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From: garyweir@netcom.com (Gary Weir)
Subject: Re: EdPlayer version 2.0
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:41:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Summary: now on wustl
Keywords: ftp wustl

In article <2013@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> emackey@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Ed Mackey [910828]) writes:
>Hi folks, EdPlayer version 2.0 is now available.  As promised, it first
>appeared on Somerton Telecomm BBS (215) 464-6775.  Later it moved
>to GEnie as file #16550.  If someone could move it to popular FTP sites
>and save me some long distance $$$ I would appreciate it!
>
>Some highlights:  Startup script, Save programs, random programs,
>works on fast Amigas, does ProTracker and MED 3.21.  Has a new
>spectrum analyzer and a display mode called "EdSynth" that shows
>a piano keyboard and colors notes according to what instrument in
>the song is playing them.  Lots of new ARexx commands like the ability
>to wait for a song/program to end/reach a certain spot.  Lots of
>new ARexx queries for asking EdPlayer about it's current status.
>Also some new buttons on the panel.
>                                                --Ed.
>
>--
>Ed Mackey
>email:  elm4@lehigh.edu

A SysOp friend of mine has a GEnie account and he downloaded it
for me and I just put it up for ftp access on:
 
wuarchive.wustl.edu
/systems/amiga/incoming/audio
129865 Jul 30 22:28 EdPlayer20.Lha
 11639 Jul 30 22:28 EdPlayer20.history.README
 

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From: z3kpw@TTACS1.TTU.EDU ("Wheeler, Kevin")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: SunRize boards
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:24:00 GMT

Hm.  That blurb about "The SunRize boards are really *SOPHISTICATED
RECORDING STUDIOS* is more marketing hype than anything, aimed at
"multimedia"-buzzword weenies.  
Supposedly they'll sample all 4 tracks at once and the software will
handle it, is that correct?  I'm not really sure.  If so, that's all well
and good, but the Gravis Ultrasound board for PC clones is 16-bit, 44.1kHz
with 16 channels for about $200.
Hard disk recording is just a matter of sample editing software that'll
r of sample editing software that'll write directly to disk.
Both SunRize boards are overpriced and obsolete already.

I really wish I could do 16-bit sampling on my Amiga, as sampling and 
sequencing is what I bought it for.  Doesn't look like it's gonna be
cost-effective though.
Hey, next time I need to title a movie though, I can get setup for that...
(sarcasm alert!  sarcasm alert!)

argh.
From: fettig@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Fettig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Perot ?
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:40:14 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
: Quoted from <mykes.09nb@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> by mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz):
: 
: > policy (in case you don't realize it, Bush and his men have guaranteed
: > the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world by 80% by the year 2000).
: 
:     I'd prefer Bush to win, and I'm not even in the US... :) I don't
:     know about the rest of the politicians involved, but from what
:     they've shown here of Clinton, and what Bush has done for the last
:     N years...
: 
: > Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)

Perhaps you Americans should notice that some sort of change (or crisis)
is happening in european countries too. The problem with the existing
political 'class' (our politicians don't act but only react)
seems to get more and more obvious after the communists in the east 
were blown off. The political situation was too stable for +40 years,and
we have a group of politicians that had never really to cope with new
surprising things. Think about the last decades before gorbatschov, what
really changed? Not much. There was talk about ecologie(sp?) and crisis in the
'third world', but there was no pressure on politics to change things.
I mean pressure you can't simply ignore like some people demonstrating.
Pressure in the sense of having no money to do something and being forced
to think about another way to get it done.
Now we seem to be in a situation where there's only the choice between
really not changing things in the one or in the other way. Strange.
Why we notice things now?(and not earlier?) Because the deficiencies(sp?)
hit us now. The majority was to lazy or to blind to see. 
And so were and now are the politicians . Not that surprising .

		

PS:
 please disregard any spelling errors,it's simply to hot here to
 do it right (B->.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: A4000 article
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:52:27 GMT

Any follow ups to this rumor?  Specs seem somewhat similar to Falcon
rumors...

-----------------------------
Note: not my words!  Old Post!
-----------------------------



From cheshire.oxy.edu!usc!rpi!batcomputer!alchemy.tn.cornell.edu!chris Wed Apr  8 00:07:31 PDT 1992
Article: 9423 of comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Chris Wolf)
Subject: High end Amiga stats?
Organization: Alchemy International
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:36:11 GMT

I was on a BBS and heard the following from someone who supposedely knew
what Commodore had shown/planned concerning a new high end Amiga as of the
last DevCon.  Unfortunately, I have a feeling that these stats are for
the new high end machine that C= had planned but decided not to produce
according to other sources on this net.  Anyways, here's the info as I
heard it:
 
On other matters, since the last Dev Con the new amiga's stats should be
approimately as follows....

The whole system is supposed to be clocked around 50mhz...the DSP (digital
Signal Processor) is 50mhz to be sure, but they may use a 25mhz 040 and have
fun with cycles.  There was originally talk of a 50mhz 030, but I doubt it.
The new chip set will be all new and totally useless in current amiga models.
I think everyone understands the need for this.  However, they will be at least
90% compatible with everything on the amiga today, both software and
hardware-wise.   You just can't plug in the newest agnes into your a500.   The
paths will all be 32 bit of course.

Graphics - all 8-bit on the motherboard with a 256,000 color "HAM" mode usuable
in ALL resolutions.   I've had a great time reading about the HAm-E speculation
here.  I just couldn't spend the time on-line to answer until now.  Anyone see
what the deal is now?

Sound - 16-bit 50mhz stereo,probably tied to the DSP for extra happiness.
  expect major upgrades in all sound areas, including voice synthesis.

Graphics (again) - upgradable to 24 bit on the motherboard.

No word on whether it will be SCSI II on the motherboard, but I wouldn't doubt
it.  I also doubt whether this machine will be announced any time before first
quarter 1993, let alone released any time soon...but who knows.

That's pretty solid poop from a guy with far too many developer friends for his
own good.  However, officially speaking...it's all RUMOR as far as we're all
concerned.

---- end of included text ----

Enjoy....
							- Chris
.
From: Mike_Whalen@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Mike Whalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A4000 article
Distribution: world
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:36:07 CST
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

In a message dated Tue 28 Jul 92 21:43, Jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (joh
wrote:

> Here we go again :-)  When are we going to see in in the news columns of
Amiga
> World and Amiga Format etc...????

 J>     This K.X. Saunders must be thick as. Why on Earth do people post
 J>     articles if they're not reading the newsgroups? And this idiot
 J>     must not be reading the newsgroup, otherwise they'd have noticed
 J>     this article has come through before...


 Some people may not have seen the article before.. I didn't.

Mike.. 

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

---------
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Let's make HIM our voice! Since Commodore won't listen to us!

                              Phil Robinson
                              P.O. Box 1377
                           Sausalito, CA  94966
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From: dridi@choco.UUCP (Gilles Dridi ERF004)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re:  Memory Protection-Why not?
Date: 25 Jul 92 18:07:04 GMT
Organization: None

In article <1992Jul24.023634.16076@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams) writes:
>In article <BruL1A.ItC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> sjc28473@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Joseph Chmura) writes:
>>[..]quires me to ask this simple question:  why is it considered virtually
>>impossible to add memory protection to AmigaDos?  While implemeting something
>>like OS/2  would be incredibly difficult, why not just make a new set of
>>processes that would be protected or READ-ONLY?

    To enhance the Amiga Exec kernel to switch between "protected processes"
    is possible. But, the trouble is with messages communication between
    processes. If you find a message system that will be compatible with
    all writen software, please email to Commodore guys and they will
    immediately release this enhanced kernel using the MMU and surely
    including paginated memory; later, more features...

>I think it's more a case of memory protection not fiting in with C='s
>plans.  There aren't enough Amigas with MMUs to make the effort
>worthwhile.  C= aren't exactly overstaffed in the OS department either,

    I'm crying that there are MMUs used just for debugging purpose.
    In fact, address translation is far beyond from only debugging.
    It allows virtual environnement; all kinds of emulations.

>so everything would be done according to highest priority.  Something
>like localisation (in 2.1) will probably boost sales, and therefore would
>be high on a list of things to do.

    One sick mind could say:" it's so nice to read a GURU message in his
    native language..."

>The actual difficulty of implementing memory protection has been discussed
>here and in .programmer MANY times.  Essentially there needs to be an entirely
>new set of calls for protected processes and a lot more checking in the OS.
>It isn't impossible, just not probable :-(
>
>--
>Colin Adams	   Honours Student - James Cook University of North Queensland
>	       "Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate."

    Which laptop from Apple will use MMU?
    You know the guy that discovers the law of gravity.

--
Gilles Dridi
{cbmvax!cbmehq}!cbmfra!choco!dridi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: Amigas are *HOT*
Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 27 Jul 92 06:41:51 GMT

barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:

>	Powerbook... yecch!  The keyboard is cheesy, the trackball sucks,
>the screen updates are dog slow, the boot time is long....  I'd rather go
>into debt and buy a full-size Mac than this PowerBook toy.

>	The above is all just my opinion.  You are welcome to disagree.

  Around 300,000 people in the last 9 months accept your welcome
Dan.

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEC/Commodore Agreement
Date: 23 Jul 92 07:06:19 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Jul22.122740.3822@cs.olemiss.edu> skip@cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>In article <9402@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>>
>>And DEC Germany uses and sells PCs that remind me very much of Commodore PCs
>>:-)
>
>So Commodore's PCs are really re-badged Tandys?  :-)

No. Definitely not.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: Amigas are cool
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 05:32:05 GMT

Yeah, well... since he used to work there, I figure he knows wherefore he
speaks.  Maybe those 8 page, $32,000 ads each month had something to do
with it... I think he said something about CBM being pissed at them
carrying Mac items and advertising themselves as a 100% Mac shop...

Thom

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY)
Subject: Re: I am giving up on the Amiga
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:43:10 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.192925.424@seas.gwu.edu> gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) writes:
>chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:
>>gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) writes:
>>>Okay, so the A500 and 386 system have roughly the same price.  That meets
>>>one of your comparison criteria.  They do not have roughly the same perform-
>>>ance or capabilities.  You may as well compare 386 systems to component
>>>stereo systems.
>>
>>That's gotta be just a little bit of a joke right?  I mean for the performance
>>of RAW cpu, a 386 already matches up to a 030 processor, take for example of
>>Mac ads on their POWERBOOKS, I think I have already posted the ad info before.
>>Anyways unless your A600 is carrying a 030-16, it wouldn't be at the performance
>>of a 386SX20.  
>
>You are agreeing with my post.  Is that your point?
>
>-- Gerald

Yep.
From: foax@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Silly columnists
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:25:27 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

The following is not intended as a flame against Intel
microprocessors; it is merely an amusing indication of the ignorance
of a newspaper computer columnist.

This is taken from the "Personal Computers" column in the New York
Times, 7/14/92.  The column contained a discussion of Intel-type
microprocessors.

"An instruction set is essentially a dictionary of commands, in
machine language, that allows the chip to communicate with other
hardware and software components.  The instruction set is built into
the chip."

[Gee, I have a vague memory of something called computing that these
things were supposed to do.]

[But wait, it gets better.]

"An internal cache (pronounced 'cash') is a special segment of the
chip set aside as high-speed memory.  When the user asks the disk
drive for data, the cache, working under the assumption that the next
request will be related, pulls in some extra data from the same area
of the disk.  In the case of the Cyrix chip, the cache limit is one
kilobyte.  Intel's 486SX has eight."

[Disk cache, memory cache, food cache, cache is cache, right?]

"Because cache memory is on the chip, any subsequent requests are
executed quickly.  Think of cache as cash.  Instead of driving to the
bank to withdraw cash for each new purchase, it is faster to keep cash
in your wallet or purse.  Some chips carry more cache than others."

[Oh, I get it now.  Cache is cash.]

I don't expect too much from newspapers, but I did expect a little
better from the New York Times.
-- 

--Colin Howell			email to howell@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
--Cornell Astronomy Dept.	(hopefully switching to computer science)
From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Presidential predictions Re: Perot?
Date: 25 Jul 1992 17:32:49 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

In <1992Jul25.170853.23309@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>... as if parents were not too hard-pressed to bring up children with 
>traditional values as it is; ....

Maybe you should consider suing your parents.

After all, they have apparently failed to instill any traditional values
in you.  You know, values like:

  <> Being evenhanded in your assessment of events
  <> Having respect for other people
  <> Telling the truth
  <> Avoiding exaggeration
  <> Spending time outside instead of rotting your brain in front of a screen
  <> Being congenial
  <> Knowing when to be quiet
  <> Realizing that you are not the center of the universe
  <> Realizing that you may be mistaken at times

I could go on, but I think that is enough for now.

--Richard
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Well, Jerry Pournell says that there is a new amiga
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:30:04 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Jul28.003340.2187@reed.edu> kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch) writes:
 >In article <3422@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
 >>kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch) writes:
 >>
 >>  Hope it is a new Amiga and not an A3000 retread, but considering that the
 >>summer is traditionally slow on new computer happenings, it just might be.
 >
 >And blabbing about upcoming Amigas now, when they probably won't be out 
 >immediately does smell of possible Osbourne-u-lation...
 >
 >>  I wonder if JoAnn Dow had better luck with Jerry this time than she did
 >>with his A2000...

Another idea: Jerry *dies* for CD-ROMs. Anyone living near him that could
evangelize him for CDTV? Anyone heard any word of him about this or CD-I?
(I didn't see anything like that.)

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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: Nitric oxide is it.
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:35:23 GMT

barnett@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
: The chemical agent implicated in causing erections in males is in fact
: Nitric Oxide (NOT nitrous oxide). This was discovered by Solomon Snider
: at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Scientific American recently had an article
: about NO as a neurotransmitter...

Thank you for that "arousing" bit of information.  Research like this
seems to have men all over the world rising to the occasion...

Had to do it, so sorry.  ;)

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From: Ron_O'Hara@tvbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Ron O'Hara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A message from the National Amiga PC haters Group..
Distribution: world
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:13:29 PST
Organization: Tunnel Vision BBS!

In a message dated Tue 28 Jul 92  8:32, Dvan@pnet01.cts.com (david Vandeven
wrote:

 DV> A message from the National Amiga PC haters Group..

 DV> PC's SUCK!
 DV> Any questions?

Yes. Can you be a little more specific? Thanks.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Presidential predictions Re: Perot?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:01:45 PST
Organization: Amiga makes it possible

In article <62603@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
> Reagan used to regularly veto budgets from the democratic congress.
>
> Used to stop the federal gov't in their tracks for a few days.
>
> Did a lot of good with the runaway budget, didn't it?

Only drew attention that the problem was there and reinforced his desire
to have line-item veto and balanced budget amendment.

--
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Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
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From: addison@pollux.usc.edu (Richard Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amigas are cool
Date: 25 Jul 1992 17:37:37 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu

In <1992Jul25.220049.2298@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
}   Most such $1000 systems come with 2M of RAM.  To run OS/2 well, you need
}only add 6M, which is about $200-$250 at today's prices.  It has also been 
}mentioned that OS/2 will fit well onto a 60M drive, as long as you aren't
}trying to fit 40M of C++ development tools onto it as well.  60M SCSI drives
}can be had for $250 these days.

What good is VM if you don't have any harddisk space left?

--Richard

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Subject: Re: Anybody care to crush this Falcon Rumor?
Reply-To: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 19:45:04 GMT


In a previous article, doiron@starpt.UUCP (Glenn Doiron) says:
>
>>Can somebody tell me what this machine can do ( detailed of
>>course ) ?
>
>Nope.  It's all speculation.  Nobody knows the specs.  Nobody knows if it even
>exists.  Nobody knows if Atari can market a bottle of water in the middle of the
>Sahara, either.  [Wow!  True c.s.a.a. spirit!]  And nobody can kill a new system
>quite like Atari.  [Well, at least they are finally selling licenses to produce
>Lynx stuff.]
>
>>I am very contented with my Amiga, but I think Commodore is as
>>always utterly slow in developing new exiting hardware, so I'm very curious
>>what other people CAN develop in the already 7 ( ! ) years the Amiga exists.
>
>Developing new hardware is trivial.  Making it compatible with the rest of the
>product line, however, is not.  We could have had 1024x768x256 out of 16mil
>years ago with TIGA boards.  But it wouldn't have been backwards compatible.
>
>>Please respond with some information about this Falcon.
>
>It doesn't exist.

Boy will you be surprised!!! :)

>
>>Tonio Voerman
>
>Glenn Doiron
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