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From: cmd1@eclop.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy)
Subject: WB 2.04 on the Amiga 1000.
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 22:50:21 GMT

  I am wondering if there is any way for me to get KS/WB 2 running on
my 1000 without investing in a hardware ROM switcher board or any
thing along those lines.  I have some things that I would like to
work on that will be much nicer to do in the 2.04 environment, but
I do not want to throw any more money into my 1000.  I am waiting
patiently for the new chip set before I am ready to put down the
money on an A3000 (or whatever is next)...
   I have plenty of RAM in my machine, so that is not a problem.  
So does anyone know of any software hack that will allow me to
run 2.04 for the next six months or so until I can truely 
upgrade? Thanks....

  Chris  (cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu)
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: "pregnant mouse"?
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:04:48 PST
Organization: Not an Organization


What's this about a new "pregnant mouse"?  Have they redesigned the A3000's
mouse?  I hope so -- mine is very troublesome, always getting jammed or stuck
so the pointer refuses to slide leftwards, no matter how often I clean it. 
The mouse on my old A1000 never had those problems, though it's *almost*
identical.

I can't stand any of the replacement mice ... they're all too small for my
hand!  They call the commodore mouse a "brick", but a brick is what I want.
From: sdk@math.ufl.edu (Steven D. Kuck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DONT Do GRAPEVINE (was Re: Amiga Mail Order Places)
Date: 4 Apr 92 21:45:57 GMT
Organization: University of Florida Department of Mathematics

In article <1992Mar31.234718.2215@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> dohm@cat2.cs.wisc.edu (Nathan Dohm) writes:
>In article <1992Mar24.174518.18823@math.ufl.edu> sdk@math.ufl.edu (Steven D. Kuck) writes:
>>Amiga mail order places.  There is only one I've had a problem with.
>>
>>The GrapeVine group.
>>	And there have been several problems.
>>First I ordered a 16mHz 68000 from them. It didn't ship for the longest time.
>>I called to ask about it and was told THE PART DOESNT EXIST. If you are
>>at all familiar with it, Motorola DOES make that chip [and did then]. I don't
>>know WHY they didn't want to ship one to me, but they eventually creditted my
>>VISA for the part.  I was sorry to have ever called them.
> [ Stuff Deleted ]
>>
>>Steven Kuck
>
>In fact, Motorolla does not and never did make a 16 Mhz 68000 DIP chip.  I
>have talked with several salesmen and two large electronic suppliers about this.
>Motorolla makes a 16 Mhz part in some other packages, but the chip I assume
>you were ordering was for a 16 Mhz hack?  The chip used in this hack is
>correctly a 14 Mhz HIGH SPEED 68000.  Granted, there isn't much difference,
>except that they are different parts with different part numbers.
[stuff deleted]
>As for your other complaints, just be lucky you even got a product.  I have
>been screwed by many mail order companies, most of which have gotten excellent
>reviews on the net to date, such as Safe Harbor, Computability, Creative
>Computers, Montgomery Grant...  I sometimes wonder why I even try.
>
>  -- Nathan Dohm

I don't konw which salesmen you talked to, but in my hands AT THIS MOMENT is
Microprocessor User's Manual, Eight edition, printed by Prentice Hall FOR
Motorola.  On page 12-1 [section 12, page one] is Ordering Information. 
On this page is a chart of the MC68000 family chips, with a grid for 
package designation and operating frequency.  On line one, the MC68000 is 
listed as having 8,10,12, AND 16 mHz versions.
	Note: there is no 14 mHz version, you must use the 16 mHz version.
I do hope this settles once and for all the question of EXISTANCE of the
chip I requested.  I was "informed" they were not produced [ie don't exist],
NOT that they weren't available.  I WAS LIED TO.  This is the ONLY conclusion
I can reach.  Please, no inane "maybe they didn't make it THEN" rebuttals.

Steven Kuck - on his soap box...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: waggoner@pdxgp1 (Mark Waggoner)
Subject: Re: Will the Blitter become redundant?
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 23:32:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr4.195525.26106@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>In article <29964@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>>
>>Chip improvements, however, track Motorola CPU improvements pretty closely in
>>transistor count, which is a reasonable measure of complexity.  The original
>>chipset contains more transistors than the 68000, and even a moderately
>>improved version would come close to the complexity of a 68030.  If we were to
>>do one that does everything you and everyone else seems to want (not that have
>>any illusions you would actually buy a new computer), we could very easily get
>>to 68040-level complexities.  Even Motorola has trouble with that level of
>>design complexity.  Obviouly an Amiga chipset doesn't need to cram 300,000 or
>>1,000,000+ transistors into one package, but that's not to say such a design
>>is simplified by a multi-package implementation.  
>
>   It must be, because many of the RISC processors available (including Moto's
>own 88XX0 series) are multi-package processors.  As well, Jay Minor himself
>said that the chipset was broken into several packages to simplify the 
>implementation.


Read carefully.  The design is not simplified, but the implementation may be.
If anything, a multichip solution complicates the design.

- Given some fairly fixed defect density, a single large die will yield
  less than several smaller die.  Higher yield means lower cost.
- The more transistors you have, the more power you consume and the more heat
  you generate.  A package can only dissipate so much heat before it melts 
  down or otherwise fails.
- A multi chip solution also gives you the ability to use different processes
  for different parts of the design, if that is appropriate.



But then, what do I know?  I work for Intel!


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From: sbiddle@aviate.cavebbs.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  Don't Deal with BRIWALL - Mail Order Warning !!!
Date: 7 Apr 92 05:46:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: aviate.sbiddle.054y
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <1992Apr3.065345.22230@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rrccnet@ccu.umanitoba.ca (red river community college) writes:
>In <1992Apr2.172709.22586@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c9d-bd@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Patrick M. Horio) writes:
>
>>I recently tried to order a hard drive from Briwall through mail order.
>>I spoke to a sales rep to weeks ago and placed an order, at which time
>>I was told that they had the product in stock.  I ordered it FedEx
>>economy and expected to get it two days later ...
>
>  <various problems with BriWall service deleted >
>
>I just thought that I would present the reverse side of the story...
>
>I for one have ordered from BriWall on several occasions, and have had
>excellent service each time.  I find their prices pretty competitive,
>and would order from them again.  As far as I am concerned, the better
>service they provided me was worth the extra cash, and I think that most
>people would agree.

Yes, I'll also defend them, I spent quite a while talking to them on several
occasions, all international calls, and was thoroughly pleased with their
service..

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From: etmfrov@sunbeam22.ericsson.se (Frank Overman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Help wanted: Amiga 1000 1 Meg hack
Keywords: Amiga 1000 memory hack wanted
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:50:12 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden

In article <531@documail.UUCP> rich@documail.UUCP (Rich McCallister) writes:
>
>    A 512K memory add-on for the 1000 was published in Amazing Computing
>magazine. I think it was in Volume 2, Number 3, but I'm not sure of that.
>It was probably in 1987.

>    I have heard of three work arounds to stop the memory from being used as
>CHIP Ram:
>
>   3) Modify Kickstart to look for CHIP Ram in only the first 512K. (this
>is the method I use.) This involves a simple patch to the Kickstart disk,
>which was published in a letter to the editor of Amazing Computing 2 or 3
>months after the plans for the add-on were published. Amazingly, the 1.2
>patch also works on 1.3 Kickstart disks, as the crucial instructions did
>not move. (I don't know about running 2.0 with the add-on.)

This solution with modifying the KS to look for only 512k chipram and to
look at address $80000 for fast ram works just fine in 2.04. You only need
to look in the KS itself were to change addresses.
The point where the KS looks at $C00000 for extra mem is then changed to
look at $80000 and the end-of-check for chipram is lowered from $200000 to
$80000. This way you never need to addmem anything.

-Frank
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: NEC MultiSync 3FG am
From: andy.reed@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Andy Reed) 
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:59:00 GMT
Reply-To: andy.reed@grapevine.lrk.ar.us (Andy Reed) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The GrapeVine BBS *** N. Little Rock, AR *** (501) 753-8121

to: Fred_M_Hamilton@cup.portal.com


I too have a NEC 3FGX and have the same blurring with the contrast
turned up too much.  I have it turned down now to where it is clear
and you get used to it.  I actually like it now, I don't think that
is a problem with the monitor, you just can't turn it up that bright!

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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Will the Blitter become redundant?
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:01:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr7.190126.22475
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

danb@gaff.physci.psu.edu (Dan Babcock) writes:
: In article <1992Apr7.140540.11864@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
: >entity@cccan.uucp (Cybernetworx) writes:
: >
: >Not even the 040 can outperform the blitter in all cases.  Not even in
: >most cases.
: 
: ...when accessing chip RAM in 560ns cycles. Not exactly fair!
: 
: Dan
: 

Try a few of the strange blitter moves in chip with the blitter and
then in fast with the cpu, and you'll see the same thing.  The blitter
is designed to do what it does, while the cpu is general-purpose...

Greg
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From: hennes@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Hennes Passmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68000 Processor (a2000)
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:03:46 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.



Hi there in Canada.

Replacing your 68000 CPU with an 68010 CPU should be very simple, the 000 
and the 010 are pin-compatible.  This means that a simple exchanging of the
two chips would give you a little extra performance.

On an Amiga 500 with .5 meg chipRAM and .5 meg FakeFastRAM this would boost
your performance with about 12%.

There is,however, a drawback.
The 68010 is not 100% compatible with the 68000,there are 2 exceptions
1- The 68000 has a bug with causes one of the commands to be accessable in

   the user mode,instead of only in the superviser mode.
   Some programs use this command and thus will not run on a 68010 ( or on 
   a 68020  68030 ... ) witch has this bug fixed.
   I've heard of program called DECIGEL with fixes this problem with the CC        command but this I have not tested this program myself.

 2- In one of its registers the 68000 doesn't use all of its bit, but the
    010 does use all of them.
    This also may cause a few non-functional programs.

Most of what is stated above is a brief part of an article I found about a
week ago on a harddisk of our computer-club.  I cannot garantee that its
correct,since my own knowledge on the subject of hardware is limited.

If you are interested in the whole file I see if I can mail it to you,

                                        {signature} H.Passm Stack
From: rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis)
Subject: Re: A1000 hardware mystery
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: A1000 video TV modulator DIN
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:15:45 GMT

In article <29ED08DD.12952@noiro.acs.uci.edu> mblair@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Mark Blair) writes:
>That connector is for an external TV modulator, allowing you to
>display your Amiga's video on a television that doesn't have a
>composite video input. I'm not sure if Commodore actually marketed
>such a modulator for the A1000. In case anybody is interested, here is

There are several mail order places (look at the back pages of any AmigaWorld)
that apparently sell this device.  I've never used one or seen one, but if
some companies are selling it, I'd say it must exist.



>the pin assignment of the connector, according to an old A1000 repair
>manual, and a cheesy ASCII picture of the connector. The "U" at the
>top is supposed to be the notch on the edge of the connector:
>
>      Pin   Function
>     -----------------------                     ___________
>      2,5   ground                              /     U     \
>       3    left audio                         /  8       7  \
>       4    composite video                   |       6       |
>       7    +12V                              |  3         1  |
>       8    Audio right                        \   5     4   /
>      1,6   No connection?                      \     2     /
>                                                 -----------
>>-- 
>>paul theodoropoulos                                         damiel@netcom.COM
>
>--
>Mark J. Blair,  OAC/Distributed Computing Support
>University of California, Irvine 
>e-mail: mblair@hydra.acs.uci.edu    voice: (714) 856-8383


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From: J.Heaton@MCC.ac.uk (John Heaton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: MFM HD controller
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:47:40 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre - Network Unit

In article <Lance_Gibb.0a5i@a68k.denver.CO.US> Lance_Gibb@a68k.denver.CO.US (Lance Gibb) writes:

>IS anyone out there familiar with any MFM controllers for the Amiga 1000?

There was a contructional article in the German C't magazine a few years 
back which described a small interface board which allowed the use of an 
OMTI 5520 MFM PC controller for the A1000 etc..  I have a photocopy of the 
original article with schematics etc...  I did build the board and have had 
it running for quite some time on an A500, before I got a B2000, and a 
friend (who I got the photocopy from) had a similar arrangement running on 
his A2000.

I can't remember the year, but do rember that it was the March issue.  I 
will dig it out tonight.

>Thanks

>-- Via DLG Pro v0.991

>Lance_Gibb@a68k.denver.co.us

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett)
Subject: Please help.  Diablo 630 & NEC Pinwriter P3.
Keywords: help printers
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 10:19:48 GMT

OK, so these are not exactly the newest printers around, but I have the chance
to get one or both of them very cheaply.

Does anyone know anything about these printers, like is the NEC Pinwriter P3
any good for graphics output (eg from Deluxe Paint).

Is it worth buying one or both of them ?  

Please send me your views/experiences/opinions/other etc etc etc

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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Adapters to Connect Multisync Monitors to Amiga RGB
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:55:11 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

>      I would like to connect a multisync monitor to my Amiga, and I
> was wondering if someone knows of any adapters that will let one
> plug a standard 15-pin Multisync monitor to the regular Amiga RGB
> port. If someone knows where I can get such a product (if it
> exists) please let me know.
 
 
As it happens I just downloaded a file with that exact information in
it from some BBS.  It's called AMI2VGA.LZH (kinda inappropriate
actually, why would one want to connect the 15 khz video port to a
vga-only monitor) ... now the question is how to get it to you if you
can't find it locally.  I'm new at this Usenet stuff and I don't
think I have any access to UUCP file transfer stuff...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sjc28473@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Joseph Chmura)
Subject: LUCAS + 2.04??
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:06:11 GMT

 I have been trying to get LUCAS (20mhz) to work with my system.
I have a Trumpcard(new roms 2 days old), A500, 4 megs of ram.
Everything works just fine under 1.2 roms.  Then when I re-install
the 2.045 roms the hard -drive will not be mounted and of couse
he start-up ceases.

Can LUCAS work with A500's?????

What to do but cry huh.

-- 
							Steven Chmura
							"4-weeks till..	
							MD-2-B
From: ledel@digi.lonestar.org (Lea Edel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: AdIDE causes A500 to "bog" down - HELP
Keywords: IDE ICD
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:45:45 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

I have a Novia 60 Meg IDE system from ICD.  The drive appears to be
functioning fine.  Drive access are quick and without errors.  The
problem is that all of my software seems to be slowed down.  I have several
games, they all play slow.  Sound samples will not play properly, they
have glitches in them.  I have called ICD.  Suffice to say the help
was miminal, more like I was BOTHERING them by calling.
Per the ICD manual, I can boot the computer holding down the left mouse
button and disable the HD.  This works, as I get the screen up to insert
a floppy to boot from.  After booting from floppy, the slowness still
exists.  I get the same results by disconnecting the drive from the
adapter (the interface adapter is still installed).  If I remove the
AdIDE interface all of my problems go away.
So the problem only and always occures when the AdIDE interface is plugged
in.  Whether the drive is connected or mounted makes no difference.

I am guessing that ICD is doing something extensive with interupts.
It seems as though the 68000 is just plain out of gas when that
IDE adapter is connected.

I have an A-500 rev 5 motherboard with 1Meg RAM.  Running 1.3 OS.

Anybody have any ideas?  Aside from nuking ICD's headquarters (no,
this is not the first time I have TRIED to get help from the about
the drive).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com>
Subject: Re: NEW DAK External CD-ROM.  (Re:  DAK $229 CD-ROM details)
Originator: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:17:48 GMT

In article <1992Apr06.172915.27511@watson.ibm.com> sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
>For a mere $229, however you can get a Sony?  internal SCSI CD-ROM drive
>(with Microsoft bookshelf). I have just purchased one for my 3000. Am
>placing the order for the CD-ROMFS tonight.

Is this $229 CD-ROM drive also from DAK, or somewhere else?  Sorry if
this was already mentioned, our newsfeed has been flakey.

>Scott C. Kennedy (sck@watson.ibm.com)  | This post does not reflect the intent 

-hans
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dtiberio@csws4.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re:  A3000/Toaster
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:27:47 GMT

In article <mkoch.0131@amisys.UUCP> mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch) writes:
>In article <?J?L!S@ais.org> cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>>In article <9204101650.AA26908@teetot.acusd.edu> gs@TEETOT.ACUSD.EDU (Greg Simon) writes:
>>>
>>>  Does anyone have a Video Toaster working on a 3000?  I've heard that
>>>>  the board needs to be hacked off to make it fit, is this true?
>>
>>  The current Toaster will not fit in the A3000 case, unless you "hack" the
>>case to let it hang over the side.  Also, last I knew the Toaster only
>>worked with the old Denise chip, and wont run with the ECS denise chip in
>>the A3000, thus you would also have to replace the ECS denise with the old
>>Denise.  
>
>Yes, you do need to hack the back of the case a bit, but there's room there to
>do it, and if you take your time and plan the modification out in advance, the
>result can be nice.  Of course, this will void the warranty on your 3000.
>
>As for any rumored problems with the ECS Denise chip, they're untrue.  The
>Toaster works just fine in a 3000 as-is.

	And why doesn't CBM start making this modification at the plant? WHY?
It can't be all that expensive, seeing as how the Toaster is one hot product.

	I can only guess that CBM isn't too thrilled with selling A3000 equipped
systems to NewTek or any Toaster users. 


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Q: 2000 PC-port
From: geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 19:42:27   M
Organization: The Equinox Network CHCH NZ (Node SATORI)

peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:

> leikvoll@hsr.no (Morten Leikvoll) writes:
> 
> >How can I access the PC ports in a B2000 from the 68000 processor? 
> 
> You mean the slots? No, they are *only* connected to the power supply,
> all other lines are totally separated from any 68000 line.
> 
> >Or can I not without a bridgeboard?
> 
> This is the case.

BZZT! Wrong. It is possible to make a card that connects the Zorro bus
to the ISA bus. There are two products I know of that do this already,
there may be more.

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