This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Tom, if Clyde doesn't buy, leave me email. Ariel
Which stores here, Rob? Beltsville? Rockville? Where? Ariel
Martin: I think it's pretty crazy to try to develop anything under 2.0 without the DevCon notes. I've primarily used the Atlanta notes, but all of them have useful stuff in them. Calling them "notes" is really a misnomer, since each one is a telephone book size binder, stuffed to…
#IBM & Apple Bed Partners
Message #30741
Don: Once again, while this description of MEMF_PUBLIC seems pretty straightforward to me, I don't think it really registered on the typical Amiga programmer in 1986. As I was trying to suggest to Vic, there were probably a LOT of people who moved from the C64, Apple II, Tandy or…
Roy: You didn't leave the address for Home Control Concepts. Maybe I should get the catalog. Also, you didn't mention how the TW523 interfaces to the Amiga. I've been thinking about the X-10 alarm system, but as you've pointed out, It'd be nice to have direct control over the sensor…
Gary: In the current system, nothing happens. In future systems with hardware assisted memory management, the compiler and linker will put all of your shared memory together in a separate block. At address resolution time (on Amigas, this is when the code is loaded into memory) the OS will setup…
Vic: I think that you're getting a little elitist in your old age. 😉 Seriously, though, it's not as cut and dried as you depict. While you and I probably read the MEMF_PUBLIC part of the manuals and immediately got the light bulb over the head, quite a few experienced…
Tell me more (like where you saw it, how to get one, etc..)!
John: I've seen so many beta versions of Access that I'm not sure which features belong to which versions anymore. I don't remember having a problem with the menu bar blocking text, so I'm not really sure how to approach your problem. In at least one of the versions, it…
Your best chance of seeing this happen is to write an impassioned letter to Keith Young at: 9512A Victoria Drive Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 If you expect a reply, make sure to enclose a SASE. I have mentioned the need for a couple of changes to Access about 7.26 million…
Dan: Ah, the docs have changed since I looked at them last. We have our version of the Rdprep/x software updated electronically, so I've gotten careless about researching the docs every update. As I told Bob, we do a long format whenever we hook up a new type of drive.…
#4349-
HardFrame Question
Message #4755
Bob: Right, right, I've seen this too. We've never been sure about exactly how to make allowance for the spare blocks required by nearly every SCSI drive. What we usually do is do a long format until it fails on a track, then note the track number and use it…
Steve: We use HardFrames on all the machines at work, typically hooked to either a Conner 340 (40 meg half height), Conner 3040 (40 meg quarter height), or Seagate-Imprimus Wren V (170 meg half height). The Wren has an average access of 14 ms, the Conners somewhere in the over…
Kevin: We're looking at the JPEG algorithm for something we're doing with image archival on the Amiga. Unfortunately, at the data rates we are running it would be impossible to compress in software. Luckily for us there is a company called C-Cubed that is developing a JPEG chipset for the…
Khalid, how about… struct Message * PollGetMsg(msgport) { if (!msgport->mp_MsgList.lh_Head->ln_Succ) return(Remove(msgport->mp_MsgList.lh_Head)); else return(NULL); } This might not be exactly right, but I got the idea from "Lists and Queues" in the Exec manual. Ariel
Rick: When you say you are going "to interlace", do you mean you simply flip the display into interlace, or are you doubling the screen height (from, say, 200 to 400 lines)? If you are running 4 bitplane graphics (16 color), and you change from a 640 x 200 to…
Harold: I have been using the library by Christian Slater, not the other one by Mr. Albrecht (sorry, Robert). I'll Email you a code segment that you can peruse. Note that the segment I'm sending builds an offscreen bitmap, and then ClipBlits from that onto the visible screen. This was…
What I'm saying is that the single 33mhz board we got in for evaluation exhibits the same, random (albeit frequent) GURU behavior that you described in your message. Of the 4-5 "standard" boards that we have upgraded to 32mhz operation, only 1 has eventually developed problems. The one that did…
John: We've got a 33mhz A3501 around, and it does the same thing. I believe I'm going to send ours back. It's really too bad, but since most of our "standard" A3001's are running at 32mhz (with appropriate crystal upgrades) and have been for some time, we won't be missing…
Check out "Chatterbox", a program that lets you emit sounds from your Amiga for various system events. If nowhere else, it's available from the Lattice BBS. By the way, of special interest to you, the SOURCE code is available on there too.
#98026-
ClipBlit() ?
Message #98199
You don't need to OwnBlitter(). Make sure that you're blitting from and to RastPorts that have been initialized properly, and have real BitMaps and rasters attached. I never use the 16-bit integer model on Manx 3.6 or Lattice 5.05. Thus, I have never had to worry about whether I'm passing…
Well, I must have missed the official charter for this section. All I remember was the "flash" that Steve left saying that a Developer section was being formed. Whatever sanction this has from CBM (if any) was never mentioned, so it's kind of a public secret that this section exists.…
Good God Eet! What a horrible reason to use a compiler! Just because Keith does something does NOT make it correct, as we've often found out around here. ;^) Having access to Beta releases is fine, as long as Manx is paying you to help them debug. Otherwise it's just…
Ok, I get it now. The normalization to VGA 9-pin occurs in the two cables from the FF and VGA card to the A/B switch. Fitting this to the Mitsu's cable pinout is done in the custom monitor cable. Interesting. After wandering around the offices here, I found one Mitsu…
Lee: I'm a little confused about how you got this to work, but as long as it IS working, great! Is the VGA cable to the switch straight through too, or is it custom? From what I remember about the cable wiring between a FF and the AUM-1381A, the pins…
#91501-
Accelerators /30
Message #91610
I don't know why this is, but here's what happened to me: I had the GVP 3001 in my machine along with the Microbotics HardFrame and a CBM 2-meg card. When I switched the 3001 into 68000 mode, neither the HF or the CBM card would configure. However, if I…
#90600-
Accelerators /30
Message #90801
The company I work for uses lots of GVP 030 accelerators, and we also used the previous Ronin Hurricane accelerators for awhile. In my opinion, the design of the Hurricane (and the 28mhz Imtronics version) is flawed. Ronin chose to ignore the rules (as setup by Dave Haynie and others…
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#Multi-user Amiga?
Message #78135
Commodore has just announced the A2232, a seven-port, RS-232 serial card for the A2000. In combination with the machine's native serial port, this gives 8 ports to attach terminals. CBM has also noted on their documentation that more than 1 A2232 can be attached to a single A2000. This would…
We did not have too much success when we first tried to combine a 68030 accelerator with the AT bridgeboard. While analyzing our difficulty, it occurred to somebody that the bb used dual-port memory to pass data between the PC and the Amiga sides of the machine. Without intervention, it…
Steve: Instead of sending the drive off, why don't you invest in a phone call to Microbotics at 214-437-5330 and ask for customer assistance? Apparently, they're there to help you between the hours of 1000-1600 CST. We've had problems like this before, when a messed up Rigid Disk Block on…
Ray: We've been running several "power" systems like you describe around here for several months. First, make absolutely sure that you get the upgraded PROM set for the AT bridgeboard. If you don't, you're probably going to have bootup problems with the Janus library. Secondly, make sure to get the…
We checked both machines that were acting "slowly", and sure enough both had the 0B26 mask on their 68000's. Do you know if this is a bug with the 68000 or is it an 8520 problem? Something I don't understand is that if this is a 68000 difficulty, why do…
Yes, the A2620 comes with 2 meg of fast ram. We tried both a regular video cable and a FlickerFixer (with its own cable). The results were identical. The only thing in common is the monitor, which is a Mitsubishi DiamondScan, AUM-1341. If you think this is it, we'd even…
Slow Amigas
Message #74755
Rating against an A2620 : Yawn. We ran this test on 2 of the 4 brand-spanking new Rev 6.2 motherboard machines we had, and got the same results. Note, there were no peripheral cards installed on either of them. The tests were conducted by booting off a virgin 1.3 WB…
#Slow Amigas
Message #74754
We just got a new shipment of Amigas into our shop, and while setting up and testing them we noticed something very peculiar. As part of the test procedure, we ran Jez San's "Speed" program, a basic benchmark program. When we ran it on the new machines, we got this…
Ethan: I really can't be too specific about what we're using these for. One of the unfortunate effects of the "toy" stigma that's been applied to all CBM products is that VAR's are loathe to advertise what their systems contain. They're not ashamed, but basically cannot afford to lose money…
#71414-
Networking Solutions
Message #71659
Thanks, Mike. I've heard about the Apple-Talk net that CMI is selling. I was hoping that there was an ethernet setup that I hadn't heard about yet. I'll look at DNet, perhaps we can setup a command/control net in parallel at those data rates. For what we usually send around…
#71396-
Networking Solutions
Message #71658
Thanks, Steve Ariel
#Networking Solutions
Message #71381
Does anyone know of any inter-Amiga networking solutions other than the Ameristar board? We're looking for a speed of over 50 Kbytes/sec average, and will be interconnecting as many as 32 Amigas concurrently. I'd be interested in hearing about any solution, even those somewhat slower than what we require.
Ray: We're located in a suburb of Washington D.C., Lanham, MD. It's a small company that does image processing applications for the financial community. If you're going to be in town, leave me an Email prior to your visit and we'll arrange something. Ariel
Dave: We're using Rev 4.0 HardFrame's with 1.5C (and some Beta's from Joanne) Firmware. Our machines have GVP Impact 030 accelerators w/4 meg, HF's with some Maxtor 4070 (150 meg) and CDC Wren V (209 meg) drives, Ameristar Ethernet boards, and a mix of various other things. The test machines…
Jim: Keith's phone has been out of order for a week or so, I'll pass the message on to him (he works here). Ariel
Dan, we're still looking for answers from this end, but it's slow going. If you hear anything from Microbotics, please do pass it on. Ariel
Thanks, Greg, I had forgotten about the interlace mode. Ariel P.S. Ok, so I can't remember the appropriate terminology. ;^)
Dan: I'm really very sorry I saw your message. Not because you left it, but because I've been having the same problem with various combinations of drives and HardFrame controllers. The one thing we all have in common is that we are using very fast drives. The Quantum's have RAM…
Brent: Yes, the new chipset ONLY provides 15.75khz and 31.5khz modes. The 1280 horizontal mode is provided, strangely enough, in the 15.75khz mode. As I recall, the video controller has two parameters: Dot clock, and scan rate. If you set the dot clock to slow, and the scan to slow,…
Thanks, Steve. We may invest some money to experiment with it, what is the package running nowdays? Ariel
Betty is right. Basically, to get better video the one thing you should do is get a Multisync monitor that handles both 15.75khz and 31.5khz horizontal sync. This will give you the MOST flexibility for the future. Then you need to think about what you will use non-interlace modes for.…
So, Steve… Seeing as how you already have and use this stuff, could you give me your overall impression of it? The installation where I work is lousy with Ameristar ethernet boards, and I'd kind of like to know what this package could do for me. Alternatively, you could just…
#67968-
#A1000 HD
Message #68126
Steven: Just out of curiosity, what are you using for a host adapter with the OMTI? It wouldn't be a Starboard Stardrive, by any chance? Ariel
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