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Joe: send a request and a stamped self addressed business envelope to: Paravision 500 E. Arapaho Suite 104 Richardson, TX 75081
Dan is right: there should be no memory conflict. –Redmond
Glad to hear your problem was so satisfactorily resolved. Regards, –Redmond
The status of that product is "up in the air" particularly given the current state of CBM (i.e., going into liquidation). If there's anything new to report, I'll get it to you. –Redmond
Owen: At this point, all I can suggest is calling Paravision at 214-644-0043, asking for tech support and getting an RMA number. It doesn't sound like your problem is going to submit to "remote control" repair. re your message: I did see that message and did respond to it some…
You'll have to call paravision at 214-644-0043 to find out –I don't have direct access to incoming RMA records. –Redmond
John: I seriously doubt anyone would be foolish enough to actually purchase CBM. They might by the Amiga at a liquidation sale –but why buy a company that is asset negative? So, Amiga technology might get bought for a few millions of dollars– but I doubt CBM has much of…
"SX1" is an unauthorized name (pulled out of the air by a distributor who was given some informal advance information) for an unannounced product (the product is basically a CD 32 expansion which turns it into a 1200 vis a vis ports and disk/keyboard i/o). –Redmond (no release date has…
I'll announce it right here when the product gets born. Thanks for your interest, –Redmond
Eugene: The worst that'll happen is that you may get errors. Attempting to access memory faster than the design spec is not quite the same as overclocking a processor (you can hurt a processor this way but not memory). I'll check on that 2 vs. 3 cycle thing. –Redmond
Eugene: The worst that'll happen is that you may get errors. Attempting to access memory faster than the design spec is not quite the same as overclocking a processor (you can hurt a processor this way but not memory). I'll check on that 2 vs. 3 cycle thing. –Redmond
Paravision is a new California company founded to create video/mulltmedia peripherals. It is acquiring and fully supporting MicroBotics product line (and using its staff to do so). –Redmond
I am now working for Paravision and will be putting together the documentation, software, etc. for the CDX module. Paravision's Texas phone number is 1-214-644-0043. It's street address (for now) is: 1251 American Parkway, Richardson, TX 75081 We'll likely be moving to new quarters in Texas. –Redmond
Peter: Any information you may hear via a distributor is hearsay and not to be taken as official in any respect. The CD32 design may be in prototype production by then, but I seriously doubt it will be available for purchase. These are the sorts of problems one encounters if…
Guys: MicroBotics is in the process of having its properties acquired by Paravision, Inc. The CD 32 Module we've designed is in the layout stage (i.e., the design is done). What remains is prototype mfr and debugging (if any). This product really isn't "officially" announced or even named (some British…
We were going to do a modem(s) but the product got suspended as the market for high speed modems got very crowded very quickly. –Redmond
We were going to do a modem(s) but the product got suspended as the market for high speed modems got very crowded very quickly. –Redmond
I'll ask, Michael. How are things in Germany, Amiga-wise? –Redmond
Iain: I don't think you have a hardware problem but rather a software/setup problem. Could you (by email) send me your hard drive based startup sequence plus a description of your setup. Also use the available version of RDPrep to create a mountfile and send me that listing as well…
Iain: Double check your EEPROM settings (for one thing). I will upload the latest AutoXA if it isn't already in the library (I'm going off to check now). Regards, –Redmond
Jonathan: if your board is still in the shop; EMAIL me your RMA number and I'll check on it for you personally. Regards, –Redmond
I'm truly sorry you've had such a bad time, Jonathan but I must tell you that we've sold a lot of XA's both here and overseas and have had very few failures or serious problems. I know that that doesn't help your particular problem; I am only telling you this…
I'm truly sorry you've had such a bad time, Jonathan but I must tell you that we've sold a lot of XA's both here and overseas and have had very few failures or serious problems. I know that that doesn't help your particular problem; I am only telling you this…
No, that is more dependent upon seeing that there is enough of a market for the device in order to justify the tooling and so forth. –Redmond
MicroBotics is essentially "shelved"– it exists but isn't doing anything. Paravision will present us with an opportunity to do video products (which we have been wanting to do) and it will support our existing products (which is good news for the customer base). –Redmond
MicroBotics is essentially "shelved"– it exists but isn't doing anything. Paravision will present us with an opportunity to do video products (which we have been wanting to do) and it will support our existing products (which is good news for the customer base). –Redmond
Joe: Replace the lithium cell and see if that clears the problem. It is barely possible that the cell is marginal or got shorted and has enough voltage to hold the time but not enough to run the oscillator when powered down. See if that fixes it. Regards, –Redmond
Paravisions products are those which are being bought from MicroBotics. The legal entity pre-existed but had no products (that I know of). –Redmond
MicroBotics per se is not being bought; its assets are being bought. The owners of MicroBotics are not the owners of Paravision. –Redmond
Hmm. That's weird –since the battery is NOT a rechargeable battery. Hmmm. I'll ask the technicians what they think. What happens if you come back to the machine a day later or even an hour later (after powering down). Do this experiment: use the CLI and the setclock command to…
Hmm. That's weird –since the battery is NOT a rechargeable battery. Hmmm. I'll ask the technicians what they think. What happens if you come back to the machine a day later or even an hour later (after powering down). Do this experiment: use the CLI and the setclock command to…
I don't get your drift: what do _you_ really mean? Paravision is a new company that is buying the properties of MicroBotics in order to start up "running" so to speak. The staff of MicroBotics has been hired by Paravision to operate the R&D and sales of Paravision. The people…
Paravision & MicroBotics
Message #71922
PARAVISION, INC. 18659 Parthenia Street, North Ridge, California 91324 1-818-772-8896 Customer Support: 1-214-644-0043 Paravision Acquires MicroBotics' Technology and Product Line January 1994: Paravision, Inc. announced that it is purchasing the rights to MicroBotics, Inc.'s Amiga and PC peripheral technology as well as its product brand names. MicroBotics, Inc. is one…
Michael: See the announcement to this effect. [Paravision] –Redmond
Charles: Modem 19 actually exists but is going through FCC testing at present. Stay tuned. The advertising was uncharacteristically premature because of ad lead times in the co-op program we were in. –Redmond
Charles: Modem 19 actually exists but is going through FCC testing at present. Stay tuned. The advertising was uncharacteristically premature because of ad lead times in the co-op program we were in. –Redmond
#No RAM Boards?
Message #71655
Michael: I checked and we are indeed now shipping RAM-32's. So check again with your dealer.
Fred: I'm sorry that I'll not yet be able to give you a satisfactory answer to that one– we have a completed design for a CD32 system enhancer (in essence, turns CD 32 into a 1200) but whether we actully manufacture it or not is highly dependent on whether we…
We have in-CADD designs for a number of items (amongst which you *might* find a CD-32 system-maker). We were going to bring out a number of things this fall which we are now "suspensing" to use an old Air Force term in order to get a clearer idea of what…
Thanks for helping Iain, Dan. Iain: Dan is giving you good advice.
Err, we never made a de-interlacer so maybe you have us confused with someone else? –Redmond
Well, Sheldon: I wouldn't wanna get you into trouble just to save face on the network. HF was designed long before the Z3 bus and quite naturally can't accomodate it. Sure you could use programmed I/O at the system level to transfer from hf to memory and then to file…
Sheldon: I would advise *against* using an HF in the A4000. The limited address range of HF's DMA (Zorro II space) will give you a problem.
Will do, Joe. Thanks. Jerry Robinson is the designer of XA.
Thanks for following up on that, Andre. And thanks for the compliments. We could lower our prices if volumes in the Amiga market were anything near what they are in the Mac or PC market. O' well. And, yes, we make everything right in Texas, USA. Some of the chips…
Yeah, I'd say youre probably right: a big drive is certainly going to stress the mother board. Just leave the hatch off, why don't you? –Redmond
I hesitate to enter into this somewhat heated go-round on booting drives but maybe this might give you all some food for thought: 1. When a hard drive spins up from coldstart it is drawing a lot of power. While it is spinning up it is not "ready". 2. If…
Andre: Maxtransfer is a Rigid Disk Block setting on your harddisk. You can use HDToolbox or our own RDPrep to change it. If the drive was dealer installed rather than CBM installed, they might not have set up the Mt value correctly: IDE drives don't like MT's bigger than 64k…
Check your jumpers against the documentation. Make sure they are set correctly. Also make sure that your maxtransfer on the drive is not greater than 64k minus 512 bytes.
Eeek! An epidemic! Seriously, though: we have never seen this problem before. Could you measure the socket depth, Pete? Like with an engineer's calipers or steel rule? Thanks, –Redmond
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