This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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When IBM chose a processor, they had the option of the 68000, but intel offered them a better deal ( a couple of dollars per chip probably ). The people who worked on the original pc have stated that they regretted their choice. Phill
With the amount of noise on a mains cable, a bit of phase error isn't going to make much of a difference. The mains isn't anyway near a perfect waveform. Phill
Well, I have a string multiply in a system I wrote, it has to multiply a 9(4.6) by a 9(3.2) or a 9(3). How would you do this??? Phill
Ok, I would like to see the code Phill
1802, never heard of that one, it's a good job IBM didn't pick that one to put in the pc 😉 Phill
Probably cheaper to do it that way, especially if AT are going to honor the waranties in that case. I haven't seen anything about waranties at all yet, I guess there is no offsite waranties like CBM UK used to supply Phill
I thought about getting a ups, but I don't have any problems with electricity dropping out. I guess some crashes could have been caused by interference, but they could just as easily be bugs in software or my machine getting old. At work we fortunately don't have ups's, so when…
The 040 would need a bit of help to run 1.3, I am sure there was a degrader that allowed 1.3 to run with an 040, the name escapes me though. Phill
Yeah, relatively constant, it might run at 49.5hz or 50.5hz at different times of the day ( well they might not run that far out of range, but they can never be 100% accurate ). Phill
Exactly, the 060 was only designed to keep the embedded people happy, motorolla didn't want it to be put in a desktop, only to be used as a stop gap so that people could port to the ppc in more time. It wouldn't suprise me if motorolla wouldn't starve the…
I could be wrong about the a2000a looking like an a1000, that may have been a prototype. I think most of the problems were ironed out before the machine was manufactured in significant numbers. The 2000b was a lot better for a number of reasons, I think this was designed…
Alot of companies are offering hd/non hd versions, whether the hard disks come from at though is debatable. I think at were using 170mb disks but you can buy a1200's with 540's already ( well they are advertised anyway ). Phill
I wonder why it don't work with 2.0, maybe it has been fixed, or you could try booting up with kickstart 1.3 Phill
In the uk the power line frequency shifts quite a lot, it averages out over the day though, which is why clocks manage to keep time. The uk power supply is also never exactly 240 volts, we checked a volt meter at work the other day and got 245 volts.…
Tandy used to sell amigas, my local one did anyway, until they couldn't get anymore that is. They also stocked cd32's, recently they have stopped stocking consoles completely. I guess they were not making any money out of it. Phill
Tandy are alledged to be one of the only shops dealing with AT direct. Phill
I don't think the latest amosaic is here, but then you can pick that up later. I got it all working in one evening using ppp.device and a document that tells you exactly how to set up amitcp. I cannot however remember what the document was called and my amiga…
I ended up writing string maths multiply and divide, I couldn't work out how to do 8 byte multiply/divide 🙁 Phill
Atari 800, cool 🙂 A friend of mine had an XE ( I think ), I just remember the cool jeff minter games 🙂 Phill
What other direction?????? I can't believe that motorola are still sitting on the 060, I guess no-one has picked it up for embedded applications, otherwise they would be making them by the truck load. Motorolla have always sold many more 680×0 for embedded applications than computers. Phill
I prefer 68000 to basic, it just takes a lot longer to write the code 🙁 There was ABasic which was written by metacomco, but that was withdrawn and replaced by AMIGABasic. I think it was still available ( maybe public domain ). Phill
I have no idea, I haven't seen any trace of amigas in the uk yet, except for mail order adverts, they advertised as soon as the release data was announced because of magazine deadlines etc. Phill
The a1200 case is the same but the a4000T case looks like a very cheap pc tower ( it's ugly ). Phill
Strange that they work off the power line, that must be one of the least exact timing methods you can get, maybe that's why cbm chose it 🙂 Phill
I haven't seen any trace in the local escom shop, I will check again tomorrow. I heard that they weren't going to be sold there. Phill
AmigaBASIC also didn't work if you had an accelerator with 32 bit addressing. I guess they were used to programming on macs where it seemed to be encouraged to treat addresses as 24 bit values with an extra 8 bits for you to use how you wanted. Phill
They took over some of the rumbelows shops and turned them into escom shops. Rumours of amigas being sold or not being sold in the escom shops keep surfacing. Currently the word is that they won't be. Phill
As far as I am aware, they are planning on 040's & 060's as all mail order companies in the uk are advertising both. I wish they had a better case design as the current one looks horrible ( like a cheap pc clone ). Phill
Yes, I remember AmigaBASIC 🙂 Phill
a400 or a4000? There is no reason why you couldn't buy an a4000 with built in pc emulation if it was bundled with a bridgeboard. Phill
You should be able to create code for the amiga using codewarrior, all that would be needed would be a linker ( of course they probably use pascal convention everywhere which would spoil my idea ). It's a pity that the unix world abandoned the 68k series otherwise we could…
What are 2000's jumpered for normally the power line or vsync? Phill
Ah, that must be it, I assumed that all power supplies had this, I wonder why the 2000 has it but no others…. Phill
From what I read I though that you could get a clock from the power supply, I suppose if it is dc then you can't. I will check the docs again……. Phill
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Escom could have a problem with the 4000T if they can't get any 060's ( ok, they could just sell the 040, but they need the 060 ). I suppose escom could be buying up all the 060's causing a shortage, but they are probably hit as well. Phill
The modulators are different, so as long as you plug an rgb monitor and not a composite or tv in then you are ok. Phill
What main clock crystal? Don't all clocks get generated by alice? That was what I thought anyway ( the processor and video clocks definately are, others might come from the power supply which is also going to change anyway ). The only clocks that might need changing are built into…
The ntsc 1200 did exist, check your manual, there were different composite/rf outputs on the back. Completely different from the pal versions. Phill
Only the composite and rf modulators would have to be replaced, I wouldn't have thought any other clocks would have to be changed as they come from alice ( alice, who the f*** is alice?, sorry it's a song in the charts at the moment ). It's a pity that…
I know some of them definately didn't support the 2000a as you couldn't disable the processor ( I guess that is why you had to remove it ), unfortunately there was some clock that was generated by the processor which is probably why you need to jumper it. Phill
That was one of the things that wasn't supposed to work, apparently if you tried to upgrade the memory on the built in card then it became very unstable. There is also problems with accelerators I believe. It was a long time since I read about it, I just remember…
No, the us designed ( or fixed ) the 2000b, the 2000a was the german one which had some severe problems. The 2000a was pulled quickly after launch. From what I remember the 2000a looked more like an a1000 than the b2000. Phill
I am in the uk, I have looked in the local shops and at a large (ish) shopping centre called lakeside. Nowhere had them 🙁 Phill
I don't need an a1200 as I got one second hand, I just want to see them in the shops 🙂 It has been so long since there were any for sale that just to see a couple would let me know that there is light at the end of…
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I don't F…… know 🙂 Phill
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Maybe that is why I haven't seen any, do you know if there are any shops that have placed orders? Phill
pardon me for butting in, but how did you have more than one file.c in a directory???? Phill
I did mean they never covered them in the manuals, not everyone could get hold of the ondisk examples and docs. I only got them this year 🙂 Phill
The conclusion that I came up with was not to expect what characters were at the beginning or end of the parameters. At least then the software should work in all debuggers & shells. Phill
That's pretty much what I said, except I don't believe that you should rely on there being a LF at the end. I can't try it out as my amiga is very dead at the moment 🙁 As far as I am aware the CLI gives you a leading space…
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