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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200/4000 ramblings...
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:18:31 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <lES8s*0H0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:

>> You're almost right. The DBLPAL modes flicker so much that its hard to
>> view them. It can't be this way when used in its proper environment.

>> If it were true, the British would all be walking around with constant
>> headaches.

>DblPAL works fabulously. The high-res interlace one flickers, as
>do most of the interlaced ones. 

Flicker is largely a matter of opinion, which is probably based on what
you're used to.  Every monitor flickers, but not everyone can see the
flicker.  Certainly by the time you're up at 72Hz or so, few people have
fast enough eyes to complain.  When I go to Europe, I wonder how anyone
can watch PAL TV on a regular basis, but millions do.  Some people didn't
have a big problem with interlaced NTSC on the Amiga, more can stand 72Hz
interlace (SUPER72).  I used an 80-something-Hz interlaced 1024x1024 
workstation monitor for years without even realizing it was interlaced (much
like the typical 1280x1024 available on these TSENG VGA cards), but the
monitor was fairly high persistance.  Ultimately, it's what you can live with.
Some few probably will have a problem with ~60Hz non-interlaced, like DblNTSC
(make sure you have "Avoid Flicker" checked before deciding you're a member
of that set).  

It's like sitting.  Most folks find sitting cross-legged comfortable, but
would get sore pretty quickly sitting seiza or lotus style.  Yet if you 
happed to grow up in Japan or India, you might be perfectly comfortable
sitting one of those ways, because you did it for years growing up.  That's
my best guess about the acceptability of PAL TV.
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From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 - 68020EC ??
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 12:02:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Dec15.181333.8814@vaxc.aud.auc.dk>

The EC 68020 has less addressing lines than the full 68020.  I 
believe it has 24 instead of 32.  The MMU is a separate chip
on 68020 based systems.  You are thinking of the 68EC030.
From: h_hucke@bdb.escape.de (Henning Hucke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Trade-Ins?
Organization: BDB * The private Z-NETZ-BBS in Braunschweig (Germany)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:38:00 +0100

Does Commodore offer a trade-in somewhere on our planet? Or are there (at
least) "serious rumors" :-) about such a trade-in???

Here in germany H. Jost sayed that they are thinking about it... But they
are thinking for half a year now. _Normaly_ Commodore doesn't need so
much time to think about something. So what is going on.

Henning

PS: trade-in for a4000 and eventually (when availabel) a4000t.

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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk performance speeds
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:32:35 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

etam@fraser.sfu.ca (Edwin Tam) writes:
>Does anyone know a good Shareware or PD HD speed benchmarker?  Also,
>what are typical rates on a Quantum?

Hmmm....  Maybe DiskSpeed 4.2.  I know we use it all the time...
(But then, I also wrote it :-)

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From: hhoff@blefusco.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: I must find a way to read HD IBM disks!
Date: 17 Dec 92 09:33:43 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
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slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:


>It has come to my attention that I *MUST* be able to read 1.8 Meg IBM
>floppy drives on my Amiga... AT ANY COST!

>I need to know if there is any way I can do this.  I don't care if
>I have to plug the drive into my SCSI port, but I *MUST* be able to
>read and write 1.8 Meg disks.
I don't know anything about 1.8Meg disks, but if you want to read
1.4MB disks or 2.8MB disks, you can try the GoldenGate-Bridgeboard which
exists in a 386SX and an 486??-Version. Both can be euqipped with a 
floppy controller-chip on board, which can handle 2.8MB-drives and
others (1.4MB disks can even be read on normal Commodore-HD-Disk-Drives from
with CrossDos).

>Please help me out!

>--
>Faith Gibson
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AGA artifacts, shimmer
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:47:37 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Keywords: AGA

In article <1992Dec15.032707.8522@netcom.com> tres@netcom.com (Gary Chow) writes:
> In article <92349.200813FAA102@psuvm.psu.edu> <FAA102@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> >In article <dej.026x@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca>, dej@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones)
> >says:
> [stuff deleted]
> >>On all of the AGA machines, a fine pattern of vertical lines could
> >>be seen on the screen.  The lines were 8 pixels apart.  On one machine,
> [stuff deleted]
> >>
> >>Have any AGA users out there noticed the same thing?  Commodore, what
> >>will you do about it?
> >>
> >>--
> >> David Jones, 6730 Tooney Drive, Orleans, Ontario K1C 6R4 CANADA
> >>
> >
> >I think you're seeing things. I saw a demo on a 1960 monitor and the 4000 perfo
> >rmed flawlessly.  The pictures were incredibly good.
> >
> >
> >Name------Frederick-Aaron------|          ///
> 
> I have a 4000 sitting right in front of me.  And I can assure you that
> David is not "seeing things" there are vertical lines 8 pixels apart!
> (But you have to look real close) ... and it doesn't really bother me

What you may see is a faint pattern of vertical bright and dim bars.
This is most obvious on a plain grey background with the contrast on
the monitor cranked all the way up and all invisible with real images
or text on the screen.  If you're looking for some kind of sharp lines
or radical zebra strips you won't see them.

The pattern is basically visual evidence of the internal 3.58 MHz cycle
pattern.  It's the kind of thing that we'll try to improve over time,
but it's all but impossible to compeletely eliminate.

Someone else mentioned shimmer or a kind of swimming motion.  This is
usually due to having two monitors in close proximity without any
magentic shielding between them and not a feature of the video output.

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From: d2hacker@dtek.chalmers.se (Magnus Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Connecting an internal drive as a internal one?
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:47:43 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

Does anybody know if there's a way to connect a floppy drive intended
for internal connection as an external drive?

Why? Because a couple of months ago my internal drive in my old A500
broke down, causing me to buy a new internal drive.
Since then, I have (with a little help from a friend) repaired the old drive,
and thought I could use it as a external drive.

Or perhaps this isn't possible at all?
If anybody has done this successfully, please send me an email describing
what I have to do? (Bear in mind that I am not very good in electronics..:-)

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From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:02:33 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

tdkeeler@ualr.edu wrote:

: The Amiga 1200 is not the answer either.  There is no box to put stuff in.
: The cost of the 1200 and a box is not effective either.

My suggestion is that you wait for the A4000/030, it fills the gap
between A1200 and A4000/040.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Zanto)
Subject: Re: Canon PJ1080 ink cartridge sources...?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:14:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.215150.18602@beaver.cs.washington.edu> dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) writes:
>
>I'm looking for an ink cartridge for my PJ1080a.  Does anyone know
>where I can get them?  I know Radio Shack used to sell a repackaged
>1080 -- they still sell ink for one of their two old inkjet  printers,
>but I don't know the RS equivalent model number...

Try Briwall, they have them, in addition to the roll paper it uses.

Eric
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Stupid question of the week:  Why not a VGA card in your A2
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:03:21 GMT

In article <Boinger.07nc@myamy.hacktic.nl> boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl
(Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
 
>> It already has been done: the GoldenGate II (not to be confused with
>> Vortex's "Golden Gate" products) from David Salamon.

>Hmm. tell me, who's writing the driver for it? This would mean my
>386 would lose it's ET-4000 sVGA card to Amy PDQ. :-) 

Sorry, the Golden Gate won't allow you to do this. Besides, without RTG,
how would you display Workbench?
From: petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org (Petter Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DKB with AGA card.
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:10:30 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: Ultima Thule Software
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <71680@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:

> >> Rumour is EXACTLY what this is!!
> >
> >Ehem, but this info was taken from a fax from DKB to a distibutor.. ;-)
> >
> >Are you SURE you're not working on something (impossible?) ? ;-D
>
> Wouldn't this be completely at the whim of CBM? Unless someone has
> already managed to clone the AGA chipset.

Well, if Commodore won't release the chip-set to a third party developer,
there probably won't be any third party AGA-card. It's highly doubtfull that
anyone will be able to copy AGA in this century..

>
> TomK@cup.portal.com
> Tom Krotchko

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From: spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 1024 x 768
Date: 19 Dec 92 04:54:41 GMT
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Dec14.220652.3925@ida.liu.se> y88kenek@odalix.ida.liu.se (Kenneth Ekman) writes:
>mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>
>>In <37758@cbmvax.commodore.com> spence@cbmvax.commodore.com (Spencer Shanson) writes:
>>>No, there is no tool to do so, simply because with such a tool, it would be real
>>>easy for someone who doesn't know what they are doing to damage their monitor.
>
>Ok, but what I think a lot of people would want to make with that tool is
>a (slow and flickering) screen with something like 1024 x 768 pixels.
>It might be quite usable for viewing SVGA pictures, which often
>flickers less than for example wb. One might not expect somenone
>to make such a monitorfile available? Or would it be hard to find
>a monitor that could handle the odd scanfrequency?

A 1024 x 768 mode would have a refresh rate of 30Hz. Hardly useable!

>
>>Regards,
>>-- 
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>
>Kenneth.


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From: kroener@cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Kroener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Length of SCSI-connection
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:04:19 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of the Saarland, Germany

Hi freaks,
Does the length of the cable from a scsi host to a harddisk has any
influence on the performance of the disk ?

Thanks in advance,
                  ---Thomas
From: sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3070
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:29:43 GMT
Organization: Fred's Lounge



I am about to get a A3070 tape drive and I'm wondering if it
would be at all possible to connect it to a Sparc 2 to easily
transfer data between it and the Amiga. Has anybody tried this?
Can anybody give me any ideas on what problems I might have?
Thanks,
Scot
sjk@emx.cc.utexas.edu
sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: World of Commodore Notes
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 05:49:35 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
 3@bmerh85.bnr.ca><1992Dec09.173017.27098@zds-oem.zds.com><1992Dec9.210126.2
 4486@ra.msstate.edu> <71439@cup.portal.com>
  <92346.163731K3023E2@ALIJKU11.BITNET>

>>>I guess if there were any games that ran on the A4000 then you might
>>>have heard a few more complaints...  :-)
>
>>Actually, most of my favorites run. Most of the arcade stuff breaks.
>>Fortunately the following runs with no problem:
>
>-"-
>
>>Marble Madness almost works; except the ball appears on the screen
>>four times.
>
>Great| Marble Madness is still now one of the best coded & perfectly
>playable game ever made on Amiga (and all this system-friendly|||)
>
>Tell me more about the 4-times-ball please. Is it still playable?
>
>-"-
>Regards, Werner.
>

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: akiy@diva.cs.titech.ac.jp (Akiyama Jun)
Subject: Re: cd-rom drive info
Reply-To: akiy@cs.titech.ac.jp
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Tech., Dept. of Computer Science, Japan
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:18:27 GMT


Boinger@myami.kacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
>>                               My System Information program says it is
>> an MATSHITA-CR5xx with 1.0c ROM. Is this a Matshushita (Panasonic)
>> CR-501? It's Unisys ID is ESD2-CDR (UA2723001350) and it also says
>> CR-501-U [...]

jay.rymal@canrem.com (jay rymal) writes back:
>   I'm a proud owner of AsimWare Innovation's AsimCDFS.  The latest version's
>   addendum says
	
	[list of supported SCSI devices deleted]

>   Supported CDRom drives:
>     *Panasonic CD-501 (ROM 1.0b)

	[deletia]

>   So I'm sure It'll work...Paul Reeves also gives great support for the 
>   software, including a support area on a local BBS.

If I interpreted the postings on alt.cd-rom a little whiles back, I
think that Matshita is a company in Korea and is totally unrelated to
Matsushita (which is better known outside of Japan as Panasonic).
Ergo, I wouldn't jump on AsimWare's CDFS just yet (although I have
heard many praises for the filesystem, and I am thinking of switching
over to it from CD-Rom FS).  Perhaps a query in alt.cd-rom or a phone
call to AsimWare or the other two CD-ROM file system companies (Xetec
and Canadian Iforgetheirname) might be a good precautionary measure.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: What about Amiga sound chip improvements?
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:14:38 GMT

In article <shogun.09nd@tension.UUCP> shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown) writes:

>        I have heard that sometime in '93 they will release the dsp.  This is
>C= we're talking about though.  I heard about the A3000 two years befor it was
>released.

CBM has acknowledged on at least two occasions that the 32-bit AT&T DSP will
be released in the late spring, accompanied with device support under 3.1.
From: hkhauv@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU
Subject: a couple of questions
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: 18 Dec 92 07:21:45 GMT


Please help me with the following questions.  Thanks you very much

1.  I need the follow information on the Quantum harddrive that come standard
    with Amiga 3000.  It is 52mb harddrive.  I need to know the number
    of heads, cylinder, and sectors.

2.  Which monitor is better for the A4000, Sony 1304s or SonicView 6FS?

thanks again.
From: dhunt@infocom.UUCP (David Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Miniscribe 2012 Hardrive
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:14:35 GMT
Organization: INFOCOM Public Unix Server, +44 [0] 734 340055
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]


I am thinking of attaching a Miniscribe 2012 Hard Drvie (FULL HEIGHT) to an 
amiga ST506 controller, can anyone help with how many heads?, cylinders? 
this drive has and is it feasible to put this drive into a standalone box 
with power supply and run it as the amiga 500s hardrive


any assistance would be of immense help


Merry Christmas, one and all


--
dhunt
From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200 - 68020EC ??
Date: 11 Dec 1992 18:19:47 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <1992Dec11.171145.13055@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.093004.10703@walter.cray.com> walterb@sequoia.cray.com
>(Walter Boese Jr.) writes:
>>What does the 'EC' in 68020 mean for the Amiga A1200.
>No MMU.

Actually, while true, that isn't what they moved.  The 68020 has never
had a built in memory-management unit.  It has always been external in
the form of a 68851.

No, with the 68EC020, the only difference is the packaging and a loss
of some pins:  Let me explain.

The 68EC020 has a 32-bit dataspace, and operates in 32-bits.  They
have removed 16-bits of dataspace, though it still operates in
32-bits.  So while everything is the same as the 68020, the 68EC020 is
limited to a 16-megabyte address space.

Make sense?  Thought so.  :)

>Expense. The EC020 is quite suitable for an entry-level machine and
>most people will not be inclined to run Unix or virtual memory on
>such a machine. The alternative is another 68000. Don't give them any
>ideas :).

Well, actually, I do believe that the EC020 is around for embedded
control applications.  You know, 68EC020, 68020 for Embedded Control?
;)

Greg

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From: dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: I must find a way to read HD IBM disks!
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:13:33 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: itchub10.cs.itc.hp.com

The Vortex 386SX and 486SLC Golden Gate boards offer a 'server mode' that 
suposedly allows the Amiga side to directly access memory and disk drives 
connected to the PC side.  The literature specifically mentioned accessing 
hi-density (360k, 720k, 1.2m, 1.44m and 2.88m) floppies from the Amiga.

I should be able to give a definate answer soon, the 486SLC I ordered 
should be delivered today!

Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com

Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:37:48 -0500 
From: Marcus Augustus Alzona <Marcus+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: S-Video on an A1084

Just a small question:

How would I connect S-Video output to my A1084?

Thanks,
Marcus

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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: AAG
Date: 15 Dec 92 07:46:20 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Distribution: world
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <3DEC199223593270@venus.tamu.edu> tww2568@venus.tamu.edu (WEEKS, THOMAS WILLIAM) writes:

>Is the new clock speed of the AAG set 4x(colorburst)?  

Not the way you mean.

>If not, what is meant by 4 times the Bandwidth?  Do they mean they have 
>increased the data path or # of DMA lines?

Basically.  We quote bandwidth increases because they tell how much faster
a particular thing is, independent of how it got that fast.  in the case of
the AA chips, 2x improvement is gained by doubling the word size, 2x by
doubling the amount of data fetched per bus cycle (two data fetch cycles run in
the space of one ECS data fetch, much like "burst" modes in other systems).


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