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From: linet2@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lord Eugster)
Subject: Re: Nova9
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:15:41 GMT

The generators do _not_ blow up when you destroy them.  You will notice a blue
pulsing near the top of an active generator.  When you have hit the generator
enough times, the top will explode (but the bottom will remain), and the blue
pulsing will disappear (the generator is now a black, dead monolith).  There
are four of those generators, all of which must be killed swiftly, lest the
electric giant zap you with his lightning strokes.

Usually (I think) 3 or 4 shots from your cannon is sufficient to blow one
generator.  The generators are spread out in a giant square.

After Zvitch, TEFLAR awaits you (I think) :)  I find the best combination of
weapons in that level is Invincibility + 5-way-spread + Super Exploding Shot.
The boss consists of many bouncing entites, which bounce on the Raven in a
mass array of chaotic action (Awesome MT-32 background in this level!).
The Invincibility will allow you to fire the exploding shots in relatively
close range.  The bouncing balls will bounce into your explosions, causing
even more explosions.  Soon, you have lots of red and yellow balls bouncing
up and down :)  If you get there without those weapons, you're on your own.

After TEFLAR I think comes MATRICON, the maze level (and in my opinion,
relatively boring).  Intresting for the first time you get there, but otherwise
boring, especially if you get damaged.

After MATRICON I think comes the final level (MALEFAR?)... Have fun with the
Sardiax... I could never beat the last guy.

Good luck,
Eugster
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From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: INFO WANTED: Decent Voice Recognition System for PC
Date: 3 Jan 1993 19:32:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: starburst.umd.edu
Summary: see subject
Keywords: PC,Voice Recognition

I'm looking for a halfway decent voice recognition card & software for
the IBM PC family (ISA board & s/w).  The unit should have a good
reputation, cost $750 or less (hopefully much less), allow its user to
train it to recognize 256 or more words/macros, and act transparently
as a keyboard input hook to most MS-DOS applications (e.g. spoken words
appear to MS-DOS as if they were typed from the keyboard).

Please email any suggestions (product name and/or where to buy it) to
this address.  Many thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Summary: look at your memory, also
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:57:06 -0500

In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
>
>
>When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
>works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
>it crashes within minutes.
>
>This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
>non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).

This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.

I've never found a diagnostic package that would test things as well
as just booting and installing SCO UNIX.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.wanted
From: imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
Subject: Looking for used 286 laptop + Opinions on NEC Ultralite
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:03:15 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: IMRAN: Information & Media Resources, Affiliations, Networks


I need an inexpensive laptop preferably with a 2400 or 9600 error
correcting modem built in to run basically a telcom program to login for email
and MAYBE some wordproeccsing - basically email access is more important
and to demostrate email to people in their offices.

So I dont need a 386 or such "powerful" machine but a decent (used is fine)
PC wioth 1MB or so of RAM and a decent harddisk in a compact box that
is not too kludgy.

Someone suggested the NEC Ultralite series (like 17-01) that has 1mb 
of "hard disk" space on a chip that can be used to "transfer from main
PC" the application one expects to use on the road.  So it is not
a "real" full fledged PC but is very light and has a backlit screen I am
told.

I was wondering if it is a good option for the need I have or is there a
good place to get used 286 laptops for decent [read LOW] prices.

Your opinions appreciated


imran



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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Date: 3 Jan 93 04:25:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: GDX-BBS,Central Pa Unix BBS/anon uucp (717)737-3249 PEP+/2400/1200 24hrs
In-reply-to: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com's message of 1 Jan 93 22:41:31 GMT

In article <C075p7.CH1@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:

  > Path: gdx!frackit!wa3wbu!vogon1!psuvax1!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!ddsw1!karl
  > From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
  > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
  > Date: 1 Jan 93 22:41:31 GMT
  > References: <926@gdx.UUCP> <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  > Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL
  > Lines: 27
  > 
  > In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Michael Squires" <mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
  > >In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
  > >>
  > >>
  > >>When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
  > >>works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
  > >>it crashes within minutes.
  > >>
  > >>This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
  > >>non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).
  > >
  > >This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
  > >SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
  > >case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.
  > 
  > One other possibility -- bad (or too slow) cache RAM.  This will blow you
  > sky high on a Unix or Xenix system, but frequently works just fine under
  > MSDOS.
  > 
  > I've seen several cheap clone boards come with cache RAM that's 5ns too slow
  > for the board's specs.  The symptom was unpredictable crashes, usually
  > within minutes of booting.

If this were the problem, then it should be a problem with or without
the scsi board.

_______________________________________________________________________________
Jay A. Snyder               jay@gdx         ...{uunet,vogon1}!compnect!gdx!jay
This is your Brain: (unix)              GDX-BBS (717) 737-3249 WorldBlazer
This is your Brain on drugs: (MSDOS)     Unix and MSDOS File areas + Xenix bins
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: Parallel To SCSI Interface For PC
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:05:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.003109.25202@kd4dts.dixie.com> jcw@kd4dts.dixie.com (John C. Wren) writes:
=Does anyone out here in netland know of a device that would let me connect
=my laptop (with no expansion slots, but with a parallel port) to the SCSI
=chain on my '486 so that I can treat the 120mb drive on the laptop as a
=disk drive on the '486?
=
=What I want to accomplish is being able to backup the laptop drive to the
=tape system on my '486.  It would also be useful for installing software
=from the CD ROM drive on the '486 onto the laptop.  
=
=Any information would be appreciated.

Don't know if this will work, but you might contact the folks at
Trantor. They have a parallel-to-SCSI adaptor that works quite well.
	Trantor Systems, Ltd.
	5415 Randall Place
	Fremont CA 94538-3151
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: phl@cs.rit.edu (Peter H Lutz)
Subject: Using a JoyStick on a LapTop
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:32:29 GMT

I have a cousin who suffers from Cerebral Palsy.  He uses a laptop PC
(just arrived for Xmas) in school to take notes and write reports.

So far ... so good.  But, being a kid, he would like to play games.
His disability, however, makes using the keyboard in a fast moving game
difficult.  A joystick would be better.

Alas, the laptop, as with most laptops, has no game port.

Is there a way to connect a joystick to such a laptop???  Perhaps
something via the printer or serial port with appropriate software to
intercept the calls from the game?

If you know of any such thing ... please mail me.

Pete Lutz
R.I.T.
phl@cs.rit.edu

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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: What 486motherboards work with Buslogic 542B SCSI
Date: 3 Jan 93 04:24:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: GDX-BBS,Central Pa Unix BBS/anon uucp (717)737-3249 PEP+/2400/1200 24hrs
In-reply-to: mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu's message of 1 Jan 93 16:57:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.115712.1440@news.cs.indiana.edu> mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) writes:

  > Path: gdx!frackit!wa3wbu!vogon1!psuvax1!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu
  > From: mikes@moose.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires)
  > Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.xenix.sco
  > Summary: look at your memory, also
  > Date: 1 Jan 93 16:57:06 GMT
  > References: <926@gdx.UUCP>
  > Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
  > Lines: 21
  > 
  > In article <926@gdx.UUCP> jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay Snyder) writes:
  > >
  > >
  > >When I use it under SCO Xenix (2.3.2GT + UFN + xnx339), everything
  > >works fine until I load X (Roell's -- ported by Per Linquist).  Then
  > >it crashes within minutes.
  > >
  > >This is also the case with non-GT Xenix on the same board (which is
  > >non-scsi, and in theory, shouldn't even try to access the board).
  > 
  > This suggests that you have memory problems, caused either by marginal
  > SIMMs or a motherboard with ringing/noise on the memory bus.  In either
  > case only substitution will find the problem if this is true.
  > 
  > I've never found a diagnostic package that would test things as well
  > as just booting and installing SCO UNIX.

If this were the problem, wouldn't it show up without the SCSI board?

BTW, I have 70ns 4megX9 simms.
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This is your Brain: (unix)              GDX-BBS (717) 737-3249 WorldBlazer
This is your Brain on drugs: (MSDOS)     Unix and MSDOS File areas + Xenix bins
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: NEC vs Everyone else!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:38:14 GMT

Just to be a little more detailed on what I posted earlier.  
I'm looking for a high end 17" monitor that will be able to do 
1280 x 1024 x 256 at 74Hz NI, have front panel controls, the 
ability to use the full screen, degaussing, digital presets,
and it must look bright and sharp.
 
So far I hear the NEC 5fg is the way to go.  For it's cost 
however I can get some 20" monitors.  So what is the best 
monitor I can get for $1800 Canadian or less?
 
Other CRTs I'm considering right now are the MAG 17f, 
Viewsonic 7, and the Nanao 560ti. Can I get some specs on any 
of the monitors mentioned or anything else in that price range?
 
Merry Christmas!
From: keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:03:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: klic.1992Dec31.170344.18190
Organization: Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits

> misc comments on wafer sort omitted.

Any reputable manufacturer of chips is going to have some way to speed test
all parts.  Imagine a clock driver on a CMOS chip that is constructed from
two big hurking devices, strapped together with metal, to drive the whole
chip clock at speed.  Now imagine one of those metal straps has an open
in it, resulting in a smaller effective clock driver.  You now have a
chip that will work dandy at low speed, and won't work at high speed.  
Failures like this are common, and can account for half the DC functional
devices on a wafer, especially if the yield is low anyway.

Personally, I would be a little frightened of *anything* that "didn't quite
make it" on a wafer that did - something that's marginal can become more
marginal over time.  Chip speeds degrade because of hot carrier injection 
and other things.  A reputable manufacturer will leave just a little surplus
speed to account for this degradation.  If a cheesy board manufacturer is
eating into this surplus to save a few bucks, they are doing you no favors.
If you run across such, please post names, so we all can avoid them.

Keith
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From: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMIBIOS
Date: 2 Jan 1993 03:23:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ronaldm@rgm.com (Ronald Mendoza) says:

>Anyone know what the latest AMIBIOS is?  I just got a 486DX-50, and the
>BIOS is dated 12/12/91.
>
>Also, is anyone real knowledgeable about the various Advanced CMOS
>Settings?  I'd like to get a in-depth description of what some of the
>newer settings are for.  (i.e. Write-Through v. Write-Back cache, Bus
>Clock Frequency, Auto Config, Auto_Bus, DRAM Hidden Refresh, etc.)
>
>-Ron (ronaldm@rgm.com)
>
There is no "true" newest BIOS....it depends on your motherboard.  Don't
try changing it, you will most likely end up screwing things up.  Also,
a lot of those special features you might see in your particular CMOS
setup may not technically be something inside the CMOS. My motherboard
has an option called "decoupled refresh";  it means the chipset refreshes the
video instead of the CPU.  I called AMI about it and their reply was that
they had nothing to do with it, the MB company told them what the cmos
switch was to say and where to modify....

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From: markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins)
Subject: Pitfalls? Got SCSI, want to add RLL
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 06:22:10 GMT

I have a newish 486 with a big SCSI disk + tape (Unix + DOS partitions), and a 
dead 386SX with an RLL controller & Seagate 30 MB drive.

I'd like to at least temporarily install the RLL controller & Seagate
drive in the 486, in order to back up the Seagate to a tape. If there's
no particular reason not to, I'd probably just leave the drive there to
be D:.

I have enough IRQs; anything else to watch out for? Thanks in advance.

-- 
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From: davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Question: Tape Drive utils and info
Date: 27 Dec 92 11:11:06 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

millernw@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Neal Miller) writes:

> 
> 	Well, I finally got a tape drive for my 386, so I can knock down
> my total number of floppies.  It's a Colorado Systems Jumbo 250, and I'm
> using 3M DC-2120s in it.  So far, I've been pretty happy with it.  The 
> install time was about twenty minutes, and it probably would've been shorter
> if I'd checked out the manuals first.  My only problem is that when I 
> formatted my first tape, the software told me that I only had about 115.5M
> on the tape, rather than the 120 or so I expected.  The second tape gave me
> a little more, around 118.8 or so, but still below par.  The software does
> not tell me anything about bad blocks (lousy software).  Any idea what I
> might be doing wrong?

I've had good results with the same tape drive. The OEM software from 
Colorado does not (for reasons unknown to me) identify or mark bad blocks 
on the tape. The only software that I have seen that effectively takes 
care of this for the user is Central Point's CPBackup that comes with PC 
Tools 7.+ and 8.0. I don't think you are doing anything wrong. But you 
should probably check to be certain that Colorado recommends using the 
type of tape you mentioned. 

> 
> 	Also, a friend of mine is thinking of writing some utilities for
> tape drives.  Does anyone know of any shareware (or freeware) utilities 
> that exist, or failing that, where I might be able to obtain QIC-117 (or
> QIC-115) info?

I think you can get the information direct from CMS, but I'm not sure.

> 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz)
Subject: Ram testing
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:54:54 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University


I have been having memory problems on a Gateway 486/33, which
I just upgraded to 16 MB.  (4-4MB SIMMs)  Are there any good
programs, Shareware or otherwise, that will do an extensive
test of all 16MB of RAM?  The programs I've found on Compu$erve
don't test memory above 640K.

I want to give this RAM a thorough "burning" before taking it
back to the place I bought it...

please reply by e-mail.  Thanks!

Merry Christmas
-e.
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From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Mitsumi CD-ROM drive: $169  -> Good, bad or ugly?
Date: 4 Jan 93 04:43:40 GMT
Organization: (this space for rent)


A place called "Cost Plus" is advertising (comp. shopper, Jan 93, p.296) a
Mitsumi CD-ROM drive (internal = $169, external = $239).

Now it seems that there are 2 types of drives; 150k/sec and 300k/sec
transfer speeds, and various different average access times.  This
mitsumi drive is a 150k/sec drive, and is probably slow (access).
Apart from giving jerky animation, is there anything these slow drives
can't do or can't read (compared to the 300k/sec drives)?

Has anyone bought this mitsumi drive?  Any comments?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.minix,comp.os.linux
From: mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell)
Subject: Good book on PC hardware programming ??????
Organization: Mark-One Public Access UNIX (+44 942 273926)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:53:43 GMT

Anyone out there know of a good book, or possibly some ftpable docs,
on low level PC hardware programming. eg the ins & outs of the FDC
and how to format tracks, etc. etc.
Thanks in advance.

-- 
Mark Powell

Mark-One Public Access UNIX, Manchester, UK 	BBS:	+44 942 273926
UniBoard, *the* UNIX BBS, UK distribution site	Voice:	+44 942 714317
From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hi-Tech Computers ???
Date: 3 Jan 93 02:56:51 GMT
Distribution: comp

Hi-Tech computers in northern  California (Milpitas I think)
appears to offer some very low-priced (mail order) systems.
Anyone out there had experience with their 33 MHz 486 systems?
I'm considering another vendor (Gecco) but am still considering
any options that make sense. Thanks in advance.

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