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From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Re: Did you ever buy anything at...[BRIWALL]
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 09:31:17 EDT

In <1992Sep1.192900.11080@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> keithc@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Keith Christopher) writes:

>\

>I've bought from BRIWALL before. Actually I like the knowledge their staff
>has. They know the Amiga.

Problem with Briwall is they are generally over-priced and
under-stocked. I've been told they keep relatively little in stock and
will "special order" things on demand without necessarily telling you
about it so you may have to wait longer for delivery (and which may
explain why they charge more). I live near them and have dealt with
them on 2-3 occasions strictly for software, cables, etc. and haven't
had any problems but I've heard others complain about price and
delivery.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
Subject: SetCpu and 1.3 under 2.04 2nd Repost
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 04:17:32 GMT

I am trying to use SETCPU KICKROM to load 1.3 kickstart from a kickstart disk
but only end up with either a green screen or wavey dark screen depending
on which switches I use.

The disk loads OK i.e the hand shows and the drive seems to be loading 
The computer attempts to reset and then either of the above happens

I have A2630 w/4 meg RAM GVP Series II with 4 meg of RAM Kickstart2.04 in
ROM
Any ideas gratefully received
Keith
From: mohr@educom.adsp.sub.org (Frederic Botton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 38,400 Telebit Qblazer Modem ($299.00)
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:31:22 GMT
Organization: Educom
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.29 4/25/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

>The biggest reason was the price, they come in at $299.00 each (call
>1-800-TELEBIT).
>
>       ()_()   Craig Votava
>        (_)    AT&T Bell Labs
>               cmv@looney.att.com

As far as I'm not a US resident, could you please give me an address or a
non1-800 phone number ? Thanx a lot !!!!

Fred.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
Subject: Re: Reboot with 1.3 using SetCpu under 2.04
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:47:37 GMT
Keywords: SetCpu ROM 

In article <copes.715324852@pride> copes@pride.cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope) writes:
> I'm reposting this because I'm not sure if it got through first time.
> 

Thanks for trying again

> keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart) writes:
> 
> >I am trying to reboot using SetCpu KICKROM DF1: . I have a 1.3 Kickstart
> >disk in df1:
> 
> >I have 2.04 in ROM and A 2630 board w/4meg of RAM and GVP Series II with 4 meg
> 
> >After executing setcpu I get the kickstart hand on the screen and kickstart
> >is loaded from df1:
> >The computer resets and I get a green screen and then thats it.
> 
> >Any ideas. I have tried SetCpu FASTROM dh0:rom with a 1.3 ROM image but
> >the screen only goes wavey after rebooting 
> 
> >Any help please reply
> 
> >Keith
> 
> If you are running 2.04 roms, you can only FASTROM a romfile of disk if it is
> the same version.  What you should be trying is SetCPU KICKROM dh0:rom to boot
> 1.3 of your hard disk using setcpu 1.6.  If this doesn't work, how much chip ram and C00000 ram do you have?  The kickrom option uses c00000 ram or chip ram for the rom image and mmu tables, as it survives a reboot better.  You will need  
This is what I am doing

> 1 meg of c0+chip ram as a 1.3 boot will need 256Krom+128ktable and a 2.04 fastrom will need 512krom+128ktable.  Setcpu 1.6 should work on your machine as its
> nearly identical to dave haynies setup.  Don't use the bits 32 option either. 
> bits 31 is ok, but 32 brings out a bug that doesn't show up in most machines.
> (it shows up on my A3000.  you get some pretty patterns on screen).  I'm going
> to mail the fix to daveh soon.
> If you still can't get it to work,I would guess it's something to do with the ram on the gvp board.  You could try removing that ram and trying it. (only a guess).
> BTW a guy I know can't use KICKROM on his B2000 as his particular revision pas
> a problem with the pals, and hangs up whenever you execute two reset intsructions in a row, ala SetCPU's KICKROM code..... perhaps you have the same rev. no.

This sounds like me I have revision 4.5 mother board with the 1 meg Agnus added
at a later stage.

I would be interested nay love to have a setcpu that would work

Hello Dave :-)

> 
> --
> copes@cs.curtin.edu.au
>  
> 
Keith

PS All I want my 1.3 for is to run rtap under 1.3 because it seems faster
and then i can reply to Randel who e-mailed me about my earlier post
but I have never got 1.3 to boot to answer his questions

Keith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: copes@pride.cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: ROM Tower 3000s
Keywords: ROM Tower 3000 A3000 roms eproms
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:01:51 GMT


>I recently got 2.04 ROMs for my 3000.  Upon installation I discover that I
>have a ROM Tower version 3000.  I tried placing the new ROMs in the
>appropriately numbered sockets on the motherboard and removing the tower unit
>as a Commodore rep instructed but my machine wouldn't boot at all.  I checked
>to make sure the chips were in right and they were.

>So, I decided to try them in the tower and everything works fine now.  But now
>I'm wondering what those empty sockets on the motherboard are for.  Different
>version ROMs for Unix machines maybe?

>J Koszarsky

I've been told that the other pair of sockets are for eproms because they have
different pinouts.  My A3000 is the latest revision and has 2.04 roms in the
front pair of sockets.  I have read an article on installing an 040 board and
the early release (read eprom) roms that came with it had to be installed into
the rear sockets.  The UNIX machines come with boot code on disk that is run 
under AmigaDOS.
The 'Boot Roms' that were originally in the machine are 2.01 (from memory).  
You can get them to boot up workbench by clicking on the hidden close gadget
somewhere up the top left of the rom boot menu.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Whether to buy a Canon BubbleJet or a HP DeskJet500
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:43:33 GMT

jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:

>In article <184a3gINNmvd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein) writes:
>>I have a BubbleJet 130 it has a wide carriage and 136x136 dpi.  Wolf
>>Faust's drivers let me take advantage of these features which the C
>>recommended driver (CBM_MPS 1000) did not.  (I think the Deskjet is only
>>130 dpi.)

>BZZZAAAAP!  Wrong answer.  The Deskjet 500 (and 500 C) are 300dpi.

And my Canon BJ-5 is 360dpi.  BJ10e and BJ10ex are also 360dpi.  As are 
most other BubbleJets, I think.

Wolf Faust's drivers really do take advantage of the BJ series' power.  Also
very nice is the ability to select any Amiga font (bitmap or Compugraphic) 
and have it downloaded to the printer automatically.  

>>>               2) What aspects of you bubblejet/deskjet you are
>>>                  dissatified about?
>>
>>Starting a new cartridge can be a real pain, you seem to have to shake them
>>a lot and after getting it to work fine for a while, all of the sudden the
>>ink doesn't come out properly again.  After this second session of cleaning
>>and shaking, it goes along pretty well until it is REALLY empty.

>With the deskjet, you just stick the cartrige in and hit the
>"prime" button which takes care of all the "shaking" automatically.

With my BubbleJet, all I have to do is put the cartridge in and hit the 
Fwd Adjust and Rev Adjust simultaneously, which makes the printer clean the 
cartridge.  I clean the cartridge twice, and it's ready to go and will keep
going until it runs out of ink...

>>>               4) The speed (graphics and text) of the HP DeskJet 500

>I'll have to check the manual on this but I know for a fact that
>with graphics, it is the computer, not the printer that is
>holding things up (usually).  (I have an plain 68000)

As with the BJ series, of course.  

>>>               5) The quality of output from each of these printers.

>The DeskJet is great at 300dpi but it is pretty picky about
>paper.  You have to find some with a good smooth surface or else
>you will end up with furry letters as the fibers wick the ink
>away from where it was intended.

I use copier paper and get great results with my BJ.  Just don't get your 
printouts wet (BJ ink seems to be water-soluble...). :)

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From: dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Where you might look for a kludge (was Re: A3000 / A2232 w/ SupraFAX)
Summary: A place you might look
Keywords: amiga hardware SupraFAX MsgPorts
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:56:43 GMT
Organization: Environment Canada --- Atmostpheric Environment Service
In-reply-to: rrrodewald@happy.colorado.edu's message of 22 Aug 92 06:39:40 GMT

>>>>> On 22 Aug 92 06:39:40 GMT, rrrodewald@happy.colorado.edu said:

R> I am having problems with my new A3000 / FAX setup.  I have an
R> A3000 with an A2232 Multi-serial board and 6 (yes, six) Supra FAX
R> Modems.  I am having two seperate problems.

	Geez... how lucky can you get!

R> 1)  Software:  GPFax, a great program, but it will not allow more than one
R>                copy of itself to be run at once.  I have tried filezapping
R>                to change all identifying names, but it still finds itself.

	What you might look for is a MsgPort (use xoper or something
similar).  The usual way to rendez-vous on the Amiga is by creating
a public message port --- even if no messages ever get sent to it.
Now, this is TOTALLY A KLUDGE, but you may be able to change the name
of an operating port --- don't forget to forbid()!  You might try
AllocMem()'ing some memory for the string, and then linking it, or
making the current name different --- but the same length (similar to
filezap).  You'll need to make a C program to do this (or have a good
debugger!)

R> 2)  Hardware:  A2232 board seems to work fine, but it seems to crash the
R>                A3000 quite regularily with a 8000 0004 Guru.  Usually during
R>                hard disk access.  (Do they interfere?)  Can I up the HD
R>                filesystem priority?  Any hardware jumpers?  Other ideas?

	All I've heard is that they're buggy.

R>      Any help would be greatly appreciated.  All hardware and
R> software is brand-new, A3000-25/100, A2232, A1960 Monitor, 1 Supra
R> v.32bis connected to standard serial port.  5 Supra FAX Modem
R> Plus's connected to A2232.  2.0 loads (kickstarts) from HD, and
R> reboots to start.

	Have you ever tried all connected to A2232?  Not that it should
matter.

R>      I am trying to operate all six FAXmodems at once to "blast
R> FAX" time-sensitive documents to a large group of clients before
R> the information is out of date.  Thanks in advance, EMail greatly
R> appreciated.

	What a concept.

Dave.

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From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: NEC 4FG Border-less Display??
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:59:54 GMT
Organization: is sometimes desirable

In article <alfredo.035y@ajahnv.lonestar.org>, Alfredo Jahn V writes:

> I am *very* close to getting a new monitor for my 2000. I would like to
> get the NEC 4FG (15" MultiSync monitor). I also need a de-interlacer of
> some kind.
> 
> I hear that the C= board (flicker fixer-like board) is better than the
> flicker fixer. The salesman at my local Amiga store told me that, among 
> other things, it gives you a "border-less" display. Is this true? Can I 
> get a "border-less" display with the NEC 4FG? The guy at the PeeCee store 
> told me that "the great thing about the NEC is that you don't get the one 
> inch black border around the display..." Is that the case with an Amiga?
> 
> I realize that the video slot gets used for the C= (and FF) boards - 
> (and) thats ok (I don't plan on going to a Video Toaster). What I really
> want is an SVGA quality display. Can I get that with non-flicker interlace 
> mode? 
> 
> Stats: Amiga 2000, rev 4.x mother board, 2.04 and the new custom chip set.

Well, I don't know about the CBM board, but I have the Microway Flicker-Fixer.
It is great.  I use mine with the Sony 1304HG multisync monitor.  I get a very
nice deinterlaced display.

A2000 rev 4.(0|1|2) ?
GVP 33 Mhz SCSI Combo
Sony 1304HG

I recently added the ECS Denise and the 2 Meg Agnus to my system.  I run both
1.32 and 2.04 (switcher) on my system.  The FF works nicely either way.

If you have further questions, drop me a note at the address below (I live in
Fort Worth.)


                                                Jim Pritchett


UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
 or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Friday, 28 Aug 1992 11:22:38 EDT
From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 14 MHz hack problem

In article <1992Aug28.123049.7838@cs.ruu.nl>, clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van
Dompselaar) says:
>
>Hello,
>
>I've been trying to install the 14 MHz hack in my Amiga
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can you be little bit more specific ?  There are probably a few
revisions of the 14MHz hack ranging from getting a 14MHz by dividing
the 28MHz with a 74F74 to something a little bit more complicated.
All in all (at least the first couple of revisions I have seen) is
a poorly designed hack without reconstructing a proper E clock that
is vital for the proper operations of the CIAs (ie it affects your
floppy, timer functions etc).

>processor is ok, and runs 14 MHz, and the control to
>the CIAs is ok).

but can you be sure that the system timer isn't messed up because of
the hack ?  Does your floppy make funny noises ?

>Anyone know what might be going wrong?

The design, the construction work you have done.  Without looking at
either, your word is good as mine.

>
>I figured that if this isn't going to work (damn! it's
>a rather expensive chip I've put in there...), then
>any accelerator I might buy will fail (after all,
>to the rest of the Amiga they only look as speeded-up
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^  That's the
 problem.  A properly done hack/design would make the 68000 appears
normal (slowed down) to the rest of the machine and run at whatever
speed on its own and whatever memory it has onboard.

>68000s. So if e.g. the Agnus can't handle the speed,

then how can you explaing the existance of the large variety of 030,
040 accelerators for the A500.  Obviously a design done right can make
the rest of the Amiga see the new processor as a NORMAL speed 68000
not a 68000 trying to talk too fast as to mutter jubbish.  Don't forget
the rest of the machine cannot understand what the CPU say would reduce
the speed of your machine to 0.

>it surely doesn't want a 68030 (or does that have
>a different bus clock?)
>
>Louis van Dompselaar      |||  Life is short, Life is tiny
>clldomps@cs.ruu.nl         |    -- Heart Throbs

BTW I have a Lucas/Frances (18MHz 020) & my friend has a .38 special
(MMR 38MHz 030) in his A500.  There are at least 5 or 6 chips on my
Lucas board to sync up the 020 CPU to the 68000 speed that the mother-
board speed.  That's the only PD accelerator design that is closest
to something done right.

K. C. Lee
Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
From: bell@comute.enet.dec.com (Shane L. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Whether to buy a Canon BubbleJet or a HP DeskJet500
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:35:42 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <s1180252.714810580@giaeb>, s1180252@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (N Ashford (CHUGGLES)) writes...
>Hi,
>    I am currently undecided as to whether I should buy a Canon series Bubble
>Jet printer or a HP DeskJet 500 printer.  I would like to know about the
>following items:
>               1) How satisfied you are with your bubblejet/deskjet
>                  printer?
>               2) What aspects of you bubblejet/deskjet you are
>                  dissatified about?
>               3) The speed (graphics and text) of each of the Canons
>                  (BJ10ex, BJ300/330).
>               4) The speed (graphics and text) of the HP DeskJet 500
>                  (not colour).
>               5) The quality of output from each of these printers.
>               6) Any comparisons you have seen or done between each of
>                  these printers.
> 
>Well that just about sums up my needs, could you please EMail your replies.
> 
>Noel Ashford
>s1180252@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au
>s1180252@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au
>"Amiga born a champion" Quote from KS1.2
>"Now slowly dying" Popular opinion.

	Could you please post a summary of responses to the net as there are
others out here who also would like to hear about such a comparison.  Thank You

		-- Shane L. Bell

		school - bell@alpha.ecs.umass.edu Sept '92 and after
		work - bell@flails.tay1.dec.com Summer '92
From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Newcomer questions (not in FAQ)
Date: 30 Aug 92 06:51:14 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

In article <1992Aug28.223443.11556@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.214131.8336@ra.msstate.edu> wgs1@ra.msstate.edu (Walter G. Seefeld) writes:
>>I am completely new to Amiga's, but I'm looking for a good machine on
>>which to do some 68000 programming.  Does assembly language on the Amiga
>>feel anything like 68000 assembly, or does the surrounding circuitry
>>make it more a dialect of it's own?
>

This is silly. The 68000 on the Amiga is no different than on any other
68000 based computer. Yes, the environment is different, but then that's
what makes an Amiga an Amiga, and a whatchamacallit a whatchamacallit
(frankly I don't what else is based on a 68000). The world would be a
pretty boring place if all computers were created alike.

jeff

P.S. The Amiga fits the bill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gujn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeremy Nelson)
Subject: Where to find 4 joystick plans?
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:03:56 GMT

Are there public domain instructions for constructing a 4 way joystick
adaptor for the Amiga?

I am not sure where it plugs in, or how it works, but I am fairly sure
they exist... :)  An archie search surfaced nothing b/c I wasn't sure
what to look for.

Many Thanks in advance.

-- 
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I fear two things: 
That I am not one of the most interesting people in the world... and that I am.
From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Biofeedback interface...a search
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:30:42 GMT
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada

In article <BtnJqD.HIo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu writes:
>
>I'm looking for any hardware hack articles for any kind of biofeedback
>hardware that connects to the Amiga.
>In particular, I'm interested in monitoring brain-waves using the Amiga.

We do it using A/D boards on the PC side of Amigas with bridgeboards.
The PC collects EEGs and ECGs, the Amiga runs a user interface, and
various parts of the experiments run on a VAX or a SUN.

The Bridgeboard and Amiga talk to each other with the Janus library,
and the Amiga talks to everything else over ethernet.

>I seem to recall an article, but I don't remember where.

I remember an article about a ZorroII card that was either a prototype
or in development. If you want to go IEEE488 there's always the ASDG
board. 

>| Internet: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu                              |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Subject: C-Ltd
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:24:40 GMT

 Please, anyone with the following please UUENCODE them and mail them to
me at prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu

1) SCSIdos 2.6 software

2) SCSIdos 3.0 utities disk.

3) Anyonwe with the C-LTD (non-kronos) controller and the Seagate st-277n     
please UUENCODE your mountlist and DevSetup file for me...

Thanks ...

Gene Prall   prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu  |Look ma I is in college!|
-Standard Disclaimer - 90 Day warranty - Parts and Labor not included - Tags,
Taxes, and Titles may cost extra - Batteries not included - Allow 6-8 weeks
for delivery | A1000 Owner and damn proud of it! 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Guernsey)
Subject: Re: TECH: "Virtuality" --- Amiga 3000... Some observations and Questions.
Keywords: amiga virtuatlity game observations questions
Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:36:44 GMT

I tried out a Virtual Reality program that was run on IBM's. It required an
IBM with the Dos Extender package and something called Other Worlds Toolkit. It
was running on a 486 with 2 super vga cards connected to the visor to create the
stereo scopic images. It had no sound that I could tell except for a an audio
tape playing music (yay!).

The setup allowed for networking so several people could adventure, and I was
impressed by the speed and the texture mapped graphics. (it wasn't just a
vector polygon program)

I'm a proud Amiga owner but if we are ever to catch up its going to take more
than an 80,000$ package called Virtuality. I think this system could be 
purchased for ALOT less than 80,000$ and it is programmable so you can make
your own areas and games. I remember asking how much it would cost to own a
system like that and I remember getting a figure of around 15,000$. I might
be wrong, but it wasn't totally unreasonable like 80,000$ It sounds like those
people are really trying to rip off arcade owners. 

Byron


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