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Page 1: ...Personal Computer AMIGA 1060 SIDECAR USER MANUAL Commodore...

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Page 3: ...5 1 Borders 12 5 2 Size of the window 12 5 3 Number of Text colors 13 5 4 Changing colors 14 5 5 Multiple windows 15 5 6 Display priority 16 6 Pulldown menus of the PC window 17 Appendix A DIP switche...

Page 4: ...PICTURE 2 1 POWER SWITCH 4 EXPANSION PORT 2 POWER CORD 5 MOUSE CONNECTOR 3 FLOPPY DISK CONNECTOR 6 JOYSTICK CONNECTOR PICTURE 1 2...

Page 5: ...ain computer housing This document is not a tutorial on using the IBM PC For information on the correct usage of the PC you will have to study the documentation that comes with the IBM PC operating sy...

Page 6: ...otice that a cable comes out of the back of the Sidecar This is the power cord extender Find the cable that runs from the power outlet to your Amiga unplug this cable from the Amiga and plug it into t...

Page 7: ...Sidecar unless the Amiga is already powered up Doing so can seriously damage the Amiga hardware This is especially important to note if you do not use the Sidecar power cord extender and you choose i...

Page 8: ...ouble click on the appropriate icon When you first unpackage your Sidecar it is configured to power up in Monochrome mode so if you double click on the Monochrome icon you will see the diagnostic mess...

Page 9: ...CKSTART disk in the drive and when the Workbench prompt appears insert the disk containing the Sidecar software When the disk Icon appears double click on it to open a workbench Next open a CLI window...

Page 10: ...n display an intensified version of the one color and can also reverse the color with the background so that dark characters appear on a color background The Sidecar Monochrome display emulates this m...

Page 11: ...of the Sidecar is the blinking of text Extremely few IBM PC software packages use the blink characteristic because it is widely regarded as distracting and hard on the eyes It was left out of the Side...

Page 12: ...he Amiga parallel port to the Sidecar The Sidecar can then use the Amiga parallel port as an IBM printer port which is the most common use of the IBM PC s parallel port Before you can use the Amiga pa...

Page 13: ...will no longer be able to access the Amiga parallel port Because of limitations in the Sidecar system using the Amiga parallel port as an IBM PC printer port will work only for certain applications on...

Page 14: ...not the borders are visible You can make the borders of your display window appear and disappear by double clicking in the window Alternatively you can use the BORDER menu option to make the borders...

Page 15: ...erformance and are willing to sacrifice some of the colors Sidecar lets you choose Using all of the text colors both slows the text display and slows the performance of other programs running on the A...

Page 16: ...ders one for each of the three components of Amiga color red green and blue The sliders are labelled with the initials R G and B to indicate which slider controls which color component Whenever you se...

Page 17: ...ts will then be filled in automatically Note that if you pick starting and ending colors that are very different the range will not be as smooth as if you pick colors that are similar If you decide th...

Page 18: ...t in that window by selecting a second window to re edit the file referring back to the first window for the error information 5 6 Display Priority This section is somewhat technical and may be ignore...

Page 19: ...ve configured the display to your liking by various color selections this command sets up an initialization file on the Sidecar system diskette so that during the boot process your selected display co...

Page 20: ...BORDER SHOW HIDE These menu options allow the display window border to be shown or hidden The same effect can be achieved simply by double clicking on the left hand mouse button with the pointer withi...

Page 21: ...y will be rendered Note that in monochrome mode you will only be able to select from 2 colour and 4 colour options SET DISPLAY TASK PRIORITY 10 5 0 5 10 This option allows you to select the display pr...

Page 22: ...w driver The DIP switches conform to IBM standards The switch position OFF is interpreted by the CPU as logical 1 5 volt level The switches affect the following system components Description of the ro...

Page 23: ...ly one of the first two positions above may be used If you set DIP switches 3 and 4 to incorrect positions the RAM check routine in the BIOS will only automatically recognize the first 256K of the ins...

Page 24: ...lay Another 16K is used for maintenance of records and 64K is required for data exchange The remaining memory capacity of 8K is used for I O registers SWITCH FUNCTION 1 OFF The address sector B0000 B1...

Page 25: ...o card in a slot ON The address sector B8000 BFFFF is now located on the card Reproduction via the Amiga is not possible The address sector on the interface is switched off 3 4 Location of the address...

Page 26: ...PICTURE 3 SW1 SW2 3 RAM EXPANSION 1 SLOTS 4 DIP SWITCH 2 SUB CHASSIS 5 DIP SWITCH 24...

Page 27: ...ort During installation the appropriate DIP switch must be set See Appendix A b Advanced Graphics Adapter AGA Card The AGA card is a special video card which combines IBM colour graphics IBM Monochrom...

Page 28: ...d The PC addresses 2F8 2FF COM2 are also already used and cannot be used by the serial interface card If a PC Serial Printer Card is inserted in one of the slots it must use the addresses 3F8 3FF COM1...

Page 29: ...ly An external drive may be used by both the Amiga and the Sidecar but it must be connected to the proper side of the system The 1010 is capable of reading different formats For example if it is conne...

Page 30: ...ilename If you want to copy files from an Amiga device to a Sidecar device you have to use the copy command in following way COPY DFz filename to JF x filename where z is the letter indicating the sou...

Page 31: ...w have an unformatted hard disk that can be accessed by either AmigaDOS or MS DOS NOTE If the hard disk is to be transported for long distances the read write head should be in its transport position...

Page 32: ...for two equal partitions choose 307 cylinders After the formatting comes to an end run the program ADISK The following menu appears on the screen Copyright c 1986 Commodore Electronics Limited AMIGA...

Page 33: ...hard disk exists but the device is not yet formatted Now type ASSIGN RETURN DPFORMAT DRIVE JHO NAME drivename RETURN The system now puts up a requestor that asks you to insert a disk Ignore this and...

Page 34: ...asterisk appears on the screen If your sequence is correct type X RETURN This will save the sequence and return you to the CLI If all is not correct type Q RETURN This will return you to the CLI with...

Page 35: ...its own tasks Working together the two processors considerably accelerate the running speed of applications The installation procedure for the 8087 is as follows Disconnect the power to the Sidecar an...

Page 36: ...PICTURE 4 1 SOCKET FOR CO PROCESSOR 2 JUMPER Jll 3 DIP SWITCH SW1 34 4 DIP SWITCH SW2 5 RAM EXPANSION 6 SLOTS CO...

Page 37: ...e expansion is done the appropriate DIP switch must be set See Appendix A b A RAM expansion card which is available from several suppliers may be inserted into one of the slots Depending on the card t...

Page 38: ...PICTURE 5 1 2 3 7J D RAM size Jumper position on main board 256 K 1 2 Internal Printer 512 K 2 3 Interface enabled 5 6 Interface disabled external Printer Card allowed 4 5 36...

Page 39: ...miga is increased Initially this card is charged to 1 2 MB Complete assembly is carried out seperately When the sub chassis is lifted a plate becomes visible The looped in 90 polar expansion port J6 o...

Page 40: ...und die Berechtigung zur uberprufung eingeraumt COMMODORE BUROMASCHINEN GMBH CERTIFICATE OF THE MANUFACTURER Herewith we certify that our device Sidecar COMMODORE AMIGA 1060 corresponds to the regulat...

Page 41: ...mm Weight Power cord Length 8100 g 550 mm Operating Range Temperature 5 C 45 C Humidity 20 80 Parts List Amiga 1060 Sidecar 3 5 Disk Amiga Kickstart 1 2 3 5 Sidecar System Disk Workbench 1 2 5 25 PC...

Page 42: ...r by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Commodore Electronics Ltd IBM and PC DOS are registered trademarks of International Bus...

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