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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 17:13:12 EDT
From:         HYLBKL@MOREKYPR.BITNET
Subject:      walker demo

Hi, I was wondering what happened to the starwars walker demo that wsa
on ab20.  Does anybody know
where I can find it?

Thanks...
-Ken
hylbkl@morekypr
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:36:51 -0400
From:         Herbert I Brown <hibrown@CS.ALBANY.EDU>
Subject: Re: Pd Help
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	Date:         Sun, 5 Apr 1992 14:39:57 -0400
	From: CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU

	Thanks,
	I also just saw a review of a Go game from the UK, and it got a good
	review...
	Carlos


Was it commercial? pd? shareware?  What is its name? Where can one obtain
it from? Give us more details.

Herb


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From: rmast@cs.vu.nl (Mast RN)
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Subject: Re: Mac emulators
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:36:16 GMT

DELANEYD@SNYSYRV1.BITNET writes:

>Sybil is here.  It is just that the creator is constantly adding features
>to it.  Too fast to even keep up.  He is the kind of guy most companies
>could only dream of having work for them.  Now it basically is a disk
>copier, disk compressor, and allows your internal drive to read/write
>mac format in a-max mode.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this done by software, and does it really
WRITE to old-fashioned multispeed formatted mac-disks? I mean has somebody
tried this? 

Does it read 1.44 mb disks with an old amiga drive?
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From:         "Jan A. Van Hoorick" <javhoori@INFO.VUB.AC.BE>
Subject:      Re: Amiga FTP sites

The UK Archie server is at IP-address 146.169.11.3

Jan
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:03:29 CDT
From:         Peter Nordgren <pnordgre@HP.UWSUPER.EDU>
Subject:      Accelerators and the Video Toaster
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I'm making plans to upgrade our circa-1989 A2000 to use as a Toaster station.
It's already got an 8 meg expansion board and an IVS TrumpCard SCSI controller
which will soon connect a 105 meg HD.  The main need I see, other than the
Toaster cards and software, is to add an accelerator.

Like all educational projects, the budget has its constraints, so at this
time I'm mulling whether to go with the full-blown 68030 with MMU, or
the less costly EC68030 without MMU.  There's a nice discussion of the
difference between the two on p. 46 of the March '92 AmigaWorld.  As I
read it, the MMU version is needed primarily for protected multitasking
under Unix.  Since this is not the way the Toaster operates, it doesn't
seem like a necessary feature.

The specific board I'm looking at is the MicroBotics VXL30 series.
Any comments, suggestions, alternates you like?  Remember, I don't need
the kind of all-in-one accelerator/memory expansion/controller/HD card
that GVP and others have made so popular right now...I already have
most of that stuff in the computer.

And by the way...with a machine of this vintage, will I need to update
the chip set (Denise, Agnus) to work with the Toaster?


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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:33:00 LCL
From:         JCF@FRMOP22.BITNET
Subject:      Re: A-MAX II with 6.0.7 system PB

of course MMU is selected using A MAX... but noway, if ever
i switch the mac sound on, "Copro not present..." arrives...
I'm very pleased that A MAX support Mac sounds |....
JCF@frmop22
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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:43:57 EDT
From:         claude <PL911472@PACEVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Cool demos

kevin,
  the really cool demos(animations ?) are the one which would require
more memory (2, 4 megs of ram).  This would explain why you have only
observed small demos.  However, one excellent animator by the name of Schwab
(I don't know if I spelled his name right?) makes excellent 512 k demos
in particular his aerotoons series.
   The more better ones are "At the movies", "Lemmings" (soon to be released
a second version), and another which is much more animated than the previous
two just mentioned.  Each of these demos was better than the previous but
required more than one meg of memory!  To run these animations, one used
Movie command from MovieSetter.  When one of my college buddies saw the
"At the Movies" animation, he said 'can my I*M 286 compatible run an animation
like this' and I simply looked at him as if he wasn't of this world.


;) Claude G.
    Amiga User.
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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 16:45:00 CDT
From:         PITOND@OSHKOSHW.BITNET
Subject:      680X0

Date sent:  11-APR-1992 16:29:14
Hi Guys,
   I've pretty much gathered that the the newest CPU that can be dropped in
an A500 is the 68010.  But over on amiga-tech and amiga-hard they are
always talking about the Mhz rating and that the 68000 is available at a
faster rating than the 68010.  Could someone give me a rundown on the
fastest 00 & 10?  I know that there are:

68000:7,12,14,16(Mhz)
68010:7(Mhz)

   If at all possible I would like to get my hands on a 16Mhz 010.  Or even
faster if available.
   I've also heard that companies besides Motorolla are producing 680X0s.
Would one of these places have it?  Thanks for your attention.

--Dan


Daniel Piton-Evans              University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Student; Major:                  Computer Science
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              I'm not a power user, just a user of power!
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:43:35 EDT
From:         Daniel Roman <tix!roman@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject:      Re: MultiScan Monitors
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              92 2:16 pm

Having the monitor appear as a TV set does with no borders is very
important to me.  The newest NEC monitors (FS or FG series I think) have
controls to adjust how the overscan is displayed.  It's more than just
adjusting the size since most monitors that simply adjust the size
cannot get rid of that annoying black border on either side.  For
presentations and such the black border is intolerable especially on a
video machine like the Amiga.  That's one of the things that has stopped
me from buying a new monitor, I have the Commodore monitor which
correctly displays the overscan but would like something bigger and a
little bit crisper.  I talked to NEC about their new line and though
they indicated that the overscan can be adjusted (sorry, the way the
overscan is displayed can be adjusted), actually the overscan of the
monitor IS being adjusted!  I'm not sorry.  Anyway, I went off on a
sin/cos, I was not willing to risk purchasing the NEC monitor unless I
could try it on an Amiga or talk to someone who has.  Most places who
sell these only have peecees to show them off with.

Dan Roman -- roman_d@timeplex.com
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From: dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley)
Subject: Re: TeX on ab20
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:28:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.111541.21765@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> hessmann@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes:
>
>PasTeX1.3 is a complete TeX distribution. It has a install script, so
>that the installation should also for TeX beginners not so difficult.
>
Just a quick vote of approval for PasTeX1.3.  I have been using it for
writing my thesis and scientific papers.  It is really a great package.
The screen previewer is an enormous time (and tree) saver.  I have also
used the DVIPrint program which comes with PasTeX1.3 a few times and it
produces extremely good quality output on my grungy old dot matrix printer.
The only disadvantage is that it's slow (my printer's fault more than
DVIPrint).  I would sound only two notes of warning to people wanting to
set it up on their Amigas.  First, if you want quick access to fonts
(ie, keeping at least the most common ones on your hard disk rather than
on the floppies), you will need about 5-10Megabytes.  Second, this is
a big and complicated program: read the documentation.  After muddling
for some time with non-standard font libraries which suited my needs,
I quickly found that everything I needed to know was in there.

Now if only there was a decent PD BibTeX for the Amiga....  (the one I 
grabbed from ab20 can't seem to hold all of the references from my thesis)

Kevin
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From:         U249026@HNYKUN11.BITNET
Subject:      re:aquarium

I believe that there's a program on fish301 called Newfish. Run it, put
on of your fish-disks in a drive and let the program scan the contents-
file for information (pressing return?). There are some parameters to be
set, which drive, what's the name and number of the disk. I am not at
home now, so I cannot give you a detailed description. You cannot go
wrong, however, if you run the program from a backup.
There are better, more sophisticated programs, that came with later
versions of aquarium. You'd probably be better off using one of these,
but I haven't got them yet.


  //   Branko Collin
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:48:00 EST
From:         Kevin Shafer <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Cool demos

Sorry, I did find Virtual World, but I do not have the disk space for it.
Just a little to big.  Although I could try uuencoded...
                                                Kevin
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:33:00 CDT
From:         PITOND@OSHKOSHW.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Cool demos

Date sent:  13-APR-1992 09:30:53
Pres,
>******************************************************************************
>*                                                                            *
>*     Networkers have no face, have no body, have no age, only a mind,       *
>*   (forever travelling?) The net is a link between brains, there is no      *
>* distance anymore... and even time becomes very relative. The future is NOW.*
OK, liked it up to here...
>*                                                                            *
>*                   (Pres, after having been logged in FAR too long)         *
Then I like it even more when an uncontrollable battery of laughter took
over my body!
>******************************************************************************


--Dan


Daniel Piton-Evans              University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Student; Major:                  Computer Science
MaBell  Address:                  1@(414)!424%5880
Bitnet   Address:                  PitonD@oshkoshw.bitnet
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              I'm not a power user, just a user of power!
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Subject:      Re: Cool demos
              11,

>
>         I would like some recommendations on some good demos.  Most of the
> ones I have sen have been fairly small.  Although, I would prefer something
> that does not take up a half dozen disks.  I have an a500 w/ 1mg and 2 drives.
>                                                                 Kevin Shafer
>

- If you want to see anims, look for Eric Schwarz's work on the FF disks.
  Alas, with only 1MB you will not have enough memory for most of them.

- Recommended megademos:
  * Hardwired (2 disks - some say it's the best demo of 1991)
  * Odyssey (yes, half a dozen disks)
  * Virtual world (2 disks, not unlike Odyssey but much shorter of course,
                   well-programmed, but the spelling and grammar mistakes
                   are horrible)
  * Budbrain demo (2 disks, a must have!)
  * Budbrain demo II (1 disk? Not bad)
  * Powerslaves megademo II
  * Decaying Paradise (1 disk)
  * Enigma (1 disk)
  * Fraxion Horror (1 disk)
- Recommended filedemos:
  * Taipan vector preview (don't know where to find it, I lost mine after
                           harddisk problems)
  * Malfunction
  * Kaos (an extract of the Budbrain demo)
  * Coma
  * Substance

Some groups that are famous for their good demos are: Silents, Crionics,
Trsi, Kefrens, Phenomena,... These are the first ones that come to my mind,
but it's only a fraction (hehe, Fraxion!) of the terrific crews that are
out there..

Greetings,

Pres

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From:         hh2nta@ORAC.SUNDP.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Keyboards.

 Frodo Baggins V <OSU640@UK.AC.BANGOR.VAXC> writes,


If your keyboard dies, dont buy a commodore replacement for 68 squid,
buy a cdtv keyboard for 48 squid and get a free black case and 2m extention lead
 thrown in!

Hmmmm. Unfortunately the CDTV kbd has a different connector to the
 1500/2000/2500
kbd, so it won't work.

Incidently, my friends CDTV kbd has a sticker (which was sprayed black, but he
 peeled
the paint off) which says "Keyboard A2000/A2500/A2500HD" Hmmmm. (again!). So
 that's
what happened to all the U.S. keyboards C= got back via the PowerUp deal!

Nick Taylor,
hh2nta@orac.sundp.ac.uk
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From:         "Matt Sawyer" <SAWYER_M@PLU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Help with dms files on vax/vms system

Kevin-
   I too use bitftp and a vax/vms system to get files via ftp sites.  This is
a sample of the request file I send to bitftp:

        ftp ab20.larc.nasa.gov uuencoded
        user anonymous
        cd incoming/amiga
        BINARY
        get SoundZAPv2.1.lha SoundZAP.lha
        get amos1.34_upgrade.zom amos1.34.zom
        quit

Notice the "uuencoded" on the first line.  This tells bitftp to send all files
uuencoded.  This way, I need only to uudecode the file and all is almost well.
One the 4th line, I specify "BINARY".  This tells bitftp to send them as binary
fixed 512.  So after uudecoding the files, they are "rounded" up to the nearest
512 bytes.  Most compression programs ignore extra bytes at the end.  DMS does
not.  It gives an error - something like "Header identification error" or some
such thing.  Dispite the error message, all the dms'ed files I've done work
just fine.  It's executables where I have a problem.  The extra bytes at the
end make it not possible to run an executable file.  This is where ChopIt comes
to play.  You can use it to chop off those extra trailing bytes so that the
file is back to its original length.  You may also do this with dms files to
get rid of the error message (but it's not necessary).

I certainly hope this helps clear things up.  But don't feel bad, I too had
a horrible time getting all to work well when I first started doing this!
Rather frustrating to say the least.  If you have anymore questions please
direct them to me via E-Mail:  sawyer_m@plu.bitnet.  I'd be happy to help!
Oh, I will be gone from 4/15 (tommorow night) til 4/22.  So you may not get
a reply right away, but if I get it before I go, I'll reply.

                                -Matt

ps. I tried your E-Mail address and it didn't work - unknown host.  Please
include a valid E-Mail address!
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From:         COLLINS_B@NIEHS.BITNET
Subject:      Re: A500 HD Expansion

I have had the dataflyer 500 with an old Microseeds 3.5" SCSI drive (picked up
from surplus) up and running for some time.  The unit has worked without
problems and seems to support a variety of drives.  I understand that
expansion systems is also putting out an IDE board and an IDE/SCSI combination
called the DataFlyer Plus.  I have no direct experience with your Seagate
drive, but physically it should fit into the box, and the DataFlyer software
supports a wide variety of drive types.  In addition to my Microseeds drive I
currently have a dual Syquest 44 Mb removable hooked up and running.  One
drive is set up for Amiga use, the other for AMAX II.  So far, no
problems. \\//

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From:         MILLERC@CWU.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Communicating with a VAX

Hey Dan.... I am glad to hear that you worked out all of your transfer
difficulties with the Vax.  If you would like to have the option b
between Z-modem and Kermit, I have the Kermit Library, and a PD term
program that supports both Z and Kermit protocols.  (The Kermit Lib
comes with NComm, and the latest VLT software supports both X,Z,
Kermit, & any other external protocols that you have available).

I am sure that by now you are very well versed in Vax communications, but
I thought I would share my $.02 anyway!!!  Take

-Craig Miller
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From: dmwick@descartes.waterloo.edu (Dale Wick)
Subject: Re: Border palettes
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:05:30 GMT

In article <143*dcharrois@drao.nrc.ca> dcharrois@DRAO.NRC.CA (Dan Charrois) writes:
>I posted this message a week or so ago, and I never got any response.
	Sorry, I just didn't answer it yet.

>
>I am using the reqtools.library to generate some requesters for me.  The

	So you are using 1.3 WB, and you don't have ECS?  You see, if you
are using 2.0, then the answer to the requester problem would have a pretty
easy solution using gadtools/asl combinations.  If you have an ECS
(Extended Chip Set), you could use the new capability of the Denise which
allows the border to be any palette colour.

>background color of the requester seems to be using color register 0, which
>is also the color register used for the background of the screen.
>(oops - make that the border of the non-overscanned screen).  Anyway, I
>want a different color to be the background of the requester than that
>of the border of the screen.  Is there a way to change the palette register
>that either the requester wants to use or the border wants to use?
	
	I've never used the reqtools.library, but I suppose it depends on
how much manipulation you're prepared to do.  I assume from your
explanation that you are using Assembly or a Compiled language (ie not
Basic or ARexx), and the docs have no simple variable to tweak.

	Here are my suggestions (up to you to try or discard them):

1) Try an overscan screen -- a border you can't see doesn't bother you :-)
2) Use the feature of the ECS (or buy the ECS if you don't have it).  I
have docs somewhere if you need help.  If you don't have the ECS it does
you no good.
3) if the requester uses a "Requester" struct, and allows you to open the
window, look into that structure for something like Req->Background  (this
would be more specific if I knew whayt language you were programming in).
4) Render a rectangle under the unopened req, and then open the req, and
hope it doesn't destroy the background.
5) Do the request by (gasp) hand, or use a utility like PowerWindows (or
under 2.0 the PD/SW GadToolsBox).  It really isn't that hard to code your
own, it is mostly just imposing.
6) Get the source and hack in the change to the libreary.
7) Contact the author and have him (or her) add this feature.
8) Call the function to open the requester, and then render overtop of it
with from an iff converted to C/Assembly code, which fixes the way it looks
(this is popular, though I dislike this method).
9) Get a M*c, which forces you to have matching req and border colours (at
least from what I've experienced).
10) Implement a new reqbuilder.library which is even better, or try another
library. :-)

		I can't help you further until I get more info,
			Dale  "The top 10 ways to fix a program:
				"1) Try reformatting your disks to give
				you a fresh perspective on the problem..."
--
Dale Wick	(Student at University of Waterloo, Canada)
dmwick@descartes.uwaterloo.ca		"The Amiga" 
sometimes: u190@cs.cciw.ca			-- words to live by.
CIS: [76545,2566]			
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From:         Michael Whitten <M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET>
Subject:      FileSystems

I have some questions about OldFileSystem and FastFileSystem.  After getting
a GVP 52M hard-drive for my A500, I never gave the file system much thought.
I ran Nic Wilson's Iinfo and it tells me I have the Old.  The hard-drive is
partitioned dh0: and dh1: under 1.3.  DH0:_mountlist indicates FastFileSystem.
I'm puzzled.  Can anyone tell me the definitive method of finding out the
file system in use?  Is there a real-world benefit to FastFileSystem?  And if
its a good thing....how do I get it?

Thanks in advance.
<X>

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