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- From: djhr4@crosfield.co.uk (david redman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: RISCOS 3.10 installation
- Message-ID: <15371@suns8.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 07:40:21 GMT
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
- Lines: 69
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- Some news about RISCOS 3.10.
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- If you don't have an A310 with and atomwide 4Mb card skip this section..
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- First: remove all the hardware you so carefully fitted :)
- cut the tracks between lk12 pins 1,2 and 3,4
- install a pair of jumpers
- set jumpers to 1,3 and 2,4
- re-install 4Mb board and set ll1,2 to the EAST position
- (basically move them to the other side of where they are now)
- re-install all hardware
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- Power ON:
- At this stage 2 things can happen.
- 1. The screen flashes red then blue and then the floppy
- lights flash - This is not good so power off and check
- link 12 is the correct way around. Fix it and retry. :)
- 2. The screen flashes and the Acorn RISCOS 3.10 box appears
- This is good. Now play away..
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- My first impressions:
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- First the good news:
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- 1. I like the new way it works.
- 2. I didn't notice the speed difference ARM2/3.
- 3. I like the multitasking filer..
- 4. I like the apps being in ROM
- 5. I like some of the new Apps on discs 1,2
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- Now the bad news:
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- 1. I didn't like loosing the ability to boot RISCiX... :(
- And if anyone at Acorn would like to tell me how to stop
- getting: "unknown machine type" errors I would be VERY grateful.
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- 2. I spent a long while deciding what to do about lk12 before taking
- the plunge and cutting the links.. I would have been much happier
- if Acorn had said that the 4Mb ROMS are JEDEC or not compatible
- and it would have saved a great deal of worry.
-
- For the record:
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- My machine is:
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- . A310
- + 4Mb Atomwide memory expansion
- + Watford ARM3 (27.2Mhz)
- + Acorn SCSI (SCSIFS 0.22) + 330Mb Micropolis drive + 147Mb Fujitsu
- + Technomatic ST506 controller + 40Mb Seagate thingy
- + Taxan 775.
-
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- Any help about the RISCiX problem before I downgrade (and return RISCOS
- 3.10) would be appreciated otherwise: bye bye multitasking filer (sniff)
- bye bye apps in ROM :(
-
- dave.
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- # David Redman, # e-mail : djhr@crosfield.co.uk #
- # Software Engineer, # or djhr4@crosfield.co.uk #
- # Crosfield Electronics Ltd, # #
- # Three Cherry Trees Lane, # Phone: 0442 230000 ext 4066 #
- # Hemel Hempstead, Herts. # #
- # United Kingdom # #
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