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From:         "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
Subject:      Re: How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx

> From:          Derryck Lamptey <D.Lamptey@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
> Subject:       How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx

> I realize this is old material, but :
>
> How does one go about subscribing to the comp.sys.amiga.xxxx groups.?
>
> Also, I have lost my startup files. Can someone please send it to me.?
>
> Thanks. Derryck.
>

  I'd like to know that, too :-)

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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:30:45 -0500
From:         CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject:      RE: AtOnce+3.0

What are the new features of this version? If you don't mind...

Carlos C
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From:         "P. Larkin" <IQM259@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wolf 3D for Amiga?

Nyle,

   What i'm concerned with is price, right now.  I work on a 386/30
running Windows 3.1 at work (American Power Conversion).  We've got
NEC Multisync 2D's there,  they are nice.  I want a clean/decent
quality picture at a good price.  What I guess I need is manufacturers
names, mail order places to get the stuff, and PRICES!

   Thanks in advance..
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From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Dumb question

Date sent: 14-NOV-1992

>Ok, call me dim but .... (Ok Dimbut, we are listening)
>
>What do all these abbreviations mean, in partucular
>IMHO and BTW ????
>
>TVM, BBFN
>Matthew
BTW = By the Way......
IMHO  <------ Yeah, what the heck is this one In my opinion??? And if so why
the H??????????????????   Call me Dim too. :>

-Me    C.I.O. ALL
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From:         "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
Subject:      Re: How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx

> From:          Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
> Subject:       Re: How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx
> >Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:51:20 CET
> >From: "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
> >Subject: RE: How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx
> >> From:          Derryck Lamptey <D.Lamptey@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
> >> Subject:       How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx
> >
> >> I realize this is old material, but :
> >>
> >> How does one go about subscribing to the comp.sys.amiga.xxxx groups.?
> >>
>
> I receive comp.sys.amiga.hardware via the list ami-hard and
 comp.sys.amiga.misc
> via the list csys-ami, both are at listserv@umainecs.
>
> Not the best solution, but the only one that I have been able to find.

  Thanks, but I already figured that one out or I wouldn't be writing
this letter at all... Does anybody out there know how to subscribe to
the *real* InterNet mailing lists (i.e. NOT the CS redistributions!)

> -Lance


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From:         "Matthiew Clemence" <mclem@MPH.SM.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Dumb question

Ok, call me dim but .... (Ok Dimbut, we are listening)

What do all these abbreviations mean, in partucular
IMHO and BTW ????

TVM, BBFN
Matthew
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re:      Re: Yet more Grapevine gripes!
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:01:56 GMT

[ stuff deleted for bandwidth]

>>      Since AmigaWorld still carries Montgomery Grant adverts, I find their
>>   statements on this { AmigaWorld's } to be unbelievable... JimP.
>> Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus
>
>Ok, I'm opening myself up to 1 milion flames here, but I have ordered from
>Montgomery Grant and received excellant service.  Before I heard about them
>Nyle

    Well Nyle, you got lucky. Montgomery Grant has boxed used and broken
  machines and sold them as new. Oh and thanks for shortening your .sig
  to under 4 lines. Students here at USM have such small accounts, under
  25,000 bytes. At least I think 50 granules on the CP6 is 25 Kb... 

-- 
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                     "Kill the Wabbit ! " Elmer Fudd.
From: jorngh@dhhalden.no (JORN GUNNAR HALONEN)
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Subject: Re: CrossDOS Problems - HELP needed
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:46:07 GMT
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In article <9211200138.AA26879@judy.indstate.edu> Arc Wave <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU> writes:
>
>        So far I cannot get CrossDOS to work on my Amiga 4000 which is:
>                Kickstart version 39.106
>                Workbench version 39.29
>
>        This is becoming to be a pain.  Anyone with a A4000 having this
>        problem?
>

Someone in comp.sys.amiga had problem reading/writing HD floppies
with his A4000 (both IBM & Amiga). The problem turned out to be that
the plug whic plugs into the diskdrive was loose. No problems since
he tightened it.

This is a very common thing to happen during transportation.

> .___________________________________________________________________________.
> | Arc Wave, real life: Paul Cardwell | INet Address: arc@judy.indstate.edu  |
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From:         "David Johnson,
              CSIRO Div. Wool Tech." <DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU>
Subject:      Re: Archivers ////

Hikmet Ozkan writes:
> My point is, where can I find these archivers,, DMS , LHA , etc..
> Would anybody please tell me if they are found in these FTPSITES
> and where in them ?? ((unpacked, of course)).

You can get most of the archivers from most of the ftp sites. Try
looking in /systems/amiga/archivers (I think) on wuarchive.wustl.edu .
Sometimes they come compressed, but these are often Self Extracting
archives. Just run them, and they will extract.

Hope this help

dave
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:41:37 -0500
From:         ParaPsykotic <AGB001@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>
Subject:      Prelude to the Commodore Classifieds #10 - 11-13-92

I apologize to everyone out there in Net world...

I recently have found a problem that I haven't encounted too much in the past.
It is on the topic of Software in the Commodore Classifieds. If there is
enough support for such a thing I may produce a Classifieds for software
as well and make it part 2.

But I ask everyone this.

I have heard some people in support of this. But I know that there are some
people against it. However, such a service may help as well. The complaint I
know some people have is that it takes up bandwidth. And although it is
but one message, it happens to be a large one. The other alternative though
is to allow people to post individually their software to a smaller audeince
so therefore they may have to post it multiple times. So the question is
which is the lesser of two evils.

Personally I would like to see people be able to sell their Commodore and
Amiga software as well as the hardware. Now it needs to be non-pirated items
and the like but I talked to another friend of mine and we talked about how
I am not the mediator of these sales but rather the inital connection. (Any
lawyers out there who are good at settling such issues?) So I am interested
in doing the Commodore Classifieds Software version, but what support is
out there?

That is why I am writing this. Would anyone out there for it OR against it
please send a message telling about your choice. I am VERY interested in
hearing both sides.

But unfortunately for right now, the Commodore Classifieds is still Hardware
only. (This includes books since they aren't exactly software either...)

Thanks for all of the support I have gotten on this production...

Tony Bossaller
AGB001@acad.drake.edu
ParaPsykotic (DSW)
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From:         GADGET <SHALEY@ALBION.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: C Compilers

For a machine that small, I would not recomend anything like SAS.  It takes
6 disks to hold the entire thing and would be annoying on a small machine.

In my opinion, your best bet is to get a copy of and register DICE.  It is
a good (or so I've heard) shareware compiler, and will fit on two floppies.
This is probably the best bet for a small system like yours.

                                laterdays,
                                SLH.
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From:         "The Search for Computing Power,
              68060 : the legend live on!" <FRASER50@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Cool demos

   Yes , i too would like to see this amazing demo. Please upload it.


fraser50@snypotva
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From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: Video Presentation Frustration
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 15:08:21 GMT

In article <I-AMIGA%92111023272246@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET writes:
>I attempted to do a video slide presentation onto VHS tape rather than
>running to make slides traditionally and spend $$$.  However, I
>have discovered that "Charts&Graphs" is very awkward for text slides.
>Secondly, while amiga vision is great for interactive presentations with
>users sitting at a computer, it too, is otherwise rather awkward.
>Are there public domain or commercial software which does what I want it
>to do with better user interfaces so that data input is fast?
>Also, what fonts are best for video presentation?
>-Jordan

  Jordan, I just got Scala Multimedia MM200 with my new A3000 
  and it looks like it'll do what you want.  I have't worked with it much
  but it has a lot of fonts, backgrounds, and wipes, and you make
  a list of "slides" and the wipes you want to go in between.
  Then you just push run, and every time you click the mouse
  button, it advances a slide.  See if you can get a SCALA
  demo disk.  I think it's on some ftp site, probably wuarchive
  or the old ab20 (whereever it may be now).

  You create a slide show, then hook up your computer to a VCR,
  push pause, start up the slide show, push record, and click
  to advance the slides.  Actually Scala can do more than that,
  including interact with the user with buttons and stuff,
  but you just wanted a slide show.  You can also play a
  MOD in the background as your slide show is going, and/or
  synchronize the MODS to your slides (i.e. start a new mod
  for each slide).

  Good Luck.

  Clare
From: asm@festival.ed.ac.uk (M Smyth)
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Subject: Re: Virtuality, Teradactyl.. was Re: Heart of China (virtuality?)
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:39:33 GMT


	The Amiga has lost it's grip in this field as well. The next
range of Virtuality machines will no longer be based around Amigas. The
Company have decided (in their infinite wisdom) to go for PC based
machines.
	I will post more information about this if I can get anymore,
but we should all know before next April as I suspect details of the
machines will be talked about at the Meckler conference in London, by
Jonathan Waldern from W Industries.

M

The Amiga + C= Marketing = An unknown quantity .  
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From:         "LOVE IS.....UP TO YOU" <CC013SH01@TRENT.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: GCC 2.2.2

Is there a C++ version of GCC anywhere, if so where ?

Many thanks..
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Subject: Re: GCC 2.2.2
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:09:25 GMT

GCC under 1.3? How? This $@## ixemul.library (which is needed for AmigaGCC
executables) behaves not that nice (i.e. crashes) under 1.3. I've
heared, that there is another GCC for the amiga, without ixemul, Don't
know where to find or who it ported, but it is said to exist --- and
requires 2.0 ;( .
Sorry, Christian Treczoks
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From:         Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: A4000 - Compatibility (crosdoss?)
              19, 92 10:45 am

> What doesn't work (so far, stuff I have, or borrowed to test):
>         CrossDOS (sorry, but hey) :(

CrossDOS?  but wasent that supplied with the 4000 under WB3.0?  What problems
did you have with it?


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From:         Tech Duinn <WAREP@WABASH.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: KERMIT FOR AMIGA

I use Term with the XPRKermit protocol and it works fine.  It is still
slow, but  probably not as slow as it would be running on a virtual MSD*s...

Phil
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From:         Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Commodore are CHICKEN!! :)
              Nov 16, 92 12:36 pm

>         - Everything they do is a mystry (no there arn't any A3000's with
>           HD disk drives.)
  Somebody else confused this with a Hard Drive.  - HD disk drives are the
1.77meg 3 1/2" disk media accepting drives that were introduced in the 4000.
There were some 3000s that had them too - but it was an undocumented and
not supported feature due to a management decision by C=.  All Amigas with
2.04 or higher kickstart rom can use the HD disk drives with no special
hardware enhancements.

The same user seemed confused as if the question was directed at him
personally, and the response was really no help at all. I suggest in the
future to do a wait and see aproach. :) If nobody is responding then
go for it!  Mostlikely if you are confused on it - sombody will make a
follow up like this post to explain it.
If your really confused or the likes - I would suggest personal email
to the sender to straighten things out.

This is not a flame - just simply a friendly reminder. :)


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From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Fish contents 751-760

Hi,

I found this off one of my CSYS-AMI list digests and thought it might be of
interest here - The contents of fish disks 751-600.

Lance

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From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx

>Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:51:20 CET
>From: "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
>Subject: RE: How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx
>> From:          Derryck Lamptey <D.Lamptey@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
>> Subject:       How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx
>
>> I realize this is old material, but :
>>
>> How does one go about subscribing to the comp.sys.amiga.xxxx groups.?
>>

I receive comp.sys.amiga.hardware via the list ami-hard and comp.sys.amiga.misc
via the list csys-ami, both are at listserv@umainecs.

Not the best solution, but the only one that I have been able to find.


-Lance
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From:         Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: A4000 and GVP Series II
              with Buckwheat's Hair." at Nov 16, 92 3:05 pm

> Ok, hardware GURUS.....  Can I have a IDE drive and a SCSI card hooked to my
> amiga with both drives running?  To state it a little more clearly (I hope)
 Can
> I use and IDE HD and a SCSI HD on the same AMIGA?  Will they set up correctly
> as devices.  I figured they woudl, but I wanted to make sure.  Since I hear
 the
> A4000 ships with a 120mb IDE whether I want it or not, IS THIS TRUE?  I hope
> not.  I like my SCSI drive.
>
 Both IDE and SCSI can be working in your machine at the same time.
essentially you will need two controllers - one for IDE and the other for
scsi.  Now since the 4000 already has a ide controller, you only have to
buy the scsi controller.  Drives will be compleatly independent and where/
what they are will compleatly be relied on the mountlist which gives vital
statistics about the drive, and which type of device/controller to use.
Since the IDE is already set up for boot, the scsi drives should be
considered dh1: or above. :)
(note: dh#: assignments are compleatly selectable during time of setting
up the drive for your system.  you could have made it dh9999: for all I care.
:)


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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
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Subject: Re:      Re: FATTER AGNUS
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:46:46 GMT
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

In article <921119105733.2200185a@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU> "David Johnson, CSIRO Div. Wool Tech." <DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU> writes:
>Another option is the Phoenix A1000 motherboard. I have bought one of the
>first ones, which was shipped with a 1MB agnus, but now they are available
>with a 2MB agnus as an option. You also can get a SCSI interface, _memory
>mapped_ 6888x coprocessor, multiple ROM sockets, etc as options. These options
>are all on the motherboard, and just need to have the chips plugged in to
>work. I have no affiliation with Phoenix microtechnologies, I'm just a
>satisfied customer.
>dave djohnson@geel.dwt.csiro.au

  I noticed a price decrease on the Phoenix board. My local dealer told me
that not all of the floppies Commodore put in the A1000 would work with
this board and some hard drives wont work either. Any info on this ???
{ As low as $785.00 }

-- 
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From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: AMIGA 1200 P/X ?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:29:03 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.110435.20636@bradford.ac.uk> S.J.E.Champion@bradford.ac.uk (SJE CHAMPION) writes:

>I'm quite peeved. It's only been atwo months since I paid #330 for
>my RocHard 85Mb Hard drive with 2meg memory. The least C= could've
>done is put an edge-connector on the A1200 so I wouldn't have to
>sell that too, with corresponding loss in value. Aaaauuuurrrrggghhh.

Put a 16 bit edge-connector on a 32 bit computer? This is not IBM or Apple
you're talking about here, you know.

>I mean, it's not as if the PCMCIA is actually a valid expansion port,
>is it ? It's too expensive a a memory upgrade, and as for portable data
>transfer, well . . . Floppies may be slower, but at least they don't
>need to have their batteries changed every few years.

PCMCIA is worthless as a RAM expansion port, or a software cartridge connector
because it's 16 bit, but as a SCSI controller connector it's quite OK, except
that using a PCMCIA card restricts you to 4MB RAM expansion, if you don't
get a '030 card with its own RAM... Technical reasons deleted.
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