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From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: a3000 questions...
Message-ID: <1991May5.062658.16235@javelin.sim.es.com>
Date: 5 May 91 06:26:58 GMT
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Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (--SeebS--) writes:
>2] For the A2232: Why, oh why, does this support 115k baud (or thereabouts)
>  but not support, say, 38400? For that matter, does *anything* *anywhere*

"Normal" baud rates are limited to 19,200 on the A2232, the 115k baud
mode seems to be more of a side effect than a major feature. It didn't
cost anything, so there it is. 

>3] When I boot 1.3, I get "Battery backed up Clock not found" and yet the
>  system time is correct. Huh?

Delete the "setclock load" line from your startup-sequence. The A3000
uses a different clock chip than the A500/2000, and the old setclock
won't work with it. There is an A3000 compatible setclock command
supplied with the A3000, maybe you overwrote it with the old one?
Anyway, the A3000's clock uses magic to set the correct date, so
"setclock load" is not needed in your s-s. (Note that it's not present
in the 2.0 s-s.)

>4] Even with the multiscan monitor, both SuperHiRes-Interlace and
>  Productivity-Interlace flicker heavily, and SuperHiRes looses a lot
>  of image data (i.e., some vertical columns seem to be getting lost)...

All Productivity modes bypass the VDE, and the Productivity-Interlace is
exactly that, a 960 line INTERLACED signal. It's not possible for the
VDE to de-interlace it. The 1280 pixel mode can only be displayed
correctly with the VDE disabled. With the VDE enabled, it only displays
every other pixel. Again, a hardware limitation, and no way around it.

>5] Minor point.... Is it just me, or is Topaz different under 2.0 and 1.3?
>  Is there any way to change it? Like, for instance, a decent font editor?
>  The WB1.3 font editor doesn't seem to like 2.0...

Yep, the font is different, but they had to keep the Topaz name, or
break every piece of software ever written. You can select any font you
want with Prefs Font program. FED is dead under 2.0, but I've heard the
commercial program Calligrapher works well.

>And, of course, is there any efficient way to back up hard drives?

Buy a tape drive.
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