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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: World of CBM, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 07:37:23 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>>Seminars for World of Commodore, Pasadena Ca.
>> 
>>Saturday, Sept 12, 1992 10 am - 5 pm
>> 
>> 3:00 PM  *Amigavision 3.0
>> 3:45 PM  *Commodore New Product Overview
>> 4:00 PM  *AmigaDos 2.1
>> 
>
>Many people wondering HOW can Commodore take only 15 MINUTES to show
>many new Amigas!?  C= said new Amigas showing up at Australa WOC
>and new Amigas == A600 and A3000T!
>
>IF Amigas with AA selling soon WHY sell 2.1 OS???

You presume that all the seminars will take place in the same room.

In my experiences going to AmiExpo shows, this was almost never the
case and they often had seminars and classes that started at or
near the same time, and were held in different rooms of different
capacities depending on the estimated attendance of each.

Harv
From: zerkle@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CBM Announcements at Pasadena
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:12:22 GMT
Reply-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis

In article <tdenbo.714688536@guru> tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo) writes:
>I'm hearing from well informed developers that CBM will announce new
>hardware at WOC in Pasadena.

I have contacted one of the friendly helpful people at Commodore, and
she has promised to send me any press releases she can get.  Keep an
eye out in comp.sys.amiga.announce.  Not too close an eye, because I
will probably be at the show myself, and won't get anything up until
the Monday after the show (or so).

My contact says that they sometimes write press releases _at_ the
show, but it won't necessarily happen this time.  In any case, you
folks on the net will be the first members of the general public to
know (except those who go to the show).

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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help! My amiga can't walk! (Lost its feet)
Date: 3 Sep 92 07:29:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep3.002900.1501
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > when putting big rubber feet on anything, *screw them down*!


Well, some do and some don't.  Unless there is some strain placed upon the
feet in a sideways direction, they should not have any probs.  Picking the
computer up a lot also might cause them to loosen a bit.  While screws,
bolts, and welding all lead to solid fixtures, a drop of rubber cement
works well for me... and costs less as well.  Cost is no big deal on 1-2
machines but how about for 1,000,000 machines?  It adds up.


 > CBM's engineers *did* design the pregnant mice...

Yes, they did.  But I find those very uncomfortable and MUCH prefer my
Boing! optical mouse.  It's VERY slick and smooth to operate... especially
after removing the felt pads from the underside.  ;-)




        -=- Ed


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From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:50:09 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <64921@cup.portal.com>, Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>The latest rumor that I have heard about the HD floppies is that
>C= is backing off from the idea -- none of the Amiga shops around
>here seem to be able to order the drives as replacement parts,
>which is making an acquaintance of mine who got a bum HD drive in
>his new A3000T *very* pissed off....
>
>Is it just a shortage for the moment, or what?  I'd love to
>replace the standard 880k floppy in my A3000 with a HD unit.
>
>-----
>[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]
>[> It's a BEAR thing -- you wouldn't understand. <|> furr@cup.portal.com <]
>

Try a Teac 3.5 scsi floppy if you really need a HD.  I have not seen anyone using this drive.  The last time I saw them advertised, they were under $150.00 US.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Subject: Re: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:19:41 GMT

In article <64921@cup.portal.com> Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison) writes:
>The latest rumor that I have heard about the HD floppies is that
>C= is backing off from the idea -- none of the Amiga shops around
>here seem to be able to order the drives as replacement parts,
>which is making an acquaintance of mine who got a bum HD drive in
>his new A3000T *very* pissed off....

One step forwards, two steps back.

>[> George D. Madison | NBCS: B8f+t+w-e+s+k+a!cv | Just say NO to razors! <]

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Subject: OS2.x FONT Problem (Courier 11)?
Originator: rbm2273@ultb
Keywords: 2.04, 2.x, font, system
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:23:43 GMT

There seems to be a problem with using Courier-11 as the
"System default text"!

Lucky me! This was my first choice when I first setup OS2.04.

Try the following:

------------------

Run to "Font Preferences" and select the "System default text" gadget.
Then choose "courier 11" for the font selection.
Then select the "Use" gadget.
Now open a new CLI window.

It should be using the new font selection of "courier 11".

Now type a capital "W" and then try to delete it!
Type return and you will (maybe) notice that it was not completely
erased!

------------------

Hopefully, you see the same thing that I do.  MicroEMACS V2.1 has
always (since OS2.x) had the problem of leaving dots scattered all
over the screen.  I never knew why.  I'd just refresh the screen and
all would be fine, for a few moments.

I've also noticed that PowerSnap by Nico Francois V2.0 and 2.0a
refuses to cut/paste the capital "W" properly. V2.0 would never
do anything except maybe paste ???'s where the W should be.  V2.0a,
with the ALLFONTS setting, will either cut/paster the "W" correctly
and nothing else, or cut/paste everything else OK, except the "W"!!!

I switched to a number of different fonts without trouble.

I'll send this off to CBM, if I remember where bug reports are sent.

Regards .. [ rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM)
Subject: CanDo Jr....AARGH!!!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: dolmen!jgraham@moose.cs.indiana.edu
Organization: Somewhere in Bloomington, Indiana
Distribution:  world
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:44:23 GMT

I just purchased a disk/magazine called "The Amiga Collection".

On it is a fully functional copy of "CanDo Jr.".

Unfortunately, when I try to run it, it gives me a requester
informing me that it requires a PAL machine.

I find this annoying, since the disk/magazine is also marketed
in the USA.

I have an Amiga 500 with 4.5 meg ram, 64 mbytes of HD space,
and am running AmigaDos 2.04.

Is there any way that I can fool CanDo Jr. into thinking my
2.04 machine is PAL?

Old utilities like patchNTSC and degrader don't seem to fool it.

Thanks, 

Jim Graham 

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From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: If the AA-chipset...
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:19:41 GMT
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia

If the AA-chipset really exists, and from the reports of what C= is going to
display at WOC in September, we can assume that it *really* is 2-4 times
faster than the current chipset, then:

(a)  Will there be a new Paula with these specs?
(b)  If it is twice as fast, will it be able to access IBM-PC high-density
     3.5" drives (unlike the FB357 150rpm one)?



Mere speculation,
Phil.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: AmiEXPO filed for bankruptcy
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:37:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.013829.2343@crash> jgallego@crash.cts.com
(Jose Gallego) writes:

>Yes, AmiEXPO has filed for bankruptcy.   

>A couple of weeks ago I talked with Joe Lowry, President of the AmiEXPO shows,
>and he explained that they had to file for bankruptcy because the Amiga
>market has been "slow" and not profitable anymore.

Of course, he conveniently failed to mention that the AmiExpo shows were often
scheduled in tandem with the WOC exhibits (forcing developers to make a
decision as to which show to commit themselves to), the fact that CBM had
adamantly encouraged both promoters to combine their efforts (and make
the shows more comprehensive) and most importantly, that two major firms
promoting Amiga-specific shows is one too many. This is situation is also
apparent in the PC and Mac communities.

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AmigaDos 2.05 upgrade...
From: tdenbo@dwp.la.ca.us (Tom Denbo)
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:20:13 GMT
Distribution: na

graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM) writes:

>Sorry if this is a dumb question but....

>How do those of us who purchased and installed 2.04 upgrade to 2.05?

>Thanks, 

Don't bother with 2.05, 2.1 will probably be announced in Pasadena in 2
weeks.
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From: mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:19:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: CBM/Amiga vs NewTek/Toaster
Organization: HP Santa Rosa Site (NMD MTA MWTD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc

	
	The easy answer for dealers is to form another company within their
	retail outlet (creating in effect a second retail orgainzation under
	one roof) that sells video equipment.  Commodore would have
	no business nosing into that.

	-Mike-

		
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
Subject: Re: CBM Announcements at Pasadena
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 10:41:26 GMT

In article <27757@sophia.inria.fr> colas@capa.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:
>I have just received my French magazine "Amiga News" where there is apparently
>some well informed article about the A4000:
>
>- it WILL be announced and physically there at the WOC show

On busy day Saturday C= is taking 15 MINUTES to show all machines.
Even Atari Falcon show in Germany said THOUSANDS of people typing
and testing out Falcons for THREE DAYS == THOUSANDS of minutes.
WHY only short time to check out A4000???

>- it will ship sometime afterwards. definitely before xmas. Commodore is

A4000 with HAM-E can ship befoe xmas 1992 but A4000 with AA chips MUST
go to developers FIRST!

>Also From Commodore UK: the A2000 will be replaced by a new machine in 3 months
>time, probably by an A2200 which would be a 020 A2000 with the good old ECS
>chipset, but precise specs are not decided yet.

???! For sure French magazine telling PHONY story.  C= is shipping
A2200 with ECS many months later after everyone saying AA chips
are not vAApor?!  No way!  Only reason is AA is still vAApor
and not shipping until 1993!

>
>Disclaimer: I just read this in a magazine. They are normally very serious, but
>can be fooled. However it won't be long till the truth is revealed anyways.

Everyone is saying new phrase..'beware IDES of september!'



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang)
Subject: Re: AA chipset in the A3000 -> I expect it!
Reply-To: tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 10:41:30 GMT

>I believed this explanation, as the entire A3000 architecture is a 32-bit
>system (right down to the expansion bus).  I still believe it (tho much of
>the talk here has begun to erode my Faith).  Since that time, hardware
>problems may have rendered A3000 compatibility moot (ie: chips turned out too
>big).  I hope not.  I also hope C= will offer a real nice upgrade package to
>those of us still in the Gold Service warranty category (I've only had mine
>for 3 months!)

What about all of the people who have invested heavily in upgrading their 500s
and 2000s to the max???  As I see it, there have got to be a whole lotta people
out there who got 2000s for the Toaster alone, plus more who bought one for
creative purposes before the 3000 was available... :)

Will C= feed us to the vultures once more...  Or maybe to the lions :)

Teddy

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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AAchip for 3000(was Re: Offic. new C= Announcements!)
Date: 29 Aug 92 07:53:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug29.005353.1329
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

Somehow, when a new 32-bit machine is released and touted as the "machine
of the future", customers deserve that future to last a few years and not a
few months.  Hopefully, this will NOT be a prob.  If it gets to be a prob,
I will solve it from this end without CBM's assistance.



        -=- Ed



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From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Hardwired Demo on an A3000?
Date: 23 Aug 92 22:48:25 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug22.230635.12986@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
>rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead ) writes:
>
>>I've heard anout a demo called Hardwired.  It is said that this is one
>>of the best-ever demos on an Amiga!
>
>>I don't seem to be able to run it on an A3000.  It throws up a message
>>that says something like, "This demo does not like Axel".
>
>
>Try restarting it with Degrader.  It should run on an A3000 (and
>it will display "Extra Fast Located").
>
>It runs on my A2000+020 fine.  It just doesn't like my NTSC Amiga... :)
>

I tried it with and without Degrader!  What specific degrader options
should be used?

Thanks.  Reply here or to: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu

ps - Someone else responded and said it won't run on non-68000 machines!
From: plummer@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dave Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Date: 23 Aug 92 19:45:27 GMT
Reply-To: plummer@hercules.uregina.ca (Dave Plummer)
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

In article <1992Aug21.201302.42498@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> 	Thanks to all who e-mailed this advice as well.  My df0: that
>> originally came with the machine is a HD drive, though the df1: is not.
>
>Only one HD drive per machine for know and it has to be df0: anyway.
>I'd say most people will be excited to get even one.

Doing my best not to sound like Marc here, but just when I thought the
addition of the 1.44 drive (well, 2.0M to be exact) to the A3000T was a
thoughtful upgrading of technology, I learned that in most cases it is
now cheaper to source 1.44 drives than 720K drives, simply due to the 
greater demand.  I wouldn't doubt that they start showing up in A500s
and A600s sometime soon...

- Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ebers@gfxbase.in-berlin.de (Thorsten Ebers)
Subject: Re: CBM Announcements at Pasadena
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:45:18 GMT
Organization: private
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

aces@mcode.amdahl.com (Jeffrey D. Smith) writes:
: In article <1992Aug25.004818.26091@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Elizabeth E Sack) writes:
: > It was posted on GEnie's 5 minute Amiga news that C= will be displaying the
: > A4000 at Pasadena.  Whether or not it will be shipping after the show was
: > not mentioned.
: I hope it's a 68040 on the motherboard, rather than an accelerator
: card for the A3000.  Does this mean that AmigaUNIX will support the
: 68040?

IMHO it will mean Amiga Unix will not be supported anymore.It is death.
I would be pleased if someone could tell me the oppsite.

Thorsten

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Subject: Re: AA chipset in the A3000 -> I expect it!
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:18:27 GMT

In article <talan.02w7@tension.UUCP> talan@tension.UUCP (Dave Bicking) writes:
>There's been a lot of speculation on the new AA Chipset and whether it would
>actually work on an A3000 computer.  I, as a recent purchaser of an A3000,
>expect it to be available - in the current slots.

Don't like to spoil your party but..

Just after the introduction of the Amiga 3000 I had a conversation
in email with a guy from C= who used to post to the net occassionally
(but has now disappeared, maybe fired?).  His name was Bob Raibel 
(I know I've got his last name slightly wrong) from C= LSI design.  

I had mailed him to ask if the new chipset they were
working on would work with the A3000.  He told me that any new chips
would have a different shape and pin-out and the only way to get them
into the 3000 would be via a Zorro III slot.  He wasn't even
sure if that was possible and said I would have to ask Dave Haynie
about it, which I never got around to doing.

I wish now I had have kept the mail, though I guess it wouldn't have
been in the spirit of Usenet to post it anyway. 

>At _that_ time, they were expecting it to fit in the A3000
>motherboard.  They said that the Motherboard's chip socket had a 32-bit
>bandwidth, while the ECS still only used 16 (eg: they thought ahead).  

I hope you are right, but I still can't see a 32 bit chip fitting into
a 16 bit chip's socket.  Dave has said as much when he said "You can't
grow 16 bits" a few months ago.

Something positive...

It may make some kind of sense though.  Under the new systems you
have to enquire to find out whether there is 2x or 4x speedup.  Adding
the new chips to the A3000 would only gain 2x speedup due to the 
different type of RAM chips needed for the 4x speedup.  I doubt C= would
cripple their new machines by using memory that would only give a 2x
speedup, so this may imply you can add the new chips to the 3000, but
just not get full utilization.

Did that help to confuse things?  I hope so :-)

>I also hope C= will offer a real nice upgrade package to
>those of us still in the Gold Service warranty category (I've only had mine
>for 3 months!)

There will probably be some sort of Power-Up offer for people in the
States, but I doubt it will be available elsewhere.

>Dave

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From: smithmn@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: help w/ HDBackup!
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:26:14 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY


Help! I've used the backup utility v37.8 to backup the work side of my
HD, and in my haste I deleted the log file. Now my problem is I can't
even do a no-log restore because HDBackup locks up if I try any backup
or restore option. You know what kind of hassle it's gonna be if I
loose 40+ megs of stuff, so please someone help!

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From: ccsw@bristol.ac.uk (EthaStorm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking to unpack DOS disk with .lzh files
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:43:10 GMT
Organization: University of Bristol, England

In article <2SEP92.16012792@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
>I need to unpack a DOS formatted disk with three .lzh
>extension files (compressed). How do I do this on
>an AMIGA 2000???


Try

1> Set up MSH/MessyDos/CrossDos what-have-you MSDOG to Amiga disk handler
   system. (Assume MSH: for this include)

2> Copy your file from the MSDOG disk to RAM:  ie.

       wb204> copy msh:#?.lzh ram:

3> Format a new Amiga diskette.

4> Copy a version of the unpacker LHA to ram:   ie.   wb204> copy c/lha ram:

5> Move onto your newly formatted diskette  ie wb204> df0:

6> Extract files using lha    ie.   empty> ram:lha x ram:filename.lzh

This will unpack the .lzh file in RAM: onto the nice, new formatted floppy in
df0:
  Hope this helps,

    Steff  *8)
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