I am FULLY AWARE that the bandwidth isn't there.
But what does bandwidth have to do with it?  The chips would go on a card
for the CPU slot, with the same electronic connection to the CPU that the
AGA chips in the A4000 have.  It would probably necessitate unplugging 
the ECS agnus and Denise, transferring the Paula to the AGA board in the
CPU slot, and disabling the chip RAM on the motherboard and replacing it
with the faster chip RAM on the AGA board, but it would be totally 
feasible.  If the market is big enough for it, count on it being developed
by a third-party company eventually.  (Heck, hackers like my friend will
probably develop it anyway for the challenge)

>-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: AA Chipset and NEW Amigas
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:26:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.073524.11557@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
> In article <Bu6DIw.L8H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjc28473@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Joseph Chmura) writes:
> >guru@hotcity.COM (Darren Schroeder) writes:
> >
> >
> >>Well, here is some *true* info, no rumors....
> >
> >>The AA Chipset IS a reality, highest resolution is 640x512x256 (Pal) and
> >>640x480x256 (NTSC). These new chips willl *ONLY* go into the NEW Amigas and
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Huh?  So C= has decided to drop the SuperHire modes?
> >I do not think so.

message trimmed...

> AA chips on the A3000 and below. Until Friday, anything else is merely
> a rumor and should be ignored.
> 
> 
> -- 
>       //   David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 516-473-5156 AMIGA  DDD-MEN   

I'd go one further and say that even after Friday there will be many rumors
to be dispelled.

-- 
	David

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	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
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		    employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Re: AA Chipset and NEW Amigas
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:29:56 GMT

joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:

>>   What happened to Amiga overscan?  Have we completely dropped overscan
>>support?  That is, I suspest that this is a bunk description of AA's
>>capabilities.

>If you would have REALLY looked at them, and not just breezed over them :-)
>you would have read under the tech specs...

>GRAPHIC MODES:                                                   
>- AGA custom chipset produces resolutions ranging from 320x200 to
>1280x400 (more with overscan), including 800x600                 
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The 4000's that I used seemed to have some problem with the overscans.  Perhaps
it was the monitor, but in some resolutions, the screen was shaped funny, and
the overscan handles didn't help much.

keith