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From: Hytec@cup.portal.com (Brandon Lee Worrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: RocTec-Hurricane Relief Fund Announcement
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 18:24:59 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)



                   R O C T E C    E L E C T R O N I C S

                 HURRICANE ANDREW RELIEF FUND CONTRIBUTION

Hurricane Andrew which swept through the southern part of the US left
it's toll on hundreds of thousands of people who are now in desperate
need.  As a means of showing our support for the victims we are
asking you to join us and and help them out with a financial contribution.

Effective through Friday, September 4, 1992, a portion of every order
will go to relief funds for the Andrew victims.

The chart below shows how much from each product will be donated.

PRODUCT                                     SUGG   AVG STREET      ROCTEC
                                           RETAIL    PRICE      CONTRIBUTION

RocLite-AV (Beige or Black)                 $120      ~$95          $6.00
   3.5" External SuperSlim disk drive
   with no-clicking and anti-virus

Amiga Mouse                                  $50      ~$23          $2.00
   Two-button replacement opto-mechanical
   mouse with moveable palm rest

RocGen Plus                                 $379     ~$350         $20.00
   External high quality genlock with
   key-in and manual dissolve controls

RocKey                                      $399     ~$360         $20.00
   External chroma keying, luma keying,
   and color splitting.  Many effects.

RocHard 500                                 $300     ~$250         $15.00
   Amiga 500 IDE & SCSI hard drive
   controller with unpopulated 8MB ram board.

RocHard-M120                                OPEN     ~$599         $15.00
   RocHard 500 hard drive controller with
   Maxtor 130MB high speed drive.


RocTec's contribution is based on dealer orders.  Special promotional
dealer pricing is in effect during this relief fund project.  Some
dealers are offering special end-user pricing.

Your dealer will receive a copy of the check submitted by RocTec if they
are involved in the promotion.

Thank you for your support of both RocTec Electronics and the victims
of Hurricane Andrew.

Sincerely,

John G. Ingram
Marketing Coordinator

RocTec Electronics
170 Knowles Drive, Suite 202
Los Gatos, CA  95030
TEL:  408-379-1713
FAX:  408-379-1897

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The above announcement was relayed to you by Brandon Worrell of HyTec
Computers, with full knowledge and authorization of RocTec Electronics.
Minor changes were made for electronic distribution.

HyTec Computers supports RocTec Electronic's efforts to aid the victims of
Hurricane Andrew.  Special pricing is in effect for this effort.

Brandon Worrell
President, HyTec Computers, Inc.
TEL:    206-456-7656
FAX:    206-456-7657
ORDERS: 800-578-6504  (International toll-free numbers also available)
PORTAL:   HyTec
INTERNET: HyTec@cup.portal.com
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CBM/Amiga vs NewTek/Toaster
Date: 2 Sep 92 04:29:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep1.212953.1446
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > They've got other reasons for being angry at NewTek...

Yeah, they probably do.  Maybe NewTek feels the same way.  Too bad that we
can't get definitive statements from both parties.


*======================================================================*
|Edward E. Brown II               | Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com  |
|Chemist On A Mission From GOD!   | UUCP:     clark.edu!pro-freedom!eeb|
|Vancouver, WA, USA, N.Amer, Earth| FidoNet:  1:105/135                |
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|"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" | \X/ A3000 - UNIX/MSDOS/MacDOS/ADOS |
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From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help! My amiga can't walk! (Lost its feet)
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:40:06 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:

> > ...what is the best glue to use for this?

>By all means, fix the feet.  They help keep the computer from wandering
>around and also help damp shock if the computer desk/table is bumped.  I'd
>use a drop of rubber cement for that.  It's cheap and effective.

You'd think CBM would be able to figure out what most equipment manufacturers
know - when putting big rubber feet on anything, *screw them down*!  I mean,
CBM's engineers *did* design the pregnant mice, which are some of the best
mice in the industry (best *I've* seen) - you'd think they could design some
rubber feet...

>*======================================================================*
>|Edward E. Brown II               | Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com  |
>|Chemist On A Mission From GOD!   | UUCP:     clark.edu!pro-freedom!eeb|
>|Vancouver, WA, USA, N.Amer, Earth| FidoNet:  1:105/135                |
>|---------------------------------|---//-------------------------------|
>|"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" | \X/ A3000 - UNIX/MSDOS/MacDOS/ADOS |
>*======================================================================*

Wulf                    | "Martha, it's another one of those CS majors asking
jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |  if cow chips are pin-compatible with 68040s..."
From: jk72+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Michael Kraly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A3000 Memory
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:40:03 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


    This may be the wrong place to ask but here goes.  My A3000 has one
meg of chip ram.  I've been told I need 1meg of DIP ram to fill this up.
 On the other side is another row of sockets for a meg of DIP ram, and
the thirty-two spaces for ZIP ram.  There are no chips in the DIP
spaces, but eight chips in the zip ram, spaced every fifth I think. 
That's one chip, three empty spaces and another chip.  How much memory
can I add without replacing any of these existing chips?  I'm not sure
but it seems to me that it would take 32 256*4 chips to fill up four
megs, and there are definetly not 32 chips in the ZIP spaces.  So it
seems to me that these are 1*4 chips.  So I could get the max of sixteen
megs ZIP ram, and then could I also fill up the DIP slots for a total of
nineteen megs?  I'd appreciate someone who understands all the different
configs explaining all this to me.  So if you can, either post on this
board or E-mail me at jk72@andrew.cmu.edu.  I prefer E-mail.  THANKS in
advance.
                                        Jay Kraly
From: raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WSJ Article  -- CBM is dying? : -)
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:26:01 PST
Organization: BBS

   Commodore producing a "handheld" product?

   Yes, and I've seen it with my very own eyes.  It's a wonderful machine
that'll sell quite well to all computer owners, PC/Mac/Amiga.  Oops, I may be
going too far.
   Truly our friends at Commodore, under Jim Dionne and David Pleasance, have
some magical things under their sleeves this year.  Get out your sunglasses.


Raymond Ulibarri
Vice President
MultiCon
Multimedia Concepts
(510)261-1001
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sjc28473@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Joseph Chmura)
Subject: Re: CBM/Amiga vs NewTek/Toaster
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:26:38 GMT

tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna) writes:
>machines to sell competing SPARC-based machines (laptops, for example,
>are OK since Sun doesn't make one). 

>Sleezy? Yes. Illegal? No, or at least filled with enough loopholes that
>it's easy to get away with.

And what about BOSE corp (loudspeakers) who refuse to renew your authorized
status if you sell the AM5-II below $749?

>--
>Ty Sarna				           tsarna@endicor.com

>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
-- 
  "Given enought time the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable,
	and the probable inevitable..." - George Wald - "The Origin of Life"
	Steven Chmura /////////  University of Chicago School of Medicine (M1)

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:13121 comp.sys.amiga.applications:6773
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Re: Converting Structured Graphics Formats
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:32:21 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>In article <64591@cup.portal.com>soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
>writes:
>>>>I guess that makes two votes for structured graphics support in Amiga image
>>>>processing packages :).
>>>>Any others who would find a conversion facility for structured graphics
>>>>(clipart/DTP, CAD) useful?
>
>>You could use PageStream to convert IFF.DR2D and Adobe Illustrator (both
>>structured formats) to IFF ILBM.
>
>Actually, the format support which we are proposing is for converting
>structured graphics found on other platforms to their Amiga equivalents.
>Perhaps you could add Corel Draw (CDR), Micrographx Designer (DRW),
>WordPerfect Graphic (WPG), Computer Graphic Metafiles (CGM) and Lotus (PIC)
>file support to the PageStream/Art Expression wish list.
>
>CGM support alone would be a *major* boon to PageStream, as I'm sure many
>Amiga users would welcome structured clipart packages like Presentation
>Task Force 4.0 (with 3500 pictures @ ~$150, you can't go wrong).
>
>Mark
>
>--
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> = Mark Rickan                         ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!rickan =
> = DCSS, McMaster University               rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca =
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

PageStream supports GEM Metafile format. I'm sure if this is the same
thing (or if all versions are supported).

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
From: banks@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Corey Banks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Wanted : Clip art, crossword solver
Date: 30 Aug 92 10:44:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: csuvax1.banks.715171452
Organization: Murdoch University


	I'm looking for a pic of a seal (Before it is clubbed to death),  but I
need it very quickly.  If you've got one then email it to me and I will be 
forever greatfull.

	Also does anyone know of a program to help someone solve crossword
puzzles?  If there isn't one how about a dictionary that can give all the
possible words from some of its letters eg: *om**n* could produce command (and
any others)?  This one is not urgent, but If a front ended is needed for a PD
spell-checker that can handle wildcards then I could handle that!

		email to : banks@murdoch.edu.au
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    _-_|\     Corey Banks.           Things were going pretty well      
   /     \                           `till I died. - Shakesphere Sister 
   *_.-._/    banks@murdoch.edu.au  ----------------------------------- 
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From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CBM/Amiga vs NewTek/Toaster
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:40:58 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Aug26.222340.1234@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
>
> > ...Commodore told many of its dealers not to sign on as authorized
> > Toaster Workstation dealers or else risk losing their official Commodore
> > dealer status.
>
>My.  What a nifty way of having your rear end torn off in court for
>"illegal infringement of trade practices".  CBM doesn't have a legal leg to
>stand on with this and if they were stupid enough to write that down,
>someone could have ripped 'em a new one.  Manufacturers are NOT allowed to
>dictate what retailers can sell or not sell.  Sheesh...
>
>
>*======================================================================*
>|Edward E. Brown II               | Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com  |
>|Chemist On A Mission From GOD!   | UUCP:     clark.edu!pro-freedom!eeb|
>|Vancouver, WA, USA, N.Amer, Earth| FidoNet:  1:105/135                |
>|---------------------------------|---//-------------------------------|
>|"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" | \X/ A3000 - UNIX/MSDOS/MacDOS/ADOS |
>*======================================================================*


Well, since about July NewTek has not been allowed to put the Video Toaster
Workstation sticker on the A2000s.  So, since consumers will know  what
they are buying is actually an Amiga, I don't see why C= would care if
a dealer stocked C= products and NewTek products.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: thom@cs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)
Subject: Wanted an "event maker" ?!?
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:07:54 GMT

Hi all, I am looking for a peice of software that will allow me to 
run certain programs at certain hours of the day then terminate them at
another specified time. ie: I wish to find some software that will run
my BBS software at a certain time, then take it down for me at a specified
hour. Any such beast available?
 
 Advance thanx,
 Thomas

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: *NEED* a real-time animation player, i.e. from HD
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:03:26 GMT


I need a from-the-HD ANIM player.  I produce huge virtual reality animations,
and some of them can't be loaded into RAM.  However, the player must NOT slow
down the animation, i.e. a jerkiness as the frames load.  Thanks in advance.

-- 
Sam Hulick         \ [insert catchy quotation here]
shulick@indiana.edu \
(NeXT mail welcome) /
From: Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CBM/Amiga vs NewTek/Toaster
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:34:21 GMT
Organization: MangaZone Advanced Services, Rome - ITALY

In a message dated Mon 31 Aug 92  4:46, Gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (gregory R 
wrote:

 GR> They've got other reasons for being angry at NewTek...

And these are in your opinion? (come on, you have something boiling in your
head, just say it, we know that's just your personal opinion ;-)

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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 17:37:54 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Aug19.151525.21868@enea.se>
  <1992Aug21.044831.27211@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
  <1992Aug21.201302.42498@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  <1992Aug23.194527.14813@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <64541@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Aug24.152116.20598@regina.cs.uregina.ca>

>In article <64541@cup.portal.com> Avi@cup.portal.com (Avi - Schwartz) writes:
>>>Doing my best not to sound like Marc here, but just when I thought the
>>>addition of the 1.44 drive (well, 2.0M to be exact) to the A3000T was a
>>>thoughtful upgrading of technology, I learned that in most cases it is
>>>now cheaper to source 1.44 drives than 720K drives, simply due to the
>>>greater demand.  I wouldn't doubt that they start showing up in A500s
>>>and A600s sometime soon...
>>>
>>>- Dave
>>>
>>
>>You would have been correct if you were talking about PC type HD floppy
>>drives. Unfortunately the Amiga HD floppy drives are not standard ones
>>and therefore are possibly a lot more expensive.
>
>And I still would have been correct (and I was).  MS-DOS drives work just
>lovely in Amigas, thank-you, as long as they have the proper disk change
>logic (certain brands do, certain ones don't).  I got desperate and had a
>Fujitsu 1.44 in mine for a long time (as an 880K of course).
>
>- Dave
>

But you aren't... or weren't.  The Amiga _HD_ dirve is NOT a standard IBM type
drive with disk change detect.  Sheesh, how many times do we need to go
around and around about this.  The Amiga needs a HD floppy to go HALF SPEED.
It IS a special drive.  You are thinking of a normal density Amiga drive and
normal density IBM drive.

-Joel
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From: Roger_Martensson@p3.f607.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Roger Martensson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Hardwired Demo on an A3000?
Date: 24 Aug 92 20:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: Roger_Martensson@p3.f607.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Roger Martensson)
Organization: The Third Point, Mellansel, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: R.b._Mead

In a message (written 22-Aug-92, 12:33:00) to R.B. Mead  you wrote:


 RM> I don't seem to be able to run it on an A3000.  It throws up a message
 RM> that says something like, "This demo does not like Axel".

Perhaps the demo don't like the bigger 'brother'.

 RM> Is this message a reference to .. not working on a non-68000 based
 RM> machine?

It worked fine with my -010.

/Rm - InterNet: Roger_Martensson@p3.f607.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se
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From: bob@bpamiga.pegasus.com (Bob Proffitt)
Subject: Re:  Black Apples
Organization: Amiga Hawaii Users' Group
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:08:18 GMT

In article <34728@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>
>I believe the black apples a Bell and Howell badged version made by Apple
>in an effort to sell computers through camera stores.
>
>		andy
>--
>andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
>
>"Some people think MS-DOS is a necessary evil.  They are wrong.  MS-DOS
> is _not_ necessary."
>
>
>Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share.
>I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.

I always thought the "Bell and Howell" Apple ][ was produced so that
educators could buy it through their audio-visual distributor.
--

    Bob Proffitt, KH6C			uunet.uu.net!pegasus!bpamiga!bob
    Pearl City, Hawaii			Voice (808) 456 2777
From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Silliness of the day
Date: 1 Sep 1992 20:28:20 -0500
Organization: Spam Detection & Removal Squad, Austin, TX
Reply-To: bryan@cs.utexas.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: peaches.cs.utexas.edu
Spam-Content: Negligible


1. Own A2630 (v6 ROMs)

2. Boot monitor

3. Type 't 70000 80000'

4. Enjoy, rinse, repeat.
From: trigg@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Printer driver needed for NX1000
Date: 31 Aug 92 11:46:52 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Hi there,

Could anyone out there point me in the direction of a printer driver for a Star
NX1000 printer???

Thanx in advance,

	Len.
	trigg@waikato.ac.nz
From: doiron@starpt.UUCP (Glenn Doiron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help! My amiga can't walk! (Lost its feet)
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:34:28 GMT
Organization: 68K Software Development

In article <1992Aug29.182842.1@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> gstark@misvax.mis.arizona.edu writes:
>
>This may be an unusual question but:  The rubber feet on my 3000 have come
>off.  I would like to put them back on, but what is the best glue to use
>for this?  Also, could having the machine right on my desk without the feet
>cause any problems?
>
>-Gavin

As far as I know, the rubber feet on every A3000 in existence has fallen
off.  Don't try and reuse them.  Go down to a local hardware
store/Kmart/Radio Shack and purchase some REAL rubber feet :)

Glenn Doiron  (who doesn't worry about losing rubber dingdongs any more)
--
Amiga UUCP+
Origin:  uunet!starpt!doiron     (Organization:68K Software Development)
         BIX: gdoiron
** Not enough memory to perform requested operation.  Add 4 megs and retry.
From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Problems with ES anims
Date: 27 Aug 92 00:03:42 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

I am having difficulties running some animations.  'A day at the beach' and
'The Dating Game' do not seem to run for me.  Both get 'movie uncomplete'
errors, but still go through the sound parts.  If someone could help me to get
these going, it would really be appreciated.  (I am on a 5 M A3000, and I am
positive memory limitations are not responsable.)  Also, I am having problems
getting Rings.movie started, and the copy of pogo on UX1 is damaged; I can not
un-archive it.

Thanks,

Ken
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: NASA GONE!?!?!
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:37:11 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

cfvx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>Help!!!???!!!
>I've been gone from school for about 8 months and I return and the Nasa archive
>is gone?  Where have all the Renn and Stimpy sampled sound files gone?  Anyone
>know what happened to even half the stuff from 128.155.23.64???  Help!
> 
>PT...
>(Perfect Timing)
>Ira Emsig
>cfvx@crnlvax5

It's all been mirrored to wuarchive.wustl.edu among other places.

Wulf                    | "Martha, it's another one of those CS majors asking
jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |  if cow chips are pin-compatible with 68040s..."
From: john@becca.rain.com (john meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Opinions wanted
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:02:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: becca.4OACr*Ym1
Reply-To: john@becca.rain.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Washington Valley Software

I'm looking for a decent spreadsheet package, and hate to think I'll have to
buy a PC clone to get one.

Anyone having any comments or opinions on spreadsheet software (commercial
or otherwise) for the Amiga please respond via email:


 John Meissen  | john@becca.rain.com 
               | ..!{uunet,qiclab,intelhf,bucket}!m2xenix!becca!john
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