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From: mikel@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Michael Linton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: IMAGINE
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:13:08 GMT
Organization: The Draco Unix System [BBS]

govil@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Shalini Govil) writes:

> 
> Hi ..
> I was having some problems with my Imagine package.
> I have an object (which is a group of lower objects). 
> If I render this object using the 'Trace' mode, then at certain angles,
> parts of this object does not show in the picture. Its strange, because if I
> use the 'scan-line' mode to render the scene, everything is as expected..
> Can anyone tell me what the problem might be?
> Thanks
> Shalini

 
Well, there could be 2 reasons for this happening:
 
1) you're objects are out of Imagine's "world" size (i.e. parts are 
missing, because they're not in the area Imagine renders...  It's like 
having a room with a light on in it, with total blackness around the 
room... If you stick your hand through the wall, your hand won't be there 
on the other side, because it's to dark to see.  Just a cheesy analogy :)
 
2) you're running out of RAM.  This happens sometimes, Imagine doesn't 
have enough ram to do it's calculations, and it will miss polygons when 
it's rendering.
 
Solutions:
 
1) select all the objects in your scene (including the camera), and scale 
them all down.
 
2) if the solution for 1) doesn't help, try deleting one (or two), of the 
objects from your scene (make sure you snapshot them first, to keep their 
position in your scene).  If that helps, then I'd suggest you goto the 
Detail editor, and do a little hack and slash on your objects, to cut 
down on their size.  Or, if you're using a lot of brushmaps (especially 
altitude maps), you might want to remove a few, and try using some 
Algorithmic textures instead...  Or, what's a bit more expensive, but 
works even better (saves time etc), is to buy more ram. :)  Hope 
that helps you out some.  TTYRS
 


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From: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
Subject: Re: ECS reset on A4000
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:07:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.042927.22711@netcom.com>, shambarg@netcom.com (Scott Shambarger) writes:
|> In article <hamster.033e@xymox.apana.org.au> hamster@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) writes:
|> >In article <1993Jan22.155016.12933@news.uit.no> kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens) writes:
|> >
|> >> Is it possible to make a program that resets AGA machines so that they start
|> >> up without AGA enabled afterwards?  I'm getting tired of having to hold both
|> >> mousebuttons at startup to play games (I haven't seen a single commersial game
|> >> that works from HD without turning off AGA)
|> >
|> >I think (but don't quote me, I don't own a 4000!) that Chris Hames'
|> >Degrader V1.30 will do that for you. It was recently posted to
|> >comp.binaries.amiga.
|> Have you tried holding both mouse buttons down on a reboot and then
|> selecting ECS or original chipset emulation for the startup menu?  I
|> believe it's in the Video section.

It's just that I want to avoid!  I want to reboot to ECS without using the
bootmenu.  Degrader doesn't help either :(

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From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Wipe Disk Program
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Keywords: spam, semprini, ni, naughty bits, terrible peril
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:22:33 GMT


I know of a couple commercial utilities that will clean out the "erased space"
on a disk. Is there a PD one that will purge files already deleted?

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
From: jkrutz@burner.com (Jamie Krutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Latest version of ProCalc ?
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:16:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: The Back Burner BBS (via C-Net Amiga)

>I'd just like to point out that DR2D is not a Commodore format...."
DR2D is as much of a standard IFF format as IFF-ILBM.  Developed by Stylus, it
is available to any developer, it was developed with input from other
developers, and it is worthy of support.  Commodore has used it as an example
of how to create an IFF standard for the Amiga.  It's to the benefit of the
users for developers to support IFF standards.  IFF standards are one of the
strengths of the Amiga environment.  As to why New Horizons chose to go with
their own format rather than support the standard, or why Gold Disk insists on
their own proprietary format, that's up to those companies.  Other companies
are supporting DR2D, and the more that do, the better for the Amiga.

It would also be good for the Amiga if some of the word processor companies
began to support DR2D for importing structured graphics into documents, in
addition to the now common support for IFF-ILBM for bitmapped graphics.

Cooperation among Amiga developers is to be encouraged.  The real competition
is from other platforms.

Best,
 -Jamie

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From: zrawi01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Jochen Wiedmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PasTeX1.3 vs CTeX2.1 info please?
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:46:14 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG

In <1993Jan24.121558.1@woods.ulowell.edu> edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu writes:

>Specifically, I need to know what the hardware requirements are to run
>PasTeX1.3 on the Amiga.

>I currently have 3 megs of memory (1 chip and 2 fast), ECS Agnus, OCS Denise
>and about 10Megs of space on my hardrive. Is this sufficient?

Your RAM should be enough, if you select the files you'll surely need. Using
XFH or something like that you probably don't have the work to deselect the
other files.

	Jochen


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From: ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:13:35 GMT
Subject: Re: PopUpMenu
Organization: Hewlett-Packard SSG/CSY-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications

/ hpopd:comp.sys.amiga.applications / groth@valentin.fmi.uni-passau.de (Peter Groth) /  1:59 pm  Jan 25, 1993 /
In article <cmp0119.727956492@oxygen.sys.uea.ac.uk>, cmp0119@sys.uea.ac.uk (Paul Harrison) writes:
> 
> After a spate of unpleasant crashes I finally convinced myself that
> *something* was mucking up my system and proceded to remove (and after
> each test replace) each utility in my WBStartup draw/user-startup file
> until the machine started working properly again. To my utter horror,
> everything suddenly worked perfectly when I removed PopUpMenu...
> 
> Q: Is PopUpMenu at all notorious for not working under KS2.04, or is
>    my copy corrupted/ancient?
> 
> I miss my pop up menus! I want them back!
> 
> Paul
> cmp0119@uk.ac.uea.sys

Try MagicMenu V1.17 - it does all you want and more :-)
Available from amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors in the directory
os20/cdity.
-- 
Peter                                  groth@peschl.fmi.uni-passau.de
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From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX and X-Window questions.
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:29:59 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

bchiu@crash.cts.com (Bill Chiu) writes:

>Hello World,

Hello, Bill. :)

>   I have an Amiga 3000/25.  I'm now taking an Neural Network class that 
>requires me to work on X-Window with an Sun workstation.  Couldn't Amiga do
>that?

Yes.

>   My questions is, can Amiga's UNIX and X-Window work with Amiga's ECS
>graphic chipset's limited colors?  If not, what's the cheapest graphic
>board that'll work with this setup.

The latest version (ie the final version, since CBM seems to have lost
interest in its UNIX development) is 2.1, and this will indeed provide
color with the ECS chips alone.

>   I don't even have Amiga' UNIX yet.  But if I get it will I need to get
>source code for every program and recompile it on my computer?  About how
>much harddisk space would serve for a 'okey setup?

If you want to develop under X, you'll probably want *at least* 200MB
devoted to UNIX.  You could trim this down, but you'd need another system
with such storage to do it on, then spew it back to tape for installation
on your own machine.

>   Lastly, what's the current version of Amiga's UNIX operating system. 
>Will I need to purchase and install X-Windows seperately.  Approximately

Commodore-Amiga UNIX SVR4 Version 2.1, and X11R4 is included.  If you want
Motif or X11R5, that's your own problem.

>how much disk space will this installation need?

You *can* pull it off in 100MB, but as they say, "It ain't pretty" - you'd
need to rip out just about everything *but* X to develop under it...

>Thanks.
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From: rtillery@crash.cts.com (Rick Tillery)
Subject: SAS 6.2 update
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:03:43 PST

Just a note to let everyone know that I just downloaded the update archive
for SAS 6.2 from Portal.  I haven't installed it yet, but I'm really impressed
with SAS's regularity of updates.

Keep up the good work SAS!

Rick Tillery(RTillery@crash.cts.com)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: feuchtwa@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Feuchtwanger)
Subject: Re: Flow
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:06:16 GMT

jgary@ms.uky.edu (James E. Gary) writes:
>Is anyone out there using Flow? I think it is from New Horizon's software.
>I recently dug out my copy, which must be version 1 and have found it useful
>lately. I have noticed that newer versions are available and am wondering
>whether it is worth my effort to upgrade (assuming they will let me and

barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>	If you like Flow, I recommend upgrading, since version 3 adds many
>features and has the same design philosophy.

I agree.  I use Flow quite a lot -- mostly for writing.  I start with
key words, phrases and main ideas, and continue by fleshing it out,
and re-arranging.  If i want to format everything nicely, i switch to
ProWrite, which can read Flow documents.

One of the best, though admittedly not earth-shattering, improvements
in the newer version (3.0?) is splitting lines with SHIFT-RETURN and
joining lines with SHIFT-DEL/BCKSPC.  I would still like better
integration with ProWrite/QuickWrite, though.

I suspect, judging from the lack of discussion/articles, that not too
many people use Flow, which is a pity because i find it so useful.
Though i've never done any programming recently, i'm sure i'd use Flow
for that purpose, because its so good at indenting/unindenting,
collapsing/expanding, and re-aranging.  Does anyone use it for that?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: Maths software required. Any ideas?
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:21:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.034010.14448@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
>belcinski@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu wrote:
>:
>: Check-out Maple-V from Waterloo Maple Software.  It is tremendously powerful
>: and outclasses anything else I've ever seen on the Amiga.  See if there's a
>: site liscence for your university.. otherwise the price is about 400 dollars
>: (US).  Its worth every penny, though.
>:
>
>What's not in the student edition that's in the main edition?
>
>--


A student edition does not exist for the Amiga.


Herb

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: dra2@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Daniel Allen)
Subject: Re: better 'CD' command wanted!
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:21:39 GMT

dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold) writes:
>Quoted from <19724@mindlink.bc.ca> by Graham_Parkinson@mindlink.bc.ca
>   (Graham Parkinson):
>>> Mickey writes:
>>> Basically I would like a complete replacement of the CD
>>> command with at least the ability to understand "cd .."
>>> and the other features of UCD would be nice also.
>> 
>> Isn't just typing cd / about the same as cd .. ?
>> 
>> I just discovered by reading the docs (!) that the 2.05 shell allows
>> specifying the desired directory by just typing its' name - ie
>> just by typing   dh0:longwindeddir instead of cd dh0:longwindeddir.

>I think you're just catching up with what Wshell has been doing all
>along.  In Wshell typing / is the same as 'cd /' (or 'cd ..' on Unix)
>and longwindeddir is the same as cd dh0:longwindeddir if you're already
>in dh0:

Use CSHell.  'cd ..' is allowed, and Cshell has a jillion other features
too!

Daniel Allen
dra2@cornell.edu

>Cheers,
>Dale
>--
>- dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz
>- Korokoro, New Zealand
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 14:53:54 MST
From: <ICPCH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: hard drive compression

Could anyone tell me if a compression-on-the-fly program like the PC
Stacker 2.0 is available for the Amiga.  Anything FTPable?
I am running out of HD space and would rather not buy another drive.
From: efb@cnmss.tredydev.unisys.com (Edward Bacon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: CD ROM file systems
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:37:06 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Tredyffrin

Would someone please email (or post) info on CD-ROM "file systems"
available for the A 3000.  Thanks.
From: hhoff@drunol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: hard drive compression
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:07:41 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: drunol.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

<ICPCH@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:

>Could anyone tell me if a compression-on-the-fly program like the PC
>Stacker 2.0 is available for the Amiga.  Anything FTPable?
>I am running out of HD space and would rather not buy another drive.
HI!

Just look in the comp.sys.amiga.announce-group. There is a package called XFH 1.32
announced as available for ftp from amiga.physik.unizh.ch, which works in conjunction
with XPK-Packers. I hope this helps you.

Bye, hhoff.
From: dak@shannon (Pierre Baillargeon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PowerSnap, MegaSnap, oSnap, Snap...
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:06:06 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Bob Maple (bmaple@burner.com) wrote:
: 
: I LOVE oSnap because of the way you can snap tons of lines, and then select
: which to spit out by a requestor if you choose.  If it was stable and you
: could save your prefs from 2.04, I'd pay the guy for it!
: 
  As soon as I can get a 2.0 (3.0 :) machine, I will upgrade many of my
programs.  I just have to build up the courage to use half of my budget to a
new A1200...  I had a 2000 with 2.0 for about 10 days, now I'm back on my old
A1000.  I believe in the 10 days I had it, I wrote a nor-requester version
(which would save the prefs with the default name).  Dunno what happened to it
though (sorry :( ).

  If you bug Mikael Karlsson (the original author of snap) he might add some
of the features I had done.  Anyway, if I get a new machine, I'll have to
rewrite a lot of stuff, so it take a lot of time anyway...

--
"Pis Bourassa qui est toujours la.  Y'a pas d'remede contre le SIDA" - French B
...........................................................dak@info.polymtl.ca
From: dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Two Final Copy II questions
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:50:59 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA


     I have a couple of questions about Final Copy II that I can't seem
to find answers to in the manual:
     1. How do you do an append?  I.e., how do you bring another file
into one you've already opened?
     2. The only way to close a document and start another seems to be
to select "Quit."  If you don't select "Quit," opening successive
documents just opens successive windows.  But if you "Quit" from
the first document you opened, the whole program quits.  Is there any
way to exit a document without "Quit?"

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From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: UnFlit & UnDL
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 23 Jan 93 13:32:33 EST
Organization: Privately owned and operated UUCP site.

In article <jbickers.0nxc@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> Quoted from <jperkski.03a0@kentcomm.uucp> by jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski):
>
> >  Has anyone gotten one or both of these animation busters to work? When I
> > run them they report that they can not find the iff.library. If I run
>
>     They say that they failed to open the library, which is a slightly
>     different thing. The software requests a version number for the
>     library, and the version you must have has an older number than
>     required.
>
>     Version 22.3 should be available for FTP from amiga.physik.etc. I
>     have been told that 22.1 crashes on the first frame, so it would
>     be a good idea to get the latest version, 22._3_.

Ah ha! You might want to mention that in the documentation.:) I was really
stunped as to what was wrong. I did manage to firgure it out a couple of
nights ago. I used the iff.library off the Fred Fish disk you mentioned. I
managed to get UnDL to split a .dl file. It works GREAT!

>
> > SnoopDos it says that the progran HAS loaded the iff.library. Any insight,
> > help, or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
>
>     That just means that Exec has opened the library just enough to
>     find out that it isn't the version unflit or undl want.
>
>     BTW, does that appreciation extend to emailing the author any
>     interesting animations that he hasn't already got?
>

Just give me a list of what you have and what you want and I'll do my best.:)

____________________________________
        (Jim Perkowski)
kentcomm!jperkski@legend.akron.oh.us
kentcomm!jperkski@aldhfn.akron.oh.us

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From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Subject: Re: Print Spoolers
Keywords: print, spooling, dviprint
Organization: Smith College
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:03:53 GMT

In reference to the recently released Printmanager:

In article <sbiddle.06k8@aviate.welly.gen.nz> sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle) writes:
>It works great, and the only program
>it doesn't work with is PageStream (unless you use the preferences.printer
>device, the drivers break the rules somehow..)

DVIPrint that comes with PasTeX 1.3 also doesn't appear work; at
least *I* have not been able to make it work.  Has anyone had
better luck??  Except for this problem, Printmanager is by far
the best spooler I've run into thus far.

-john
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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Wordworth2 Question
Organization: City University, London
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:41:29 GMT

In article <gxAls*4c1@wolf359.UUCP> eric@wolf359.UUCP (Eric Edwards) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.195854.4105@city.cs>, Lionel Tun writes:
>
>> Am I the only one here using WW2? It is rapidly becoming _the_
>
>The real thing, not the demo.  Right?  Good.  I'd like to know if the
>format conversions work in the complete version of Word Worth 2.0.
>
>In the Demo they don't.  The're not disabled, just not usable.  Here's
>what I get.

Hhhhmm. Not tried them yet, but you know, it would be a bit
remiss if the actual shipping version had these many bugs in
it!

I would not base anything on a demo version.

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From: wisser@cip-s08.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ulrich Wisser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: New CallMF (1.0) an TeXRexx (1.5)
Date: 26 Jan 93 11:32:56 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: cip-s08.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Summary: New Version of the stated Macros, increased functionality
Keywords: TeX, METAFONT, MF, Arexx, Rexx

Hello,
I just loaded new versions of CallMF and TexRexx to ftp.dfv.rwth.aachen.de
in /pub/amiga/icoming.

Some bugs are removed (maybe some new will appear, as normal)
- Doc for CallMF
- batchmode for METAFONT now works
- Fontcaching for DVIPS 5.47
...

Try it!

Ulrich Wisser


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