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From: bfrandse@isis.cs.du.edu (Bill Frandsen)
Subject: Re: Death of Pirating
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 03:03:00 GMT

leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt) writes:

>Crossposted:
>Summary: Special hardware to stop piracy, using the AFD-technique
>Keywords: chip, piracy, AFD, Gail
>Message-ID: <1203@lysator.liu.se>
>Date: 8 Apr 92 09:36:51 GMT
>Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
>Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
>Lines: 31

>One use of the Gail-chip I have not heared someone on the net mention yet, is
>that it incorperates the AFD-technique.
>The first time you use a new Amiga you have to enter a personal code, wich then
>gets burnt into the Gail chip. Then each time you use new commercial software,
>this code is transfered to the disk (even if it's write-protected).

This sounds impossible w/o hacks to the drive, making them incompatible
with 720K IBM drives.  Also, What if yours comes with the code set accidentially.?

>Each time you use the disk after that, it compares the two codes, and if they
>don't match, the computer will be permanently blocked, and only CBM service
>people, will be able to reset it, and they are told to notify the police
>immediately, if an blocked amiga arrives.

Yea, right, whatever.  Some service centers I've seen pirate software
right off peoples hard drives brought in.  Thats putting the wolf in
charge of the sheep corral.
>You could try to copy the disks before the code is transfered, but Gail will
>sense it and erase the disks.
Not!  Unless the disk uses copy protection, a copy is the same as an
original

>CBM have been installing the Gail-chip in all amigas since the first of April.

This is the first I've heard of this chip.
>All of the above information from issue #7/1992 of `DatorMagazin' (the largest
>swedish computer newspaper).


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

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

>	* Will these disks be usable on old amigas?

>Regards,
>--
>Henrik Grubbstrom					grubba@lysator.liu.se
>Lysator Computer Club,
>Linkoping University, Sweden

>Any more info on this?

>Thom
From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: WB 2.04 on the Amiga 1000.
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:43:10 GMT
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA

In article <1992Apr5.225021.21901@wuecl.wustl.edu> cmd1@eclop.wustl.edu (Chris Dunphy) writes:
>
>  I am wondering if there is any way for me to get KS/WB 2 running on
>my 1000 without investing in a hardware ROM switcher board or any
>thing along those lines.  I have some things that I would like to
>work on that will be much nicer to do in the 2.04 environment, but
>I do not want to throw any more money into my 1000.  I am waiting
>patiently for the new chip set before I am ready to put down the
>money on an A3000 (or whatever is next)...
>   I have plenty of RAM in my machine, so that is not a problem.  
>So does anyone know of any software hack that will allow me to
>run 2.04 for the next six months or so until I can truely 
>upgrade? Thanks....
>
>  Chris  (cmd1@wuecl.wustl.edu)

 The thing is how much KS ram do you have? If you have a utility that will
remap ks and allocate it in fast ram you can operate a disk based 2.0
Otherwise 2.0 is far too large for the KS address space in a 1000.

The hardware hack to impliment such a rom system is not really that
tough. You remove the daughterboard, all support pins, and hack on
a KS rom board to agnus(i think..don't quote me on that) this
will work for 2.0 or 1.3

Gene Prall  prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu
Real programmers don't write in LISP, only faggot programs contain more
parenthisis than actual code.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:14:00 GMT

sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould) writes:
>I too have acces to a SCSI CD drive.
>Can I just connect this and use the available software?
>If not, WHY not?

"Available software" is defined as the CDROM-FS from CPR, I don't know
of any other widely available CD-ROM driver software. If the drive you
have is on the CPR "compatibility list" it should work, if it is not,
then you're on your own. (I reposted the list last week, so it should
still be around, look for "compatibility" in the subject line.)
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland        580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!blgardne  BIX: blaine_g
DoD #46               My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.              FJ1200
From: koren@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:25:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Ami SCSI DB-25 pinouts & tape funniness
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware


A few days ago I wrote:

[ some stuff about SCSI pinouts ]
> according to the pinouts above.  Something is obviously amiss.

Thanks for the responses.  What is amiss was that I had misunderstood
the numbering schemes on the two 50 pin connectors.  The Centronics
connector is numbered one way, and the 50 pin ribbon cable is numbered
the other.  (One is across, one is down; I forget which is which).

So apparently my cable is OK.  I still don't have a clue what is
wrong, but at least I have ruled out some things.

Thanks,

   - steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: ken@gbrmpa.gov.au (Ken Dwyer)
Subject: Re: External SyQuest, Aggravation! reselection??
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 07:16:59 GMT

bc343@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephen Teeno) writes:


>   Having read several messages over the past months regarding
>problems with SyQuest (or any second) drives and the A2091
>I thought I had things covered, but I guess not... or else I
>have a unique problem.
>   The symptoms:
	[formats fine, data transfer => locks up]
>   The system:
	[A2000, WB2.04 ROM, A2091 rev4.0 (6.6 roms) 40M Quantum device 6]
        [SyQuest device 3 with no terminator]
>       Oh, yeah... I used the 'reselectionON' program from the
>       2.0 Install disk to turn reselection on.
> I thought the v6.6 roms took care of reselection problems.  Am
> I wrong on that?  Any other suggestions?

v6.6 ROMS for the 2091 don't fix problems with the SyQuest ROMS :)

I have to leave reselection OFF because I have the old SyQuest ROMS
I used to have version FFH roms on my SyQuest, but it died :( and the
replacement has version EOJ roms which don't seem to suport reselection.
I'm still waiting on replacement roms...

I would check the SyQuest ROM version, and if it is earlier than (at a
wild guess) about Fxx then I wouldn't expect reselection to work.

My system operates ok without reselection enabled.
If I enable reselection then, whenever two tasks try to access the SyQuest
it will hang. Even if only one task is accessing it, it will sometimes
hang.

ken@gbrmpa.gov.au

From: koren@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1992 01:24:43 GMT
Subject: Ami SCSI DB-25 pinouts & tape funniness
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware


A while back, I posted a note about problems I was having with a
tape drive I had purchased.  I still don't have this working, and
this is my second attempt at finding out why.  First a disclaimer:
I am a software guy who only rarely and in times of dire need
ever works with hardware.  If some of these questions seems
nieve, that is why.

I have been poking around trying to find out how the SCSI cable
I have is connected.  Since this drive has a 50 pin ribbon
connector on it, and my Amiga has a DB-25, they won't talk unless
I use the following:

  1. DB-25 to DB-50 (?) cable I bought from a local Mac place
  2. A DB-50 to 50 pin ribbon adapter

I at first, perhaps nievely, though that SCSI is SCSI.  Not so,
apparently.  I have the pinouts for the DAT drive, and they
look like this (50 pin ribbon):

  All odd pins except 25 are connected to ground
  25 should float
  pins 2,4,6,8,10,12,14, and 16 are -DB(0) thoruhg -DB(7)
  pin 18 = -DB(P) (I assume this is a parity bit - ??)
  20, 22, 24 are ground
  26 is terminator power (I'm guessing +5, but it doesn't say)
  28 and 30 are ground
  32 is -ATN
  34 is ground
  36 is -BSY
  38 is -ACK
  40 is -RST
  42 is -MSG
  44 is -SEL
  46 is -C/D
  48 is -REQ
  50 is -I/O

I don't have the pinouts on the Amiga DB-25 connector, so I can't
compare.  Does anyone have this they could send to me?

Now, I had originally assumed that this 25 to 50 pin cable I got
from the Mac place would do the job.  Perhaps this is my problem.
I have not attempted to determine exactly what is connected to
what, but I have done a little poking around with a multimeter, and
have determined a few strange things.  For example:

   DB-25 end      DB-50 end
   -----------------------------
   pin 1      ->  1,2,3,49
   pin 2      ->  46,48,50
   pin 3      ->  6

This smells funny.  If pin 1,2, and 3 are all tied together on the
DB-50 end, then its trying to force -DB(0) to be ground in all cases,
according to the pinouts above.  Something is obviously amiss.

The Mac place where I bought this assures me that it is indeed a
25 pin to 50 pin SCSI cable, and the package says that too.  Is
there something radically difference about Mac SCSI?  I always thought
SCSI pinouts were pretty much a standard across platforms.

(I would have bought the cable from an Amiga dealer but there are no
Amiga dealers here - the closest one is a 120 mile drive, and I don't
trust that one any farther than I could throw them).

What's the deal?  Am I just colossally ignorant of hardware matters,
or is this really not the right cable?  Where can I get one that will
work (including the DAT drive requirements that all odd pins except
25 be tied to ground, and that 25 must be left open)?

I'd be greatful to anyone who can tell me what is going on here.
Right now I have a very expensive DAT drive sitting here useless,
and that is somewhat frustrating.

  - steve
From: cbjones@c00313-11pa.eos.ncsu.edu (CHARLES B JONES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Lucas and Francis boards
Summary: need info on them
Date: 16 Apr 92 23:01:43 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: NCSU Project Eos

I have an old archive telling about the Lucas and Francis hardware hacks.  If
anyone knows where I can get the latest version of this archive please E-mail
me.  Also I would be interested in any information/expirienceswith these
projects.

cbjones@eos.ncsu.edu
From: rda753x@nella15.cc.monash.edu.au (Richard Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola 68050
Date: 3 Apr 92 01:05:32 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.

adonkin@waikato.ac.nz writes:


>	I have heard about Motorola's new baby, the 68050, but nothing concrete
>or in any detail.  Could anyone provide me with some more details (for my
>curiosity and for a friend doing research)?


   Try posting to the 68k newsgroup. That'd be the best place to ask. I have
gathered that the next chip from motorola in the 68k series will be an '060
rather than '050, due to another complete workover...


   Richard.
-- 
Richard Jones, rda753x@nellads.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: A1000 hardware mystery
Keywords: A1000 video TV modulator DIN
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:09:48 GMT

rcaslis@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:
>In article <29ED08DD.12952@noiro.acs.uci.edu> mblair@hydra.acs.uci.edu (Mark Blair) writes:
>>That connector is for an external TV modulator, allowing you to
>>display your Amiga's video on a television that doesn't have a
>>composite video input. I'm not sure if Commodore actually marketed
>>such a modulator for the A1000. In case anybody is interested, here is

>There are several mail order places (look at the back pages of any AmigaWorld)
>that apparently sell this device.  I've never used one or seen one, but if
>some companies are selling it, I'd say it must exist.

I never saw it on the retail market, but I picked up a couple of them
last year on the surplus market. It was either Jameco or JDR
Microdevices that had them (Jameco seems most likely), and for an
absurdly low price too.
-- 
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland        580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com  uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!blgardne  BIX: blaine_g
DoD #46               My other motorcycle is a Quadracer.              FJ1200
From: ree88132@zach.fit.edu (Keith Ledig /ADVISOR Kozaitis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: FDHD
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:35:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: winnie.3663
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA


 
Please tell me more about your HDfloppy drive on your 3000
I heard some 3000's were released with the 1.44 meg drives.
Can us 3000 owners hook up a 1.44 floppy and make it work???
comments please!
Keith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Subject: Re: C=64 files to AMIGA
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:40:05 GMT

sijben@cs.utwente.nl (Paul Sijben) writes:

>2)- Disk-2-Disk, it is a utility program that lets you use rou 5 1/4" floppy
>to read 1541 floppys (also does some converting)

What I do is, I use the Big Blue Reader on my 128 (also available for the 64)
to read/write 3.5" MS-DOS disks on my 1581, and then I use MSH on the Amiga to
read/write the same 3.5" MS-DOS disks in my Amiga internal floppy.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu
From: mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re:  A3000/Toaster
Date: 12 Apr 92 08:08:35 GMT
Organization: AMiSYS Consulting

In article <?J?L!S@ais.org> cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>In article <9204101650.AA26908@teetot.acusd.edu> gs@TEETOT.ACUSD.EDU (Greg Simon) writes:
>>
>>  Does anyone have a Video Toaster working on a 3000?  I've heard that
>>>  the board needs to be hacked off to make it fit, is this true?
>
>  The current Toaster will not fit in the A3000 case, unless you "hack" the
>case to let it hang over the side.  Also, last I knew the Toaster only
>worked with the old Denise chip, and wont run with the ECS denise chip in
>the A3000, thus you would also have to replace the ECS denise with the old
>Denise.  

Yes, you do need to hack the back of the case a bit, but there's room there to
do it, and if you take your time and plan the modification out in advance, the
result can be nice.  Of course, this will void the warranty on your 3000.

As for any rumored problems with the ECS Denise chip, they're untrue.  The
Toaster works just fine in a 3000 as-is.

--
    ... Mike

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From: mccoy@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Daniel J. McCoy)
Subject: Re: A3000/Toaster
Reply-To: Daniel_McCoy@cup.portal.com
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 15:04:43 GMT

In article <?J?L!S@ais.org> cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>In article <9204101650.AA26908@teetot.acusd.edu> gs@TEETOT.ACUSD.EDU (Greg Simon) writes:
>>
>>  Does anyone have a Video Toaster working on a 3000?  I've heard that
>>>  the board needs to be hacked off to make it fit, is this true?
>
>  The current Toaster will not fit in the A3000 case, unless you "hack" the
>case to let it hang over the side.  Also, last I knew the Toaster only
>worked with the old Denise chip, and wont run with the ECS denise chip in
>the A3000, thus you would also have to replace the ECS denise with the old
>Denise.  
[stuff about 3000T and the Toaster and the ECS Denise deleted]

With the release of the Toaster 2.0 software, the ECS Denise issue is history.
The Toaster in my 3000 works flawlessly (outside of bugs in the T2 software).
It was fun hacking the case too (and is MUCH preferred over the alternate
method of void the Toaster warranty).

--
Dan McCoy  
<mccoy@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com - expires April 13th!  reply to the following:
Daniel_McCoy@cup.portal.com
or 73617,2626@compuserve.com
One can NEVER have enough hard drive storage!

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.hardware:8930 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:12651
From: peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Atari Falcon (wasn't: Amiga Falcon)
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:54:38 GMT
Organization: Public News & Mailserver, Commodore Germany PM UNIX, Frankfurt

dano@usl.edu (Dan Stephenson) writes:

>What i think he may have been talking about was the fact that
>the CPU blits so much better than a so-called Blitter, that not having
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>one wasn't AS BAD as one mihgt think.

This is a misconception or legend. As far as I hear it, you can do
*certain* blitter tasks faster with the 68030, but not all! So for 
overall speed, the blitter is still needed, and your statement does
not hold for the general case.

-- 
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                                   or  peterk@public.sub.org
From: mckillnm@unix2.tcd.ie (Marky Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Midi interface for AMIGA 500 ????
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:40:46 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Does anyone have the digram for a midi intreface for the amiga (serial port)

Are they easy to make ??? ......


Please Email me.


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From: janin@v785.stanley.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: INSTALLING a DENISE chip
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:45:42 GMT
Reply-To: janin@v785.stanley.co.jp ()
Distribution: comp
Organization: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. R&D

In article <CONSP03.92Apr12223947@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu> consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) writes:
>How does one properly install a Super Denise chip into a rev. 6.1
>Amiga 2000 motherboard?
>
>Kris

Two steps :

	1> pull the old Denise out of its socket
	2> plug in the new one

That's all !

... I hope you're really talking about Denise, that 40-pin DIL chip,
and NOT about Agnus chips...

P-chan.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Anyone know current state of AEHD and 2.04?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:46:52 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.184104.14955@cc.gatech.edu> kennethm@cc.gatech.edu
(Kenneth Moorman) writes:
>	Does anyone know if a proper 2.04 driver exists for the
>Applied Engineering high density drive yet?  Yes, I know they aren't
>going to write one, I was hoping some Amiga programmer had done
>so by now.  Anybody?

I would suggest contacting John Steiner, the author of the "Bug Bytes" columns
in Amazing Computing. In recent months, there has been an ongoing dialogue
concerning the status of AEHD support under 2.04 and the question of AE's
responsibility to Amiga consumers. He can be contacted through the following
net addresses:

     Internet:   John_Steiner@cup.portal.com
     CompuServe: 73075,1735
     Portal:     John Steiner

Mark

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From: jstevens@terapin.com (John Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A500 and 68030 information wanted.
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:37:09 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Apr4.211445.29476@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca
(Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
>I would like to put a 68030 into my amiga 500.  I would like to hear from
>others who have gone this route.  Compatability issues are my main concern.
>Sorry for beating a tired subject to death.  Currently, I have
>
>amiga 500 with 2.04 
>5 MB ram  1M of that chip
>A590 hard disk controller with 100M quantum drive
>Ad-Ram 540
>	(2 M of ram on the a590, 2.5 M on ad-ram)
>For completeness, a standard 68000 processor
>
>I think I would like to go with the Microbotics 030xl (?) card and 2 M of
>32 bit ram.  At a much later date, I would add the math co-processor.
>
>Are there any known compatibility problems with these setups?
>
>Some of my motivations for wanting the faster processor are:
>
>Doing downloads at 2400 baud chews up 75% of the cpu. (determined by using
>several popular programs).  This leaves little left for other tasks I run
>while waiting.
>
>Any extended access to the hard drive results in total use of the cpu. 
>Hopefully an 030 will allow me to get maximum speed out of the hard drive,
>but not degrade the rest of the systems performance.
>
>It would be incredibly nice to have LZ and Virtgif going quite a bit faster,
>while nice in general to have TeX and some others speeded up.
>
>All comments very welcome, thanks
>
>Ken
YO!
I too am going the VXL-30 40Mhz route with 32-Bit ram and then upgrading the
Math-Co later, without the 32-Bit ram though your stuck in a ditch!  You must
have the 32-bit ram in order to NOTICE any differnce at all.. I would suggest
the following things, first of all the 32-Bit ram is also used as FAST RAM, If
I were you I would completly SELL my ICD AD-Ram and use that money for the
VXL-30 cause that's a lot of power drain and a wast of 16bit ram, that will
hardly ever be used since you have an additional 2 MEGS in your A590 your
fine... do it that way...
From: sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Simon Raybould)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Motorola 68050
Date: 2 Apr 92 16:54:50 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications Ltd., Birmingham, England


I read in Electronics weekly a couple of weeks ago that Motorola had
suspended development of the 68050 for two years to concentrate on
micro-controllers. There was a lengthy interview with a senior member
of staff who explained their position.

So I shouldn't hold your breath waiting for it.

--
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