Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!d87-khd From: d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000! Message-ID: <1028@tau.sm.luth.se> Date: 14 Jul 90 19:45:25 GMT References: <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> <13183@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: Karl-Gunnar Hultland Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 57 UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic.se!tau.luth.se!d87-khd In article <13183@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes: >In article <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> Karl-Gunnar Hultland writes: >>I've finally gotten my hands on a 3000 (borrowed until my own arrives) >>but I have some problems with it. > > Warning: If this is a preproduction (dealer-demo) model it will not >have a release version of 2.0, it will have Beta 5 (probably). The release >version is signifigantly better than Beta 5, in general. Beta 5???? the version command gives 36.141 and 36.68 If this is Beta when will the REAL stuff come out? I've been promised my own machine in mid August and I sure hope I'll not get a Beta version, 'cause It'll take time and money to get the final version. > >>1) Does it exist a utility to DISABLE that cache memory? >> Some old (and not very well written) utilities just breaks >> even under 1.3 on the 3000. > > The caches are on the CPU (same as the 2500/030). Use SetCPU, or >the 2.0 command CPU. Sorry if I didn't express myself clearly but I want a utility that works AFTER a boot so I can load those programs which have those crazy copy/protections that uses selfmodifying code. > >>2) Were can I get the NEW autodocs that should exist for 2.0 > > Contact your local developer support manager, or ESCO. I've called Commodore Sweden to get papers to registrate as a certified developer , so that one is solved. > >>5) The final question UNIX is said to exist for A2000 but >> when will it be available for the 3000. >> (that ROM socket with 1.3 should be great for a UNIX ROM) > > Unix has not been released, nor has any date been set. In any case, >it's highly unlikely to be in ROM (Unix is not small). > Well I've heard that the UNIX package would include hardware to restrain illegal copying. And then 512 kB ROM wouldn't be such a bad copyprotection. ( this one is from my dealer ) Karl --- Karl Hultland,(d87-khd@sm.luth.se) University of Lulea,Sweden All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. - J. Arbuthnot (1667-1735)