Vortex Golden Gate 386SX, User Manual

Page 1: ...Benutzerhandbuch User s Manual Manuel d Utilisateur vortex Golden Gate 25 MHz 386SX und 486SLC AT Emulator Amiga 2000 3000 ...

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Page 3: ... 18 2 3 Hard Disk Drives 20 2 4 Video 22 2 5 Interfaces COM COM2 LPTl 22 2 6 Mouse 23 2 7 Keyboard 23 2 8 Multitasking 23 2 9 PC AT ISA Slot Support 24 2 1O Compatibility 24 3 Hardware Installation 26 3 1 Important Notes for the Installation 26 3 2 Necessary Tools 27 3 3 Installation Into an Amiga 2000 27 3 4 Installation Into an Amiga 3000 37 3 5 Upgradln the Golden Gate Emulator with RAM 43 3 5 ...

Page 4: ... serialMicrosoft Mouse 94 7 4 The Keyboard Emulation 95 7 5 The Golden Gate Video Emulations 97 7 5 I Switching the Video Emulation under MS DOS 98 7 5 2 The Programs VH GH VLOW SSCR and HSCR 100 7 6 The Operation of a PC AT ISA EGNVGA graphics card IOI 7 7 The Real Time Clock IOI 7 8 Golden Gate Server Operation 102 7 9 Golden Gate Error Messages 105 8 Miscellaneous 106 8 1 Memory Expansions in t...

Page 5: ...e with the 486SX command set With lts 32 bit internal and 16 bit external data bus and with 1 KB Cache on chip It ls up to 2 4 times faster than a 386SX processor with the same clock frequency As a bridge slot expansion Golden Gate closes the gap between the Amiga s expansion bus Zorro bus and the PC AT bus ISA expansion bus system of the Amiga Thus it becomes possible to use the most different PC...

Page 6: ...lable CGA 16 colours Hercules EGA and VGA monochrome graphics If a full VGA video output in colour should be required a standard PC AT EGA VGA graphics card can be plugged into one of the PC AT slots of the Amiga and be connected with a suitable monitor The video display is as fast and brilliant as with a real 386SX 486SLC PC AT For an acceleration of high performance software as e g Excel or Auto...

Page 7: ...a RAM expansions and hard disks i e Zorro slot expansions can be used by Golden Gate as base extended and expanded memory or respectively as MS DOS hard disk partitions Up to 24 MS DOS partitions can be installed The possible partition size only depends on the MS DOS version used and the existing capacity of the drives MS DOS can be booted directly from a MS DOS partition D Golden Gate has an own ...

Page 8: ...ts flicker fixer cards Multitasking Operation Golden Gate runs as a process within the multitaskingenvironment of the Amiga It is at any time possible to switch between the two operating systems Amiga DOS and MS DOS Both operating systems run simultaneously The Amiga mouse can be used as a serial Microsoft mouse under MS DOS at COM or COM2 The Amiga keyboard becomes a PC keyboard The parallel inte...

Page 9: ... Gate the Multi Talent Abbreviations and Conventions used in this manual EGA ENTER IDE ISA K KB M MB ns sec SIMM PCB PC AT VGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter PC AT video standard press ENTER or RETURN key Integrated Drive Electronics hard disk with an integrated controller Industry Standard 16 Bit PC AT bus KiloBit KiloByte MegaBit MegaByte nano second I thousand billionth part of a second second 1 60 ...

Page 10: ...y vortex Computersysteme GmbH The duplication and or passing on of these programs is forbidden These programs may only be used on one single computer AT and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Microsoft MS DOS and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Golden Gate is a registered trademarkof vortex Computersysteme GmbH Arniga Cornrnodore...

Page 11: ...s may cause the loss of any warranty claims for the computer Golden Gate should be Installed by a qualified person The pre cond ltlon for a safe Installation of Golden Gate is an antistatic work place earthed mat on the table with wrist bands connected to the earth vortex does not take any responsibility for damages caused by Inexpert Installation This manual has been compiled taking into account ...

Page 12: ...atic bag unleu thl1 11 done on an antlatatlc work place and the peraon taklnt out Golden Gate ls aecured against electrostatlcal dl1char1e throqh wrist bands H these Instructions are not obaerved the user risks that the CMOS component on Golden Gate are damaged or destroyed Store the show carton safely In a dry place 1 3 2 Delivery The following Items are part of the delivery of Golden Gate I vort...

Page 13: ...ing files Drawer DEVS LIBS GOLDENGATE File goldenpylon gg device glib library GG DIGGER GoldenToast GoldenNugget GoldenGate cfg LFONT HFONT goldenpylon glib library GREEK SFONT GFONT LFONT HFONT Meaning Overlay file for Golden Gate Device driver for using PC AT floppy and hard disk drives under AmigaDOS System library for Golden Gate Loading file for Cli Shell actual emulator file Overlay file for...

Page 14: ...ration configuration data for server operation Info file for Workbench additional file Info file for Workbench The disk Goldmine II MS DOS Format 720KB This disk contains the following programs in the directory GTOOLS File VLOW EXE VHIGH EXE SSCR EXE HSCR EXE INVERS EXE MDA EXE CGA EXE V400 EXE Meaning see user s manual paragraph 7 5 2 enables softscroll function in the text mode Default enables h...

Page 15: ...rmatting program for IDE and PC AT hard disks e g WD1003 An IDE hard disk connected to Golden Gate s IDE interface must be low level formatted with this program before it can be used 1 3 4 Before the First Operation In order to avoid damages caused by inexpert or wrong handling or treatment this user s manual must be read carefully before the installation and the first operation 1 3 5 Checking the...

Page 16: ... takl r1 011I We recornrrH nd to completely 1111 111 I his card put the correct stamp on it and send ll back to us as soon as prn sll le you will find the serial number on the soldering side of the Golden 1111 PC I und also on the show carton As soon as we receive the completely llll1 cl l11 e11lstratlon Card the customer becomes a registered vortex user User s Manual Golden Gate ...

Page 17: ...isk interface for a fast MS DOS DE hard disk drive an optional floppy controller for high density floppy disk drives and a socket for a 80C387SX 25MHz coprocessor For the emulation Golden Gate uses both the components of the Amiga as well as its own onboard expansions The strategies by which Golden Gate can use these system resources will be further explained on the following pages 2 1 All you nee...

Page 18: ...M memory modules Wfticft are tfte differences between Amiga RAM and Golden Gate s own RAM Apart from the better performance Golden Gate shows with its own RAM Golden Gate does not make any further distinctions between its own RAM and Amiga RAM How mucft RAM is required The more the better If a RAM upgrade should be planned it is better to upgrade Golden Gate with RAM than the Amiga In order to ope...

Page 19: ...f an extended memory are a fast access and a continuous and coherent address space Almost all newly developed or newly written programs preferably use extended memory and not expandedmemory e g Windows 3 Lotus 1 2 3 Expanded memory has been introduced at a time when our PC s were equipped with a 8088 or 8086 microprocessor good old days and solutions to get more memory were looked for Expanded mem...

Page 20: ... and their answers are compiled which can be of interest in connection with this topic How man flopp I disk drives can normal be controlled b I MS DOS MS DOS in all its versions can control a maximum of two floppy disk drives without an additional driver program These bear the logical drive letters A and B In order to use any further floppy disk drives first some suitable hardware floppy disk cont...

Page 21: ...hich floppy disk drives are required if Golden Gate s own floppy disk controller shall be used and which MS DOS disk formats are provided then Golden Gate can be upgraded with a floppy disk controller chip a corresponding socket is provided on the Golden Gate PCB This is the 82077AA floppy disk controller by Intel This floppy disk controller can control the most different floppy disk drives and pr...

Page 22: ...ith this topic Which Amiga hard disks are supported The driver software of the hard disk controller must be Commodore compatible How does Golden Gate use an already existing Amiga hard disk As has already been described as method l Golden Gate can use the Amiga hard disk in two different ways An example shall explain this a little further Let s assume that there is a SCSI hard disk controller in a...

Page 23: ... itself DH0 should never be completely assigned to a MS DOS partition but only a part of it Amiga File Which hard disk drives can be connected with Golden Gate s own IDE hard disk interface IDE stands for integrated Drive Electronics and classifies a certain category of hard disk drives mostly only 3 5 and 2 5 form factor The IDE hard disk interface can operate standard drives e g Seagate Quantum ...

Page 24: ...2 5 Interfaces COMI COM2 LPTI Golden Gate provides the serial interface of the Amiga under MS DOS either as COM or as COM2 these are the two standard PC AT serial interfaces This means that e g a modem can be connected and used with the help of a corresponding PC AT program e g PROCOMM PCPLUS Telix Telemate Restrictions to this arise in the maximum of attainable Baudrate the emulated COMI COM2 int...

Page 25: ...as clear that one had to keep to an existing standard Thus under MS DOS the Amiga mouse is emulated as a serial Microsoft mouse That is to say that all drivers existing for this mouse probably the most popular one in the world except Micky Mouse run at once 2 7 Keyboard The Amiga keyboard is emulated under MS DOS as a standard 84 key PC AT keyboard with function keys the numeric block and the spec...

Page 26: ...VGA graphics cards ought to be of special interest It is possible to state explicitly whether such a card exists in the Golden Gate setup program In general another monitor is required for a EGA VGA graphics card Multisync Monitor VGA Monitor 2 10 Compatibility Purists in matters of compatibility will consider a device as 100 IBM PC AT compatible if this device is an IBM PC AT This claim is defini...

Page 27: ...ctor I I 10E hard hisk con ne ct or I l Jav Socket for an 820TT AA fiopp t disk controller IC J1 always set J2 J3 not set Option ROM disabled J2 set J3 not set 2MB for Amiga Electronical speaker Jumper 8 JS must be set Socket for an 80C387SX 25MHz Option con ne ct or i coprocessor J2 J3 set 4MB for Amiga 5 1 l f I I C I c I o c I O I I I i 1 11 11111 1 1 I l 1 1 1 I 0 1 1 rFn I ILi I I 1 1 1 11 l ...

Page 28: ...E hard disk drive is to be connected to Golden Gate the necessary notes on installation can be found in paragraph 3 8 3 1 Important Notes for the Installation The Installation should always be done on an antistatic work place with an earthed mat on the table and earthed wrist bands The person undertaking the Installation should be well experienced In handling CMOS components Never take out the Gol...

Page 29: ...led with cables in the interior of the Amiga and thus inadvertently pull them out see illustration 3 3 b Put the upper part of the case in a safe place 3 Golden Gate can be plugged into one of the bridge slots of the Amiga see illustration 3 3 c Before Golden Gate can be plugged in the metal bracket of the corresponding bridge slot which closes off the Amiga case at the back must be removed Take o...

Page 30: ...d down position Directly on the right of the processor slot into which e g accelerator cards can be plugged the 68000 CPU is located a component of about a size of 7 5cm 2 5cm with 64 pins in its socket The 68000 CPU can be extracted from its socket with the help of the Flat nosed screwdriver see illustration 3 3 e Then the CPU is plugged firmly and level into the CPU adapter This has to be done i...

Page 31: ... keyboard and the mouse been connected properly 3 Has the monitor been connected properly 4 Has Golden Gate been plugged into one of the bridge slots firmly and completely 5 Has the 68000 CPU been fitted in the CPU adapter with the correct orientation 6 Do all pins of the 68000 CPU fit properly in the CPU adapter none bent inside or outside Two further possible causes for failure might be Perhaps ...

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Page 38: ...C o w dQ II II II rs Ill C C a Cl Ill I I 68000CPU CPU Adapter Motherboard Amiga2000 0 i i 1 II 36 u te ...

Page 39: ... the Amiga see illustration 3 4 c Before Golden Gate can be plugged in the metal bracket of the corresponding bridge slot which closes off the Amiga at the back must be removed Take out the corresponding screw with the Phillips head screwdriver and remove the metal bracket Store the screw and the bracket in a safe place 4 Now take Golden Gate out of the antistatic bag and plug it firmly into the s...

Page 40: ...ure I Are the power cords of the Amiga and the monitor re connected properly 2 Have the keyboard and the mouse been connected properly 3 Has the monitor been connected properly 4 Has Golden Gate been plugged into one of the bridge slots firmly and completely Two further possible causes for failure might be Perhaps there are problems with contactlna In the bridge slot connectors of the Amiga mother...

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Page 45: ...onfiguring Amiga RAM expansion The following illustration shows a typical SIMM IIMMI Required capacity per SIMM 2 6KB 1MB 4MB Description 256K 9 60ns IM 9 60ns 4M 9 60ns H O In order to be able to operate Golden Gate with zero wait states SIMMs with 60 c11cf 1fm are required The followln table shows all the RAM configurations possible and the SIMMs used with them SI S2 S3 and S4 are the 4 SIMM soc...

Page 46: ...12KB factory Installed 1MB 1 5MB 2 5MB 3MB 4 5MB 8MB 9MB 10MB 16MB In order to avoid mechanical encumbrances the following sequences of plugging have to be observed with the Installation of the SIMM memory modules SI S2 occupied S3 S4 occupied SI to S4 occupied r1r1t S2 and then sI tlrat S4 and then S3 flrat S4 then S3 then S2 and at last SI See lllustratlon 3 5 b User s Manual Golden Gate ...

Page 47: ...D _ II gi Cl 0 ID i II J1 J2J3 G ii J1 J2J3 I I NoArriga RAM expansion default J1 J2J3 2MBAmiga RAM expansion J1 J2 J3 4MBAmiga RAM expansion II vortex V I 3 Jlffl911mii fi rn1 LJl 3 Illustration 3 5 a ual Id ...

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Page 49: ... for 2MB jumper 3 not plugged or 4MB jumper 3 plugged is reserved 1111d that is also true if the corresponding RAM does not even exist on Golden Onie With the Golden Gate program moremem on the disk Goldmine I that part of 111lrn Gate RAM reserved for the Amiga can be added to the Amiga memory 1 111 A111l11u avail command will indicate the additional memory See also p1111111111ph 7 1 of this manua...

Page 50: ...rder No 8363 For the installation of the coprocessor you will find a PLCC68 IC socket at a certain place showing a bevel at one corner on the Golden Gate PCB For the Installation of the 80C387SX 25MHz coprocessor the Amiga must be switched off and all cables must be removed apart from that all instructions given for Installation of the Golden Gate emulator itself apply as well Illustrations 3 6 a ...

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Page 53: ... of Memory 3 5 720KB 3 5 1 44MB 3 5 2 88MB 5 25 360KB 5 25 720KB 5 25 1 2MB During the installation of the 82077AA the Amiga must be switched off and all cables be removed otherwise all the instructions given for the installation of the Golden Gate emulator itself apply a Illustrations 3 7 a and 3 7 b show the location of the PLCC68 socket and the orientation with w ich the 82077AA floppy disk con...

Page 54: ... to be taken into consideration in using the Golden Gate PC AT floppy disk controller also a floppy disk controller being plugged Into a PC slot of the Amiga and the corresponding drives If no more than 512 KB RAM are installed on Golden Gate Golden Gate automatically starts with the option DBA i e the emulator then has 512KB DOS base memory and Extended Memory consisting of parts of the Amiga RAM...

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Page 56: ... II Golden Gate Floppy Disk connector Both Floppy Disk drives must be set to drive select 1 DS1 3 5 FloppyB FD1 5 25 0 0 G 3 5 FloppyA FOO 5 25 i 0 Illustration 3 7 c User s Manual Golden Gate ...

Page 57: ...VI VI 01 I Floppy Disk I I Illustration 3 7 d User s Manual Golden Gate ...

Page 58: ... given for the installation of the Golden Gate emulator itself do apply a Illustration 3 8 a shows the location of the IDE connector on the Golden Gate PCB Illustration 3 8 b represents a typical IDE hard disk connection cable bl Whtie the connection cable Is pluaaed Into Golden Gate and the IDE hard disk drive greatest care has to be taken that the coloured vein of the connection cable connects P...

Page 59: ... 0 Illustration 3 8 a _Jr r j D I l I tJ I n User s Manual Golden Gate 0 57 ...

Page 60: ...VI 00 C u ID u 3 DI C 0 0 s ID 0 DI i Golden Gate IDE connector IDE Hard Disk connector 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 lustration 3 8 b ...

Page 61: ...read the contents of the README file or print it 3 After the README file has been displayed the workbench with the Golden Gate disk symbol appears as usual Twice click onto this symbol In the drawer GOLDEN GATE you will find the files which are part of the delivery of the disk Goldmine I 4 If the Amiga has a hard disk copy the contents of the disk Goldmine I onto a hard disk partition with the hel...

Page 62: ...uence does not change the logical drives l lflS and DEVS I e the hard disk drive on which the Golden Gate software Is to be Installed will later function as the boot drive However In case any problems should urlse I e Golden Gate gives an error message with the start e g Code 50 cunnot open glib library please select Method B Boot the Amiga cornputr r from the hard disk and start the Workbench Now...

Page 63: ... the counting up of the memory runs a little slower during a memory test 4 The famous Three Flnger Grlp As familiar with PC AT computers a reset can be triggered off by simultaneously pressing the keys Control Alternate Delete 5 Switching between Amiga DOS and MS DOS With the keys Le I Amiga key N or Left Amiga key M you can switch between the Amiga DOS and the MS DOS screen When the Amiga mouse p...

Page 64: ...h the setup program Notes I Disk Chan1e under MS DOS Due to the fact that Golden Gate fully runs as a process within the Amiga DOS operating system a disk change under MS DOS ls recognized by Aml11a DOS Loo In order to avoid having to wait after each disk chanae under MS DOS until Amlaa DOS has realized the disk change floppy LED flashes once this disk change recognition is switched off on deliver...

Page 65: ... be triggered off by simultaneously pressing the keys Control Alternate Delete 4 Switching between Amiga DOS and MS DOS With the keys Left Amiga key N or Left Amiga key M you can switch between the Amiga DOS and the MS DOS screen When the Amiga mouse pointer appears on the MS DOS screen the keyboard the mouse and the Amiga floppy disk drives are assigned to Amiga DOS By pressing the left mouse but...

Page 66: ...ar to the setup programs of normal PC AT computers Immediately after each new start of the Golden Gate emulator the Golden Gate setup program can be called up by pressing the Key S The key Swill also be accepted during a memory test The followl11g Illustrations i a and 5 b show the two possible setup screen masks The keys us11blr with a n rtnln l11put fil ld nrc always Indicated in the bottom line...

Page 67: ...den Gate messages except with the setup program English Golden Gate messages German keyboard layout English keyboard layout keyboard repeat rate keyboard access delay In the CONFIG SYS or AUTOEXEC BAT file no MS DOS keyboard drivers shall be loaded The Golden Gate emulation software provides all keys and key combinations according to the Amiga keyboard User Manual Golden Gate 65 II 1 1 1 11 1 ...

Page 68: ... 40 track Amiga floppy disk drive OF3 the 80 track Amiga floppy disk drive DF3 the 360KB GoldenGate floppy disk drive FDO the 720KB GoldenGate floppy disk drive FOO the 1 2MB GoldenGate floppy disk drive FOO the 1 44MB GoldenGate floppy disk drive FOO thr 2 1111MB GoldenGate rloppy disk drive FOO t hn 160KD GoldnnGate floppy disk drive FOi the 720KB GoldemGate rloppy disk drive FOi the 1 2Mll Gold...

Page 69: ...loppy disk connector 25 pin SUB D EFC E xternal Eloppy Disk Connector 2 A floppy disk drive having already been assigned to another MS DOS floppy disk drive or floppy 3 can naturally no longer be selected That means if e g Amiga MS DOS floppy disk drive A has been assigned to DF0 40 it can no longer be used for MS DOS floppy disk drive B FloppyB none DF0 40 Amiga DF0 80 Amiga as floppy A FD1 l 2MB...

Page 70: ...Gate floppydisk drive FDO the 720KB GoldenGate floppydiskdrive FD0 the 1 2MB GoldenGate floppy disk drive FD0 th1 1 44MF3 GoldenGate floppy disk drive FD0 tht 1 l l MB GoldenGote floppy disk drive FD0 thc J60KB GoldenGate floppy disk drive FD thr 720Kl3 Goldr nGate floppy disk drive FDI ttw 1 2MB Goldr 11G11t1 floppydiskdrive FD the 1 44MBGoldnnGuWfloppydiskdrive FD the 2 88MB Gold1mG11lc floppy d...

Page 71: ...unction does not refer to floppy disk drives which are directly rnnnected with Golden Gate or with a floppy disk controller card in the PC AT bUN i Of course all disks which are in the drives DF0 to DF3 are recognized under Amlaa DOS in case these are MS DOS disks they are indicated as BAD with 1wltchlng to Amiga DOS with left Amiga key N and activating the Amiga 1 8 11creen independent of the fac...

Page 72: ...nrnpll ll pulh and name of the Amiga DOS lilt 1111H t ht l llll ll d 11110 the field Name l1111ddlllu11 I he slw ol the MS DOS drive must be j IVl ll 111 ht llc ld Capac In MB directly 1 11 Ill Ill W ll K UOSFILE Tiu M 1 u drive selected under Drive Ii I ill II I 11111d disk drive connected with oltll n 111ti and the hard disk parameters ryll11d1 1 h1 11 ls sectors are inserted manually Tlw MS I U...

Page 73: ...drives The complete path and name of the Amiga DOS file must be entered Into the field Name In addition the 11 te of the MS DOS drive must be alven In thr field C11p11 it11 in MB directly c ii DHO WOKK DOSFILE The MS DOS drive selected under Drive Is the IDE hard disk drive connected with Golden Gate and the hard disk parameters cylinder heads sectors are inserted manually The MS DOS drive selecte...

Page 74: ...rives The c ompletc path and name of the Amiga DOS tile must be 1 11l wd Into the field Name In addition 1h1i ili e of the MS DOS drive must be glvl II In IIll lltild Capac tu In MB directly t 1 Ill 10 WO K DOSFILE The MS l OS c Jrlve selected under Drive Is Ih1 11ll hard disk drive connected with Gold1 11 Gate and the hard disk parameters cyll11d1 r hm1ds sectors are inserted manually Th MS DOS d...

Page 75: ...nected with the IDE adapter or hard disk controller e g WDI003 which is plugged into a PC AT of the Amiga The hard disk parameters must be entered manually The MS DOS drive selected under Drive is the IDE hard disk drive I that is connected with the IDE adapter which is plugged into a PC AT slot of the Amiga The hard disk parameters are handed over automatically by the IDE hard disk drive this fun...

Page 76: ...o load MS DOS from MS DOSfloppy disk drive A If there is no disk in the drive or if it does not contain any valid data MS DOS might still be loaded from MS DOS drive C by pressing the ENTER key MS DOS is loaded from MS DOS drive C on principle You have to pay attention to the following particularity in using a PC XT hard disk controller e g WD1002 OMTl5520 27 Adaptec 2072 or a SCSI host adapter e ...

Page 77: ...tmode see above but with 8 variable colours in the textmode see above but with 4 variable colours in the textmode The video output under MS DOS Is done on the Amiga Monitor e g 1084 Certain functions of an Olivetti video adapter are emulated with 16 colours in the textmode see above but 8 fixed colours in the textmode see above but 4 fixed colours in the textmode see above but with 8 variable colo...

Page 78: ...MS DOS is done on the Amiga monitor e g 1084 Certain functions of an EGA monochrome video adapter with 16 colours are emulated In the textmode see above but 8 fixed colours in the textmode Sl I ub v but 4 fixed colours In the textmode 111c 11bovo bul with 8 variable colours In the texlmodc Nrtl alxwn bul wll h 4 v11rloble colours ln the IC xlrnodr Thr vldro oul put under MS DOS ls done on I hr Aml...

Page 79: ... 320 200 640 200 4 2 Hercules 720 348 2 Olivetti 640 400 2 T3100 640 400 2 EGAmono 640 350 2 VGAmono 640 480 2 2 As soon as there is an ISA graphics card EGA or VGA in a PCAT ISA slot of the Amiga the screenplay of the emulator is deviated automatically to this graphics card and the connected monitor User s Manual Golden Gate 75 ...

Page 80: ...Golden Gate this is exclusively RAMthat is located on Golden Gate itself fh11r11 IN no Aml1111 RAM available for Golden Gate l c 1h11 romplc tc mount orextended mc mory whl h ml11ht be required hH to b11th11rc on Colden Gate ll111lr 11ll N or t h11 Aml1111 ChipRAM are available for Ciold1111O11111111 extended memory 70 _ _ fl l N ___ 110 ol lhr Amiga FAST RAMare available for Goldr11 l11te as exte...

Page 81: ...which is plugged into a PC AT ISA slot of the Amiga The serial interface of the Amiga is available under MS DOS as COMI The serial Interface of the Amiga is available under MS DOS as COM2 The mouse Is accessed by an Interface card which Is In a PC AT ISA slot of the Amiga The Amiga mouse is available under MS DOS as a serial Microsoft mouse using COMI The Amiga mouse is available under MS DOS as a...

Page 82: ...speed 8 MHz PC AT bus speed e g for older expansion cards With 60ns SIMMs the full speed of the Golden Gate emulator is achieved With 80ns SIMMs Golden Gate works on average with I wait state Only very few slot cards work properly if the bus speed Bus Speed is set to High Thus Golden Gate is delivered with Bus Speed Low This setting should be kept and not be altered User s Manual Golden Gate ...

Page 83: ...active Shadowing of the address area E000 8000 up to E000 FFFF 32KB are not active I Shadowing can be enabled only if at least I MB RAM is installed on Golden Gate With shadowing a considerable increase in speed can be achieved since the corresponding program to be shadowed does not have to run in a slow memory any longer e g EPROM or Amiga RAM but can run with full speed in the Golden Gate RAM 2 ...

Page 84: ...ation of a PC AT hard disk drive that has either been connected directly with Golden Gate IDE or is accessed via a controller card in a PC AT ISA slot of the Amiga At this stage we would like to point out explicitly that the methods described in 6 and 6 2 can be applied either independent of each other or simultaneously Example MS DOS drive C D E assigned to IDE hard disk drive to Golden Gate s ID...

Page 85: ... partitions shall be used as MS DOS drives their contents are IRRETRIEVABLY LOST THERFORE by all means save the contents beforehand An assignment to an Amiga DOS file has the advantage that not complete Amiga DOS partitions must be sacrificed for operation under MS DOS However it takes a little longer to get access to the data Amiga DOS filesystem overhead With the installation the following steps...

Page 86: ... input format for possibility II is Drive C Type Amiga File Name DH0 TEST DOSFILE Capacity IMBI xx The capacity xx of the MS DOS drive must be entered In the next line under Capacity In MB The setup proyrarn autornallcally checks whether an Aml a file of the dcslrl d size rnn bl nc nlc cl The Input formut 111 the lll lcl N111111 l om sponds to the Amiga DOS convent I011s E11um1 lc lur l lU i illil...

Page 87: ...en Gate setup program the setup pro11ram can be lef t by the keys F5 and F9 3 Now Golden Gate is started again Insert a MS DOS system disk Into the MS DOS floppy disk drive A and load it 4 With the MS DOS program FDISK install the MS DOS drives C and D if assigned in the setup program Note drive D is selected in FDISK by selecting the FDISK menu item 5 Select Other Drive Answer all questions from ...

Page 88: ... than two drives C and D can be installed with the MS DOS program FDISK This happens with the help of the so called Extended Partition without the drives E F etc having to be assigned to that in the Golden Gate setup program also see relevantMS DOS literature If this opportunity shall be used only two drives may be assigned as MS DOS drives in the Golden Gate setup program C and D The actual insta...

Page 89: ...ditional buffers require 150KB of RAM 6 2 Using the IDE or PC AT Hard Disk for Golden Gate Golden Gate can directly control an IDE hard disk drive Alternatively also hard disk drives which are connected with a PC AT controller e g WDI003 or IDE interface card plugged into one of the Amiga s PC AT ISA slot can be controlled After the desired hard disk drives have been selected In the setup program ...

Page 90: ...rive GLIB LIBRAl Y In the DEVS drawer of lft1 Aml1111 6ool drlv11 GOLDl NPYI ON If the Golden G11I disk C oldm 111 I hm lmcn copied with HDINSTALL onto the Amiga hmcl disk 111 llll i 1111 1111lorn11Iirnlly In the correct drawers Golden Gate can be booted cit lll r irum the workbench or from CLI For a boot from the workbench simply dil k lwic c onto the Golden Gate icon in the GOLDENGATE drawer For...

Page 91: ...se NPU 80387SX COM2 Local RAM 4096KB LPT1 Centronics Amiga RAM LPT2 BASE MEMORY 640KB VIDEO VGAmono EXT MEMORY 3072KB FDC installed EXP MEMORY IDE installed Insert Boot disk in drive A and press any key S Setup A BIOS Version 0 17 GLIB Version 2 03 Emulator Golden Gate C Copyright 1990 92 by vortex Computersysteme GmbH llli1 l1nllo11 11 ...

Page 92: ... 111 A111l1111 ond the settingsIn setup program Av11ll11blt umounl ol Expanded Memory Size 11 1 orcll1111tothe Xlsllllll memory ol Ihi A111l11111111d I l11i settings In setup program MS Mouae With II standard mouse driver I h1 A111l11a 11 llHil Is emulated as a serial Microsoft JT10lJSl RS232 St 111durd RSInterface Centronlc I Tl1 standard Amiga Centronics interface Is available is LPTI underMS DO...

Page 93: ...ot have to be given GG I HELP INFO CHIP MT nnl PRl nnl DBAI MINI DDCI NS HELP INFO CHIP MT nn PRI nn OBA DOC NS This list Display Golden Gate system information Only Chip RAM is used for the PC AT BIOS Perform the memory test nn times before loading the emulator Change Golden Gate task priority nn 127 128 Default BASE MEMORY is 512KB and not 640KB Disk change recognition enabled i e a MS DOS disk ...

Page 94: ... Is loadt d l y do11lil1 di killll 111110 I he Icon digger If you only want to change Iht rnnll i1H11I loll of Golden Gate load the setup program by double dlckln i 011 Iht 11 tu11 lnlll If any options shall tw usl d 111 I 1mll111i Ih1 emulator as described on page 91 please adhen lo 1111 lollowl111i 11n l1ucllons Options containing a further pararrwler e i PR or CFG Sl RVl I however can not be us...

Page 95: ... All details in I I are optional i e can be given but don t have to be given MOREMEM I INFO PRl nn S nn T nn HELP INFO PRI nn SIZE nn TEST nn Note This list Memory expansion Information Select memory priority nn 127 128 default 0 Change size of the additional memory nn size in KB default maximum possible memory RAM test nn number of test runs I The program moremem must if desired be loaded before ...

Page 96: ...s Golden Gate has been upgraded with the 82077AA floppy disk controller the following floppy disk drives can be accessed with the disk formats given below cc 720KB 1 44MB 2 88MB 360KB 720KB 1 2MB Recordln1 Method DD IID ED DD 1 1 HD I Numbe of f19 kj i I ptrSldt 80 2 80 2 80 2 40 2 80 2 80 2 3 5 3 5 3 5 5 25 5 25 5 25 DD Double Density recordln1i I ID High Density recording ED Extended Density rec...

Page 97: ...ll already be supported by the MS DOS program format In order to be able to use 2 88MB disks also with older versions of MS DOS 4 01 or 3 3 the Golden Gate formatting program FMT288 is on the disk Goldmine II Below the input formats for FMT288 and the MS DOS 5 0 program FORMAT are listed FMT288 A ENTER FMT288 B ENTER Formats a 2 88MB 3 5 disk in MS DOS drive A Formats a 2 88MB 3 5 disk in MS DOS d...

Page 98: ...n the program Itself Golden Gate emulates the original Amiga mouse as a serial Microsoft mouse either on COM or COM2 Thus all programs and mouse drivers requiring a serial Microsoft mouse are at once ready to run In this wuy a maximum of compatibility and flexibility is guaranteed Important note for the u e of a PC AT ISA EGA VGA graphics card and an external monitor To make It possible lo use I h...

Page 99: ...ic block Left Amiga key and 2 in the numeric block Left Amiga key and 3 in the numeric block Left Amiga key and Right Amiga key and s Left Amiga key and Right Amiga key and O Left Aml1 11 key und Right Aml11 H k1iy and c CTl l key 111111 ALT key and l l 1 key Left Ar11iv 11 kt y 1111d Q Invert the screen refers to the program INVERS EXE Only available in 2 colour mode 12 Scroll the VGA graphics sc...

Page 100: ...Screen Scroll throuwh NII available screens rorwardor lm kwnrd ni only with NTSC mode r21 function disabled with 1111 exl1t1na PC AT EGANGA graphics card 3l function enabled only wllh nn rxlstlna PC AT EGANGA graphics card rn order to hnv Ihis key comblnutIon accepted the Golden Gate window must be uctlvti 96 User s Manual Golden Gate I ...

Page 101: ...31 oo GRAPHICS 2 640 400 pixel Olivetti GRAPHICS 2 640 400 pixel EGA monochrome GRAPHICS 2 640 350 pixel VGA monochromeI GRAPHICS I 2 640 480 pixetl31 Notes 111 16 dill rt lli colotirs In CGA textmode can be assigned to 4 8 or 16 MS DOS colours Tiu choice of the number of colours or the so called Bit Planes is also rl l v 1111 lor I he performance Golden Gate can achieve in the CGA textmod 121 Wil...

Page 102: ...rcules emulation EGA EXE for EGA monochrome emulation VGA EXE for VGA monochrome emulation and V400 EXE for T3I00 Olivetti emulation With the program INVERS EXE the screen can be switched from normal to inverse mode and vice versa These programs are on the disk Golden Gate Goldmine II Even after a simultaneous pressing of the keys Control Alternate and Delete the settings done with these programs ...

Page 103: ...e CGA emulation with 16 colours The same applies with V400 EGA and VGA monochrome Switching the Hercules emulation Command Function MDA ENTER selects the Hercules emulation with the font previously installed MDA 8 ENTER selects the Hercules emulation with an 8 8 font very fast and flicker free MDA 16 ENTER selects the Hercules emulation with an 8 16 font Important the selected emulation number of ...

Page 104: ... a short VBL pulse If a program should simply hang after loading this effect could have been produced by its waiting in an endless loop for a long VBL pulse In this case reset Golden Gate and then load VHIGH before this particular program i started anew A program where this might happen e g is the editor from the Norton utilities NE COM VLOW and VHIGH are not resetproof After a reset the video par...

Page 105: ...pletely for the Amiga so that its functions only concern those of the emulated serial Microsoft mouse This Mouse Capture function is enabled or respectively disabled by simultaneously pressing the keys Left Amiga key Right Amiga key C The respective mouse capture status is indicated in the Golden Gate window that is opened shortly before the loading of the emulator This key combination applies onl...

Page 106: ...not recommend to integrate the server start in the startup sequence Since the server has first to be started in order to be able to use PC AT floppy disk I hard disk drives under AmigaDOS it is not possible to boot the Amiga computer from these drives Furthermore you have to take care that moremem if desired is started before the server We have found that there is a version of the Amiga FastFileSy...

Page 107: ...neously pressing the keys Left Alt key Left Shift key Ctrl key Disks formatted in the AmigaDOS format 880KB can not be operated in GO or G 1 This is caused by the different physical recording formats of Amiga and PC AT floppy disk controllers PC AT hard disk drives There is a simple way to use a part of a PC AT hard disk drive under AmigaDOS This partitioning is done indirectly with the MS DOS pro...

Page 108: ...pe corresponding to the connected floppy disk drive s in the menu Floppy A B A selection of the Amiga drives DFO to DF3 is not allowed Here select In Drive C the type corresponding to the connected hard disk drive If Golden Gate has at least IMB of own RAM the shadowing of the system BIOS should be enabled If these three fields should contain the same settings as with the emulation operation you c...

Page 109: ...iagnosis GLIB nit Error 14 Reason goldenpylon is not in the logical drive DEVS Probably you have selected the wrong method for the hard disk installation see also Addendum 5 mentioned above GoldenGate Loader reports Error 51 Diagnosis GLIB nit Error 12 Reason autoconfiguration error Switch off the Amiga and then switch it on again GoldenGate Loader reports Error 91 Diagnosis cannot allocate an NTE...

Page 110: ...or the RAM of the Golden Gate emulator can be used see the Golden Gate setup program 8 2 The Operation of Microsoft Windows 3 Windows 3 3 0 and 3 l is the new graphics user interface for PC AT computer systems As opposed to older Windows versions Windows 3 is able to use the extended memory as a real program memory For that the 80386 80486 microprocessor is operated in the so called Enhanced Mode ...

Page 111: ...ion Note When a certain EGA VGA graphics card in the PC AT slots of the Amiga is used this setting becomes redundant 6 WIN ENTER starts Windows 3 in the enhanced mode By clicking the help menu in the program manager and a further clicking of the menu item info about program manager it can be indicated that Windows runs in the Enhanced Mode and how much memory is available for programs Partlcularlt...

Page 112: ...tory The two files are in a compressed form on one of the original Windows 3 1 disks e g disk 2 with 3 5 l 44MB Format The compressed files are called vga30 3g__ and vddvga30 38_ Copy these two files into the Windows 3 1 directory and expand them with the commands EXPAND vga30 3g_ vga30 3gr ENTER and EXPAND vddvga30 38_ vddvga30 386 ENTER And a last note If you should frequently want to use pure M...

Page 113: ...witching off the computer the contents of the RAM disk will be lost Irretrievably 8 4 Golden Gate and Expanded Memory Golden Gate supports 386 486 expanded memory managers Thus expanded memory is available for corresponding application programs according to various standards OEMM386 SYS for example the expanded memory manager by Quarterdeck offers expanded memory according to the standards EMS 3 2...

Page 114: ...be selected Quarterdeck OEMM386 SYS For enabling the OEMM386 driver the following line ust be inserted into the CONFIG SYS file DEYICE OEMM386 SYS NT NS RAM Note OEMM386 SYS mustbe in the root directory of the boot drive Merrill Bryan TURBO EMS YEM SYS For enabling the YEM SYS driver the following line must be inserted into the CONFIG SYS file DEYICE YEMLOAD YEM SYS DO 00 Note YEM SYS must be in t...

Page 115: ...ME ENTER C A i AMIGANAME PCNAME ENTER l CNAME is the name of the MS DOS file AMiGANAME is the name of the Amiga DOS file PCNAME AMIGANAME J xumplr DRIVE SUBDIRI SUBDIRn FILENAME DEVICE PATH1 PATHn FILENAME PCNAME C 1 I I IIIC TXT or A FUN ASC AMIC ANAMI I I 10 ASc1 II I S GOLDENGATE I RANSF TXT With r11lrrl1111 ht l CNAMF DRIVE and SUBDIRs can be left out if the file to In j Jt d I 111 th samt Ill...

Page 116: ...erformance of the Amiga becomes visible under Golden Gate as a distinctly f ter video output and faster floppy disk accesses to DF0 DF3 8 7 Test Program CHECKIT 2 0 This program gets stuck at test item 7 if SMARTDRIVE is installed This anomaly Is not caused by Golden Gate but by SMARTDRIVE If this driver is removed from the CONFIG SYS file CHECKIT 2 0 goes through test item 7 without any complaint...

Page 117: ...s connector may only be used ff JS directly beside the electronical speaker on the Golden Gate PCB is not set I 0cwww rm IJE _ da LB 0 HLE D Pin Signal 1 sv 2 nHLED 3 nHLED 4 sv 0 ID n 0 s s CD 0 I pi u u ca 3 0 CD Hlllir uu1m1111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 A I I J ct llluttllllllo11 1J n 0 ...

Page 118: ...in Sga 1 NOT CONNECTED 14 DENSITYSB ECT 2 nlNOEX 15 rtEADSB ECT 3 SPEAKER 3 TRACKOO 16 nOIEC110N 4 RESERVED 4 nWRITE PROTECT 17 nSTEP 5 RESERVED 4 6 nRESET 5 nREAD 18 GND 6 nDISK CHANGE 19 GND 7 NOT CONNECTED 7 NOT CONNECTED 20 GND 8 N 8 fN 21 GND 9 GND 9 121 22 GND 10 nDISK SELECT 0 23 GND 11 nMOTOR0 24 GND 12 nWRITE DATA 25 GND 13 nWRITEGATE Us s nu 1 old n ...

Page 119: ...A 11 9 GND 10 nMOTOR 1 C 11 DATA3 12 DATA 1 11 GND 12 nDISK SELECT 2 1 1 J r 41 1 1 1 0 13 DATA2 14 DATA13 13 GND 14 nDISK SELECT 1 ii 15 DATA1 16 DATA14 15 GND 16 nMOTOR 2 tD 17 DATA0 18 DATA 15 17 GND 18 nDIRECTI ON C 19 GND 20 RESERVED 19 GND 20 nS TEP Ill 21 RESERVED 22 GND 21 GND 22 nWRITE DATA 23 nl O W 24 GND 23 GND 24 nWRITEGATE tD 25 nl O R 26 GND 25 GND 26 T RAC KOO 27 nHIR DY 28 ALE 27 ...