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From: geider@amigdr.gna.org (Frank Geider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Which driver for Seikosha SP-1200AS?
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:56:36 GMT
Organization: ATACOM's Versailles Node
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Paul Tibbals (pault@terapin.com) wrote:
> Re: the seikosha - if you just want to print text, you may use the generic
> driver.  I think that the seikosha is basically Epson compatible, in which case
> you could use the EpsonX driver (if that's a nine pin printer) or Epson Q if
> it's 24.

I have an Seikosha SP 1200-AI (also a nine pins) and use without problems
the EpsonX driver.

        Bien Amicalement

                          Frank Geider
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From: jsurace@cco.caltech.edu (Jason A. Surace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Homemade Video Digitizer
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:55:18 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
Summary: Has anyone gotten this to work?
Keywords: video,digitizer,diy



Hey all,

  I recently dl'd the file "DigiViewClone.lzh" from wuarchive.
It has in it the plans for a homemade video digitizer. Has anyone
built this and gotten it to work? Also, where did you get the AD converter
and the TLC374CN? Is this a video-rate op-amp? Finally, it says "works
with popular software". Like what? Is there anything PD that can read it?


Thanks,

                                               Jason Surace
                                           jason@ipac.caltech.edu
                                          jsurace@cco.caltech.edu


BTW - I recently succesfully converted the old video camera I talked about  
recently to output NTSC and all that. Mostly it just needed a new pinout and 
an appropriate power supply.



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: khm@powell.cs.jt.dk (Kurt Hangaard Marcussen)
Subject: Re: Multisync Monitor as TV ?
Keywords: multisync TV
Organization: Jydsk TELEFON
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:49:44 GMT

u0cps@ohm.york.ac.uk (Christopher P Swan - H600/90) writes:


>	Having recently acquired an NEC multisync (model 1) for my
>A1200, I now wish to get rid of my 1084. However I also use the 1084
>as a TV by connecting a video to the composite in socket.

>	Does anybody know where to get a TV tuner with an RGB
>output. I hoped that these would be readily available (since all
>TVs must have circuitry that does much the same job), but so far
>I have been unable to find such a box.

>	Trilogic were selling an Amstrad product that did this
>(which I think was for the CPC computer monitor) but sold out
>late last year. They tell me that the Amstrad boxes were the last
>ones and they can`t get any more.

>	I have seen adverts for the Roctec PIPview which claims to
>work with any Amiga monitor, but after ringing two of their UK
>distributors one said it would work with a multisync and another
>said composite monitors only!

>	HELP !!!

>-- 
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Hi Chris

Try the Philips MatchLine family. I think their tuners come with
RGB output. Still you need a smart RGB switchbox !

Have fun

Kurt Marcussen

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From: gt6758b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Maverick Kopack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Anyone with a blizzard board (read this!!!!)
Keywords: help,computers,amiga,blizzard board,accelerator,power
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:04:32 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

If you have a blizzard board, could you please help me out?

I just bought one with 5 megs of RAM over the net. I installed it in my A500
and ever since I have been getting software failures. Once I get one, they just 
keep coming and coming. I've tried to cut down power consumption by disconecting
my external floppy and audio digitizer. Still gurus... I ran the RAM check 
program and it all checks out ok. What should I do?

I think that maybe there is just too much power drain on my power supply.

My configuration is:

A500 512K chip, 512 fast (A501) 5Meg Fast (blizzard board)
external ca880 floppy
Spartan Hard Drive Controller (powered from the computer)
Quantum 105 and Miniscribe 20 Meg hard drives (powered from a baby AT case.)

I've thought about doing the XT power supply hack. I don't want to fool around
with it unless I have to though. 


Has anyone else had problems with their Blizzard Boards?????? If so, what kinds?


Thanks,\
Mike Kopack


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tmurray@socrates.umd.edu (Tony Murray)
Subject: Amiga problem: total shutdown
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:59:13 GMT

Hi.

We're having a problem with our Amiga 2000 (with Toaster, GVP Series
II 68040 accellerator/hd controller, Maxtor Hard Drive).  For no
apparent reason, the machine will shutdown as if the off-switch was
pushed.  No Guru.  Just shutdown.  

It was doing it every single day for a few days (several times a day),
and when we took it in to get looked at, the problem would not show
itself. :p  (they ran it for 3 days and nights straight)  Within another
day of being back, it was doing it's shutdown routine again, much to
our irritation.  I spoke with a tech at Commodore (before taking it in
to the shop), and he suggested it might be the power source heating up,
but there is no apparent excess heat anywhere on the case of the Amiga
when it shuts down.  

Also, there is no apparent correlation between what's currently being
run and the shutdown times...it happens when we're using the Toaster, and
when it's just sitting at the Workbench.

Anyone have any problems like this?  If so, what did you do?


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  University of Maryland University College
From: farget@neurosens.univ-lyon1.fr (Farget Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help !! AMIGA 2000's slots.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:37:38 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire CNRS.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: vigour2.univ-lyon1.fr
Keywords: connector, slot

Hello,

     I have got an AMIGA 2000 and i want to built an electronic board but i 
haven't got the designation of each pin of the 100 pins AMIGA 2000's slots 
and also the CPU's slot.

     Is there somebody who can gives me these informations ?


Thanks a lot. Bye.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cpb1001@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.P. Brown)
Subject: Re: Some A4000 questions
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:07:22 GMT

In article <1jmk9jINNig9@uwm.edu>, brandt@point.cs.uwm.edu (Robert Allan Brandt) writes:
|> 
|> I have recently came to the decision that I would like to buy the new A4000.
|> I have been following the comments posted the last few weeks or so, but a
|> few of the questions I have seem to not have been addressed, or I just
|> missed the answer.  I hope these weren't asked recently, so here goes!
|> 
|>     1)  Other than the fan problem and some HD's formatted with the OFS,
|>         are there any other major problems with the 4000?

Don't think so.
 
|>     2)  Can the OS be mapped to 32-bit ram as on the 3000?

The 4000's Kickstart is already on 32 bit ROM, so this is not necessary.
 
|>     3)  Since the 4000 doesn't have a flicker-fixer, how well does it
|>         handle the flicker on resolutions > 200?
|>         I have a 1950 monitor so should I have any problems? 

The AGA chipset has 640*400 DBLNTSC and 640*512 DBLPAL, both of which are
de-interlaced. They should work fine with your monitor.
 
|>     4)  I have a 1950 and I was wondering is the 1960 any better?
|>         What is its max resolution?
|>         What frequencies does it support?

When Amiga Format tested both, they seemed to think the 1950 was better.
 
|>     5)  How well does this scan-promotion feature work?
|>         Are there any problems associated with it?
|>         What are its advantages?
|>         Is it compatible with older (2 yrs or less) software?
|>         Does it work with any software such as games?

Haven't been able to try that on my 1200 yet. I still have a PAL monitor :-(

|>     6)  How downwardly compatible are the AGA chips with the ECS chips?
|>         Can I boot the machine in the old ECS mode to use non-AGA software,
|>         or does ECS compatible software work fine under AGA?

Holding down both mouse buttons when you reboot allows you to switch to either
the ECS or original chipset.
 
|>     7)  How well do commercial games run on the 4000?  I assume faster,
|>         but are there any major problems getting them to run?

Most newer stuff seems to be fine on my 1200. The 4000 should be similar.
 


Chris Brown
From: Thomas_Noerregaard@p6.syntax.bbs.bad.se (Thomas Noerregaard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: re: ADIDE for A500
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:15:51 +0100
Reply-To: Thomas_Noerregaard@p6.syntax.bbs.bad.se (Thomas Noerregaard)
Distribution: world
Organization: Syntax, Odense, Denmark 
OD-Comment-To: Edward_Swatschek

From: Thomas_Noerregaard@p6.Syntax.Bad.se To: Edward Swatschek

(23-Jan-93  0:01:00) Edward Swatschek wrote to Justin Richards:

 ES> control the second HD. Note that stacking the AdIDE and AdSpeed will not
 ES> allow you to put the keyboard back in the 500 (but they do have a 
combination
 ES> AdIDE/AdSpeed that'll fit).

I'm currious - will other acceleraters than the AdSpeed, like the derringer fx.
, work with the AdIDE?!? Well of couse there will be some space problems, but 
will it work?


 /Thomas
 (Thomas_Noerregaard@p6.syntax.bbs.bad.se)

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From: hhoff@drunol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ROM on my A3000? - HELP!!!!
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:53:21 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: drunol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

havardn@edb.tih.no (Haavard Nesse,o92a) writes:

>I bought the A3000 right after it came with Kickstart on ROM (I saw them when I
>installed some more RAM). When I turn on the machine, the HD goes for about 10-15
>seconds, before it starts to load WB. I think this is a little strange. Could it be
Hi!

After turning on the machine, the SCSI-Ports are checked. Checking all 7 possible
SCSI-Adresses just takes a little time, because the system has to work even with
drives which take a few seconds to power up fully. The loading of Kickstart to RAM
wouldn't even take so long and if you think it is loaded to ram:, just try to
delete it from devs:kickstart.

Buy,

hhoff
EMail: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: e228reac@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Rea  Christopher Wi)
Subject: Re: M68000 at 14kHZ
Organization: University of Toronto, Erindale Campus
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:18:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.162947.22895@cs.ruu.nl> clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar) writes:
>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.

NOT so. The AdSpeed *also* has onboard a 32k FAST RAM cache. Your faster
CPU speed alone will only give you max. a 40% speed increase. WIth the
AdSpeed, there is the cache too. The speed increase is about 100%.


[UL]
.

From: ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:43:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Sysinfo result for 1200 w/FASTRAM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard SSG/CSY-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware

Interesting--any chance of posting the results for a stock 1200?

Thanks...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh DISABLED)
Subject: Re: Waiting for scsi
Reply-To: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:58:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.062134.26277@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> gregg@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (gregg.g.wonderly) writes:
>From article <1993Jan25.175735.18805@city.cs>, by lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun):
>> If you had a couple of scsi devices on an A3000, and wanted
>> to upgrade to an A4000, I presume
>> they would be no good until the scsi card came out. So what
>> do A4000 owners do, or do they just wait?
>
>Buy the GVP series II controller...

Can anyone confirm that I wasn't hallucinating at COMDEX when I saw an
A4000 with the Commodore SCSI-2 card in it?  I believe the Commodore
Sales & PR dude (again, I'm sure that's his title) said it would be out
1Q93.  They also had an A1200 with a 40MB hard drive that fit in the PCMCIA
slot.  I don't know who made the micro hard drive, but I think it _wasn't_
Commodore.


Matt

P.S.  How do you vocalize PCMCIA?  Pee-see-em-see-eye-ae is just too long.
My favorite so far is, "Pickem-sheawww" (with the "sheawww" pronounced in
a Wayne Campbell accent).
From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A500 Tower
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:20:22 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

neubersc@lucy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ralf Neubersch) writes:

>Hi Folks !

>I want to put my A500 into a Tower-Case, since together with my external
>drives, harddisc, soundsampler .... there`s no place on my desk anymore.

>Does anybody know whether this is an unsolvable problem or how I can do
>this quite easy ? (Problems may occur with the mainboard- how shall I fasten
>it in the Towercase, and how do I cover the internal drive, it is quite naked
>and I need something to cover it with.

>If anybody has experience with this subject, please tell me.

>Thanks, Ralf

Try buying the Hi-Q500 tower (or whatever it's called).  That should make
everything fit quite nicely...though you'll need A2000 internal drives, from
what I understand about it.
-Doc

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From: jam@jammys.ocunix.on.ca (James McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  1200 and 1200HD hits America...
Distribution: world
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:02:06 EST
Organization: Jammy's Amiga Corner BBS - Ottawa, On, Canada

>useless. It is also *very* exciting that C= now ships mice with Amiga's :-)

Huh?

>Yes indeed, the A1200 is IMO the best computer you can get for your money,
>especially, if you haven't much!

Particularly if you don't have much money.  If you've got goards of money
lying around, an A4000 is probably a better bet :-)  Right along side your
A3000T/040 system :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: ey@unix.brighton.ac.uk (yau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Backup System ?
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:42:38 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

In article <1993Jan21.160430.7798@lth.se> f92bw@efd.lth.se (Bjoern Wesen) writes:
>In article <5579@ettarre.lulea.trab.se> lsa@lulea.trab.se (lsa) writes:
>>Last night i was looking in the latest number of Amiga Format, and in an
>>advert. i saw a backup system with a very low price tag. It obviously
>>connects to the home VCR and you store backups directly to VHS casettes.
>>
>>Has anyone tried this system ?
>>Does it work all the time ?  if not how often does it fail ?
>
>I tried it with my S-VHS recorder, using it to back up a disk. It was full
>of read errors when I restored the disk. I wouldn't trust such a device,
>but I guess there are different error-correction schemes.
>
>Bjorn Wesen    f92bw@efd.lth.se
>
If you read one of the back issues of Amiga Computing (I don't remember which),
they reviewed one version by White Knight Technologies and said it was ok.
I know Power Computing do one also.  It isn't totally reliable, but then not
every back-up systems are.  If you do get one, it's best to use an S-VHS tape
and VCR to back up to.

Edwin Yau.
Freelance Writer.
ey@uk.ac.brighton.unix
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: leair@castlab.uucp (Brian Leair)
Subject: Re: Why not XX Meg floppies?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 26 Jan 93 03:41:15 CST
Summary: its all bits man 
Keywords: compression, storage 

You have some of your buzz words mixed up. V.32 is a specification for
carrier modulation used by modems. V.42 is the specification for link
capabilities negotiation(error correction and 'stuff'). V.42bis is
what I beleive you were referring to, it's the really nice inteligent
compression used by modems (lumpel-ziv). 
 
As usual it all comes down to cost vs. performance, or more exactly
what the cost vs. performance was at the time. Floppy drives
are slow and low density, therefore people expect them to be cheap.
Hardware to do compression would obviously add a fair bit of cost.
In 1986 an 880K floppy drive with hardware compression would have
been prohibitally expensive to survive in the market.
Now in the case of hard drives where the relative cost of additional
hardware to do compression isn't so large it is sometimes done.
At least I have heard of drives that use hard ware compression.
As an aside one of the
original papers describeing lempel-ziv-welch(lzw) compression
described using the compression algorithm to increase storage
capabilities of hard disks.
Additionally in dealing with disk drives you are no longer just 
dealing with pure
digital bits.  MFM, GCR, RLL, etc., etc. are all required so
that the magnetic media can retain spacing/clocking imformation.
That way when you try to read the data off the disk you can tell that
you actually have 
4 zeros instead of 5 or 6.  If you want to increase your storage
density use a clocking scheme that is less wasteful of your
bits and then require the analog side to be more exact.

Today we commonly have CPU's, as general purpose
processors, that have power enough to compress data before its sent to
the disk without signifigant delay.  Check out Stacker for the PC, works
quite well, or the PowerPacker device/file system.

Lossless compression can only reduce data so much, say 2:1-8:1 roughly.
(Wow man this great 
new harddrive with lossy hardware compression gets compression ratios 
of 255:1, I wonder why my data base just doesn't have the same accuracy 
though.....:))
With compression also comes lots complexties like
varying compression rates, how to interpret data, etc.

I personally think that we will get greater (like orders of magnitude)
storage capabilities from advances in media technology (optical or magnetic).  

Brian (More, more, more, I need more) Leair Leair
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From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Mag Opt Drive on A3000: suggestions
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:48:14 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

>In article <1993Jan22.104005.5291@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.  If

>If anyone knows the answer to this, or any other MO connectivity questions
>with regards to the Amiga, would they PLEASE put up their answer publicly
>in this newsgroup. There is no available information on interfacing MO
>drives to the Amiga, and I'd like to know other people's opinions.



In recent AmigaWorld GVP ads, there is a MO drive for sale.  Presumably
at least GVP has a driver for this type of device.  Part of the ad says
that it is transparent to AmigaDOS.



	Lee
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: A1000 Hardrive Suggestions
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:54:00 GMT

Does anyone know of a good reliable harddrive for use on an A1000. I would
prefer it to have pass thru.

I know this is old stuff but I just like to machine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Thanks

Eric Edmonds
University of Lowell
From: farget@neurosens.univ-lyon1.fr (Farget Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP address in US !!!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:23:46 GMT
Organization: Laboratoire CNRS.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: vigour2.univ-lyon1.fr
Keywords: GVP

Hi,

     Can somebody tell me the address of GVP in US ?

Thanks.


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