Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!deimos!cseg!hcx!gmg From: gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ami crashes, RAD: Summary: Tell me more about starboard hack. Message-ID: <1390@cseg.uucp> Date: 9 Dec 88 05:49:24 GMT References: <10207@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <27024@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <27064@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: netnews@cseg.uucp Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 32 In article <27064@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student) writes: > > By the way, while we're talking about hacking amigas, I have also grounded > my PAL chips, added a filtering capacitor in my starboard, and performed the > 1080 monitor hack to fix the interlacing-offset and audio. I have also > squished the vertical height and superglued a piece of ferrite to the end > of the horizontal coil in the 1080 so I can see the 671/470 wb screen. Yes, I > love having a HACK-able computer! > > -Vincent H. Lee Hey, is this starboard hack something I need to do to mine? (I can't resist a good hardware hack). I am sending off for the A1000 schematics so that I can start hacking the expansion bus next. I built a small board with a VIA on it to control things (like solid state relay-type things), but I did something wrong with the handshaking so I never got it working (yet). Soon! If I ever get it to work, I'll post all the particulars right here for all you other dedicated hardware hackers. By the way, if anyone has an idea on how to make a non-autoconfig board talk to the amiga (Autoconfig comes later, I hope), let me know the details. I need to know how to let the amiga know that I have a chip out there, as bringing the vpa* line low is not enough to do the trick. I suspect that I must bring another line low to tell the amiga to stretch the cycle for the 6800 style bus access. Thanks! Greg Garner 501-442-4847 USENET: ...!uunet!harris.cis.ksu.edu!hcx!gmg