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From: grisch@uceng.UC.EDU (George Risch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: [CBridge Board Software Needed
Keywords: Janus 2.0
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:13:59 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Cincinnati


	Hello, I need working copies of the Janus 2.0 (JLINK.SYS and
JLINK.COM) software and need help on where to obtain these. Please send help
or questions to (I had this wrong on the last post):

           grisch@uceng.uc.edu

Thanks alot, and sorry for having to post this twice.

                                           - George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jyork@iastate.edu (The One Who)
Subject: A BETTER C= MOUSE???
Keywords: mouse commodore amiga wanted forsale trade
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:03:24 GMT

If anyone out there has the new A3000 3-button mouse, but likes the old
mouse better, I will be quite willing to trade my new C= mouse. I just had
my old mouse replaced with a C= replacement for the Colt PC or Amiga. It has
a looong cable, maybe 7ft?, and I have been considering buying one of the
new ones.  Please reply only if you are willing to trade an A3000 replacement
mouse in good condition (new is preferable, but not necessary).  Thank you...
From: danb@gaff.physci.psu.edu (Dan Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CMI Multi-Port and RTS/CTS Handshaking
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:47:36 GMT
Organization: Penn State University, Physical Sciences

In article <56940@cup.portal.com> David-L@cup.portal.com (David Steven Levin) writes:
>Well, I just got my new Supra V.32bis modem and it confirmed the
>fact that the CMI Multi-Port board's cmiser.device does not support
>hardware handshaking.
>
>Anyway, I remember someone mentioning here that they were working on a 
>new driver (he says droolingly).

I've been working with a 8530/85230 driver for quite a while. When I get
it working bug-free on other hardware, I'll probably release a version in binary form for the CMI. Be patient. :-)

Dan
From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Update to Spartan SCSI / Fujitsu compatability issue
Date: 17 Apr 92 21:02:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: shamash.41269
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

Hi there,

I recently posted a few questions regarding problems associated with
using the Spartan SCSI interface PD project and a Fujitsu 90 Meg.
drive.  Thanks to all the people who responded!

I've learned quite a few things.

First, DON'T be scared off from building the Spartan SCSI project.  I've
come to the conclusion that the problem is not with the interface or
software.  The real problem is the particular Fujitsu drive I selected.

I was under the false assumption that SCSI was SCSI and that any SCSI drive
will work with any SCSI interface and device driver.  As it turns
out, it's not as simple as all that.

The whole problem seems to be that if a drive is configured to work
with Macintosh's interpetation of the scsi protocal, it probably
won't work with an interface and software that is not talking
Mac scsi.  It is my understanding that not all the scsi handshaking
is implemented with Mac scsi.  If the software/hardware expects
certain signals in a certain way, and if it's not smart enough to
figure out that a "non-standard" protocal is expected, then
communications will fail.

A well designed drive has a whole series of jumpers and switches
which let the user configure the scsi protocal.  As it turns out the
Fujitsu I bought has done away with some of the switches and jumpers
and instead put the smarts in firmware (roms).  I asked Fujitsu if I
could just simply get a different rom, they said it still wouldn't
work.  With my drive, I'm pretty much stuck with Mac scsi.

The Fujitsu models which aren't fully configureable seem to be the
new small ones which are less than 300 meg.  The models are 2611 thru
2616.

I suppose if the device driver is smart enough to change the
protocal based on the configuration (as the Supra software seems to
be) then those drives can be used.  I personally do not want a drive
that is tailor made for Macintosh computers.  

I suspect that if I were smart enough to patch the device driver for
the Spartan interface (Paul Harker sent me the assembly source code), 
I could eventually get it to work with Macintosh drives.  To me it's
not worth the hassle, and besides if I ever attach other SCSI
devices to the SCSI bus, I think I may be in for trouble.

I think the moral of the story is stay away from mail order places who 
only sell to the Macintosh world.  When I called the MacDirect help
line, I usually got a response that they don't support Amiga
implimentations.  I had to call Fujitsu to find out what I really
had.  To be fair to MacDirect, I have a 30 day money back guarantee
and they're being nice about giving me my money back.

	 					Mike Lundberg
	 					app@shamash.cdc.com
	 					
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bdraschk@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke)
Subject: Re: Can the amiga >880 KB ?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Distribution: World
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:21:57 GMT

hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl (Dick Verweij) writes:

>Is there a way to read disc's formatted HIGHER than 880 KB?
>(e.g. 1.44 MB)
>- with the standard 3.5 diskdrive
No way.
>- with a (perhaps non-excisting) HD 3.5 diskdrive (for Amiga)
There are some 3rd party products for reading HD floppies, but as far as i 
now, they're pretty incompatible with trackdisk.device and messydisk.device.
C= itself produces a HD floppy which is better. All you need is 2.0 and 
a special Chinon drive and you can format 1.76 MB disks. But you can't take
a generic drive, it must be modified: Paula, which is responsible for disk
I/O can't go fast enough to handle HD. So the floppy halves its rotation speed
if a HD is inserted and Paula can write at its normal speed. This drive is
compatible with MSH and should be with CrossDoss.
The crux is: C= doesn't support this HD drive yet. It's in some A3000 and some
vendors sell it as add-on, but there's _no guarantee_ it will work with HD 
disks!

Ciao,
	Arty


>-- 
>DICK H.P. VERWEIJ

>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D:-) I:-) C:-) K:-) email : hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: $brycerw@brandonu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Don't Deal with BRIWALL - Mail Order Warning !!!
Date: 3 Apr 92 20:55:23 GMT
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <1992Apr2.172709.22586@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, c9d-bd@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Patrick M. Horio) writes:
> I recently tried to order a hard drive from Briwall through mail order.
> I spoke to a sales rep to weeks ago and placed an order, at which time
> I was told that they had the product in stock.  I ordered it FedEx
> economy and expected to get it two days later ...
> 
> That was done on a Friday or so.  The following Monday, someone called
> me and told me that due to credit checks that were necessary, my order
> would be delayed and that I would now get it on Thursday.  I was pretty
> annoyed by this, but decided to be patient ...
> 
> Thursday came, and the drive had not arrived.  I called them, and now
> they told me that the drive was out of stock !!!
> They gave me some lengthy story over the phone and said that they would
> promise to get it to me by Monday.  Remember now, its been over a
> week ...
> 
> Alright, so Monday comes and no drive yet ... Now they tell me that
> they have the drive in stock for sure and that I DEFINITELY will get it
> on Thursday.  OK, now I am really annoyed, but I figured that since
> I waited this long, I could wait a few extra days ...
> 
> Alright, now its Thursday.  I call them to make sure.  And guess what,
> the drive is not in stock again and a different sales rep tells me that
> they didn't get it in (unlike the lie that the other sales rep told me)
> and that I would have to wait until next Monday.  This was the last
> straw and I finally cancelled my order as I was able to find
> the product somewhere else..
> 
> Basically, the sales people at BRIWALL lied to me blatently and kept
> me on hold unneccesarily for 2 weeks (hurting my productivity a lot)...
> If they had been honest to me from the beginning, I could have found it
> somewhere else and been able to get up and running with my system a
> lot sooner.  Briwall is not an equitable mail order company and I
> warn all Amiga owners out there to order from somewhere else ...
> A company should service its customers, not exploit them.  And besides,
> if you compare mail order prices, you'll notice that in general, 
> BriWall is a rip-off anyway (check out AmigaWorld for mail-order prices).
> So take heed and order elsewhere ...

Thanks for the warning.  But up here 2 wks isn't that bad (may there is it
though).  Try waiting 4 MONTHS for your new A3000, though.  Ordered it on
the power-up program, and ended up waiting 4 months and 1 week.  I was ready
to cancel my order many times, and go for a cheap clone, but the dealer
insisted that "it was on it's way, for sure."

Some service!
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From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga Idiot Needs Help with Memory
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:22:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.182342.6632@athena.cs.uga.edu>, jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu (CHARLES JORDAN) writes:
> I'm looking to upgrade my A500 but have become very confused by all the
> memory and hard drive configurations available.
> 
> A "local" dealer told me the only memory expansion other than the basic 512K
> would be $179 for 1 MB, and about $200 for 2MB, and I don't believe it was
> expandable if I ever needed more.             
> For the Macintosh, at least, memory expansion is ridiculously inexpensive --
> I've seen 1MB SIMMS for around forty bucks.  I understand these aren't
> compatible with an Amiga, unless I buy an expensive memory card like the
> ones I mentioned above.
> Also, I've seen hard drive/memory combinations, hard drive/controller
> combinations, memory/accelerator combinations, and frankly I don't understand
> what's going on...
Any computer will NOT talk to a hard drive unless it has a hard drive
controller.  Sort of the same principle with printers and printer interfaces.

Your Amiga 500 came stock with the belly expansion that is, the place for the
A501 memory expansion and was only meant to internally expand the A500 to 1
megabyte.  I have seen other slide in expanders that offer up to two and a half
megabytes of RAM.
> I use my Amiga for programming and animation, for recreation and not
> business.  I can't see myself needing an accelerator, or more than 3 megs
> of memory or more than a 40 meg hard drive.  What's the best course to
> take, memory- and hard disk-wise?  
If you want more than that, you can usually put more with your hard drive,
which would set right beside your Amiga 500 and plug in on the left side where
the expansion port is.
> Thanks in advance for any advice, tips, explanations...
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -- 
> 		Chuck Jordan  |  jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
> "You don't necessarily have to be swallowed up by a black hole..."
> "But it helps!"				-- Mystery Science Theater 3000
If you buy a GVP series hard drive, later on you can buy a card that will allow
you to have IBM emulation.
My hard drive on my 2000 is a Quantum 52 megabyte hard drive.  It suits
adequately my needs here at college-games, programming (my hobby), and word
processing.  Not to mention being hooked up to the LAN.

Quantum hard drives are generally better than Seagates.
Don't buy an accelerator if you want to program in AmigaBASIC, as I do.

B.T.W.-I LOVE Mystery Science Theater 3000.  I guess they use Amigas in
production of the show.
				:-)Kyle
					aka "Crow"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: moran@bbocs.enet.dec.com
Subject: SCSI termination on the 3000
To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware.usenet
Apparently-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware.usenet
Reply-To: moran@bbocs.enet.dec.com
Organization: DEC Palo Alto
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 23:20:34 PDT


I plan to add an external SCSI HD and Tape drive on my 3000. I allready
have 2 internal drives also.

I know that the last drive on the internal SCSI bus must be the only one
terminated but how do I terminate the external Bus? Do I treat it as a
second bus and terminate the last drive or should I leave them unterminated?

Thanks in advance.

Shaun Moran.
moran@bbocs.enet.dec.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: mcdonoug@dmpe.csiro.au (Graeme Mc Donough)
Subject: Re: Death of Pirating
Organization: CSIRO Div of Mineral and Process Engineering.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:52:13 GMT

>   Will Commodore recall all old amigas to swap Gary and Gail, since
>	  this obviously doesn't apply to the ones shipped with Gary?

I do not think so


>	* Is it really possible for the chip to write on write-protected disks,
>	  even on external drives?

It is not possible to write to an external drive.
although maybee commodore has one that will allow this.


>	* Will these disks be usable on old amigas?

I suppose it depends on how the software protection was written. IE: It is possible that they can
set it up so that it wont work and try to lock up the computer if the 
software can't write to the chip.




another comment :

What stops you from copying the disk on an Amiga that does not have these
chips????


Graeme Mc Donough
mcdonoug@mineng.dmpe.csiro.au
From: mch@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Michael Hermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Cache on 68030
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:25:55 GMT

mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>.....
>The 80486, on the other hand, does have a cache and does have BURST memory
>cycle support.  It still have a unified cache so it does not have he ability
>to do instruction and data fetches at the same time.  (The data path is
>larger so internal to the chip the cache is *very* fast, but it is not
>harvard architecture.  But then, they needed to remain compatible with all
>the x86 code out there, much of which can not deal with independant
>instruction and data memory spaces/caches...)
>.....

What is the commonly used type of code that makes separated inst/data-
caches on the 80486 impossible due to backward compatibility?
Why is the 68040, which is backward compatible to the 68000 immune
against this type of code?
Both the 8086 and the 68000 had outputs to indicate the type of access
externally (8086 lacked supervisor mode, which does not play a role here).
Even if a design had made (clever?) use of the separation of code and data
(and stack), how do you mark a particular adress as INST. only if you don't
use a MMU or an extra bit in main memory?
How many designs for 8086/68000 actually use external INST/DATA separation?

Michael Hermann
mch@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Orientation of A2000?
From: geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 01:58:20   M
Organization: The Equinox Network CHCH NZ (Node SATORI)

jtillema@cs.arizona.edu (John E. Tillema) writes:

> > The official advice is though to low-level format a harddrive when 
> > changing its orientation.
> 
> Okay, sounds easy enough, but how do you do a low level format?  When I
> got my 2000HD, there was no low level format program on the install
> disk.  I could use hdtoolbox (and would _love_ to be able to), except
> it doesn't work with the 2090a controller.  So the only format I can
> do is the normal Amiga format command.  Any clues as to how to do this
> low level format?  (And if I did it on a PC using fdisk, would
> that work/count as a low level format? I have 2 ST-506 drives attached)

Fdisk doesn't do a low level format.

However the "official advice" above is bogus. You can reorient hard
drives any which way you want. There is not need to low or high level
format them.

| Geoff - Sysop Equinox (equinox.gen.nz) +64 (3) 3854406 (4 Lines)
| Email:  geoff@satori.equinox.gen.nz
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: Will the Blitter become redundant?
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 14:05:40 GMT

entity@cccan.uucp (Cybernetworx) writes:
: You know, as much as we all like to flame Marc barrett for his posts, a lot o
: times he makes many good objective points that a lot of amiga owners fail to
: see.  I agree 100% with him that if we are going to see an 8 bitplane chipset
: the blitter MUST be sped up.  Sure we can do it the lame way like they do it

Yes, but he places the majority of the onus on that on the premise
that the current blitter is made obsolete by current processors, IE,
the 040.  Which is not true.  Even CPUBlit only replaces ONE of these
functions, and then only under special case situations, with the cpu.
The blitter is fast.  It's just not fast enough...  And with an
upgrade, one would EXPECT the blitter to speed up.  16->32 will make a
big difference in speed...  It's not that he says it's necessary, he
gives the wrong reasons why and then flames C= for it.

: on the PC through progressively faster processors but then we lose the

Not even the 040 can outperform the blitter in all cases.  Not even in
most cases.

: advantage of the blitter in the first place.  Because of Commodores policies
: regarding new software/hardware, Dave Haynie can't announce a new blitter eve
: if it was going to be shipped tomorrow, so I think Marc was unneccessarily

Well, he could, he just likes having a job. ;)

: harsh to him.  However, his points about the blitter being a necessary part o
: the amiga architecture and the fact that it MUST be upgraded to keep up with
: the rest of the chipset is extremely valid.

True.  It's the reasons behind some of the things he says that are
most often wrong.

Greg
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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP 3001 Accelerator
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:19:49 PST
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From: sgeertge@burner.UUCP (Scott Geertgens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HiQ Tower case for A500
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:17:31 MDT
Organization: The Back Burner BBS, Lakewood CO (via C-Net Amiga)

   I have read somewhere (sorry, forgot where!) that the HiQ tower is just now being released in the American market. Ahhh...it's mentioned in the May issue of Amiga World. It was designed in the UK and retails for $699. Supposedly it does all of the things the ad mentions. Sure saves buying an A2000 to replace the A500!

             Scott Geertgens
             No Sig...
            

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From: yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP me design an AMPLIFIER board for my Amiga
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:28:03 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University


Hi-
  I would like to make my Amiga into a home electroencephalogram machine.
I don't know a lot about electronics, so I was hoping that some of you
gurus might be able to point me to the correct references.  My purpose for
measuring brainwaves is for amateur sleep research, by the way.
  I need to build a circuit that will amplify voltages on the order of 10
microvolts, also with very low current presumably, into something that
can be conveniently measured by the Amiga, via an A/D converter or 
something.  My impression is that conventional op-amps would be sorely
strained under these conditions.
  Please help me get information on the following topics:
    1) General hobby-board making for the Amiga (2000)
    2) Amplifier chips suitable for this purpose
    3) The design of circuits which might read voltages from electrodes
taped onto my head, and convert them to a digital, Amiga interpretable
signal.

Thank you for your time.
-Chris B.
YQDX@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Cornell biochem dept.
From: Lance_Gibb@a68k.denver.CO.US (Lance Gibb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: MFM HD controller
Distribution: world
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:30:11 MST
Organization: The Arvada 68K BBS- Westminster, CO

IS anyone out there familiar with any MFM controllers for the Amiga 1000?
I may get a few older MFM drives dumped in my lap here within the next few
days and I'd like to find a use for them.
I've heard that ALF, Paramax, and Expansion Systems all at one time made
such devices, but I can't find any old articles/etc... telling me any more
about them.  I'd like to find one used, but if anyone has ANY info on this,
please send me Email or post it.
 
Thanks

-- Via DLG Pro v0.991

Lance_Gibb@a68k.denver.co.us
Organization: Mythos/Xcalbrin Inc.
X-School: Penn State University
Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 17:36:24 EDT
From: Christopher M. Stoy <CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Geos on Amiga

O.k., I know this might not be the best place to post this, but here goes:

I need to run Geos on my Amiga.  Does anyone know if A64 or the C64 Emulator
will run Geos?  I'm working on some Geos apps. and won't have access to my
64 when I get back to school.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


Chris Stoy  INTERNET: stoy@endor.cs.psu.edu BITNET: cms129@psuvm.psu.edu
President, Slothman Software Inc. Makers of "SlothMonger , the slowest
 program to ever run on any computer in the history of everything."
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From: pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.org (Paul van der Heu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Can ECS Denise destroy an A1084?
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:53:48 GMT
Reply-To: pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.org
Organization: The MotherShip Connection
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 alpha rel3

In article <1992Apr4.200709.24355@news.cs.indiana.edu>, Stefan Berg writes:

> I heard from many places, that you can destroy your non-multisync
> monitor, if you use Productivity, the A2024, or VGA mode on it. I

> noises off when I turn to these modes. Now I wonder, how serious
> this talk is.

About as serious as hooking your average 110V US TV to a 220V European
outlet..

          Paul van der Heu, FALCON CBCS The MotherShip Connection
          FIDO - 2:280/207.0 , UUCP - pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.com

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