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From: lauch@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Chung Lau)
Subject: Re: Face it, Amiga's are no good!
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 23:03:58 GMT

In article <y#4t_8j@rpi.edu> borres@aix.rpi.edu (Steven D. Borrelli) writes:
>
>At $49.95 a pop, is IBM going to make any money off of OS/2? I know they 
>want to get market share and all, but I heard their development costs were
>in the billions. 

  Well it's not all spent on developing 2.0, I think that figure also
includes money spent on 1.0, 1.1...etc

  In any case, I think it's a very good move.  I thought they would price
it at $99 for competitive upgrade from windows.

>Can you hear IBM's answer?
>"So, how do we make money off OS/2? I'll sum it up in one word:volume."

  If OS/2 2.0 fails IBM will have no place to stand in the clone OS market.  

>BTW, I too am anxiously waiting to see what OS/2 is like. I may get flamed
>for saying this, but I'd like to see IBM correct its ways and its downhill
>slide. 

  Well let me just say that OS/2 2.0 is great, well worth waiting for.

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Stephen Lau, Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Hawaii           
Internet: lauch@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu, Stephen_Lau@asylum.flex.com 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: abend@flounder.cis.ohio-state.edu (dan edward abend)
Subject: Amiga Owners Unite
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:46:38 GMT

Do you own a Commodore Amiga?

If so then be prepared for the opportunity of a life time.
If not then I feel sorry for you.

I'm not selling anything.  In fact, someone else already has done that part
because you own an Amiga.  It doesn't matter what possessed you to purchase
it.  The simple fact is that you did.  By purchasing an Amiga, in a way,
you took a risk.  You did buy a computer with a huge established base
of hardware and software but you did choose a system with tremendous
potential.  Would you like to unlock that potential?

Even though you may feel like the only Amiga owner in existence, you are 
not alone and I have set out to prove it.  Amiga owners deserve respect.
Just because we don't own an IBM compatible or a Macintosh, doesn't mean
we are inferior.  It's time for you to stand up for your choice of computer.

All you have to do is reply to this article with your email address and I
will mail you an Amiga owner's survey and more information about something
brand new in the world of Amiga computing.

Buckle yourself in, it's gonna be a bumpy ride but one you won't soon forget

Dan Abend, Amigaphile                           (abend@cis.ohio-state.edu)
                   Only Amiga makes it happen  ;)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cython@ais.org (Tim Devlin)
Subject: Re: C= has fallen behind, was Re: Face it, Amiga's are no good!
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 08:16:35 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.051518.8382@gbrmpa.gov.au> matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt Crowd) writes:
>>What is it that you want to do on your Amiga that you can't do??
>
>Have a respected reputation.

Well, you have a differnt need then I do then.  Because quite frankly, I
culd give a rip as to what OTHER people think of my computer of choice.

It does what *I* need it to do, and thats all I really care about.
>
>>I get sooo tired of people bitching that "Oh no!! the amiga does nothave the
>>latest greatest version of Word Perfect, it MUST be dieing!!"  Give me a
>>break!  There are SEVERAL word processors out for the Amiga that will do
>>ANYTHING I ever need a word processor to do, and then some.  Do you want to
>
>They may do what YOU want, but take a serious user.......

Well, then go buy a a bridgeboard and run your "serious user" WP's
>
>>do DTP??  Propage and Pagestream are two of the best DTP packages avaible
>>for any platform. 
>
>Then why aren't they known?

Thats funny, almost everyone I know of knows about them...and I do know a
rather large number of people in the computer business.
>
>
>yeah, yeah, yeah, even the Amiga Magazines have to quote "Who's using the 
>Amiga" to reassure themselves they havn't bought a lemon.....

Gee, but its "OK" when the others quote who is using their system, take NeXT
for example, they do it ALL the time.  It's funny don't you think, if BOC
people think highly of the Amiga and don't care what others think, why do
you?

If you are SOO unhappy with the Amiga then YES BY ALL MEANS GO BUY A MS-DOS
BOX!!!

Im sorry, but I have to use an MS-DOS Box at work (but we are getting an
A3000 yea!) and I almost run home to get my hands on a REAL computer...I
hate almost everything about the Gateway I have to use it work, and its
concidered a high end system (33mhz 486, XGA etc.)  The Amiga, for my many
uses, just outruns that cloan by miles.  I get more work done on my Amiga
then I do on that box..hell what a joke we just installed windos 3.1, and my
god..crash crash crash!!  We ended up re-installing 3.0 just to get the damn
computer to work....

>
>>>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=_=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 
>>>Mark Skaff   //   Fidonet: 1:243/44.5
>>>Ottawa, Ont.//    Only Amiga Makes It Possible.
>>>=-=-=-=-=\\//=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 
>
>matt.
From: damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos)
Subject: Re: .info Magazine has "suspended operations"
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 15:41:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>Now (as the politicians might say) That being said... something
>sad happened a few days ago.  .info suspended operations.  God
>only knows the American Amiga-specific magazine market has
>narrowed in the last few years, what with the demise of
>Transactor, AmigoTimes, AMnews, Amiga+, Amiga Sentry, Amigan
>Apprentice & Journeyman, AX, Graf/X, and most recently, Amiga World's
>Tech Journal just a couple months ago.

this is indeed sad.  .info has been getting better and better over the
last year or so, a finer polish, better page layouts, etc etc., and
the articles are excellent.

curiously, my subscription is up with issue 49, so my mailing label
showed "..49 <--LAST". in fact, just this morning, not an hour ago,
i tried calling the offices to resubscribe. My AmigaWorld sub is
due in a couple of months, and i was planning on dropping AW in favor
of .info - .info just seems to have more "bang for the buck".

phooey. i sure hope they can refinance. Would it do any good at all
to send in a check to resubscribe, or would that likely end up being
a "charitable donation"? Do they need an infusion of cash or is it
deeper than that? i think the one real failing of .info is their 
re-subscription method - they don't send out any "your subscription
is due" letters, and i think a number of people just wind up letting
the sub lapse. Granted, the current method is more cost effective in 
the short term, but i'd bet it loses bad in getting people to repeat
their sub.


-- 
paul theodoropoulos                                         damiel@netcom.COM

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From: taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Hardwired Demo
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:27:31 GMT

I have seen several posts in teh past few days about the "Hardwired"
("Hardwire"?) demo...  It was highly praised by all who mentioned it.
One claimed it was the best Amiga demo seen yet.
 
Where can I find this thing?  Someone mentioned ab20 in the post.  I 
have checked amiga/demos/euro (also traditional) as well as a
incoming/amiga/DEMOS...
 
No luck, so where is this beast?!?
 
Thanks,
Terry
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Terry  -taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu-

One of these days I think I'll give up women
and take up kicking hornet's nests
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From: nicolai@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Nicolai Leymann)
Subject: Re: Fortran Compiler
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:05:17 GMT

hoffmann@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann) writes:


>Hi, 
>
>Does anyone know if there is any PD or shareware Fortran Compiler around? Could be for an IBM, Amiga or even Macintosh, my Amiga swallows anything.
>

You can find a Fortran Compiler (called BCF) for the Amiga on fish 470. 

        Nic
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From: aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:19:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: xxx.gif.jpg files...What are they?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc

|| If anyone can help with the .jpg extension, I would really appreciate it.
    
| The .jpg extension means that they have been compressed with the new jpeg
| routines. It can really compress the file in some instances. If you want to
| convert them you will need to find/get a conversion program to make the .jpg
| a .gif file.

Ok, I took the time to dl the JPEGV3 program to my DOS machine.  In a nut- 
shell, JPEG does for GIFs what ARC did for large .EXE(cutables).

It turns out that files with the .jpg extention are .gif files that have been
compressed WITH cjpeg.  You will need to use djpeg to decompress them.  The 
compression is real!  I djpeg'd a .jpg file of 103K...it turned out that it 
was really a 380K gif!  (sheesh!)  Er...that's almost 4:1 compression folks!

What's the catch?  (more than one)

1)  The compression (according to the README from the Independent JPEG Group) 
 "...is lossy, meaning that the output image is not necessarilly identical 
 to the input image. Hence you should not use JPEG if you have to have 
 identical output bits."

2)  For now, you will NEED a DOS (or unix) machine to convert the files.  

 Excuse me?  The distribution archive includes the 'C' code, and hopefully, 
 there is even now some 'happy C-coding amigoid' getting this ready for us.

Jim 8')s
aites@hpsmpa.lvld.hp.com
From: johnl@crash.cts.com (John Lindwall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: C= Multimedia ad in PC-Week
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:30:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

In the April 6 edition of PC-Week, Commodore has a full-page ad.  It
focuses on multimedia.  The headline reads "Nothing will sell you on
Commodore multimedia like a few minutes with Apple or IBM".   Next to the
add is a cartoon of a robber running  away with a bag of money.  The text
discusses the Amiga's multimedia advantages (NTSC scan rate, overscan,
AmigaVision, etc).  It also mentions PC/Mac compatibility (with available
hardware/software).

This is the first time I've seen C= advertise in PC-Week -- its nice to see
them attempting to reach some new markets.  In my edition, the ad is on an
unnumbered page between 44 and 45.  Your mileage may vary.

---
John Lindwall                                    johnl@crash.cts.com
"...always use the formal attribute mechanisms for changing any field;
do not poke the objects." -- Jim Mackraz
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Text reader wanted capable to handle large files.
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:59:56 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I'm looking for a text reader which is capable of handling large files.
>Most of the readers I got load the whole file in memory, but that's
>a bit of a problem with files sized 2.5M. I can use type, but then
>I do not have scrolling or searching facilities. Can anyone direct
>me to a program which is capable of doing this? I know I can split
>the files, but I don't really want that...
>-Leon

My favorite is "Less 1.4z" from Fish disk #511. It'll "page" 
any size text file from disk without loading it all into memory
letting you read huge text files on any-memory-size Amiga. It's 
similar to "more" supplied by CBM on your WorkBench but much more
full-featured. Has (case-sensitive) forward and reverse
string search, percent positioning, built-in help, and etc.
Harv
From: warda@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SID 2.0 questions
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:27:12 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

In article <1992Apr14.055429.26275@CS.ORST.EDU>, mohrc@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU writes:
> Is there anyway to make SID 2.0 recognize new formats such as Powerpacked files?
> By this i mean if you double click on a PP file it will read it (just like a 
> plain text file) I know that this can be achieved through PP patch BUT i have
> other formats that i would also like it to recognize (mod files is one). If 
> anyone has any idea on this please email or post here, Also any other neat 
> tricks you might have found out i would love to know.
> 
I use PPmore as the installed textreader and although you can't double-click
on a powerpacked textfile, if you select the file and then use the READ
button, it works just fine.  Not quite as convenient, but good enough for me! 
But there must surely be a way to convince SID to automatically recognise new 
file-types and act accordingly, musn't there?
Bill Bennett

warda@uk.ac.oxford.vax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: drew@bluemoon.rn.com (drew wenger)
Subject: Amiga BBS's in Baltimore, MD
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 15:01:23 EDT

I'm going to be moving to Baltimore, MD in a few week and was wondering if 
someone could email a few phone #'s for Amiga supportive BBS's or any that 
support Fidonet, Usenet, or just about any other net. 

Thanks for your time in advance!!

Drew Wenger
drew@bluemoon.rn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: root@rkamiga.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  minix and the amiga
Distribution: world
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:47:12 EST
Organization: Rick's Amiga

In article <1992Apr7.100020.14379@bilpin.co.uk> vlod@bilpin.co.uk (vlod kalicun) writes:
>yep, Minix 1.5 is available for the ami. but thats as far as I know.
>
>What I would like to know is does it support hard drives.
>I've heard mixed reports about some that say they do, and some that
>say it can't?
>Would someone please clear this up?
>
>Thanks for your help..

There is an FTP'able kernel that supports hard drives, but the support
hasn't made it into the official release yet.

--
Rick Kelly		Rick's Amiga		Framingham, Mass.

		think!unixland!rmkhome!rkamiga!root

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:8430 comp.sys.amiga.applications:4111
From: sah@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Sikamikanico)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: The secret to FinalCopy's fast scaling.
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:48:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: mintaka.1992Apr13.024812.17063
Reply-To: sah@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Organization: Vallen Software


Well, evidentally, Softwood's FinalCopy doesn't use Compugraphic fonts.  Nor
does it use Adobe type I or III fonts.  They invented their own scalable 
format, which is called "Nimbus Q."  This is all the info I have on it, but 
I heard that Nimbus Q type scalables might be released for DOS usage, instead
of limiting their use to only FinalCopy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: sah@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Sikamikanico)
Subject: AMIGA HAS POTENTIAL - Yep, we *can* help...
Reply-To: sah@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:41:38 GMT


This solution may be too simple, but: If C= can't/won't advertise the Amiga
..maybe WE can.  For those of you who have local Amiga dealers, make flyers
that quickly tell what the Amiga can do, and refer the people to the local
Amiga place.  Or if you REALLY want to push Amiga on the public, set up some
sort of seminar/speech, where people could see the Amiga doing what it does
best: graphics, sound, ray-tracing, video, etc.  Perhaps the reason that IBM
is so far ahead as far as sales is because 1) They advertise lots.  2) People
*see* what it can do (as far as business applications).  Maybe if people *saw*
the Amiga at its best, it would make some mouths drop open and kick the sales
and popularity up.
A friend and I have some things planned already.  We plan to print up bundles
of flyers and post them around town.  Even just talking about it can do some 
good.  Our school library uses IBMs and Macs.  I told them about Amigas and
just a few of the things they can do, and now they're drooling over it. (Except
the director won't allow the library to use anything but IBMs and Macs.  Pretty
close-minded, no?)  
So if C= can't/won't advertise, at least we can help the Amiga spread around.
BTW, what *is* it with C=?  If they can't afford it, then how can they afford
--er.. how *could* they afford to conceive the Amiga 3000?
Plus, as far as the legal aspect.. Could we get in trouble for advertising
the Amiga in the ways I explained above?  I think we'd be ok, as long as no
money was involved.. i.e., gaining profit from advertising C='s products.
From: greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ab20 going down...I might be able to pick it up
Date: 14 Apr 92 04:02:03 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Hmm, I have an opposite problem.  The dept. where I work (physics) is getting
rid of an old machine.  This is a unix box with a 600meg (non scsi) drive.
They were going to give it to a physics-student club, but will let me take
it instead, to set up an amiga archive site.  I calculated that ab20 has
a total of about 300 megs of stuff right now (is that right?), so this should
work out OK.  However, they don't necessarily want it using their electricity
and their ethernet interface.  So, I'll be looking around for someplace
else to hook up to.  I'll keep in touch; this sounds promising.

Michael
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From: ian@ug.cs.dal.ca (Ian Littlewood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: LhA_e122.run on ab20 is bad
Keywords: lha LhA lharc corrupt archive
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:52:49 GMT
Distribution: dal
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In <1992Apr8.184312.29587@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> consp11@bingsuns (Brett Kessler) writes:

>I just ftp'ed LhA_e122.run from ab20, put it onto an MS-DOS disk, and
>brought it to my Amiga.  I couldn't get it to extract itself - it kept
>giving me the GURU.  Thinking I may have had a disk error on the
>MS-DOS disk (or in the transfer), I used LhA on the Unix side, which
>came back with a corrupt archive.

>Can somebody upload a new copy of the archive?  Maybe not even to ab20
>- how about one of the other sites, and letting us know where it is?

>Thanks a lot.

>+------///-+                       BRETT L. KESSLER
>|     ///  | consp11@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu           Binghamton State
>| \\\///   | OR bkessler@cup.portal.com            Sr. Computer Consultant
>+--\XX/----+            "WELL, WHATEVER, NEVERMIND" - Nirvana


I've downloaded that archive and it unpacked without any problems...
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: IBM Proprinter 24 driver for Amiga?
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:46:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: gn.1992Apr9.124645.28194
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Does anyone know where I can get an IBM Proprinter 24 printer driver for Workbench
2.04?

Thank you
From: app@shamash.cdc.com ( GSD Advanced Packing/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Update to Spartan SCSI / Fujitsu compatability issue
Date: 17 Apr 92 21:04:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: shamash.41270
Organization: Control Data, Arden Hills, MN

Hi there,

I recently posted a few questions regarding problems associated with
using the Spartan SCSI interface PD project and a Fujitsu 90 Meg.
drive.  Thanks to all the people who responded!

I've learned quite a few things.

First, DON'T be scared off from building the Spartan SCSI project.  I've
come to the conclusion that the problem is not with the interface or
software.  The real problem is the particular Fujitsu drive I selected.

I was under the false assumption that SCSI was SCSI and that any SCSI drive
will work with any SCSI interface and device driver.  As it turns
out, it's not as simple as all that.

The whole problem seems to be that if a drive is configured to work
with Macintosh's interpetation of the scsi protocal, it probably
won't work with an interface and software that is not talking
Mac scsi.  It is my understanding that not all the scsi handshaking
is implemented with Mac scsi.  If the software/hardware expects
certain signals in a certain way, and if it's not smart enough to
figure out that a "non-standard" protocal is expected, then
communications will fail.

A well designed drive has a whole series of jumpers and switches
which let the user configure the scsi protocal.  As it turns out the
Fujitsu I bought has done away with some of the switches and jumpers
and instead put the smarts in firmware (roms).  I asked Fujitsu if I
could just simply get a different rom, they said it still wouldn't
work.  With my drive, I'm pretty much stuck with Mac scsi.

The Fujitsu models which aren't fully configureable seem to be the
new small ones which are less than 300 meg.  The models are 2611 thru
2616.

I suppose if the device driver is smart enough to change the
protocal based on the configuration (as the Supra software seems to
be) then those drives can be used.  I personally do not want a drive
that is tailor made for Macintosh computers.  

I suspect that if I were smart enough to patch the device driver for
the Spartan interface (Paul Harker sent me the assembly source code), 
I could eventually get it to work with Macintosh drives.  To me it's
not worth the hassle, and besides if I ever attach other SCSI
devices to the SCSI bus, I think I may be in for trouble.

I think the moral of the story is stay away from mail order places who 
only sell to the Macintosh world.  When I called the MacDirect help
line, I usually got a response that they don't support Amiga
implimentations.  I had to call Fujitsu to find out what I really
had.  To be fair to MacDirect, I have a 30 day money back guarantee
and they're being nice about giving me my money back.

	 					Mike Lundberg
	 					app@shamash.cdc.com
From: bignone@aurora.unice.fr (Frank Bignone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AB20 closing?
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:57:10 GMT
Organization: University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis


	THANKS FOR ALL AB20.
	
 :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( 

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