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From: al158305@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Accelerators?
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:17:24 GMT

Damage@f550.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Damage) writes:

>Does it have a MMU?

   You can buy it either way: with a 68030/68EC030
   Remember that you can do all the nice MMU tricks if you have an EC030
(like run enforcer, UNIX, etc)  :)

>Does it have a slot for a co-processor, and how much would this be likely to
> set me back?

   I would believe it does have a coprocessor socket, and they're not too
expensive, specially after you see Intels or Jamecos pricelist ;)

>What, if any, are the main differences between the VXL 030 and a GVP board?

   In my opinion they are both quite difrent beats, one is an accelerator 
only, with a connector for expansion memory board. The other one is a full
accelerator/memory expander/scsi controller with drive/expansion slot, see
what I mean?

-Gus
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From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 Add-Ons
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:53:47 GMT

In <1drhdrINN7d4@agate.berkeley.edu> kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu (Kevin Miller) writes:

>I am very interested in the A1200, and look forward to it arriving here in the
>states, but I have two concerns about adding hardware.

>From what I understand, the A1200 comes with only 2 meg chip RAM.  How would
>I go about adding 32-bit fast RAM?  What cost is involved?

The Trapdoor is a 150 pin edge connector, with full access to all the
CPU lines (not just a cut down chip-bus only version like the A500,
more like a Zorro (there is a /Zorro line!)), so when boards arrive,
just stick them in there and you will have TRUE 32-bit Fast Ram. 

Futhermore, when 68030/40 accelerators come out, you will be able to
expand to >16Mb of RAM just like an A4000

Alternatively, you could get a PCMCIA card with 2 or 4Mb of 16-bit
Fast RAM on it, and stick that in the PCMCIA slot... or use it as a
fast virtual disk!

>From what I understand, the A1200 has no hard drive either.  Will I be able
>to EASILY add a hard drive (IDE or whatever)?  I don't want to buy the 
>machine and then find out that I'm stuck with a floppy-based system. NEVER
>again!

Just buy any (!) 2.5" IDE Hard drive and connect it up!

>Thanks!

>Kevin
>kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu

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E.F.Pritchard                       ///
efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs           \\\/// Amiga     I seriously need something
University of Southampton        \xx/            to go on this side of my
England.                                         signature, any ideas?
From: pjotr@ludd.luth.se (Peter Sj|str|m)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: FAQ? Will be there AGA chips in A3000?
Date: 23 Nov 92 13:24:11 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd

In <jim.722514326@marsh> jim@cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady) writes:

>This way, an AGA card would not really be an integrated part of the hardware
>,as in A4000, but it would be more like an add on graphics card ala Domino.

>Feasible ???

	With lots of available graphics cards, more to surely pop up when CBM
releases RTG, do you see *any* use for AGA on a graphics card? I am sure
that 3rd party can come up with both cheaper and better graphics cards
than CBM can ever develop custom chips for.

		/Peter
Organization: Doctoral student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:53:02 -0500 
From: Christopher Dalton <cd27+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: A1200 motherboard in A1000 (Yes No Maybe?)

Anyone thought about doing this?  (Would it fit?)

I think the A600 motherboard would fit (guessing from exterior diminsions), 
though I'm not sure anyone would go to the trouble for a 7mhz 68000.  

The A1000 motherboard is about 13.5x12".  Anybody out there know the 
diminsions of the A1200 motherboard?  Is it forty feet wide like the A500?

What is it about the 1000 that people don't want to give up?  Maybe the 
keyboard garage.  It's a wonder nobody has copied that.

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No job, no disclaimer.      doesn't make it likely"                \\\///
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From: Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Flicker Fixer
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 00:45:02 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I have a couple of questions regarding a flicker fixer for an A500:
>
>1.  I have heard conflicting reports about the ability of a flicker
>fixer to fit in an A500 case with a CSA MMR accelerator.  I am
>interested in hearing from people who either have both co-existing in
>their 500 (with no problems), or from those who know for a fact that
>they cannot fit together.  (I have a 32 bit daughterboard as well with
>the MMR that may get in the way...)  So if you know of a flicker fixer
>that either does or does not fit with the MMR, please send me the name
>of the flicker fixer.  I'd like both a flicker fixer and my 68030, but
>if I had to make a choice, the 68030 would definitely stay! :-)
>
>2.  If the flicker fixer does fit in the A500 with an MMR, does the
>standard A500 power supply have enough juice to power everything?

>Dan Charrois - University of Alberta, Electrical Engineering
>INTERNET: charro@bode.ee.ualberta.ca

I'd be very interested also in hearing from people who have tried this.

Tony Bruder - neon@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: pad@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Paul A Daniels)
Subject: Idea with the 1200
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:21:06 GMT

	The 1200 has a very extensive port in the trap door.
As ZorroIII can run ZorroII cards and ZorroII is has a compatable pin
out to the old 500. Is it feesable to run a connector from the trapdoor
of the 1200 that could use an 500 peripheral?
	Can this line of attack be taken one step futher, with termination
could you infact add a number of ZorroIII slots, or is there soemthing missing?

Paul.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jawil@hpx6.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens)
Subject: Re: A1200 Add-Ons
Organization: University of Oslo
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 11:48:13 GMT

In article <13563@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF) writes:

|> Just buy any (!) 2.5" IDE Hard drive and connect it up!
Will it be possible to connect my 130MB 3.5" Segate IDE HD externally (via a
cable) to the 1200? (This is what I am doing at the moment using an ICD AdIDE
HD controller on my A500.)
-- 
                               Jan Roger Wilkens
                     Student at Agder Engeeniering School
                               Computer Technics

                           EMail: jawil@hpx11.aid.no
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Notebook Computers Dominate Comdex
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:56:52 GMT


[From San Francisco Chronicle, 11/17/92]

headline:
    NOTEBOOK PCs STEALING THE SHOW AT LATEST COMDEX

subline:
    Forget desktop machines.  Notebooks are the hot items at this year's show.


    This year, the Comdex rallying cry is "mobile computing."  In past seasons,
the fall Comdex was dominated by desktop computers.  This year it will be more
of a showcase for notebook-size PCs and pen-based computers.

   Although desktop systems still account for most PC sales, the growth of 
notebook systems that allow business people to take their offices with them is
more than twice as fast.  Sales of desktop systems are expected to grow at 13%
this year, but notebook computer sales are expected to grow 28%.

   "If you've got a fast desktop computer to sell, people are just going to 
yawn," said Milt Herbert, vice president at the Framingham, Mass.-based 
Interface Group which produced the show.

   Between 500 and 700 companies will still show desktop computers at Comdex
this year, according to the Interface Group.  But more than 150 companies are
pushing notebook computers this year, compared with about 75 last year.  And
dozens of manufacturers are showing pen-based computers, compared with about
10 last year.  

   "The industry's silver bullet last year was price cuts," said Doug Kass, 
president of the Viewpoint Group, a Aptos-based market research company.  
"The silver bullet this year is cool technology in a notebook."


                                  [San Francisco Chronicle, 11/17/92]

[end of quoted article]

--------

   The obvious questions are: when is Commodore going to develop a notebook
Amiga???  Will it be when the growth of notebook sales has slowed and some
other technology is the cutting-edge in the industry?  And when will Commodore
jump into the pen-based computer market?  This market is still small and 
Commodore could make quite a splash were they to get into the market today. 
But if Commodore waits and waits and waits before jumping in, they will pass
up yet more opportunities to become a competitor in an emerging market.

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| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AGA monitors - squishy squishy
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:12:31 GMT
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov17.005006.3634@cbnews.cb.att.com> itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:
>Ok, I have a 4000 and a Panasonic PanaSync C1391 monitor.  Yes it syncs to
>all the modes!  BUT, DBLNTSC seems to be squashed on the horizontal.  For
>example, the horizontal width for 'DBLNTSC:High Res No Flicker' is 676 (with
>overscan.  'MULTISCAN:Productivity' gives me 640.  However, the productivity
>mode is physically wider on screen than the dblntsc mode!  This makes all
>the dblntsc stuff looked squashed.
>
>Is this a product of my particular monitor, or has this been noticed on other
>monitors?  I'm considering getting a new monitor and would like to know if
>this is to be expected from multisyncs.

No, it is the software (although some monitors display the problem worse than
others), and is a problem that I am trying to address.

>Incedently this has caused me to use productivity whenever possibile instead
>of dblntsc.  Anyone see a disadvantage to this?

No, not really. It will of course use more CHIP RAM because of the bigger
dimensions, but use whichever you feel happier with.

>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Rich...
>-- 
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                                              | they don't fall down.
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: Re: Who has a working EMPLANT?
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:27:11 GMT

blanke@bigboy (Mark Blanke) writes:

>philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>: In article <69713@cup.portal.com> jharris@cup.portal.com (John D Harris) writes:
>: Does anyone know if the Emplant system will support IIci ROM's? I've seen
>: mention of II,IIx,IIcx. The one thing these have in common is that they are
>: not 32 bit clean (can get Mode32 from ftp.apple.com to fix that).
>: 
>: Anyway, have fun with the Emplant system( and your Amiga).
>:  
>I talked to Joe yesterday and he said he can't wait to move onto the
>IIci and IIsi versions.  One of the biggest problems getting the
>Empland to work in recent days was caused by a conflict of the II,IIx,IICx
>not being 2 bit clean.  Joe said his accelerator took care of the problem
>and that is why the software worked for him and not for the general public.
>He said if he had a IIci IIsi emulator, this would not have been a problem.

My question is what is the best mac II rom to buy for the emplant?  That is for
an 030 and aga [ ie a4000/030 ].  Is there a difference with compatibility or
speed?

Myself I am thinking of getting an emplant maybe next summer, especially if it
can serve a scsi controller.  Since the a4000 comes with ide, and some of the
earlier specs of the board stated that your amiga can read amiga dos formated
partitions through it.  Would work fine for my syquest and tape drive.  No
need for high speed there.

Martin
From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Accessing Mac partitions from amiga dos.
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:24:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.41164
Organization: University of California, San Diego

I'm trying to understand why ReadySoft did not try to
have a hard disk transfer program that worked from the amiga 
side.  It seems to me that this would be a lot more useful,
especially in terms of the bootstrapping proccess where it
is neccessary to have a mac floppy.  If you could do the
file transfer from the amiga side, you could copy necessary files
from a working mac (or amax) via the serial port, and then
transfer it (using this non exstant program) to the virgin
mac partition.

Since it does not exist (or not forthcomming) does anyone
know how difficult it would be to write an amiga program to format a
mac partition and transfer files?  Is there any good references to
the mac (or amax) HD file system?  I'm considering hacking at it
unless I'm warned off.  How `bout an existing low level sector editor
that would allow me to poke around on tha amax partition.  Does any
exist that would not choke because it is not a valid amiga
partition?

Regards,
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  \________/\      ______________________    __________________________________
Steven Cobb  \    /   scobb@ucsd.edu     \__/                Graduate School:
              \  /                                           It's not a job...
         UCSD  \/ ision Lab                                  It's an indenture.
From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: More Emplant Stuph.
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:40:59 GMT
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood

In article <jdrew.0jsj@cryo.rain.com> jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew) writes:
>
>In <2116@celia.UUCP>, neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond) writes:
>> I just discovered that Sybil is imcompatible with Opalvision. If you have
> 
>Hmmm...works fine with our OpalVision as well as other customer's...
>
>Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
>           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
>           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
>           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS

Hurrrumpff!

Jim,
This was information given to me by one of your own people, probably Joe. He 
that I shouldn't count on the timing signals being at the port on the Opal-
vision board. I could plug it into the video port, but then I couldn't use
the Opalvision, because it explicitly states that two have to monitors (draws)
in the video ports could damage the Amiga video circuitry. I can vouch for
this in part, because when I had a the Sybil in the video port and a monitor
on the Opalvision, I got screen distortion and a hardware error that required
a reboot. I shutdown the power IMMEDIATELY. When I took the Sybil off, every-
thing was fine. When I didn't have the Opalvision in, everything worked fine.
I did not put Sybil on the Opalvision as it was explicitly stated by the
person I talked to that it would not work. How about getting together with him
and determining what the story is. OKAY? Thanks.
neil

Poscriptum:

I would like to talk to your customer who has an Opalvision working with a 
Sybil. Could you give me his number or you can give him mine; (213)851-6500,
 7am-4pm PST, Mon - Fri. Or give him my net address, if he has access.
Thanks.

-- 

" Give a skeptic an inch and he'll measure it. "
Neil F. Richmond         INTERNET: celia!neil@usc.edu
Rhythm & Hues Inc.       UUCP: ...{ames,hplabs}!lll-tis!celia!neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt Crowd)
Subject: EMPLANT - anyone got it running ?
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:59:38 GMT


Surely someone has the emulator running, other than JD himself??

I find it hard to believe they could've shipped a product that
no-one in the world can use!

What's JD's setup? Is it and accelerated 2000? A 3000? Have UU
seen a 4000? a Resolver? Firecracker or Ham-E ???

"No later than the third week in July" is becoming to
sound realistic...... except it's going to be in 1993 probably.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: CSA Derringer 
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:43:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.193405.20185@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>
>Ahem, Amazing Computing November 1992 (vol 7, no 11), p. 75:
>
> CSA (Computer Systems Associates)... announced the coming of a new accelerator
> card for the A500 and A2000. This new card, the Derringer, is a 25 MHz, 68030-
> based accelerator that promises A3000 performance for only $249.95. The
> Derringer will support the addition of 1,2,4 or 8 MB of DRAM, together with
> a 50 MHz 68881 or 68882 math coprocessor. Additional 16 and 32 MB DRAM
> upgrades will be possible as future DRAM technology develops... the Derringer
> is a single board, plug-and-play unit. It is completely auto-configuring and
> replaces the 68000 CPU.
>

What is the difference between the old one from CSA?
From: cg18fgg@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Golden Gate 486!!
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:00:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


>Before we get too excited, let's not forget one thing: those boards
>use Cyrix's 486SLC, not Intel's 486DX.  A 486SLC has a lot of 486 specific 
>commands, but is not comparable to a true 486.  I would say it is an 

Can someone tell me why the Intel processors are not used in these emulators?

gcallahan@ucsd.edu
From: jdrew@cryo.rain.com (Jim Drew)
Subject: Re: Accessing Mac partitions from amiga dos.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
X-NewsSoftware: BBX-UMB 0.26 beta (Oct 19 1992)
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:27:44 PDT
Organization: Cryogenic Software - Portland, OR


In <41164@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
> I'm trying to understand why ReadySoft did not try to
> have a hard disk transfer program that worked from the amiga 
> side.  It seems to me that this would be a lot more useful,
> especially in terms of the bootstrapping proccess where it
> is neccessary to have a mac floppy.  If you could do the
> file transfer from the amiga side, you could copy necessary files
> from a working mac (or amax) via the serial port, and then
> transfer it (using this non exstant program) to the virgin
> mac partition.
> 
> Since it does not exist (or not forthcomming) does anyone
> know how difficult it would be to write an amiga program to format a
> mac partition and transfer files?  Is there any good references to
> the mac (or amax) HD file system?  I'm considering hacking at it
> unless I'm warned off.  How `bout an existing low level sector editor
> that would allow me to poke around on tha amax partition.  Does any
> exist that would not choke because it is not a valid amiga
> partition?
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
>   \________/\      ______________________    __________________________________
> Steven Cobb  \    /   scobb@ucsd.edu     \__/                Graduate School:
>               \  /                                           It's not a job...
>          UCSD  \/ ision Lab                                  It's an indenture.
Steve,
 
AMAX does not use any magical disk format.  Their "AMAX partitions" are
just MAC DOS format on an AmigaDOS device.  You can use ANY sector editor
(we use DEKSID) to look/modify the sector data.
 
This is how we are able to read/write MAC partitions with EMPLANT.
 
Since hard drives format the same on every computer, you can take a MAC
formatted hard drive (formatted by the MAC) and hook it up to the Amiga. 
The Amiga will tell you that it is not a DOS device, but the data will be
there, and can be used.  Because of this, SyQuest carts can be
interchanged without any problems at all.
 
So why has there not been a transfer program for MAC hard drive
partitions?  Good question!  I have not had time (been a bit busy
lately..haha) to write one, however, it is no more difficult to do than
my current disk converter program.  If you are interested in tackling
this project I would recommend the book "MAC Programmer's Reference Guide
- The Source Book".  It contains a wealth of information reguarding ALL
functions/routines/tables contained in ALL MACs made.  There is even a
section about the MAC's file structure, including full explanation of the
Resource/Data Fork structures.
 
Perhaps I will get to this project when the smoke clears from EMPLANT. 
:-)


Jim Drew - Vice President, Utilities Unlimited, Inc.
           1641 McCulloch Blvd. Suite #25-124
           Lake Havasu City, AZ  86403
           (602) 680-9004     (602) 680-9006 FAX    (602) 453-9767 BBS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: jepaul@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Darth Jason)
Subject: Emplant Software???
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:03:36 GMT


Does Jim Drew have the current updated software on his BBS?  Is it legal to copy the software to wuarchive?  I would like to get the latest version and don't want to waste a phone call if I don't have to.  I did get the rom  stuff off of wuarchive.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald)
Subject: AMAX help need urgently.
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:47:22 GMT



HELP HELP HELP!!!!

I have amaxII but I am having problems getting the 2024 monitor
to work.  There seems to be an error in the binary on my original
disk and it crashes everytime I try to run AMAXII.
AMAXI works fine but I also need to access my harddrive at the 
same time.

Could someone please send me amax?
If I didn't have the hardware and ROM's I couldn't run it
so don't give me a hassle.

john

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