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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: RE 1200 it EXISTS
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Date: 7 Nov 92 09:02:10 WST
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MATTHEW STRATFOLD (M.P.Stratfold@OPEN.AC.UK) wrote:
> You are all quite right - it does seem unusual to find a SCSI in an A1200 for
> the mentioned reasons.  I've just phoned Silica in London and they admitted
> their mistake - and in turn I'm admitting mine.  The A1200 does have an IDE
> i'm sorry foir the misinformation - (I did check while i was in the shop
> though - just typical!!)

Where people may be getting confused is that the CBM software guys have
writen a device driver for the IDE drive that looks like a SCSI device
driver to anything that wants to use it.

Anything that obeys the SCSI direct protocol can still talk to the drive
even if it is IDE.

The same scheme is used on the A600/1200/4000.

Anybody who wants the real thing has two choices
1)  Add a SCSI card currently available or
2)  Wait for the Commodore SCSI-2 card (A3090?) available beginning of
    '93

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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:01:19 EST
From:         "P. Larkin" <IQM259@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Polaroid's Slide Maker
              13 Nov 1992 00:08:00 EST from <BASCHWAR@CC.OWU.EDU>

  Has anyone seen, does anyone have, or does anyone know where I can get
the Hypnotic Hammer II demo?  I got it on a PD disk a few months back
and it worked once,  but now it just craps out every time I try to run it.
It was REALLY wild,  so I'd like to get another copy to see how it works.

~~ Pi R Squared - no, Pi R Round, Cornbread R Square.

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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:23:43 GMT
From:         A Holloway <pm3ah@SUNC.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Subject:      A1200, AIBB BenchTest Results

Hi all,
      Well after posting my Sysinfo A1200 results I was kindly told that that
program was useless for benchmarking.

 So now,

            AIBB_5.0   Benchtest Results   ***


Comparisons with A500, .5meg chip 4meg fast
          the A1200 had  2meg chip only.

Test        A500     A1200      Times better
WritePixel   104s      23s         4.6
Dhrystone    1604     3123         1.95
Matrix        24s       9s         2.6
MemTest       46s      14s         3.34
Sieve         65s      20s         3.21
Sort          59s      22s         2.64
IMath         94s      35s         2.67
TGTest        11s       6s         1.87
Inttest     .458 Mips .802 Mips    1.75

Average  =     2.74   Times faster than A500



Of course these should all increase with some fast ram, maybe up to the 4.6
times faster level as for WritePixel.


All for now,

 Ant.
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From: groleau@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Francois Groleau)
Subject: Re: amiga 'classic' specs
Reply-To: bnrmtl!groleau@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Montreal, Canada.
Distribution: bit
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 19:17:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.4787.9967@dosgate>, "carl bannenberg" <carl.bannenberg@canrem.com> writes:
|> Last week I posted the unofficial specs of the new A800 'Classic'
|> 
|> -> Here are the unofficial specs of the new A800 "Classic"
|> ->
|> -> - 68000
|> -> - 256k chip, 256k fast expandable to 512k chip, 1M fast
|> -> - KickStart 1 on disk, Workbench 1
|> -> - No expansion slot, no pcmcia, no hard drive
|> ->
|> -> Carl.Bannenberg@canrem.com
|> 
|> I now have the official specs of this machine which will be announced at
|> WOCA-Toronto Dec. 4th.
|> 
|> - 68000
|> - pre-ECS chips (Agnus (512k), Denise, Paula, Gary)
|> - all chips including Boot-rom SMT
|> - Pizza-box case with detachable keyboard + garage
|> - 256k chip, 512k fast ram expandable to 512k chip, 4M fast
|> - Kickstart 1, Workbench 1
              ^^^          ^^^
	What do you mean?  I am so tired of those dumb rumors...

|> - 1 880k FD
|> - standard connectors including ethernet (thin) port
|> - DSP optional
|> - MSLP $299 US (will likely sell for $150 - 199)
|> 
|> Carl.Bannenberg@canrem.com
|> --
|> Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
|> World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044

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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:43:19 LCL
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From:         CBDZ110L@GRTHEUN1.BITNET
Subject:      DF1: How to create a pseudo-one???

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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:00:53
From:         CBDZ110L@GRTHEUN1
Subject:      DF1: emulation-problems!!!

From: Stavros K. Philippidis
      Student in Mathematic's dept. at University of Salonica
To  :(everyone able to answer)

Dear sir,
 I found your internet  , and I wrote to you
 for a problem I have:

 I own an Atari-ST emulator , wich needs a second flopy-drive (DF1:) to work.
 I have an Amiga-500 with 1MB (512KB CHIP-RAM), NO external flopy or hard
 disk-drives (NO DF1: or DH0:), and want to use this emulator. (Note that
 I have Kickstart 1.3)

 After working with the emulator on a friend's machine, I noticed that the
 emulator DOES'T REALLY USE the DF1:, it just want's to 'SEE' it while
 booting on emulation-mode.
 My question is: Do you have any way (software or hardware) to full the
 system that I have a DF1: ??? Note that the emulator cheks if I have a
 DF1:,  A F T E R  booting in emulation-mode, and DOESN'T use it afterwards.
 Also note that this is the reason your DEGRADER program doesn't give results,
 by setting DF1: of  (DF1: --) DF4:). I personally tried some RAD:-tricks,
 but nothing worked.



(NOTE: Please send your answers both to me AND to I-AMIGA-list)


 I wrote to you because I know that you have an answer to my problem


 Please respond, and don't tell me to 'buy a DF1: because it's cheap', or
 telling me that 'you cannot have 880K FDD with 1MB', because I explayned
 that the emulator DOESN'T realy needs a DF1: to operate. It just wants
 to see it while rebooting in emulation-mode, and forgets it (= it uses
 df0: afterwards) after that.
 I am waiting for your answer.

   Stavros K. Philippidis, student of Computer Science & Bussines research
                                      at the Maths dept. at
                                      University of Salonica

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From:         "(Greg Piney)" <gpiney@MGH.COM>
Subject: Re: GEnie Internet Access

Edward, GEnie is owned and operated by General Electric Corp. NOT GTE.
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:38:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Circuit Diagrams

>On Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:44:16 GMT, "R Ambridge (UG3)" <ram@CS.STIR.AC.UK> wrote
>
>> Does anyone know of a program for the amiga which can be used for
>> drawing circuit diagrams. You know, chips, wires, and gates etc.
>
>I haven't used it, but there's a program called mcad on fish74. I've seen
>circuit diagrams that were allegedly drawn using it, so it must be _possible_!
>No idea about WB2 compatibility (sorry).

That fish disk has version 1.2.4.  Version 1.2.6 has a bunch of pre-drawn
circuit elements, is available in the amiga.applications directory as
mcad.zoo on mrcserv@Janus.MTroyal.ab.ca (send a help command to the
server for its commands).

Version 1.26 can print to a hpgl file, or to an epson printer.  The
hpgl file is usable with the plt: device, which I how I get output
to the DeskJet printer a friend is letting me borrow.

>
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From: ram@CS.STIR.AC.UK (R Ambridge (UG3))
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Subject: Re: HARDWIRED demo problems
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:05:06 GMT
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Full-Name:  Richard Ambridge
Mailer:     Elm [revision: 66.25]

In reply to.....
( Reply doesn't work properly on my machine. )


I had a chance to dowload this fine demo, and I still have it. If anyone is
interested I can upload it again either as a DMS or ZOOM file. To the
people that don't know about the hardwired demo (besides the dalai lama),
it was the first "technical" place in a demo competition, the demo shows
some very impressive effects, ranging from "glenz" vectors to really cool
animations. I consider it THE amiga demo to showoff what you can do on a
1MB system. The demo (2 disks) runs fine with 1MB, but I recommend two or
three as there are some more fun with more memory. Unfortunately, it doesn't
run on accelerated machines.
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I have a 2meg system and the demo seems to be the same as on a 1 meg
system. ( On both the bog bit goes wrong. )

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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:02:52 -0500
From:         "(Arc Wave)" <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      OS/2 2.0 a few reasons why it uses so much memory.

	Why does OS/2 2.0 take so much memory?

	Windows 3.0 (soon 3.1), DOS 5 (6 coming), and the actual OS/2
	is all rolled into one OS.

	IF you wish to use OS/2 2.0 you need 16MB ram, more is recommended,
	I know of persons who have 32MB ram to use all it's features and
	multitask between applications (486 recommended too, 386DX is ok).

	I like the fact the OS/2 2.0 has a flat memory model, much better
	than the 640k barrier.  It has a GUI Shell (mac-like), which
	really helps the management of OS/2 2.0.  Would I recommend it?
	Yes, for businesses that use real time applications and do not
	want the PC to go down if one program crashes (free up resources
	to the system).  Amiga has somewhat of this under it's current
	operating systems (2.0-3.x - System Failure Requester [Suspend]).
	I just wish the Amiga OS would remove these failed applications
	and free allocated resources back to the system, and not leave
	them hanging.

Paul
"If you think OS/2 2.0 is a resource hog wait til you see Windows NT, which
 is in ROM at selected beta test sites."

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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:52:44 EST
From:         Paul O'Flynn <oflynn_p@CSVAX1.UCC.IE>
Subject:      Hard drive samples

Hi y'all...

        I'm an Irish Amiga owner who likes nothing better than annoying Irish
PC owners. At the moment this consists of playing samples of all kinds from a
nice big fast hard drive. The size of the samples is limited though by my
1 meg of chip ram. What I'd like to ask is... does anyone know of a program
that will record samples direct on to a hard drive? Yes I know of the SunRize
type digitizers which will do it (I think) but I'm not going to pay that
much... Any PD program to do this would be very welcome. (The hardware I have
is SoundMaster compatible) I have a program to play samples direct from hard
disk but nothing for recording them.

        While we're on the subject, does anyone know what is the latest version
of DSound that can be got on Fish disks?


        BTW.. what's all the moaning about Commodore not changing the new
Amiga's sound capabilities? I still think the Amiga sounds great. Anyway, the
Amiga still has one thing going for it in the audio department that other
computers would be hard pushed to match - 100% compatibility with ALL software!


        Thanx everyone.

                        Paul.


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From: zytnia@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Vands| Andersen)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re: BootX v5.0
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:01:12 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

ROWSONJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET writes:

>This seems like the ultimate virus hunter IMHO. However, I've only gotten
>v5.0 to work ONCE!!! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The distribution comes
>with v4.5 which isn't as nice or as full featured, and that runs for me just
>fine. The only requirement that I can glean from the manual accompanying the
>distribution is that you need 2.0 (which I have). Can anyone out there help
>me?


 Apparently BootX has become a bit buggy. I use 5.20. It works okay, but it
reads every bootblock twice.

 Any comments from the author ?
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From:         D Lamptey <co2dll@SUNC.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Subject: RE: C/C++ compilers

On downloading such a huge file, I have on previous occasions timed-out. I have
hence had to try different times to download it, but still no good.
700k would definitely be a good size.!

Derryck

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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:17:51 MET
From:         AMIGA@BANRUC60.BITNET
Subject:      Re: diskdoubler for amiga?

>
> Speaking of powerpacker and  powerpacker patcher. Is there any program
> out there that does what the powerpacker patcher does except for
> imploaded files?
>
Nope, you don't need one.
Imploder only crunches executable files, so when you run them, they
unpack themselves. PPacker also crunches data-files, and for them you need
the PP-patch, if you want them to be uncompressed from themselves, each time
you load one.

  Regards,

     Aeneas.

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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:03:52 MET
From:         AMIGA@BANRUC60.BITNET
Subject:      A2286 questions ...

Hi,

 A friend of mine had some questions about (his) A2286.

regarding : expansions for a2286 bridgeboard

1. What is connection J7 (Top of motherboard) ?
2. Is it possible to connect a harddisk to the bridgeboard without a
   controller card (according to AMIGA SHOPPER october 1992 this is
   possible both with the XT and AT boards)
3. Is it possible to partition an Amiga HD for use with the a2286
   (without creating a virtual harddisk-file)


   Regards,

      Aeneas.

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Subject: RE: PD Desk Top Publishing S oftware
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:07:48 GMT
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While I use and recommend Professional Page as a high end DTP program,
for your needs you might want to look at Final Copy II. Although
it is billed as a wordprocessor, I find that I use it frequently
for less complicated and demanding DTP work.

Mr.Guy OMGN
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:09:00 EDT
From:         BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
Subject:      Video Presentation Frustration

I attempted to do a video slide presentation onto VHS tape rather than
running to make slides traditionally and spend $$$.  However, I
have discovered that "Charts&Graphs" is very awkward for text slides.
Secondly, while amiga vision is great for interactive presentations with
users sitting at a computer, it too, is otherwise rather awkward.
Are there public domain or commercial software which does what I want it
to do with better user interfaces so that data input is fast?
Also, what fonts are best for video presentation?
-Jordan
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:56:52 -0500
From:         CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject:      Re: Video Presentation Frustration

How about Presentation Master by Oxxi? It handles postscript fonts...

Carlos Camacho
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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:51:48 GMT
From:         "R Ambridge (UG3)" <ram@CS.STIR.AC.UK>
Subject:      re: dms and party 92 invitation

A dms decrucher can be found at the same site and directory as THE PARTY 92
invitation demo.

The site address is
ftp.iesd.auc.dk (130.225.48.4)

THE PARTY 92 invitation demo is in the directory

/pub/Amiga

(Its a very nice little demo I must add. And the music is great.
 I just wish I could afford to go to Denmark to the party!)

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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:37:47 CST
From:         "Alejandro J. Kurczyn S." <AKURCZYN@ITESMVF1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: HARDWIRED demo problems

>I have a 2meg system and the demo seems to be the same as on a 1 meg
>system. ( On both the bog bit goes wrong. )

There is a sectione where 14,400 dots are moved in real time, and with more
memory you can see more figures... Also, on the bouncing ball in the V walls,
the ball changes to different forms with more memory.

The demo is available on wuarchive, but I can upload it if you want.

-Alejandro