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From: dvaz@dvtown.UUCP (David Vazquez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
Distribution: world
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:14:24 CST
Organization: Not an Organization

>In article <1992Sep14.105803.5252@rdg.dec.com> cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>APPLAUSE!!!  Few truer words have been heard on the Net for quite a while!
>Commodore has received so much flak in the past for not producing a better
>chip-set, and now that they have, everyone is mad that it's incompatible
>with the old technology and can't just be plugged into the older machines.
>
>The new AGA chip-set can only provide something truly new if it breaks the
>bonds that tie the old chip-set down.	If you REALLY wanted upgrades to the
>3000 then you would not get anything more impressive than the change from
>the "older" set to the ECS.  Hey, it was nice to get, right?  But was it
>exciting?
>
>I'm not happy that the new AGA won't plug into 3000s (or my 2000 for that
>matter) but I accept it as a fact of life that if you really want to get
>ahead you can't expect to do that with old weights around your ankles.
>

Then explain to me why a VGA card will work in an IBM XT that was designed
way back in the prehistoric age, but C= can't get the AGA chip set to work
in a machine that was designed much later (e. g. the A3000)??

If you think the big software houses aren't writing for the Amiga now do you
think they'll start anytime soon?  I mean, what do you do (go after the
bigger market--ECS--or write 256 color apps just to show off the AGA's pretty
colors [err, newer technology].

Don't get me wrong.  I think Commodore is on the right track (I hate the IDE
idea, but it's about time they started using SIMMs), but I hate the way they
got everyone hyped up on the 3000 (power-up, etc) only to render it useless
after two years (provided AGA catches on of course).

> ._.  Udo Schuermann	  "Blutige L"ocher in den K"opfen zeigte man den Knaben
> ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu  gern, doch von jenem Loch der L"ocher hielt man sie
> Seeking virtual memory   mit Hieben fern." -- Franz-Joseph Degenhardt,
>						    'In den guten alten Zeiten'

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From: trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted
Date: 5 Sep 92 06:31:53 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

Advantage is a great spread sheet program (Gold Disk)  It has nice features and
imports files such as Lotus 1-2-3.  The only problem I have with it, is the
fact that it looks very unprofessional.  The graphs are great.

The printing is terrible.  But as for a nice Spreadsheet that U can import and
"export"  This is a good one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace)
Subject: Serial port & modem question
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:01:45 GMT

A couple of questions...

A) Is there such a beast as an internal Amiga modem.

B) If there is, can I run two modems on different channels, so to speak.  Have
one program address my external modem and another address my internal?

->Stace<-
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Please help me get "BlackBorder"
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 21:47:12 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Hello,
>
>        I'm looking for the program "Blackborder" by Peter Kunath and
>Frank Riffel that blanks the band of unusable border around the workbench by
>turning them to black.

I'm currently using Borderblank by Fabio Rossetti.  It's available on
Portal.  It permanently blanks the border around all screens.  The only
program that doesn't like it is (not surprisingly) the Toaster.

I know it's on portal, but I can't say about any of the expensive
commercial nets.

I don't ever recall seeing Blackborder anywhere.  Hmm.  I'll take a look for
it.  In the mean time, perhaps I could mail you Borderblank?


-Joel
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From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Subject: Re: A400 questions
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 17:52:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.051605.11420@ultb.isc.rit.edu> tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>
>	1)  What is the optional SCSI adapter
   
   Right now it's the A2091. They've commented that a SCSI-II card will be
   available RSN.

>	2)  How about a full list of the AGA resolutions/colors

   All colors in all resolutions. Take ECS resolutions and add 256. The new
   HAM modes can do 256,000 colors. HAM is no longer limited to lores.

>	4)  Will I get a free CDTV if I buy one?

   That's for the A3000, not the A4000.

>	7)  Does the Toaster fit and work properly?

   Apparently not. Blame it on NewTek - they knew the rules, and they
   broke them. 

>	8)  Does it come with DiskSalv and is it now copyright by
>	    Commodore?

   No, neither Workbench 2.1 or 3.0 come with DiskSalv.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Re: ToolsDeamon
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date:  9 Sep 92 11:17:09 GMT

Ashley.Frazer@newcastle.ac.uk (Ashley Frazer) writes:
>  I tried ToolsDaemon earlier but it doesn't seem to have the Dock Icon
>  feature of ToolManager. Since I went to some trouble designing icons
>  for this and I use it a lot I think I will stick to ToolManager. 

ToolsDaemon only creates menus.

>  Does anyone know if the dock feature will be included in a future release?

I don't think so.

	Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
Subject: Re: A4000 questions
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:30:07 GMT

tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

>	Well now that the A4000 specs are out (I ftp'd them from physik)
>I have a few questions:

>	1)  What is the optional SCSI adapter
	
	The A2091.  A 32-bit, SCSI-II adaptor is due 1/93.

>	2)  How about a full list of the AGA resolutions/colors

	Same as now, except 8-bit/SuperHAM in every mode.

>	7)  Does the Toaster fit and work properly?

	The toaster doesn't work with the AGA chipset presently.

--Andre

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: grabber@isy.liu.se (Olof Zachrisson;Joakim Verona)
Subject: How to unpack lha142r.run?
Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:24:24 GMT

I havent been able to figure out how to unpack the latest registered
version of LhA; lha142r.run. What happens is as following:

> 5.usr:downloads/LhA_r> lha142r.run                  
> LhASFX V1.4p, Copyright (c) 1991,92 by Stefan Boberg
> filename.run -? for help                            
>                                                     
> This is only for registered users.                  
> 5.usr:downloads/LhA_r> lha142r.run -?               
> LhASFX V1.4p, Copyright (c) 1991,92 by Stefan Boberg
> filename.run -? for help                            
>                                                     
> This is only for registered users.                  
> 5.usr:downloads/LhA_r>

I'm running the standard 2.0 shell.

I had expected "lha142r.run -?" to present som help. Any ideas? (Boberg?)

/OZ
From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: help w/ HDBackup!
Date: 8 Sep 92 02:07:46 GMT
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.

In article <1992Aug29.132615.2066@wkuvx1.bitnet> smithmn@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
>
>Help! I've used the backup utility v37.8 to backup the work side of my
>HD, and in my haste I deleted the log file. Now my problem is I can't
>even do a no-log restore because HDBackup locks up if I try any backup
>or restore option. You know what kind of hassle it's gonna be if I
>loose 40+ megs of stuff, so please someone help!
>



HDBackup is just a graphical shell for BRU.  Go directly to BRU.  Do
not stop at HDBackup.    BRU is not that difficult, and will
be able to restore without a log file.

BRU -h gives a command summary;  Complete docs are in the V37 system
software manual.  But basically, it works like most archivers or tar.

>Mike Smith               / /    |       'I mingle with the gods

		andy
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"OS/2 is the operating system for the next thousand great applications." -
 one of the things Bill Gates probably wishes he hadn't said.


Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share.
I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
From: guru@hotcity.COM (Darren Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AnimPlayer
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:30:50 GMT
Organization: BBS

Where can I get RTap and BigAnim from?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: luyten@fwi.uva.nl (J.A.W.M. Luyten (I91))
Subject: Re: A4000 Q's
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:18:02 GMT

Are they shipin' to Europe ??? When ??? Price ??

	Hans
From: csirigna@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (csirigna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: PD game ORBIT
Date: 9 Sep 1992 02:48:26 GMT
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada

I dloaded the game called orbit at wuarchive, and it needs a program called
ARES.  If anyone has any information about this program could you email me.
I can't get the game to work without it.

Carmine Sirignano
csirigna@thunder.lakeheadu.ca
From: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!  1960, Flicker Free Video 2
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:52:33 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna) writes:
>trat@amiganet.chi.il.us (Thomas Reamer) writes:
>>Hey hey!  I own a 1960 multisynch and I purchased and installed the new
>>Flicker Free Video 2.  Well, everything looks awesome except a couple things.
>>I am using Jr-Comm now and am in interlace---Heres the problem
>>
>>The scrolling is giving me a headache!  No joke, I never get headaches, but my
>>eyes just can't handle the jump jittery scrolling!  Not to mention the font
>>that is way to small and hard to read!
>
>You need to get a copy of a freeware program called CPUBLIT.  It hands some
>of the blitting requests over to the CPU, since it can do them faster.
>You can find this program in the utilities directory of disk two of any version
>of TERM.

I'm afraid CpuBlit won't help with the "jittering"; this is caused by
the fact that the screen is only being fully updated 30 times a second,
while each field is being updated at 60 times a second. It's the same
reason that moving objects break up on de-interlaced screens. There's
no easy cure, unfortunately.

(I read that the new Philips 100 Hz TV's which essentially have a built-in
flicker fixer to make the TV picture look sharper actually do real-time
analysis of the display using a custom chip to get around the "break-up"
problem; I doubt it would be able to cope with a page of scrolling text
though :-)

Eddy
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Internet: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie             |  died in MUD!" -- Richard Bartle
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Rick Stiles
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 92 12:50:11 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

>
>I am looking for the current address and telephone number of Rick Stiles
>the author of the UEDIT editor for the AMIGA. The last address/tel
>that I have is:
>Rick Stiles, PO Box 666, Washington, IN 47501,  tel (812)-254-4986.	
>This was good as of February 19, 1992.
>However the telephone number was no longer in service yesterday.
>Perhaps he has moved?
>-----------------------------------------------
>  Reply-To:  Rostyslaw Jarema Lewyckyj
>             urjlew@uncmvs.acs.unc.edu    (ARPA,SURA,NSF etc. internet)
>          or urjlew@unc.bitnet
>          or urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP 
>       tel.  (919)-962-6501

Unfortunately, Rick Stiles passed away in July 1992. I was not a
registered owner of his program so I don't know what his last 
current address was. However I have heard that his parents were
completely aware of his Amiga efforts and that they will shortly
be releasing U-Edit to the public domain. I believe this info to be
correct. Someone let me know if I'm wrong. How the mechanics of
this new distribution will work is unknown to me however I believe
that registered owners of U-Edit were recently sent a letter from
his parents detailing the sad situation of his passing and their
plans for changing the status of his product to PD. 

Perhaps a registered owner of U-Edit could supply the missing details.

Harv
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: What is (infamous) RTG?
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:24:40 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

Often, RTG graphics are expressed wanted in the Amiga
Operating System; what is it? Real Time Graphics?
Real True Golour? (Honestly, I'm clueless about what
RTG supposedly stands for)
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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Jay Miner
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17:04:34 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep15.221948.25915@javelin.sim.es.com>

>What happened to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?  I'm still looking for that
>mysterious "virus" that Jim claimed erased his disks.
>-- 

>Pete Ashdown    pashdown@slack.sim.es.com    ...uunet!slack.sim.es.com!pashdow
n

I yakked with Jim at the WOC show. He was working the CBM booth. 
I asked him what happened with 20,000 Leagues. He said he's still working
on it on and off between other projects. He's settled all his differences
with Disney and he might actually finish the game one of these years.

Harv

ps.. the virus didn't "erase" his disks. He had a lot of custom bootblock
code on his floppies and the old SCA virus stung him when he took the
disks to an Aegis Development invitation-only show held at a movie
theatre in Santa Monica, CA a number of years ago. The virus was on
one of Aegis' machines and Jim shoved in his disk(s) and that was that.
"Didn't he have any backups!?" I dunno.. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: A4000 HardDrive
Reply-To: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:04:54 GMT

I was wondering, what kind of harddrive is shipping with the A4000
and what are the transfer speed specs like?

			Todd
From: rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 discontinued?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Reply-To: rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:55:17 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <sheldon.716046346@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
>If I understand correctly, the 68000 is also surface mounted.
>So replacing it is not a solution, at least it would not be practical
>cost wise, as you'd probably damage quite a few of the things to get one
>right, if you could do it at all...

If I remember, most of the chips in the 600 are surface mounted.
So 3rd party internals are screwed.

>Now if Commodore can just come out with a mid-priced model, say maybe a
>16 Mhz 68030, or 68020 even priced around $1200 with a monitor and harddrive.
>Oh well, we is dreaming...

Let's say you buy a 600.  Then you decide "gee, a faster processor
would be nice."  So you'll either have to ...

	Buy a new Amiga.
or
	Get your 600 to a service center for upgrade.  But wait,
	there's no service center within a 100 miles?  Then you're screwed.

At least with a 500 I can pop open the hood and add stuff without
whipping out soldering iron.

                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.
From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: FlickerFixer Preferences?  (!)
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:05:20 MDT
X-From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
X-Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications

X-Date: 14 Sep 92 15:53:53 MDT
X-Organization: Utah State University

I read somewhere about a commercial utility made by (I *THINK*) IDE
called "flickerfixer preferences" or something like that.

It claimed was able to "boost" up current 60Hz and 50Hz to 72Hz or even
stuff like 100Hz totally transparent to the system.

I have really sensitive eyes and was wanting to know how the 72Hz mode
works.  If it works nicely, I'll buy the package.

The ad said it worked with IDE's flickerfixer and the A3000 de-interlacer.

Can somebody please tell me about this product!

Greetings,

	Travis Carter
	slbfn@cc.usu.edu
From: lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com (John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AGA chipset
Keywords: AGA chipset 4000 new modes resolution color
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:47:16 GMT
Reply-To: lockhart@cbmvax.commodore.com (John W. Lockhart - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <BuI0yK.6rB@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
>So, what exactly are all of the new modes on the AGA chipset?  Please be very
>very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very
>specific and include which are HAM modes and which are "pure" modes.  Thanks! 
>
>Wulf                    | "Martha, it's another one of those CS majors asking
>jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |  if cow chips are pin-compatible with 68040s..."

Well, a lot of people have asked this very question, and it has been
answered in other groups.  But I have a suggestion to add, so here
goes:

It is rather easy to write a program which queries the graphics
database and prints the results.  You can do this with the existing
2.04 materials. 

Once any user gets his/her hands on an A4000 for a few minutes, said
user can launch all the Monitor programs, and then launch this
hypothetical Query program, saving the result to floppy.  The
resulting file would be the definitive answer.  (It would also be a
very LONG answer.)  The nice thing about this approach is
that you don't even need to have the appropriate monitor
attached to see all the specifications...

The more enterprising programmer can add an option to actually display
these screens, and the even more patient user can sit and watch them
all :-) The only caution here is that it can take quite a while to go
through all the monitor/mode combinations, even for only the V37
(2.04) modes.  (Just look at the V37 <graphics/displayinfo.h> for a
rough idea of just how many I'm talking about.)

(Admittedly, this suggestion is more appropriate for the
csa.programmer group, but some enterprising person out there may find
it useful :-)

  -- John

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Working for, but not speaking for, Commodore.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Subject: Re: SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon...NOT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:37:22 GMT

tomri@ida.liu.se (Tom Rindborg) writes:

>markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes:

>> (Or wait for Toolmanager 2.0 , this one will bring
>> the revolution on your Workbench...)

Yes, indeed, it's GREAT !!!
Exspecially the ***CENSORED*** and the ***CENSORED***.

>When, oh WHEN??? It should be illegal to tease us like this... :-)

Yes, but it's VERY funny :-)

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	Another ToolManager Beta-Tester ...
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University of Paderborn (Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Subject: Re: No! Say it's not so, Ed! (re CDTV)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:29:05 GMT

In article <BuLKo7.3A2@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>CDTV is DEAD, no!  Does this mean it will become extinct after some time?  And
>if so, how much time?  Does this also mean that poor Jim Sachs worked on
>Defender of the Crown CDTV version in vain?  I was hoping to buy CDTV at some
>point, since C= was lowering the price under $500, at least that's what I
>heard.  Can someone give me details?  I hope the thing doesn't vanish off the
>market completely.  CDTV is great!
>
Can't be too dead. At the recent WOC in Pasadena, C= had a number of CDTV
displays running. 

jeff
From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried.Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Aztec C 5.0d
Date: 11 Sep 92 09:14:30 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany

fletcher@rtf.bt.co.uk (Catherine Fletcher) writes:

>Hi


>Can anyone tell me what Aztec C 5.0d is and where I might get it from?

>Thanks in advance
>-- 
> Catherine 
> _____________________________________________________________________________

>    "Anyone who calls a spade a spade should be compelled to use one"
>    Oscar Wilde
> _____________________________________________________________________________

Hi Catherine,
what you want is Aztec C 5.2 (5.0 is an obsolete version). Aztec C is
the C compiler made by Manx (a US company) and available for several
hardware platforms. You shoul ask your local software dealer for that
beast.

winnie.