HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Looking 4 software to do design/room layouts
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
Organization: 7th Communications Group

Has anyone got any goos suggestions for decent design
softare for doing very simple floor plans and room
layouts?

I do not need a full blown CAD package for engineers,
but I'd like to do some simple architectural drawing.

Plans and mCad (both Shareware/PD) do not print to
anything but plotters (unless I am mistaken) and
are therefore not real useful to me as I don't have
a plotter.  I do have a nice Laser, and I have tried
drawing floor plans in PageStream, which almost works.

When is SoftLogik going to release their drawing package?
Has anyone used New Horizon's "Design Works" package?
How is ProDraw?  Do any of these compare to Illustrator?

Hungry to draw on my own Amiga rather than at work...
Scott 

Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.graphics:5814 comp.sys.amiga.misc:13199
From: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Who wrote SEAMONKEY, or where is source?
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:44:19 -0600
Summary: help!
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

  Hi.

I have a question.  I have a small program called 'seamonkey', and I don't
know where I got it.  It displays a full blue screen, and then has lots of
little squigglies ('seamonkeys') 'swinning' around on the screen in a slow,
swarming pattern.

  Does anyone know who wrote this, or where I could find the source?  I am
very interested in the algorithms, as I do artificial life research.

Thanks much,





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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
Subject: EGA .pcx
Reply-To: al705@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edith D Goldstein)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:49:25 GMT


I download some PD clip art that prints out fine in PageStream but when I 
loaded them into ADPro (as PCX EGA) the screen was black.  Is there any  
way to convert them to IFF format?
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Black Knight Brightspark 32-bit Graphics Card
Date: 29 Aug 92 08:03:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug29.010345.488
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > BTW, at the show I paid $25 to become a member of their Beta Testers


Now why on Earth would anyone pay to do someone elses work???  I've been a
beta tester and it is a tough time consuming job... when done correctly.  I
can see doing it from time to time, but PAYING to do it?  NOT!!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: eha@phoenix.oulu.fi (Esa Haapaniemi)
Subject: Re: arenderman update!
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:11:10 GMT

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but just "porting" Renderman to the Amiga would be a 
>great disappointment to many people out there- It seems that the best way
>to take advantage of it would be to also have application support, either
>in a rendering package and in existing packages producing Renderman output.
>
This is again a little ad... 
As far as I know the coming version of Real3D (v.2.0) has some kind of
Renderman interface. Nothing specific yet, this is only a rumor from the
betatester...

Esa Haapaniemi
University of Oulu
Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: joonas@krk.fi (Joonas Kekoni)
Subject: request for senery2
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:04:52 GMT

 Can anybody send me scenery 2,please. A friend of mine has promised
to give it to a frend of his, but it destroyd.

Please uudecode the archive and email, becouse i am not on an ftp site. 
If you know only a ftp site it is also welcome, even it causes me 
some problems.

Contackt me via email :
joonas@krk.fi

i dont read follow-ups.

THANKS.
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Subject: Calligrapher problem.
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:41:51 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

    I've got a set of brushes (one for each character) that were
    created from a GRASP font file, and I would like to put them
    together into an Amiga font.

    Currently, I load each brush, one at a time, into Calligrapher
    1.05, and zap it in. For each character, I have to:

        a.  Widen the character edit area from 0 to whatever

        b.  Load the brush

        c.  Paste it in - moving the mouse to co-ords 0,0

        d.  Select next character (there's a keyboard shortcut for
            this, so that's ok)

    Is there a faster way to do this? The manual says something about
    using Calligrapher to make a font out of brushes (so you can use
    DPaint to create the brushes), and says that one should load each
    brush as a pattern. I find that this makes the loading of the
    brushes in one go much more convenient, but step (b) after that
    becomes:

        b0. Select a pattern

        b1. Convert pattern to brush

    which I find even more hassle than loading each brush one by one.

    The key steps that I'd like to be quicker are widening the edit
    area and moving the brush to the right position to be pasted in.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: sevigny@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Benoit Sevigny)
Subject: Re: Press Release Concerning ADPro/Abekas
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 20:02:09 GMT

Speaking of ADPRO, could anybody (at ASDG or not) tell me the status of
ADPro 2.1.  I read last winter that owners of ADPro 2.0 would be sent V2.1
along with FRED.  Does anybody received it?  I upgraded to ADPro 2.0 when
it has been released and I ordered the Professional Conversion Pack at the
same time from ASDG (so I guess I'm a registered owner of ADPro 2.0).

Since then, I never received ADpro 2.1 (as announced here) and the
Professional Conversion Pack 2.0.

What's the problem?
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.graphics:5858 rec.video.production:1393 rec.music.synth:14346
From: cain@silverblue.fac.cs.cmu.edu (Sebastian Nightingale Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,rec.video.production,rec.music.synth
Subject: What config. for MIDI and Graphics
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:18:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Btz1z0.Ev8.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

I've been puttering around with MIDI and been wanting to get
into computer graphics and video production for awhile, but 
never had the funds. Now I'm quite a bit more serious, and have
been looking around Pittsburgh for a dealer, but there are only
2 that I have found - one is inconvienent for me to get to.
The other is much closer, but is just getting into the Video 
Toaster and the Amiga (they are actually a small audio/video
store) and so are not ready to actually sell and support them
just yet.  

What I wanted to know was what I should be looking at inorder
to get into this stuff.  I was recommended an A2000 with an 
accelerator board to begin with.  I would like to start out 
with just the MIDI  and then aquire the video after I 
know a bit more about the subject. So what I'm asking, is what 
should I look at for a starter system that is easily expandable
but not extremely expensive to start with?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: dtiberio@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: AdPro 2.1
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:18:54 GMT



	I read in a magazine that AdPro 2.1 was being used to do 
satellite and space animations using a FireCracker. It was in 
Post magazine, for video production.



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From: blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ADPro vs. ImageMaster: Which is better for DTP?
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 92 18:45:11 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <64675@cup.portal.com> <64979@cup.portal.com>
  <6086@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>

Eric Westreich,

Yes, you bet - it's part of the regular update, as are some things you'll
just love if you've been using the Morph tools. The first people to see the
new capabilities will be at the WOA show; that's the day we relase the
new morph tools.

We're not here to gouge you - but I promise we'll keep improving the
program as time goes on, and in big ways. This fall will be a great time
for Imagemaster owners.

Ben
From: flash@vsbbs.UUCP (Christopher Tarnas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Imagine to DXF
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:45:58 PST
Organization: BBS

Would any one know of a program that can convert Imagine 3D objects to the standerd DXF format?  I use several platforms, and would like to export my Imagine objects.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Please send AA specs!!!!!
From: carrico@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:57:32 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

Could someone send me the specs on the rumored
AA chipset?  And are there any rumors as to upgrades
to the AA set for the 3000?
Thanks in advance......
From: marc@cbmvax.commodore.com (Marc Rifkin - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: arenderman update!
Date: 27 Aug 92 05:31:40 GMT
Reply-To: marc@cbmvax.commodore.com (Marc Rifkin)
Distribution: world
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA


Correct me if I'm wrong, but just "porting" Renderman to the Amiga would be a 
great disappointment to many people out there- It seems that the best way
to take advantage of it would be to also have application support, either
in a rendering package and in existing packages producing Renderman output.
 
Remember not everyone is a programmer! B-)
 
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: robbins@iastate.edu (James D. Robbins)
Subject: Re: AA specs
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:09:58 GMT

In <1992Aug26.165721.3400@sol.UVic.CA> bdonison@bigbird.UVic.CA (Only AMIGA!) writes:

>Now that the AA chip set has been officially announced I was wondering
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When was it officially announced, and where?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson)
Subject: Re:  X-Pert Systems Domino Board
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:01:46 GMT

In article <doiron.09av@starpt.UUCP> doiron@starpt.UUCP (Glenn Doiron) writes:
>In article <mykes.0d46@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>>Next year, you just by an accelerated 24 bit board for $59.95 and plug it in :)
>
>What?  From the way the PC'ers were raving I thought that those kind of
>boards were free?  :)

	Not yet - but close :-) I was at a computer show last week and
almost got a SpeedStar24x for about 160$. But then I decided to spend
the $160 on a CD-ROM drive.

>
>>Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
>>1124 Fremont Ave.
>>Los Altos, CA 94024
>
>Glenn Doiron
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kosts@ursa.calvin.edu (Steven Koster)
Subject: Where are the Lightwave Demo files?
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:01:54 GMT

This may be a FAQ, but my Toaster/Lightwave Manual mentions some
inpressive demo Scenes (named FightersApproach and SpaceshipAttack).

Until two days ago, I didn't have the speed or RAM to deal with them,
but now I do. But, I can't find them. Anyone know where they should be?

The same part of the manual has one sentence about a Scene called
SpaceFighters, which I have found (it was right there in my 
Toaster/3D/Scenes directory).

Anyone know what happened to the really big cool scenes?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacom,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
Subject: Missing subject header
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:02:19 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

I installed Amiga TCP/IP on my Amiga and started playing around with it. I
soon discovered that my NFS throughput was something less than desirable.
94 kb/s via disktest. I changed the max sizes but that changed nothing. I am
getting <2 ms ping times so I don't think the connection is faulty.
What are the speeds that other people are getting from their machines,
before I start ripping out things, or getting a sniffer to diagnose this
further.

My setup is as follows...
Amiga 3000 w/ 10 MB Ram & 200 MB HD connected via ethernet to an IBM PC/RT
running BSD4.3 with 16 MB of Ram and 1 GB of disk. I have 8 nfsd & biod
running on the RT, I have increased NFS maxread & maxwrite to 16k but got no
discernible change. Am I missing something obvious? I have yet to do a total
througput test using ftp (I didn't think about that until after I was at
work.) so I will have more data later.

PS> These two machine are connected through BNC and are the only two devices
on the ether.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacom,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy)
Subject: (oops) Amiga TCP/IP NFS speeds > 94 kbs?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:04:22 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

In article <1992Aug28.200219.14376@watson.ibm.com>, sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
|> I installed Amiga TCP/IP on my Amiga and started playing around with it. I
|> soon discovered that my NFS throughput was something less than desirable.
|> 94 kb/s via disktest. I changed the max sizes but that changed nothing. I am
|> getting <2 ms ping times so I don't think the connection is faulty.
|> What are the speeds that other people are getting from their machines,
|> before I start ripping out things, or getting a sniffer to diagnose this
|> further.
|> 
|> My setup is as follows...
|> Amiga 3000 w/ 10 MB Ram & 200 MB HD connected via ethernet to an IBM PC/RT
|> running BSD4.3 with 16 MB of Ram and 1 GB of disk. I have 8 nfsd & biod
|> running on the RT, I have increased NFS maxread & maxwrite to 16k but got no
|> discernible change. Am I missing something obvious? I have yet to do a total
|> througput test using ftp (I didn't think about that until after I was at
|> work.) so I will have more data later.
|> 
|> PS> These two machine are connected through BNC and are the only two devices
|> on the ether.
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga:198 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:14767 comp.sys.amiga.marketplace:7079
From: ye01@uk.co.gec-mrc (Andrew Crisp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Zeus & Rambrandt Availability
Keywords: zeus rambrandt pp&s
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:23:50 GMT
Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK

Hope someone can help ?

	  I am trying to buy a Zeus (68040) and Rambrandt (24 Graphics Card)
	  both made by Progressive Perpherials & Software. Unfortunately
	  these seem to be unavailable in the UK at the momement (possibly
	  due to the fire at their warehouse). 

	  However, my parents are going on holiday in Canada for two weeks
	  and will be going to Vancouver for a couple of days. I was
	  therefore hoping that someone could tell me where I could purchase
	  these cards either in Canada (Calagary Area) or in Vancouver.

	  If you could also advise on the price (in dollars) of the cards
	  and of the best places to buy them from I would be most grateful.

						  Yours 

								  Andrew Crisp.



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From: stewartm@bfield.uucp (Stewart Mckinnon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3000 struck by lightning, which chips to replace?
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:43:37 EST
Organization: Bakers Field BBS

RE: TOASTing the Amiga...... ;-)

This is certainly going to sound like 'closing the barn door after the horse
has gone', but it's my opinion that you should completely disconnect ALL
computer equipment during thunderstorms. And it really makes no difference
whether or not the computer is off. It's easier to do this, if you have all
your equipment plugged into a switcher unit, or a protected strip. I have heard
about SO many people who fry their serial port (usually people who run BBSes)
Disconnecting the phone line from the modem is also very wise. This is
something I adhere to myself.....

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From: djjames@cup.portal.com (Daniel J James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  16MHz A3000 to 25MHz  (!)  Hardware "Hack"
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:47:01 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Aug17.132428.4865@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>

In article <1992Aug17.132428.4865@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>, Georg Hessmann writes:

> I have a 16MHz A3000 witch is 'upgraded' to 25MHz *without* changing
> the 68030 CPU. A 16MHz CPU is reliable also with 25MHz.
> *My* Amiga works since about nearly two years without any problems.
>

Running a chip faster than it's rated specs is kind of like running an engine
past the red line on the tachometer.  The red line is a safe speed for all
engines.  Some engines will run far above the red line for long times
depending on tolerances, environment and other conditions, but not all
engines will do so.

  Same thing with ICs and rated speeds.  Some chips will take the added
stress, some won't.  Some will take more stress than others, some longer than
others.  It's a gamble.

  I wouldn't push the CPU anymore than I'd over rev my automobile engine.
Call me conservative.

Djj

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From: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (LaMonte Koop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Supra FAXmodem problems
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:27:41 GMT
Reply-To: lkoop@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Organization: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

I just received a Supra FAXModem (v.32bis version) and am having NO end to
troubles involving connecting to other systems.  When using 'normal' mode
(no flow control, data compression) and at 2400 baud, I can get this beast
to act like my old 2400 Supra modem.  Good 'nuff.  However, the ONLY other
system I have been able to connect to at a higher rate is Supra's Tech
support BBS (managed to get a 14.4K connection somehow) using the &f2 setting.
All other attempts to connect to other systems lead to one of the following:

            1.) Garbage on the screen.
            2.) More commonly, a bit of normal text from the connected system,
                then the screen and modem lock up - characters typed in are
                seemingly not transmitted, and no further action is received
                from the other system.  This is usually preceeded by the text
                output becoming 'jerky' on the screen.
            3.) Connections at slower speeds while using the &f2 (or &f1) 
                factory settings (with CTS/RTS flow control, etc) usually
                result in jerky output from the connected system to the
                terminal.

Does anyone have some good advice for this little monstrosity?  Decent
command settings or ideas?  Thanks in advance.

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