amiga 1200 pal / ntsc system

[amicrawler]

hi i have a pal /ntsc amiga 1200A i have a accelerator 030 but i'm not to sure if the amiga is using it.
i have seen my amiga just take off like a rocket on loading wb 3.5 very fast refresh rate but now it is slow
any ideas would help i have a 030 card with 32MB of 72pin sims
not to sure how to tell what kind of card is it it does not say on the card it's self

step by step would help thanx Amicrawler

the amiga goes to default to pal mode then when goes to wb 3.5 goes to ntsc mode
my screen is a amiga 1080 screen

[rkauer]

First: try to put some spacing on your sentences, as they are they are very hard to read.

Now, the problem: are you sure you are an Amiga user from old times? Reduce the used colours in the workbench will speed the things up a lot. With a 030 card expect to comfortably use Workbench with 32 colours or less.

Don't know how?

Go to Prefs drawer and click on screenmode, then move the gauge of the resolution you are using to 32 or less down to 8 colours: less than that will look ugly.

To see if the accelerator is working, hold the right Amiga key (the big A on the right of the space bar) and press E.
Enter "info" (no quotes) in the opened window and press enter. There you'll see if your expansion is working.

[amicrawler]

yes did that show mounted disks and vol available

on my workbech screen shows 2MB of chip ram and 32MB of fast ram

when the screen redraws i can seen it redraw slow at times
my colors was at 256 went down to 32

when the screen resets the refresh is very fast all most instant
but when i open it again example go to work the refresh slows down un like when changing resolutions very very fast
or is this what the amiga is designed to do when it is done changing goes back to slow

thanx all way for your guys help

[Maren]

Originally Posted by amicrawler

when the screen resets the refresh is very fast all most instant
but when i open it again example go to work the refresh slows down

On my stock PAL A1200 working at 640x256@256 (no acceleration whatsoever) refreshing a backdrop of any number of colours (rarely used anything past 16 for both screen mode and backdrop, which's what the default MagicWB backdrop required) with "ResetWB" would take a lil less than a second, whereas booting into WB for the first time or changing the screen mode, had it start loading only after about 4 seconds, but the process of actually refreshing the image was just as fast/slow as when using "ResetWB".

640x512 interlaced modes were twice as slow. Lowering the vertical resolution and the number of colours for the chosen mode would speed things up considerably for me.

[amicrawler]

yes i do have my on pal when booting to wb then goes to ntsc
wb 3.5 its not on double ntsc or pal
just high res basic 666x219 32 colors
60hz ,15.72 khz
when i change res or colors the screen icons load up very fast all most instant but when i reload it is slower is this normal for the 1200 with a 030 in it with 32MB of ram in it

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by amicrawler

when i change res or colors the screen icons load up very fast all most instant but when i reload it is slower is this normal for the 1200 with a 030 in it with 32MB of ram in it

Do you save the settings when you change them?

[PowerPie5000]

Originally Posted by rkauer

To see if the accelerator is working, hold the right Amiga key (the big A on the right of the space bar) and press E.
Enter "info" (no quotes) in the opened window and press enter. There you'll see if your expansion is working.

Or you could type "CPU" in the box with no quotes
If your expansion is working then it should say something like "System: 68030 (INST: Cache Burst) (DATA: Cache NoBurst)" But if the first part of the line says "68020" then you have a problem!

[stefcep2]

Originally Posted by amicrawler

yes did that show mounted disks and vol available

on my workbech screen shows 2MB of chip ram and 32MB of fast ram

when the screen redraws i can seen it redraw slow at times
my colors was at 256 went down to 32

when the screen resets the refresh is very fast all most instant
but when i open it again example go to work the refresh slows down un like when changing resolutions very very fast
or is this what the amiga is designed to do when it is done changing goes back to slow

thanx all way for your guys help

The 32 MB RAM showing up means the card is working.

I'd say you have a software problem. Re-install the OS set your screenmode to 16 colors PAL: High res or NTSC:High res.

Try without a backdrop.

[amicrawler]

yes it said
System: 68030 68882 (INST: Cache Burst) (DATA: Cache NoBurst)

and no backdrop picture on desktop all at default .

i do get guru error wen booting it is a yellow guru but i right click and move on and boots to the gui and all so gets Cannot open "scsi.device" unit 2 using idefix with the 4 ide card don't have scsi on my 1200 just ide dvd rw

[coze]

idefix and wb 3.5 ?

hmmm....

[stefcep2]

Originally Posted by amicrawler

yes it said
System: 68030 68882 (INST: Cache Burst) (DATA: Cache NoBurst)

and no backdrop picture on desktop all at default .

i do get guru error wen booting it is a yellow guru but i right click and move on and boots to the gui and all so gets Cannot open "scsi.device" unit 2 using idefix with the 4 ide card don't have scsi on my 1200 just ide dvd rw

Os 3.5 was known to be buggy at the time.

I'd do fresh install of 3.1, and then, install idefix to pick up the DVD burner. (btw I only ever used a CD Burner with IDEfix)

I'm not convinced you have a hardware problem, i think its a software configuration issue.

[amicrawler]

reinstalling is a pain in the #@##!!!##@@ on the amiga
3.1 was not that bad but 3.5 what a pain when installing 3.1 then going to 3.5 i loose cdrom support and then goes in a hand basket any ways reinstall it not the idea
it called get the features worked out if can be LOL any ways the screen refresh is slow but got a fast card installed any ideas

[amiman99]

Originally Posted by amicrawler

yes it said
System: 68030 68882 (INST: Cache Burst) (DATA: Cache NoBurst)

and no backdrop picture on desktop all at default .

i do get guru error wen booting it is a yellow guru but i right click and move on and boots to the gui and all so gets Cannot open "scsi.device" unit 2 using idefix with the 4 ide card don't have scsi on my 1200 just ide dvd rw

SCSI.device, is a internal (ROM) driver for IDE controller, so I would remove any devices, like CDROM from DEVS DOSDrivers folder if you are not using the CDROM or any other device that is using scsi.device. When the device is not present, the Amiga is waiting for some time before it gave up and reports error.