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Re: Use of Compact Flash as A1200's HD substitute.
« on: March 26, 2005, 10:35:14 AM »
G'day, I used to work for a company that did many hotel information systems using amiga 1200's and scala presentations.

They charged $100AUS per page!

Plus all associated charges for modulator, setup, servicing and page modifications/additions

hope this gives you an idea of what some have charged in the past :-)

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Re: Use of Compact Flash as A1200's HD substitute.
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2005, 11:02:10 PM »
I had a similar system running thru the largest casino in Australia, 110+ pages plus individual voice overs, backing music etc

A1200, 8meg fast ram, internal IDE 3.5inch harddrive, internal IDE 100meg zip disk. Also a reset switch wired to the outside. All this was inside a 19inch rack mount with no thermal protection at all except a small heatsink ontop of the lisa chip.

I wrote startup scripts that would allow booting from the harddrive, then before starting scala, would check the zip, if a disk was inserted, it would copy all the scala content off the zip onto the harddrive, eject the zip, reboot and start with all updated/fresh content.

Was quick, simple, and the hotel service tech could achieve the procedure without too much hassle.

Monthly updates were painless after this rebuild from a standard a1200.

Az

**note** I also wrote a small assembly language program to sit quietly on the video blank interrupt, count 24 hours then system friendly reset the machine. If I did not have this, then Scala would eventually fail, cause blank screens, chop up the voice overs or stop playing the background music. The AmigaOS3.1 does get memory fragmentation when running 24/7 !!  you have been warned :)
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Re: Use of Compact Flash as A1200's HD substitute.
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2005, 03:37:53 AM »
20 monitors?

The casino had 370 rooms, with average of 2 tv's per room, suites upto 6 tv's...  thats LOTS of monitors with guru!

The reset program worked on all versions of Amiga OS, KS1.2 thru to KS3.1 and all chipsets. Tested with a1000, a500, a600, a3000 (written on), a2000, Escom a4000 tower and of course the a1200 multimedia  systems :-)

I had to make sure it didnt crash, as much as any amiga program doesnt crash :-)

Az
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