dlou@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) (04/02/91)
What do you hardware types out there use for reference? My room mate's Commodore supplied Amiga Hardware Reference Manual is a joke (it's the old white one). I opened it expecting to find pinouts, bus timing specs, interface details, etc. Instead, I find such oddities as chapter 8 where 8.1 tells you that the chapter deals with the game connector, RAM expansion, video interface, serial interface, parallel interface, etc. Instead, the game connector section gives 1 lousy chart with obscure names of pins with no explanation of what does what. The video interface section told you where the connectors were, the parallel port section was 3 sentences long, and the RAM expansion section was completely non-existent! I'm used to the IBM's PC Tech Ref where it told you EVERYTHING, even stuff you'd never ever use, and had schematics for EVERYTHING to boot! -- Dennis Lou | dlou@ucsd.edu | "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?" [backbone]!ucsd!dlou | "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (04/02/91)
In article <17917@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes: >What do you hardware types out there use for reference? What you want is the A500/A2000 Technical Reference Manual, which is available directly from Commodore. They post details on how to order this around here every so often, but I don't have them handy. It's about $40. This includes Zorro II specifications, examples designs, schematics, bridge card stuff, and lots of various notes. Not as organized as the Addison Wesley books, but What You Need for hardware hacking. Mine is quite used and abused. >My room mate's Commodore supplied Amiga Hardware Reference Manual is >a joke (it's the old white one). The original Hardware Reference Manual is essentially a hardware manual for software people. This contains many of the details lots of manufacturers prefer to hide from you, but it's absolutely not for building hardware. I hope someday they include real hardware information in this book, or perhaps release another hardware book. You should be able to get the hardware info down at your local book store rather than having to order it from C=. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.