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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: aga chipset
Date: 13 Sep 92 20:58:54 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

robert.buonincontro@canrem.com (robert buonincontro) writes:



> Can anyone from Commodore or CATS post a message on the AGA custom chipset
> 
> What I want to know is when and if it will be made available for the Amiga 
>3000 computer. I am ready to purchase these chips today! I also want to find
>out if these chips will be made available for the A500/600/2000. If not is it
>possible for a 3rd party company to create some kind of daugther board so 
>these chips can be used in an Amiga 500/2000/3000.

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I have been wondering... since GVP sells so many accelerator with
32 bit expansion port (and since C='s A2630 and IVP's VECTOR all come
with a 32bit expansion port), wouldn't it be cool if say, GVP would
release an add-on with AGA chipset on it to use with their accelerators?

and if we want to upgrade our machine, we don't have to upgrade that add-on...
we simply plug in another accelerator (060?) into the co-processor slot,
and the AGA add-on onto its 32bit port...

What do you all think?

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: A1000, adding harddrive: easy/how?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:38:43 GMT

dminer@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner) writes:

>	I'm been searching around and may have found
>an A1000.  I've been away from the Commodore too long. :)
>Anyway, how easy would it be to add a HD to it?  I got
>the monitor solved (my old 1702 from 64 days).  It has
>512k ram.  This is really small.  Any external memory
>that doesn't cost an arm and leg?  I'm a poor college student. :)

Buy a second hand A590 and plug it in.  It'll be back to front, but you will 
get great access to the dip swtches.  It will also solve your ram problem..
You can get one pretty cheap with 20M HD and 2M ram.

>Any info on expansion in general too.. :)
>	(like floppy drives... :)

Most A500 peripherals can be used, including some of the accelerators.  Don't
buy any of those trapdoor thingy's though.

>Dan Miner

>P.S.  I love old computers (especially from Commodore, BTW anyone
>know where I could find a working VIC-20 or PET computer?)
>-- 
> Dan Miner
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>University of Missouri-Rolla             "It all begins with a glimmer."

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: A3000: Heating up?
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 07:14:47 GMT

In <aqyFqB1w164w@qed.cts.com> analogki@qed.cts.com (Jeff Robertson) writes:

>It occurred to me one day that my power supply's fan shouldn't be BLOWING
>air INTO the machine, as every power supply I have ever seen on a 3000 was
>SUCKING air OUT! The same is true for every other power supply for any
>computer I have ever seen. Makes sense, too. Sucking air OUT of the machine
>seems more efficient in cooling than forcing it in. This action also keeps
>DUST from piling up on the IC's.

Hang on.... Colder air is more dense, so the air mass you move per fan
rotation is greater at lower temperatures. The cooling effect of air
is related to the mass-velocity of the air. Therefore it *is* more
efficient in terms of the fan to blow cooling air into the machine.

Also, it allows for a filter to be fitted. Most home consumers will
however forget to clean or change them, causing the system to
over-heat. We have a washable air filter in the fan of our Motorola
box and the inside of the machine is very clean, even after 3 years of
continuous running. It has never required dusting out. The filter can
be cleaned (monthly) by reverse-flushing with water and drying with
hot air.

There are constraints on which direction the fan blows, mostly related
to $$$$$$. It's more costly to design in a cooling air distribution
manifold for a variable configuration, than to use the case with holes
in the "right" place (you know, the floppy disk slots :-( ).

>I am going to switch the fan back, right now! If this doesn't end the
>funniness once and for all, I just don't know what to think. Luckily, I
>haven't lost any data over these lock-ups, but I don't want deal with it
>anymore.

Amiga fans do suck air out of the box normally.
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From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The HD LED on the front of the A2000.
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:54:39 PST
Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Mon  7 Sep 92  2:57, yurick@vaxr.llnl.gov wrote:

 Y>   B)  Why won't the LED come on at all when I'm accessing the SCSI
 Y> drive, with both types of drives hooked-up.  Yet it does come on for
the
 Y> older drive?

 Y>   D)  Can I mix different HDs on the 2090, or do they ALL have to be
 Y> SCSI, or do they ALL (2 of them) be ST506?

 Y> ... when they designed the 2090 & 2090A to have their first partition
 Y> formatted under OFS.

There are different jumpers as I recall near the bottom right corner to use
if you want the HD LED to reflect accesses to the SCSI drive; you will not
be able to hook up the supplied wires to both concurrently. The A2090
controller allows concurrent ST506 drives and SCSI drives.  

I gotmy A2090 as soon as they were available; only after the warranty
expired did I try to add a (SCSI) ST157N-1 to my (ST506) ST251 setup.  I
found the A2090 didn't have the horsepower on my early (Grman, rev 4.0)
A2000 to handle it so I bought a Microbotics HardFrame. 

I am sure more recent controllers such as the A2090a from C= support use of
autoboot FFS only partitions, assuming you have 2.04 or later ROMs.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rglaeser@sparc4.cs.uiuc.edu (Russ Glaeser)
Subject: IBM serial port mouse on a 3000?
Reply-To: rglaeser@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:33:44 GMT

My roommate has this nifty little Microsoft serial port trac-mouse
for his portable IBM clone.  I was wondering if one would work on
the Amiga.  It even has the same plug on the end.

Please e-mail responses.  I NEVER read this group.

Russ Glaeser
rglaeser@uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: 4000
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:52:49 GMT

In <65730@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>Unfortunately CBM left an equally important half of the "MultiMedia"
>equation off their list.  The new machines still do only crappy 8 bit audio.
>Worthless for any real professional applications.

No real professional will use an audio output of a computer for 'high quality'
apps. They'd rather use dedicated systems, f.e. MIDI samplers. BTW, most
of the 16bits of CD audio is used to handle the high dynamic of the music.
The Amiga can output audio with 14bit _dynamic_.

Regards,
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From: windiba@server.uwindsor.ca (WINDIBANK  CHRIS         )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: GVP 3001 to 50 mhz ?
Date: 10 Sep 1992 16:30:28 GMT

I am the owner of a GVP 3001 accellerator board.  It is the 28mhz model and the
CPU board is rev 4 and the RAM32 board is rev 3.  It currently contains a
MC68030RC25B and a MC68882RC25A.  What I was wondering is if there is anyone
with the same board who knows if it is possible to drop in a 50 mhz set of 
chips and a 50 mhz oscilllator.

Chris Windibank
windiba@server.uwindsor.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: copes@cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
Subject: Re: Hard disk throughput speed ?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:09:01 GMT

msnider@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com (Marc A. Snider x0193) writes:

>What kind of throughput can I expect from a stock A3000?  How about the
>numbers for a GVP combo accelerator (do they make an '040 based combo)
>using their scsi interface and an aftermarket drive?  Finally, what is
>the fastest throughput possible today on an A3000 and by what means?

>Thanks,
>M. Snider
>msnider@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com

My A3000 25/50 with 6 megs fastram runs around 850K/sec to 1M/sec depending
on disk usage and fragmentation.  Thats set up with 100 buffers and the stock
Quantum 52LPS drive.  Sling in a Quantum 240LPS and you can expect around
1.3-1.6 M/sec, sustainable.  GVP's 040 for the A3000 doesn't have a scsi
controller onboard, even if it did it would be slower than the standard one
unless it was a FAST scsi-II controller.  
Dave Haynie said they have a Maxtor Magic drive in the C= software department
that runs 3.9M/sec through the filesystem and 4.2M/sec direct to the driver.
I don't know what particular drive this is.  Perhaps Dave could post the
model no. for us :-)
The A3000 scsi controller is probably the fastest scsi controller you'll find
on anything under $10000.

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From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Postscript support in OS , means what ??????????
Summary: -MB- seeks clue
Keywords: PS PostScript PrinterPS
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:32:37 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

Someone asks a simple question about the new C= PostScript printer driver.
To which a certain iastate net.personality responds, with his customary
deft insight:

[...]

>...The PS driver will be useless for you if you do not own a PS
>printer. ...

Unless of course you have *access* to a PostScript printer, in which case
redirecting the PS output to a file would prove rather handy.

But this is clearly an unsatisfactory solution.  If Commodore had any
sense at all, they would include a PostScript *printer* with every A4000.
When will we learn?

>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------

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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 68030 Accelerators for the Amiga 500
Date: 9 Sep 92 10:16:31 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <epa.715928734@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>, epa@cis.ksu.edu (Eric P. Armstrong) writes:
> I am looking at buying a 68030 accelerator for my Amiga 500 since I
> cannot afford to upgrade to a A3000 :-(  I have a Xetec FastTrak HD
> controller w/4 Meg of memory on the daughterbord.  I am looking for
> specs on the various accelerators.
>
> I want a 68030 w/MMU  (None of this EC crap!), I'm not too worried
> about the FPU since I don't do anything that really uses floating
> point.  I would prefer that the board has simm slots so I can put my 4
> 1Meg simms on it as 32 bit memory.

        The two main 030 accelerators for the A500, the Mega Midget
Racer and the VXL-30 use ordinary DIP RAM chips. A standard A500 case
doesn't have enough height to fit a board with SIMMs (both the MMR
and VXL-30 barely fit in (height wise) as it is). Both have 68030
and 68EC030 options, with or without an FPU.

        GVP have a new unit called the A530. It's a SCSI hard disk,
a 40 Mhz 68030, optional FPU, up to 8 Mbytes of 32 bit SIMM RAM, and
also has a slot for GVP's PC286 IBM PC compatible processor card. The
biggest feature is that it's all in the one case, the same size as the
GVP A500-HD8+ hard disk unit. You don't have to open your A500, it
all plugs into the expansion connector on the left side of the A500,
as a single unit.


> I am looking for un-biased(hahahaha!) information on any boards that
> exist, compatibility problems encountered.  My motherboard is Rev 5.
> and has the 1Meg agnus installed.

        I have the VXL-30 (25 Mhz EC030, no 32 bit RAM) and a Rev 5
motherboard (with the Enhanced Chip Set). The VXL runs fine. The
only compatibility problems I've had are with software which doesn't
like the 030. Without 32 bit RAM, the speedup for general use is
not very large.

        There's also an 030 board made in England, the Solid State
Leisure B5000 (25 Mhz 68030, FPU, RAM and CPU on the same board,
up to 7 Mbytes of 32 bit RAM). Magazine reviews have said that the
manufacturing and documentation quality are not very good, but
it works and is cheaper than it's competition. I don't know if
B5000's are available outside of Europe.

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From: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 3000T motherboards, where are they made now?
Date: 7 Sep 92 21:12:13 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Sep5.191119.585@kas.helios.mn.org> rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes:
>...a friend on "Gold Service", you know the "next day" service, lost his
>motherboard and when he called Gold Service to have it fixed they basically
>told him there were no more motherboards available but they'd get ahold of
>him whenever some more were made. That was 3 weeks ago and he's still
>waiting for "Gold Service" to make good on their "next day" service...

	Gold Service and the A3000T simply don't get along.  For the first
few months I owned my A3000T, Gold Service admittedly had "no parts" for it,
and "no servicepeople" who had been trained to repair one.

	For my "next day" service, I was given the option of taking the
computer to my dealer (100 miles away) or using Commodore Express (Federal
Express to Commodore).  I chose FedEx and had my machine back in 6 days,
which wasn't too bad.  But I paid for "on site service" to avoid these kinds
of delays!

	I wrote an angry letter to Commodore's VP of customer service about
this, and got a friendly response by telephone from the VP himself.  His
explanation was that CBM hadn't trained Gold Service people to fix the
A3000T yet, so they were having them all shipped to CBM for service.  In
addition, he extended my warrantee because of this hassle.  (Although he has
never sent me written confirmation of this....)

>I guess Commodore uses a definition of "next day service" that I've never
>heard of before...

	Note -- they don't guarantee "next day" in writing, at least on my
contract.  They say that "most" problems can be handled by the next day.
But they do guarantee on-site service.  Huh.

	Commodore obviously made a promise that it is unable to keep:
timely, on-site service for A3000T's.  As one CBM employee said to me back in
May:  "You bought one of the first 500 A3000T's."  No wonder A3000T service
isn't foremost on CBM's mind.  But you'd think they'd want to take better
care of their highest-paying customers.

	DISCLAIMER:  all this happened several months ago.  Maybe things are
better now.  For all I know, Gold Service now has a crack team of 10,000
A3000T service people, sitting around and waiting for service calls.

                                                        Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rda732m@nella5.cc.monash.edu.au (J.P. Baker)
Subject: Re: Action Replay 3 and 2.04 INCOMBATIBLE?!?!?!
Organization: Monash University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:57:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.172920.24216@abo.fi> MSAASTAMOINE@finabo.abo.fi (Mika Saastamoinen Tkkk) writes:
>Hi!
>
>The subject line really says it all... Yesterday I upgraded my A500 (2.5M, 
>EX-v1.3 ;) to 2.04 (and yes, it's GREAT! Get it NOW!) and when I put the machine
>back together again, connected the AR3-cartridge and turned the whole thing 
>on... well, the machine went STRAIGHT into the AR3 command line! When I tried
>exiting AR3, it DID exit, but the machine hanged right there and then! No 
>booting, no nothing. Then I disconnected the cartridge and tried again: No
>problems whatsoever, the machine booted just as it should and I got my first
>real look at the new WB, which BTW is really cool! :) Anyway, what I'm 
>wondering now is that is Action Replay 3 and the new ROM incombatible?!?! Or
>did I break something (AR3? Circuitry on the machine?) while installing the new
>ROM or what? Has anyone had similar experiences? I'd really appreciate any info
>you can give me! Well sure, I could just change the old ROM back and see if the 
>cartridge still works, but for some reason the prospect doesn't appeal to me! ;)
>I think I'll get one of those ROM-switchers later on and then I'll know better,
>but I'd still like to know if this a common problem or 'something' :( ...
>
>Thanx,
>    :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>   ::    Mika Saastamoinen, Tallgreninkatu 6 P 89, 20380 Turku, Finland   ::
>   ::  Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, IS Science  ::
>   ::    E-mail: mikasaas@polaris.cc.utu.fi, msaastamoine@finabo.abo.fi   ::
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>


Yes and no. You cant boot under 2.04 with AR3 but you can by a kickstart\
switch and have 2.04 and 1.3 ROMS. Boot under 1.3 flick the switch to 
2.04 and away you go.

Not neat not even cute.

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From: cfjenkin@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au (ERROR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: New Amigas?
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:45:44 GMT


     I have recently heard some rumours regarding a whole new range of
Amigas coming out soon. I have heard things such as:
                24 bit colour
                32 bit sound
                50Mhz clockspeed
and other amazing things.
      I was wondering if anybody else has any idea of whether this is
true or not. I am about to upgrade my computer but would hate to buy an
A3000 only to find out that some new computers are coming out soon.  

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From: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: ALICE
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:03:13 GMT
Reply-To: kcd@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Dyke - Amiga Networking)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep14.045808.3129@ultb.isc.rit.edu> tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>
>	Does anyone have the low down on the supposed ability of Alice to
>address 4 megs of chip ram and how/when this will be implented and why this
>wasn't done (and the sound chip) before the A4000 was announced.  I don't
>think they should ship it until they at least put SCSI in it.

Alice is only capable of addressing two megabytes of chip memory.  Period.

-Ken


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product)
Subject: Re: Using ImageWriter II with Amiga 2000HD
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:23:35 GMT

>>> On 13 Sep 92 20:26:20 GMT, simms@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Christian R. Simms) said:
> Nntp-Posting-Host: eniac.seas.upenn.edu

> I may be asking in the wrong place, but I have an ImageWriter II and I want to
> connect it to my Amiga 2000HD, how do I physically connect it to the Amiga?
> The ImageWriter only has a small circular hole.

> Thank you,
> Chris  (simms@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)

hey, i hooked up an imagewriter II  to my 500 a couple of years ago.
on the amiga serial end: pins 2, 3, and 7. i cut out the din plug and
soldered directly into the printer. unfortunitly, i no longer remember
which lines in the printer i used. if your printer manual has any
hardware info, it should be be fairly trivial to tell what is what.

you can find a driver on the extras 1.3 disk. i haven't looked to see
if they included it on the 2.x release.

good luck

c.
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