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From: ph11mlar@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Arthur Recktenwald)
Subject: Bad exp. with GRAPEVINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:25:44 GMT

Hello,

I live in Germany and have a A2000. I wanted to upgrade to OS2.04. I told
my brother, who lives in California to order the upgrade from GRAPEVINE.
The US-version is much cheaper than the German one.

After 4 month I told my brother to cancel the order (several times he phoned
the GRAPEVINE and asked for the order). So I sent a FAX to GRAVEVINE
on Thursday and told them to cancel the order if they could not deliver
until Monday. On Tuesday the OS2.04 was at my brother's house. Why now and
not before. 

I will never order anything from Grapevine.

But I had the same "luck" with a German firm: Computer 2000.
I ordered a modem and they could not deliver but they did not tell me.



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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy an A3000 now?
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:10:57 GMT

In <1992Oct8.182415.11084@uni-paderborn.de> laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt) writes:
>The only slow-down can be bitplane to chunky format conversion.
>If the hardware is good enough,Zorro 3, perhaps with a gfx-processor
>that does offer some basic gfx function it should be a lot faster.

Yes Ralph, you are probably right :)

Regards,
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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Is it silly to buy a
Date: 11 Oct 92 11:15:56 GMT
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: Thomas_Agatz

> I had an interview with Commodore last week, where i got the chance to see
> the A4000 from the inside, and they told me that you easily could expand
> to 8mb of chip RAM.

Hey! Great news! Did they give any indications on how this would be done? A 
motherboard swap would take care of it, but that's not "easily", so I presume 
there must be an easier way. But isn't Alice surface mounted?

                        _       .    __
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From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading AMIGA floppies on a SUN
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:23:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <1992Oct12.195719.24125@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner) writes:
>In article <1992Oct7.111341.15281@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> s2j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>  Do there exist any programs for reading and writing AMIGA floppies on
>>a SUN? (sparcstation w/ 4.1.1)  Please resond by e-mail.  Thanks in advance
>>-Chris B.
>>yqdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
>
>Me too.
>Thanks.

Since this is a Frequently (quite Frequently) Asked Question, I'm
posting instead.  I bet this is in a FAQ somewhere, but I don't know
where the FAQ is.

The answer is no.  The Sparcstation floppy controller is capable of
reading/writing IBM-style floppies only.  IBM-style floppies have an
inter-sector gap which is hard-wired into the Sparcstation's controller
(a standard IBM PC floppy controller.)  The Amiga floppy controller
doesn't require this gap and the AmigaDOS format uses only one
inter-sector gap instead of ten.  Thus, an Amiga can cram more sectors
per track.  This is why AmigaDOS floppies can hold 880K instead of
720K.  This also means that the Amiga can read/write IBM-style 720K
floppies, but the Sparcstation can't read/write AmigaDOS floppies.

If your intent is to transfer files between a Sparcstation and an Amiga,
use a MSDOS-formatted floppy.  The Sparcstation can read/write MSDOS
floppies using a set of PD programs called "mtools." The Amiga can
read/write MSDOS floppies using the PD software MSH or MultiDOS (on
better FTP servers near you,) or the commercial software CrossDOS or
DOS2DOS.  CrossDOS is supposedly included in AmigaDOS 2.1/3.0.

(I know that Cornell definitely has "mtools" on the CS dept. Sparcstations.
I'm a Cornell CS MEng '91 and did a lot of homework on my Amiga.)

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The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.
From: barre@cenaath.cena.dgac.fr (Roland BARRE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A590 with scsi drive doesnt work ?
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:18:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: C.E.N.A. (Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne)



i try to add an scsi drive on my a590 but after the instalation with hdtoolbox
the amiga doesnt recognize rdh0 and rdh1 ?



i got a 79 mega hd drive than i put in my a590.
i run hdtoolbox
i read the information from the hd drive it's ok :

Manufacture RODIME
name        Ro3000s
rev         2.44
cylinders   680
head         5  (79 mega)
block / track 48
block / cylinders 240

i partion the drive with the option by default

rdh0 start cyl 2                rdh1   341
      end cyl 340                       679
      total cyl 339                     339
      buffers 30                        30
      bootable yes                      no
      file system ffs                   ffs
      automount   yes                   yes

note the address of the scsi drive is 0

i make a low format it's ok 
no error on the drive

i save the config on hd ok
i reboot the system but the sytem doesnt recognize rdh0 rdh1 ?

have you an idea ? (does i made an entry on the mountlist ?, 
                    the scsii adress 0 is good?)

please could you answer me by e-mail.
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000 (NOT!)
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:36:26 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <kkrebs.02gj@amilink.UUCP> amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs) writes:
 >
 >P.S.  The HAM8 mode is simply AWESOME!  I want my AGA!  :)
 >
 >P.P.S.  Does anyone know why a 256 color GIF looks better in HAM8 mode than
 >        in 256 color mode under ADPro?  This kind of baffled me when I was
 >        converting pictures on the A4000.

Hmm, did I understand correctly or ist it really so trivial? You get
loads more colors under HAM8 than only 256! That should be enough reason
to let an image look better I think. Where is your difficulty?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Re: After the Amiga...
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:24:54 GMT

In article <Bvu66M.4rv@news.cs.andrews.edu> adap@rachel.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.041034.18162@grebyn.com> richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:

[Munch.  Stuff about a Windows NT Amiga deleted]

>I personally don't think that this is a bad idea.  Hey, WIndows NT is
>gonna be here whether we amiga users like it or not.  It has is Pluses
>and its Minuses but it certainly is a good product.  Why not use it on
>the amiga?

I disagree.  Microsoft has been stifling the industry for a long time.  Remember
that they wrote DOS, which, if you think about it, really made the Amiga 
possible.

DOS & Windows really haven't (and do not) been very functionaly rich, nor 
extreamly quality products (read windows).   Gee, I still can't format a 
floppy and do something else with my MS-Windows 3.1/Norton Desktop combo at
work.

I agree they have tons of clout (the monitary and media type) and copies sold.
I also agree they are going to be a major player no matter what and should not
be ingored.

I would venture that if (as an Amiga fan from the begining) Commodore was 
going to ally itself with some other commercial segment that I would prefer
it was someone who would potentially be in the position to compete with 
Microsoft, and someone who has clout, and someone who has traditionally been
a dark horse (so all us long time Amiga fans can feel good about ourselves ;-)

Someone like...  (ahem)  ... Sun Microsystems.

And in fact Sun is one of the few players in the field to compete with Windows
NT.  

Sun has traditionally been higher end workstations.  Sun has attempted to reach
into the low end workstation (read pc) but not too sucessfully yet.  Perhaps
Commodore who has built very capable machines for low cost for a long time,
(thank you! - I started with a Vic 20!) would be in a position to offer a 
killer low end machine?! 

Ok, I'm off the soap box for now!  :-)

-john
   
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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Info on Par port writes?
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:11:37 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <11260021@hplsla.hp.com> tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns) writes:
> I've just started playing with getting data into my A3000 through the
> parallel port.  I'm using the dos.library read routine.  It seems to
> be working but I note that the "strobe" and "acknowledge" are
> reversed:  I have to use pin 10 to let the 3000 know data is
> available and the 3000 acknowledges it on pin 1.  Is this documented
> somewhere?  Is there any documentation on what the other pins do on
> reads?  What determines data direction on the data lines (e.g., how
> do I avoid trying to drive the data lines when the A3000 may be
> wanting to drive them, or does it only drive them when it actually
> has a "write" to take care of?)

Strobe and Acknowledge are named with respect to use of the port as
a printer output port.  There is a data direction register that control
the direction of each I/O line.  If you are hitting the hardware
directly, it is up to you to define a protocol that avoids conflict
if you are trying to do bi-directional transfers, not sure what the
software suppot does for you.   Most the signals are set up as
"open collector/drain" drivers so that grounding or conflicts will
not cause damage, only corrupt your data...

> In summary, where is the parallel port thoroughly documented?

There is a copy of the text of the 8520 data sheet and general info
on port usage in the Amiga Harware Reference manual, also the
technical reference manual (available from developers support) and
perhaps in the Users Manual.  If these sources fail you, the chip
used is similar to the 6526 used in the C64 and many "C64 books"
include info on low-level screwing with the port.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: zajerkom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Nick Zajerko-McKee)
Subject: Does Flicker Fixer or CBM's deinterlacer work on a 4000?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 04:42:42 GMT

Hi, I'm posting for a friend who purchased a 4000 and has a mutlisync
that goes from 31 KHz and up. Unfortunately, the new 4000 promotion
modes work in the 15KHz range and therefore he gets flicker. He
was wondering if the Flicker fixer or CBM's equivalent will work for
him so that he gets all the display modes or does he need to get a
new multisync?

Thanks in advance,

Nick Zajerko-Mckee
From: jonallen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jon J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Impact Vision 24....
Date: 10 Oct 92 11:55:19 GMT
Organization: SUNY AT BUFFALO Computer Science

I have an A3000 and will be upgrading it to 18MB or RAM real soon.  

I am thinking of getting the GVP Impact Vision 24 for it later.  

So, who has one?  Does it improve on the normal A3000 display as
well as be a Frame Grabber?

Can you have 2 monitors (one Amiga display, one Frame buffer) if you
want?

Like It?


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           stoop occasionally to avoid
           many hard knocks" - Ben Franklin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: maniac@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Re: ADIDE
Reply-To: maniac@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 05:02:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.000729.873@dragon.acadiau.ca>, 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:
) From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
) Subject: ADIDE
) Organization: Acadia University
) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:07:29 PDT
) 
) Can anyone please tell me if ADIDE works with the ATonce/ATonce+ from
) Vortex systems?
) -Doc

Seeing as the AdIDE by itself  almost reaches the RF shield, I don't think
you'll be able to fit anything else under the CPU on the A500.  The 2000's
a different story, but I can't answer that, not having an ATOnce.

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A4000 graphics
Date: 13 Oct 1992 23:52:48 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <Bw3098.Bn@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   Not quite.  Amber did everything in hardware, but the deinterlacing and
>scan-doubling on an A4000 is done almost entirely in software.  They is no
>"deinterlacer" built into the Lisa chip.  They are using a combination of some
>new resolution modes programmed from software and some software to detect an
>attempt to open an interlaced screen and open a non-interlaced screen.

Yes, Marc, I know this.  And it's better.  Because 1) it will work
across the full 24-bits, not 12 like the Amber, and 2) your sprites
will no longer get weird.

Third, everything's under OS control, rather than flipping obscure
switches in the back of the machine to switch between video and
non-video compatible output.

>   BTW, you say that AGA can do "everything that the Amber chip did and MORE."
>I will not believe you until you can show me "Beauty of the Beast" running
>on an A4000 with a VGA monitor, with no scan-lines.  The Amber chip can do
>it easily.  Can the A4000?

Beauty of the beast?  I don't know if you mean SHADOW of the Beast or
BEAUTY and the Beast.  Since I don't play either of them, I don't CARE.

I could give a squat whether or not a game comes up in scan-doubled
mode or not (btw:  SOTB must look pretty screwed up, it uses LOTS of
sprites, and we all know what the Amber does to sprites...  Read
"funky chicken" for some of those monsters.) I prefer a system that's
usable and elegant.  Flipping a switch to decide what kind of mode
ends up on screen, in my opinion, is not elegant.  The amber is a
kludge, even if it works.  And I'm happy to see it gone and replaced
with a better, more versatile, upwardly-compatible, and superior
method.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: Is it silly to buy an A3000 now?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:44:33 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.124137.14637@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>The price drop in the A3000 has affected 2nd hand prices and I
>am being offered one for 1200 pounds. I was thinking of getting
>this rather than an accelerated A2000.
>
>The question is: is it foolish to get an A3000 in terms of
>future upgrade/compatability?
 
   No.  The A3000 is far more advanced than the A4000 in terms of non-
interlaced display resolution.  And the A3000 offers most of the expandability
of the A4000.  The only thing that the A4000 has that the A3000 does not have
is the 24-bit video slot.  

   I am actively advising people to ignore the A4000, purchase A3000s instead,
and upgrade them later with third-party video cards as soon as DIG is
available.

>Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
>Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

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             A4000: JUST SAY NO!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: chet@netcom.com (Eric Chet)
Subject: Re: VXL DMA dilemma...
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:24:01 GMT

In article <d8sunch.719178490@dtek.chalmers.se> d8sunch@dtek.chalmers.se (Christer Sundin) writes:
>rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>
>>What I'm getting at is: if I can only DMA to the first 8M of 
>>FAST RAM, I would have to trash the 2M on the A2091 if I were to buy the 8M 
>>RAM-32 board, right?
>
>Yes. If you want the VXL-RAM to be DMA-able then it should be mapped to
>the normal autoconfig space, which means you can have a total of
>8 megs of FAST RAM.
>
>The alternative is to map the VXL-RAM high (outside the original 24-bit
>addressing range). In this case you can have 8+8 = 16 megs of FAST RAM,
>(8 megs of 16-bit autoconfig'ing memory and 8 megs of 32-bit on the
>RAM-32 board). Nice, huh? :-) But then you can't DMA to the 32-bit
>RAM. Supposedly this can be fixed (more or less) with a program
>called DMAFix.

It does not DMA Fix anything, it just gives you a much larger buffer
for your drive to DMA into(chip last I heard) then is copied by
your CPU to 32bit ram.

>
>On the other hand, 32-bit RAM is a LOT faster than 16-bit, so my advice
>is: Skip the old 16-bit RAM and get a fully populated RAM-32 board!
>
>>Rob Whapham
>>Etc. Publishing
>
>Christer
>
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From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 8-Up board jumpers
Date: 15 Oct 1992 18:11:39 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: leekil@BBN.COM (Lee Kilpatrick)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


I am borrowing an 8-up board from a friend, and it has 8 little
jumpers on it which I assumed were used to select how much memory on
the board is recognized, but which is not actually the case.  The
floppy disk with the memory test software that goes with the board
doesn't properly explain these jumpers; it says that the first two
determine whether or not the board autoconfigs, but I don't think this
is what the jumpers do.  Can anybody out there tell me what the jumpers
do?


	Lee


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Help: red screen,flashing led
Keywords: a500,hardware
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:57:30 GMT

crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>>This sounds like you didn't put your ROMs in correctly, either..
>>you've got loose connections in which case you'll have to push the
>>ROMs in harder or whilst handling them you've blown them up (did
>>you earth yourself first??) The other thing you can do is put
>>eveything back the way it was and see if it still works.

>What does "did you earth yourself first" mean?

He might have meant "Did you throw yourself to the *ground* and pray to the 
gods of electronics to purge the static charges from his body". ;)

>I have visions of someone covering themselves in mud from head to toe before
>"blowing up" their ROMS with some sort of explosive... *puzzle*

Electronics are a mystery, aren't they? :)

>Crystal
>(Yes, someone flipped my DIP switch...)

Flipped and fused, obviously. :)

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From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: XT Bridgeboard Memory
Date: 9 Oct 1992 08:46:14 GMT
Organization: SunConnect
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com

In article <1992Oct8.170023.27628@javelin.sim.es.com>, dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
> I use an A2088D Bridgeboard to do my taxes. Chip Soft (software publisher)
> has announced that this year their software will require 640K on machines
> not running Windows. The A2088 has only 512K.
> 
> What are my options to up my 512K bridgeboard to 640K?


Find a PC card with at least 128K & plug it into a spare PC slot in
your Amiga. :-)

Seriously, that should be enough. In the early PC days when RAM was still
expensive there were companies (Quadram comes to mind) who made
multi-function boards with 256K RAM, a couple of serial lines, gameport
etc. Something like that should work, and second-hand ones must be pretty
cheap, if not in the 'throwaway' category by now.

Steve

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SUN Microsystems ICNC
38240 Meylan, France
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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: a4000 an possible deinterlacer.
Date: Thu,  8 Oct 92 15:11:23 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Oct5.041138.7201@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <etam.718338560@sfu.ca>
  <1992Oct7.054845.5166@news.iastate.edu>

>In article <etam.718338560@sfu.ca> etam@fraser.sfu.ca (Edwin Tam) writes:
>>That's disappointing, I thought flicker was history on the A4000.  So
>
>   Flicker is FAR from history on the A4000.  In fact, the A4000 has lower
>non-interlaced resolutions than the A3000.  The A4000 adds non-interlaced

Let me ask a dumb question (this is important, as my wife has been convinced
we really need a 4000):

If I use ProPage in the 640x400 resolution (interlaced in all "lower" Amigas),
will the display be interlaced? Or can I *force* any request for an interlace
screen to be non-interlaced?

Perhaps that sounds naive, because I'd assumed that the preferences would allow
you to essentially say "no interlace if physically possible". Is the answer
that the application can force you into interlace whether you want to or not?

Forgive me for sounding dumb, but this sounds trivially easy to fix at an OS
level.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko