Amiga questions you've always been too embarrassed to ask

[necronom]

Originally Posted by Jope

Ah ok..

Do you know where the Made in UK breadbins were made?

No idea. I don't think I was aware that they were ever made here. There was the address in Slough, 675 Ajax Avenue, which had large warehouses and things like that, but I don't know if that was just an office.

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Lord Aga

Is Amiga chipset strained more when running at higher resolutions, and so more prone to dying ?
60Hz 30Khz Vs 50Hz 15KHz

I doubt it will drastically shorten the life expectancy. The chips were designed to handle those frequencies.

Originally Posted by necronom

No idea. I don't think I was aware that they were ever made here. There was the address in Slough, 675 Ajax Avenue, which had large warehouses and things like that, but I don't know if that was just an office.

Time to dig through old manuals and check the locations with google maps. That Ajax Avenue address definitely looks like it could house an assembly plant too.

[demolition]

Originally Posted by Lord Aga

Is Amiga chipset strained more when running at higher resolutions, and so more prone to dying ?
60Hz 30Khz Vs 50Hz 15KHz

When running higher resolutions like SuperPlus, HighGfx and Extreme modes, Lisa does get hotter since you're effectively overclocking it and you can sometimes get display artifacts as well as it heats up. I don't know for sure, but if the chip gets hotter then it normally translates to a shorter life as well. The question is how much.

[chaos]

Originally Posted by demolition

When running higher resolutions like SuperPlus, HighGfx and Extreme modes, Lisa does get hotter since you're effectively overclocking it and you can sometimes get display artifacts as well as it heats up. I don't know for sure, but if the chip gets hotter then it normally translates to a shorter life as well. The question is how much.

Lisa is not overclocked, at least not in the traditional sense of the word (increased frequency). The reason it might get hotter is that it does 'more work' in the same amount of time - that is, flip-flops will toggle more in the same amount of time, thereby increasing power draw (= heat).

It is true that if the rise in power usage and therefore temperature is substantial, it could decrease the lifetime of the chip, bu I never noticed Lisa in my A1200 to get substantially hotter.

[Nibbler]

Can i use a 50mhz Crystal with an 68882 FN 33A ?

Is 50mhz overkill for the 33mhz FPU ?

[demolition]

Originally Posted by chaos

Lisa is not overclocked, at least not in the traditional sense of the word (increased frequency).

You are right - just did some quick calculations and HighGFX, HD720 and XTREME are all around 43.3 Mpx/s. What you gain in resolution is lost in the refresh rate.

But adding an internal scandoubler will also cause Lisa to have a harder time getting rid of heat. Anyway, very few of us have their Amigas running as much as people did in the 90s when they used it as their main computers.

[Lord Aga]

Thanks for the answers guys
At the moment I'm using DblNTSC 640x400 for my WB, and it doesn't feel like I'm pushing it too hard. We'll see.

[appiah4]

Here's a question I never figured out the answer to: Why 15kHz RGB? Was that a standard of some kind at the time?

[Jope]

Tv frequencies, it was meant to be a game console originally. Genlock use was a nice side effect.

TV modulators were always available, even for the A1000.

[Nibbler]

Does anybody know ?

Can i use a 50mhz Crystal with an 68882 FN 33A ?

Is 50mhz overkill for the 33mhz FPU ?

[jizmo]

Classic Amigas seem to Guru every time there's a problem. But is it an omnipotent system, or can some special type of software failure ever cause Amiga to crash and reboot without Guruing?

[Mrs Beanbag]

any software can reboot the machine without causing a Guru, Gurus are only triggered by particular conditions, i.e. hardware exceptions. Sometimes a crash can be so bad that there is neither a reboot nor a Guru but a total crazy mess!

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Nibbler

Does anybody know ?

Can i use a 50mhz Crystal with an 68882 FN 33A ?

Is 50mhz overkill for the 33mhz FPU ?

Yes, ALL 68882 FPUs are good for 50MHz clocking IIRC.

[Nibbler]

Originally Posted by prowler

Yes, ALL 68882 FPUs are good for 50MHz clocking IIRC.

Thanks for the answer.

Another Question.

Disksalv shows Invalid Volume and Invalid Bitmap on the Low level information. ( CF Card )

Is that normal for CF Cards ? ( i guess, but i want some PRO answer )

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Nibbler

Disksalv shows Invalid Volume and Invalid Bitmap on the Low level information. ( CF Card )

Is that normal for CF Cards ? ( i guess, but i want some PRO answer )

Is your CF formatted via FFS and are all the partitions you're trying to access fully below the 4GB border?

If the answer to either is no, then you can't use disksalv.

[Nibbler]

Thanks Jope !

The CF is Formatted with FFS and i use 2GB of a 4GB Card with 3 partitions.
(around 600MB each)
All working Fine.

ANOTHER QUESTION

Are tools like Disksalv, QBTools and AmiBack actually dangerous for OS3.9 users witha CF Card ?

For Example, Disksalv say all is fine on the "CHECK" function but QBTools say that " Root drawer content corrupted " on all my 3 partitions... even on a DF0: Floppy (gotek)

weird

[s2325]

How many different helmets you can find in Magic Pockets and what they can do?

[Daedalus]

@Nibbler

It would only be dangerous once you go above the 4GB barrier. If you do that, you can easily and silently destroy the partition structure and data on the drive. I suppose OS 3.9 is mentioned as it lets you easily use large hard drives without being fully aware of the problems that might be caused by other software.

[jotd]

Originally Posted by s2325

How many different helmets you can find in Magic Pockets and what they can do?

Interesting question, but slightly off-topic don't you think?
put that in a relevant thread I'll try to answer.

[Anubis]

Don't you get that he is embarrassed to ask??