HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Golden Gate II
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:23:48 GMT

In article <10272@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

> >Sorry, the Golden Gate won't allow you to do this. Besides, without RTG,
> >how would you display Workbench? 

>Yes it will! Please note that "II" in the name of the board. The first
>version didn't have any RAM space to share with the PC side, so no VGA
>was indeed possible. But version II does provide this and David has
>already confirmed that everything is prepared for a VGA card.

Thanks for the clarification. It's unfortunate for David that Vortex has
marketed a product with an identical name and created some unnecessary
confusion. This sounds like an excellent prospect. Some questions which
come to mind:

o Is the GGII a Zorro II-specific configuration? And if so, have any tests
  been conducted to get an idea as to the relative performance of a VGA
  card using this interface? (ie. how well would an ATI Ultra Pro run
  for instance?)

o Is there any possibility of a Zorro III-specific version of the GGII?
  And if so, would this provide a significant difference in performance?

o Will the card be released commercially?

>completely right that it's "only" a question of a proper driver to let
>this thing fly :-).

However, we all know that the most elegant solution is RTG. Assuming that
this will materialize at some point, how difficult would it be to write
libraries for existing PC display adaptors? Are any limited programs
available at the moment which would allow you to display a static image?

Lots of questions, but this is exciting stuff! :).
From: rross@axelon.UUCP (Raymond Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A1200
Date: 12 Dec 92 21:17:10 PST
Organization: Superboard Two BBS

  Good, good support-- I noted, too, that his system had no sound in it.  IBMS
without sound cards are no better than a touch-tone-telepne, if you know what I
mean.  As soon as the A1200 gets out in and selling in the U.S.A, perhaps some
of the clone-people will realease the power and potential of this machine.  I
certainly have-- I am an Amiga reller, and I have held off all of mymachine
spending until I can get my handsthe A1200!!!
From: jwalkup@terapin.com (Jeff Walkup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: WB2.1 & CrossDOS
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:04:55 PST
Organization: BBS

I just installed WB2.1 on my A3000.  Hey I like most of the new stuff,
like the new Format and Commodities Exchange.... but I've noticed a
problem here:  If I move the PC0: (CrossDOS) icon into Devs/DOSDrivers
(so it gets mounted automatically upon startup), whenever I put an
AmigaDOS disk in the drive, I get two icons, one with the AmigaDOS name
and one named "PC0:????".  This is really annoying.  I know that
CrossDOS always has put a "DF0:????" icon up if you insert an Ms-DOS
disk (although I was hoping that Commodore would have 'fixed' that),
but now the reverse is also true... boo hiss.   And here's the
really weird part: if I *DO NOT* auto-mount PC0: at startup, but
instead leave the icon in the Storage drawer and run it manually,
it *does not* do this (put up "PC0:????" when an Amiga disk is in).

((Cue Twilight Zone theme... "you have entered another dimension...
  the CROSSDOSZONE... doodoo doo doo doodooo doo doo..."))


* And one other thing I just noticed:  Why was "RexxMast" removed
from the Startup-sequence?  I couldn't figure out why my ARexx stuff
wasn't working until I noticed this.  So I put it back in myself.  Was
there a reason to take it out?

--
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Save the whales............... yeah funky mama save the whales!
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Question: Order of Bus Connections Important?
Date: 11 Dec 92 11:58:02 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <23NOV199212461511@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov> olson@dstl86.gsfc.nasa.gov (Paul Olson) writes:

>I know, from having managed VAXen for the last 12 years, that the connection
>order of peripherals to a bus is important.  But I was told by a local dealer
>that I should have my GVP SCSI upstream (i.e. closer to the CPU) of my SupraRAM
>in my A2000 in order to improve performance.  Is this true?  

No, the position of cards, in general, has nothing to do with performance.  All
slots on the bus run at the same speed.  There can occasionally be software 
reasons for shuffling cards.  For instance, a typical DMA-drive SCSI host 
adaptor on an A2000 will probably benefit if there's a memory card in a slot 
that's closer to the CPU.  That's because, if the SCSI adaptor is the first
card, there won't be any Fast RAM on the A2000, while if RAM is the first card,
the SCSI card will be able to immediately take advantage of that Fast RAM.  
Also, you would expect combination cards to configure memory before SCSI or 
other I/O.  Strangely enough, people seem more likely to put SCSI in the first
slot and at least some combination board designs configure memory backwards.
For the same reasons, if you knew one memory card was faster than another, you'd
put the Fast one in first, since it would wind up first in the system memory
list.

>This seems counter-intuitive since the disk drive is slower than the RAM.  

The speed of a peripheral interface may have nothing to do with the speed of
its bus interface.  Accessing one card doesn't slow down other cards no matter
which slot they're in.  With Zorro II, most things are zero-wait states, so
you don't have to worry too much.  With Zorro III, you could have varying 
memory card speeds (not that anyone's plugging in multiple memory cards yet).
The order of Zorro III I/O cards shouldn't result in any speed differences.


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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Re: AGA USELESS - Thanks To Flicker In Higher Modes!!!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:29:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.123048.26000@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.003904.9649@ac.dal.ca> henigma@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>Marc, Marc, this won't fool us, we know its you.
>Good try though, pretending to post as someone else.
>;-)

   That wasn't me!!  Honest!!!  I do agree with it, though... :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jon@research.canon.oz.au (Jon Windle)
Subject: GVP G-Lock genlock. Opinions?
Summary: opinions sought on the GVP G-Lock genlock 
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:06:16 GMT

I am thinking of purchasing one of the new, well new down here, GVP
G-Lock genlocks. But before I part with my money I'm interested to hear
from anyone out there who may already own one as to what they think of
it.

Thanks in advance.

jon

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: achim@guam.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Achim Karpf)
Subject: CD-Roms Drivers?
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:31:03 GMT

Can anybody please give me the adress and phonenumbers for getting the 
following CD-Rom divers:

Xetec  
AsimCDFS
....

I would be very thankfull, replies either in this group or directly to me.
I would also apreciate an adress in Germany.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Subject: Re: A2286 AT Bridgeboard problems
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:34:29 GMT

akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman) writes:

>I just got a new A2286 AT Bridgeboard and installed it in my Rev. 4 German
>motherboard A2000.  I have Workbench/Kickstart 2.04.  I ran the Amiga
>Janus version 2.1 installer and put everything on SYS: except for a 30 MB
>virtual drive on Work:  At the end of the installation it couldn't start up
>PCPrefs, "Could not open Janus.library".  I added 

>assign LIBS: SYS:Expansion add

That ain't necessary...

>before BindDrivers, so now when I start up PCPrefs it ponders awhile before
>coming back with "Could not open..." (before it gave the message immediately).

I think you have a hardware problem.

>SysInfo 2.69 reports address $FF000000, 0K, ZORRO II, and XTBRIDGEBOARD or
>ATBRIDGEBOARD depending on which slot it is and how hard I bang it.

What do you mean with "hard banging"?

>I installed the 5.25" drive which came with no instructions.  The cable is
>one of those ones with a twist in it.

>I also have a GVP Series II HC+8 card that works fine.

This _could_ be the reason for your problem. Remove the GVP from your system
and then try again with the A2286.

>A problem with the bridge connectors???

Are they clean?

>I got an XT BB with my A2000 in 1987 and it worked great for about a year and
>then it blew and I had to replace it, and the replacement worked fine, but
>then it was a bit flaky after I hadn't used it for a year or so.  

Back in 1987 you didn't own the GVP, did you? =8-)


>-- 
>Richard J. Akerman   | akerman@QUCIS.QueensU.Ca    |    "There is no plot."

winnie.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mathers@sibelius.trl.OZ.AU (Steven Mathers)
Subject: 1200 power brick rating?
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:31:42 GMT

Whats the rating on the 1200 power supply?  Hopefully it will handle
the internal HD, an external floppy, and a couple of megs of RAM?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green (+61 6 276 6813))
Subject: Archive Viper 2525 specs. needed !
Organization: CSIRO ITS
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 02:59:57 GMT

I have a Maynard 525Q SCSI tape drive, which, when you pop the hood, is
actually an Archive Viper 2525.

The Maynard doco. is very slim and stops short of telling you anything that
is actually usefull.

Does anybody out there have one of these guys and doesn't mind sending me
some info on it?

I've been using BTNtape2.1/GNUtar "mostly" successfully for a few weeks now.
But it still misbehaves from time to time, so I'd like to get the software
and/or hardware configured properly.

Thanks in advance.

Merry Christmas dudes.

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From: Hamish.Macdonald@x400gate.bnr.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
Subject: Re: World of Commodore Notes
Organization: Bell Northern Research
	<1992Dec09.044440.17073@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <37892@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:20:18 GMT

>>>>> I wrote:

me> Regular floppies are 25mm high.  The HD floppies are 32mm high
me> (room for two motors for the 2 different rotation speeds).

>>>>> On 15 Dec 92 06:24:41 GMT,
>>>>> In message <37892@cbmvax.commodore.com>,
>>>>> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) wrote:

Dave> Funny, but false.  There's only one motor.  The HD floppies are
Dave> built in the standard 3.5" form factor.  The 25mm is a newer
Dave> thing, and the HD drives aren't currently available in that
Dave> size.

Gosh...  Makes one wonder what else your illustrious VP-Eng was
mistaken about.

Hopefully not the specs for all those wonderful future systems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Installing Fatter Agnus (Me too!)
Organization: University of Keentookey
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:56:41 GMT

In article <Bz9qE7.Exv@cda.mrs.umn.edu>
carlsosd@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Scott Carlson) writes:
 
>To:
>SUBJECT: Installing Fatter Agnus
>Newsgroups:
>In-Reply-To:
>Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
>Cc:
>
>I recently installed the Fatter Agnus in my Amiga 2000, older version
>motherboard 4.X or something like that. Does anyone out there know what
>, beyond just swapping the Fatter Agnus for the Fat Agnus, needs to be
>done inorder to realize the full 1 Meg of Chip RAM.
>The reason I ask is that I installed the Fatter Agnus in my machine and
>it is only showing 512K of Chip Ram available, but it is showing that it
>is the ECS Agnus in the configuration.  In the workbench 2.x installation
>guide it does say that "other modifications" need to be done, which you
>should have done by an Authorized Dealrer.  I am no where near a Amiga store
>so would like to do these modifications myself.  If anyone out there know
>what these modifications are please mail me that info at carlsosd@cda.mrs.umn.edu
>or carlsosd@nxsci173a.mrs.umn.edu.
>
>                                        Thankyou
>
>                                        Scott Carlson
>
> Csci major and Amiga user................................................
>
>.
 
 
 
 
I have an AMiga 500 with the regular Agnus, and I would too like to replace
it with the Fatter Agnus...  I have a revision 5 motherboard, and would
also like to know what else needs to be done to get 1 meg of chip ram.
 
I tried swapping my agnus with a fatter agnus once before, but could not
get my machine to work at all.  (I posted, but got no responses.)
 
Thanks..
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From: Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Stupid question of the week:  Why not a VGA card in your A2
Date: 13 Dec 92 15:45:50 MET
Reply-To: boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
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In article <1992Dec13.030321.19353@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
> 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? 

Are you sure we are talking about the same GoldenGate II? I am
pretty sure the docs mention that it is possible. And displaying
the WB could be done in the same way as those German Domino and 
Retina cards do it... David Salamon? Dan Babcock? Your comments
on this?

CYa, Paul

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From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Subject: Re: A1200 - 68020EC ??
Keywords: A1200 68020EC 68EC020
Organization: Andrews University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:52:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.171839.19371@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
>walterb@sequoia.cray.com (Walter Boese Jr.) writes:
>
>
>>What does the 'EC' in 68020 mean foe the Amiga A1200.
>>How can you economize (sp) a chip that is pretty basic to begin with?
>>What great features can you remove?
>>And if they did remove something, WHY?  The 68020 is getting outdated
>>already, why degrade more than its age already has?
>
>24 address lines, so they put the chip in a cheaper case.  Therefore, you
>can't address as much memory as a full '020.  Else, it's pretty much the same
>beast.
>
>(Correct me if I'm wrong on this ... :) )
>
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Yes, I think you are mistaken. However I can also be equally mistaken.  But
the 68EC020 and the 68020 have the same number of address lines that is they
both have 24 bit address lines.

What makes a 68EC020 different from the 68020 is the absence of the MMU in
the 68EC020.

Edsel
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From: pm@nnsgs50.tcom.stc.co.uk (Peter Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 17 Dec 1992 17:46:02 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Europe
NNTP-Posting-Host: nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com

In article <1gq3biINN147@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun) writes:
>matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
>: 
>: My suggestion is that you wait for the A4000/030, it fills the gap
>: between A1200 and A4000/040.
>
>Hmmm... C= UK has said to magazines, that there will NOT be a 2000 replacement.
>
>Do you know something we don't ???
>;-)
>

Surely All C= UK have said is that the mythical A2200 does not exist. They
have not mentioned an Amiga by any other name.

>Vlod
>-Amiga Advocate.
>----------------------------------------------
>Amiga - Anything else isn't worth considering
>----------------------------------------------


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From: twang@csc.albany.edu (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Any Truth to This Rumor?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: comp
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:30:39

Hey everyone, 

I caught sight of a rumor or an AGA upgrade board for A2000 and A500 
computers manufactured by the great folks by DKB... 

Can anyone shed some light on this rumor?

Teddy
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 and Zorro II SCSI
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:01:57 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Distribution: na
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Dec15.025521.14696@eskimo.com> dwdyer@eskimo.com (Wayne Dyer) writes:
>From what I've read, the A4000's bus is supposed to be somewhat backwards
>compatible?  Or did I dream this?

The expansion bus?  The A4000 (and A3000) expansion bus is design to be fully
compatible with all properly designed Zorro II cards.  We did find a few things
in the A3000 that didn't quite meet this goal, those items have been addressed
on the A4000.

The point of Zorro bus expansion cards is that they conform to a standard that 
any new machine is expected to also conform to.  It's a bit more expensive to
put something on a proper Zorro card than on some local bus, but what you
get in return is portability.  We can change local buses any time we see fit,
while the expansion bus stays as much the same as possible (improvements are
allowed, but only when they don't impact compatibility).


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From: bc2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian T Cheek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Alpha Fun Fact #2314 (Humor)
Date: 16 Dec 92 11:33:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8f=u2Ya00iV144IoVn
Organization: Misc. student, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Ulrich Vollath (vollath@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) writes:

>Yesterday, I've been visiting the german DEC Alpha road show.
>In fact, it is 3.3 V now, and they said (!?!), the 
>cooling device only gets hand warm (didn't try myself).
>They showed the Alpha PC with Widdow NT.
 
Hmm.  Widdow NT.  Considering its departure from OS/2, that seems like an
appropriate name.  I think I'll use that from now on.

Happy holidays.
-Brian :)
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From: hgm@sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
Subject: Re: Applied Engineering High Density on WB 2.0
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:16:28 GMT

ee_c420@ceres (Philip Trickett) writes:

>	If you could post the address to either the net or me it 
>would be greatly appreciated, do you know if this driver makes the drive
>compatible with the new >2.0 HD disks??


Here's an address that I have for a patched driver that works under 2.04.

Max TenEyck Woodbury
99 Hartley Woods Drive
Kennesaw, GA 30144.  

I think it's $30.00. I don't own a AEHD, so I've actually not tried to
contact him. 

--hal

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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 and AGA chip set
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:57:40 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB
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bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
: So, do you think the 3rd party vernors will come out with the new AGA 
: chip set for the A3000?  Should I stop investing in the A3000; is it
: a dead end?

When RTG comes out, an RTG-compatible card will let you run programs
that are RTG-compatible. No need for AGA, then, and old games will
run better than on an A4000.

I hope there will be very few programs made that bangs the AGA
hardware, before RTG comes out.

AGA is nothing magic, it's just a more cost-effective solution than
to first buy an A3000 and then a graphics card. But if you already
have an A3000...

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