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From: mathers@sibelius.trl.oz.au (Steven Mathers)
Subject: Re: Amiga 600 prices
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:07:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.005406.14065@csc.canberra.edu.au>, mmr@asgserver.canberra.edu.au (Micheal Rainford-Watson) writes:
|> I saw a 600 for $599 and a 600HD for $899. Are these good prices?
|> Who thinks C= will drop them in another 6 months? (Remember how much the
|> 64 & 20 plunged)

Well, consulting my green guide for this week, Maxwells in Melbourne is
selling the 600 for $699, and the 600HD for $899.

Now knowing Maxwells like I do, they try to get everything new before
the other stroes, and sell at a markup to the desperate.  then when
everybody else gets a hold of them, they drop their prices in line with
the other stores, so I would expect the 600 to drop to $599 as you say
here in Melbourne as soon as Maxwells has cleaned out the suckers.
Interesting to see that they are not ripping off the 600HD price.  I
wonder why?
From: Kevin.Tankard@f550.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Kevin Tankard)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Mac -> Amiga
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:08:02 +1000

Alex,
     I did a bit more checking, and MacView (in the graphics area here) WILL
 save Mac files in IFF format. Only drawback is that they are Black & White.
 Not a great problem, as you can load the converted pics into a paint program
 and colour them.

Hope this solves your problem.

Kevin

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From: Philip_Jackson@guru.pub.uu.oz.au (Philip Jackson)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac -> Amiga
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:06:02 GMT
Organization: Guru Meditation BBS

Hi there,

In a message dated Fri 14 Aug 92  7:09, I900243@redgum.ucnv.edu.au wrote:


 I> I was wondering if anybody knew of any software that will allow me to
 I> convert Macintosh pictures into an Amiga IFF format.

 I>    Thanks for any help.....ALEX!

you should be able to use "save as Amiga IFF" from within Adobe Photoshop
on the Mac or a program like RasterLink will convert to and from PICT, TIFF
etc on the Amiga. 

Hope this helps

Bye from P.J.

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Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
From: jim@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady)
Subject: Re: 040 boards in Oz
Keywords: 040
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:27:08 GMT

jim@lillee.cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady) writes:

>Hi All

>I have noticed in .hardware that Fusion Forty '040 boards for the A2000 can be
>had for <$US1000 in the US. Does anyone know how much this (or an equivalent
>040 board) retails for in Australia?

>Thanks in Advance

>Jim

Have a look in comp.sys.amiga.hardware for article; Aus special soon.
Stephen outlines a deal from RCS that has a 'fusion forty' going for 
US$995 plus shipping. This offer will apparently be open to user groups
here in Oz.

Regards

Jim
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From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
Subject: Re: Mac -> Amiga
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:25:17 GMT

i900243@redgum.ucnv.edu.au writes:

>I was wondering if anybody knew of any software that will allow me to
>convert Macintosh pictures into an Amiga IFF format.

The PBMPlus library for UNIX boxes has about 100 converter programs for
graphic files of various formats.  The Amiga port of this library
should have the same converter programs.

Regards,

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From: Mike.Ng@f353.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Mike Ng)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Mac -> Amiga
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 11:26:08 +1000

WELL, if you have A-mAx, the mac emulator on the amiga,
you can transfer piccies

mike ng


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From: Mike.Ng@f353.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Mike Ng)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Civilization
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 11:32:11 +1000

I think Civilization is an excellent strategy game produced by Sid Meir and I
haven't expiereinced any crashes and I don't think it very slow, considering the
basic Amiga runs AT 7.14 Mhz! and also considering that the computer must think
for your opponents. The graphics may not look so hot in the main screen, but
should graphics matter for such an interesting game. 
I;ve installed it on my hard drive and found no problems with the operation of
the game. Maybe it doesn;t have to copy all files since the hard drive can
manage with out them.

Mike Ng



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From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Re: SAS
Date: 21 Aug 92 04:46:03 GMT
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia

jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:

>Does anyone have the phone number for SAS Institute? And is the SAS C 6.0
>upgrade available in Australia yet?

When dealing with the SAS Institute in Australia, you should call:

     Michael Matthews
     Ph:  (02) 428 0428
     Fax: (02) 428 4759

I don't know whether SAS/C 6.0 is available yet.



Regs,
Phil.

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From: andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au (Andrew Phillips)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac -> Amiga
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:57:13 GMT
Organization: Technology Services, Chief Secretary's Dept, Sydney

jimbo@mhs.oz.au (James Davidson) writes:
: >In article <1926@sheoak.bcae.oz.au> i900243@redgum.ucnv.edu.au writes:
: >>I was wondering if anybody knew of any software that will allow me to
: >>convert Macintosh pictures into an Amiga IFF format.
:...
: Sorry I cant tell you the program names to look for, but I know they 
: exist.  Anyone else out there know the ones I mean.  Pbm may be able
: to do it.

PBM plus can do it.  It comes as several programs that convert to and
from its own internal formats (bitmap, grey-scale and colour).  It
supports IFF ILBM (all formats) and several Macintosh formats.

I have used it here (a UNIX system) to convert between ILBM and
Macpaint.  (I believe it has also been ported to the Amiga.)  For
example to convert an Amiga ILBM file to Macpaint use:

ilbmtoppm <amiga_file | pmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtomacp >macpaint_file

The reverse is:

macptopbm <macpaint_file | ppmtoilbm >amiga_file

The sources to PBM plus were posted to comp.sources.{unix|misc} some
time ago, or I could mail them to you.

Andrew.
From: jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: SAS
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:13:40 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

Does anyone have the phone number for SAS Institute? And is the SAS C 6.0
upgrade available in Australia yet?

Jon
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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000 and KickStart 1.3
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:59:03 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Glen Pill) writes:
- Can anyone please tell me how I can get my new Amiga 3000 to load a v1.3
- kickfile in?  The A3000 has the ks2.04 ROMs installed, and it's really a
- pain not having the backward compatibility anymore.  I'd rather resort to
- a software fix if I can get away with it, but as a last resort I may have
- to build a hardware switcher.
- 
- 
- --
- Glen Pill                            Internet : glenp@rmit.edu.au
- RMIT Computer Centre                 Snail    : 124 LaTrobe St, Melb. Oz. 3000
-                                      Phone    : +61 3 660 2538 

Well, I can at least give some info, though I don't recall everything.

Dave Haynie has made a program, SetCPU, that can do the trick. It can read
Kickstart disks or Kickstart files, and so kick 1.3.

I thought it would be easier to have 1.3 and 2.0 as kickfiles on the HD, so
I made such. WB 2.04 contains a program (a script really) that's called
something like update2.0. If you look at that script in a text editor, you'll
see that it calls a program that reads kickstart info from a SuperKickstart
disk and saves it in a file. It can do so both for 1.3 and 2.0, and both
are on the same 2.04 Kickstart disk!

You can then boot your machine and type something like
"setcpu KICKROM devs/kickstart.1.3".
It reboots and wants a 1.3WB disk or "It Came From The Desert".

I haven't been able to boot 1.3WB from the HD, can anyone help? I made
a bootable OFS partition with WB1.3 on and tried some other tricks, but
to no avail.

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From: peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000 and KickStart 1.3
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:26:40 GMT
Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd. Perth, Australia

rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Glen Pill) writes:

>Can anyone please tell me how I can get my new Amiga 3000 to load a v1.3
>kickfile in?  The A3000 has the ks2.04 ROMs installed, and it's really a
>pain not having the backward compatibility anymore.  I'd rather resort to
>a software fix if I can get away with it, but as a last resort I may have
>to build a hardware switcher.

Get hold of setcpu 1.6 - It'll kick just about anything, but be warned,
it does not understand A3000 fast memory - so it puts the kickrom and
MMU tables in chip.  It works, but it uses ~600-~700K of your chip ram.
This is not good unless you have 2M chip to start with.
It wont activate your hard drive either.

>--
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>RMIT Computer Centre                 Snail    : 124 LaTrobe St, Melb. Oz. 3000
>                                     Phone    : +61 3 660 2538 
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Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
From: mmr@asgserver.canberra.edu.au (Micheal Rainford-Watson)
Subject: Amiga 600 prices
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 00:54:06 GMT

I saw a 600 for $599 and a 600HD for $899. Are these good prices?
Who thinks C= will drop them in another 6 months? (Remember how much the
64 & 20 plunged)


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From: Peter.Pildre@f355.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Peter Pildre)
Sender: acsnet@csource.oz.au
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga system for sale
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 21:10:29 +1000

Hi Steven,
           Nice system you have for sale....question would you be
interested in parting with your gvp 68030 and if so what would be your
asking price.

regards,
        Peter Pildre.


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Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga
From: banks@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Corey Banks)
Subject: Re: Amiga 600 prices
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 07:28:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.005406.14065@csc.canberra.edu.au>, Micheal Rainford-Watson writes:
> I saw a 600 for $599 and a 600HD for $899. Are these good prices?
> Who thinks C= will drop them in another 6 months? (Remember how much the
> 64 & 20 plunged)

	Well checking my ACAR mag I found that the HARD DISK CAFE sells the 
600HD (30meg) for $799.  This price is available in at least one W.A. store as
well `cause a friend bought one a little while back.  As for price drops,  how
about a $200 600?  sounds very reasonable to me!
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Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: s8939527@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Andrew Nicholas Skannavides)
Subject: Re: A3000 and KickStart 1.3
Reply-To: s8939527@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Andrew Nicholas Skannavides)
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:24:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.173119.7286@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Glen Pill) writes:
>Can anyone please tell me how I can get my new Amiga 3000 to load a v1.3
>kickfile in?  The A3000 has the ks2.04 ROMs installed, and it's really a
>pain not having the backward compatibility anymore.  I'd rather resort to
>a software fix if I can get away with it, but as a last resort I may have
>to build a hardware switcher.
>
>
>--
>Glen Pill                            Internet : glenp@rmit.edu.au
>RMIT Computer Centre                 Snail    : 124 LaTrobe St, Melb. Oz. 3000
>                                     Phone    : +61 3 660 2538 


Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.wanted,aus.general
From: oyang@cs.monash.edu.au (Kai Shing O'Yang)
Subject: Re: Address and phone of NeXT in Australia?
Keywords: NeXT
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:27:59 GMT

leigh@DIALix.oz.au (Leigh Smith) writes:

>I've heard a reasonably unsubstantiated rumour that NeXT have a
>distributor in Australia. Does anyone have a name and phone number
>of them? Please email the info, and any relevant comments to:
>leigh@psychok.DIALix.oz.au.

Call Canon Australia in Sydney. They say they are going to do some promotion
next month.

Kai
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Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
From: s1132894@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (chris greenough)
Subject: Re: My hard disk frozen
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:23:11 GMT

iwirawan@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Indra Wirawan) writes:

>Dear readers,

> I have a strange problem with my hard disk (Seagate 65Mb) which resides
> in my Amstrad 386-20Mhz. If the weather was cold whenever I switch on
>this computer, the hard disk won't spin. As the result my pc can't boot
>from this 'strange' hard disk. First I thought my hd had gone to south
>but during the day it is alive.

>I would like to hear from anybody that experienced the same problem. If
>possible tell me how to fix this.

>Any suggestion would be appreciated.

>Cheers,

I recently had a similiar type of problem. Turned out to be loose connections.
Vacumed the inside of the case, and reset all of the connectors, and things
have been running fine. (fingers always crossed).

Chris G.
From: u2116318@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: sound blaster for sale !!!
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:10:08 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

I'm posting this news for my friend
***********************************************************************

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

	Sound blaster ver 2 for sale
		-almost brand new.
		-still in box, with all manuals and everything.

	Sound blaster pro ver 1 for sale
		-almost brand new.
		-still in box, with all manuals and everything.

		Have to sell due to recession.

		Any offers will be considered.

     If interested please email jalyons@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au

-----------------------------------------------------------------
The Rimmer Directive,
	"I've been throught the whole of my database and colated 
   every single option and there seems to be 3 realistic options.
	1. sit here and blown up,
	2. stand here and blown up,
	3. you jump and down, shouting at me for not being able 
	   to think of something then get blown up.
				RED DWARF:BODYSWAP
							     john
	      		           Adelaide University, Australia
	  		      jalyons@teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au
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Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
From: c8921212@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Luke Plaizier)
Subject: Re: Maxtor IDE Hard Disks
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:30:10 GMT

bruce_b@Icarus.curtin.edu.au (Bruce Bown) writes:




>			Maxtor IDE Hard Drives

>	Could someone out there help me with configuring Maxtor IDE drives 
>as Master and Slave configurations please.


>			Bruce Bown
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Hardware Support   Fax:   (09) 351-2673
> Computing Centre,  Curtin University,  Perth,  Western Australia

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	I had the same trouble with this myself. The maxtor I have (not with
me at the moment) is a little 42MB drive 28ms runnning slave to a seagate
69MB 11ms. The SEAGATE just wouldn't slave to the maxtor, but luckily the
opposite was not true.

	The trick is to try jumper settings. Just try them. It will take you
longer to get a jumper map from a supplier than it will be to just plug
and test. The single jumper must be rotated 90 degrees to get the slave
to work, but I am not sure whether left right, up or down on your particular
drive.  i.e.

	from
			....|
			....|
	to some setting which looks like

			...==
			.....

	depending apon which angle you are looking at it....


					Luke.
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Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: ** NORTONS DESKTOP FOR WINDOWS!! **
Date: 21 Aug 92 06:53:35 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
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From: chrisf@nms.otca.oz.au (Christopher Fraser)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: 24bit Video Cards?
Keywords: graphics
Date: 19 Aug 92 12:39:00 GMT

We're looking for a 24 bit video card for a PC, but can't seem to find any
vendors in Australia selling them ... can anyone suggest a vendor to us?
Any recomendations about particular brands, or how much we should expect to
pay, would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Cheers,
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Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
From: andrewd@ecr.mu.oz.au (Andrew_John DISSELDORP)
Subject: Upgrading memory - SIMMs and SIPPs - whats the difference?
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:16:03 GMT

	I'm thinking of upgrading my PC's memory up to 4 or 8 meg so I can run
OS/2 some time in the future. Is it easily done? To de-statisise yourself do you
just touch the case of the PC?
	What are the differences between SIMMS and SIPPS? 
	And finally some part of my memory brings up a topic of 3 chip simms and
other (different) simms, which may not be compatible. Should I just tell these
brain cells to bugger off or are they telling me something vaguely useful?

Thanks for your responses
Andrew
Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
From: iwirawan@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Indra Wirawan)
Subject: My hard disk frozen
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:20:57 GMT

Dear readers,

 I have a strange problem with my hard disk (Seagate 65Mb) which resides
 in my Amstrad 386-20Mhz. If the weather was cold whenever I switch on
this computer, the hard disk won't spin. As the result my pc can't boot
from this 'strange' hard disk. First I thought my hd had gone to south
but during the day it is alive.

I would like to hear from anybody that experienced the same problem. If
possible tell me how to fix this.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Cheers,

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  The University of Western Australia | Broadway, Nedlands 6009  
==============================================================================
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