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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Triton199 on February 09, 2007, 05:03:56 AM

Title: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: Triton199 on February 09, 2007, 05:03:56 AM

what exactly is this? from what i could find about it online its a piece of software to make guru errors go away or something, aparently its also a piece of hardware that says GOMF 3.0 and HyperTek / Silicon Springs and is socketed under the paula chip (if i remember right) anyone got info on this thing? its in an a1000 that also has a 68010 and from what i surmise also a piggyback ram hack.

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: avanham on February 09, 2007, 06:17:55 AM

I only know of it as a piece of software from the early Amiga days.  It was used to catch some gurus before they trashed the system so that you could kill the offending program before it killed you.  I don't think it worked in OS 3.0 so I stopped using it.

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: Piru on February 09, 2007, 09:48:39 AM

Well, it's for KS 1.x which always gurued "unrecoverably" (red guru), and the system rebooted.

KS 2.x added recoverable alerts (amber), so this program was pretty much is obsoleted.

There are some other nice tools for KS 2.0+ though, such as SmartCrash (http://www.iki.fi/sintonen/sw/SmartCrash.lha).

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: voxel on February 09, 2007, 09:49:45 AM

pictures please :-)

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: TrevorDick on February 09, 2007, 10:57:13 AM

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what exactly is this?

GOMF or "Get out of my face" is a combination of software and hardware to help cope with the number of Guru Meditations that occurred with early versions of Amiga OS 1.3 (and badly written applications software).

It did not stop the Guru happening but would stop the Amiga from otherwise crashing.  I still have the hardware/software installed in one of my A2000's.  I would provide more info, but I am travelling away from home at the moment.

TrevorDick

Note: GOMF may have been "Get Outta My Face"?  i.e the Guru

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: Triton199 on February 09, 2007, 02:26:38 PM

i will work on getting some pics of it later today perhaps, gonna have to take the amiga apart agin to do so tho! the meaning of the acronym was about the only thing i could find online!

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: rkauer on February 09, 2007, 05:22:39 PM

The most fresh versions of MCP also have a patch called NOGURU.

It catches some red gurus and turn it to amber ones. Works even on A1s!

I could not tell you more ATM. I'm a betatester. Wait for a new version maybe in march/2007.

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: TjLaZer on February 09, 2007, 06:13:10 PM

Never knew there was a hardware part of this!  I use to use this back in the day on my A1000, worked great!

Get Outta My Face GURU!!!!

Title: Re: GOMF 3.0?
Post by: bigmac on February 10, 2007, 10:33:11 AM

hi all, I had the Gomf hardware when I had my first 1000 it cost me a small fortune at the time. The Gomf hardware had a type of reset button if I recall and it did a good job of keeping the 1000 from crashing with the buggy kickstart and other errant software,it brings back a few memories of when I was single and wealthy now I,m married and poor:-)
cheers