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From: halsema@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Halsema)
Subject: Re: raid on bungeling bay
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: comp.sys.cbm
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:53:25 GMT

bigoness@sage.cc.purdue.edu writes:

>In <halsema.724125840@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu> halsema@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Halsema) writes:

>>
>>What's really great is when you destroy all 6 factories.
>>Raid on Bungeling Bay if one of my all time favorite games!

>  I agree, Dave... But can someone tell me what 'FR' means, in the
>  bottom right corner?  

  Sure!
  FR = Factories Remaining

--------------------
Dave Halsema
halsema@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: misar@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (walter misar)
Subject: Re: Bard's Tale II
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:22:52 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In article <1gbl5iINNb92@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cb317@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephanie J. Kessler) writes:
> 
> I really appreciate your help.  Unfortunately your information
> has left me stuck once again (*sigh).  Hopefully, you can come to
> the rescue again.  How the heck do you solve the 4th Snare (at
> the bottom of the Maze of Dread).  I've got an alchemist giving
> me a vial that I can't seem to do anything with and a magic
> mouth asking me to "Say to me the value of rote actions"... No
> idea at all...
>  
> If anyone can come to my aid, I'd appreciate it... this is really
> frustrating.. I'm usually better at these games, but these
> puzzles are getting to me...

Maze of Dread L3 (northwest corner)

+-------+---+-------+
|       +   |A      |	The magic mouth ("Say to me the value ...") wants
| +-----+   +-----+ |	sometimes the vial ("I'm thirsty"); I think this
| |D D D+   +D D D| |	is after a false answer. If you give a false answer,
| | +-+-+   +-+-+ | |	it teleports you to x and says "Though seeming fo
| |D|x|       =T|D| |	little value, repelitiveness is defenitely ENDURABLE."
| | +v+       +-+ | |	And this should lead to the correct answer. After
| |D|           |D|#|	answering correct, a door appears at = and the
| | +---+   +---+ | |	teleporter behind teleports to another segment of the
| |D D D|   |D M D| |	scepter.
| |     |   |     | |
| |D T D|*  |D D D| |
| +-----+---+-----+ |
|        W          |	( No, that's no special nethack level )
+-------------------+	( with lots of mean dragons           )

D darkness	x teleport destination
W spinner	* start of snare
# booby trap	A alchemist
T teleporter	M magic mouth
v one way door  + door

-- 
Walter Misar                        It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly
misar@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de       unless one has plenty of work to do.
From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: UUENCODED BINARY: Graphics Transformer II
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:14:54 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de

In <1992Dec10.092740.19399@cv.ruu.nl> rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) writes:

>Per request of quite a number of people, here is my (unfinished) version of
>the Graphics Transformer ][. It is UUENCODED. The Graphics Transformer II is a
>program that can convert most of the known C64 graphical formats between
>eachother. It can also display PrintShop and PrintMaster pictures, without the
>need to load them each separately (this is also possible, but it can also
>slideshow.) Enjoy! Remember: this is a beta-version, and I don't have the time
>to keep working on it...

Has anybody actually been able to start this program?
When I tried to do so it seemed it didn't decompress correctly and just
crashed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: schuetz@fm11ap04.tu-graz.ac.at (Alexander Schuetz)
Subject: att/legend here, hi to the scene guys!
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 20:13:47 GMT


Hi all!

Among the Lemmings C64 discussion I noticed that some of you guys obviously
know the C64 scene very well. That's very nice, for I myself was in the biz
for quite a while too, my scene handle used to be ANTITRACK/LEGEND. Are
there anymore (ex-)guys from the scene out here? If so, gimme some E-mail
at "SCHUETZ@FM11AP03.TU-GRAZ.AC.AT". 

LATER dudes!

PS This is the second time I mail this. The first response wasn't just 
overwhelming, in fact there was none. Whats wrong guys, don't you remember
my old "AURAL MYSTERY" music demo series??? I just thought I'm gonna 
continue them! ;-)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: mccormac@pooh.usafa.af.mil (Chris McCormack)
Subject: Re: Downloading
Reply-To: mccormac@pooh.usafa.af.mil
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:46:02 GMT

> > 4)  Does anyone remember a word processing program called Busy Bee writer?
> >     This was a supposedly great WP program for the 128, featuring about 256
> >     macros, micro-justification, etc, etc....it was also noteworthy for
> >     being dirt cheap, and even chaper if you bought it in volume or without
> >     the manuals. 
> I have Busy Bee for the 64.  I'm quite sure the company is still in business,
> because our user's group has been selling this program steadily over the past
> several years. I'll find the company's address tonight.

  If memory serves me correctly, you are referring to 'The Write Stuff' - a 
package that covers both the C64 and the C128.  For many people, it's still
the word processor of choice on Commodore machines and is still being sold.

						Chris McCormack
: BUMPER   ?FORTH  IF  HONK  THEN ;             mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil
 




Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: spacek@cactus.org (Mark S. Spacek)
Subject: Re: UUENCODED BINARY: Graphics Transformer II
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:36:38 GMT

In article <1gnkluINN8kg@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:
>
>>Per request of quite a number of people, here is my (unfinished) version of
>>Graphics Transformer ][. It is UUENCODED.
>
>Has anybody actually been able to start this program?
>When I tried to do so it seemed it didn't decompress correctly and just
>crashed.
 
 Same thing happened to me...
From: mcbride@cs.arizona.edu (Chris M. McBride)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: BBS's
Date: 19 Dec 92 09:44:22 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Dec16.181440.6244@desire.wright.edu> jminto@desire.wright.edu writes:
>
>Would anyone out there happen to know of any BBS's out there that have
>extensive software libraries.  It seems as if there are no longer any BBS's
>supporting the commie recently in my general area.  Help!
>
>Jason Minto.

Well I'll take this time to plug my board. I run a board that gives 
unvalidated users unlimited time and unlimited credits. The board is 
completely legal(no pirated games). I have most American Demos written
since the mid 1990, and many written before that. Due to time
I only have a small handful of classic Eurpean games including the
Think Twice series. The first demo to use FLI (which by the way can
have THREE colors plus background color per row in an 8x8 bit square
not just 2)
 
Anyways its The Emerald Palace at 602-882-4409 Fell free to give it a
ring....

Chris
From: ckunz@src4src.linet.org (Charles Kunz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: c64 emulator
Date: 15 Dec 92 04:16:17 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source

In article <1992Dec11.154120.9996@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie) writes:
>oberland@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>
>>C-64 is MUCH less than 640*480*256 colors!
>
>Yes, it's 320x200x16.

Welllllll.... technically it -is- 320x200 pixels, but don't forget the 64 uses
color memory strangely, remember each 8x8 pixel area can have 2 colors
(foregnd and backgnd)... so we'd have 300x200 x 1000 color areas x 2 colors
for each area.... so the math is wrong :-)

Chuck
-- 
E-mail: ckunz@src4src.linet.org, aq084@cleveland.freenet.edu
It's amazing what you can do with a Commodore 64, isn't it?
Man cannot live by bread alone... once in a while he needs a bagel.
"I love you.  Do you love me?  Please please!  (I wanna hold you)" - Dan Baird
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Brain)
Subject: SFD help and PET 8032 help
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:48:33 GMT

Does anyone know a good place to work on a non-working SFD 1001,
or a PET 8032?

-- 
Jim Brain                           "If you build it, they will come."
brain@cs.uiuc.edu
Senior, Computer Engineering		         		Field of Dreams
PowerGlove Serial Interface Designer and Co-Project Leader.                     University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign       Dox available on request
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun)
Subject: GEOS parallel printer cable help (again)
Organization: City University, London
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:25:51 GMT

Hello there,

I need some technical info. about the GEOS cable which allows a parallel
printer to be connected to the user port of a C64. Could someone out there
give me the full pin specifications for this cable?


e.g.

 pin A on user port --------> STROBE line of printer connecter

                              (I already have the correct pin numbers for
                               the various printer connections in my
                               printer manual).


I already use a cable which uses the BUSY, ACK, D0-D7, STROBE pins of the 
centronics interface and some GEOS stuff prints out fine. But there are times
when the computer seems to be outputting data faster than the printer can
handle and the o/p result is not WYSIWYG from the screen.


Thanks
Sheun

p.s. Does anybody know of a suitable GEOS input driver for the NEOS mouse and
     where it can be obtained?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: jailbird@next05wor.wam.umd.edu (serial killer)
Subject: qlink
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:27:03 GMT

In article <19921208.122442.23@almaden.ibm.com>  
IACHETTA@BCRVMPC2.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
> For those of you with a subscription to Q-Link, How do you like it?   
When
> I graduated college, I lost my FTP access and want to find a place that  
I
> can download the latest and greatest public domain demos, apps, sids,  
etc.
> Does Q-Link have a good library of stuff for C64/128?  What is the  
monthly
> download cost / min?  Finally, how do I sign up?  Thanks.
> 
> Rich Iachetta
> IACHETTA@BCRVMPC2.VNET.IBM.COM
> IBM -- Boca Raton, FL  407-982-7705


I remember when I had a C64 I logged onto qlink a couple of and there were  
a lot of hackers on there.  They problbaly took all the be system but it  
was fun getting into the habitat node while they were still working on  
it[through tymnet].  I remember how they used to modify their disks and  
put up streams of macros like 'qts rules' and stuff which made it  
impossible to move  at more than a snails pace.  I knew some of these  
people didn't pay for the connect time.   Hopefully QLINK has fixed all  
the bugs, hhehehe
Jailbird
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 64/128 FAQ? (Newbie alert.)
Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:41:53 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz) writes:

>In <1992Dec9.002530.12824@bsu-ucs> 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rebel without a pause.) writes:


>>	So, is there a FAQ?

>Yes, there is.

Specifically, you can find it via. anonymous ftp to ccosun.caltech.edu in the
directory /pub/rknop/comp.sys.cbm.  The filename is FAQ1.2 or something like
that.

Right now I am hopelessly behind (about 6 months) in putting out the next
version of the FAQ.  Someday, hopefully soon....

-Rob
rknop@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: Desterm and Ymodem?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:17:50 GMT

I fired up Desterm to transfer some files using ymodem batch (ok, it was a 
disk full) from my PC to my C128 @ 1200 bps by hooking the modems together.

Desterm and my PC agreed and ran "just fine" through the transfer, but when
I tried to play the sidplayer files (i.e. all the Xmas SIDS on milton), the
intro screens were garbled (extra characters), and the music would play at
most one note before ending.

I used Xmodem on another terminal program (just 3 files, .mus .str .wds for
one song), and that song worked fine.  Same type of connection, still using
Procomm host at the PC end.

Any suggestions?  I really don't want to have to type all those names and 
extensions in one at time for a file which takes an average of 15 seconds.

-Coyt
From: cb317@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephanie J. Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Guess what?  Bard's Tale II again!!
Date: 17 Dec 1992 20:06:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Well, I managed to solve Oscon's Fortress and the snare fairly
easily, so I'm now on the Grey Crypt.  Those who have played the
game can probably guess what my problem is.  HOW do you stay alive
without magic???!!!???  I've gotten the 1st level done, but am
usually killed off in a battle or two because I cannot use any
means to decrease my AC (Bard has to provide the light).  I'd
love some hints or ideas on surviving long enough to figure out
what to do next.
 
Also, does the crypt have two or three levels?  I'm sure hoping
for only 2, because I dread the thought of going through 3 levels
of this... Thanx in advance.
-- 
The United States is a nation of laws:  badly written and
randomly enforced.     Frank Zappa

cb317 @ cleveland.Freenet.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: thssapk@iitmax.iit.edu (([<{\_/}>]))
Subject: Re: Downloading
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 00:56:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.154602.6487@usafa.af.mil> mccormac@pooh.usafa.af.mil writes:
>> > 4)  Does anyone remember a word processing program called Busy Bee writer?
>> >     This was a supposedly great WP program for the 128, featuring about 256
>> >     macros, micro-justification, etc, etc....it was also noteworthy for
>> >     being dirt cheap, and even chaper if you bought it in volume or without
>> >     the manuals. 
>> I have Busy Bee for the 64.  I'm quite sure the company is still in business,
>> because our user's group has been selling this program steadily over the past
>> several years. I'll find the company's address tonight.
>
>  If memory serves me correctly, you are referring to 'The Write Stuff' - a 
>package that covers both the C64 and the C128.  For many people, it's still
>the word processor of choice on Commodore machines and is still being sold.
>
>						Chris McCormack
>: BUMPER   ?FORTH  IF  HONK  THEN ;             mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil
> 
Right....I remember that as the title of it...now where can I get it?

Great; now that one of my questions has been answered, what about the other
three?   For those with short newreaders, they were:

1)   Can someone FTP parts 1 and 4 of the novaterm 9_4.sfx files to an ftp
     site?

2)   How on earth can you de-archive the commodore files sitting in wuarchive.
     wustl.edu??

3)   Does anyone, anywhere, have a decent disk/file copier for the C-128???
     (I'm not picky---I'll even take the 1571 shell, if it copies files! 8)

Thanx for answering that one question though.

Later!!!

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From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: help!   ... please
Date: 19 Dec 92 13:03:43 GMT
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
In-reply-to: sheun@cs.city.ac.uk's message of 18 Dec 92 14:37:34 GMT

In article <sheun.724689454@barney>, sheun@cs.city.ac.uk (Sheun Olatunbosun) writes:
) I would be very grateful if someone could take on this task for me. Had I
) a 1581, which I will buy soon, with big blue reader to do a particular
) conversion (my university uses PC's connected to the network), I would not
) have a problem.

) But as it stands, I've just grabbed some files  - geostechref1.arc, 
) geostechref2.arc and geostechref3.arc from the ftp site  ccosun.caltech.edu
) under the directory /pub/rknop/geos/programmer. Since these
) files are encoded in PETSCII format, I am unable to read them at my UNIX
) terminal. Guess what I'm going to ask? 

) Could some kind soul convert these files to ASCII format, so I can read them
) from my UNIX terminal as well as print them? I could e-mail you the relevant 
) files to avoid the use of ftp to get them.

Well, it wouldn't be hard to convert the files.

If they're just straight PETSCII files (eg, SEQ files), and not
something like GeoWrite or whatever, then it'd be pretty easy to use
the UNIX "tr" command to fix it.  Or write a C filter program, that'd
be pretty straightforward.

I think I wrote a DOS program to convert PETSCII <-> ASCII once.  I
suppose I could dig it up if you want.  Mail me and I'll dig it up, or
maybe just write one for the hell of it.
--
William R Ward                         __o   Bay View Software
VoiceMail: +1 (408) 479-4072         _ \<,_  Internet:  hermit@cats.ucsc.edu
SnailMail: 1803 Mission St. #339    (_)/ (_) BITNet:    hermit@cats.bitnet
           Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA
From: amyt@romulus.rutgers.edu (Amy Humphries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Delay in uploading Mah Jongg
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:34:22 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I have uploaded the individual files to cco.caltech.edu in
pub/rknop/INCOMING.  Let me know if there are any problems with it.
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
Date: 19 Dec 92 06:41:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you

stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas) writes:

>1.) store recipes in a humongous sequential file.  Access would be slow
>and messy.

Accessing files on a disk with 300 directory entires would be just as
slow.

>2.) store recipes using one or two files per recipe.  The 2/file stores
>ingredients in one file, instructions in another.

This is probably the best idea as far as speed tradeoff, and it doesn't
require modifying DOS.  :)

You might also consider doing track/sector allocations yourself, using
Block-Allocate commands.  Sure it's not a lot of fun, but CBM DOS is
never fun.  :)

And don't forget good old relative files, which are compatible across
multiple versions of DOS (1541/71/81/1001/8250/etc.)

-- 
#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
#define  FALSE  1   | "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
#endif              |    the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada."
From: massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Massive Onslaught)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Burst 1581
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 04:17:15 EST
Reply-To: massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Massive Onslaught)
Organization: Lakes Public Access


 Question...
 
  I know that on a 1571, you can send "u0>m1" to send the drive into 
burst mode.. Is there a command that sends the 1581 to busrt mode, in 64 
mode?

-Tony
massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us
From: stenslan@plains.NoDak.edu (David Stensland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: DC power for C-64's
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:25:59 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Does anyone know a way of hooking a C-64 up in an automobile?  A person
could go out and buy an DC-AC inverter and plug the '64 into that for power,
but there must be a cheaper and more sensible way.

I want to have a good solid 60Hz signal for the TOD clocks on the 6526's, as
one function of the computer will be as a tachometer... so it needs accurate
clocks for the frequency measurement.  

If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to let me know.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated!
From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:28:59
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
In-reply-to: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com's message of 14 Dec 92 23:46:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.234645.19234@gdwest.gd.com>, stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas) writes:
) Is there a way to make the directory on a 1541 handle double the number
) of files it currently can ? (memory says > 200, but < 300)
) I don't mind using another track to do it, IF it can be done.

If I remember correctly it was 144 files.

It can be done, but you have to not use some of the built-in DOS
commands on a disk that has been so modified.  I saw a program a few
years ago that will put up to 288 files on the directory by using
track 19 as well as 18 for directory information.

A better solution would be to get a 1581, of course... with its
kludgey partition/subdirectory system.

It occurred to me when I found out about that program that you could
just as easily make a program that would create subdirectories by
storing directory information in a SEQuential or USeR file, and
modifying the links on the first sector of the track 18 directory to
point to it if that directory is selected.  One could even write a
revised DOS ROM for the drive.....

--
William R Ward                         __o   Bay View Software
VoiceMail: +1 (408) 479-4072         _ \<,_  Internet:  hermit@cats.ucsc.edu
SnailMail: 1803 Mission St. #339    (_)/ (_) BITNet:    hermit@cats.bitnet
           Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA
From: nevs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: BBS's
Date: 18 Dec 1992 11:48:32 GMT
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: hektor.cs.tu-berlin.de

Well,then call Future Frontier: 909-242-2211.
260 MB CMD drives,lots of stuff.

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