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From: lsa@lulea.trab.se (lsa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A 5000   B 5000 Reviews ???
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:03:10 GMT
Organization: Telia Research AB, Aurorum 6, 951 75 Lulea, Sweden
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I have recently been very interested in accelerators (the budget models)
and the other day i read CU and found an ad for some boards called A5000
and B5000, now what i wonder is

 Has anybody tried `em?


 Anybody that knows the price (the ad didn`t say)? 


 Will they work for my old 1.3?


 How much memory can it carry ?


 Does it require any soldering ? 


 and the last one is a wildcard : who sells it in sweden ?

If you can answer any of the above questions, or just comment on the board(s)
feel very welcome to leave an answer.

Thank you.
From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: getting IBM mice to work on amigas
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:42:21 CST
Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations

In article <Martin_Dolan.06ul@guru.apana.org.au> Martin_Dolan@guru.apana.org.au (Martin Dolan) writes:
>ok so C= couldnt make a mouse to save themselves..... so does anyone havea
>mod u can do to an ibm mouse to get it to work on the amiga?  and would u
>need a buss or serial mouse?  and also 'microsoft' or 'pc' mouse???

You can use an IBM PC bus mouse by modifying the cable.  You can either
make a miniDIN 9 pin to DB9 adaptor, as outlined in the Jan 92 Amazing
computer, or hack off the miniDIN 9 pin plug and put on a 9 pin DB9.
I am using a Logitech 3 button MouseMan PC Bus mouse with an adaptor cable
I made.  I don't have the magazine handy at the moment, but I could post
the pin-outs in a day or two.
--
bruce@zuhause.mn.org
Youth is wasted on the young.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
Subject: Re: A1200 Complaints...Not enough manuals
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:10:55 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan24.104016.14383@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> zarthac@bradley.edu (Matt Simmons) writes:
>Paula Lieberman (Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP) wrote:
>: <yet another incoherent post from Paula deleted>
>
>Well, whomever started this "rumor" suckered in another idiot...  Can we
>get a tally?

Of course! We're talking Paula "Knee Jerk" Lieberman. Mistress of the run on
scentence. Guru of the confusing and of-topic post. Despot of the poorly
quoted article. 

Every time I read one of her posts I just say "Huh?",  look at the article
she's quoted (if any) and say "huh?". I have this vision of a group
of people discussing something and then Paula shows up all wild-eyed
and spinning like the Tazmanian devil shrieking all sorts of semi-
related things and then zinging off into the sunset only to show up in
another newsgroup later on.

I just figure she works too hard all day and the idiocy of the usenet pushes
her over the edge. It must be using all that stone-age user-hostile 
hardware and software she professes such a fondness for.

Ian "I've been forced to work on DOS 6, send help" Kennedy
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MAIL : IANK@MICROSOFT.COM
A1200/85MBHD OS3.0 Yeah!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg)
Subject: SVGA-monitors and AGA-screenmodes, info please !
Organization: His Own Place
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:00:04 GMT


I'm a hardware illiterate, so no flames please !

If I get a SVGA-monitor, will I be able to use all
all AGA-screen-modes (except the 72 Hz-modes) ?


/Mattias

____
Mattias Myrberg

m92mmy@bellatrix.tdb.uu.se
From: ssucoopr@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Neil Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: LCD glasses availability (pref in UK)
Summary: I want some LCD glasses !
Keywords: LCD glasses
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:06:31 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

Hi,

If you know anywhere where I can get some LCD glasses please can
you email me ? I heard they were available with a Sega game at one
time but after asking in every shop I can find that sells consoles, 
nobody could help.

I have a bit of electronics experience, and am quite happy to kludge
an interface together by trial and error, but I'd prefer to pay a bit 
more and get some already kitted out for the Amiga if possible, 
(As there would be less of a chance of buggering them up accidentally 
by not knowing what signal to put on what wire). 

I'd also be happy to buy some second hand ones, if theyre not in
too bad shape.

Thanks,

Neil.
From: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3/4000UX
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:54:51 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
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In article <1993Jan23.005338.241@ida.liu.se> d92thoan@odalix.ida.liu.se (Thorbjorn Andersson) writes:
> I know that there's a A3000UX, but I've also heard
> that you must have a certain chip in your machine in
> order to run UNIX. Is that correct, and if so,
> what kind of chip is that? Could it be a MMU-chip
> since UNIX uses 'paged memory'? But there's always
> a MMU in a MC68030? (Except for MC68EC030, but 
> those aren't in the A3000?)

You earned a cigar.. yes, it is an MMU chip and even more closely
an 030 or equivalent MMU chip... :-)

> Another rumour says that there's no such thing as A4000UX?

And another cigar. You're one a streak here. :-) 

> Is it anyway possible to install UNIX on a A4000? 

AFAIK at the moment it is not. It seems AMIX is not happy with the
MMU on the 68040 and refuses to function. Maybe C= will bring out 
an A4000 Amix or a Linux port will be done shortly that will work
with the A4000/040. Latest news is that Minix doesn't work either.,
Seems to be the same MMU problems... :-(

CYa, Paul

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From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Coloured screens
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:36:34 GMT
Reply-To: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

My ageing 1000 occasionally comes up with a blue or purple (!) screen
instead of booting. Twiddling the wiring on its numerous harware hacks
usually fixes this, but what I'd like to kow is what the coloured
screens and flashing keyboard LED codes are. Is there anywhere where
there is a comprehensive list of these and also GURU codes?

Dave

David Crooke, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
Janet dcc@ed.dcs  :  Internet dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk  :  IP talk dcc@129.215.160.2
Work: JCMB Rm 3310, King's Bldgs, W Mains Rd., Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. 031 650 6013
Home: 22a Montgomery St., Edinburgh, SCOTLAND EH7 5JS.  Tel: 031 556 0265

-- 
David Crooke, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
Janet dcc@ed.dcs  :  Internet dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk  :  IP talk dcc@129.215.160.2
Work: JCMB Rm 3310, King's Bldgs, W Mains Rd., Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. 031 650 6013
Home: 22a Montgomery St., Edinburgh, SCOTLAND EH7 5JS.  Tel: 031 556 0265
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
Subject: SCSI Eject Command?
Followup-To: mmcculloch@nebula.tbe.com
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 03:06:00 GMT

I have a friend who just purchased a PLI 2.88 MB SCSI-based floppy
drive. Formatting, reading, and writing are working just fine, however,
the drive has no manual eject button.

Does anyone know exactly how to add a script or modify a driver to
provide the eject command in software? Is there a standard removable
media eject command for SCSI devices?

Thanks,
Michael McCulloch
Huntsville, AL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mart4678@mach1.wlu.ca (Phil Martin u)
Subject: Re: How to boot the 1200 in PAL
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:36:00 GMT

Matthew Eldon Arnold (marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu) wrote:
: I have an NTSC A1200.  The boot menu comes up in NTSC.  I can press any
: key to toggle the display to PAL.  I can also select the PAL button from the
: Display Menu.  When I insert a disk (such as a PAL game or PAL demo) and
: select the "Boot" button, the machine boots in NTSC.
: 
: Fact:  Regardless of the selections made within the boot menu, an NTSC
:        A1200 cannot boot a disk with a custom bootblock (such as a game
:        or demo) in PAL mode.
: 
: HA HA HA!  It just can't do it.  The hardware just can't do it, and I'm
: interested in knowing why.  Anyway, I'd love for you to prove me wrong.
: Try it and see for yourself.  If you reply to me, be certain to include the
: name of the PAL demo or game along with the selections made from within the
: bootmenu.  See for yourself; it can't be done.  :-(
: -- 
: /-----------\     \\\\
: | Will code  \    |. .|
: | for food   _\  ( ^ _)     Matthew Arnold
: \-----------/     |o/       marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu

Have you tried using a 'PAL-booter' program such as 'Degrader' or 'Palcon'?
These nifty little programs are activated by the user BEFORE a soft reset,
and change the mode that the computer will be in when it boots up. I haven't
had a chance to try them on a 1200 yet, but they work very well with my A500.

Phil Martin.
From: peck@natinst.com (Joseph Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Help: A1000, A2091, and 2.5" Quantum GoDrive 40S
Date: 23 Jan 1993 18:10:07 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: falcon.natinst.com

Hello,

I am trying to get an A2091 and a Quantum GoDrive 40S (2.5") to 
work on my A1000.  I have built a little adapter card that
does the 86 -> 100 pin conversion, as well as the cable between
the A2091 50 pin connector to the smaller (and different format)
50 pin connector on the GoDrive.  The power for the motor drive
is coming from the power connector on the A2091.

When I turn on my Amiga, the GoDrive motor starts and it sounds
like the heads seek back and forth for 10 seconds or so.  Then
just about the same time the kickstart prompt appears, the
drive stops spinning.  When I run HDToolBox, it scans through
the SCSI addresses and reports that no drives are connected to
the system.

I have checked my wiring several times, and it all seems okay.
Does anyone know if there is some difference in the interface
between the 2.5" and 3.5" SCSI drives?  I read the Quantum
manual, but I can't find anything relevant to what I am
trying to do.  I am hoping that I am missing something 
simple.

I plan on acquiring some ram this week so that I can test
if the memory portion of the A2091 will work properly.  That
will at least help test the 86->100 pin adapter that I made.

Thanks for any help,
Joe Peck
peck@natinst.com
From: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Can you extend the A2000 and A3000 keyboard cable?
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:10:15 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Distribution: world
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In article <1993Jan20.074818.4098@ichips.intel.com> waggoner@pdx159 (Mark Waggoner) writes:
> Is it possible to extend the keyboard cable of the A2000 and/or A3000?
> If you have done so, could you tell me how you did it and whether there
> is anything special to be careful of.  From their catalog, it looks like 
> Radio Shack has an extender cable that should fit, or at least has the
> plug and jack that you need to make a cable.  Do all 5 connections need 
> to go straight through?  Any RF or operational problems you've encountered
> with a longer cable?

I did this a while ago at a computer show. I just used the same standard
PC keyboard extender cable thats normally used for my 386-40 slave. :-)
And yes all connections need to go through. I used a 5 foot cable without
problems on my A2000, but your mileage may vary depending on your mother-
board revision I heard. Some can handle longer cables than others.

CYa, Paul

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From: eha@phoenix.oulu.fi (Esa Haapaniemi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Virus
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:03:46 GMT
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

: I own an Amiga 1000 (running WB 1.2) and have never
: experienced a virus in my life. I don't have any virus checkers or anything
: related to virus detection or expulsion. Just today I rebooted the system
: and got the "Your Amiga is Alive [SCA virus]" message... 

You lucky ;) That is the original SCA ? Maybe you could sell it to some
collector, it's really rare nowadays ;) It's too easy to get rid of...
Symptoms show that it has already infected some more of your disks, as
that note pops up after infectioning more disks.
Just keep your machine shut for long enough (0.5 mins) to kill all living
viruses from memory, and boot the machine with writeprotected disks that
are surely (kept writeprotected originals ?) virusfree. Then install all
disks that can be infected (are not writeprotected) and maybe all of your
disks that doesn't have their own bootprograms (games).
And what is the most important. Get some Viruskiller, like VirusChecker.

If this message is not answered by too many people, I'm willing to send some
program to you (uuencoded ?)

Esa Haapaniemi
University of Oulu
Finlan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: marnold@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew Eldon Arnold)
Subject: How to boot the 1200 in PAL
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:22:49 GMT

Fact:  The A1200 has a boot menu which can be accessed by pressing and
       and holding both mouse buttons during bootup.

Fact:  The boot menu allows you to disable devices (such as external drives,
       certain hard disk partitions, etc.) and the CPU cache.

Fact:  The boot menu allows you to select which chipset you'd like to use
       upon bootup:  OCS, ECS, or Best Available (the ambiguous selection.)

I have no problems with the afore mentioned procedures.  I don't have any
proof that they DON'T work.  :-)  From within the boot menu, one can
"press any key" to toggle the display between NTSC and PAL.  One can also
select either the NTSC of PAL button from the Display Menu which (I assume)
will switch the display to whatever you select at boot time.

Legitimate question:  Why do we have two methods of switching the display
       at boot time?  Are the options redundant or is there a difference?

I have an NTSC A1200.  The boot menu comes up in NTSC.  I can press any
key to toggle the display to PAL.  I can also select the PAL button from the
Display Menu.  When I insert a disk (such as a PAL game or PAL demo) and
select the "Boot" button, the machine boots in NTSC.

Fact:  Regardless of the selections made within the boot menu, an NTSC
       A1200 cannot boot a disk with a custom bootblock (such as a game
       or demo) in PAL mode.

HA HA HA!  It just can't do it.  The hardware just can't do it, and I'm
interested in knowing why.  Anyway, I'd love for you to prove me wrong.
Try it and see for yourself.  If you reply to me, be certain to include the
name of the PAL demo or game along with the selections made from within the
bootmenu.  See for yourself; it can't be done.  :-(
-- 
/-----------\     \\\\
| Will code  \    |. .|
| for food   _\  ( ^ _)     Matthew Arnold
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: leair@cae.wisc.edu (Brian Leair)
Subject: disk io mfm (again)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 21 Jan 93 00:18:35 CST
Summary: mfm disk
Keywords: mfm disk 

[lets try this again]
Before I write a lot of code and go about testing it only to find
it doesn't work on configuration xxyyzz I was
hoping I might get a few answers here. I've been working with the 
low level disk control hardware and I'm wondering about a few things.
Can paula, and whatever else in control of disk i/o, support any data 
formats other than gcr(blah) and mfm (1 clock period space between 
pulses minimum and 3 clock periods space maximum between 1's).
I would like to use rll(2,7) or maybe even something fancier. The
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 2.0 commodore documentation states..
from rkm1.3
'(data)should be encoded into some form of legal flux patterns'
from hdwr1.3 page 243 documentation of register adkcon bit number 8 FAST 
'value of 1 selects two microseconds per bit cell(usually MFM). Data must 
be valid raw MFM. 0 selects four microsecnonds per bit (usually gcr)'.
 
My current experiments with (a500's 1 meg anguses non ecs denise) indicate 
that writing non mfm data (even funky stuff) works ok. I am more concerned 
about reading non-mfm data correctly in 2 usec clock mode.
I am alos worried about breaking some unclarified rules regarding disk data dma
and paying later.
 
Perhaps a nice cbm person could step forward and say that yah you're
probablly ok or NO EVIL BAD BAD.

Brian Leair
----
leair@cae.wisc.edu
leair@castlab.engr.wisc.edu -- Sys Admin cast metals lab, UW Madison

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: abair@parsons.sps.mot.com (Alan Bair)
Subject: Re: Color Printer Recommendations
Organization: AMCU, Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:33:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.052912.27091@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jg003b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Outatime) writes:

	   So far I've heard of the new HP 550c and am wondering what this is
   about. Is it an InkJet? I'm assuming so, because it comes in either the
   DeskJet form or the DeskWrite form, I think. And I don't really know the
   difference.
	   Also, what are used PaintJets going for, and what's the story on
   them.

The 550C is a Inkjet and has a color (CMY) and black cartridge, so it works
great for color or B/W. The 500C could only use one at a time, so black in
color is either a little mudy, or you need to use color separations. Its
price has now dropped to around $350.00 from $750.00 where the 550C is
around. Both of these have 300DPI. I don't know the price of the PaintJet,
but it only has 160DPI.  

I should have waited a few months and I could have bought the 550C for about
the same price I paid for the 500C :(
--
Alan Bair             		AMCU DSCS
Motorola, Inc.            	    (Design Software &
Mail Stop OE-320		     Computer Services)
6501 William Cannon Dr. West	
Austin, TX  78735-8598          abair@amcu-tx.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: Re: 1 meg chip on A500
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:11:28 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.4]

Tim Leonard (tim@lenti.med.umn.edu) wrote:

> *************************************************************************
> This is from the service bulletin that I received when I
> bought my 1meg AGNUS. I have typed it in verbatum.
> *************************************************************************

(description of hack deleted)

Am I correct in assuming that this hack works on A500's which came with 
Fatter Agnus but can only address 512 of CHIP RAM?

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      | Kevin J. Taddeucci          | e-mail: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com    |
      | Hewlett Packard Firmware QA | HPDesk: Kevin TADDEUCCI /HP5300/A0 |
      | Telnet: 794-4192            | HP Mailstop: 2LR-N                 | 
       ----------------------------- ------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Kickstart 2.5 ROM chip?
From: mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:17:23 EST

I have heard that The Grapevine Group, sellers of Amiga custom chips here in
the US, are distributing a Kickstart 2.5 chip.  They claim this chip allows
the use of high-density floppies.  They are selling this chip for $39.95
(as compared to $34.95 for KS2.0).

My question is: is there such a chip or is this just a new software upgrade?
And if there is such a chip, should I purchase this one in-lieu of a KS2.0
chip? (I am still running 1.3, but will be upgrading in the next month.)

Mike
mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
From: u0cps@ohm.york.ac.uk (Christopher P Swan - H600/90)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Multisync Monitor as TV ?
Summary: Where to get TV --> RGB converter ?
Keywords: multisync TV
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:36:12 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK


	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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: varmart@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Reji Martin)
Subject: Re; TBC-III <> Serial Port conflict ?
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:26:00 GMT



	I have recently installed a Digital Processing Systems TBC-III
	in my A2000/040 for use with the "Video Toaster V.2". In order
	to install this TBC (Time Base Corrector) I also had to connect
	a cable from the board to the serial port or use the internal
	serial port with a 3-pin connector into TBC board.

	My question is this;

	Does this connection mean that I would not be able to use the 
	external serial port for modem usage were I to connect to the
	the TBC to the internal? If not, would I have to then add another 
	serial board and does such a board exist?

	Thanks in advance . . . 


                                                
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