From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 1000!
Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:20:08 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <1992Dec23.053811.10127@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>1) FLICKER-O-RAMA

That's how interlace is, get used to it.  You should be, you see it on
TV constantly.  Just not with such a short persistence monitor, and
not with such sharp lines.

>2) They should have orange and blue as the default colors.

Eek.  Get rid of it.

>3) The windowing is rather adnaced for way back then.  A Shell resizes
>fine and all.

You consider THAT advanced?  Eek.  Under 2.0, when you resize, it
keeps track of what is displayable and redraws what was IN the shell.

>4) The scrollbars *are* proportional after all!  Yay!

And THAT excites you?  :)

>5) The pointer looks goofy.

Agreed.  Change it.

>6) Real Low Res-Like.

So, are you using 640x200?  I hope not--I always believed that it was
better to put up with interlace than to suffer with 640x200 WB's, even
with 1.3.  Careful selection of colors lowers the screen's contrast,
and reduces flickering.  If you really want to do yourself a favor,
though, buy 2.0.  ;)  (Yeah, I know, I know, it's not yours...  ;)

>Question, please:

>How in hell do I kill a Shell?!  (for example)  Some things have that
>square-with-a-dot in the top left, you click on it and it goes away.
>But sometimes there isn't one...and it just stays there.

Well, if it's a SHELL, you just type endcli/endshell.  If not, you're
stuck--there are a lot of really old programs that used to open up
console windows, which look like shells but aren't (the shell program
actually opens up a console window, and take care of closing it
themselves)...  I'm not sure what the problem IS though.

>Why can't I drag a window DOWN so that part of it 'hangs' off the side or
>bottom?

Unsupported.  It never has been.  The system will not allow you to
move a window out of the range of the screen.  I thought I'd miss it
at first, but I really didn't.

>I am Deluxe Paint II here.  I can 'drag' the screen down in it... is that
>supposed to do something?  How do I toggle from the paint program
>and the WorkBench (which is 1.3.2, by the way)

Hmm?  I'm not familiar with Deluxe Paint II.  Besides the fact that
it's two versions too old...  ;)  Toggling from the program to the WB
should be as easy as hitting the gadget in the upper-right corner.
The one that looks like a rectangle overlaid on top of another
rectangle?  (at least, that's what it looks like under 2.0x ->, I've
forgotten all about 1.3)

>Real quick like - how do I change the resolution of the workbench, and
>the colors?

Preferences.  Look for your Prefs drawer.

>Also does someone know how I might hook this baby up to my 386 (which has
>an internal modem) and use a term program FROM the AMiga?  You know, 
>route it through my PC, going straight to the modem?  That way I
>can download stuff.                                  

Not likely.  It can't be done, to the best of my knowledge.  Unless
you're rather proficient at writing code, and then perhaps you could
hack something together on the PC side to take input from the serial
line and route it to your modem, and vice versa...

Then it would work.

But that's real unlikely.

>Where can I get the Work Bench Lander thing?  Peter da Silva, you know what
>I mean?

:D

Greg


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