aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) (07/27/90)
Ok, I have had my Amax for over 7 months now and STILL can NOT use my GENUINE Apple platinum 3 1/2 reliably, BUT it works fine on my friends 2000 (nobody close to me with a 1000 to double check against) I read in the Amax read-me that "...problems with the Macintosh disk drive can be a result of defectvie CIA chips in your Amiga. It is possible that Amiga 3.5 drives continue to function even when these chips are bad, ... If you are having problems with your A-Max system it is often useful to test the cartridge on another Amiga..." Well I did that, it works (see above) now WHAT IN the blazes IS the CIA chip, is it the 8520's (doubt it but who knows) is it Paula or some OTHER custom chip!? HEEEEELP, Dave H. or anyone else who has a CLUE about that chip they are blathering about HELP me! I really want to USE this thing, especially to PLAY with the minds of my 'Mac is GOD' type friends STILL in school (I really want to RUN the @#$@!#! Welcome to Mac Plus demo on MY Amiga, but the #$@%! disk-drive will NOT even load the disk 'this disk is unformatted, single, double,or eject' ARRRGH! It is an original SYSTEM disk... Same problem with 90% of my other Mac disks, some original, some 'made' and loaded with stuff (like my Resume) and then even if they will 'load' to the desktop, I can RUN nothing, the disk 'gronks' a ton and I get a 'requester' saying 'application "blah" can not be loaded it is damaged" or "disk "blah" has an unidentified error" gee, how clever can they get on the error messages...;-) Anybody out there using an A1000 successfully with A-Max (if it matters I am using 128K Roms, Hi Marco!) ?? I really want to USE this puppy, but if THIS continues I may chuck the thing and buy some RAM for the PAL box I bought (Hi Pat)...grrrrr.... Thanks loads! *----///-David C.Powell--:ARPA: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu--------------------* |\\\/// :UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!aegnor | | \///\miga 1000 evolves to the /\miga 3000, the dream continues... -me | |"Humanity does seem to have beer pretty well nailed down, but computers,| *-forget it. They're just starting to get usable..." -Dave Haynie-------*
rick@tmiuv0.uucp (07/30/90)
In article <11572@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes: [...] > Well I did that, it works (see above) now WHAT > IN the blazes IS the CIA chip, is it the 8520's (doubt it but who knows) is > it Paula or some OTHER custom chip!? Yup. The CIA chips are the 8520s. [much ranting and raving deleted 8-)] > *----///-David C.Powell--:ARPA: aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu--------------------* > |\\\/// :UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!aegnor | > | \///\miga 1000 evolves to the /\miga 3000, the dream continues... -me | > |"Humanity does seem to have beer pretty well nailed down, but computers,| > *-forget it. They're just starting to get usable..." -Dave Haynie-------* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [- O] Rick Stevens ? EMail: uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick -or- uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop V CIS: 75006,1355 (75006.1355@compuserve.com from Internet) "I'm tellin' ya, Valiant! Da whole ting stinks like yesterday's diapers!" - Baby Herman in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------