Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!ulowell!cbmvax!carolyn
From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000
Message-ID: <3857@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 23:45:29 GMT
References: <2992@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 44

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,

All 2000's sold in the US are the West Chester Fat-Agnus design, aka "B2000".

>                                                   ...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. 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? 

When 1.3 comes out, you will have SetAlert.  Meanwhile, I don't think it's
a particularly big deal to have to CTRL/Amiga/Amiga to bring up the GURU.
The problem is that the ROM code for Alert() thinks something's wrong
if ExecBase is in $C00000 memory.  SetAlert() includes a system patch
which is an Alert() replacement - the replacement knows ExecBase in $C00000
memory is fine.
 
>Also a friend just purchased a 2000 and his machine runs fine and has the same
>revision mother board (4.3). Transformer also runs fine on his machine but not
>on mine, are the two problems related?

No - the problems are not related.   Transformer is not marketed as an
A2000 program.  It contains some very timing-critical direct-to-the-hardware
keyboard handshaking code which works on some keyboards and not on others.

>Concerning the A2090 is commodore going to support the A2090 when 1.3 does
>come out?

Huh ?   The 2090 will continue to work just as it does now under 1.3.

>Last but not least, can I replace the 256k memory chips with 1meg chips and if
>so what is involed in doing this?

I doubt it.

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