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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:32:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: DICE

>Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:52:30 +0100
>From: AUBERT%FRFLU51.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu
>Subject: DICE
>
>Hello, Amiga Land,
>I'm looking for a new C compiler with 1.3 and 2.04 include files (mine is prett
   y
>old ...). I've found two solutions.
>
>The easiest: SAS C v6.0. Everything I need is included ...
>
>The cheapest: Registered version of DICE.
>
>I don't really need a debugger, but I need:
>
>  - 1.3 and 2.04 include files, and related libraries (amiga.o,c.o,...)

The 1.3 and 2.04 include files are available from CATS (Commodore Applications
and Technical Support) for $20.  Ask for the 2.04 Native developer update.

Someone reported earlier that the disk he received were full of useful
Amiga programming tools including the include files.

>  - ANSI compatibility

The PDC compiler off Fish disk 351 may have be useful to you.  It does
support ANSI.

>  - Linkable libraries: somewhere you put your most often used objects (.o) and
>    thing. Does DICE can do this? Att: I DON'T WANT TO BUILT A RUNTIME
>    LIBRARY. Something like a ranlib on UNIX.
>  - 68000 or 68030 generated codes.
>  - make command (dmake,bmake,lmk,...) as much as possible UNIX like.
>  - compilation options as much as possible UNIX like.

I used the ZC compiler (Fish 314), which had a linkable runtime, make
utility. Don't know about the 68030 support though.  There are several
linkable runtimes available from the Fish disks.

>
>I'm writing softwares for Amiga and Workstations (SUN and DEC), and I
>would like to share a lot of thing between two versions.
>
>I don't know if what I've write is meaningfull, but every opinion is
>wellcome.
>
>Bye, Stef.

Good Luck,

-Lance
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From: DELANEYD@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
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Subject: Re: A4000
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:47:00 GMT
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Nyle,

        Well, it would be a drive but here is Syracuse there is a very good
sized dealer-- Industrial Color Labs.  They have more software and hardware
on display (including the video toaster workstations and high end video equip)
than any place I have seen.  (Including chicago where I went to undergrad and
the new york city region).  For a town the size of Syracuse, it is a _Large_
dealer (actually for a town of any size).  In fact, it has more HW & SW than
any mac or clone store in the area.  Well worth the drive.  To be honest though,
(I've only be in central NY for the last two years) I have no idea how far
syracuse is from potsdam.

        -->>Dave
From: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
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Subject: Formating 1.76 HD floppy with Diskmaster2
Date: 14 Oct 1992 05:09:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
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I have and A3000 with the Amiga doublespeed HD/2D floppy drive.

I am able to format both 2D and HD floppies (8.8 and 1.76) from the
workbench menu.  

I can format 2D floppies from the DiskMaster 2.0 menu.  When I try to
format a HD floppy from this menu, however, the drive lights up etc. and the
DiskMaster menu bar says it is formatting the disk, but when it is through,
the icon on WorkBench is named DF0:NDOS and the message from DiskMaster is
"not a DOS disk".

Any suggestions (other than just to only use workbench to format HD
floppies)?
 
 
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 al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D. Goldstein     M\  /M 
                                                     M \/ M  GO BLUE!
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
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Subject: Re: drives clicking?
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:52:19 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

In <9210161326.AA15646@lns598.TN.CORNELL.EDU> "Daniel S. Riley" <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU> writes:

>yurick@VAXR.LLNL.GOV writes:
>>Some drives are very resistant to "anti-clickers".  I have a set of extremely
>>resistant drives.  I've tried several such programs, to no avail.  Other people
>>have been luck enough to kill the dreaded click on the first try.  Argggghhhh!

>However, some older drives cannot be set not click.  If you have one of
>these drives, that don't quiet down (or even get noisier) when you noclick
>'em, give it up--trying to noclick one of these drives can actually
>damage the drive mechanism!  This is why noclick is not the system default.

This MAY be what has happened to my drive that sticks out it's "tongue" at me
The problem had NOT occurred until I tried Non-Click and got even LOUDER
clicks.  I only fooled with it about 3 times before giving up, but apparently
damage has been done. :<  Yes, these are old drives, 1986/88.  But at least
the drive WORKS, and the other does not appear to have been affected.

Is there any TRUTH to what someone told me in email?

That leaving disks in the the drives to shut them up can cause the heads to
become PERMANENTLY magnetized?  (or was it vice versa?)  Either way, can I 
actually damage the drives by keeping floppies in them 24 hours a day every
day. (Usually blank, just in case of a disaster... :>)

When I'm sleeping, the drives sound like someone is trying to bash through my
screen door.  Considering the recent break-ins in the area lately, it would
be nice if the drives didn't cause periodic adrenalin rushes in the wee hours
of the morning!

Thank you!
Crystal
  ;>

>--
>Dan Riley                          Internet:   dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu
>Wilson Lab, Cornell University     HEPNET/SPAN: lns598::dsr (44630::dsr)
>	 "Maybe, leastways is the best way of all" -Caterwaul
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 14:15:12 HST
From:         Todd Mizomi <TODDM@UHUNIX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: A4000 price

where did you buy it from? our local dealer here charges $3195 for the
A4000?!?!?
Is there gooing to be an educator discount or trade-up (I have a 2000HD and
am trying to decide whether to upgrade it with ECS,2.04, and Toaster, or get
a 3000 or 4000)
From: rharnaga@ARISTOTLES.RUTGERS.EDU (Robert Harnaga)
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Subject: Re: A4000
Date: 10 Oct 92 02:09:33 GMT
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Tell me some more info:  Is the ram 32 bit ram, what is the size of the
monitor?

You see, I am really looking to buy an A3000 with 25Mhz and a HD > 100Mb.



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From:         "An Incarnation of Deva Winblood" <STU529655672@WSC.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Some Information I compiled and sent to misinformed people.

Ok...

	I appreciate all the comments to the information(misinformation)
I posted. As it said in the information it was something I just typed in
on the spur of the moment. I will take any criticisms to heart and revise
it...

So far it has been avidly pointed out that the A600 is a 7.16MHz 68000
processor and not the 16 or 25MHz processor I suggested. Thanks for the
information I guess it shows that I should not make assumptions that
because the Technology is there it will be used in place of older technology.

Many other points have been made. Several people have sent encouragement...
Several have felt it was too full of misinformation to be of any value.


I still would like to know any information on Amigas and Networking.


Seizure later,

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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:43:00 EST
From:         doleckma <DOLECKMA@SNYALFVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: upgrade: Final Copy to FC II

TO: Rabid
        Please post your review of Final Copy II when you get a chance.  I would
be VERY interested in a review of Prowrite's latest version.  If anyone has
used both, could you post a compare contrast or send it to me?  I haven't
upgraded Prowrite since 2.5.  I am going to buy one or the other in the
near future.  Features are nice, but I need to know if I can compose a
quick document at 10 or 12 CPI and just dump it out to print with my printer's
(KXP 1124) internal fonts also.  This is just as important to me as all the
fancy font and Postscript features.

Mark Dolecki    Computer Specialist -- Alfred Tech              doleckma@snyalfv
a
                        doleckma@snyalfva.cc.alfredtech.edu
From: MiguelFA@LCAEE.FEE.UNICAMP.BR
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Subject: Re: screen saver/blanker for an amiga ?????
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>
> hi,
>

        Hi, nice to meet you.

>
>   Is there such a thing as a screen saver/blanker for an Amiga ?????
>

        There are LOTS of them. One that I suggest is Mach III or IV. It have
screensaver, mouse accellerator, Sun "Move Pointer" mouse, hot keys and a lot
of features.

        Try wuarchive.wustl.edu and nic.funet.fi to find that. If you don't
find this softwares I could send a unregistered copy of Mach III via E-Mail/
uuencode.

        Bye.

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From: mclem@MPH.SM.UCL.AC.UK (Matthiew Clemence)
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Subject: mixed bag
Date: 15 Oct 92 09:31:26 GMT
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Good morrow folks,
(this bit repeats, I'm not sure if the original got through)
I am musician doing arrangements for a 21 piece glen millar style Big Band and
want a programme that can actually write the music down. This comes as something
of a shock to most shop assitants who keep pointing at MED and MusicX Bars and
 pipes etc. saying things like "I did a great rave/disco/get down funk techno
 pop
version of the theme off sesame street on here in 10 mins yesterday" while
flicking through a copy of the beano (I have a very low opinion of computer
shop sales people in the UK who are at the bast unhelpful and ignorant). Anyhow
to the point.
 	Dr.T (used to be in Massachusets(?) i think) have now moved and produce
(as far as I know) the only decent scoring software around on the amiga. Does
anyone out there know the address or any other software that might do the trick?

WRT the clicking diskdrives I seem to vaguely remember that there is a field in
the mountlist for 1.3 and higher that turns off the clicking ? Or am I
barking up the wrong hatstand ?

Are there any other amiga specific lists around ?

Thanks awfully with lashings of ginger beer (well just the lashings)
Matthew
From: KYL113@URIACC.URI.EDU (Lord Flashheart)
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Subject: Opalvision
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:34:41 GMT
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    OK, here is another question that has been brewing in my head.  I have
been planning on using the Opalvision board, but I am hesitant to buy it,
because I want proof that the piggybacking genlock will come out for it.  I
want to support the company, but I just have to get that genlock.   :)

    Also is it compatible with, say, ray tracing software that utilizes 24 bit
graphics cards?  Are the new morphing programs that Amiga World highlighted
compatible with it in the 24 bit arena?

                                                      -CARL
                                              KYL113@URIACC.URI.EDU

                                                         :(
                                                        :)
From: roman@TIX.TIMEPLEX.COM ((Daniel Roman))
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Subject: Re: NEC 3FGX monitor
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:53:59 GMT
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              "MOOREL%CWU.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu" at Oct 14, 92 1:57 pm

MOOREL%CWU.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
> I cannot do PAL on the 4FG at all. If I want to do PAL I would have to drag
 out
> my old 1984 monitor. Other than that everything works great. As far as the AA
> chip set I believe that I will be able to do everything that will be offered
> (except PAL). All of the  new resolutions use scan rates that are within the
> range of the 4FG. That was one of the reasons that I choose the 4FG over the
> 3FGx. The 4FG has a continous scan range, while the 3FGx only works in two
> "bands" of ranges.
>
> -Lloyd-
Bummer, guess that rules out the NEC monitors for me.  Like I said, I
have yet to find the perfect monitor.  I may just end up with the 1960
even though I wanted something with a little larger screen.

--
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Ascom Timeplex Inc. | \\\///                        GEnie:  D.ROMAN1
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:41:56 +0100
From:         GWEYENS@BBRBFU60.BITNET
Subject:      <none>

SUBJECT: Viewer
FROM: Guy Weyens <GWEYENS@BBRBFU60.BITNET>

I am looking for a small program that can show and run
a large animation (for the moment a 5MB animation
of Imagine) while reading the information from the
hard disk (not enough RAM). I am thinking about
something similar to Vanim from Vista Pro.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Guy
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:11:48 GMT
From:         R.Tait@BNR.CO.UK
Subject:      Re: Networking on the Amiga

> Does anyone have any tech information to compare how Amiga handles
> Networking? How do Amigas compare to Macintosh in this aspect?
> What kind of cards do we have? How do we Amigas handle TCP/IP, DECNet, etc.
> ?
>
> Any information would be greatly appreciated... I am getting the information
> out to people at the college I am currently attending in order to give
> information about Amiga to people who normally bash it without knowing what
> they are talking about...
>
> I will send the document I have written so far to this listserv...
> It is rather long... but it has gotten positive remarks from both
> MAC and I Breed Moron enthusiasts that I have

There has been a few articles in the UK mag Amiga Shopper about Amigas and
Networking. The only one I recall off hand was to do with integrating Amigas
into Novell Netware networks.

Anyway, I will fish them out and summarize the articles, and then post it
here.

---
Rick M. Tait   Networking Software Engineer, Bell Northern Research (Europe)
NMBase         Internet: rickt@bnr.co.uk | ricktait@bnr.ca | R.Tait@bnr.co.uk
OSI TCP/IP     By Horse: Dept GM21, Oakleigh Road South, New Southgate, London
TLA RTFM       ICBM: 43 31N 89 12W  (No multiple-warheads please...)
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:16:18 EDT
From:         WILSON@RPIECS.BITNET
Subject:      Correction of correction

"Kevin R(ocket J. Squirrel) Araki" <JSKRA@ALASKA.BITNET>  writes:
>Okay, the clock speed is technically correct too, because you can get aused
>16MHz A-3000, but the only ones that dealers are selling now are the (Mtorola
>68030) 25MHz A-3000.  RAM memory is only 2MB, and it is all chip RAM.
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Again to use Kevin's words.
>Bzzzzzp, thanks for playing, we have some nice consolation gifts for yo back-
>stage.

The 2MB of ram is configured as 1MB fast ram and 1MB chip ram.
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:26:05 EDT
From:         BPHILLIP@UTCVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: High density drives on Amiga (inf0)

i saw some HD drives for the Amiga at Ampex in Atlanta... I think they
were around 180$ or so a piece... Internal only.
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From:         "I Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar" <MNP1112@TNTECH.BITNET>
Subject:      RE:Keyboard

there is a keyboard learning tool for the Amiga called Mircale...

I hope this helps...

Michael..
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From:         "(Daniel Roman)" <roman@TIX.TIMEPLEX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Amigas & Tape Drives
              92 4:27 pm

Rick Tait writes:
> thus: How do I get _large_ files from my Sparc to my Amiga without resorting
> to connecting it to the network? (ie Ethernet cards/RS-232 etc).
I do exactly the same thing but with one extra step, I have to transfer
the files over to a PC clone first cause I'm hanging off a SPARC on the
network and direct access to the floppy is inconvient.  I wrote a quick
program to split the binary files (sometimes as large as 3MB) into
chunks the right size for a 720K floppy.  There is a unix command
that'll do that also, the name escapes me though.
>
> One thought which struck me last night is this. I have a GVP HC-8 SCSI card
> and HD. Since I have an external SCSI port, could I directly fit my Sparc tape
> drive into that port and restore from tape the large files onto my Amiga?
> If the actual connection is OK, what about devices? Handlers? Software? I have
> 2.04 and I recall seeing a command like "magtape" hanging around somewhere -
> will this work?
I can read and write Sparc compatible 150MB tar tapes with my tape drive
on my Amiga.  The Sparc tape drives are SCSI II but should probably work
with any SCSI controller.  You will need a PD package called
scsiutils.lzh for the scsi tape device driver and a tar program like
GNUTar for the Amiga.  This combo has worked for me just fine.  I really
only use that method if I have alot of files though since getting to the
tape drive is more difficult than getting to the floppy drive.


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From: LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET (The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair.)
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Subject: Re: Some Information I compiled and sent to misinformed people.
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:43:00 GMT
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>At the moment...
>IBM 386 board available for A3000 and lower models..
>AMAX II+ emulator will emulate Mac Classics faster than the origional(
>         requires MAC 128K ROMS)
>EMPLANT(Still in Vaporware state, there are pictures of it, but I have
>        not been able to talk to anyone who has one) This board is presently
>        said to be able to emulate MAC IIci and IIsi computers.. the
>        EMPLANT itself is new technology though and it emulates by
>        dumping the ROM image into a file and running from a RAM Drive.
>        It is said to run faster than the machine it emulates. The
>        engineers said they had plans to emulate 486' and Quadra
>        machines in the future. I will type up the information I have for
>        anyone that wants it, and I will keep you apprised of new info
>        as I get it.
>
>What is so nice about this, is that the AMIGA could run Macintosh, IBM,
>and Amiga programs simultaneously and concurrently....!!! THREE
>COMPUTERS IN ONE.( This has already been done using 286 Board and AMAX
>  II+)
>
>Prices.
>386 board        -  $300 -> $400
>AMAX II+         -  $250 -> $450
>EMPLANT          -  $300 -> $600

Hi,
   As I have mentioned before there is a stand alone 486 bridgeboard, by some
third party developer.  It is a 33mhz 486 for around $1635.  It's specs are
very good.   And to verify this fact simply check the back of AmigaWorld's
latest issue.  The issue on the A4000.  C.I.O. it's in the classifieds, but
that doesn't mean the company is bad. :)  Well anyways just thought you might
want to add that fact to the amazing list that you have compiled here.  Good
job, I also have run into to many ignorant close minded people.  They don't
even try the machine before slamming it.  If you update this list in anyway
please send me a new copy.  Since I will use this to impress friends and
relatives. :)

Later,
Nyle
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