Commodore AMIGA 1060 SIDECAR User manual

Personal Computer

AMIGA 1060

SIDECAR

USER MANUAL

Commodore

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.... ^..........^...... 3

1.1 Atiachmg Ihc Sidecar lo the Amiga ^..^..,^..... 3

2. Aclivating the PC from the Worlil>ench 6

3. Acliialing Ihu PC from aCLI 7

4. Emulaline the PC 8

4.1 Display modc^-. ..-.„.„. .,..-..-... 8

4.2 Kethoard 9

4.3 Patallcl Fort 10

5. The PC Display Windows 12

5-1 Boiders 12

5,2 Siie of the window --.,,.-,,--,,-,,---,-,.-,.-„-„-„, 12

5-3 Number ot Text colors ,.--.-,.-- .13

5.*l Changing colors -..-,,-,.--.--,-,,-,,-,,-,,-,,-14

5.5 Mulliple windows -......tS

5.6 Display priority-,,-,.-,.--.--.--.--.,-,,-,,-.,-..-..-..- 16

6. Pulldown ineniTJ of the PC-winJow ,,-,,-,,-,,-.--,--.,„,-., -17

Appendix A:DIP switches, -.,-,.-,,--,-,,-,. --.,-.,-., 20

Appendix B:Expansion slots for cards ,...-.,- 25

Appendix C:Connecting exlernal disk driyes ...27

Appendix D;Installing ahard disk .,-,.-..-,.-,,- 29

Appendix E:The S0B7 numeric cu-processnr -.--.--.-,.,-,,-.,33

Appcndi.x F:HAM expansion for Ihe PC 35

Appenjix G;RAM expaosion for the Amiga ....37

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PICTURE 1

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PICTURE 2

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1POWER SWITCH

2POWER CORD

3FLOPPY DISK COWNECTOR

4EXPANSION PORT

5MOUSE CONNECTOR

SJOYSTICK CONNECTOR

1. Introduction

Welcome lo the Commodore Sidecar, asystem that combines

hardware and software lo give complete TBM-PC compatibility

to your Amiga 1000 computer This brief Eutorial describes how

to set up and use the Sidecar. It presumes thai you have already

put together your Amiga and that you know how to operate it.

Please refer to the manual "Introduction to Amiga" for

information about setting up and operating your Amiga.

NOTE: The Sidecar can only be used on an Amiga expanded to

51? KB by means of installing the memory expansion cartridge

(A 1050) in the front of the main computer housing.

This document is not atutorial 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

system and any application software you choose to use with

your Sidecar.

If you are wondering what IBM software will work with your

Sidecar, the answer is simple: all IBM-PC software will work

with the Sidecar.

1,1 Altachin^ the Sidecar to the Amiga

WARNING: Before you start, you must make sure that your

Amiga is powered off.

The Sidecar plugs into the side of the Amiga. It fits onto both

the Amiga expansion port and the connectors where the mouse

is attached. The expansion port and connectors are located on

the right side of the Amiga box (when facing the front of the

Amiga).

To attach ihe SidecaT, fir?t you have to clear the way: unplug

the mouse« and remove the cap that covers the Amiga expansion

port. There's alittle slot beneath the cap, where you put your

fingertip to pry the cap off. Apply gentle pressure and the cap

will come loose. Save this cap ia case you ever want to detach

the Sidecar from your Amiga, Next, place the Sidecar to the

right of the Amiga and line up the Sidecar's plug? wlih the

Amiga's connectors. The face of the Sidecar should be flush

with the face of the Amiga, When all the Sidecar plugs are

lined up with Amiga connectors, slide the Sidecar gently but

firmly into the Amiga sockets.

You do not have to run anew power cable to the Sidecar,

because the Sidecar has aconvenient power-cord e:^ tender.

Notice that acable 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 the Sidecar. Then plug the Sidecar's power-cord

extender into the Amiga, in ihe socket where the power cable

had been attached to the Amiga. Electricity flows into the

Sidecar, and then through the extender to the Amiga,

On the front of the Sidecar cabinet are the connectors for the

mouse and other controllers. Plug the mouse into the left

connector.

Now you can turn on the power for both the Sidecar and the

Amiga. The power switch for the Amiga is on the left side of

the Amiga, and the power switch for ihe Sidecar is on the back

of the Sidecar. Turn on the power switch for the Aniiga.

Because the Amiga gets its power through the Sidecar, the

Amiga won't power up until you turn on the po^ver to the

Sidecar. Now turn on the power switch for the Sidecar.

Then you go through the normal start-up procedure for your

Amiga* which includes using your own Kicksiart and

Workbench disks to initiate the Workbench display.

BEWARE: You must never turn on power to the Sidecar unless

Ihe Amiga is aiready powered up. Doing so can seriously

damage the Amiga hardware. Thi? is espedalfy important to

note if you do not use the Sidecar power-cord extender and you

choose insiead to have separate power cables for The Amiga and

the Sidecar. If you follow the normal procedure of plugging the

Sidecar power-cord extender into the Amiga, you can prevent

this problem entirely.

2, Opening the Sidecar display programs

When you pul the Sidecar disk inlo one of the disk drives, an

icon for the disk will appear on the Workbench screen. Double-

click on the Sidecar disk icon to open the disk's top drawer. Tn

(he top drawer you will see, among other things, two icons that

look like graphical representations of IBM Personal Computers,

These two icons allow you to open programs that emulate the

two IBM-FC display types: Monochrome and Color.

Notice that one icon is in two colors and has the words "PC

Mono" beneath it. This icon opens the IT3M-PC Monochrome

display cmulator.The other icon is in 4colors and is labelled

"PC Color. 11 opens the program that emulates the IBM-PC

Color display. To open either display, double-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 messages that

come up when the Sidecar is powering up. If you double-click

on the Color icon, you will see a blank window. The displays

will Slay like this until you put some software into the Sidecar

disk drive.

If you want to use the colour PC screen, no system messages

will appear. When the screen is opened the cursor will be in the

home position and you must type the following 'blind':

Then the DOS prompt (A> )will appear and you are ready to

enter commands in the usual fashion.

At this point the Sidecar is ready to run EBM-PC software. You

should put aPC system disk of your choice into the Sidecar's

floppy disk drive. It might be aPC-DOS disk, an MS-DOS

disk, aCP/M disk, or any IBM- PC application.

3. Activating the PC mode from a CLI

On ihe Workbench disb that is supplied with the Sidecar there

are two programs that activate the PC mode. To use these from

the CLT, install Ihe Sidecar and turn on ihe sytem as described

above. Insert the KICKSTART disk in the drive and when the

Workbench prompt appears, insert the disk contaioing the

Sidecar software. When the disk Icon appears, double click on it

to open aworkbench.Next open aCLI window by opening the

system drawer and clicking on the CLI icon, if you wish to

operate the Sidecar as a monochrome PC type :

RUN 'PC MONO' <RETURN>

If you tvish to operate as acolour PC, type:

RUN 'PC COLOR' <RETURH>

You can then proceed as described above.

4. Emulating the PC

This section describes some of the IDM-PC characterisUcs and

how they are emulated by the Sidecar.

4,1 DhpUy Modes

The PC has two standard display modes: Monochrome and Color

Display, Both of these display modes are available on the

Sidecar by using the PC Mono and PC Color DispLay programs.

Running one of these programs is similar to turning on avideo

monitor attached to Ihe PC, except that the PC requires a

separate monitor for each mode while the Sidecar requires only

one monitor. The Amiga conveniently creates windows and

screens which allow multiple display types (such as the IBM-PC

display types) to appear on asingle monitor.

The IBM-PC Monochrome mode normally displays only one

color (green) on adark background. Programs can 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 mode without

these chromatic restriciions. In the Sidecar Monochrome mode,

the color of the i^xt^ the intensified text and the background

are independent of each other, and you are able to modify these

colors in arty way you choose by selecting the COLOR menu

option (see the MENUS section). Normally the text of the

Monochrome display appears inawindow on the Workbench

screen, although the Monochrome display window will move to

its own screen if you choose to use fewer colors than the

normal 4colors of the text display.

In the IBM-PC Color Display mode, both text and graphics can

be displayed. Text can be rendered in up to 16 colors, and

graphics can be up to 4colors. The various Color display modes

of the PC are generally incompatible with the display

characteiistics of the Amiga Workbench screen, so a new screen

is created for the Sidecar Color display. You can modify the

colors of the Sidecar CoIot display windows to any colors that

suit you by selecting the COLOR menu option (see the MENUS

section).

IBM-PC applications will require either the Monochrome or

Coior display modes. Some programs may support both. The

documentation provided with the appiication wili tell you what

display it will use. You should activate the appropriate Sidecar

display program to create the required display, in the same way

that you would turn on aPC video monitor to interact with the

application.

The only PC display characteristic that's not supported by this

release of the Sidecar is the blinking of teil. Extremely few

IBM-PC software packages use Ihe blink characteristic, because

it is widely regarded as distracting and hard on the eyes. It was

lefi out of the Sidecar display programs in order lo improve the

performance of text rendering.

4.2 Keyboard

You send input to your IBM-PC programs through the Amiga

keyboard. You simply activate any of the Sidecar display

windows by clicking on it, and then you type as normal.

For installing the national keyboard driver you have to load the

appropriate driver from your Sidecar System disk. There are

four keys on the PC keyboard that aren't on the Amiga

keyboard. However, by typing certain control sequences you are

able to send these key sequences to PC programs running on the

Sidecar. The following table lists the PC keys and the Sidecar

translations. Notice that the translations are mnemonic to help

you remember them.

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