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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: .INFO Subscription phone line
From: radnor_j@qis.dofasco.ca
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:18:34 GMT
Organization: Dofasco Inc, Hamilton, Ont. Can.
Nntp-Posting-User: radnor_j

I've been trying to reach the subscription dept. at .INFO magazine:
	(319) 338-0703
and can't get through. The phone just rings and rings. A few times last week
I got a recorded message of the available times, and I was calling during 
business hours. The recording said to try again later. Any how, now there
is no recording, just many many rings, and nobody answers. 

I just subscribed, and all I want to do is correct my mailing address.

Anybody else successfully get through?

Maybe Mark and Benn are on an extended spring break :-)

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From: u9148043@cs.uow.edu.au (Justin Jay Lister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AmaxII HD Partition
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:16:35 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia

eha@phoenix.oulu.fi (Esa Haapaniemi) writes:

>I have managed to install many A-MaxII's to different Amiga systems.
>Some of them had troubles with HD, but all were solved after receiving
>a new/upgraded driver free from the HD controllers manufacturer.
>Those that are not always usable with A-MaxII drivers coming with the disk
>are: A590
>     A2091
>     GVP Combo 22/33

>( There are more, but those have I met...)

>All of those ran just fine after installing another driver.amhd from
>GVP of C=.

This is the information I was after, after this i decided to check the gvp
fast prefs disk that came with the hard drive in the devs: i found the 
nessecary files gvp.amhd etc.

>Esa Haapaniemi
>University of Oulu
>Department of Chemistry
>Finland
Thanx for the response it took a whole one minute to install the partition
once you pointed out that the gvp drives don't work with the scsi.amhd.
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From: u895762@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Paul S.E.)
Subject: Re: Face it, Amiga's are no good!
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:46:27 GMT

c9228224@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (McLeod) writes:


>  Has anyone ever noticed how Amiganites seem to think that Amigas' are
>the best computers around, despite the fact that no self-respecting business
>would go near them? I mean, lets face it, Amiga's are nothing compared with
>MS-DOS machines. And, they never will be. Oh sure, they have such pretty 
>graphics, but that doesn't mean zip when it comes down to how good they are 
>to use, now does it?! So come on all you egotistical Amiga users. Get your
>heads out of the sand and face facts. Amigas' are nothing, they never will be
> and haven't a chance in hell at ever being any better then MS-DOS machines.
>  
>     Face facts, guys.
>         MR B.


 Well - I am a professional programer adn as such I know many machines and can compare them. I owned a 386 before it became too limited and now own an Amiga.

 I am also currently working on a project (a financial management system) that will be implemented on MS-DOS and UNIX machines. This forces me to work with MS-dos machines. And what is MS-DOS compared to UNIX and UNIX-like machines??? Face it, MS-DOS and underlying architecture is an outdated antique! What other modern operating system thinks it terms of 640K blocks? What other modern machine is text-oriented? What other modern OS does not have some sort of graphix-management? "No-I'm sorry - you cant use 


inbuilt OS procedures to do graphix, windows etc. There aren't any! What graphix card do you want to use? What Sound card? What I/O card? you have to incorporate a driver for each in you program, or else it would not work..." MS-DOS is SLOWWWW. a '486 MS-DOS machine is generally 5-10 times as slow as an 68040 Amiga, ang its GUI (M* WIND*WS) is extremly slow and clumsy. IB*M's DOS is insufficient even for simple tasks, its memory management 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: zajerkom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Nick Zajerko-McKee)
Subject: SYBIL (Is this a FAQ?)
Keywords: Sybil, crash,crash,boom!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:52:41 GMT

Hello, I've been trying to get my Sybil 1.1 to work for the longest time. I've
got the unit so it calibrates on my roomates 500 and then try copying things
with it. When it gets to loading the copy program it crashes! Mr. Drew mentioned
a FTP site with the latest update of his package. Can anybody tell me where this is? Also has anybody got this thing to work initially w/o patching? I tried it
on my 3000 and after calibrating it loaded fine w/ the copier but did not 
sucessfully copy a standard disk! Both my roomate and I have been using Amigas
since the 1000 days and both have extensive computer hardware/software experience (or at least above the typical user- I'm an ECE, he's a CSCI major both in
our senior years of college). Both amigas are using 2.0 and have over 2.5 MB of
RAM and both have a hard drive (if that makes any diff).

Thanks in advance,

Nick Zajerko-Mckee

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: WB 2.04
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:40:21 GMT

mce5921@bcstec.boeing.com (Martin Emde) writes:
>I currently own a standard (1floppy, 1Meg, no HD) Amiga 2000 running
>Workbench 1.3 with the original ROM and it's long overdue that I
>upgrade to 2.0 or 2.04, whatever the latest version is.

>My questions are these: 

>What is required to upgrade to Workbench 2.04?

The 2.04 upgrade kit. Period, end of story, fin.

List is $99, plus whatever the dealer charges for installation.

> Do I need to spend
>a bunch of money to upgrade to the latest version of the Enhanced Chip Set?  

Nope.

>What limitations will I have if I don't have these new chips?

You can't use the 1280 x 200/400  4 from 64 colors mode. You also can't
use the de-interlaced "Productivity" mode, but that would require a
multisync monitor too, so that's not an issue if you're upgrading on a
shoestring budget.
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From: umoster0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sean K. Ostermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: LhA_e122.run on ab20 is bad
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:45:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

I have had no problem with my LhA-e122.run archive either.  I ftp'd it and it extracted itself no problems either.
Sean
University of Manitoba
Computer Enginneering
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: consp11@bingsuns (Brett Kessler)
Subject: Re: .info Magazine has "suspended operations"
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:29:57 GMT

>I have to say that I'm not entirely surprised to here this news.  If you look
>at recent issues of .info, the number of advertisements has gone way down
>(Amiga World gets gobs and gobs of them in comparison) and that's what really
>hurts.  I've not a clue about how to run a magazine, but it would seem to me
>that they make a rather substantion chunk of their money from their
>advertisers and the substription lapse problem described above is probably
>not as big a part of the grand scheme of things.  Why don't they get the
>adds?  Probably because 1) the magazine looks kludged together and is
>perceived as a gamer's mag, 2) the nation's economy is not hot in any sense
>of the word and advertisers don't have the money to put adds in a lot of
>magazines so they do it in the ones they perceive has having a better target
>marked and because of 1), this means .info looses out.

Chris,

I'm glad to say you're mistaken.  If you think .info looks 'kludged
together,' you're nuts.  The magazine has a very slick look to it,
with very nice cover graphics, an easy-to-read layout inside, and even
a number of nice typefaces for their articles and titles, all of which
make (made?) .info a pleasure to look at.

As for why .info maybe didn't get the adverti$ing buck$, I think
you're totally off base.  When a magazine doesn't give a glowing
review to a bad piece of software, said company usually reciprocates
by not advertising in said magazine.  Getting the picture?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: queue@iastate.edu (Robert C Ludwick)
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new AB20 equivalents
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:33:30 GMT

In <33073@darkstar.ucsc.edu> terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts) writes:

>In article <+azj7bm.damiel@netcom.com> damiel@netcom.com (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes:

>   Maybe you have forgotten how often AB20 was filled up and had to disable
>uploads until some stuff was removed. You can never have a large enough
>disk; especially for an archive site as active as AB20 was. I would prefer to
>see a larger disk installed, even if we all have to chip in a bit more to 
>get it.

>						Terry

Yes that's all in well intention, but how's the internet connection to the
proposed new site?  Will it be able to handle to 50+(or the average number at
ab20) users at one time without going unbelievably sloooooooooooow? 

10 bucks per person for the site is not abad idea, but It's gotta be usable
to everyone transfering at a reasonable speed.  

Rob


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From: Don.Macphee@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Don Macphee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Problem copying to RAM
Date: 4 Apr 92 22:57:18 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


 The 2.0 ref makes a mention of this. There's an option on copy to set
the number of blocks/bytes/hunks (something along those lines...)

Don.MacPhee   @|FINALLY got the damned A2000    |(Hey! .Info! I once owned an
Bbs.Oit.Unc.Edu|Now all I need is HD/Accel/Life.|IBM! Write about that, dweebs.)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: webbs@CS.ColoState.EDU (Steven Webb (The walking glitch))
Subject: Anyone have the serial libs from TechManual earlier issues?
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 20:19:35 GMT
Distribution: co
Organization: Colorado State University - Computer Science Dept.

	I was looking through my last issue of the Amiga World Tech Journal
	the other day, and I saw a programming library that I would really
	like to get.  I really don't want to pay $15+ s&h for the back-issue
	if I can get it from someone else.  I find the TechManuals really
	helpful for programming, and would buy ALL of the back issues if I
	had the income!

	Anyway, I'm looking for one file in particular.  It was in an issue
	a year ago or so... It sounded like a link-time library for easy
	calls to-and-from the serial port.  Does anyone have a copy of this,
	or have any other example source code that does this?  I'm dreading
	using the serial port, because of it's dire need of "friendly-izing"

	Any help would be appreciated.

	-- Steven Webb

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From: lynn@phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D. Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: looking for a particular directory lister (ls)
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:09:28 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Motorola MCG, Tempe AZ


I know that there are many directory listing programs out there, some
of them pretty good, some of them not. I have most of them.

I have gotten to like one UNIX-like version of ls in particular. When
I execute ls -? it says:

ls v4.0k (c) Copyright Kim E. DeVaughn 05/11/90 [non-k revs: J. McCormick]

followed by an extended help message. I like this because it is the
most like UNIX, which is what I use every day. However, I am probably
not the first person to notice that it frequently hangs the system
under Workbench 2.04, mainly when I use certain wildcards or assign's
that do not refer to the current directory.

Does anybody know whether this has been revised for 2.04, and if so
where I can get it? I don't even remember where I got the original any
more, so I don't have source or an address for the author to get me
started.

Email response is probably best.

Thank you.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dtiberio@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: Re: Weird Clock PRoblem
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 21:22:28 GMT

In article <douglask.04cm@termnet.chi.il.us> douglask@termnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Kasten) writes:
>Ive come across a querk in my system I cant figure out.. My system clock
>apparently seems to be running about 6x faster than normal.
>
>
>I ran SysInfo and found that the "Error in Ticks/Sec" registers a whopping
>18000-19000 per test.

	Are you running an NTSC machine in PAL mode, or vice versa?

>Theorhetically, youre reading this before it was actually written!
>D M K

	Or maybe you have that new IBM chip...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mrz50957@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (SEQUENT V2.0)
Subject: Clock adjustmenst
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:19:18 GMT

I would like to see if I can find any information about adjusting my clock's
speed.  It seems to lose about 2 hours a month, and on occasions, messes up
the actual day/month part.  Where's the clock located on a 2000, and what do
I need to do to recalibrate it myself?
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From: CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher M. Stoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PLEASE, the TRUE legal scoop and distibuting music samples
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:59:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92097.195932CMS129
 <1992Apr6.040500.3575@regina.cs.uregina.ca>
Organization: Mythos/Xcalbrin Inc.
X-School: Penn State University

In article <1992Apr6.040500.3575@regina.cs.uregina.ca>,
plummer@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dave Plummer) says:
>
>Then again, Playboy _is_ suing a BBS owner in the states for $4 Million for
>having digitized pictures of Vanna White from one of their issues...
>

The Playboy thing is a little different. By having the photos of Vanna, the
BBS operator was hurting sales of Playboy.  Why buy the issue when you could
get them off a BBS for free?  On the other hand, I doubt Genesis would care
about the demo.  He isn't hurting sales in any way I can see (in fact, he
is most likely increasing them by making people want to hear the entire song).
As long as he isn't making any profits off the thing, I doubt Genesis would
take him to court.

I would like to say I am NOT a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, and
the opinions expressed in this article are just that, OPINIONS.

Chris Stoy  INTERNET: stoy@endor.cs.psu.edu BITNET: cms129@psuvm.psu.edu
President, Slothman Software Inc. Makers of "SlothMonger , the slowest
 program to ever run on any computer in the history of everything."
              "We make VaporWare a reality..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Fortran Compiler
From: hoffmann@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:45:20 +0900
Reply-To: hoffmann@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Distribution: world
Organization: Computer Science, NTU


Hi, 

Does anyone know if there is any PD or shareware Fortran Compiler around? Could be for an IBM, Amiga or even Macintosh, my Amiga swallows anything.


Arthur.
From: tadguy@ab00.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: Moderator needed for comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:56:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.12079
Reply-To: tadguy@ab00.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc

The Bottom Line:

- A new moderator(s) is being sought for the Amiga code groups,
  comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga.

The Long Message:

I am the "moderator" of the Amiga code groups, comp.sources.amiga and
comp.binaries.amiga.  As many of you have noticed, nothing has appeared in
those groups since November, 1991.

This lack of postings is the result of my workload.  Further, I have taken an
assignment with another organization at LaRC, and do not expect my workload to
decrease.

Because of this, I'm searching for a new moderator for these groups.

A good moderator has a significant amount of free time (several hours a week),
has been actively involved (not just lurking) in USENET and the Internet for
at least two years, and typically posts from a system connected to the
Internet (though this certainly isn't necessary); however, being on the
Internet can be useful accessing files posted else, and in maintaining an
"official" archive site.  Obviously, being an Amiga aficionado is a must.

My successor will inherit the queue of submissions to those groups, as well
as all the moderation/posting software I've written or use.

Interested parties should send me mail, and include qualifying information
about themselves.  In the interest of a smooth transition, I'll pick my
successor (unless there is significant objection to this).  I hope to
have a successor designated by April 20, 1992. 
 
I've enjoyed running the comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga groups,
and consider them (well, when they were active) to have been successful.  Of
course, the source of that success was from the quality of the submissions.
The people who submitted software are the ones to thanks for those groups...

So, that's it.  Look for a companion posting announcing the shutdown of the
AB20.LaRC.NASA.GOV archive site, soon...

	...tad

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From: sue@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Sue West - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: World of Commodore/Amiga
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:31:03 GMT
Reply-To: sue@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Sue West - CATS)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: CATS

World of Commodore/Amiga will be held April 24-26 at the New York
City Passenger Ship Terminal, Pier 88 (between 48th & 52nd on the
Hudson River).

The show will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM - 5 PM.

Admission is $15 each day or $30 for a 3-day pass. (Seminars are 
included in the price of admission.)

SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Friday, April 24

10:30 AM	Keynote Address			Jim Dionne
						President, CBM
11:30		Desktop Publishing		Boston Computer Soc.
						User Group
12:30 PM	Desktop Video &			Image Solutions
		 Videographics
2:00		Powerhouse Presentations
		 with Scala
3:00		AmigaVision Made Easy		Lou Wallace
						AmigaWorld
4:00		Art Department Professional

Saturday, April 25

10:15 AM	Keynote Address			Lou Wallace
						AmigaWorld
11:15		Desktop Publishing		Boston Computer Soc.
						User Group
12:00 Noon	Desktop Video &			Image Solutions
		 Videographics
1:00 PM		Powerhouse Presentations
		 with Scala
2:00		GVP in Multimedia featuring
		 the Impact Vision 24
3:00		Gold Disk's Video Director

Sunday, April 26

10:30 AM	Desktop Publishing		Boston Computer Soc.
						User Group
11:30		Workbench 2.0			Commodore Tech Staff
12:30		Migraph Imaging & OCR Products
1:30 PM		Keynote Address			David Archambault
						Director, Business Mkts
						Commodore Bus. Machines
2:30 		Telecommunications		
3:30		Desktop Video &			Image Solutions
		 Videographics

WORLD OF COMMODORE/AMIGA shows are produced by:

Ramige Management Group
20 Sundial Crescent
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4A2J8
Phone:	(416) 285-5950
Fax:	(416) 285-6630

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