mike_myke_schwartz@cup.portal.com (09/28/90)
I am a recent purchaser of AMAX II. I would like to report some problems that I am having with the product. If someone out there has found solutions to these, I would appreciate a reply! First of all, my system is: A2630 (68030, 25MHz, 4MB 32-bit RAM) Fat Agnus GVP Impact-80 (just upgraded to FAAASTROM) Syquest 44MB removable hard disk drive Now for the problems 1. Even though I have the latest and greatest GVP ROMs, I cannot format either a Syquest drive or a partition on my 80MB drive and use it with AMAX at ALL. I called ReadySoft and they told me that GVP has a problem with Syquest drives. I called GVP and they said ReadySoft has the problem. My dealer, HT Electronics mentioned that Commodore itself says that the Syquest drives have a problem. I called Syquest and they say that they will supply me with a ROM replacement. Commodore says that this ROM will also improve the reliability of the Syquest drive. The Amiga has no problem using either the 80MB drive or the Syquest... 2. When I click on the "use workbench" colors option on the startup AMAX screen, I end up with white text on a black background instead of black on white which is what my workbench colors are. This is really stupid of AMAX to not just use the colors the way I set them instead of inverting colors 0 and 1 in my workbench palette. 3. ZTerm does not work under AMAX II. It crashes during ZModem transfer. I did not find either GVP or ReadySoft to be of any help to me and I did not get an answer or an idea of when we would have a fixed driver from either. Good luck to anyone else out there who has a GVP controller.
mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) (09/29/90)
As far as the workbench screen colors problem goes... I uploaded a textfile into GEnie that explains how to modify AMAXII to black on white (actually any color on white), using a sector editor... This allows you to select the "Default Colors" button on AMAX and not have to live with light blue on white. I think I named it Amax_color_mod.... -MP-
jmauric@hubcap.clemson.edu (The Phantom) (10/03/90)
From article <730009@hpmwngf.HP.COM>, by mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell): > > As far as the workbench screen colors problem goes... > > I uploaded a textfile into GEnie that explains how to modify > AMAXII to black on white (actually any color on white), using > a sector editor... This allows you to select the "Default Colors" > button on AMAX and not have to live with light blue on white. > > I think I named it Amax_color_mod.... > I have no problem with AMAXII and colors - I just created a separate disk with black background and white second color and it comes up fine. Since I have a flicker fixer, using 704*670 overscan is also a big improvement with this version. I am having problems with the imagewriter emulation though... it won't print sideways in faster mode when using IW-9 and it prints extraneous characters too.