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Thanks a lot, guys. I will try a new 8520 and report back. (Pesky things, ain't they? I had to replace one last year when the parallel port started going wonky. I guess it's a good idea to lay in a supply of them, eh? -Don
Yes, I really have 1.2 ROMs. No, the hard disk doesn't autoboot. Is that a problem??? -Don
#Help – keyboard
Message #124196
Help! My Amiga 2000 is having keyboard problems. Symptoms: The keyboard doesn't seem to be communicating well with the machine. The CAPS LOCK light keeps flickering. When I press keys, I get erratic results — often nothing at all, sometimes doubled letters, or flashes, or backspacing, or the whole thing…
#Keyboard probs
Message #38165
Help! My Amiga 2000 is having keyboard problems. Symptoms: The keyboard doesn't seem to be communicating well with the machine. The CAPS LOCK light keeps flickering. When I press keys, I get erratic results — often nothing at all, sometimes doubled letters, or flashes, or backspacing, or the whole thing…
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bit RAM & A2630
Message #36260
I'm going to be adding a Commodore A-2630 accelerator to my Amiga 2000. Currently the machine has a Supra RAM board with 6MB of 16-bit RAM. The A-2630 has 4MB of 32-bit RAM. I have been told that there may be trouble getting the A-2630 to recognize the 16-bit RAM…i.e.…
#Toaster -> GIF
Message #30515
Can anyone tell me how to convert a Video Toaster framestore to GIF format? Thanks.
Maxtor specs?
Message #30078
Just purchased a new Maxtor harddrive for my Amiga 2000 (1.2 dos, IVS Trumpcard SCSI interface). The harddrive came without any documents, and I am stuck on the values for my mountlist entry. Does anyone have the relevant values (cylinders, heads, blocks-per- track, etc) for a Maxtor model 7123SR? Thanks.
Maxtor harddrive
Message #77597
I just got a new hard drive that I'm trying to mount on my Amiga 2000, 1.2 dos, IVS Trumpcard. The physical installation has gone fine, but I think I have wrong values in my mountlist because I'm getting weird results. Does anyone know the cylinders, heads, tracks and all…
#Checksum error
Message #29712
Help! On startup, I got a message saying "Error validating disk DH0: Key 51000 checksum error." Now I seem to be able to read from DH0: but can't write to it. What can I do? -Don
Randy, thank you, the BCD-5000 and SONY SLO-383 sounds like just the sort of thing we are looking for…by selling everything we own and throwing in my nephew, we can probably gather together about $2000. You say "Look around, 383's are still out there!" How about a hint or two…
KitchenSYNC sunk
Message #19584
Whine! We just got a new Kitchen SYNC. And Channel A works great, wonderful, couldn't be better. Channel B, on the other hand, gives us a picture that looks like overexposed film. Everything is too bright, blurry, there is substantial alteration of colors. Adjusting the settings on the Kitchen SYNC…
#Toaster –> DCTV
Message #19330
I have read that DCTV can be an alternative to a single-frame VCR for producing Video Toaster (Lightwave 3D) animations. From what I understand, it is possible to convert Toaster images to DCTV format, then string the DCTV-format images together with animation software and play the resulting ANIM out through…
Thanks very much! The air capacitor screw was exactly what we needed to adjust; Tech Support was very helpful and our Toaster is working fine now. -Don
We've tried starting up the Toaster with the camcorder on and outputting a video signal…we get the message VIDEO TOASTER NOT RESPONDING. We also tried inputting different cable TV channels directly from a VCR; that also gave us the two horizontal lines, distorted color, and message VIDEO TOASTER NOT RESPONDING.…
#Many thanks
Message #22901
Don Curtis, you are a life-saver!! Your clear, precise directions on installing Fatter Agnus in an Amiga 2000 were right on the mark; she's in and she's working perfectly. You can't imagine how much help you are. Thank you, a thousand times thank you. Simper, simper. Kiss your feet. All…
#Cable TV > Toaster
Message #38516
Please excuse us two novice vidoe mavens who don't even know the correct terminology to ASK this question, but…. We're trying to use a cable TV signal as a video source for the Toaster. BNC cables and connectors are a complete mystery to us. Starting from the coaxial cable coming…
#Camcorder > Toaster
Message #38515
We're having a problem when connecting our camcorder to INPUT 1 of our Video Toaster. The live-video input causes two horizontal lines across the picture, and distorts colors above & below those lines. When we turn off the camcorder, the effect vanishes. These two horizontal lines are also visible on…
#help install 1 meg agnus
Message #55673
Have just finished physically installing a 1 meg Fatter Agnus chip in my A2000 (WB 1.2 in ROM, 6 MB expansion RAM). But the computer doesn't seem to realize that it now has 1 meg chip RAM. AVAIL still tells me I have half a meg of chip RAM. I'm…
Stopped A2000 Clock
Message #15887
Help! My Amiga 2000 has lost the ability to tell time. The hardware clock is working perfectly, but when I put a clock up on the screen, the second hand remains motionless. For my machine, time is not passing at all. Any and all suggestions are appreciated. -Don (from the…
Stopped System Clock
Message #38689
The clock on my Amiga 2000 has stopped. The "hardware" clock seems to be okay — that is, I can do a SETCLOCK OPT LOAD, then follow it with another a few seconds later, and the time changes. It's the system clock that won't budge…i.e. if I display a clock…
I had the new number a few months ago…but don't bother. As I remember, one must file an application and join the board before one can do anything at all — even leaving a message for the sysop. And the application procedure takes days or weeks. The system let me…
Thanks. We're snowed in this weekend anyway; I'll be too busy building snowmen and exploring the Ice Planet of Hoth to do much work with MS-DOS. -Don
Bridgeboard & FDC redux
Message #77726
I think I came in late for the Bridgeboard/Floppy Disk Controller discussion. I have a 2088 Bridgeboard and a FlyByNight Products multipurpose PC board…clock/calendar, parallel port, serial port, and floppy disk controller. Only trouble is, when the new board is installed, the Bridgeboard gets very confused about the floppy disk…
Janus 2.0
Message #77674
My dealer updated me to Janus 2.0 but forgot to give me the PC programs (AREAD, AWRITE, JLINK, JDISK.SYS…and I understand there are a few more [MAKEAB?]). I dropped off a blank 5.25" disk today… needless to say, the person in the store didn't quite understand what I was talking…
Don: RE: Bridgeboard having problems with its disk drive/ I checked the FDC chip, and it is warm to the touch (even though all the other chips aren't.) I think this may be the problem, then, and I will hie myself to my dealer on Monday. Meanwhile, however, I have…
A2088 drive problem
Message #69539
About this BridgeBoard problem… I have an A2088 Bridgeboard in an Amiga 2000. The PC display keeps giving the following error message: "Boot disk failure. Type key to retry." What I've done: 1. Verified that BridgeBoard is properly seated. 2. Verified that heads on 5.25" drive are moving. 3. Tried…
Don: Thanks. I will give both solutions a try. -Don
A2088 Problem
Message #69409
Another Bridgeboard problem. I have an A2088 bridgeboard and an Amiga 2000. The bridgeboard is suddenly giving the following error on startup: "Boot disk failure. Type key to restart." I've tried it with several different disks — including the MS-DOS disk that came with the Bridgeboard. No luck. It just…
Betty, you're absolutely right. In copyright terms, this would be the same sort of situation as "death of the copyright holder" — i.e. the companies, machines, publishers are all "dead." As things move so much more quickly in electronic space, the present copyright rule of "death+50 years" seems onerous. What…
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Icon Images
Message #1574
You can change a tool icon to a drawer icon with IconEd. 1. Load the tool icon into position 1. 2. Load a drawer icon into position 2. 3. Click on position 2 and then use menu to COPY FROM 1. 4. Now the drawer icon in position 2 looks…
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#Pournelle Mindblower
Message #507
Don't take Pournelle too seriously. This is the man who predicted that the S-100 bus was the wave of the future (the IBM-PC was too clumsy and slow, you see). And he criticizes the A2000 with bridgeboard because it "runs programs only as fast as a plain-vanilla IBM PC" and…
Handheld Amiga. What a concept.
No, that's Waaahp. Waaahp! Very good.
Portable?
Message #134310
Mark: INFO Magazine #20 (May/June 1988) carried this story (p. 100): PORTABLE AMIGA! We've just found out that a portable Amiga *is* under development, but it *won't* come from Commodore. Dynamac, a third-party company that builds Macintosh portables, has begun R&D on a portable Amiga based on the A500. Our…
Steve, Thanks very much for your answers, exactly what I was looking for. –Don
#A2088 questions
Message #132728
Please have patience with a novice for the following questions. I'm planning to get an A2088 Bridgeboard for my Amiga 2000. Will I also be able to use a hard disk card like the Flashcard? For both Amiga and PC sides? I know that MS-DOS has formatting commands for a…
Hmmm. Hard to say without an asking price. $15-$20? Thanks for working on this, and for being patient with someone who is way out of his depth (i.e. I know what "C" is and why it's good but I wouldn't know it if I fell over it)…further proof that all…
Hmmm. Hard to say without an asking price. $15-$20? Thanks for working on this, and for being patient with someone who is way out of his depth (i.e. I know what "C" is and why it's good but I wouldn't know it if I fell over it)…further proof that all…
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Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125783
Tell me, tell me, tell me! (I have a thread running on the "Peripherals" section of the M100 forum. Keep me posted…what's going on?)
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Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125783
Tell me, tell me, tell me! (I have a thread running on the "Peripherals" section of the M100 forum. Keep me posted…what's going on?)
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Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125783
Tell me, tell me, tell me! (I have a thread running on the "Peripherals" section of the M100 forum. Keep me posted…what's going on?)
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Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125783
Tell me, tell me, tell me! (I have a thread running on the "Peripherals" section of the M100 forum. Keep me posted…what's going on?)
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Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125601
The folks over in the Tandy M100 forum would know. It's GO M100SIG.
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Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125601
The folks over in the Tandy M100 forum would know. It's GO M100SIG.
The Tandy Disk Drive uses 3.5 inch floppies. If it helps, the specifications say: Stoarage capatcity: per disk: 101.12K, per track 2560 bytes, per hard sector 1280 bytes. Disk: Number of surfaces:1, number of tracks: 40, number of hard sectors: 80. Recording system: Recording method: FM, recording density, 4064 BPI,…
Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125287
Does anyone know of any commercial package (similar to LAPDOS, I suppose) which would allow the Amiga to read/write to the Tandy Disk Drive used by the Model 100? Or something that would allow the Amiga to read those disks (and write to them) directly? If not, does anyone want…
Amiga<–>Tandy Model 100
Message #125287
Does anyone know of any commercial package (similar to LAPDOS, I suppose) which would allow the Amiga to read/write to the Tandy Disk Drive used by the Model 100? Or something that would allow the Amiga to read those disks (and write to them) directly? If not, does anyone want…
I understand that thanks are due you, as the author of FixText. THANKS!!!
Steve: Fixtext did the job perfectly! With the text of 7 novels, countless short stories and four years oif correspondence waiting to be transferred from the C-64 to the Giant Space Amiga, you can see why I'm relieved. Thanks very much for your help! –Don
Steve: Fixtext did the job perfectly! With the text of 7 novels, countless short stories and four years oif correspondence waiting to be transferred from the C-64 to the Giant Space Amiga, you can see why I'm relieved. Thanks very much for your help! –Don
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