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From: cpw8034@zeus.tamu.edu (ALAN CHIPIN WEN (409)693-2924)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:11:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>I hate to tell you this bud, but there is VERY LITTLE in this world that is
>impossible.  One of the things that makes the IBM Amiga emulator impossible is
>that an IBM's Disk Controller cannot read and Amiga formatted disk, thus it
>can't read a kickstart file off of one.  There are ways around this of course,
>but not in the fasion that the emulator claims to work.
> 
>It is NOT, however, impossible to emulate the amiga custom chipset.  Given a

A friend has an IBM with an Amiga music module player that will READ amiga
modules DIRECTLY OFF AN AMIGA DISK... (yes, our 880k variety and not a 720k
crossdos-ed disk...)

It seems that you think it's easier to emulate a set of custom chips for an
Amiga emulator than to make something like Sybil (IBM flavor) that can read
and write amiga floppies.  okay...  

There's this other guy here at school that has a 486 with an Atari-ST emulator
board inside.  On it then, he has a Mac emulator on it... he now emulates a
Mac by going inside the ST first.  Sure, granted that he's at 33Mhz and the
Mac emulator is slower than my 7Mhz Amax... BUT he can READ/WRITE Mac disks
directly from his drives.  (of course he can do this because the atari mac 
emulator can...)

While I agree some projects are slightly on the impossible side, certain things
are easier to xerox than others.

alan
From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Tired of "printer not responding" requesters!
Date: 23 Jul 92 02:09:50 GMT
Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <50667@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
> 
> 	Setup:  HP LaserJet IIP, Amiga 3000T (2.04) and Amiga 1000 (1.3.2).
> "HP Laserjet" printer driver.
> 
> 	If I send a text file of more than 3-4 pages to the printer, only
> part of the file is sent at a time.  Thus, the Amiga sits there waiting 
> while the first few pages get printed, then sends more data, sits and waits
> while it is printed, etc.  If it sits long enough, I get system requesters
> saying the printer is not responding or busy.  Clicking on RETRY continues
> printing.
> 
> 	My LaserJet has 2.5 MB RAM!!  This should not happen.  Who is
> at fault -- the printer?  The printer driver?  The "copy" program?
> (I use "copy filename to PRT:" for printing.)

Normally, you get no real buffering unless you use the printer on its
serial port, but you could try this one to get some speed:

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> Dan Barrett

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From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Unix style parent directory (..)
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:39:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Jul29.183941.12392
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies Inc.

In article 36248@sdcc12.ucsd.edu, ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
>I'm looking for a smart cd command or something similar
>to reduce the shock of going back and forth between
>amigados and unix on a daily basis.  Is there some OS patch
>that will recognize ".." or "." and substitute the apropriate
>directory path?
>

I use Csh 5.19, a port of the UNIX C shell for the Amiga.  It's a very nice
implementation, and supports just about everything in the regular Csh.
Of course cd .. is a valid command.

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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Subject: Re: a Path for Workbench
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:27:58 GMT

In article <24802@sophia.inria.fr> beust@rhea.inria.fr (Cedric Beust) writes:
>
>In article <1992Jul20.124014@hp10.lri.fr>, jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere) writes:
>>I think that Workbench needs a path handling, just like a shell. That
>>would ease the
>>launch of project thru theirs icons.
>>
>>Hence, we'll no more write that defaultool is c:PPmore (just an example)
>>or sys:c/PPmore,
>>or :c/PPmore (etc :) which could fail (and will on my system ;) but only
>>PPmore.
>
>	I've always thought that default tool :c/More was a heresy! Was it
>	that hard to use an assign path? It wouldn't have been a lot of
>	overhead to impose another assign (we already have ENV:, Work:,
>	ENVARC:, etc...). WBPath:more makes a lot of sense to me.
>
>	I had to create a Utilities directory on each partition and put
>	More in it so I can double-click on readme's without any trouble
>	(because of course, some put a ":Utilities/More" default tool. Sigh).
>	Think about it! (well, now I merely drag the text file on my
>	text editor's dock but my point remains).

What about the ICONS that don't have an alterable default tool? Any utility
around to take care of that? 

jeff

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: Tired of "printer not responding" requesters!
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:27:02 GMT

From article <50667@dime.cs.umass.edu>, by barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett):
> 
> 	Setup:  HP LaserJet IIP, Amiga 3000T (2.04) and Amiga 1000 (1.3.2).
> "HP Laserjet" printer driver.
> 
> 	If I send a text file of more than 3-4 pages to the printer, only
> part of the file is sent at a time.  Thus, the Amiga sits there waiting 
> while the first few pages get printed, then sends more data, sits and waits
> while it is printed, etc.  If it sits long enough, I get system requesters
> saying the printer is not responding or busy.  Clicking on RETRY continues
> printing.
> 
> 	My LaserJet has 2.5 MB RAM!!  This should not happen.  Who is
> at fault -- the printer?  The printer driver?  The "copy" program?

The timeout for the printer is 30 sec I think,  If the HP takes longer
than that to process what it has got before it comes back for more, then
you will get the requexter.  There was a lot of patching on the earlier
drivers to alter this time.  Maybe there is a hook now for this, all you
need is the key :-)

> (I use "copy filename to PRT:" for printing.)

Try "run copy ...", and _multitask_ :-)
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From: h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Faroul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Guru listing?
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:50:49 GMT
Organization: Univ. Bremen, Informatik

crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:

>Is there a listing of all the guru numbers somewhere? (seems to me I saw it,
>but I can't remember where).  It would be nice to know why I keep crashing
>things.  (Or rather, why it decided I was being a twit and is *trying* to 
>inform me of the errors of my ways)  ;>

If you are using OS1.3, get WhatGuru (i.e. from 134.102.228.9
wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de  in  /pub/amiga/utils/system/ ).
For OS 2.0 get Alert (last recent version on amiga.physik.unizh.ch
130.60.80.80 and mirrorsites).

	Faroul

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From: rzsaj@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Andreas Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: AmigaGuide ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:19:57 GMT

I am just using TeXT Plus Professional and BootX 5.00. Both programs
are using the program "AmigaGuide" for their help system. I think
it is a kind of hypertext system.

What is AmigaGuide and where can I find it !



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:22:12 GMT

In <92209.143751PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET> Cem Turgay <PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET> writes:

>In <1992Jul24.125046.16117@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>,
>markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) wrote:
>>  Anyway, the hardware of the Amiga can't be emulated by software.

>mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) saids;
>> How about "Can't be legally emulated" or "Can't yet be emulated at
>> reasonable speed". If you want to fund it, I'll write the emulator for
>> you. Just don't expect to run as fast as say, PC-task on an A500.

>May you can write it only in your dream. B-)

>It is imposible my friend.

 Impossible?  eh, nothing is impossible.

 I would say that it is perhaps not feasible.  But it's not
impossible.  Nothing is impossible...

>So, real system programmers never come with the project of Amiga
>emulator, because they know software and hardware capable of PCs.

 I think it's more that it would be more work than it's worth.

It'd kind of be like writing a program for the Amiga that emulated
a TRS-80 Color Computer...  one could do it, but who would want it,
and be willing to pay for it?


Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:12078 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:11825
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga programmers UNITE
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:08:35 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <156tmgINN94r@network.ucsd.edu> by simon@ivem.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee):

> I've got an idea...maybe all the amiga programmers available can pool
> together their resources and start developing the necessary programs
> people have been seeking from the commercial companies and distribute
> them as mail-ware.

    This won't happen without $$$ moving. Like supporting shareware.

    BTW, as I've said before, if someone wants to fund it I can put
    together a team of people to clone Excel.

> -Simon
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From: west@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Randal M West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: VLT Phonebook will not work.  Help, please!
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:55:16 GMT
Organization: IE

I select "okay" to make a phonebook, but I only get an error #17: wrong
number of arguements.

Will someone please tell me what I need to do?

Thank you.

-Randy
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Organization: Ege University - Computing Center
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 17:05:35 TUR
From: Cem Turgay <PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Which application for the cutting plotters

My friend ask me to is there a good Amiga software for the
cutting plotters (eg. Roland 11xx series)
He wants to use plotter with the Amiga for cutting bigest
fonts (5 to 50 cm) otherwise he have to use PC clones...
I think may PageStream can be used for this but I don't sure.
Please give me some information.
Thanks,

Cem Turgay.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
	<1992Jul28.180653.5280@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:49:35 GMT


     If the "rumors" in the A4000 article are right, the new machines
are EXACTLY what the grumbling in these groups have been asking for.
These things take time.  (Although some of the grumbling in that
article surprised me, the only thing I could see that might call for
criticism was the lack of 8-bit alpha (transparency) support for
sprites.)

     Add this to the current status of AmigaDOS 2.0 (and 2.1) and it
looks like most of you won't have much to complain about come fall
other than a lack of marketing, and I suspect that that will change
too.  If the new mid-range machine is a real killer that has everyone
with a 500 lusting after it, advertising during the Christmas season
will make lots of sense...

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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function MESSAGE (TEXT: in CLEVER_IDEAS) return BETTER_IDEAS is...
From: Mike.Thompson@mtask.omahug.org (Mike Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Icon help needed? How do I...
Date: 29 Jul 92 06:32:36 CST
Reply-To: mike.thompson@mtask.omahug.org
Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc

Tony's answer was close, but left out an important fact if you are running
workBench 1.3.  Create or change an icon using IconLab or IconMaster to make it
a Project icon, not a Tools icon.  Make an ASCII text file with the full path
you want "dh0:directory/file name" save the text file as whatever you wish e.g.
"ProgramRun" and place it in the same root directory as your Project.  Hilight
your Project Icon with a single left mouse click and go to the top of workbench
and select Info with your moust button.  In the Default Tool box type in
"SYS:c/iconx" (of course, you don't type in ANY of the quotation marks!) and
then you click on SAVE.  You MUST have IconX in your main C directory for this
to work.  The new project icon MUST be named the same thing as your text file
e.g. "ProgramRun.info" and you can do this from the main workbench screen using
the rename function from the top of workbench.  I hope that this helps you!
Mike Thompson  President AUGKC

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman)
Subject: Amiga appoint./diary scheduler
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:25:16 GMT

Does anyone know if a package called On The Ball has been released yet
for the Amiga. Someone sent me a message a few months (?) ago saying
it would be released soon but I have heard nothing since. 

thanks
dazz
From: jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Directory Opus 3.50
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:41:16 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Over the past 6 weeks or so a pirated version of Directory Opus 3.50 has
been spread around the world. This is an "escaped" BETA version that was
released by an indiscreet beta-tester. The offender has not been pinpointed
yet but I expect him/her to be identified soon, and legal action may be taken
against them.

The above notwithstanding, the version of 3.50 circulating contains many bugs
and several routines that are unfinished. This is the nature of beta copies.
Unfortunately, the version does not actually say it is a beta-copy, a mistake
I now regret.

The bugs, which I am not going to list here, range from mild to serious ones.
Several beta-testers have suffered hard drive damage and data loss due to the
more serious ones (sorry guys :-), and the program is generally unstable in
many areas.

Therefore, if you obtain a copy of this version of Directory Opus, for your
own sake don't use it. I don't want the program to develop a bad reputation
because of the misbehaviour of an unfinished version.

The legitimate version 3.50 (which will probably not be called that now)
is expected to be released sometime in August or September. It will contain
many new features over and above those in the pirated version 3.50. All
registered users will be notified when the new version is ready.

Needless to say I am unhappy about what has occurred. If you can't trust your
beta testers who can you trust? People who spread copies of pirated software
(especially unfinished versions) can be totally blamed for the low number of
high quality programs available for the Amiga. I have become generally
disillusioned with the whole business, and am myself seriously considering
moving to an IBM or Unix platform after the next version of Directory Opus is
finished.

The moral of the story I guess is to trust no-one. But everyone else, please,
if you come across Directory Opus 3.50, don't copy it. And encourage the person
who offers it to you to delete it himself. Otherwise, the Amiga's already
small number of developer's may decrease by one more.

Jonathan Potter / INOVAtronics
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Amiga programmers UNITE
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:28:24 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.235147.28936@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford) writes:
> To a large extent, this is what the GNU project is doing (and other related
> projects): getting lots of people on the network together to create large,
> commercial-quality products.

There is plenty of GNU type software for the amiga. Like the GNU project,
the free software available for the Amiga is mostly hackerware... stuff that
is of interest to hackers. Neither the Amiga community nor GNU can make up for
the shortage of applications mundane users need without commercial development.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:26:55 GMT

In article <Bs5GB1.ADI@news.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
>I keep seeing people complain that Commodore isn't advertising.  I take it
>then that lots of people haven't seen the ads that have been running in 
>numerous PC, educational, multimedia, etc. trade magazines for several 
>months?  Or heard about the 70+ ads that are scheduled to appear from
>August to December in these magazines?  I'm talking about places like
>InfoWorld, etc.

I'm not so sure that advertising is the best thing for the Amiga right now.
The current models have are certainly less than impressive and the price
tags are way out of line.  The A3000T ad in AmigaWorld looks very nice, but
it is hard to believe that they actually list the MSRP.  Two years ago the
price would have been competitive, but the rest of the world now has such
things as 040s, 486s, 24 bit graphics, etc. that the Amiga sorely lacks.

>Sure it's not commercials at the Olympics, but at least it's non-Stevie
>advertising.

I wonder if "better late than never" will be true for the Amiga.

>Don Lloyd             / "...my brain IBM; so if you see me acting strangely,\
>don@chopin.udel.edu   \ don't be surprised." - Styx, 'Mr. Roboto'           /
>Gibberish is Spoken Here.          Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork 
>      MicroSoft Slogan: Resistance is Futile.  You Will Be Assimilated.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
Subject: Re: Unix style parent directory (..)
Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:07:26 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <36248@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb) writes:
>I'm looking for a smart cd command or something similar
>to reduce the shock of going back and forth between
>amigados and unix on a daily basis.  Is there some OS patch
>that will recognize ".." or "." and substitute the apropriate
>directory path?

According to Aquarium:  (Fish Disk Database)

=========================================================
Name: UnixDirs          Disk: 321
A program which intercepts calls to dos.library to add
the UNIX style '.' and '..' syntax for current and parent
directories, respectively, to file and path names. 
=========================================================

I dunno if it works with 2.0, since it came out well before 2.0 did...

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Jim Cooper
(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cpw8034@zeus.tamu.edu (ALAN CHIPIN WEN (409)693-2924)
Subject: Any books for using DeluxePain IV 's Animation?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:00:00 GMT

I've rented the two videos Electronic Arts released on using DeluxePainIV as
well as a few other videos.  However, I'd like to have something as reference
on my desk.  (the manual is cool, but lacks enough tricks and examples)

Any suggestions?
thanks
Alan