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From: nilsco@ifi.uio.no (Nils Liaaen Corneliusen)
Subject: Re: Videotoaster works on A4000!!!!
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:32:43 GMT
Originator: nilsco@sjavn.ifi.uio.no


> >Well, if you make a small cut on the back of the 3000 and don't put a monitor
> >on top of the case, it will work nicely.
> 	Just exactly how is the case cut? I am thinking
> about buying a Toaster.

I don't remember the exact measurements, but it's on the back of the computer.
The card won't fit into the end where you are supposed to fasten it, since it
is a bit too high (or wide on an A3000). It is not very hard to do... also, I
have been told that if you put an antistatic mat on top of it, it should be
possible to have the monitor on top, but I have not tried.

-- 
Nils Corneliusen, nilsco@ifi.uio.no
From: nverenin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Spumoni the Fat Wok   )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AGA and the 3000
Date: 29 Sep 92 07:06:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep20.135031.29827@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lgibb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lance Gibb) writes:
> 
>Yea, I know... My 3000 just up and died after I downloaded the 4000 stats
>It will no longer render, show pictures, play mods, etc...  It just boots
>up workbench and then gurus as soon as I try to run anything useful.  It
>will however let me play REALLY OLD games, but that is about it.  ;-)

	This sounds like a strange problem I had with my 2000's hard
drive. When I left it off for a while and turned it on, workbench
would boot up but as soon as I tried to load anything the machine
would guru. I remedied this problem by flicking the power off and
then back on, and then the HD booted properly. Noone could diagnose
this intermittent problem; I just chalked it up to a flaky SCSI
controller or a sticky hard drive. Hmm. Strange.

--nverenin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV INFO. WANTED. Answers needed...
Date: 29 Sep 92 07:45:28 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <92272.161449IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (((ZERO))) writes:
>
>What can a CDTV do that my 500 couldn't?

Play *real* CDTV titles, i.e. play CDXL movies. (You could do this also with
a 500 if you purchased an A570.)

>What can an A500 do that my CDTV can't?

Run a number of games that are programmed so badly that they *only* run
on a plain A500.

>Can I run any amiga software in the drive w/CDTV? (word processors/games?)

Any that's programmed after the rules, yes. This is ok for the majority of
applications, not so very much for games.

>Can I hook a printer up to CDTV?
>Can I hook a modem up to CDTV?

Yes, it has all these connectors like any other Amiga.

>Can I hook a hard drive up to CDTV?

There's nothing (yet?) available from Commodore, but here in Germany,
there are at least two companies offering this. 2.5" drives. There is
sort of a bay or slot in the back of the unit that can take this.

>Can I run European Demos in PAL mode with CDTV?

To change a CDTV unit between PAL and NTSC, you have to solder some
jumpers. It has both sets of crystals built in, but only one is connected
at a time. You can't build in a switch, because it involves (I try to
remember) ca. 7 solder jumpers, directly having RF, where you can't
connect wires to some outside switch.

>I heard that joysticks are incompatible with CDTV, but there is an accessory
>I can buy to get them to work..what is it?

Well, every such input is internally hardwired to the IR remote receiver.
So there is a device with an IR transmitter you can put on your table and
plug any joystick into. Recently I heard that some company is also offering
access to the internal connections, but this seems to involve soldering
changes to the mainboard, surely not recommended by Commodore.

>I heard you can play CD's (music) on CDTV, how easy is it to do this? (Insert
>and play?)

Yes, just put any CD (music or CDTV title) in a caddy and insert it. The
device automatically recognizes the type of the CD and chooses its mode.
For a music CD, you get a nice screen with all operating means to choose
a track or deselect some tracks or play the tracks in random order, or or or

>Can I extend the memory of CDTV?

See above for harddisks, same issue.

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From: ssurpeat@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk (Richard T Peat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: :-( contest - win you
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:21:46 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Reading

robert.buonincontro@canrem.com (robert buonincontro) writes:


>GT>Am I the only one whose Amiga craps out two mnths af5ter the warranty has expired? It's happened twice now, (this is my _second_ amiga).
>GT>I wrote to Commodore once too, no reply....it's a bloody pain...

> Not me, I have owned an Amiga 500 for over 4 years and an Amiga 3000 for 1.5
>years and both work 100% Kind of suprising considering the abuse I give them.
> 
> Guess I'm one of the lucky ones!

I've had a 500 for 3 years, it's got a slightly dodgy internal floppy (permenantly write protected) but apart from that I've had no problems.

On the other hand, I've just got a A600HD, the first of which had a hard disk that vanished on CTRL Amiga Amiga, the second had a dodgy
modulator. The second has now been fixed on the on site maitenance, and all is fine. (Touch wood!)

Richard Peat
ssurpeat@uk.ac.rdg.susssys1
From: obbe@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Obbe Vermey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: FAQ: .RUN  files
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:54:13 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology

Hello,

I'm sure this is a FAQ but I couldn't find the FAQ mailing in
comp.compresion.   On some FTP sites I found amiga files with
an  .RUN extension. Unfortunately I couldn't start them on my
Amiga. First, I assumed they didn't need an unpacker but they
gave an 'Module not of linker type error' (Or something like
that) so mayby an unpacker is necessary after all. Could some-
one please help me out ?

					Yours, Obbe.   

obbe@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
(holland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Subject: Re: What is (infamous) RTG?
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 07:57:00 GMT

ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:

>In article <bruce.0aq3@zuhause.MN.ORG> bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep15.185244.26103@watson.ibm.com> sck@watson.ibm.com (Scott C. Kennedy) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep15.172440.10032@daimi.aau.dk>, pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
>>>|> Often, RTG graphics are expressed wanted in the Amiga
>>>|> Operating System; what is it? Real Time Graphics?
>>>|> Real True Golour? (Honestly, I'm clueless about what
>>>|> RTG supposedly stands for) 

>>Close.  It's the ability to plug any graphics board into your system, and have
>>all software use it automatically, assuming a driver is available for the board.
>>With RTG, if GVP came out with a new whiz-bang graphics board, with 24 bit color
>>per pixel and 1280x1024 pixels, you'd be able to plug it in, and the Workbench 
>>and any other screens would be displayed via the new graphics board in all their 
>>24 bit glory. 
>>--
>>bruce@zuhause.mn.org
>>Youth is wasted on the young.


>How does RTG differ from DIG (Device Independent Graphics) then?

Well, I am the original 'questioner' of RTG, but I think I can answer this one
(maybe incorrectly...) Device Independent means exactly that, meaning you use
the same methods for drawing complex drawing A on screen/in a window, on your
plotter, on your laser printer, on your ink jet, on whatever you could think of.
I guess this implies(mostly), that you forget about pixels and use arcs, splines,
lines, circles, boxes as primitives instead. Then you could do all your graphics
in e.g. postscript - The NeXT does this. Of course, you need a capable computer for
this, as you waste ressources in doing screen graphics this way; unless some
straange accelerating device is associated with your display/videoboard, doing
fast graphics / animation in postscript would be a bog(?)
   I guess the NeXT has some intuitive way to handle bitmapped graphics succesfully
in the postscript environment, but I don't know how/what. Any knowlegdeable
persones/persines out there, who possess a compelling desire to elaborate on
practical experiences with DIG on the NeXT, and the way bitmapped 'methods' is
'nicely' handled within the framework (?)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager)
Subject: Re: Cygnus Ed & Turbotext
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:09:20 GMT

ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran) writes:

>Hello there

>Has anyone had experience of the above two editors and if so, which
>would you rec. for purchase. Also in the UK where would be the
>best place to buy either.

I use CygnusEd every day, and looked at the TurboText demo to see how well
I liked it.  I didn't see anything in TurboText that would make me want to
switch, and besides CygnusEd has (virtually) unlimited undo.  I don't know
if TurboText has it yet, but I would say that if you like undo (I couldn't
live without it!), get CygnusEd.
-Mike
From: jgodfrey@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jon David "JET" Godfrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: ASDG VD0: device (or similar) under ADOS RELEASE 2.05
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:32:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.1992Oct03.003218.569100
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

I have recently upgraded to DOS 2.05 and have had no luck installing ASDG's
VD0: recoverable ram device into the system.  Although the software is fairly
old, I have seen no updates on any PD/Share/Commercial lists anywhere. 

I once used the VD0: on my 1.3 machine and found it much more stable and 
usable than any other including C='s own.

Is there a new version, patch, or anything that I can do to get ASDG's 
functioning on my A2500/030 Release 2.05 machine?

Any and all comments welcomed!  Thankx.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kenward@cs.sfu.ca (Kenward Chin)
Subject: Blazemonger (?)
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 18:36:46 GMT

Ok, I KNOW I am going to be thought of as COMPLETELY ignorant because of this
question, but being the bold (foolish) person I am, I'll ask:

What does "Blazemonger" refer to?

Kenward Chin
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From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: I Need some help to reclaim a file fast!
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 92 20:15:52 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

[Story of erased DB faile.]

If you have the widely available program DISKSALV (by Dave Haynie) you
can use it.

DISKSALV dh0: RAM: file filename start root stop +49% ask

Filename can be a pattern.  If you don't use a start and stop, it will
search the entire disk structure.  Start by searching from the root
onward first.  (Start parameter can be something like -30% or the actual
block number.)

There's also Quarterback tool, only it always searches the ENTIRE drive.
You can't ask for it to only search a portion.  That's a shame, because
most files I've recovered have their headers after the ROOT block.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Faroul)
Subject: Re: new virus?
Organization: Univ. Bremen, Informatik
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:59:56 GMT

jw63+@andrew.cmu.edu (James W Walden) writes:

>Life has been hectic so I'm not very up to date on what's out in September,
>but I'm using VirusChecker 6.06.  There might be a newer version out, but
>VirusCheck is the best AmigaDOS 2.04 antivirus program that I've found.

As there were some fake-versions, the author put out V6.14, which is
the last recent version I know.

	Faroul
--
		Henning Peters (h08f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de)
"Die Leute verreisen, um zu vergessen. Wenn sie dann am Urlaubsort die Koffer
 auspacken, sehen sie, wie gut sie es schafften..."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ins141f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Adam Bradley)
Subject: Re: Csh's Htype
Organization: Monash University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:45:42 GMT

Adam Bradley (ins141f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
:>
:>I was wondering if anyone knows how to do the htype (hex type) that displays
:>a program in hex values ?  A longer article of mine is in amiga.programmer
:>so you might want to have a peek there... just didnt want to cross post the
:>entire thing....

Thanks to all those people who responded to this request.  Ill post the 
responses if any one wants them (mail me).


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ruocco@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (sergio ruocco)
Subject: Monitor for the A4000
Keywords: Monitor A4000 Amiga
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:13:08 GMT



before Xmas I 'll buy an A4000.
I'm considering a good monitor for it.

My needs are:
big screen area for big sources editing
good image quality to not strain my eyes
(almost) all A4000 screen modes be visible 
price under 1.500.000 italian lire or 1200 US$

I read in a back issue of Byte that 
Viewsonic 7 has the best price/performance ratio among 17'' monitors. 
If I remember well it should have:
17'' screen
1280x1024 non interlaced
anyone using it with the Amiga (4000 ;-) ) ?

Any suggestions ?
Where in Italy can I buy the Viewsonic 7 ?
Thanks in advance,
						Sergio

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager)
Subject: Re: Fish disk list updates via Email ???
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:34:37 GMT

c91carce@IDA.LiU.SE (Calle G Cederberg         ) writes:


>Sent the following question to Fred Fish :

>Is there a possibility to recieve updates of the Fish list via Email?
>That is only the list, not the programs.
>I suppose you have some sort of mailing list ( or ??)

>To which he replied :

>I don't maintain any email lists.  As with supporting ftp sites, I
>leave that to other people to do.  I send the list to the amiga
>announce group moderator, who then posts it on usenet.  You might ask
>on comp.sys.amiga.misc about getting on any lists maintained by
>other people.

>So now I wonder :

>Is there anybody  out there ( who keeps some kind of
>mailinglist ? )

Yes, I have been doing this for years.  I will add you two to the list.
-Mike
Fish Archive Spots: (updated 9/29/92)
128.174.5.59    ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (disks 001-730 and counting.. GO, Fred, GO!)
     Maintained by Mike Schwager (schwager@cs.uiuc.edu)
128.255.19.233 grind.isca.uiowa.edu  has FF #1-current
     Maintained by Michael T. Pins (amigapd@isca.uiowa.edu)
128.171.44.7 ftp.hawaii.edu (mirror of ux1: disks 001-current)
	Maintained by amiga@ftp.hawaii.edu (Baron) 
	The disks on ux1 say: "...I want to be a Fish Disk in Hawaii!" :-)
16.1.0.2 gatekeeper.dec.com has FF #1-600 or so in /pub/micro/amiga/fish
     Maintained by vixie@pa.dec.com   ... does not appear to be current
128.252.135.4 wuarchive.wustl.edu  has the newest in systems/amiga/fish/fish
     (Woah!  Now lots of disks at one of America's premier ftp sites!)
IN AUSTRALIA:
139.130.4.6     archie.au
     a mirror of wuarchive.wustl.edu?  Maintained by ???
IN EUROPE:
128.214.6.100 ftp.funet.fi  carries all Fish disks in /pub/amiga/fish.
     Maintained by Pertti Lehtinen <pl@ftp.funet.fi> and
                   Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@ftp.funet.fi>
137.226.4.105 ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de
     /pub/amiga/fish/f?         Disks 600+
     /pub/amiga/fish/olddisks   Disks 1-600 (mounted from CDROM)
     Maintained by Stefan Becker
     <stefanb@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications,bit.listserv.i-amiga
From: stefanb@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Subject: Re: Annoucement: ToolManager 2.0
Keywords: n
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:22:29 GMT

Hi!
It's available on:

 amiga.physik.unizh.ch /amiga/os20/wb/ToolManager2_0.lha
 ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /pub/amiga/os2_0/ToolManager2_0.lha

and probably on many more FTP servers :-)

	Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Making a 'custom' CD-ROM?  Anyone interested?
Originator: jmarin@messi.uku.fi
Date: 30 Sep 92 14:59:00
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

Dear All,

I have been thinking of having a custom CD-ROM disc made.  A disc which
would contain _useful_ and _interesting_ stuff, a disc worth having.

The initial cost for a custom CD is $1200 and the discs are $2 each.
Anyone can figure out what the price would be for 100 discs, for example.

Things that could be put on the CD (no in special order):
- PD assemblers, C compilers, pascals
- the latest port of gcc
- CManual
- other useful documents
- AmigaOS includes and autodocs (if Commodore would let us do it)
- PD TeX with lots of fonts (compatible with AmigaTeX, hopefully)
- music players and lots of modules
- picture viewers and lots of pictures
- animation players and lots of animations
- good PD programs (_working_ versions, might be better to have the
  authors fix all known bugs first)

I would like to make a CD which would let me delete the above files off
my hard disks.  All files on the CD would be _uncompressed_, so they
could be used off the CD without decompressing them to a hard disk first
(don't you hate that with the AB20 CD?).

How does it sound like?  Please discuss this here on this newsgroup, so
anyone can see what's going on.  Feel free to e-mail to me if you feel
it's necessary.

Commodore folks, would you let us put the includes&autodocs&AmigaMail
(and possibly your hypertext help system) on this CD-ROM?  Would we
have to pay you?

Thank you for your comments,

  Jukka Marin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
Subject: Commodore Business Machines Timeline Request
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 03:03:53 GMT

Subject line kinda says it all...if anyone has a brief, yet accurate 
timeline of when Commodore released their various incarnations of computing 
equipment, going back as far as...well, it started with a PET...  :)
 
Seriously, if there's something out there, would some kind soul mail it tom 
me?
 
          Thanks!


Ken Thompson - cobra@coyote.datalog.com  - GEnie: K.THOMPSON23  
Alternate address: cobra@jab.tucson.az.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rjtatz@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert J Tatz)
Subject: Re: AVOID GRAPEVINE!!!!!!!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:18:16 GMT

Live and learn.  I emailed the author of STU, a diagnostic program, and
he told me to purchase it through Grapevine (and that they would have it
in stock).  I called Grapevine - they had it in stock.  I *FAXED* an
order on 9/1.  It shipped on 9/23 !!!  I got it 9/27.  Opened the shiny
plastic box (sealed in plastic) - no diskette.   Called Grapevine and
they were kind enough to mail it to me.  They certainly didn't want to
even discuss the initial three week delay.  

On the other hand, my son called Safe Harbor on a Friday to order
Perfect Sound.  He got it the very next Tuesday!!  Way to go, Safe
Harbor.

Yes, you can really trust the net wisdom on mail order houses.

Standard disclaimers, etc....
Bob          rjtatz@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jagrizza@uncc.edu (James A Grizzard)
Subject: Re: Fan noises are subtly changing.  Need I be
Reply-To: jagrizza@uncc.edu
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:36:40 GMT


>Or, is it related to my floppy drives (one or both) wanting to click and not
>being allowed to because I keep floppies IN them to shut them up?

no, that's definately not it... the drives don't even try to click untill a disk is
removed again...

>Possible fault of the HD controller? It is a GVP if that makes a difference.
>(there is no disk activity or lights when this noise occurs).

prob'ly not...

>This noise has occurred several times while I typed this message to the net.
>The fan has also gone BACK to its normal high pitch again, and I wonder when
>the next time will be that the frequency will drop and the vibrating noise
>will start again.

I noticed that when I had my big DataChief harddrive for my 64 (2 20 meg drives, with
an IBM card hooked up to a card to talk to my 64, witha  power supply), I had simular
symptoms, except when the fan changed, I could hear the heads on the drives move and
the drive 'reset'.  To fix it, I took the power supply apart and THOUROUGHLY cleaned
it.  there was more dust there than I believe I've ever seen in my life.....

For me it was causing a power lag... the same thing MAY be happening on your system..

oh, there's nothing wrong with leaving your computer on.... mine's been on almost every
hour for the past 2 months.... except when I leave for the weekend....