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From: loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David Loyd)
Subject: Are FF781+ posted yet?
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:18:05 GMT

I am trying to find FF781+ disks but can't seem to locate them.
IF you know where they are posted, please email me.
Thanks in advance!

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Amiga 2000 Tower               8megs 32bit Ram   
Supra 2400ZI+ Modem            Sony KV-1311CR Monitor 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M.S. Ashton)
Subject: Re: Question -- how to make bootable FFS floppy under 2.04
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:33:48 GMT

Actually, you should use:
install df0: FFS
after formatting...
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people that visit me from time to time.They are not those of my employer,
basically,because I haven't got one.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Some Supra V.32 modem problems..
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:30:25 GMT


Why, when listing long things, does my Supra V.32 output sporadically?
It prints out things in bursts.  Why is this?  Plus, I noticed that my
modem was lagging because it was %C was on (%C1 = compression on).  Now
i turned it off, so I'm at MNP4.  Why would MNP5 cause a slight lag when
typing?

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From: benw@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (bennett.weber)
Subject: Re: Computer Joke.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:18:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.185025.10942@hsr.no> karl@hsr.no (Karl Martin Lund) writes:
>What's the difference between a guy selling second hand cars and a guy
>selling computers?
>

The guy selling second hand cars at least knows how to drive.




							Ben Weber


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From: sleejy@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:05:01 GMT

In article <C0AC0J.H87@newcastle.ac.uk>, I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:
> 
> HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   You too and every one else out there! %-)
 
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From: john@becca.rain.com (john meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CBM at CES/Vegas quickie report
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:50:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: becca.6OZgs*rZ2
Reply-To: john@becca.rain.com
Organization: Washington Valley Software

In article <C0Izus.L12@news.iastate.edu>, Marc N. Barrett writes:

> In article <73144@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
> >RJ Mical and Dave Needle, both of the original Amiga Inc.
> >were on the stage driving the demos during the presentation.
> >They are part of the software and hardware team that has been
> >developing this product in near secrecy for quite a while
> >now. The proto machine is RISC based, full 24 bit output,
> >has a CD drive, plays many kinds of media including music and photo CDs,
> >and is equipped with coprocessors which let it do nice
> >things like real time image mapping and rotation and warping
> >and transparency and real-life lighting effects.
> 
>    Too bad they've already made agreements with Panasonic to let them sell
> it.  I guess there will be no miracles opportunities for Commodore to get
> outstanding technologies cheap this time.  

When I was part of the Atari (Epyx) Lynx team we (Epyx) talked to a dozen or
more companies before licensing the technology to Atari.

What inside source do you have that informed you they didn't approach
Commodore before making an agreement with Panasonic?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ccb8m@onyx.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy)
Subject: Re: A1200 HD question
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:23:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.162726.15119@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna) writes:
>In article <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com> wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus) writes:
>>ccb8m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy) writes:
>>
>>>For all you Amiga "guru's" :)
>>
>>>I've had my 1200HD/80 for a week and a half.  The problem is this :)
>>>OK me thinks, let us do a low level format!  Well I tried and tried AND
>>>tried, but it never worked!  Nothing was ever deleted! No Low level format
>>>was ever done!  Before I yell at C= or my dealer, I thought I'd see if
>>>I was doing anything wrong.
>Well, be happy that it did not do a low level format.  Do not ever attempt
>to do a low level format on an IDE (AT) drive--it will ruin it.  IDE drives
>are different from SCSI drives and do not need to be low level formatted.
>It sounds like C= disabled that function in their scsi lookalike driver
>for ide drives, and I would like to thank them for that.
>
>Jeff Hanna

Hmm?  Where do you come up with that?  I have low level formatted IDE hard
drives many times on PC/AT's.  There isn't anything magical about IDE :)
I've used adaptec MFM-IDE boards on older HD's so there isn't anything
"special" about the media (I.E. hard sectoring).  As a matter of fact the
only time you wouldn't need to low level format a drive, would be if it
were hard sectored.

Are the Maxtor 2085 80 meg drives hard sectored?

Charles C. Bundy IV
ccb8m@virginia.edu
From: rem@buitc.bu.edu (Robert Mee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Serial Connection from A2000/030 to Mac?
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:59:37 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: rem@buitc.bu.edu



I was hoping to perform file transfers between an Amiga A2000/030
and a Mac Classic. Has anybody made a serial cable that will do such
a thing?

Thanks for any info,
Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Subject: Suggestions: Parallel ports & diskette handling
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:07:28 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: e91petmo@odalix.ida.liu.se (Peter /\/\odin)
Subject: Re: Workbench 2.1 - UK release?
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:43:52 GMT

davet@uk.sun.com (Dave Tong - Sun UK - Tech Support) writes:

>Well, having been given the usual runaround by C= UK,
>I spoke to someone in the Sales & Marketing dept, who
>said that WB2.1 would be released here "in the next few weeks".
>He wouldn't commit further than that, or give a provisional price.

>What do you get with the US release of 2.1?
>Does it come with a V2.x kickstart ROM, or do I buy that separately?
>At the moment, I'm at 1.3 - will I have to go via 2.04 or can I
>leapfrog straight to 2.1?

There are two WB2.1 kits, one with the 2.04 Kickstart ROM,
and one without it. I guess you'll need the ROM if you don't
already have it (i.e. leapfrog straight to the "2.1. including ROM"
kit). I'm not quite sure what disks are included, but they should
be (1) WB 2.1; (2) Extras 2.1; (3) Fonts; (4) Locale and (5) Install.
Someone's mentioned a sixth disk but that was apparently not true,
according to a Commodore posting somewhere here.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: commike@lgc.com (Alan Commike)
Subject: a2000 -> vga monitor
Keywords: cable, vga, monitor, silly me
Organization: Landmark Graphics Corp., Houston, Tx.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:12:18 GMT



Why did C= use a db23! I can't seem to find one anywhere!!


Silly me, i ignored all the previous posting on, "how do i hook my amiga X
to Y monitor".


I got me a vga monitor (i think). it's a zenith zcm ???, 15 pin high
density male connector. it looks like a nice monitor, probally better than 
the 1084 i'm using now.

anyway, i gave redmond cable a call to see how much they charged since i 
couldn't find any db23's. the guy said standard amiga output is 15.?K and
the vga's run at 31.?K. I thought only the new machines sync down to 15K
for some of the modes. 

so the question is, can i hook this think up to my a2000??


thanks,


	...alan 



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker)
Subject: How to use a null modem
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:07:41 GMT

     I've noticed there are different kinds of null modems.  What kind
should I get to transfer files between my C-128 and my Amiga:
"standard," "full handshake," or "no handshake?"  And what's the easiest
way to send a file from my C128 to my Amiga using a null modem?  Should
a terminal program be running on both (or either) units, or can the 
transfer be achieved using DOS?


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From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
Subject: Re: WHY DirOpus when there are Just as good PD ones?
Reply-To: dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:32:02 GMT

In article <C0JLyo.G8B@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:
> tdenbo@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Denbo) writes:
> 
> >I can tell why I bought DOpus.  SID wouldn't run under 2.04
> 
> SID ran under 2.04 for me, and is currently running under 2.1.
> -- 
> Jon Reid    j-reid@uiuc.edu    GEnie: THE.REIDS
> "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

Same for me.  I've never had anything except a 2.x Amiga and all the
SIDs I've used (including the registered v2) have worked flawlessly...

nice code.

rick
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From: vwells@tbag.tscs.com (Van Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Sick Amy!
Date: 10 Jan 93 03:31:40 EST
Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group

Help! My little Amy's sick. First my system A-500 512 chip,512
fast-trapdoor. GVP S-II,Quantum 52 lps-2 megs ram. Wokbench 1.3.

I'm having all kinds of trouble, what I first noticed upon startup, the
Workbench screen was shifted a bit to the right, just enough to make one of
the front/back gadgets off the screen. Disk icons were fine, in their usual
place. This only happened a few times and only when i booted off the
Harddrive. Next the harddrive was having problems mounting, seems like only
the boot partition was affected,  not the other of two partitions, and this was
only occasionally. One quirk of it though was the icons on the drive
were available, it was just that if the program needed something else ie:
from libs,s,c I'd get a "please insert drive DH0:". Dir listings from Disk
Master were fine. Another problem, that seemed to occur when the drive was
not validated and I ran a program from the drive, I'd lose all my chip
memory. Which happened running all kinds of programs small or large, like
running Quarterback Tools, ghost images of previous QBT menus would stay
onscreen when selecting other menus. Finally ran QBT and it reported no
major problems. Ran GVP memory diagnostic program-no problems, although I
think it only checks memory on the card. I've had no unusual Guru's, but
the system seems to lockup more than usual. 
     Anyone ever having similar problems, or ANY help in curing my problems
would be greatly appreciated!
                                
 Van Wells  tbag!vwells@tscs.com.
 Genie: V.Wells1

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From: dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for 3DO info
Date: 10 Jan 1993 20:03:17 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

In article <73200@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>I overheard said it got mentioned in connection with CES
>in the Wall St. Journal in the last day or three.
>
>Rregads, Harv

	There was a front page article in the WSJ(Thursday, I believe).
It was not very informative about the actual product, unfortunatly.
The article mostly deals with the fund-raising and the politics
involved in getting the mega-corporations together. I would like
to hear some thoughts on the product now that it has been unveiled.
It didn't seem to make waves outside of the net-type community.

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From: eachus@goldfinger.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Gremlins are munching my memory! (FastRam)
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:40:56 GMT


     The one thing implied by all this discussion but not actually
mentioned is that the system will flush unused libraries before
telling an application that its memory request failed.  So avail flush
is useful for diagnostic purposes, but not needed to load
applications.

     However, memory fragmentation can get you down, and is worth
taking out a bit of insurance.  There are some cases where putting
"avail flush" in a script which creates presistant processes or tasks
will insure that the stack frames are not placed so as to leave holes.
In particular, my startup scripts go through some contortions to leave
memory as unfragmented as possible.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Fountain
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:35:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

In article <C0C7EI.MIp@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke) writes:
> I just tried to use Fountain the other day for the first time in a long time, and
> discovered it needs version 37.xx of the enhanced diskfont.library - but both the
> ordinary and enhanced ones supplied with my 2.04 kit are 36.xx - what gives? I'm sure
> it worked from floppy when I first got the machine (A500+). I borrowed some 2.05
> disks and the diskfont.library on those was no better. Is there some naughty
> productivity stuff around which installs 2.1 Fountain or something equally silly?
> 
> Dave
> 

Many people replied suggesting I had forgotten to use the Fonts disk version of the
library - come on guys, that's tantamount to RTFM. Someone else suggested the old
library may have been locked in memory - a good point, I'll have to see, but I seem
to recall doing "version df0:libs/diskfont.library" etc. 

Cheers anyway,
Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: karl@hsr.no (Karl Martin Lund)
Subject: Re: Computer Joke.
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:50:25 GMT

What's the difference between a guy selling second hand cars and a guy
selling computers?

The guy selling second hand cars knows when he is lying.   (sp?)

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From: bdraschk@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Great feature in 1200 (3.0?)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:34:56 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00g.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

>In article <1iqvv9INNnmp@ub.d.umn.edu> rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:

><talk about the 8 second reboot on Guru Errors deleted>

>>Anyone know if this feature is on the A4000?
Confirmed. It's obviously a 3.0 feature.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Do I wait for 3.1 or get 2.04??????????
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:47:25 GMT

jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:

>Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:

>>"can I run 3.0 off floppy?  
>>  Guess what I'n {running my 1200 off.  However -- the 3.0 Amiga Operating
>>System floppy diskette is in a format which a 1.3 machine cannot read. 

>Correctamundo - however, if the guy's installing 3.x on his system, he must
>have the ROMs, therefore he *can* read the floppy!  Ta-da... ...I'd love to
>hear how painful it is to run 3.x from floppy, though, as per his original
>question...

Get a hard drive and get one *quick*, unless you really enjoy frequent disk
swapping!

(This from my limited experience with a friend's A1200)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: WB2.1 install disk crashes
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:51:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.105808.11661@walter.cray.com> aaw@cray.com writes:
>Has anyone besides me had this problem? I just installed the WB2.1 upgrade on my
>A3000 which still uses the "superkickstart" (non-ROM). I found that booting off the
>install disk (which is required to perform the installation) always crashed the
>machine with a software error. I eventually discovered that the SetPatch program
>on the install disk was the cause. After replacing it with the old 2.04 version of
>SetPatch I was able to complete the installation. The dealer who sold me the upgrade
>said they hadn't seen this problem before. Is there a newer version of the 2.04
>kickstart than the one I have (which came directly from C=)?

  I have an A3000/16 with soft kicked ROM's.  I installed the 2.1 upgrade
right after Thanksgiving and it went smoothly.  I did exactly what you did,
booted the install disk.

  How old is your A3000?  A wild guess is that if you have the older
"roms in a tower" version, the boot roms might be different than mine.

>Andy Wolff
>aaw@cray.com

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From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga<>PC Harddisk.
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 11:57:50 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

The is a PD amiga/pc program named TWIN. You load it on both sides and connect
the two machines with a serial cable. It allows reading and writing on the HD
etc of the other machine. Check with you local BBS's or leave E-mail and I can
u/l it to a ftp site for you.