Miscellaneous - Amiga Club: Questions and Answers # 2.

           AMIGA CLUB

      FAQ # 2.

(C) Antony of TMG
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  Zdravstvuyte! So you dobralis to samogo neobychnogo (a mozhet 
and net) razdela in our boarding zhurnale. A zdes 
prodolzhayutsya (and zavershayutsya) otvety nA naibolee

chasto zadavaemye questions on Amiga-platforme.

 What takoe "Autoconfig"?

  Ha sistemah other computer you have konfigurirovat
karty manually through tak nazyvaemye "jumpers" or 
DIP-pereklyuchateli, in order to determine adresa and (or) 
vektora preryvany. This dostatochno long and HOW pokazyvaet 
praktika requires dostatochno deep znany system to izbezhat 
conflict between simultaneously used razlichnymi kartami. 
Mehanizm "Autoconfig" used nA kompyuterah Amiga, allows

fully avtomatizirovat this
procedure tak that polzovatelyu
there is no need vnikat these
detali. Tak that rasshirenie Amiga
not really predstavlyaet
reconcile complexity.

 Can Amiga rabotat with
computer networks?

  Naturally, you can ispolzovat computers semeystva
Amiga tak same for raboty networks. Mnogozadachnost AmigaOS 
dazhe znachitelno uproschaet this zadachu. You may freely 
rabotat with Novell, DECNet, AppleTalk, TCP / IP and other 
networks "Port-to-port". Tak that you will

rabotat with PC-compatible or
Apple with no problems. Nailuchshy rezultat dostigaetsya at 
ispolzovanii kart Ethernet or Arcnet. Ha Amiga takzhe there and 
some of his standartov. Amiga prekrasno sebya chuvstvuet and

UNIX-like setyah.

 What znachit - "Amiga videosovmestima?

  Kazhdaya model Amiga imeet
standartnuyu opportunity rabotat
with graficheskimi rezhimami and chastotami, identichnymi 
televizionnym. Most other kompyuterov

dostizheniya for this tseli nuzhdayutsya in spetsialnom 
"zheleze. Lyubaya normalnaya programma nA Amiga mozhet rabotat 
these rezhimah, while TIME HOW nA other mashinah unto you 
neobhodimy spetsialnye versii programm, prednaznachennye for 
it. 

 Pochemu Amiga chasto primenyaetsya
in videostudiyah?

  When rabote with videooborudovaniem ochen vazhno to Vse
Charger were chetko sinhronizirovany mezhdu themselves. Amiga 
imeet standartnuyu opportunity sinhronizirovat conclusion 
izobrazheniya on vneshney chastote. Vneshny interfeys, 
nazyvaemy "genlock" generiruet this chastotu for Amiga, a 
takzhe pozvolyaet produce nalozhenie signala from kompyutera nA 
other videosignal. Chasche vsego eta opportunity ispolzuet for 
sozdaniya titles, nalozheniya teksta (naprimer reklamnogo) nA 
kakoy any videorolik etc. Amiga imeet broad bazu programmnogo 
obespecheniya to the objective of the these, a combined with 
fast videovyvoda dinamicheskoy grafiki, pozvolyaet quickly and 
kachestvenno sozdavat videoroliki for the objective of the 
razlichnyh. Naprimer on kabelnogo TV studios can ispolzovat 
Amiga to scroll krasochno oformlennyh, dinamichnyh

reklamnyh zastavok or programm
peredach aired in realnom vremeni, so e. bez neobhodimosti 
zapisyvat these videos nA videomagnitofon. A title that 
blagodarya kachestvam (Lo mashina iznachalno sozdavalas with 
these uchetom zadach) Amiga and ispolzuet

ochen chasto in videostudiyah many stran, a in chastnosti in 
our boarding gorode. 

 Which of the sebya predstavlyaet grafichesky rezhim "HAM"?

  This rezhim yavlyaetsya one of the
standartnyh graficheskih rezhimov
nA Amiga. With this rezhima Amiga mozhet otobrazhat 
mnogotsvetnoe izobrazhenie using while sravnitelno nemnogo

operativnoy memory is.

 Ha kakom printsipe rabotaet this
rezhim?

  Roughly speaking, it rabotaet nA
printsipe is evident from the plug nazvaniya: HAM = 
Hold-And-Modify (Uderzhivat-I-Update). HOW and Other 
graficheskih rezhimah, imeetsya bazovaya palitra, Where are for 
kazhdoy point izobrazheniya hranitsya nomer ee tsveta. In 
starom rezhime (HAM6) is 16 tsvetov (4 bita), a new (HAM8) - 64 
(6 bits). Teper dobavlyaem 2 bita

and controlling of poluchaetsya 6 bits
for HAM6 and 8 bits for HAM8. These
Bits ukazyvayut, kakoy of treh
tsvetovyh komponentov (R, G or
B) neobhodimo modifitsirovat
(Update), while TIME HOW large screen
Other ostayutsya neizmenennymi
(Uderzhivayutsya). Takim obrazom,
deftly manipuliruya with this possibility, we can poluchat 
izobrazheniya high kachestva at malyh zatratah memory is. In 
rezhime HAM6, with 6 bits udaetsya a 12-bitnoe izobrazhenie (up 
to Tsvetov 4096), a in HAM8 - 18 bitnoe (up to 262144 tsvetov). 
Konechno y rezhima HAM Apartment belongs and nedostatok -

zavisimost tsveta point of tsveta
predyduschey ey.


  That Vse questions here and Vse
otvety. I dumayu you dogadalis,
that these were issues kotorye zadayut za hill. But in vashih 
silah izmenit this situatsiyu and chitat

otvety nA questions. Hochetsya
kakuyu get something "obratnuyu
Communications with chitatelyami order
to understand whether nuzhna-voobsche
eta rubrika in our boarding zhurnale, a
If the nuzhna, then on to the chem ney sleduet rasskazyvat. Lo 
nado sdelat tak to you, chitaya material, videli in nem is 
about chem unto you could interesno uznat. But

issues prakticheski net and nachinaesh dumat it to anyone
DO NOT need. If the a tak, the Apartment belongs
Does it make sense prodolzhat razvitie temy about Amiga? 
Vobschem ask vas pisat (in redaktsiyu) or call

(In redaktsiyu or unto me). Budet nice to get LYUBYE questions, 
feedback, pozhelaniya, etc. (including chisle and kriticheskie).


  Although in principle, is not so all
and bad, because as I said, one question still Received. 
Several people have asked about the price on the Amiga. Well, 
the question is absolutely logical, but unfortunately rather 
complicated. In Basically, this question generally

impossible to give a clear answer. Due to the weak Amiga 
prevalence in our country, virtually no secondary

established prices. Therefore, I can
provide only rough limits
prices for the "bare" (without the bloat)
machine. So:
$ Amiga500, Amiga500 + ... 150-350 $
 Amiga600 .............. 250-400 $
 Amiga1200 ............. 500-650 $

  With regard to a variety of additional hardware and prices
"Heaped up" cars, then there
very difficult to say anything
defined. After all, the price in a market environment - the 
concept is complex and depends on the heap of factors. For 
example due to ignorance of the real value of the car, one 
person will sell it for a ridiculous price, and the other for 
the same reason, may "Hall". So that the issues

on prices for anything specific
do not hesitate to call me, I'll try to help.


  And now an important message for
those of you who are interested in
the fate of a computer Amiga, but still
have not heard the news: "Amiga
Technologies GmbH "was sold
U.S. firm "VIScorp".

  As is you could read in the third issue of "ZF" in the 
"Amiga-news" - about a year ago German firm "ESCOM" bought out 
the firm collapsed "Commodore-Amiga" all rights to the Amiga, 
organizovala subsidiary company "Amiga Technologies GmbH" and

restore production. And now its owner, having paid
$ 40 million, was "VIScorp".
The representative of the "VIScorp" said:
"We are all" amigovtsy "from the beginning, and do not intend 
to kill her." According to preliminary information "Amiga 
Technologies GmbH" remains in Germany, with the old leadership, 
and "VIScorp" has big plans for the development of Amiga.


  Unfortunately the official information from the "VIScorp" 
yet, but in the next issue we hope to

details of its plans,
and may be already on the results
its work. So we'll
one of the last interviews
Jay Miner, the "father" Amiga,
who died in 1994.


       See you in autumn!

 This text written in CED3.5 on

  Amiga 500 + by Antony of TMG

  Call: (812) 513-11-98 (Anton)