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- Release 2.5 - November 5, 1994
-
- Here is the latest available information regarding PhonePak's
- compatibility with various Amiga models. Many of the following
- procedures require special tools or a gentle touch. If you are
- unsure of your abilities, please have the procedure performed by
- a qualified technician:
-
- A2000: A few machines distort the pitch of messages due to a weak 68000
- E Clock signal. Try reseating the CPU or replacing it with a genuine
- Motorola part.
-
- A3000,A3000T,A3000T/040: The Zorro II DMA circuitry on these Amiga
- models is defective. The defect can be worked around in one of two
- ways: You can install a Zorro II memory board AND use the A3000's
- original (rev 7) Buster chip, which will allow you to utilize multiple
- Zorro II DMA boards (including PhonePak); or you can upgrade to the
- current (rev. 11) Buster chip, which partially fixes the problem and
- allows you to use a single Zorro II DMA board.
-
- A4000/030: No known problems.
-
- A4000/040,A4000T: A DMA problem has been found which causes distortion
- or static in PhonePak's normally clean audio, and it occurs with varying
- severity during both recording and playback on many, but not all
- machines. The problem has been traced to U209, the bus grant GAL on the
- 040 processor board. Commodore upgraded this chip in time for the first
- production run of A4000Ts, as well as for some of the Canadian "LC"
- versions of the A4000. The correct chip revision number is -03.
- Unfortunately, although the chip is reprogrammable, it is a surface
- mount chip soldered to the processor board, making it not user
- serviceable. Service Management Group (610-363-4003), however, will
- perform the required upgrade for $99.
-
- The design of the PhonePak hardware is such that it exercises certain
- aspects of the Amiga's DMA circuitry more strenuously than most other
- DMA devices, resulting in the discovery of the latent problems
- described above. Atlantis Design Group regrets any inconvenience
- experienced by its customers as a result of this unfortunate situation.
-
-
-
- The following section of this document contains corrections and
- amplifications to the printed PhonePak VFX manual, which covers version
- 1 of the software. Changes to the software since version 1 are covered
- in a disk-based document located on disk 3 that will be installed along
- with the PhonePak software. The document is available in both raw
- ASCII and formatted (Final Copy II) versions.
-
- p.69, paragraph 3, "LineMan will end the call, but will attempt to send
- the marked faxes before doing so": Actually, LineMan will only attempt
- to send the faxes if the call is ended explicitly by pressing * or if
- it is commanded to send the faxes via the Faxxess menu.
-
- p.69, paragraph 5, "Be sure a default route is provided for each VFX
- mailbox": "VFX" should be changed to "Faxxess".
-
- p.148, last paragraph, "add the program to your startup sequence": For
- Workbench 2.0 users, it is a whole lot easier to drop the LineMan icon
- into the WBStartup drawer. However, when updating to newer versions of
- LineMan, be sure to update the copy in the WBStartup drawer.
-
- p.173, "Faxess.sys": The correct name of this file is "Faxxess.sys".
-
- p.177, paragraph 3, "an ARexx command having the following format will
- be sent to the designated port": The command, which should really be
- called a message, appears at the top of the following page and looks
- like a subheading.
-
- p.179, paragraph 2: All occurrences of the word "Monitor" should be
- replaced with "PPakMonitor".
-
-
-
- Atlantis Design Group is pleased to offer custom C/ARexx programming
- and voice message recording services to its PhonePak VFX customers at
- affordable rates. Please fax your inquiries to 804-231-2328 or send
- email to 71450.2050@compuserve.com.
-