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From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Date: 30 Jul 92 06:16:37 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <tony.712453386@ais.org> tony@ais.org (Tony Poole) writes:
>>(And have you read tha A4000 article?)
>
>Get up and dry yourself off.  Next time try not to believe everything you
>read.

I have heard nearly identical information from about 6 different sources.
I don't take extreme coincidences as such to be likely.  Of course, it's also
true that I'm not a moronically pessimistic individual :).

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"You fat, bloated BAKA!!" (_/(_/(_/(_/ \_)\_)\_)\___/(_/ \_)\___/ of Megawatts
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: bell@comute.enet.dec.com (Shane L. Bell)
Subject: ProDraw 3.0
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:31:24 GMT

    Can anyone can me a list of its features?
    Really what I want is people's opinions on this product.  Is this version
even out yet?  Do you feel it's worth purchasing.  Email is appreciated and
thanks for any views and opinions on this matter.  I appreciate your time and
effort in educating me so I can make the best choice for me.

		-- Shane L. Bell

		school - bell@alpha.ecs.umass.edu Sept '92 and after
		work - bell@flails.tay1.dec.com Summer '92
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: LHA for Unix?  IFF to GIF for Unix?
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <15387@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ccm038@rosie (Jason Yan (can cook)) writes:
>Hello, I was wondering if there exists a version of LHA for Unix.

Sure.  Check out the comp.compression faq for pointers to an ftp site.

>The PBMPLUS conversion utilities don't do IFFs.

Ours does... try pbmtoilbm and ilbmtopbm.

-- 
You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and
sound but of mind. A journey into a wonderous land whose boundaries are that of
imagination.  That's a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Guru listing?
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:42:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.711765759
Organization: University of Washington

Is there a listing of all the guru numbers somewhere? (seems to me I saw it,
but I can't remember where).  It would be nice to know why I keep crashing
things.  (Or rather, why it decided I was being a twit and is *trying* to 
inform me of the errors of my ways)  ;>

Crystal
  ;>
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 article
Date: 30 Jul 92 04:23:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Jul29.212328.157
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > That's a fascinating post, but there's nothing about being
 > able to run Windows 3.1. Will it be able to do that?

Of course.  You have seen the mentions of the 386SX BB, right?  Presto,
your Amiga can be brain dead too.  Wow.  What an UPgrade.  :-/



                -=- Ed


ProLine:  <LOGIN>@<HOST>
Internet: <LOGIN>@<HOST><DOMAIN>
UUCP:     crash!<HOST>!<LOGIN>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang)
Subject: Developing for CDTV ? and...to CDTV or not to CDTV ???
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:43:59 GMT

Ok, so CDTV prices are on the drop, and I've found out that they can
be used as a CDROM to my 3000...nice !

But the obvious now arises !!!

Why would I * not * buy a CD ROM, and instead by a CDTV ???  I've been told
the stand-alone CDROMs are usually faster than the CDTVs, so then for
such storage I'd be wiser to get a CDROM.  But, what would a CDROM do for
me except handle large amounts of data ???  Are there any CDROM-specific
applications that I would love to use....are there any CDTV pros/cons ??

Let me have it all !!! I'm trying to decide between a CDTV and a CDROM
for my 3000....

Then of course is the question...I'm an Amiga Developer....what are the
opportunities for me to develop on the CDTV ?? How much does it cost me ???
How big is the potential market ???

Ok, so I know all the above sounds like unprofessional ravings of a madman,
but that is because my mind is torn between two directions....you can help
me decide !!! If you have a CDTV and think its so much better than a CDROM,
then tell me !!! If you have a CDROM and think its so much better than a
CDTV, then tell me !!! If you have both, which is better and why ???

Much thanks in advance,

Robert.

--
Robert Lang
4th Year (last ! Hurrah !) Computer Engineer
University of Newcastle
Australia
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Fred Fish Disk contents needed
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:42:19 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <Jul.28.12.23.30.1992.8110@remus.rutgers.edu>, pearl@remus (Starbuck) writes:
>Is there, available for ftp somewhere, an ascii text file listing all
>of the Fred Fish disks and their contents.

Check out /amiga/fishcon/* on ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (127.174.5.59).

-- 
What signature?
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Avail flush and Wshell (wasRe: Snap 1.62 + A3000 -- possible workaround
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:13:34 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

>In article <50612@dime.cs.umass.edu>, barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
> 	Note to super-gurus:  I run WShell 2.0, and after typing 
>> "avail flush", WShell reports "unfreed signals 80000000!"  This may
>> indicate a bug in avail, or who knows what....

In article <1992Jul20.125040.711@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
>I use WShell 2.0 and AmigaDos 2.04.  "Avail Flush" works normally for me...

	Yes, it usually works fine for me too.  But after doing "snap -q",
the "avail flush" prints this message.  Perhaps the message is actually
coming from Snap, but is delayed.  Or perhaps Snap tromps on something
that Avail uses.

                                                        Dan

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| Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang)
Subject: Comments on BubbleJet printers ??? Canon BJ10EX esp ?
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:06:18 GMT


Just wondering if anyone has had any success/failures with Canon BJ10ex
Bubble Jet printers ???

I've seen a demo in a shop and was very impressed....do owners find
they don't like the Amiga ??? Or are they expensive to run ?? or ???

Thanks,

Robert.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: riddle@dri.com (Riddle)
Subject: skymap to printer
Organization: Digital Research Inc
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 00:32:34 GMT

Distant Suns can only dump the screen to an IFF file.

How do I "image process" that dump into something that when printed out
looks let the skymaps in "Sky and Telescope" only better?


I have ADpro and have tried the NEGATIVE operator and COLOR-TO-GRAYSCALE,
with very limited results.

 I also don't understand how to change:

1. Background colors (several shades) into white/transparent(whatever color
   won't waste the printers time).

2. How to change the stars, planets, objects, constellation outlines and
   all the names into ONE nice black color.

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--	riddle@dri.com	- or - riddle@novell.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cpw8034@zeus.tamu.edu (ALAN CHIPIN WEN (409)693-2924)
Subject: Re: Warning: A&M Computer Repair
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: A&M Computer Repair Amiga complaint
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:00:00 GMT

In article <Jul.28.21.48.58.1992.3758@remus.rutgers.edu>, bachmann@remus.rutgers.edu (Dan Bachmann) writes...
> 
> 
>	In Amiga World magazine A&M Computer Repair advertises "Amiga
>500 (Repair) $75 includes parts/labor  24 Hour Turnaround."  I
>sent my Amiga 500 in to be repaired. My complaint: it took over
>three months to get my working Amiga 500 back and it cost me over
>$160.00.
> 
>The details:
>	I contacted A&M Computer Repair several times. I needed that
>computer for some special work... they had excuses: "We are
>waiting for your check to clear" - that was used for almost a
>month; "It must have been sent out" - that was used for a week;
>"We are so busy right now, we'll get it out by the end of the
>week" - was the last one I heard from them.

>the charge, I told them that I had already paid $75 for parts and
>labor... what was this new charge? It was $9.00 for shipping and
>another $75.00 for parts because it needed a more expensive part
>(the part was a 1MB Fat Agnus witch I could have ordered for less
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>than $75 myself... some markup).

While I agree that the 24hr turnaround was falsely advertised, you have to
really take in consideration that no one can possibly fix all/any problem
for $75 (even for a dealer on his own computer).  Think about it... if this
firm could really do everything for $75, what's to stop me from just getting
a working amiga and switching all the good parts for defective parts?  I could
take the 3 1/2 drive, Fatter Agnus, Denise, Paula, 68000, etc and perhaps even
a screwed up motherboard out and basically get a virtually new computer for 
$75...  The advertisement obviously inferred minor parts and labor.  

I consider most Amiga owners to be of above intelligence so I can only assume
that you MUST have thought this company to be SOMEWHAT flaky before you sent
in your computer.  No insinuations, just observation.

alan

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:11794 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:11466 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:19237
From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Searching for Mike Farren.....
Date: 22 Jul 92 08:25:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA

In article <1992Jul20.215941.7093@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> robert@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Robert Lindsay) writes:
>Has anyone seen or heard from Mike Farren since he left commodore? He was 
>supposed to send me 2 game disks of mine back to me but he disappeared off
>the net shortly after I sent him the disks. If nothing else I'm just kind
>of curious as to what happened to him. Please Email any info or I'm going
>to have to put something on milk cartons....

Milk cartons?  Mike isn't that young!  :-)

Try reposting your quest to alt.alien.visitors     What with all the
paranoids and conspiracy buffs there, if Mike is still on this planet
they'll help you find him!  :-)

If nothing else, a "missing person" report there is good for about 200K
a day for two weeks or so, with discussions of the CIA, "Men In Black",
Space Alien abductions, etc.  In fact, Elvis was last seen aboard a flying
saucer over Salt Lake City ...   :-)

Seriously, if you hear from Mike Farren or learn his whereabouts, let us all
know.  I know him too (he's spoken at BADGE meetings, UNIX meetings, etc.)).

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
From: rogthedodge@pro-woolf.cts.com (Rog Lyngaas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: SunRize Cards
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:19:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-wool.1992Jul28.131913.6067
Organization: ProLine [pro-woolf] The Woolf's Den BBS & Vintage Hobbies

in reply to...

    Date: 26 Jul 92 15:47:36 GMT
    From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
    Subject: Question!?
    Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
    Message-ID: <1992Jul26.154736.29779@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
    Sender: news@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
    Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada

    Question: MediaVision from Spectrum 16 bit sound card for IBM, 
    $299.  AD1012 from SunRise Industries 12 bit sound card for 
    Amiga, $599.  Why 12 bit is expansive than the 16 bit one?

i say...

Well, the AD1012 product from SunRize Industries is more than a 
sound card.  It is a 4 track recording studio...i.e...it features
true direct to disk four track recording, including flange,
chorus, phase, ping-pong, etc...effects.  To do this SunRize 
provides software that works on its own or merged with the 
Bars and Pipes Professional system.  I think to achieve CD 
quality recording with this AD1012, they double the sample rate.

The sound card for the IBM is to add something to a soundless
computer.  The fact that it is 16 bit means that it handles 16
bit samples.

Incidentally the AD512 is supposed to ship August 15th.  SunRize
is already offering a discount of $200 off (if you hurry).  This 
new card is selling for $1495 normally.  It features an 8 track,
16 bit recording studio, with the same effects.

Either card from SunRize would offer a recording system that is
better than many past albums have been done on.  For example
Van Halen's 1st album was done on a 4 track analog tape system.  
And some of Michael Hedges albums were done on a 2 track analog
tape system......example upon example would encourage the
investment in these systems....a good 4 track analog cassette
recorder now sells for about $450.

So, why haven't I purchased a card from SunRize, even though
I am impressed with SunRizes customer relations?  Simple, the
AD1012 uses 2.5meg of disk per 1 minute of 1 track recording.
Therefore, a completed song recording on 4 tracks that is 4
minutes long would use 40 meg of hard drive...I.e. like video,
digital-audio uses alot of disk space.  And it suffices to
say the AD512 would use even more disk space.  Even though 
SunRize has set up the software to handle samples and tracks
on several different drives; I just don't have the money
to invest in a recording studio...unless I went professional.

I hope I have cleared up some confusion...rog
From: shodgkin@tka.uucp (Steve Hodgkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Color Inkjets
Date: 30 Jul 92 06:40:05 EDT
Organization: The Kobayashi Alternative BBS - (207)/946-7246

I would like to here from anyone using color inkjet printers with their Amigas.
I an looking into buying a Kodak Diconix Color 4 printer, and need to know if
there is a driver that supports this printer.  Please e-mail any info you have
on this, or other inkjet printers. 
Thanks
Steve Hodgkin
From: rajah@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Raja S Kushalnagar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Getting a HP ThinkJet to work with A2000 w/ OS 1.3
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:34:17 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Experimental Computing Facility (XCF)
Originator: rajah@xcf.Berkeley.EDU



I just bought a second hand Hewlett Packard ThinkJet (ink based printer)
from someone for a steal.  However, he did not have the HP manuals, and
though my Amiga manuals did have some documentation on how to hook up
an Amiga with a ThinkJet, it was very sparse.  Some of it even seemed to
be wrong (such as setting the DIP switches), or to indicate whether it is
a serial or parallel printer (probably is parallel, and I went ahead as
if it were parallel, but I cannot be sure).

The Amiga manuals (OS 1.3 manual) put a diagram showing 8 DIP switches, 
with 2 and 6 set.  However, the printer has three or four extra dip switches 
by the side of the main row of 8 dip switches, and the Amiga manual says
absolutely nothing about them.  Anyway, I went ahead and set the switches
on the main row, and tried to print out, after installing the HP ThinkJet
driver from the 1.3 extras disk.  I had absolutely no success in getting
anything printed out.  I tried flipping dip switches at random and then
trying again.  No such luck. I ofcourse do not have the time to try the
2^12 possible combinations.  

Also, is the ThinkJet obsolete by now?  That is, would it be impossible to
get replacements for say, the catridges or printer head, etc?

If _anybody_ has a HP ThinkJet hooked up to their Amiga, I'd love to hear
from them on how to make my configuration work!

	-Raja (rajah@{xcf, soda, ocf}.berkeley.edu)
From: mohrc@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help. STRANGE errors starting to pop up.
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:41:34 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

In article <1992Jul27.171213.21359@edsi.plexus.COM> jason@edsi.plexus.COM (Jason White) writes:
>This is starting to scare me. I have had my Amiga for a few years now, and
>never saw THIS error before in my life, and now I saw it twice in one day:
>
>When I boot a disk, and the startup-sequence is going through it's motions, I
>see:
><invalid> <invalid> <invalid>
>on TWO separate bootups. I changed nothing in my setup except adding a 1MB
>agnus(Which works fine)
>
>I run a 500 with 3MB, no HD.
>
>Nothing wennt actually WRONG when I saw that, but it looked ominous enough to
>post about.
>
>-- 
>Jason White                 | I am Amiga
>jason@edsi.plexus.COM       | hear me roar!
>                            |     /
>SYSOP of Computer Continent |   \/



Reset your clock
From: h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Faroul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amazing Tunes Disk 1b archive is corrupt
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:54:42 GMT
Organization: Univ. Bremen, Informatik

johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:

>I have downloaded from archie.au (which mirrors wuarchive.wustl.edu)
>'Amazing_Tunes_2_1b.dms' part of a 3 disk set.  When I extract it with
>DMS V1.02 I get 'Data CRC Error.  O:fc90  N:14bf' at about track 59.
>Does anybody know where I can get a better copy?
Try amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80). I get mine from there, and it runs.

	Faroul
--
		Henning Peters (h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de)
	or	Faroul (in Nemesis or PaderMud)
	****	P.O.S.T - People Of Slow Transport    ****
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
Subject: Re: Guru listing?
Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:43:08 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <crystal.711765759@glia>, crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>Is there a listing of all the guru numbers somewhere? (seems to me I saw it,
>but I can't remember where).  It would be nice to know why I keep crashing
>things.  (Or rather, why it decided I was being a twit and is *trying* to 
>inform me of the errors of my ways)  ;>

Check <exec/alerts.h> if you have C header files, "exec/alerts.i" in the
Assembler files.

There is also a new file, just uploaded to amiga.physik.unizh.ch which
will decode the numbers for you (I thinks its just named "alerts.lha"),
and there have been several others in the past.  Also, in an early
"Special Issue" of AmigaWorld, there was a complete Quick-Reference
Guide, giving all sorts of info, including the GURU numbers.

-- 
---------------
Jim Cooper
(jamie@unx.sas.com)                             bix: jcooper

Any opinions expressed herein are mine (Mine, all mine!  Ha, ha, ha!),
and not necessarily those of my employer.
From: cheungc@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Carson Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Compression
Date: 22 Jul 92 10:46:36 GMT

Does anybody know of a program for the Amiga similar to SuperStor and Stacker
on MS-DOS systems which will compress and decompress files 'on the fly'.

I already have PowerPacker Patcher but this only allows reading of
compressed files such as a compressed data file into a text editor
and when the file has been modified and saved from within the text editor
it is no longer crunched so I have to use PowerPacker to crunch them again.

Thanks

Carson Cheung
From: sheilab@druwy.ATT.COM (HigginsSB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: LED FAQ Answer Needed.  Please!
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:07:46 GMT
Reply-To: sheilab@druwy.ATT.COM (HigginsSB)
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO


Hello,

     I've tried all the avenues/methods I could think of to get the
answer to a FAQ with no success.

     Could someone please take a minute and send me the description of
what the various flashing LED meanings are?  I would appreciate it
greatly.

     Thanks for your time,
           S. Higgins
From: rogue@cellar.org (Rachel McGregor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Virus_Checker 6.06 is out
Date: 19 Jul 92 08:07:53 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

I just ftp'ed it from uiowa this weekend - it was uploaded about a week and
a half ago.

           
   Rachel McGregor (rogue@cellar.org) - research contractor, modem junkie
-::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::-
"It's a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, dipped in a rich, chocolatey coating!"
From: WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need rexxarplib version 3.0
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:59:58 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

rexxarplib 3.0 (and lots of other things) is available on unixhub.slac.
stanford.edu

      Willy.
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Workbench 2.1
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:08:58 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <12865@chalmers.se> d0per@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Hiller) writes:
>catapcnl@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Christopher Neil Lawrence) writes:
>
>>This may sound like a dumb-ass question (because nobody knows) but will 2.1 be  
>>a disk-upgrade (like 1.2 -> 1.3) or a ROM upgrade (1.3 -> 2.04)?
>
>As I recall it, 1.2 -> 1.3 was a ROM upgrade. I had to change the Kickstart
>to get my HD to autoboot.
>

The Workbench upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 was disk based.  You could/can run
Workbench 1.3 on Kickstart 1.2   They only thing different between Kickstart 1.2
and Kickstart 1.3 is the fact that 1.3 recognizes autobooting devices.