wampner@acme.ucf.edu (Eric Wampner) (06/02/91)
Well, I haven't seen any info on this, haven't looked too hard, but who has the time..... I was hoping that somone had managed to get a hard drive and the Lucas+Frances boards working in a 1000. So lets hear it! Send E-mail or post. Thanks in advance, Eric Wampner NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS "Silly Quote" eww@engr.ucf.edu
doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun2.024350.2163@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> wampner@acme.ucf.edu (Eric Wampner) writes: >Well, I haven't seen any info on this, haven't looked too hard, but >who has the time..... > >I was hoping that somone had managed to get a hard drive and the >Lucas+Frances boards working in a 1000. > Well, I have a few tidbits of advice here. First of all, CLtd. controllers do not work well with Lucas/Frances and I haven't heard of anyone successfully breaking the 16MHz barrier. Nuff said there. Secondly, I am currently running Lucas/Frances @20MHz w/4M 32-bit. I use a SupraDrive 4x4 controller and it works flawlessly. There is a slight problem with using the -r (resident) and -k (load KS) options on AFM together though. This combo will prevent the SupraBoot program from seeing the Harddrive (blows by too fast I guess). This drove me crazy for a while. I could either give up RAD: booting OR give up KS in 32-bit memory. That ticked me off enought that I changed the AFM program! Now with the -k option AFM will allocate space for the ROM but not load it or enable ERKS. After the HD is mounted, KS can be loaded with Kick32 and everything possible will be in 32-bit memory! For the boot-only games, AFM will load and enable KS in 32-bit if you hold down the left mouse button during boot. I am also adding right button support to control the processor cache (on/off) during boot. I do recommend this controller now that I have it working at optimum performance. If you go this way you will want my software or to change your own. Also, I have only run it with a Seagate 296N (85M SCSI) HD. Oh, and it has a battery backed up clock (that's why I initially chose this one over the CLtd. controller). --- Golem SCSI II Controllers --- You may want to check out the newer GOLEM controllers. They are 16-bit controllers and claim a 1.42MB/sec transfer rate. It is available in an external case for the A1000. I have not heard much about these since they are from a European company and apparently do little advertising in the states. I have heard that thir controllers work much faster with an accelerated system (2.6+ MB/sec). Here's their US location : Golem, Inc. 421 Hudson, M12 New York, NY 10014 Tel: (212) 727-0548 Fax: (212) 627-3965 >Thanks in advance, No problem. >Eric Wampner > >NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS "Silly Quote" >eww@engr.ucf.edu *********************************************************** * Jeff Davis * Relax! And get into /// * * doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu * the STRESS!!! /// * * * \\\///030 * * * -Gigahertz!- Amiga\XX/ 882 * *********************************************************** -=[ In Stereo Where Available ]=-
stephane@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Stephane Guillard) (06/06/91)
In article <1991Jun2.024350.2163@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> wampner@acme.ucf.edu (Eric Wampner) writes: >Well, I haven't seen any info on this, haven't looked too hard, but >who has the time..... > >I was hoping that somone had managed to get a hard drive and the >Lucas+Frances boards working in a 1000. Yep, we have an A1000 w/Lucas-Frances running with a Vortex 20Meg hardDrive pretty fine at 25Mhz/4Meg. > >So lets hear it! Send E-mail or post. >Thanks in advance, > >Eric Wampner > >NOTE EMAIL ADDRESS "Silly Quote" >eww@engr.ucf.edu -- \\\ Only Amiga | Stephane GUILLARD - GRASP INSA Lyon FRANCE \\\ makes it | Tel: +33 72438383 poste 5546 \\\/// possible! | eMail at : stephane@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr \XX/
mnc@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Michael N. Chapman) (06/06/91)
Where would I get a Lucas-Frances board? What are the exact specs and how much would it cost?
Also, does anyone know any other good ways to upgrade (cost effectively) a 1000?I like the look of the 1000 and would like to keep it around for another couple years... :-)
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\X/ IBM, Mac, get REAL! |doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) (06/07/91)
In article <1991Jun6.122014.29857@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mnc@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Michael N. Chapman) writes: >Where would I get a Lucas-Frances board? What are the exact specs and how much would it cost? > Brad Fowles has stopped manufacturing the Lucas and Frances boards due to the length of time between orders and the overhead costs. The only way to get either now is used, or create your own from Brads netlists (which are readily available). Check ab20 for a lucas.lzh file which contains all information about the board w/ netlists and PAL programs and price info. There are around 3000 of each board in existance. >Also, does anyone know any other good ways to upgrade (cost effectively) a 1000?I like the look of the 1000 and would like to keep it around for another couple years... :-) The MAST Starblazer (8 Meg + SCSI module) looks pretty cost effective. At one time both were available for ~$120 w/0K. Now, you can't beat the price. But does anyone have any experience (good/bad) with one of these? I would consider getting one simply for a cheap 8M of extra RAM; if it could address around the rest of my system memory. >-- > // | Email: mnc@turing.acs.virginia.edu > // | > \\ // Where the REAL power is. | From the desk of Michael Chapman > \X/ IBM, Mac, get REAL! | *********************************************************** * Jeff Davis * Relax! And get into /// * * doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu * the STRESS!!! /// * * * \\\///030 * * * -Gigahertz!- Amiga\XX/ 882 * *********************************************************** These opinions are my own. You can't have them!
amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) (06/07/91)
I am selling my lucas and francas boards (I upgraded to the 3000). Both boards are compleatly built and ready to run. I have ran the lucas with little trouble at 20Mhz. The francas I built compleatly, but never had the money to put memory in it to make sure it works perfectly. If anyone is intrested please send me mail. Paul -- ACK!!!! -Bill the Cat Amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu .....Paul......
cg108fgj@ICOGSCI1.UCSD.EDU (Dennis Lou) (06/09/91)
In article <1991Jun6.193332.5358@en.ecn.purdue.edu> doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu writes: >In article <1991Jun6.122014.29857@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mnc@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Michael N. Chapman) writes: >>Also, does anyone know any other good ways to upgrade (cost effectively) a 1000?I like the look of the 1000 and would like to keep it around for another couple years... :-) > >The MAST Starblazer (8 Meg + SCSI module) looks pretty cost effective. At >one time both were available for ~$120 w/0K. Now, you can't beat the price. >But does anyone have any experience (good/bad) with one of these? I would >consider getting one simply for a cheap 8M of extra RAM; if it could address >around the rest of my system memory. Yes, I have experience with MAST and their Starblazer. The Starblazer is NOT AVAILABLE! I had my Visa ready and waiting and everything. Also, it costs way too much to buy their RAM ($199/2meg? using custom modules) That's why I got a Xetec. Properly fits on the side of my A1000 (no A500 hack here), was cheap ($175 controller, $85 RAM connector), used Mac SIMMS (bought 4 megs of Sun SIMMS for $85), you can get (or "have to get") your own case and power supply ($29 from Halted Specialties), is pretty fast, and can autoconfig/autoboot (if you have a Kwikstart board to get past Kickstart). Supposedly, tech support from Xetec is supposed to be phenomenal, but I haven't had to use it. Couple that with the falling prices of Q105S drives, you can have yourself a decent hard drive subsystem for your Amiga. -- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?" dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!" [backbone]!ucsd!dlou |+==================================================== dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.