This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Norm, Well, Macs are real peculiar about disk ejection and if it isn't done properly through the OS, you can really have major problems. Whatever you did, you did it right and it worked, so I wouldn't look for a new way to do it — if it ain't broke,…
Kevin, I have an A2386 25Mhz Bridgeboard with an EMC (Elite Micro Computers) 486SLC upgrade. This upgrade is NOT the Cyrix "clip on" upgrade. This one is a chip replacement. The 386 was removed and replaced by the 486SLC (not the new clock doubled chip). The board has 5 meg…
Brent, Yeh, well not too many people want to spring for the 486, it's quite a bit more expensive than the plain BB. If you come across anyone, thought, who's interested in a 486 conversion, please keep me in mind and pass along my name and CIS id.
Norman, If you have the System upgrade disks (what you might get if you already own a Mac system and are upgrading from, say System 7.0 to 7.1), the Install One disk may not be bootable and may not have a functional system file. That may be why you had…
MagicWB
Message #165325
Alex, In fact it's very realistic. A 15% royalty on a software product that sells for $100 is pretty good. A book author usually gets between 10 and 12% of the "wholesale" price of a book. If it's a hardbound book that sells for $40 retail, the wholesale price will…
Norm, Hey, Hey!! Well, got it working, whataya know. You were, btw, sort of lucky about dragging the system file from Disk Tools. That doesn't always work, you know. That system file is so minimal that you're often lucky it even boots. What I normally do is eject the Disk…
Bizhan, Well, it's always tough to debug something like this remotely and without something similar with which to experiment. I read a couple of other responses, so I know I'm probably repeating another message. You might check to be sure that the scripts are addressing the correct command port. Usually,…
You guys need to read the docs. Amax IV only reads high density disks in a high density drive. It will not read low density Mac disks. However, you can create file images of low density Mac floppies using the Amax IV file transfer utilities. Those images can then be…
Brian, Amax IV cannot read low density floppies. To transfer low density floppy data you must use the Amax IV file transfering utilities which create a file image of the disk. These images may be "mounted" as drives in the Setup program and will then show up on the Mac…
John, ROMINFO is a Macintosh program. You need to transfer the program to a Mac formatted diskette and run it on a Mac II/IIc/IIcx machine. The easiest way to accomplish this is to have a machine running Amax and transfering the file onto the Amax ;using FileTransfer. Then copy the…
Darron, Yep, that indeed turned out to be the case. Bill said that OS 3.1 may require more stack for soem programs. In fact, I'd been puzzled by some strange goings on in Turbotext, so on a hunch that those problems may have been caused by the same thing as…
Don't know. I believe it's in the AmigaUser DLs. Do a BRO AGE:20 LIB:all. It was uploaded recently. Or do a key search on zedrexx or rexx.
Bill, Well, I guess I misunderstood the previous reply, because what I did was to simply change the stack by running Stack 40000 before running DHOpts, but that apparently isn't what you were recommending, so I need to go back and try this again, because I still get some garbage…
Darron, Hmmm. Well, I don't have any problems with WShell's initial window, but Term's ARexx window has garbage characters in it, as will my pop-up shell window. However, I think I did something quite different from you. I merely set a large stack prior to running DHOpts, but that's not…
Gee, Rusty, you're just about as good as VisionWorks — glasses in just about an hour!! Seriously, glad you got the chips installed.
Are you running these from ToasterPaint or outside of it? Most programs with ARexx ports which use their own arexx scripts need the scripts be run from inside the program itself. Check your TP manual about using arexx scripts to determine how they are to be used. They may need…
Bill, Why would a larger stack be needed just because of the change in OS? I've had similar problems with shell titles, but I thought it might have been the font I was using.
Norm, I know that US pressures on Japan to change their trade practices has been substantial, and that several minor agreements were made earlier this year, but I don't recall any mention of electronic parts being a part of these agreements. Japan has been pressured not to dump product on…
Robert, Since you have only one monitor, you may want to consider getting a switchbox so you can switch the monitor to the VGA card when you use the bridgeboard. You can get these boxes from JDR MicroSystems for about $35 and two 15 pin VGA cables for about $16.…
It's the same. I believe the full name was Grandslam Pro.
#Hardware for sale
Message #163346
Well, I've still got some hardware to sell. CBM A2386sx Bridgeboard w/EMC upgrade to 486SLC with 5 meg RAM. Presently clocked at 25Mhz, I have the 33Mhz xtal. Needs 70 or 60ns ZIPs, however, to run at 33Mhz. Diamond Speedstar 24X 1 meg Video Board. IVS Grandslam Pro SCSI/Memory card.…
Brian, Wouldn't you know I'd be talking with another economist!! Well, not truly. I'm a Finance and Real Estate professor. Here I am preaching to the choir! I agree that unless there is an answer to a decline in producing facilities we will surely see an increase in price. Computer…
Richard, I grew up in Pittsburgh, although I moved from there in 1960. I lived in Squirrel Hill. My wife and I visited this summer, my first vist in over 30 years! Where in the city do you live?
Robert, If you are using a video card, then set the video emulation to none. With a video card you don't want the emulator running in any video mode. When you run pcwindow you will get an open window, but nothing in it. However, when you switch the monitor to…
Brian, I don't doubt that the demand for more memory will increase, but that only pressures prices upward if production is unable or unwilling to keep up with demand. Generally, if the demand for a product is growing and is expected to continue growing, then producers increase output to service…
Dale, Well, I'd check again. I've looked several places in the past week and haven't found them that cheap, leastwise not from any reliable mailorder house in single lots retail. But even if they were available readily at that price, that's about $40 a meg for a widely used product…
Dale, Well, it may have been overrated but it wasn't underused. The fact that it is in the past or even that its effects weren't significant on the production side, doesn't mean that it had no impact in the retail market. Reality is that when that factory blew up so…
Having read and read about John Dvorak since the days of CP/M when John couldn't understand the big deal about MSDOS, I've come to expect that the shortages John talks about are in his imagination! Having vented my thoughts about JD, he may be right, but since there are many…
Dave, Well, Memory World still advertises them in Amiga World. You can listen to Dale or call MM and find out. As for how cheap they were, I paid $15.95 a chip about 2 years back. When I bought my tower about a year ago I paid $23.95 a chip.…
Bob, Thanks for that tip. I've always thought there had to be a simple way to do that, but it wasn't something I ever thought about. Glad you showed it to me. BTW I called Dineen Edwards and left messages on the answering machine, but I've yet to hear back,…
Bob, Well, the ZedRexx package just arrived today! Unfortunately, David has't finished the documentation, so the preliminary docs are very brief. The letter promised that the completed docs would be sent (no charge) as soon as it was completed. I'll try to spend some time with it this weekend to…
Bob, Unfortunately, I am not equipped to build a shared library. It's not too critical a problem. My scripts that use those libraries are just not compiled. BTW, have you come across the demo, ZedRexx? It's written by David Junod and is selling as a commercial product for $35. It…
Bob, Well, my last version was 1.3, so you are a few versions ahead. I left Mark a message on Bixnet. Maybe he'll respond. If not, I may call to see if they are still around. I'd hate to see them fail. I've used the compiler a lot. Lately, I've…
Bart, If the drives are being sold for PC machines they may not be scsi drives. If they are for Macs, they will be scsi. Some are even proprietary interfaces requiring a controller card which only works in PC machines. You would be best only buying a drive sold for…
Christoph, Why don't you try running your serial through the Amiga ports rather than using the Emplant ports? It doesn't solve the problem of a bad chip, but at least you should get some output unless the Emplant requires the serial chips to interface with the Amiga ports. As for…
Hank, More than likely if you run the drive off the Emplant's scsi you will see a sight decrease in speed because the GVP scsi is much faster. It really depends on whether the drive is capable of greater throughput than the Emplant scsi can handle. If not, it won't…
Oops, thanks for the correction.
Hank, About the only thing you could do is to increase the amount of RAM for the device buffer to the 256k max. That may improve performance at the margin for i/o, but it won't likely make a major difference. There's really little you can do other than move up…
Rob, Yes, I know. But the message requested someone upload RexxPlus and the compiler is not distributable, only those support files required to run a compiled program on another machine not equipped with RexxPlus. Those support files and the runtime library may only be distributed if the author has paid…
Frank, RexxPlus is a commercial product. It's not available for public distribution. If you are interested call Dineen Edwards, Inc. at 313-352-4288.
Bart, No problem. The CD drive is in a case which has a passthru connector for the daisychain. The cabling is normal. Not all SCSI software is the same, that is some controller software may not implement certain calls, but usually they all implement the ones that are necessary. Sometimes…
Hardware for sale
Message #160000
I have the following hardware for sale: A2386sx Bridgeboard converted to 486SLC w/5 meg RAM. Amax II Plus w/ROMs. Can be upgraded to Amax IV. EMC Multi-I/O card (IDE, floppy, serial and parallel, SVGA video). Must for A3000. IVS Grandslam Pro SCSI controller/RAM card (no RAM) Prices: Bridgeboard: $650 (firm)…
Erik, The file was FastMath, but I don't recall where I got it. It may have been here or it may have been on Genie or Portal. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll upload it.
Carl, No, mine is a CBM bridgeboard. However, if you look at the GG 486 board you'll find that new they are far more expensive than mine, have less RAM, and don't perform as well. But you should look into it yourself. At $650 my 486 BB is a good…
Erik, I have the most current version, the same one you shipped me. The math libs, however, are no concern. Consider that the OS expects an 882 or 881 FPU, so the stock libs are written for them. There is a shareware set of libs written specifically for the /040…
Uh, yep, I think you're right.
Don't you mean 8086? The 386 BB never came with any drives and it isn't the "original" bridgeboard, that was the old 8086 board.
#New BBoard Needed
Message #159735
Carl, Thought you weren't interested in the bridgeboard. If you are, I've still got the one we talked about. Leave me EMAIL.
Erik, Well, after 4 days of using it I haven't experienced anything strange or unusual. If anything it feels like the system is stabler than before, although that's more a sense than anything truly tangible. I did find that CanDo works properly with the Picasso board in recognizing the existence…
Steve, There are usually two things to take care of when installing a chained hard drive. The first is termination and the second is the drive's SCSI id. It is very likely that the first hard drive is jumpered as SCSI id=0 or id=6, depending upon how the manufacturer set…
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