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From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: PC, Redneck President, and other bad news. (was Re: Amiga 1200)
Date: 7 Nov 92 11:12:16 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <1992Nov6.231433.26938@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
> In article <1992Nov6.070107.5440@desire.wright.edu> fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>	Well, since the Democrats have controlled the house and senate for
>>	the majority of the last fourty years, I choose to blame them, not
>>	the republicans.  If the gridlock congress would have supported
>>	more of Bush's plans the deficit probably would not have been so
> 
> It is pure arrogance on a presidents part to blame Congress for
> nothing being accomplished.  The idea is that the President is supposed to work
> with the Congress, not against it.  Bush and Reagan consistenly put
> forth proposals which they knew Congress would never deal with.

	I'm not saying Bush et. al. are guilt free.  Hell, Bush should have
	not laid down the gauntlet against the house and senate. You know
	what happens when the 'I dare you' stuff starts.  But the gridlock
	congress and budget sumit theories were pretty much dismissed out
	of hand.  It takes two you know.

> Congress did exactly the same.  Bush even put forth 7 proposals, which
> Congress went with which Bush then vetoed 6 of them.
> 
>>	for the Democrats to blame if it does not get done.  Starting Jan 93
>>	the Democrats are on notice.  Problem is the people of the US will
>>	never hear the truth because a large chunk of money is paid into the
>>	Democrat party by the movie and televison programmers.  The media is
>>	pro-Democrat, bought and paid for with viewers money.  God, I'm glad
>>	the election is over :-)
> 
> The proof is not in the pudding.  The American people are the idiots
> who said that they were not going to reelect the incumbents and then
> proceeded to do exactly that.  Not just that, but the very bad ones
> too:  bad check writers, criminals, ...
> 
	Yes the electorate is getting dumber.  The majority of Clinton
	supporters were people making < $30,000 that think they can get
	ahead without educaton, training, morals etc.  Our country has
	gone from 'Ask not what your country can do for you...' to what
	are you going to give me NOW.

> I agree that we shall have to wait and see what gets done.  I don't
> think that the media is pro-democratic, but that there is more trash
> to cover on the Bush  admin.  BTW- did you look at the amount of money
> that went to the various campaigns?  Bush got almost 7 times as much
> PAC money than did Clinton/Gore.
> 
> -Ralph
Fred

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bjs@ais.org (Barry Steenbergh)
Subject: Star NX2420 Rainbow Driver needed
Summary: Looking for a NX2420 driver
Organization: UMCC
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:45:05 GMT

Hello.  Can anyone tell me where I could find a Star NX2420 Rainbow
driver for the Amiga?  I have found suitable substitutes for normal
printing, but they are lacking for color output.  Any help would be
appreciated.   Thanks in advance.
                                  --Barry Steenbergh
                                    bjs@umcc.ais.org
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 14.xx & 7.xx Mhz, why?
Keywords: 68000
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:19:09 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

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

It is an issue of cost for the low-end machines.  The Amiga graphics/hardware
section is very tightly tied to the clock of NTSC/PAL video.  This is 7.14
(or so) MHz.  Doing a nice multiple of that number makes the hardware
easier to design and cheaper to make.  (Less parts).  In fact, if the
async hardware is not designed very well, going at 16MHz could actually
be slower than doing sync at 14MHz.  (Most hardware developers would not
fall into this, however, as the technology available today makes it easy to
design it right)

Anyway, the cost is much less by running off of the standard video clocks.
And these video clock are what made the Amiga so good at doing video output.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: niko@artcom.de (Niko Luckow )
Subject: Re: How do you know if you have an HD floppy?
Organization: ART+COM e.V., Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:28:33 GMT

snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan) writes:

>Ok, my Uncle now has his new A3000/25-100.
>How can he tell if he has a HD floppy inside?

Just try to format an high density disk. Then check it's size
using info in the shell.

>Nothing says anything about the floppies in his manuals,
>that he has found so far...

No need to look for it. It's not in the manuals.

>Thanks
>Scott

[...]

Nikolai Luckow
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject:  Enforcer V37 versus 68030 MMU
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Keywords: semprini, ni, spam, naughty bits, nudge nudge
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:10:35 GMT


I have Enforcer V37 (by M. Sinz) and the following hardware:

A3000/25
A2286 BB
8Mbytes fast
2Mbytes chip
2Mbytes 16 bit RAM on a 2091A controller (The SCSI has been disabled, I use
                                          it for the memory only.)

I run Enforcer immediatly *after* setpatch and before binddrivers so that
the caching for the A2286 is disabled.

The problem is this; after booting if I type "enforcer off" in a cli, the
machine crashes. If I comment out enforcer in my startup-sequence, I can
turn enforcer on and off from the cli. If I un-comment the command to 
run enforcer in my startup-sequence and do a soft re-boot, I can then
turn enforcer off without crashing.

Earlier versions of enforcer didn't do this. What is happening and why.

This problem came up when I wanted to run AIBB. It displayed a requester
telling me to turn off enforcer. When I did, the machine crashed. At first I
thought is awas a problem with AIBB, but subsequent experimentation eliminated
this.

AIBB also had trouble deciding if I had an MMU or not until I did a cold restart
without running enforcer in my startup-sequence.

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: Re: Floppy size in 1200?
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 04:25:36 GMT

joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>>
>>My thinking is that all this AA Sound Stuff and HD Disks ties up
>>(naturally) to Paula. CBM have not released an AA Paula, probably, I
>>suspect, because it is still under development... and guess what thay
>>are putting in it? Both the new (speculated) sound upgrade (16 bit 16
>>voice PCM... who knows?) __AND__ an upgrade to enable Paula to handle
>>HD Floppies at _FULL_ speed... this must be possible now with the
>>extra bandwidth such as that given to the blitter...
>>
>>So folks, if my speculation is correct, for owners of true 32-bit
>>(databus) machines with AA chips, we could soon have a Super-Paula
>>giving us superb sound and full speed HD disks (let's face it, low
>>speed HD disks are a bit naff)...

>If this is the case, then ALL (Paula upgradable) AGA Amigas should start
>having the dual speed HD's in them.  Why?  So that if a AGA Paula is put in
>place, the OS can spin the HD dual speed drive at it's normal, higher speed
>and read/write hd floppies at the faster speed.

Even if the drives will work well enough at higher speeds.  The paula is
surfaced mounted on to the mb like all other custom chips.

>>All speculation, but stanger things have happened
>>
>>(CBM may even leapfrog forward to a 3.52Mb disk (like IBMs 2.88), but
>>I doubt it! (although I hope to be corrected))

>I highly doubt it too.  They seem to aim more at the low end game market.
>Not sure the more expensive disks would sell well there.

Well in the speech at the woc of pasadena they did say about having 4mb drives.
on the future machines.  I am sure that is actually 4mb floppys on an 3.52mb
drive. 

My self, I was thinking I could really use a high density drive.  But since
no apps will come on it since the lowest denominator of aga is a1200, with 
no high d drive.  Most games will start having to be hard drive enabled which
is a good thing.  And I guess for backups I guess I really should buy a 
backup tape drive.  Those prices seem to be going down.

Martin

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tim@lenti.med.umn.edu (Tim Leonard)
Subject: A590 internal disk available somewhere?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:19:29 GMT

I have a friend who owns an A590 hard drive and has run out of the
meager 20meg of space and wants to replace the disk inside with a
larger one.  I have read that the A590 controller is quite good
if said disk is replaced.  I was under the impression that an IDE
style disk would fit in the A590 but a talk with a Best Buy salesman
got us the information that the drive in the 590 is of a type used in
the pre-286 IBM machines and is now VERY hard to locate. 

My question is this: Is there a source for the disk style that fits into
the A590, in a size greater than 20 meg?

e-mail would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim Leonard
University of Minnesota
Microbiology Dept.
From: al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 2.04 ROMs & Amiga 500
Keywords: It doesn't work
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:34:52 GMT

healyj@columbia.dsu.edu (Jon A. Healy) writes:

>[..rom not working...deleted...]
>Thanks,

>Jon Healy

   Hmmm... It very much depends on which motherboard revision you have,
but I think it's only on the earlier A500s that you needed the jumper
on the rom. I don't remember the revision, but on the later models you
actually needed to remove the connector on the chip so that it'll work.
Give it a try.
   AND... if it did work without the connector, KICK THEY'RE ASS!! Because
they made you buy a rom switcher without any need :(

-Gus
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: t92etr@tdb.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
Subject: Re: Three AGA questions.
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:39:26 GMT

Steve Koren (koren@fc.hp.com) wrote:
: Mattias Dahlberg (matt-dah@dsv.su.se) wrote:
: 
: >    since then 256000 will be the number of pixels. But shouldn't it
: >    be 262144 on all higher resolutions...?
: 
: What's a couple of thousand colors here or there? :-) But seriously, I
: think the correct value is 2^18+64.  (Ie, there are 64 base registers
: you can set to whatever you want, and you can HAM your way to 2^18 more
: colors beyond those).

Well,those 64 base registers are probably part of the 2^18 colors.
I think that the number 256000 comes from confusion with 256k (256*1024=262144).

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: XT-1000 XT Keyboard-to-A1000 Cable
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:14:23 GMT

sal@pacdata.uucp (Sal Quintanilla) writes:
>I bought this connector from a swap meet.  It's an RJ-11 (or
>RJ-22, or whatever the 4-contact telephone-type connector is
>labeled) connected to a 5 pin din socket.  At the time, I

[ stuff deleted for bandwidth ... ]

  Its a modular telephone connector. Not a keyboard connector. Its how
 we here at USM Gulf Park connect 4-wire modular cables between a micro
 and a wall jack. Its for easy swapping of serial port lines.
 And yes, it also works on an Amiga serial port.
   
  micro-serial port-modular connector=====4-wire cable====modular conn.--RJ11 

   So if the port on the wall locks up, I just swap the cable to another
 RJ-11 on the wall. But No, it isn't any keyboard connector I ever saw...

   Your milage may vary, but I have installed these things for 5 years now
 as modular connectors to hook micros' serial ports to our Equinox PBX 
 system. JimP.
    
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From: cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Perversion
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:10:40 MST
Organization: Not an Organization

Here's a perverted question: has anyone tried a CBM A2620 (68020 board) in
an A3000 or A4000? Do they work?

On a more practical note, how expensive would it be to build a 68000 CPU-board
to plug into the A3000 and A4000? This could be used to run all those nasty
old games that don't like the faster machines. You could also rig it so that
it couldn't detect anything other than chip memory. Could this be done in
such a way that there is a reboot-time choice of whether to use the 68000 or
the CPU on the motherboard (like the A2620 does)?

--
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From: oleg@crumpet.cts.com (Oleg Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 4 Nov 92 19:43:17 PST
Organization: Church O' Lantern

In article <Paula_Lieberman.0702@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
> How about Commodore calling some more chips by -male- or sex-neutral names,
> or better still, leave out the anthropomorphisms........ 

How about changing your name to Lieberwomin, taking a Valium, or as a third 
alternative calling the chips in your own machine by whatever names you 
wish, and not screwing around with one of the little things that make the
Amiga unique and interesting? It is, however, impressive to see a Thought
Police legionnaire using a multisyllabic word like "anthropomorphism".
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From: Opal_Sullen@republik.fidonet.org (Opal Sullen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac monitor on Amiga?
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:32:18 PST
Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County

In a message dated Sat  7 Nov 92 16:47, Leekil@bbn.com (lee Kilpatrick)
wrote:

 LK> What is the scan rate typically used on Mac monitors?  Would it be
 LK> possible to use a Mac monitor on an Amiga?  Are the voltage levels
 LK> used the same?  How about one of those tiny monochrome monitors used
 LK> in the "Mac Classic" type models?

i could look into the info you are looking for, but you could just as
easily get ot yoursef by going and checking out a mac monitor yourself.

as far as alternatives, if you or someone you know is electronically
inclined you could make just about anything work.  for instance, i had a
hacker friend make a custom hack that allowed me to plug my ibm monochrome
monitor directly into my amiga's 23 pin rgb port.  it works great.  i am
totally thrilled with it.  sure, i have the multisync still, but hate to
use it for text/bbs work.

look into it.

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From: boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AGA and a 3000 ? possibility
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:43:48 GMT


	 I've been told "NO!" a few times but I was thinking about it again
	 and I thought of something.  Now, I'm not the Engineering type,
	 just a software guys.  What if you were to take an 040 and put the
	 AGA chip set on a card and plug it into the accelerator slot on the
	 3000???  Is this possible or would a faster video port also be
	 neccesary that might be able to be rigged through the video slot?

	 Am I way off base and a complete idiot or is this way too expensive
	 or should I enrole in some electrical and computer engineering classes.

	 Thanx ..

	 boing


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: colindse@nmsu.EDU (LINDSEY)
Subject: HELP!! 3000 boots with 2.00 bootroms
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:00:59 GMT

My 3000 has started booting up with the 2.00 workbench in the bootroms that 
came with the 3000 (the ugly 2.0 workbench that is!) What causes this?  I just
added 8MB of SCRAMS and now I have to do the 3 finger salute after cold boot
to get the machine to boot using 2.04 from the Harddrive.  What, other that the
hidden gadget on the boot menu could cause the system to boot using workbench 
in those ROMS?  Please help this is getting old!  Dave?????

Coy Lindsey
From: blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Toaster+A4000
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:02:07 GMT
Organization: Temple University

blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke) writes:
: I believe the Toaster Coazy will work with the A4000.  you might want to
: give Hefner Communications a call and see, or you might want to wait until
: NewTek releases the new version of the toaster (I don't expect to see that til
: at least 1st quarter 93)
: 
: Hope this helps.
: 
: 	later,
: 	
: 		Mark Blanke
: 
Someone told me the other day that the Toaster Coazy will not work with the
4000.  Oh well.
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From: mmj7455@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.M. Jacyszyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Comments wanted on Panasonic KX-P4410 LaserPrinter
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:11:44 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: mmj7455@ultb


	I am considering purchasing the Panasonic KZ-P4410 Laser
Printer.  I know the basics and its features ... want I would like to
know is how welll or not so well the printer has held up for your Amiga.
	I will be printing MANY pages and would like to know that it
will last without the need for frequent repairs.
	Please E-mail your replies and comments to the address below.
Thank you! 

mmj7455@ultb.isc.rit.edu
From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Technically feasible Amiga
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:30:55 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

> Plenty of folks who are computer illiterate non-hacker game junkie middle
> school power brats buy low-end Amigas.  They don't hang neat toys off them,
> at least not immediately.  SOME of the low-end buyers certainly are techies
> on a cash diet, but you can't win adding a potentially useless $100 to 100% 
> of the machines to make 5% of the customers happier.  As always, we do offer
> high end machines for people who know what to do with them, and guarantee 
> that you can never turn your low end machine all the way into a high end
> machine no matter how hard you work at it.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff
>  "The Crew That Never Rests"  {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh   BIX: haz
> If you think "George Bush" is the answer, you just don't understand the quest

I absolutely agree with you.  But, by the same token (so to speak :) ),
while I (and most of the people who read this newsgroup) may know that C=
_has_ ethernet and Arcnet cards... It seems that C= hasn't gone out of its
way to publicize their availability.  Same kinda goes for AmyUnix.  I
realize that all of this is _marketing_'s problem, and not you guys in
Engineering.

Pity you can't get some of the _marketing_ guys to read this newsgroup. 
Then I could direct my posts more ... uh ... "effectively" 8^).

-steve

p.s.  I dare you to put a jumper labelled "Sex and Free Beer" on one of the
silkscreens for an upcoming product.  8*D.


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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New resolutions.
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:33:37 GMT
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1938@vall.dsv.su.se> matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
>
>They say that the graphic chips are programmable, so is it possible to
>give 800x600 in 50Hz, for example?

I just calculated that an 800x600 NON-interlaced would run at ~43Hz, hardly
useable (and I know, because I just tried it).

>=========================================================
>=  Regards  =  email:              =  1280x512x256000+  = 
>=  Mattias  =  matt-dah@dsv.su.se  =  I love it.        =
>=========================================================
>=  The only way to get improved software for the Amiga  =
>=  is *buying* the existing ones. Do you realize that?  = 
>=========================================================


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