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From: dburnett@emunix.emich.edu (Don Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: MicroBotics MBX-1200 (great product great price!)
Summary: Why you should buy this your new A1200 (IMHO)
Keywords: A1200, MBX-1200, Microbotics, fpu
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:44:33 GMT
Organization: Eastern Michigan University

A lot of people have been sending me mail asking me to talk more about
my new MBX-1200 I have installed in the machine. First, price $199 
msrp.. This is for the board with 0K populated. It comes with a PGA
type MC68881 16MHz chip installed. This chip speeds up math operations
significantly and is transparent to the machine's operation.. This means
if you have a 3D renderer or something that will use an 020 power wise 
already, you will be able to use it. Until now all C= equipment that was
accelerated came with an FPU, so you will need one, if you don't want just
slow 68000 only software. 

The FPU can be replaced by a faster 68881 or '882. You have to get a PGA
style chip to replace it with. You also can clock it at 25 or 50 Mhz, if
you have a 25 or 50 MHz chip and a clock crystal. The installation sheet
warns heavily against trying to overclock the FPU chip saying you could
damage your Amiga. So, by the right chip and the right crystal if you 
plan to do this..  SysInfo  say my CHIP RAM only based 1200HD system is 
"RIGHTEOUS" with this board installed.  If you want more specifices, please
send me email.. 

The board supports the addition (without removal of the board from your 
system) of one wide-body 72 pin 32-bit wide SIMM. Caution again, don't try
plugging your cheap run of the mill PC or MAC 8 BIT wide simm.. This plug
is for the same type of chip you can place inside an A4000. With the
exception that it supports an 8mb SIMM instead of just the 4mb ones that I
know the A4000 supports. 

The following is a list of supported MICRON SIMMS (you may substitute others
as appropriate):

80ns, 72-pin "wide-body"
SIMM organized N-megabyte x 32 bits.

MICRON PARTS:
   
MT8D25632	(1MB)
MT16D51232	(2MB)
MT8D132		(4MB)
MT16D232	(8MB)

The instructions suggest that 70 or 60ns SIMMS will cost you more money 
and will provide you with no additional benefits..

All in all it's a great board. No there's no clock. Someone alluded to the
fact that there might be a jumper pad on the A1200 Motherboard to allow you
to plug in a CBM clock mod, that doesn't use the CPU slot.. 



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: tlschwie@mars.acs.oakland.edu (tlschwie)
Subject: 386/16 + speed or better on emulation
Followup-To: sender
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:05:26 GMT


hello amiga community!  I do not wish to abandon the superior machine,
so I must make it emulate. I need to be able to emulate atleast the equiv of
a 386/16 on my dream amiga, and share a harddrive. I am a programmer so
I think if I went any slower I'd knaw my arm off... 

there are three approaches I see.. a fast amiga with software emulation
(like pc task) (correct me if I'm wrong)

a stock amiga with a megga-expensive "AT in a slot thang"

or an empty, time-slicing clone which will become a computer upon the
purchase of many cards and outdated upon recipt.(dig dig)

so now it's up to you to decide my fate, let me know YOUR successes &
failures and your prices and deals. I am willing to buy entire systems
or just what I need (I have an A1000 with a 2000 slot and could expand)

GOOD points to keep in mind:
1. I must be able to access disks and harddisk in regular IBM format
  (none of this "download to special amiga format")

2. A nice display is only nice, when the rubber hits the road, I would
   rather "deal" with interlace than pay thru the nose for it.


well thats about it, if you have any info (norton si comparisons etc)
please send it with your deals.. or heck advice would be nice.

thanx..                         tlschwie@vela.acs.oakland.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: How to put a CLock in A1200
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:36:17 GMT

bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>In article <1ie5kmINNom6@phakt.usc.edu> dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
>>	Shhhh! Don't scare the chicks away! Besides, be gentleman and give
>>the girl a break. We all know they can be extra-touchy, at least for a few
>>days a month. >:v)  hmm, any suggestion on sneering smiley? :)

>Paula's real touchy on sexism.  Unlike all the other girls, she's got
>a few nice days a month.  ;)

I theorize that she's got a low tolerance for humor.  If she only knew what
my poor little .sig has done for millions upon millions of people she'd
reconsider her harsh language and learn to use complete sentences too. ;-)

>A sneering smiley...  >] or >}, perhaps?  B]

One is definitely needed in this group anymore! :)

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From: rlippert@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ryan Jon Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP, Please: The mysterious A1200
Date: 7 Jan 1993 06:48:16 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4


>But be prepared to get raped on the pricing.  My dealer wanted $35 for the
stupid thing

For the little SILVER 15 to 25 pin adaptor?????? Jesus! I got mine from safe
Harbor Computers for $15! Give em a Call 800-544-6599. I Also got a 1381a
Mitsubishi monitor, It works GREAT! hell for the money damn well worth it!
Thanks Lenny!
From: Greg_Bastow@tvbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Greg Bastow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga 600 & Fast Ram
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:06:32 PST
Organization: Tunnel-Vision BBS!

How does one add some FAST memory to an Amiga 600. The MicroBotics card
only add CHIP ram:-(
 

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From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: GARY chip question
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:54:20 GMT

In article <K84hs*Qx1@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:

>I think this might be the Toshiba (Japan looks like a good hint to me...)  
>Could someone knowledgeable confirm or deny this?  What does this change do?

The MOS version has the MOS logo on it.  I'd imagine that it's just got
less bugs.

>                                                Jim Pritchett
>UUCP:  rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
> or    utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp


--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: gbartoli@netcom.com (Guy Bartoli II)
Subject: Re: A4000 Monitor list?
Organization: CLink - A Manly Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:38:06 GMT

Nicholas Palombo (unpalomb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
: Could someone post or email a listing of all the multisyncs that work well
: with the Amiga 4000?
: 
: 

Here, as well! I'm getting a 1200 and would like to pick up a monitor that
supports all ScreenModes in every resolution. Been playing with 1084's for
so long, that I don't have a clue what's out there anymore! Someone told me
to either pick up a Sony or NEC. Is this good advice?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: Amiga 600 & Fast Ram
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:33:20 GMT

In article <10415@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>In article <Greg_Bastow.05f1@tvbbs.wimsey.bc.ca> Greg_Bastow@tvbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Greg Bastow) writes:
>>How does one add some FAST memory to an Amiga 600. The MicroBotics card
>>only add CHIP ram:-(
>
>That sounds impossible: The A1200 comes already equipped with *all*
>possible Chip RAM, 2 MB. *Every* RAM you add after this can only be Fast.

Had he been asking about the A1200, you would have been correct. :)
(Oops, Dr. Kittel? :)

To answer Gregs question:  The only fast RAM expantion (to my knowledge)
it the PCMCIA card, I don't know who makes it, but I remember seeing
it mentioned in the AmigaWorld review of the A600.  (FlashRAM?)

>-- 
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>Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!


--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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From: Gord_Pope@mindlink.bc.ca (Gord Pope)
Subject: Re: AdSpeed and DKB quikstart
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:56:55 GMT

Ive put the ADSPEED in my 1000 with the KWIKSTART II.  The KS II is still in
the 1000 but I've moved the ADSPEED to my 2000.
Did it work?  Initially, it came up flawlessly under both 2.0 and 1.3.
However, I found that the combination of these two products plus 2.0 on a
1000 with the software I was running was too unstable.  I can't remember all
the problems I had or what I did about them (other than buying a friend's
2000).  I do have some hack type memory and a similar type hard drive on the
1000.  Perhaps that contributed to the unstableness.  Yes I grounded all the
appropriate PALS.  (I think).  Since my 1.3 system used to be so stable,
that's what I run on the 1000 now with the KS II board still in.  The ADSPEED
runs 2.0 on the 2000.  Acording to both manufacturers, the products should be
compatible.  The ADSPEED does work very well in the 2000.

Good luck!
Gord.
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:03:59 EST
From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: EPROM programers and Amiga

In article <49ogs*J21@wolf359.UUCP>, eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards) says:
>
>I've decided to try my hand at building Zorro II/III boards.  For this I
>will need to program EPROMS (Autoconfig) and preferably, GALs as well.

Yeap.  Have you consider EEPROM ?  It would probably save a lot of time
as you don't have to power down, pull it out, tan it in uv for 5-15
minutes, power up Amiga, pop in chip in yet another untested hardware to
program it, turn off Amiga, plug it into card, power up to test card....

>I've not had much luck in finding the required tools. The only
>specifically Amiga tool I've seen is GALer, from one of the fish disks.

There is Epromer (right ?) V2.0.  It was available in ab20 site and it
should be in WUarchive under /systems/amiga/info/hardware.  I didn't like
the original BASIC timing loops (V.1), so I designed mine.

>Unfortunately for mono-lingual fools like myself, the program and all of
>it's documentation is in German.  Further, it requires a GAL programmer of
>the author's design.  While it is possible that the instructions required

Yeap... Got same problem here.  Can't even get that May 1992 Elektor
article on building GAL programmer for the PC in town.  The only
place in town decided not to carry it during the summer.  :(

I did got the full programming spec under NDA after a phone call to
National Semiconductor.  Other companies simple laugh in my face.
Good thing is the Nat. Semi call was my first, otherwise I was more
than disappointed to try after a couple.

>Does anyone have any ideas?  Better solutions?  I'd hate to have to buy a
>clone just so I could build hardware for my Amiga.

Well if you write my thesis for me I can probably release my EPROM
programmer (full docs + source) and GAL (binary code only due to NDA). :)
A job offer would probably do the same for me... :)  I am way too tied
up these days to do anything.

Ask the German author whether or not he has an English version....
(Mine still lacks the GAL assembler & disassembler, but sinceII can
run IBeM for Nat Semi' OPAL JR (Free) I didn't bother writing mine.)

Try the EEPROM solution.  I know I would.  They are almost like RAM
chip in pin outs and interfacing.  Writing to it is pretty simple too
as some of them have built-in latches.  Just have to write data, and
keep reading it until internal write is done (upper bit is inverted on
read when it it not ready.) and write again.

Some stores have GAL programming service.  Cost $$$$ as I can't get it
right without 4 - 5 iterations.

>Do NOT trust 'reply'!  wolf359.ustores.missouri.edu is BOGUS

That's why I am posting... Usually have problem with .uucp

K. C. Lee
Elec. Eng. Grad. Student
From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Supra Wordsync with internal drives
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 17:04:50 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

I have 2 96 megs HD's inside with the WordSync and an external
50meg HD and 2 gig tape backup. No problem. Just get a SCSI cable with another
connector.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: No clock in A1200?
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 07:59:10 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

If you are doing development on an A1200, then you really need something
like the MBX1200, which not only gives you the clock, but speeds up the
system by a factor of 5 or so.
From: tage@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: HELP!::Will a 1902a MONITOR WORK WITH AN AMIGA???
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:09:58 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada





      Will a commodore 1902a Monitor that was hooked up to a C128 work on an 
amiga ?????  I tried it...the connectors(pins) are the same as a 1084 monitor,
but it didn't work! 
      So if anyone has any ideas about this please email me!


                                                     Tony Tage!
                                                     tage@ac.dal.ca
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 4000 will not RE-BOOT
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 93 17:35:59 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>With the 3144A (original drive), a C-A-A would cause an audible slowdown of th
e
>HD as it killed the system and then re-booted. This new drive 3283A does not
>seem to change pitch when re-booted. The system does go away and leaves me wit
h
>a black screen.
>
>Any suggestions or thoughts?
>Please don't tell me not to hang the machine so as to avoid a re-boot.

Just a thought:

The 3283, do you have it as the only drive in the system? Is it configured
to be the master or slave drive? I seem to remember from my PC that one
drive gets to be "master", and the other is "slave", and jumpers must
be set accordingly.  If you have only one drive, it must be the "master".

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
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From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
Subject: Repost: A-3000 deinterlaced output problems
Summary: getting jittery screen... 
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 05:40:17 GMT

I posted about this before, but only got one reply, and he had the wrong
idea about what I was trying to say:

I've had an A-3000 for about 10 months now and up 'til recently have been
using it with a 1084.  Anyway, I bought a Diamondscan last month, and
noticed an odd problem with deinterlaced output - I get an odd sort of
jitter to the screen when things are moving or changing, sometimes.  This is
nothing to do with the smooth displacment of fields with respect to each
other caused by the deinterlacing process itself - this is a random
displacement of individual scan lines around parts of the screen that are
changing color, moving or scrolling.  The display is perfect when still, and
sometimes stays that way during changes, but not usually.  The effect is
most apparent on the right edge of the screen, and the larger the changing
area, the worse it is.  

I put it down to the monitor at first, since it was delivered damaged
anyway, and returned the monitor, but since then I've tried the 3000 with a
known-good 1960 (normally used on an A-4000), and now I have a replacement
Diamondscan, and I get the same results.  I work with many Amigas, including
several 3000s and a 4000, as well as a few flicker-fixed 2000s, and I've
never seen anything like this before.  One test I ran produced odd results -
I made a quick and simple animation of a box spinning and moving across the
screen in DPaint IV, and while the program was drawing it, I observed that
the box would get painted on the screen in perfect stability, and then it
would madly jitter in the ~1 second before the next frame would get
painted...

Is it something I could fix by twiddling the screw in back of the machine?
I've tried this a little but it wasn't much help.

.                            <<<<Infinite K>>>>

(email replies preferred)
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From: Arrakis@cup.portal.com (Duane M Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!::Will a 1902a MONITOR WORK WITH AN AMIGA???
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:10:16 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>
>
>
>
>      Will a commodore 1902a Monitor that was hooked up to a C128 work on an
>amiga ?????  I tried it...the connectors(pins) are the same as a 1084 monitor,
>but it didn't work!

I believe the C128 delivered digital RGB. The Amiga's output is analog.

    
                        
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From: AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx (Alejandro J. Kurczyn S.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Looking for CIA related problems list
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:44:36 GMT
Organization: ITESM Mexico State Campus

Hello all, last year (actually about 6 months ago) I came across a very good
file, that listed all the CIA related stuff on the Amigas. I believe it was
part of some periodic "publication" from GEnie, called 5-Minute, StarShip,
or something like that. I only have the first part.
 
If anyone has such a list, or the original file, can you send me a copy?
I'll appreciate it very much. Thanks in advance!
 
-Alejandro Kurczyn S.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: bmccnnll@unix1.tcd.ie (Barry McConnell)
Subject: Re: Quantum 120 LPS a flawed drive?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:15:41 GMT

In <aMpgs*2d2@laosinh.stgt.sub.org> gerrit@laosinh.stgt.sub.org (Gerrit Heitsch) writes:

>I use a LPS120S together with a LPS105 on a GVP Series II
>since 10-feb-92 and had no problems with it. The drive is on 24 hrs 
>a day and my amiga may work for a month without a reboot.

I am in love with my LP120S! :-)  When I first got it, I experienced many
lockups, but that was due to a jumper set wrongly on my HD controller (GVP).
When I put my A2000 on its side I needed to reformat the drive (well, the
first partition anyway) because of r/w errors, but that was only to be
expected. Overall, I'd give the LP120S full marks. Its only flaw would be
that it is noticeably louder than my old LP52S. But the raw speed makes up
for it. :-)

BTW The new ELS drives are - I have heard - a LOT slower. 

Barry.
From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Backup on VCR
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 93 06:13:53 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

If there is anyone out there that has a bridgecard and an open PC
slot, I've got a PC card and software that will backup a 40 meg HD
to a standard T-120 VHS tape in 2 hrs with full backup/restore features.
Just attach the output of the card to the video input on the VCR and
run the software. I'll sell it for $50 + shipping. Leave E-mail.
From: cmh@lysator.liu.se (Magnus Holmgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Blitter-linedrawing-algorythm ???
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:35:23 GMT
Organization: Lysator ACS at Linkoping University

m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg) writes:

>What line-drawing algorythm does the blitter-hardware use ?

I would guess they use Bresenham (spelling? :). Not that difficult to make in
hardware (needs a bunch of MUXes though.. :). Also, the fact that the blitter
is 16 bits, and you can make 32K long lines indicates this.

But this is only guesses, so...
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From: feuchtwa@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Feuchtwanger)
Subject: Help: Why can't i write to my floppies?
Keywords: A1000 floppy drive write protected
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:48:25 GMT

My system wont let me write (or delete, etc) anything
to any of my three floppy drives.  When i try, i'm told
the disk is write protected -- even though all my disks
are definitely write enabled.

This problem has occurred just as i try to install CSA's
Mega Miget Racer into my A1000.  I may be doing something
wrong, but they (CSA) haven't sent me the user manual yet.
Or maybe it's just a coincidence, and the problem lies
elsewhere.

Please reply to me directly.  
thanks in advance,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:28:56 GMT
Subject: Is there an experimenting board
From: uucp@diode.fipnet.fi (Tapio Heiskanen)
Organization: Fipnet, Helsinki, Finland
Keywords: zorro, zorro2, io
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I was wondering if there was an experimenting board for the ZORRO slot.
Most preferably for A500. And it should have the logic for AutoConfiguration.

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