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From: sc-c@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 Modulator faults in UK
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:46:26 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

ajr@aber.ac.uk (Ade Rixon) writes:
> I just got off the phone to C= this morning, having been trying to get
> through for the past three days (and the bastards play sh*tty music at you
> while you're on hold now!). Apparently, their service dept is right out of
> A1200 modulators but is expecting a delivery this Friday, at which point
> arrangements will be made for the outstanding repairs. For chasing up my
> original call, it seems I get priority; if you want to do this, be prepared
> to waste an awful lot of money on your phone bill (probably not worth it).
> 
> Hope this gives hope to the desperate,
> Ade_
>    /
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> | Dyfed, Wales, SY23 3DB.   / 	


Could you please post again (or mail me) with some more information about the
problem with modulator chips, please?

I got an A1200 at Christmas, fitted it with a hard drive myself
(thus invalidating my warrenty), then the modulator flickered 
between colour and black and white, and eventually died.

Since I broke the warrenty seals, I didn't bother contacting Commodore
to see if they'd repair it. I took it to a computer repair center,
who refused to fix it because they couldn't get hold of the chip.

But if it's a design fault of some sort, and you seem to imply there
have been lots of problems with modulator chips, then maybe Commodore 
should be responsible for the repair of it anyway?


Thanks in advance for any info!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: djp33563@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David J. Pugliese)
Subject: Quantum vs. Maxtor hard disks
Summary: Which is better, mechanically?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:11:50 GMT
Keywords: quantum, maxtor,hd

	I want to upgrade the 52meg Quantum to something larger.
The 240meg Quantum is out of my price range, so I was looking at either
the 170 meg ELS Quantum or the 213 meg Maxtor.  Their specs are similar
(aside from size) and prices comparable.  While the extra 40+ meg would
be nice, I've heard discussion around this group that Maxtor drives
are louder and mecanically inferior.  I really can't hear the Quantum
I have now, and I know someone with an older Maxtor, and it's definitely
noisy.
	I've also heard that the new Quantum ELS drives are "slower" than
the older LPS.  Is there any truth to this?

	Comments, anyone?

	thanks,
	Dave Pugliese
	d-pugliese@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HST problems
From: mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:10:51 EST
Distribution: world

In article <OD.6BadNetOA92-910-103p5_3c696862@piraya.bad.se>, Lars_Erup_Larsen@p5.pitstop.bbs.bad.se (Lars Erup Larsen) writes:
> from: Portfolio@p5.pitstop.bbs.bad.se
> 
> 
> Hi guys!
> 
> I'm  having huge problems with my newly bought HST modem, so I'm crying for 
> your help 8)
> 
> 
> One  of  the  problems  is, that I recieve bad CRC's when downloading to my 
> harddrive.
> There  is no problem at all when I am downloading to ram.  The bad  CRC's  
> pops  up
> when  the  modembuffer is full, and it's time for the harddrive  to  do  its 
> job.  I
> have tried to change the buffer size without any  improvements.   I  don't 
> think it's
> because  of  a  slow  harddrive,  cuz  I  get transfer rates about 1 mb/sec
> (A590/Q105LPS)

You are using nearly the same configuration I have (A590 w/2megs FASTram,
Quantum 85ELS)...Your best bet is to set your serial port to 19.2Kbps and to
bump up the task priority of your terminal program (try 1 to 15 in small
increments).  Also, don't use your floppy drives or multitasking programs 
if you can avoid it.  Also, I have recently upgraded from kickstart 1.3 to 2.0
and I have noticed that I now receive quite a bit fewer errors when downloading.


> > Secondly:   If  I  use  the  build-in phonebook in the terminalprograms I'm 
> using  (Term,  Terminus/JRComm,  NComm,  XComm), I will recieve nothing but 
> trash  when i get a connect, or I will simply recieve a guru.  What's going on?
> ???

I will e-mail you my COURIER HST modem settings if you would like.  I recommend
against using modem setting programs as you don't know what they're telling
your modem to do.  Of course, if you don't know much about high speed modems,
then what else is there to do?


Mike Handy
mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
Subject: aga promotin/coercion
Reply-To: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:11:29 EST


 I have been playing around with an Amiga 1200 and have some questions.
 
I hooked up the A1200 to my IBM VGA monitor to see how it would work. It 
isn't as bad as most people claimed. I can't use it for anything that 
can't be promoted to 15.5 Hrz but it's still useable for most applications.
 
Some of the screen modes are offset to the right of the screen leaving a 
large black gap on the left of the screen. I did find  one mode (Multiscan)
which centred the screen. I suspect this is due to the fact that some of
the screen modes output at 29 Hrz and the monitor wasn't really designed for
this frequency.
 
Mode promotion works pretty good. I have't found too many programs which refuse
to promote. I have been able to get the screens that don't promote to work by
Coerion. Coercion is the result of displaying to screen modes on the screen at
one time. For example, if you are running Dpaint 4 in the back window and you
pull down Workbench. There are two screen modes since Dpaint can't be promoted.
The AMiga will automaticly force the program behind to display in the front 
windows resolution so it can display both screens. I have gotten a number of
programs to work by draging the WB screen down so only the title of the WB
screen shows at the bottom. This causes the program in the background to use
the front screens Frequency.
 
 Which brings me to my question! Why wasn't it possible to force programs into
a screen mode in this manner? Couldn't it have been done through hardware?

          robert.buonincontro&canrem.com
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Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 15:34:06 EST
From: Just some weird dude <IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 1200

The 600 has a PCMCIA slot and the 4000 doesn't.  Does the 1200?
I have AC's guide to the Amiga and it doesn't list the 1200 at all.
Thanks for the info in advance.
______________________________________________________________________
COREY GRAY              |   A wet dog swims in the rain
IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU |      But a dry martini laughs
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From: ford@euclid.uoregon.edu (Ben Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: chip for Amiga 500
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:07:58 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-math-7.uoregon.edu

I know nothing about Amigas...  I have a Russian friend who sent me
a note that says his school's computer (he's a high school teacher)
is a "Commodore-Amiga-500" and needs a chip "8520A-1".  Does anyone
know what this is and if so, where can I get one to send to him?

Thanks for any help.  Reply by email please, as I don't usually read
this group.

Ben Ford
ford@euclid.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
Subject: Re: HD floppy on A3000 problems
Reply-To: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:37:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.173616.22087@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>
>If you know someone with an PClone or a Mac with HD drives, try to
>format the disk on one of those machines.
>
>If I don't recall things wrong, it was (is) a bug in AmigaDOS.
>Changing between DD and HD diskettes screws things up, not just for
>formatting. I beleive the SetPatch that comes with WB2.1 corrects
>this. These statements are, however, nothing more than (educated?)
>guesses. I have a very fuzzy memory of it all. I run WB3.0 and have
>no problems with my HD drive.
>
Thanks to all who responded.  It appears that I need a patch for
trackdisk.device that comes in later versions of the OS.  Is there
some utility available from an ftp site (someone mentioned HDfixer,
but wuarchive didn't have it) that will do this?  Or must I order
WB2.1 (or WB3.0 -- is this even available in the states unbundled from
an AGA machine?)?

Matt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dburnett@emunix.emich.edu (Don Burnett)
Subject: Re: Trapdoor slot in A1200
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:32:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.124001.27553@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilg@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil MG Gall) writes:
>Not really important; just something I thought of this morning in the
>shower:
>
>	Do boards in the trapdoor slot in the A1200 AutoConfig or
>	do they appear at a fixed address space as with the A500 ?
>
>+-----------------------------------------------+------------------------+
>|  Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles,   |     Neil M.G. Gall     |
>|      for they shall be known as Wheels.       |   neilg@uk.ac.hw.cee   |
>+-----------------------------------------------+------------------------+

 No, you have a real 150 pin autoconfig CPU slot in there. My Sysinfo
 says it autoconfigs as Zorro II address space and that I have a Microbotics
 board in there.. All in all it's pretty cool..

 =DonB=

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From: un036443@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Spartan SCSI
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:56:07 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing


     Does anyone have any information on the Paul Harker's Spartan SCSI
interface? I recently FTP'd a file containing schemtic, mountlist, and
hard drive specs. The file had no documentation and i have alot of questions 
about it.
1. Is anyone using this SCSI interface?

2. How well does it work?

3. Does anyone know how to get in touch with Paul Harker?

4. What series is the IC?

     If you can answer any of these questions or provide some general
information about the interface then your response is greatly apperciated!
                                             
                                                   Derek


 
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: c_feck@informatik.uni-kl.de (Christop Feck)
Subject: Re: 1200 and 1200HD hits America...
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:31:28 GMT

In <930120533@genesis.nred.ma.us> nugget@genesis.nred.ma.us (Ralph Barbagallo)
writes:
[...]
>  Well that's what I meant... oops! BTW, when's 3.1 coming out?  And how
[...]

C= often mentioned the DSP support in OS 3.1. Since the DSP should be out in
'late spring' expect 3.1 beta versions in about 3 months. Perhaps registered
developers already have one. Ask them - they wouldn't answer :-)
I could imagine that 3.1 is - like 2.1 - a 'disk only' update. Kickstart 3.0
IS FULL :-)
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David Loyd)
Subject: Re: A500 Tower
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:35:03 GMT

890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:

>neubersc@lucy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Ralf Neubersch) writes:

>>Hi Folks !

>>I want to put my A500 into a Tower-Case, since together with my external
>>drives, harddisc, soundsampler .... there`s no place on my desk anymore.

>>Does anybody know whether this is an unsolvable problem or how I can do
>>this quite easy ? (Problems may occur with the mainboard- how shall I fasten
>>it in the Towercase, and how do I cover the internal drive, it is quite naked
>>and I need something to cover it with.

>>If anybody has experience with this subject, please tell me.

>>Thanks, Ralf

>Try buying the Hi-Q500 tower (or whatever it's called).  That should make
>everything fit quite nicely...though you'll need A2000 internal drives, from
>what I understand about it.
>-Doc

>-- 
>=============================================================================== The Commodore Amiga 4000 - 24 bit          16,777,216 colors (4096^2)!!         ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buster: "Say goodnight, Babs."                                                 
>Babs  : "Goodnight, Babs."                                                      I'm tiny, I'm toony, and I'm a little looney!                                   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darren MacKenzie                                                                ("The Doctor")                                                                  890530m@aucs.acadiau.ca
>===============================================================================
Or he could buy an IBM Tower for about $100 new and mount the
motherboard in it. No problem at all. Pay attention to the tower
specs and purchase one with 5.25" bays as well as 3.5" bays.

Some of them also have a 'slide-out-of-the-door' which covers
the drives incase you have rug rats. (Mine just loves to stick in
the disk in every way but the right way)!


Hope it helps.

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8megs 32bit Ram     VXL 40mhz '030 w/ 33mhz FPU   52 Meg Quantum HD
Supra 2400ZI+ Modem    Sony KV-1311CR Monitor      Wangtek 60meg TB
From: traynor@fnala.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Kickstart 2.5 ROM chip?
Date: 23 Jan 93 21:19:35 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov

In article <1993Jan22.134726.2160@msus1.msus.edu>, martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??) writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.231723.1019@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu>, mchandy@miavx3.mid.muohio.edu writes:
>>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
>>
> 
> I though 2.04 allowed for HD floppies....sounds like a scam.. :)
> 
> 
> Jim

Isn't one of the features of WB2.1 HD floppy support?

					-Mike Traynor

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 N  NN   D RD   Batavia IL, 60510   USA         //|\\    190 Meg HD   \\\/// 
NN   NN DDDD    (708) 879-6095 [ans. mach.]    /// \\\   14.4Kbps modem\XX/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: A500 NTSC to PAL switch
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:15:17 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.4]

Could someone send me a copy of the hack to install a switch on an A500 
which allows switching between NTSC and PAL modes? 

I assume this hack will work on a 512K CHIP RAM A500 with Fatter Agnus 
(8372). Right?


                 Thanks in advance!
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      | Telnet: 794-4192            | HP Mailstop: 2LR-N                 | 
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From: Martin_Dolan@guru.apana.org.au (Martin Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: NEC 3d/4d specifications
Distribution: world
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:00:42 +1100
Organization: Guru Meditation BBS

nec 3d  -  works in all aga modes.

nec 4d - will not go down to 15khz, so will not work...
 
i just had to get rid of my nec 4fg cause it wouldnt work...  nec 3d is the
ONLY nec monitor that goes to 15.6khz
 
Marty


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: smcgrath@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Sean McGrath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Calling ALL monitor owners, I'm compiling a list
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:47:56 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Chuck - Gilkison (Chaz1@cup.portal.com) wrote:
: >I will compile a list over the next month and post here.
: >
: >For those of you who have a monitor for the amiga that doesn't work in all
: >modes pease send me a note of the make and model number so that I can add this
: >as a list of monitors that don't work in all modes.
: >
: >Thanks,
: >
: >Simon


: You might want to keep track of whether they have PAL also.  Alot of literature
: does not say one way or the other.
: >

I recently purchased an Idek 5017 from IdekLiyama.  17", scans from 15khz to 40khz, 1024x768NI max resolution, does PAL/NTSC, has numerous controls for horizontal and vertical width, and is GORGEOUS!

  Sean
                    
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From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  Why do Commodities slow down the Amy? (was: How does 2.04
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 09:47:21 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <a4yiXB4w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> <alien.02qf@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>

If you run a tool such as MSIP or equivalent you will see that the
commodities take up alot of the cpu time.  With a 68000, there is
alot less to spare that with today's systems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Walter R Francis)
Subject: Logitech Trackman (serial) to Amiga.
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:12:14 GMT

I have a Trackman that a friend gave me a long time ago when I had a
temporary PC and it's been sitting around for almost 2 yeras..  I
just had the idea with all the topics going around of converting
serial/parallel mice to use with Amiga, I figured perhaps this track
ball can..
 
Could someone point me towards a hack for it?  I would prefer it to use
the mouse ports (as would a paralell mouse would be, or a hacked serial
one) but serial use is okay too.
 
I'm not afraid of a soldering gun, I've done plenty small-time hacking
on little stuff.
 
Thanks for your help.. :)
 
Oh..  If I can't find a hack.. Anyone wanna buy it? :)
               _
      Walter_ //   Wally@UKCC.UKY.EDU   AN723@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU
        R   \X/    Wally@MIK.UKY.EDU
     Francis       Francis@UKPR.UKY.EDU
From: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  GVP crap
Date: 20 Jan 93 12:40:53 GMT
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Organization: System Information 2.0 Development
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In article <weigner.3458@rcshq.adsp.sub.org> weigner@rcshq.adsp.sub.org (Jan Weigner) writes:
> In article <93017.120314CTLCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> CTLCC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
> 
> Also all the Commodore products come with schematics. I at least do not have
> a single CBM product here which I do have no schematics for.

Then you definately do not have a (non-developer) A4000. :-) No
schematics of any of the three boards in there came with it...

CYa, Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh DISABLED)
Subject: Re: HD floppy on A3000 problems
Keywords: HD floppy
Reply-To: chsieh@Ingres.COM (Chemin Hsieh)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:28:13 GMT

In article <22JAN199322184843@trentu.ca> nrichers@trentu.ca (NIKOLAJ RICHERS) writes:
>
>I haven't tried this on my A3000, which came with a HD floppy already,
>but I read on some other non-Usenet newsgroup that the signals passing
>from a DD floppy won't let a HD floppy drive work properly. The cure
>is to make your HD floppy DF0, and your DD flopyy DF1. According to the
>source this should solve your problems.
>
>You might want to try this...
>

I will, after I try the patch.  Unfortunately, I'm here in California
for a week, so I'll have to wait 'til Saturday to try the patch back
home in Arizona.  A friend of mine had heard this df0-df1 problem, as
well.

Re: HD floppies not being recognized after being formatted low density.  

I noticed this at work, too (we have TONS of PeeCees).  Some floppy
drives format any disk, no problem.  Others will not recognize (or even
reformat) HD floppies that have been formatted low.  I called 3M's
800 support number and the tech dude (I'm sure that's his official
title) confirmed that some drives have this problem with their disks.
He recommended the erase-the-disk-with-a-big-magnet method.


Matt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: joel@dflores.eagle.mission.tx.us (Joel Garza)
Subject: Re: A2024 (Moniterm) monitor
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:13:42 GMT
Organization: Dave's Amiga

As far as the pal resolution goes, is there any software switchable
way to use pal on an ntsc machine under the 2024?  I mean, if you
want to use the 2024 modes you only have the ntsc choices for
10Hz and 15Hz.  Possibly, there is another version for pal machines.

JAGuar