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From: rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Robert L. Thomas)
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:13:03 GMT


Bleh.  I have had an amiga back when Mac's were little grey boxes and
the IBM AT was the best they had to offer.  This was amigas chance to rule
but lets face it, the amiga is in a tail spin.  Sure they are big in europe, 
but so is socialism :-) and I sure as hell am not going to want to mail order
my computer software from overseas.  I have played wing commander on a 486
and I have to laugh at the amiga version.  Amiga has lost what made it a great 
game machine, it ran where others crawled.  Now amiga is still running while 
the others have learned to fly.  I'm going to miss my amiga, but when I can
get a full 386 SYSTEM for $1000, and a 486 for $2000 (note that monitor mem
HD etc) I am going to have to go shopping at electech rather then take a long
trip to the only amiga dealer of merit in my area.    

Wave
RT

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: will@austin.ibm.com (Will Fiveash)
Subject: Re: More on backup tape drives.
Originator: will@vulcan.austin.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:27:39 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin, Tx.

In article <71560@cup.portal.com> DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld) writes:
>I don't use any handler! I just plug in the tape drive with its own SCSI
>ID and load either AmiBack or Quarterback (let them scan for the drive 
>ID) and off I go backing up! At $29 mailorder, Amiback is worth not having 
>to hassle with basic PD programs, handlers, and mountlists.

Do you know if Amiback will use a SCSI tape attached to the 2090 card?
Someone told me that the 2090 does not support SCSI direct and thus has
problems with tape drives.

-- 
Will Fiveash,  "My opinions above, facts below."
Internet:  will@austin.ibm.com
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
Date: 23 Dec 92 05:10:54 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> Hmm. All PCs in our department have 2 floppies. One 5.25" and one 3.5".
> Both drives are hardly used simultaneously has you rarely have mixed
> floppy formats together.

Well, the 486 PC clone in our office also has dual floppy drives and it
won't let anyone access more than 1 at a time.  Tried to format disks in
both at the same time once and had to ctrl-alt-del to recover the system...
choke, gag, barf... forgot I wasn't using an Ami for a moment...  :-/



        -=- Ed

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From: vsarkela@convex.csc.FI (Vesa S{rkel{)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WANTED: Your comments on Supra modems
Keywords: Supra V.32bis modem problems
Date: 26 Dec 92 20:29:49 GMT
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET

In <17906@pitt.UUCP> gwalborn@cs.pitt.edu (Gary Walborn) writes:

>To whom it may concern:

>	YES!  I have been having a lot of problems with my V.32bis Supra 
>modem.  It has been back to Supra twice and is still not "right".  Supra
>claims that everything is OK, but I have had nothing but problems connecting
>(and staying connected) to a number of systems. The symptoms change from system
>to system, but generally involve:

>	A report of 14.4 on the display but no "CONNECT" message to the
>	computer.

Sometimes it even doesn't recognize the tone from the other modem!

>	A series of "RT" retrains from which the modem never recovers.

at%e0%g0 will get rid of these

>	A failure to negotiate rates properly with certain other brands.

>	A need to constantly change the modem setting to get satisfactory
>	connects with other systems.

>I am just about to dump this thing and get a proper modem!  You might wonder
>how I know that the problems are with the Supra.... Well, I still have my old
>USR Dual Standard available when I need it.  When I am having these problems,
>I switch in the US Robotics and *BINGO* all of the problems disappear.  I wish
>that this modem worked half as well as the USR!

I'm also very disappointed with Supra

>	I would like to know how many other people are having this connect
>and retrain problem?  I have DOZENS of <1 minute phone calls where the modem
>attempted a connnect and simply failed (sometimes with a "line busy" message!).
>This is beginning to cost me BIG money.

I also had this problem, but at%e0%g0&w0 took care of it...

>BTW, most of these problems STARTED with the NEW ROMS!  Now I can't even put
>the old ROMs back in because I returned them with the modem and Supra kept
>them. :-(

I switched back to C-ROMs, they are definitely better than H-ROMs!

>Sincerely,

>Gary D. Walborn <gwalborn@cs.pitt.edu>

Vesa Sarkela                       Keskuslaboratorio Oy
vsarkela@convex.csc.fi   Finnish Pulp & Paper Research Institute
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Disk validating in 2.0 ??
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:25:31 GMT

daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>There are a few things you'd like to have happen after a disk crash.  The
>first is what CHKDSK does and DiskDoctor should have done, which is simply
>to restore logical disk integrity such that the disk's filesystem can run
>properly.  This isn't all that difficult.  At the very least, you have your
>program walk through a disk's tree and remove anything that doesn't pass
>an appropriate validity test.

Yes, that is what I want.  Now, what did you say was the name of the
Commodore-supplied utility to do this?

>It's far from trivial to write a full featured disk recover program.

I don't want a "full-featured" program, I just want a safe program that
will put things back in an ordered state and tell me what was lost in
the shuffle.  Nearly everything on my HD is either backed up or is out
on an FTP site where I can get it and reinstall it.  People keep sending
me mail and telling me I'm asking for all these whiz-bang features, and
that's not what I'm after at all.

>There is a reason ole Peter Norton built a business out of doing this.

My experience with Norton is that it can't fix what CHKDSK can't fix.
If my directories get overwritten with junk, CHKDSK complains of all
sorts of cross-linked files, and Norton turns everything into a
scrambled mess.  That's why I do backups.

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From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  photo cd routines now on
Distribution: comp
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:57:28 CST
Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations

In article <Bzvyvr.FAI@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>   Is it?  Commodore has been very quiet on the isuue of **AMIGA** (not CDTV)
>CD-ROM.  When I posted my "CDTV is dead" article, a hundred Commodore engineers
>came out of the woodwork to attempt to correct me.  The same thing happened
>when I posted my "Is AmigaVision dead?" article.  But hardly anything has been
>from people at Commodore on the issue of **AMIGA** (not CDTV) CD-ROM.

This proves nothing.  Commodore employees never post anything specific about
hardware that is in the works, but isn't yet out.  If there was an Amiga 4200,
let's say an A4000 with SCSI and a CDROM, due out in February, you'd probably not
see any postings from CBM employees at all.  We already know there are several
ways to connect CDROM players to A2000/A3000's, just not any from CBM, and there
are the A570 for A500's, and A670 for A600/1200 available, so it's not as though
there's no CDROM support at all, just not the CDROM support you desire.
--
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From: sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A1200 vs A1200HD - differences
Date: 3 Jan 93 06:08:58 GMT
Reply-To: sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

I have seen mention on the net that these A1200 versions include
different manuals ect.  Would someone please explain the differences?

Is there an HD install disk in the non- hd version?
Manual Differences?
Is there a HD cable in the non HD version?  If not, is the cable standard?

Thanks .... 
-- 
________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura				University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
  "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
	inevitable.."  -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "jay rymal" <jay.rymal@canrem.com>
Subject: reasons for amiga cd-
Reply-To: "jay rymal" <jay.rymal@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:25:03 EST


MCL> In article <C023rw.C34#news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N.
MCL> Barrett):
MCL> >    I don't pay much attention to hype, contrary to what people
MCL> believe.  I
MCL> > just don't think 1.3 Gigabytes of potential inexpensive storage can
MCL> be
MCL> > dismissed very easily.  Yes, I said 1.3 Gigabytes.  There is no
MCL> particular
MCL> > reason why CD-ROM discs cannot be double-sided.  They are single-
MCL> sided now
MCL> > because the extra storage is not needed.
MCL> >
MCL> > ---
MCL> > | Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
MCL> > --------------------------------------------------

MCL> ...or to technical matters.  CD's are not double sided, because they
MCL> are _not_
MCL> records.  A CD begins as a _clear_ disc.  The reason you can't see
MCL> through
MCL> them is because of the _very_dense_ tracks etched into them.  The
MCL> player is
MCL> able to read them because the laser is refracted (not reflected) by a
MCL> track.
MCL> Now, think:  If some of the laser light passed _through_ the disk, and
MCL> hit
MCL> another surface capable of refracting the laser light (this rules out
MCL> the
MCL> printing on disks, since it does not refract - it absorbs), you would
MCL> get
MCL> ghosting.  Even if this were not the case, having two laser sources,
MCL> each
MCL> of which would pass at least _some_ light through the disk, you would
MCL> still
MCL> get ghosting (unless you want to spend $$$$ for machines with
MCL> independently
MCL> accessible heads, with overlap-avoidance).  Either way, "pfpth!"


MCL> --
MCL> +--------8<------Cut Here------8<------Cut Here------8<------Cut Here--
MCL> -!-----+
MCL>  Mark C. Langston                 "Secrecy is the beginning of

        Hmm, I'm no expert, but I thought that the CD was a sandwich of
aluminum between the plastic.  There are pits burned into the aluminum
that are read as on/off bits by the lazer.  If you were right, how do you
explain the GOLD PhotoCD from Kodak?  Tho' I do belive that existing CD's
are not capable of doublesidedness (New Word, did you get that Webster?)

        Jay.Rymal
        UofT CompShop
        Toronto!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "grant robinson" <grant.robinson@canrem.com>
Subject: photo cd routines now on
Reply-To: "grant robinson" <grant.robinson@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:25:08 EST

-> Get serious.  There are big differences between a holographic memory
-> system
-> and a CD-ROM drive.

CD rom drives have still been rather expensive and only have gradually
come down in price.  Besides being cheap does not mean it will become
popular.  Throw in the costs of creating and mastering CD's and there
have been real barriers which have stunted the growth of CD-Rom sales.
Heck only recently has CD-Rom technology taken off in the MS-Dos world
so it isn't like C= is missing the boat on anything.  Suffice to say
CD-Rom technology will begin to be popular thanks to cheaper mastering
costs, the drives themselves, AGA chipset etc...  For a consumer
oriented computer company, I'm content in knowing that I won't be left
out of the CD-Rom revolution.  And neither will you.  So sit back, pour
yourself some eggnog and enjoy your Amiga.  I know I will.
--
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World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
From: ldtaylor@tbag.tscs.com (Lance Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: TypeSMITH announcement
Date: 20 Dec 92 13:18:10 EST
Organization: Tampa Bay Amiga Group

r>         What about FC II format? Would be REAL nice to be able to
r>         convert the above to the format that FC uses.....

 Final Copy II?  Don't be rediculous - Final Copy shot itself in the foot when
        it decided to go against the standard and use those dippy NimbusFonts;
        in fact, that is the main reason why none of the Amiga users in my
        department (Modern Languages - Russian) refuse to buy it: you can't
        use already existing Cyrillic fonts, they dont' ahve their OWN 
        Cyrillic fonts, and it doesn't allow one to import BitMap fonts.  
        FCII is totally unexpandable and, in my opinion, is only good for 
        those who do little more than type in a few select fonts...

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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
Date: 30 Dec 92 09:11:40 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <8820@orbit.cts.com> chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
>> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> >Damnit, Commodore, how long would it take to put AmigaGuide docs for all the
>> >workbench tools online?
>
>> Actually, I wouldn't want to waste the space on my hard drive (even though i
>> do have 160 megs) with help files for AmigaDos..
>
>So don't. delete *.guide opt a.


Good point, however, disk space concerns a good point for saving money on your
OS purchase.  If we need 2 extra disks in the distribution just for help
files, this will add cost, not just in media, but duplication costs as well.

>> consider that all commands
>> have a help template which if you understand the basic context, is all that's
>> necessary for most of them.
>
>Hardly. They tell you "how", not "what" or "why" or "when".

Ok, so have a simple online document that tells you the how, whatt, why and
whens.. the basic how is built into each command.  If you don't know what
delete means.. you shouldn't be using a shell..

>> I wish someone would come up with a .guide management system... some way to
>> put all your .guide files somewhere and be able to view them from a common key
>> sequence..
>
>Like the UNIX "man" command?

Yeah.. sorta, only with AmigaGuide support.  I'd love for a way to just say
"AG" and it would go to the AmigaGuide: assign, and load up each *.guide file,
then provide a table of contents so i can choose which one i want.  Instead
i'm forced to type in AG (since i have it aliased) and the *.guide file.. what
a pain..
From: thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: PowerPacker: Same version, diff size???
Date: 3 Jan 93 11:18:38 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology


 Powerpacker is a strange utility!!! I have 6 PowerPacker.library files,
 and if I use the CLI-command "version" on these files i get this
 information:

            Name                     Version     Size

            powerpacker.library      35.344      2604
            powerpacker.library      35.254      5236
            powerpacker.library      35.254      2664
            powerpacker.library      35.254      4136
            PowerPacker.library      33.1        2664
            powerpacker.library      35.254      6036

(BTW why can't you get version number if you change the filename?)

 As you see sizes of the files are very different but the version
 are the same! And 2 of the files has exactly the same lenght but
 different version number! Why???

 I had tried to use PowerPacker Patcher v1.0 but it makes my 2.04
 Amiga go into Nirvana. And if I look in the documentation I can
 read that it don't work under OS2.0, but what should I do to use
 powerpacker for my datafiles?

THANX for ReAdInG and more THANX if you answer!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ssaiki@iat.holonet.net (Seiji Saiki)
Subject: Help MICROPROSE BBS
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:02:42 GMT

        I'm looking for MicroProse BBS phone number.
        Please tell me.

        Internet : mochy@cup.portal.com
From: Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: NTSC -> PAL Help needed!
Date: 28 Dec 92 03:19:10 GMT
Organization: Mangazone Advanced Services - ++39-6-7029438

In a message dated Sun 27 Dec 92  4:34, Catlord@acca.nmsu.edu (    For Her 
wrote:

 CFH> my trusty Amiga ,. problem is that the signal being outputed is NTSC

Dirty quick&cheap solution: buy a multistandard TV.

The major solution actually costs several hundred thousands of US dollars
:-(


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: Re: KingFisher -- unable to save index
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:45:53 GMT

jil@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Lathrop) writes:

>In <Bzpyp4.3x0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid) writes:

>>I just downloaded version 1.11.  When I start it up, it tells me I need to
>>build the index, which I do.  When I try to quit, though, it tells me
>>"unable to save index".  What gives?

>RTFM!!  You have to change the config file to tell it what the name
>of the index file is.

I did -- I went straight to the part in the manual that says,

  Q: When I quit, KingFisher says "Unable to update index (...)"
  A: ...You need to Reindex BLA BLA BLA...

So in this case, following the instructions in the manual didn't help.
I only now found the place in the manual that everyone is talking about...
"Volume References"??  Come on, information about a required manual
modifification of a config file should come under "Installing KingFisher".
-- 
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From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Tape question, part 2
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:53:04 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Pat Lashley (patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:

> the mountlist entry set up right, or if there's a 2.1 incompatability
> somewhere.

I doubt its 2.1.  I'm using BTNtape and tar under 3.0 and it works OK,
so it should get along with 2.1 also.

> It seemed to mount OK, so I tried gnutar.  It complained about not having
> arp.library.  So I downloaded the 1.3 ARP distribution and installed the
> library.  It works fine when extracting from a tarfile on the

First:

  * Throw away anything that requires arp.library.

  * Throw away GNUtar and delete it from all your backups :-).  The
    other port of tar to the Amiga is much, much better.  It is smaller,
    faster, more compatible with Unix tar, and handles appending to
    tapes (TAPE:app) where GNU tar does not.  Trust me; I tried them
    both and the difference between them is huge.  The tar I use is
    about 35K, doesn't require arp.library, is smaller, faster, and
    works better.  I've used it to transfer data to and from Unix via
    DAT tape with no troubles.

> local in any drive' requester.  After about four cancels the tar proceeds,
> or the system crashes (which seems to be random.)

Another reason to ditch GNU tar.  The smaller tar has never crashed my
system in nearly a year of daily use.

> Any clues?

Your tar is busted.

   - steve
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:19102 comp.sys.amiga.applications:9626
From: jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John David Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: QUESTION: Browser II
Date: 27 Dec 1992 07:41:16 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I've been using Browser II v1.0 for a long time now, and I'm wondering:

                   Has a higher version been released?

Please reply via email, and thanks!

Joe Wicentowski
jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Fountain Problems
From: cox_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:57:20 GMT
Reply-To: cox_m@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

I've been trying to convert some ProPage CG fonts to the 2.0 bullet system
by using Fountain (38.17). Now Fountain seems to convert them happily enough
and puts all the relevant files in the relevant directories. However, using
the new bullet fonts will cause the Amiga to crash if I try and change the
point size (this is in the Fonts preferences, let alone anything complicated)
So, is there something simple that needs to be done after conversion but 
before use (I've tried FixFonts, but that doesn't achieve anything much)?
Any ideas at all?

Martin.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:19088 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:8196
From: cdj@LNS62.TN.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: need help choosing monitor
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:03:04 GMT
Organization: Wilson Lab, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY, 14853
Reply-To: CDJ@lns62.tn.cornell.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: lns62.tn.cornell.edu

I wish to get a new monitor and after some research  I have narrowed
it down to three candidates: NEC 3D, SONY 1302, and C= 1960.

*NOTE: I have found companies which still sell the first two.

I would like for anyone who has used one of these monitors (especially,
the NEC and SONY) to answer a few questions for me.

1) can it use overscan?
2) How quickly does it change between screens of different synch rates?
3) How "sharp" is the display?
4) Are the controls easily accessible from the front?

By the way, I talked to my local C= dealer and he heard the new Quad synch
monitors are going to be inexpensive (~$300) multisynch monitors to be
used with the A1200.  He wasn't certain so take the info with a grain of
salt.

E-mail replies prefered: cdj@lns61.tn.cornell.edu

			Thanks in advance,
				Chris Jones
1st time poster so no neat .sig