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From:         "(Evrard E.)" <eevrard@VUB.AC.BE>
Subject:      2.0 rom

Does anyone remember which 2 pins of the 2.0 kick rom have to be
soldered together to work in an A500 (rev. 5)?

Thanks,

Pres
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From: jrowson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan Rowson)
Subject: Amiga 500 for sale
Summary: A500 4 sale w/1 meg chip,2 megs fast, 40 meg hd, more
Keywords: A500, GVP A500+ (2megs) 2.0 roms, more
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:15:55 GMT


I have an Amiga 500 computer for sale with the following additions.

1 meg chip ram (fatter agnes)
2 megs fast ram (in GVP hd chassis)
GVP 40 meg HD with the aforementioned 2 megs of ram (for a total of 3)
external floppy drive.
2.0 roms and software
LOTS of PD software
a bunch of games thrown in to boot
CBM 1080 monitor (
CBM mouse w/pad
Boing three button mouse available (rather keep it though)v
Supra 2400 baud modem available (might want to keep it though)
1.3 roms in case you want to install a switcher.
probably more options/extras that I'm foregetting off the top of my head...

If you are interested, leave me mail at the below addresses

RowsonJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
RowsonJ@SSYRV1.DECNET
RowsonJ@VAX.CS.HSCSYR.EDU
JRowson@NYX.CS.DU.EDU
(preferrably the first address)

Oh, don't let me forget the most important part of all!!! PRICE!!!
$1000 obo for the package...

Jonathan Rowson
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Subject: Re: broken 68000 = guru ???
Date: 15 Oct 92 06:19:28 GMT
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hmm.. the 8000.0003 guru is a user trap and the 8100.0005 is a corrupt memory li
st. you might have a bad custom chip also.
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Subject:    HELP!! My amiga won't let me open icons/windows

My amiga has turned on me! My set up is A500+, GVP 120Mb HD, KCS Powerboard,
2Mb in the GVP, 1.3/2.0 Kickstart switch. The problem is that I came back to
my amiga not having used it for a week or so. Turned it on, booted up from
HD and then tried to open the HD icon. It changed to a selected icon form
but no window appeared. When I tried to move/re-size the workbench window
the pointer froze. I re-booted and it happened again. Also when using 1.3
mode. Thinking it might be a virus, I unplugged the HD and tried to boot
from a floppy Workbench disk. Same result. I guess it must be a hardware
failure. Can anybody earn my eternal gratitude by telling me what's wrong
and how to fix it?

Thanks

Tim
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:35:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: A4000

>Nyle,
>
>        Well, it would be a drive but here is Syracuse there is a very good
>sized dealer-- Industrial Color Labs.  They have more software and hardware
>on display (including the video toaster workstations and high end video equip)
>than any place I have seen.  (Including chicago where I went to undergrad and
>the new york city region).  For a town the size of Syracuse, it is a _Large_
>dealer (actually for a town of any size).  In fact, it has more HW & SW than
>any mac or clone store in the area.  Well worth the drive.  To be honest though
   ,
>(I've only be in central NY for the last two years) I have no idea how far
>syracuse is from potsdam.
>
>        -->>Dave

Dave,
   Oh only about 2 hours and 45 minutes. :)   But I'll check out ICL.  Could
you send me some wuick directions.  :)

Nyle

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Subject: Re: Correction of correction
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:59:23 GMT
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        The reason you think that there is a 2MB Agnus in the 3000 is because
there is a 2MB Agnus in the 3000.  The machine only comes with 1MB Chip
installed.



Laterz,
Michael Lee Boschet, Jr.

BoschetM@rvax.ipfw.indiana.edu
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:47:11 EDT
From:         "(Robert Harnaga)" <rharnaga@ARISTOTLES.RUTGERS.EDU>

I need help.  When I undms some two part disks, sometimes it says Non DOS boot
block (?) and in workbench, the disk label is DF0: (or DF1: -> the "label" is
 the name associated with its disk icon.)  And I cant boot or open the disk,
(it says, "not a dos disk") but when I test the .dms files, they are okay)

Any body got an idea as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Robert
From: LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET (The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair.)
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Subject: Re: HELP!! My amiga won't let me open icons/windows
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:27:00 GMT
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>My amiga has turned on me! My set up is A500+, GVP 120Mb HD, KCS Powerboard,
>2Mb in the GVP, 1.3/2.0 Kickstart switch. The problem is that I came back to
>my amiga not having used it for a week or so. Turned it on, booted up from
>HD and then tried to open the HD icon. It changed to a selected icon form
>but no window appeared. When I tried to move/re-size the workbench window
>the pointer froze. I re-booted and it happened again. Also when using 1.3
>mode. Thinking it might be a virus, I unplugged the HD and tried to boot
>from a floppy Workbench disk. Same result. I guess it must be a hardware
>failure. Can anybody earn my eternal gratitude by telling me what's wrong
>and how to fix it?
>
>Thanks
>
>Tim

Tim,
   I believe someone mentions switching some chips in it to see if they were
messed up.  I'm don't remember which IC number.  I'll look it up if I get a
chance.

-Nyle

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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:00:49 CST
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From: CHUCK    at UNK.UNK.EDU


Does anyone have email address to any computer magazines? I have the two below
if anyone knowns anymore please send them to me directly at unk.unk.edu.
Thanks in advance.
        UNIX WORLD     LETTERS@UWORLD.COM
        BYTE           LETTERS@BYTEPB.BYTE.COM

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| Chuck Hanson                   |  CHUCK AT UNK.UNK.EDU          RSCS |
| 1025 N. 63RD ST.  #G134        |  University of Nebraska AT KEARNEY  |
| LINCOLN, NEBRASKA  68505       |  (402) 464-8956                     {
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:11:00 EST
From:         RenderMan <GILL@IPFWCVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Networking on the Amiga

A friend of mine just gave me a comodore ethernet card, but he cant find the
software for it.  What programs can i use to do a peer-to-peer networking, are
there any PD or sharware programs that will do this, or allow the use of my
ethernet card to hook up to another with out the orig. software.
Does D-net support an ethernet card directly??

I've heard SANA(2?), might do this.

I'm sorry if this has been posted before, but i was not keeping up on the
networking thread for a while.

Any help will appreciated.

Andrew Gill

gill@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu
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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:53:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: A4000 compatability

>        Has anyone found out what's compatible/not-compatible with the A4000
>yet?  I'm trying to make a purchase decision here between getting a 4000 or
>upgrading my 2000 to ECS and more.  I'd be very interested in any info at all
>(Nov. AmigaWorld and Amazing Computing which FINALLY arrived weren't much
>help)
>Oh, and those of you that bought the 4000, which monitor did you buy?
>
>Is anyone else thinking of buying an Amiga4000/3000/3000T/ right now?  I
>could really use some help in deciding what to get....:-)

Hey guys,

Really good question.  Is AmigaDos 3.0 100% compatible with 2.0.  Did Commodore
finally get it right are their OSs gonna be backwords compatible 100% of the
time now.  I realize that it's actually the mainly the fault of many of the
software developers, but if CBM had not allowed them to do so many "illegal"
things.  Then 2.0 would run more 1.3 programs.  What's going on the the
AA chips I hear they are 100% compatible.  IS this autodetected or do I have to
switch a mode like with my ROM switcher?????????   I want a 4000, but I need
more detailed information.  How compatible is it????????

Thanks for any info. guys. :)

This list is great, and the people on it are the greatest.

Thanks again.

-Nyle
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:05:52 -0400
From:         "Daniel S. Riley" <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Links in AmigaDOS

Jim Loomis <LOOMIS@ITHACA.bitnet> writes:
>Is there any particular advantage to using a soft link, as compared to
>using an IconX script?

IconX scripts only work for progams run from the workbench.  Soft
links work for data files as well, and programs run from the CLI.
Also, starting a program from an IconX script doesn't preserve the
workbench environment (things like files selected by extended select,
or icon tooltypes), while a hard or soft link to the program will.

I haven't actually had much call for either kind of link on the Amiga,
but I use them constantly managing our Unix boxes...

--
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 23:45:00 EDT
From:         QCZUSEA@IUP.BITNET
Subject:      Re: upgrade: Final Copy to FC II

        Phil Writes:
>Just thouht I'd say what porblems I found with ProWrite, of which I have
>version 3.2.1.
>        First, the phrase 'speed kills' can be used in reverse, lack of
>speed kills, and that is the main problem I found with it when importing
        Can't agree more with you... I got the chance to use a friends
        machine with PW 3.2 and was left waiting for it more often than not.
>graphics and such.  Albeit, I was running the standard '000, and it would
>probably be much better at a higher rated machine, but I felt that the
>other features were okay, since you could load in ANY font, which the only
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        Again, AGREED, FC's MAJOR fault is that you have to rely one it's
propritary fonts, and can't use anything else... :-(  Hope that this changes,
but don't count on it.. I should know by Thursday at the latest.
>major fault with that WP I use, Final Copy, since FC can't, but the printing
>left a LOT to be desired when compared with FC.  I don't know what the
>improvements in the upgrade do for printing, but if it brought PWs printing
>up to the level of FCs I would definitely look into it.
>        BTW, for mixing graphics and text, I love FCs versatility for scaling
>graphics, but it is very easy to stretch said graphics into really hideous
>unproportianal smears very quickly.
>        Well, whatetver, hope my $.02 was of some use.
>
>Phil Ware
>WAREP@WABASH
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From: WP911099@PACEVM.BITNET (Timothy Moy)
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Subject: A500 or A500+ or A600
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:57:30 GMT
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To All,

I have just decided to purchase a low end AMIGA to enter the wonderful
world of AMIGA's!  I'd  buy the new A4000 but I don't think my credit
card could handle it!  I've limited my self to an A500, A500+ or A600.
The only problem is I don't know which one to buy?  If you haven already
guessed the question....Can any one tell me the differences between them?
and which one do you think I should buy and why?  Any response would be
much appreciated!
                                         Thanks!

                                         Timothy Moy
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
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Subject: Re: your mail (drives clicking?) (tounge?)
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:11:22 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

In <9210160106.AA07036@netcom.netcom.com> "(Daniel Joseph Oak)" <jonin@NETCOM.COM> writes:

>|May I assume that if the drives are not clicking, that DF1: will stop slowly
>|pushing the floppy out of the drive as it sits awaiting insertion (depending
>|on my mood... :>)
>|
>|It looks for all the world like my Amiga is sticking its tongue out at me!!
>|
>|;>
>|Crystal

> ah - your drive will "push" the disk out of it's drive?  That's odd.  Is this
>typical of the drives?  My amiga drive died about 2 years ago and I replaced
>it with an air drive, and to things even more fun - my 2000 is on it's side
> (ala Tower) and I cannot for the life of me remember a time of the disk being
>pushed out.  Do you have some automated drive? (like the Ae Drive)
> :)  Just curious.

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I don't *think* it's typical.  The DF0: doesn't do it, and the DF1: only
recently started doing this (after I attempted NON-CLICK and got even WORSE
clicking).  The disk moves almost imperceptibly, about 1/32 of an inch, and
somewhere along the way, I notice it is halfway out of the drive. It pushes it
out so far that you can just barely see the top edge of the metal slider.
That's *quite* a distance!

I have the drives that came with the machine.  This is an old machine, 1986
(I think).  rev 4.2 m/b   (I got it used)


Crystal
  ;>
From: JFUSCO@IATS.AVLABS.MDC.COM (John Fusco)
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Subject: Re: A4000 compatability
Date: 17 Oct 92 00:26:46 GMT
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> >The surest way to discourage bad programming practices now is to make it
> >clear that broken code will not work on all Amigas, costing the authors $$$
> >in lost sales.
> >Dan Riley

> From:       "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair."
> Date sent: 16-OCT-1992
> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:12:11 -0400
> Commodore has yet to keep it's machines as backwords compatible as
> the IBM PC.
>
> Nyle

Sorry guys, I just have to put in my $0.50 on the subject.  The
comment about PC's being backward compatible really touched a nerve.
I am unfortunate enough to work with PC's on the job.  That's why I
bought my Amiga.  To be fair, I started with an A2000/1.3, but I am
very impressed with the level of compatibility between 2.04 and 1.3.

How about this for DOS backwards compatibility: I have 10 MB of RAM
installed in my DOS machine and still run into memory problems
because my application thinks I only have 640K!  Let's face it, DOS
backwards compatibility is gained by crippling your hotrod 486/386
machines.  To me that's just not an acceptable compromise.  I for
one do not want to halt progress on the Amiga just to maintain
compatibility with some old games!  (No offense intended, but you did
mention the "game machine" stigma).

I think Commodore has done an excellent job in making the OS backward
compatible.  I agree with Dan, but the point about software authors
losing money by not being able to sell Amiga applications seems more
likely to force them to write crappy DOS applications, where the
users are more easily impressed ;).

Seriously though, I would like to see C= make a real effort to expand
the Amiga user base to attract more developers to the Amiga.  We've
got more ray tracers than you can shake a stick at, but how many
compilers to choose from?  How many languages?  Backward compatibility
is NOT to blame, it's just lack of users.

I think the Amiga architecture has real potential, but I don't see it
attracting many new users.  THAT'S IMPORTANT!  New users don't care
about backward compatibility.

I've digressed a bit here, but that's because it really eats at me
to use all these crappy DOS applications and know that this kludged
platform is setting standards we're all going to have to live with.
DOS's idea of backward compatibility is something I can live without.

Whew, It feels good to get that out...


John Fusco - Senior Engineer, Electronics
(Opinions expressed are solely those of the author.)
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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:45:32 +0100
From:         GWEYENS@BBRBFU60.BITNET
Subject:      <none>

SUBJECT: Viewer
FROM: Guy Weyens <GWEYENS@BBRBFU60.BITNET>

I am looking for a small program that can show and run
a large animation (for the moment a 5MB animation
of Imagine) while reading the information from the
hard disk (not enough RAM). I am thinking about
something similar to Vanim from Vista Pro.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Guy
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 08:47:00 EDT
From:         Jim Loomis <LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: A4000

Right you are Dave.  My mistake.  I had just come back from a meeting in
Liverpool yesterday and must have had it on my mind -- mean't to say
Fayetteville.

Anyway, it's a fairly long drive from Potsdam.  They do pretty well with
telephone orders, however, at 800 677 4686.  Also, it might be productive
to call CBM at 800 662 6442 to locate a dealer in the northeastern part of
New York State.

Jim Loomis      LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET        607-274-3913
        Director, Telecommunications Facilities
        Roy H. Park School of Communications
        Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850-7256 USA
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 23:19:42 EDT
From:         Andrew <IBY141@URIACC.URI.EDU>

   I'm looking for a program to stop my drives from that god-awful
clicking.  I've looked around some FTP sites but have failed to find
out.  Maybe that's because you can't get too much of a description from
the filename..  :-)  Anyway,  The only thing I really need is for it to
use a minimal amount of memory, Like 1-2k at the most.  I also need full
availability and functionality of my drives.  If such a beast exists,  can
someone tell me about it?

BTW:  Someone is using TCP/IP on an Amiga at my work.  I can find out the
      details if anyone is interested..

Andrew / Iby141@URIACC.URI.EDU
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