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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Floptical...
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:36:47 +1100
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
> saj31052@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scotty A Johnson) writes:
>
>>Someone is selling me his old internal drive, because
>>he is replacing it with a floptical drive..
>
>>This sounds interesting, and I would like some more information
>>on floptical drives, such as:
>>      Storage capacity
>>        Ease of use
>>      Speed of use
>>      Size [physical]
>>      Controllers
>>      and of course price!
>
> PLI makes the only drive I've seen with Amiga drivers included, and it's
> a SCSI drive.  This particular floptical drive uses 21MB diskettes, which
> cost about $20 each, and costs about $650 with one "free" disk.  I understand

        I was talking to my local Amiga dealer about Flopticals about a
month ago. While he was in the US earlier this year he visited the people
who wrote the commercial backup program Quarterback (I forget the company
name). My dealer says these people told him that there are still problems
with disk reliability. The Quaterback people supposedly said that the disks
start becoming unreliable after they've been over-written 5 or 6 times.
They believe the problem is with the disks, not the drive.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: PIRACY
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:00:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov14.060502.1599@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> benw@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (bennett.weber) writes:
>Is it just me, or is it really that odd that if I want something and
>don't have the money for it, I work and earn the money?

  No it just isn't you. Its any being with more than two brain cells, and
any kind of logic and moral behaviour code that they live by that thinks
this.

>Sidenote1: If anyone's keeping count, add me to the list of users
>           with no pirated software.  No pirated music, either, BTW.

    I am also one of these people.

>Sidenote2: "Pirate" is such a euphemism...can't we just call them
>            "Thieves"?
>						Ben Weber

    Yes, Thieves is what they are. Scum sucking theives at that.

    Or we could call them Politicians ! nah ! that would make politicians
look bad !

-- 
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From: Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Is there an Amiga FAQ?
Distribution: world
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:30:50 EDT
Organization: Amiga Colony BBS

re article by Michael Gelman: Well, you could just log onto Amiga Colony in
Billerica, running on an Amiga 2000 and ask that question, or call the
Boston Computer Society office in Cambridge, which would refer you to
someone in the Amiga Users' Group, or you could call the Memory Location in
WelleO+0sley, or OmniTek in Tewksbury, The Bit Bucket in Newton,
ComputerWorks on the North Shore, Finetastic in Norwood, or any of the
other Amiga dealers around eastern Massachusetts, and get as much
information as you care to listen to about Amigas... you could leave a
message on the BCS Amiga BBS at 617-729-7340, etc. etc.  There's a LOT of
information about Amigas and which one would make the most sense for you,
in the area you're in.  Oops, I forgot to mention AUGLL, the Amiga Users'
Group of Greater Lowell, which meets once a month at OmniTek in Tewksbury
[town adjacent to Billerica].  OmniTek would know when the meetings are....


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Another Amiga Sighted On TV!
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:34:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.071225.9050@sandbox.kenn.wa.us> sboutwel@sandbox.kenn.wa.us (Scott Boutwell) writes:
>Program on the Discovery Channel called Invention featured NEWTEK's Video
>Toaster... They even gave credit to the Amiga as the system that Drives it. 
>Showed an NEWTEK toaster work station...  (ala 2000 with Toaster and sticker).

  Hmm. I watched that program and saw no mention of the Amiga, but did see
mention of I*M. And saw a M*C in one of the offices. Could you tell us
when in the show they mentioned Amiga ? Thanks, JimP.

{ I posted more details in another message. }

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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Workbench?
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:32:25 GMT
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood

This will probably seem like a stupid question, but where is the actual 
workbench file kept? Is it one of the libraries? The reason I ask, is that
I recently discovered that I had an old version of workbench 2.0. I
remedied the problem, but the only way I could do it was to run install
again, because I didn't know where the workbench file was.

neil


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK))
Subject: Re: Virtual Reality Game
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:51:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.205623.7736@sol.UVic.CA> mmcalees@cs16.UVic.CA (Michael McAleese) writes:
>  What's really amusing is reading the articles about this system in PClone
>mags. There's one out now (I can't recall the name, they're all so generic)
>that waxes eloquent about this Virtuality system for four solid pages of
>copy before it turns to the computer components. There we learn that there
>are 68030s in there... and Amigas are used as terminals. As far as I know, 
>the makers of Virtuality don't go to any lengths to hide the fact that the
>whole thing is built on Amigas - but it's interesting to see the PClone folk
>avert their eyes.

I was under the impression that they were run on 040 axel A3000's.  I played
both the stand up and sit down (I won them both, thank you :) and felt myself
thinking that the graphics could have been done better.  They're not slow,
just not well done.  (The background is kinda nice.)  If you get lucky you
will get to just walk around for a while to get used to the gear, if you do 
take a look up.  The stars are beautiful.  (Make sure you wipe off the lenses
first, they tend to get smudgy.)

--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Amiga 1200 Released at Comdex
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:46:29 GMT

beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:

>sue@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Sue West - CATS) writes:

>>The high speed, 32-bit Amiga 1200 comes standard with one 3.5 inch
>>floppy drive, 2MB of chip RAM and an internal IDE interface.

>I take it that ``high speed, 32-bit'' without mention of a specific
>processor is market-speak for ``68000''?

68EC020

>	Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: ins739l@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (William Fang)
Subject: Re: DSP not as good as we thought?
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:56:09 GMT

Anybody out there has a true idea of what can be done with a DSP chip?

Some questions I would like answered would be:

o	Who makes them
o	Various prices and specs, is xxx better than yyy?

o	What can be done with a DSP

o	How this is done (not just.. can emulate modem, make sound, etc..)

o	Why it is better than using the main processor


Or is there a better place such as a newsgroup that I should be reading?

Thanks 

-JF

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:16975 comp.sys.amiga.audio:3968
From: rzsaj@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Andreas Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Kawai K1-II editor ready for download
Followup-To: poster
Date: 17 Nov 1992 09:52:19 GMT
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes,Rechenzentrum
NNTP-Posting-Host: sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de

Version 5.31 of the Kawai K1-II editor is ready for download
at "amiga.physik.unizh.ch" (mus/midi).

This version has lots of bug fixes and should run correctly
under OS 2.

Andreas Jung
ajung@rz.uni-sb.de

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Good PD Utilities for 2.0?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:48:14 GMT

Quoth clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu):
]>   I just got my A3000 (I know, I'm 1000 behind), and
]>   am interested in utilities for 2.0.  I'm looking at
]>   ToolManager and AddMenu.  They both look like they're
]>   trying to do the same thing, am I right?  Are there
]>   any other nifty 2.0 only utilities I should know about?
]> 
]>   Thanks, Clare
]>   clare@nynexst.com

Unless you have an old version, Toolmanager and AddMenu are NOT the same thing.
ToolManager 2.0 has around 1e40 times the functionality of AddMenu.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black)
Subject: Re: Does the A1200 have any ports??
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:41:43 GMT

whiplash@cs.montana.edu (Mike Wagner) writes:

>Does the A1200 have serial, parallel, etc. ports?  I am interested in
>buying one, but I want to know if I can use my current modem and printer
>or am I going to have to buy a lame PCMIA modem-card??  Thanks

All the ports from the a500 is there except the side edge slot for hard drives.
and such.  But there is a bottom slot for that now, instead of the 1/2meg job.

But then there is more, there is the pcmcia type 2 slot, rf output( ie ch 3 tv)
, and composite out.  

I am kinda interested in that pcmcia slot.  I have seen an ethernet card for
pc's at $390.  And with amiga planning on having networking built into 
os 3.1 [ tcp/ip ], it could make for a nice terminal.  Or if they make 
040 for the bottom slot, it could make for nice little engines connected 
together for some serious rendering.

Martin
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: teece@sol.UVic.CA ()
Subject: Re: WB 2.1.
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 20:58:28 GMT

This list of 2.1 features mentions improved floppy drive use.  I had the 
impression from somewhere that this was to include support for HD floppy
drives so 3rd party fixes like HDFixer would no longer be needed. Can 
anyone confirm this is so?

Also I am not really clear on the 2 packages (floppy disks only vs ROM +
floppies.)  If I understand it some 3000's have Kickstart in ROM and AmigaDOS
on the hard drive whereas others have everything in ROM. (Did I get that
right?)  Will the floppy only kit work with the former type of 3000 or will
it be necessary at this time to go to a ROM installation? (thereby giving up
the ability to boot in 1.3 by holding down the mouse buttons.)
 

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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Piracy
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:15:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Nov17.231520.5022
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> Software piracy also doesn't affect shopowners in the same way as
> shoplifting because the software is still on their shelves...

Yep... and that's right where it stays, once the local demand for the
product has been screwed by all the illegal copies floating around. :-/



                -=- Ed


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From: wanderer@tcsi.appleton.mil.wi.us (K.T. Wieringa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Request useless information...
Distribution: world
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:08:16 CDT
Organization: The River

clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar) writes:

>What's the plural of Amiga?
>
>It's probably easy for anyone speaking Spanish out there...

dos amigas = "Women problems".

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
Subject: Re: Busy Pointer under Amigados 3.0
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:37:15 GMT

In article <BxnrBq.5t7@unx.sas.com> jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
>
>In article <7-r1#b_@rpi.edu>, pooler@cobb.cs.rpi.edu (Robert Poole) writes:
>>
>>Well, now that we know NickPrefs crashes horribly under Amigados 3.0, is there
[stuff deleted]
>There's no such thing as a "default *animated* busypointer" under 3.0.
>
>However, if you simply wish to change the *regular* busypointer, the
>Pointer Prefs program under 3.0 has a Cycle Gadget at the top left of
>the screen, which cycles between "Normal" and "Busy", and lets you
>change either one.
>
>-- 
>---------------
>Jim Cooper
>(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper

Errr, mea culpa.  I insisted on running LacePointer on this 3000 running
a developer's beta of 3.0 because (a) I wanted to see if it would work, and
(b) because lores pointers suck.  I forgot that LacePointer also substitutes
a busy pointer of its own for the standard busy pointer (in fact, an animated
stopwatch which looks nearly identical to the default busy pointer).

However, my question still stands -- is there a program (or a method of writing
one) which works under 3.0 which allows animated busy pointers?

Rob Poole
pooler@rpi.edu
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Random musings
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:01:56 GMT
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52

In <S37732V.92Nov15115452@lk-hp-22.hut.fi>, s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto) wrote:
> In article <mwm.2n3h@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:
>    3) Even with having to put the OS in RAM, UNIX used to run quite
>    nicely in 256K. Even as a multi-user system. But that was back when it
>    only had one file system, and no networking, and no windowing system,
>    and one person running Emacs could kill the system. Those sytsems
>    didn't have demand paging, but it did have memory protection.
> 
> They had a memory protection with 68000? Hmmm.?

Yes, they did. They got it the same way you get it with a 68020 - by
adding an external mmu. The 68451 was available from Motorola, but Sun
systems used a patented external MMU.

	<mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Subject: Re: Looking for simple CAD program!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Organization: Somewhere in Bloomington, Indiana
Distribution:  world
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:23:02 GMT

In article <fh-1Hysaxa@atlantis.psu.edu>, KRC@ECLX.PSU.EDU (Keith R. Connors) writes...
> 
>Anyway, I am aware of MCAD...and looking thru archie, I have found that the
>newest version of it is on a Fish disk in the 0 hundreds!  Is there a newer
>version or something else in the PD or Shareware that I can experiment with?!

There is a shareware cad program called "PLANS".  It is excellent considering
that it's "free".  It's pretty powerful, and supports hpgl format plot files.

I don't recall if it supports IFF.

Jim Graham 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:05:42 GMT
Organization: StarNine Technologies, Inc.
Keywords: piracy

In article <BxHvCB.8zn@cs.vu.nl> mwelie@cs.vu.nl (Welie van M) writes:
>shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov5.175120.9297@ifi.unizh.ch> matija@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
>>>No. Piracy is the result of ignorance and stupidity.
>>In your opinion, maybe.
>
>I don't see what piracy has to do with ignorance and as for stupidity :
>Why would you spend $1000 if you can get the same program for $2 ?
>Sounds stupid to me !!

I guess it all depends whether you have morals or not.  Clearly,
you do not.  Scum.

>
>Here in Holland it's VERY easy to obtain illegal copied software.
>I know a lot of programs a certainly worth their price and if I
>would have to use a program daily for my study or things like that I
>would perhaps consider buying the program. But then when I want
>a program I can get it almost as easy as going to the computer store !
>
>I wonder what you would do in my situation. I think you'd rather spend
>$2 and buy a harddisk or something for the rest of the money.

Why not just STEAL a harddisk, you idiot?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: lgibb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lance Gibb)
Subject: C= 1950/1960
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:04:31 GMT


I'd like to get some input on the differences/advantages/disadvantages/
etc.. of the 1950 and 1960 multisync monitors.
 
I recently sold a 2000 system of mine that had a flicker fixer and
a 1950 - LOVED the picture, and never had any problems with the 1950.
 
I now have a 3000 with a new 1960, and I don't like the picture near
as well.  The 1960 is 'blurier' than the 1950, and I don't like the way it
handles overscan.  The picture tube seems more 'rounded' than the 1950,
and the graphics/text 'bend' towards the end of the screen - I don't have
this problem when using a 1950.
 
What is the difference here?  I know the 1960 is a .28 dot pitch as
opposed to the .30 or .31 of the 1950, and I'm told it is much more
reliable - but I would think with the higher dot pitch the picture would
be clearer, not fuzzier.  And it's not just my monitor - every other
1960 that I've seen looks the same way.
 
Thanks in advance.
From: bn@mndcrme.uoknor.edu (Bo Najdrovsky)
Subject: Re: Vhat?  No flickerfixer in A4k?  Vhat ees thees?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:10:57 CST
Organization: Operation Mindcrime

Marc N. Barrett (barrett@iastate.edu) wrote:
:
:    Are you willing to give me transportation and pay for gas?  I would kind
: of like to see an A4000 at least once.  But there are no Amiga dealers
:

<God, I hate replying to -MB- posts...>

You just revoked your right to bitch about the 4000. If you've never even
seen the machine, then please shut the hell up! I hear those '486 clones
are getting dirt cheap. PLEASE buy one and go bother the comp.sys.ibmpc
croud. The c.s.a groups really won't miss you... honestly.

The 4000 is a very nice, fast system. I've used it on several occasions,
and I'm very impressed with it.
From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PIRACY
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 11:08:32 EST
Reply-To: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
Organization: Lakes Public Access

marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:

> OK, let's say you've built a wooden table and a few chairs,
> which you have in your garden. The next night, someone comes
> and steal the outdoor furniture. That's not a moral thing to do,
> right? It's about the same thing when stealing software, the
> programmer has put blood, sweat and tears into his work, and
> perhaps he wants to have something back for that? So, it IS
> immoral to steal his software.
>   (It is hard to make an example, as other things than software
> usually can't be copied the way software can.)

Duh!  Gee, George, ain't that the whole reason there is an argument?  
You equate piracy with theft, and then tell us you can't come up with an 
example because it is so very different from theft!

Piracy _is not_ theft.  I will concede that piracy may be morally and 
legally _wrong_, but it is _not_ theft.  Theft, by definition, implies 
depriving a person of his physical property, and anticipated profits _are 
not physical property_.  They cannot be quantified with any degree of 
certitude.  The ONLY way I could ever buy this argument would be if the 
program had to be re-written each time a copy was sold, in which case I 
would have to agree it was quite similar.  However, data can be 
reproduced over and over at almost no additional cost, so the comparison 
of real world, hand tooled goods is innacurate.  People who are 
victimized by pirates are not harmed as bad as people who are victimized 
by thieves, because they have not actually lost any material goods.  
While they can certainly say they have been harmed by the piracy, it is 
hardly the same as a tablemaker being robbed:  in this case, he has to 
make a new table, just as he would have been forced to do had he sold it. 
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