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I have followed this discussion on the Palmtop forum a couple of years ago (I think it was called something else then). I have their cable and software and use it on the IBM and I think I have seen Apple II software for it somewhere. Although the cable looks…
I'm the one who said I would upload it and have failed to do so. I guess I will give it a shot and if you have already uploaded it then CIS should reject it. Axel, you are experiencing the exact problems I had (in AmigaDOS, I haven't tried it…
PMFBI, but you mention a program called RDprep which sounds like something I need. My scan did not find it in the libraries here. Can you tell me where to find it? —–Paul—–
I had never heard anything about an unlock program but another guy emailed it to me in the same session where I uploaded the question here. It worked like a charm. Thanks for the info. —–Paul—–
SUCCESS!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Worketh charmlike. I haven't seen anything about this anywhere here (but there aren't many Amiga support BBS's here that are worth much). We ought to put this in the library here for others. Do you want to do it or shall I? —–Paul—–
#2091 scsi error 29
Message #38002
I've had a fairly long running exchange in the AMUGUSER section and no one has come up with an answer so I thought I would try here. I have an AMIGA 2000 running 2.04 DOS with a 68020 accelerator, 3MB of memory, a 2091 hard drive SCSI interface that has…
Actually, after sending that up I remembered such an issue surfacing in the past. Memory serves too late, I fear. Sorry, definitely my error. —–Paul—–
I'm going to try to pull in the info from several past messages to get the whole story in one message. I hope you don't mind, the guys over in WPSG get really flustered over the use of quotebacks. Anyhow: floptical problems Fm: AMIGAUSE To: all Well, after months of…
#floptical problems (2)
Message #122525
Wellllll. Curiouser and Curiouser. I have finally gotten around to using the floptical diskettes you sent me. I am learning more and more but still am unsuccessful in creating my own flopticals. So far: I have removed the terminator resistors on the 2091 board. Actually, I removed them and added…
Disks received. Haven't had time to try them yet. Going away for the weekend but should have news Monday or Tuesday. Thanks. Does the memory on the 2091 offer any advantage over other memory cards? I'm not particularly cramped for memory now. —–Paul—–
Well, I've got a drive mounted on the board and am trying to get an external drive (a floptical) to work also and it has been indicated in previous discussions that the on-board termination is fine for one or the other but not both. Since you seem to be in…
Well, I finally opened up the Amiga. I've pulled out the 2091 and am stumped. Where are the terminator resistors? There is nothing socketed that looks like a resistor to me. Do some of the jumpers control this? I bought the board used and got no docs with it.
I haven't managed to get inside to check the termination yet but I expect that is most of the problem. I don't think you are correct on the low level. It is definitely necessary for the IBM and hard to imagine that they would have them Ami formatted.
DB23 cable
Message #121065
Does anyone know where I could find a DB23 cable so I wouldn't have to use the A1010 to hook up my AMAXII? Or does the 1010 do something electrical so that it is really necessary? —–Paul—–
When I had my first IBM XT it had a SEAGATE 225 20MB drive (more space than I could posssibly ever need). In its second year it developed an intermittent horrific grind, the kind of noise you would expect if you held a Dremel Moto-Tool against the disk surface. First…
I appreciate the offer. I'll be glad to cover the postage. Paul Wright 4302 Rolling Stone Way Alexandria, VA 22306 I'm going to be exploring the termination question as soon as I get some time (a busy life) but your disk would remove some of the variables. Is it the…
As I replied to John, the Floptical works externally on an IBM so I presume termination is right. Change drive type seems to want to write to the drive. You can't do that 'til it is formatted. Format di0: doesn't find anything. It seems like a chicken and egg problem.…
Ummm, boy. Will there ever be plug and play? The Seagate is on the internal and the Floptical on the external. The Floptical works fine on an IBM external (which does not have a drive on the internal) so I presume it is terminated OK. Appreciate the input.
floptical problems
Message #120364
Well, after months of using it on the IBM I finally tried to use the 21MB floptical drive on my Amiga. I've got a 2000 with a 68020 accelerator and a 2091 interface card. There's a Seagate 177N as the primary drive on the card. Oh, I'm running 2.04 at…
They are most of the little things that kept tripping me up when I was good at MSDOS and couldn't make what I read in Amiga manuals make sense. I can still make no sense of the `help' that Amigados commands gives you when you foul up. But I am…
Oh, now that's faxcinatin'. Never had heard/seen/found that. Thanks, —–Paul—–
It's no harder than moving from CP/M to DOS. But you may be younger than that. Item (1): Filenames are longer, periods are not very significant, and they can have spaces in them if you put quotes around the whole name. Item (2): The forward slash is the subdirectory divider…
Why is the Soundscape listed for the A1000. Will it not work on any other? —–Paul—–
Actually, I think the other two were made up names. Thanks for the reviews. —–Paul—–
#2320 vs ffv, etc
Message #109493
I notice a mailorder house selling 2320 deinterlace cards for $120. How does this card compare to Flicker Free, Flicker Blaster, Flicker Destroyer, etc? For $100 less would I get $100 less? —–Paul—–
Oh, yeah. It was a great machine. Especially after I found the program that would fool it back into being a 40 column machine to run PET games. Amazing how well that little program worked too. But I never did find a decent telecommunications program for it. —–Paul—–
#103399-
A4091 Controller
Message #103457
Many and many a year ago I bought a CBM PET 8032 and a dual disk drive (4050?). The drive used the HPIB (IEE488) bus. The cable to connect the two was not included. It cost an extra $50. Nobody mentioned it when I ordered the system.
#left button boot
Message #100884
I find at least one game that does not work unless I hold down the left mouse button during boot. This is on an A2000 with AmiDOS 2.04 and a 68020 accelerator. Any idea what the left button is doing? I know both buttons brings up a special (but so…
'020 incompat & degrader
Message #100881
A year or so ago I bought this '020 accelerator board thru the used ads here. It's an old style CSA turbo board. They don't seem interested in answering questions about it (actually, the guy I talked to didn't recognize it). I had some intermittent reliability problems with it when…
Yup, that does it all right. The reboot that is. Duh! If you find a reference to which jumper I would appreciate hearing from you but I guess I can live with rebooting. Thanks. —–Paul—–
#reselect on
Message #94283
With my 2091 card and SEAGATE st177n drive I have to activate the file named ReselectOn on my AMIGADOS 2.0 disk to get the system to recognize the drive. Once I have done that I can warm boot off the hard drive just fine. But if I turn the machine…
2090a to 2091 (2)
Message #93961
OK, I've found part of my problem, I think. I had added a 2091 and disk to my 2090a and disk, copied all of the 2090a's data over to the 2091 and all worked fine as long as the 2090a was in the system. When the 2090a is removed, the…
#from 2090 to 2091
Message #93877
For a variety of reasons I decided to move from my 2090a and ST506 type hard drive to a 2091 and SCSI drive. I installed the 2091 in the machine along with the 2090a, ran HDToolbox and format and set up the second drive without problems. It comes up SDH0:.…
I've got one I picked up used on here. When it works it makes a real difference but it has some kind of intermittent glitch that prevents booting. Also, some software (mostly games) is allergic to it and it doesn't offer a go-away command. A 68020 by the way. I…
Actually, I still have a 2090 I could use. But the next message indicates I can maintain my autoboot which would be great. I'll try both if necessary. Thanks for the info. —–Paul—–
OK. This is more encouraging than the immediately previous message that indicated I would lose my autoboot. Thanks for the info. —–Paul—–
#2090a and 2091
Message #91073
Is there a way to have a 2090a and a 2091 coexist peacefully? I'd really like to keep my ST506 type drive but I also need a real SCSI interface. —–Paul—–
Well, I wander the computer shows too and haven't noticed any really good prices on SCSIs. IDEs and MFMs, yes. (Have you tried to find an RLL lately?) But, yeah, I've ordered a 2091 and will probably have switch. I was kind of hoping someone could tell me how to…
Took me a bit to figure out your point. I would be using it on a 2000 so expansion should not be a problem. And, yup, price is a determining factor here. Spending a lot of money accelerating a dead end machine ( I 'spect that will get a rise…
#SupraTurbo 28?
Message #90899
Just got my AmigaWorld. Anyone know anything about this $199 external accelerator? Seems too good to be. —-Paul—–
Hmmm. That sounds awfully ominous. Does the fact that I can format on the IBM and work thru CrossDos help me any? I guess the SCSI unlock command is the real killer. I'll have to hope someone can figure a workaround. I don't think the 2000 merits a major investment…
power to floptical
Message #90310
I've got this external Floptical drive from Grassroots. It seems to work fine on my IBM with the supplied SCSI card. I want to use it on the AMIGA too. I've got a 2090a interface in my 2000. The drive is powered by voltage coming thru the SCSI cable in…
#floptical mountlist
Message #90141
Yup, but the HDtoolbox does not work with a 2090a. Commodore abandoned the old stuff again. —–Paul—–
#AMI 2000 IN AN IBM BOX
Message #83902
I'd like more internal bays for my 2000. How difficult is it to move the guts into an IBM box? Or is there another option? —–Paul—–
There was an emulator that let the 8032 run regular PET software. Screen remap was all that was necessary and it worked well. Don't know where you'd find either PET or 8032 software though. I loved them both but gave them up for the color and bitmapped graphics gods. —–Paul—–
Actually, yes it plays internal sounds just fine. It's been a while since I used it. Try the Utilities window and Internal Sounds. You can assign one sound per track I think. —–Paul—–
2090a&st506&scsi&WB2.0
Message #73206
My Amiga 2000 (which I bought used) came with a 2090 and a ST506 type 40MB hard drive and 1.2 roms. I bought a used 2090a thru the forum here and discovered it wouldn't work with the 1.2s. So I waited until 2.0 came out and upgraded to it. Unfortunately…
I;ve got a MicroSpeed AMTRAC. I like it. It has been very dependable. It is physically kind of large though. Can't fit it in the keyboard drawer. I'd like to be able to compare it to some of the PC microtrackballs that are becoming popular for laptops to see whether…
Shucks, if all you say is true, then this guy deserves a medal, nay, a cash award from every AMIGA owner. Cause CBM has yet to do diddly for AMIGA in the Washington DC market which is the hottest PC market in the states. Every Monday the Post business section…
Yeah, but the hourly wage for a dead tech would be affordable. —-Paul—-
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