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From: urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 problems
Summary: Some call it progress
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:27:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service

In article <1992Sep13.075420.7780@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
> 
> 	I am having some trouble with my new Amiga 4000. It doesn't run
> some programs that ram on my A3000/16, such as Populous II, Deluxe Paint II,
> Fighter Duel II, Leisure Suit Larry II, Where in the Hell is Carmen Sandiego?,
> Amiga BASIC, Sybil, some of U4ia's music modules, Notepad 2.0, etc. Running
> Kickstart 1.1 and 1.2 didn't help either. Also my MAST floppy drive seems
> to not work very well anymore. If anyone has any suggestions please email.
> 
> 	Thanks in advance.

I hope that you kept your old hardware and system! 
Otherwise you are probably out of luck. You have just lost 
a sizeable portion of your software investment, both commercial
and shareware, freely distributed, and pd. Also the hardware invested
in the MAST peripheral/addon disketted drive.
It will be some time before new equivalent or hopefully improved
replacement software is available, especially the non commercial
varieties. Many authors may not be around to update your favourite
software.
Thats called progress by some :-)
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          or urjlew@unc.bitnet
          or urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP 
       tel.  (919)-962-6501
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: burkert1@platon.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
Subject: Re: SysInfo MHZ weirdness
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:44:03 GMT

In article <65604@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
>I used Sysinfo 2.73 and it told me that my 40 Mhz VXL-30 is a 33 Mhz
>one...  AIBB 4.58 always hits it correctly.  I think the speed algorithmn
>in Sysinfo needs a little tweeking(about 7 mhz worth in my case!).

I think this is not the only weirdness in SysInfo...
It seems to report every board it doesn't know about as manufactured by ASDG
and I think it still reports the XT and AT-BBs inverted... I haven't checked
this for some time, but I didn't submitted new code to Nic since I hadn't the
time for ...
I did this three times each time more documented and he managed to screw it
up anyway, so I finally gave up on this...

Ciao, Klaus.

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Klaus Burkert        email: burkert1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
Brandweg 11          voice: +49-851/83993 (only pm please)
D-W-8390 Passau   /  Federal Republic of Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: Re: SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon...NOT
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:17:08 GMT


So what exactly is the difference between SiliconMenus and Popup Menu?
(I think it's called Popup Menu).  As far as I've been able to tell
by the discussion they seem pretty much the same.  Though I have no
idea if Popup Menu works with ToolsDeamon.....


Rich...
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From: dyson@sunfish.physics.uiowa.edu (Richard L. Dyson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A2286 (BridgeBoard)/ PCdisk questions
Keywords: A2286,BridgeBoard
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:59:44 GMT
Reply-To: dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy

I have an A2000 with WB2.04 and ROMs.  Pretty much vanilla/plain
everything else.  I have an A2286 BridgeBoard (without a manual :)
I would like to use the Amouse and PCdisk programs with the BB.  I can
us PCdisk and set up the virtual PC devices fine, but I would like to
have PCdisk get executed at boot time.  I was not successful when I put
it in the WBstartup drawer or when I tried to run it from my
startup-sequence.  Is there a trick to this?  

As for Amouse.  I have tried double-clicking it, both before and during
a PC session.  How do I get the mouse to talk to PC programs that
use/need a mouse?  Are only certain types of PC mouse dependent programs
going to work?

rick
-- 
Richard L. Dyson               INTERNET:  dyson@sunfish.Physics.UIowa.EDU
      They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the
             Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men,
        full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black
         tail-coats and white shirt-fronts -- and rather portly withal.
                                                --Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Subject: Help with Spice!
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
Date: 5 Sep 92 23:54:54 CDT
Summary: GURU to you!

Hi,

I recently got Spice from the fish disks... I got the newest version, which
was compiled from C source code instead of Fortran.  The problem is, every time
I try to run it, (bspice, to be specific), it generally gets as far as
printing File: <whatever>, and promptly GURUs.  I've tried breaking my
startup sequence (to patches, no DMouse, etc., etc.) and running it (after
assigning SPICE3:), but that doesn't help.  

My setup is an Amiga 500 with 2mb RAM (on a BaseBoard), with a Xetec hard
disk interface, running under WorkBench 1.3.

Does anyone else have this problem, or know what is causing it?  Better yet,
does anyone actually have it working on a similar setup?  Please let me know...
my classes are going to start using it this coming week, and I'd much rather
use Spice at home that having to run down to the University and run it on
their Messy DOS machines!

Thanks in advance...

						---Joel Kolstad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon...NOT
From: rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:37:06 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Sep9.084119.4792@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>, markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes:
>  Well, did you read the Docs of ToolsDaemon ? Nico states that ToolsDaemon
>  is a _hack_. (RTFM and look out for 'Red Alert' :-)
> 
>  It's a hack, because it provides Columns in the Tools-Menu-Item, which is
>  not previewed by CBM.
> 
>  Anyway, if you really want to use the Tool-Menu, use ToolManager. This one
>  even supports a Dock. (Or wait for Toolmanager 2.0 , this one will bring
>  the revolution on your Workbench...)
> 
>  Markus

Yes, I read the docs.  And NO I don't want to use ToolManager.  I'd rather 
have multiple menus and submenus than a doc and a bunch of AppIcons 
cluttering my WB and eating up my memory (because we never have enough, do 
we?)  In my original post, I did say that I tried SiliconMenus with 
ToolsDaemon 1.0, which was COMPLETELY Intuition-legal since it put all of 
its items in WB's Tools menu.  It didn't eliminate my problems...

R.W.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Subject: Marc Barrett and Commodore
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 18:07:25 GMT

It seems that since the WoC show, almost *EVERYBODY* from Commodore has
shot holes in MB's lunatic rantings.

Is there a new entry in the Commodore Employee's Handbook that reads

MARC BARRET 
	Whenever possible, a C= employee must post on the UseNet and show
	everyone that Marc Barrett knows nothing about our company and has
	never written anything truthful about Commodore, the Amiga, or
	any other computer ever invented.



If this isn't in the Employee's Handbook, can you get it put in there?

Please?

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+| Jeff Hanna           |+|  PO Box 3086                 |+ 
+| Animation Consultant |+|  West Lafayette, IN 47906    |+
+|                      |+|  (317) 743-2983              |+
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:13762 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:15184
From: dollens@equinox.unr.edu (C Blake Dollens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 68010
Summary: virtual memory?
Keywords: 68010
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:17:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno

Someone on a local BBS suggested to me recently that a 68010 processor supports
virtual memory.  My immediate response was no, because you need a PMMU for that
purpose.  On the other hand, I realize that I know very little about the '010.
Am I right?  What is the difference between the 68000 and the 68010?  I was 
under the impression that the '010 had slightly more efficient instruction code
in some areas, and that's all.  Benchmarks wouldn't increase with an '010
significantly, would they?  I think this was covered in this newsgroup a while
back; I apologize if everybody's already heard this.  Thanks in advance.

Blake
-- 
"That's All"            | "Fundamentally, every bar is the same as every other
  -Phil, Mike, and Tony |  one, if it's the kind you're drinking in, to end a
Blake Dollens           |  sentence with a preposition, which I haven't."
dollens@equinox.unr.edu |                            -Walter Slovotsky
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SysInfo MHZ weirdness
Date: 10 Sep 92 10:54:31 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Sep10.143935.24480@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
> ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
> 
>>I'm noticing an oddity in SysInfo 2.73.  It is reporting a MHz rating of 12.96
>>on my 16 MHz A3000.  Checking v2.69 reports a MHZ rating of 15.78 which is at
>>least closer to 16.00. v2.73 also reports stuff like "Chipram vs A3000" = 0.51. 
>>Strange since this IS an A3000...
> 
> BTW, if you may want to switch your Amiga to pal mode and test it again... 
> <grin>
> 
> My Amiga suddenly gained an extra 5Mhz just by switching to PAL mode. ;)

I switched my Workbench to PAL-Hires-Interlaced, started up SysInfo 2.73,
watched it switch back to NTSC, sighed, and gave up on SysInfo...

-- 

Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg)
Subject: Re: Never got my registered lha !
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:48:51 GMT

Neon@cup.portal.com (Anthony Joseph Bruder) writes:

>In an article 9/9/92 13:30 9/226 zxmoa01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
>(Andreas Otte) writes:

>> I send away a letter incl. cash to boberg (sweden) in march. No response !
>>A bit frustrated i tried to reach him via e-mail ( 10 times) -> No response !
>>Are there more users getting this kinda support from boberg ???

>The author posted recently apologizing for the delay and stated
>that all who registered and did not receive their registered versions yet
>would get them shortly.

  I seem to have missed the original post so I'll comment this...

  I am aware that I have really tried some people's patience by not being
able to get the registered copies out of the door in time. Some users have
been waiting for quite some time. I have delivered to at least 60% of all
who have registered to date and I'm working on the rest (I just shipped a 
bunch of LhA V1.40's this morning). All who registered will receive their
copy. I guarantee that. If anyone would prefer to get their keyfile via
EMail + FTP instead of via SnailMail just mail me an EMail with 
`KEYFILE-REQUEST' in the subject line, and I will mail it to you ASAP.

  It would seem like mailing a couple of disks to a bunch of people is
a simple task - and it sure is simple, but also quite time-consuming since
I have to write everything by hand. Another reason for holding back is
that I'd like to think I ship a bug-free product. Sometimes a bug appeared
just before mailing 50 copies of that version and I had to copy the disks
again, and rip up all envelopes, replace the disk and seal it again.

  The situation will be better as soon as I get the registration sites in
Germany, USA and Australia up and running when LhA V2.00 is released. Then
I can concentrate on developing instead of organizing.

  Regarding EMail - I try to answer all mail I get but sometimes my replies
just bounce, and that is just what happened to the responses I've tried to 
write to Andreas Otte (who complained above). It has happened for some other 
persons as well. I generally answer EMail as quick as I possibly can, but
sometimes I get far too much mail to be able to reply to all of them in
reasonable time (I -do- have other things to do).

  Have patience. And if EMails don't seem to get through to me, try writing
me an ordinary Snail-letter.

  Thank you,
            Stefan
--
Stefan Boberg - AP & EE student at Linkoping Institute of Technology, Sweden
 Author of LhA, ArjA and LhArcA. Co-author of Alien Breed, Project X, Full
  Contact and Miami Chase.
    EMail: boberg@lysator.liu.se, lha@augs.se       FidoNet: 2:204/404
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Subject: Looking for Rick Stiles
Keywords: UEDIT, new address/tel?
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:49:10 GMT


I am looking for the current address and telephone number of Rick Stiles
the author of the UEDIT editor for the AMIGA. The last address/tel
that I have is:
Rick Stiles, PO Box 666, Washington, IN 47501,  tel (812)-254-4986.	
This was good as of February 19, 1992.
However the telephone number was no longer in service yesterday.
Perhaps he has moved?
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             urjlew@uncmvs.acs.unc.edu    (ARPA,SURA,NSF etc. internet)
          or urjlew@unc.bitnet
          or urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP 
       tel.  (919)-962-6501

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Serial port & modem question
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 17:40:24 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.180145.17394@cs.mun.ca> craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace) writes:

>A) Is there such a beast as an internal Amiga modem.

Sure is.  Supra makes two models, the 2400zi and 2400zi+.  I use the 2400zi
in my 3000, never had a problem with it.  There is at least one other company
that makes (made?) internal Amiga modeems, but I cannot remember the name.

>B) If there is, can I run two modems on different channels, so to speak.  Have
>one program address my external modem and another address my internal?

Sure.  One Amiga sysop in Las Vegas runs a 6 line BBS using a dual
serial card and 4 internal modems.  I used mine with my eternal SupraFax
for a time, and would routinely have JRComm and my BBS up on the same
computer -- no worries!


-- 

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Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS]        | fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
NCR -- Torrey Pines Development Center | Jeffrey.Grimmett@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
==========    "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."   =============
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From: boerncke@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Frank-Roland Boernke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A4000 - New Blitter?
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:28:34 GMT
Organization: University of Passau, Germany

I read about the A3000 (I myself still own an A500), that the CPU ist faster
with copying, erasing, moving blocks than the blitter is. Is it the same with
the A4000 or did they  manage to make the blitter work with 25Mhz?

 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: A4000 Q's
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:07:40 GMT

In article <BuMIwv.2MK@cmptrc.lonestar.org> donb@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Don Bayless) writes:
>I just called NewTek and they don't know, will the Toaster work with
>the 4000???????
>

I think NewTek might has a deep trouble with Commodore because Commodore
forced their dealer to abandon carrying Video Toaster.
From: jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: More Lies How about New Dealers in Kansas
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:39:00 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

> I'll be blunt:
> 
> Fortunately, the rest of the US is NOT like Iowa.

That's good to hear.  C= really needs new dealers in Kansas City area.
The one's that are approved now only serve to detract interest about
the Amiga.  

> 
>               Gregory R. Block  
-- 
jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
James Miller

_chicchai .sig no ho ga ichiban iin janai ka..._
             Life Happens?
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: SysInfo MHZ weirdness
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:05:11 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

I'm noticing an oddity in SysInfo 2.73.  It is reporting a MHz rating of 12.96
on my 16 MHz A3000.  Checking v2.69 reports a MHZ rating of 15.78 which is at
least closer to 16.00. v2.73 also reports stuff like "Chipram vs A3000" = 0.51. 
Strange since this IS an A3000...

Anybody else out there seeing this weirdness?

-- 

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EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Subject: Startup-sequence strangeness, please help.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 23:03:56 EDT

I've been having a strange problem for some time that I can't figure
out. I'm using WB2.04 on a 2000. The problem is that after booting the
initial AmigaDOS window that SHOULD close remains on the screen even
though the last 2 lines of my s:startup-sequence are
LoadWB
Endcli >NIL:

Everything else works fine but I don't care to have this orphan window
hanging around all the time. I'd be happy to send my startup-sequence
and user-startup to anyone who may be able to find the problem. If you
have any advice please send me email:

Thanks,
Steve Heller
music@moravian.edu

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From: Mike_Noreen%cave@sweden.eu.net (Mike Noreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Any way to convert ROM A3000 to superkickstart A3000?
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:48:18 GMT
Organization: The Misty Cave BBS +46 753 33132

Is there any way to get a A3000 with kickstart in ROM to act like a
superkickstart A3000, and load the kick from disk on startup?

The reason I ask, is that although I can load kick1.3 using SetCPU, it wont
survive reboot, which it does on a superkickstart machine. Also, quite a
few programs which run on superkicked A3000's wont run on my ROM-equipped
A3000 (Police Quest III, for instance).

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Mike_Noreen%cave@sweden.eu.net
cave!Mike_Noreen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Buy an A3000, get a free CDTV
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:54:26 GMT

In <53118@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:


>	Just in case anyone has not seen the discussion in
>comp.sys.amiga.marketplace....

>	Somebody in c.s.a.marketplace noticed that an Amiga mailorder house
>is giving away a free CDTV to anyone who buys an A3000 during the month of
>September 1992.  Someone else investigated, and discovered that this is
>actually a Commodore-sponsored deal, and that some other dealers in the USA
>are doing it too.

>	Just thought you'd like to know, since I haven't seen this announced
>anywhere else.  (Hey CBM -- how about comp.sys.amiga.announce!)

 That's interesting.  Kind of a good idea.

 Actually I know Commodore too well.  People might want to tell their
local dealers about this so that the dealers can get in on the promotion.

From what my dealer used to tell me, the customers usually found out about
these promotions before they did.

-- 
Steve Sheldon         sheldon@iastate.edu
Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University  (515) 294-5429
From: zcapd49@ucl.ac.uk (Mr C Jomaron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: preset f-keys in MEmacs?
Keywords: memacs,emacs,fkeys
Date: 8 Sep 92 00:35:04 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Faroul) writes:

>Hi!
>Is there any way to set the f-keys in MEmacs (from Extras 1.3) using a
>file (ie. s:emacs/emacs_pro) ?
>It's quite annoying always to ^X^K <f3> ... when using it.
>I tried "set key" , but no way to tell memacs the f-keys :(

>	Faroul
>--
>		Henning Peters (h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de)
>	or	Faroul (in Nemesis or PaderMud)
>	****	P.O.S.T - People Of Slow Transport    ****

I have no problem setting the function keys with the following:

Set-Key F10 "^X^C" in a file S:Emacs_pro, where I've used CtrlQ-CtrlX to get ^X
and CtrlQ-CtrlC for ^C.

If this doesn't work... maybe you have the keys blocked by setting them in fkey.
I had this problem.

Now I can set all the function keys, all the numbered keys on the keypad, the 
minus key on the kaypad, and the enter key. BUT !! I just can't set the
plus key, paranthesis keys, or asterisk key on the keypad, not even by using
^X^K within Memacs itself!

Needless to say... using Emacs18.58 there is no problem...but if only I could 
rid of the border...

Chris.

p.s. If anyone knows why the +,(,),* keys can't be set, please tell !!!


`Just what are you a Doctor of?'
`Practically everything, my dear!'
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