Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!cbmvax!schein From: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A2000 Message-ID: <3844@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 23 May 88 13:37:35 GMT References: <2992@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein CATS) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 68 In article <2992@crash.cts.com> johnk@pro-pac.CTS.COM (John Krause) writes: >Hi I am new to the conference system and hope this letter makes to someone >other than oblivion. I own an Amiga 2000 but I don't know if it's an A or B, >what is the difference and which is suppose to be better? German designed 2000's (A2000) have a 4 layer board, no Gary, a thin Agnus, and no composite video port. US designed 2000's (B2000) have a 2 layer board, has Gary, Fat Agnus (not a Fatter Agnus :-), and a composite video port. Easy way to tell is look at the back of the machine, count the number of RCA styled jacks. 2 = 4 layer & 3 = 2 layer machine. Remember *ONLY* 2 layer machines were sold in the US. > My machine does not >GURU properly so I wrote to CBM and they replied saying "SetAlert will solve >this problem and it is available on the 1.3 enhancer". Well as far as I know >1.3 is not out yet and I don't know of anyone haveing SetAlert. SetAlert has been posted to UseNet, most of the commercial database services (BIX, Plink, CI$, ect) and most of the better Amiga BBS's. So you do not have to wait for 1.3 just to get SetAlert. And yes, 1.3 is not out yet. > I would like >to know what actually is at fault in my 2000 and if it's hardware how can I >get it fixed, other than patching around it with this SetAlert command? Also a >friend just purchased a 2000 and his machine runs fine and has the same >revision mother board (4.3). I know Andy has already explained what SetAlert does so as to not take up more space than I am, if you need that info. drop me mail. > Transformer also runs fine on his machine but not >on mine, are the two problems related? No these two items are not related. Please remember that Transformer is *NOT* supported on the 2000 - only the 500 & 1000. > >Concerning the A2090 is commodore going to support the A2090 when 1.3 does >come out? > Well I have a A2090 and 1.3 (Beta of course) and it works. What kind of support do you mean/want? As far as the A2090 is concerned it works the same with V1.3 (KickStart and/or WorkBench) as it did with V1.2 >Last but not least, can I replace the 256k memory chips with 1meg chips and if >so what is involed in doing this? > Sorry im not of any help on this one, maybe a hardware type guy (or gal :-) can cover here.... >Thank you very much in advance, and a warm ALOHA from Hawaii. Your welcome and greetings from West Chester PA. (Its 80 degrees today :-) >U.S. Mail: John C. Krause 92-982 Kanehoa Loop, Ewa Beach, HI 96707 -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein uucp: {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!sneakers Commodore AMIGA ARPANET: cbmvax!sneakers@uunet.uu.net 1200 Wilson Drive Bix: dschein Plink: Dan*CATS West Chester PA 19380 phone: (215) 431-9100 ext. 9542 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Call BERKS AMIGA BBS - 24 Hrs - 3/12/2400 Baud - 40Meg - 215/678-7691 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Quote: Those who worked the hardest Gary Ward - Oklahoma State are the last to surrender baseball coach