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From: edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: A4000 and the worm.
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:31:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.151838.917@ra.msstate.edu>, skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
> In article <1992Sep12.071832.16158@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep12.010011.9732@cco.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
> 
> Marc, have you seen actually used an A4000?  Why must you start your whining

Marc, Remember to keep taking your medication and be nice to the other 
patients or you may not be allowed to eat with a fork anymore.


> and bitching before you've even seen one of the machines?  Since it is now
> obvious that no one at C= took any of your numerous complaints seriously,
> maybe you'll take everyone's advice and go away.  Hah!  Fat chance!  I bet
> you'll still be here next year trying out for the asshole of the year award!
> 
> BTW folks, guess who gave Sunga Rettaf the A3400 article?
> 
> Pissed off now Marc?  I certainly hope so.
> 
>>But along comes the AA chipset, and we finally get to see how an Amiga 
>>performs with 8 bitplanes at 640x480, and we see that it **CRAWLS**.  In 
>>fact, we find that the Workbench is **UNUSABLE** in 256-color mode because 
>>it is so slow, even though the Mac and IBM systems -- which have been 
>>available for much longer -- are pokish but still very usable with 256 colors.
> 

I must have missed the mention of C= coming out to see the lone shithead of
IOWA to get his well informed and unbiased evaluation.

> 
>>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>>--------------------------------------------------
> 
> Have a miserable life you little worm.
> 
> Skip Sauls
> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu

Barrett you seem to think you have some influence among people, I argue
you are a liar who has no developer status with anyone other than possibly
a local fotomat. C= would have to be insane to have a know nothing pissant
such as yourself within 300 miles of their business interests.

P.S. Remember no sharp objects.

Eric Edmonds
UMASS at Lowell


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From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Subject: Kill File Help
Followup-To: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu  
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 03:43:24 GMT

   I need to know how to add a string to a local KILL file. I'm using rn. I've
tried everything. For example, say I want to add the string "Marc Barrett" to
my KILL file. How would I go about this?
   (Yes, I scoured man and RTFM. I did try before I asked.) <Grin> 
   Please Email. 

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: WOC summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:42:52 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Sep15.081426.2652@actrix.gen.nz> Richard.Cole@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>
>Did anyone bother to ask him why their "improved" facilities 
>can't come up with a new Paula that handles standard HD floppies?

Perhaps this would have taken some more months???

>  If Commodore expects any knowledgeable
>person to fork over $3000 for a machine that has -no-
>1024x768 mode, 

Hmm, we have 1280x512 (PAL), so the bandwidth is there, I think. Someone
probably could make up a Monitor driver for this.

>-no- SCSI, 

Well, there are slots. All PCs I know also come with a SCSI card in a
slot and not on the motherborad, or? You can *now* take an A2091 by
Commodore and use it in the A4000.

>-no- 16-bit sound, 

Tell me a system that has this on the motherboard.

>and does
>not even have a standard HD floppy, 

Well, it's not a standard *drive*, but it can deal with standard floppies
for HD drives, so what's the matter?

>then I'll call their
>bluff and predict the Amiga has as much future with
>Commodore as the PC jr. had with IBM.

Oh, let me state that I definitely see a lot of differences in the
position of the PC jr in its time and of the A4000 today, and this
in favor of the A4000.

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From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Subject: Re: Best rumor of the week!!
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:27:38 GMT

In article <52788@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>[I wrote...]
>>>        I heard a rumor that "Jeff Young" is actually an assumed name
>>>that Irving Gould uses when he wants to post to USENET.  Any truth
>>>to this?
>
>In article <65026@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>>I've suspected for sometime that Rosanne Barr and Irving Gould are one
>>and the same. Proof? Have you ever seen them both at the same place at
>>the same time?
>
>	Actually, yes!  Last week's NATIONAL ENQUIRER had a photograph on
>page 15 of Rosanne and Irving having (reportedly) a secret rendezvous.  Is it
>love?? :-) :-)
>
>                                                        Dan

The Weakly Weird News published a report that Ross Perot was the "love child"
of Irving Gould and Yoda. Is this true??

mike



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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Unreal demo!
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1992 16:01:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.231332.7170@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
> Amiga Advocate:
> "You need a 486 to do some things as fast as a stock Amiga."

> Real-world reply:
> "But, the 486 is cheaper than the Amiga!"

Where can I get a 486 box for $400? The 486 chip itself costs more than a 500.

For that matter, the Sparc-2s at work *feel* slower than my Amiga 1000.
-- 
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From: 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: Re: FLASH a4000 price
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:35:56 GMT

	There is a press release, and a picture on amiga.physik
treat with grain of salt.
	George
 

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From: hcheng@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Dr. Hsueh-li Cheng)
Subject: Re: A4000 - Early Impressions
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:57:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.233900.28767@newshost.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
>>>The AA-chipset doesn't support all SVGA features, like 800x600 or
>>                                                        ^^^^^^^
>>>1024x768 in 256 colors.
>>
>>	There has been numerous posts stating that the AGA chipset
>>does have 800x600 resolution in 256 colors and in 256,000+ colors(HAM8). 
>
>	Is the 800x600 mode non-interlaced?
>
>							G.Greene
>
>>Joseph
>>hcheng@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu

	I think the 800x600 mode is interlaced with a 72 Hz refresh rate
and a 24.62 kHz scan rate.  The NTSC and PAL modes have a software technique
to "scan-double" their interlaced modes into non-interlaced modes, but
I'm not sure if such a provision is available for the VGA modes.  It could
be that that the non-interlaced NTSC 640x400 and PAL 640x512 are just new
modes. Commodore? 

Joseph
hcheng@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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From: amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
Subject: Re: More AmigaWorld Lies
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:33:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.054812.2679@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
>
>I could count more than that in Milwaukee.  One, in particular,
>plug-plug, is Safe Harbor.

I'm not sure I consider Safe Harbor a real dealer.  This summer they
refused to let me copy the 2.04 disk upgrade.  As an A3000 owner, I am
entitled to this upgrade, and I'm supposed to be able to get it from my
nearest Commodore-Amiga dealer, which during the summer should have been
Safe Harbor.  Now I'm back at school in St. Louis, and VMI will gladly
let me copy the disks.

AMC
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From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
Subject: Re: Critical mass getting bigger?
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:18:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.023758.18908@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:

>From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
>Subject: Re: Critical mass getting bigger?
>Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:37:58 GMT

[description of game (Ultima Underworld) deleted]

>WCI takes 4-5 megs, I think.  WCII take ~20 megs.  As does Ultima 7.
>I DO suggest making 13 megs of space on a VGA+Soundblaster PC and getting
>Ultima Underworld.
>
>Remember how TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME Dungeon Master was when it first came
>out?  Well....I've finished Dungeon Master...and Ultima Underworld puts DM
>to shame! Comparing Underworld to DM is like comparing DM to...overhead-shot
>RPGs.  Really - I loved DM but Ultima Underworld is SO good.

That good huh?  I'm really curious now.  Problem with those kind of games, 
you can't really borrow your friend's computer for a few months so you 
can finish the game.  Actually, some of the new overhead-shot RPG's are 
getting pretty good.  Have you seen Shadowlands on the Amiga (and others I 
think)?  It's very pretty and the game play is meant to match the graphics 
quality!

>And I might make a very positive note for Eye of the Beholder.  Is it
>available for the Amiga yet?

It's been out for ages...  I've had it for about eight months now.  Not too 
bad, but I liked Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes better.  Having to type in 
a code twice wasn't too intrusive, much better than disk-based protection, 
like Dungeon Master.

>Unless you want to get, say, a 486 instead.  Depending on your machine,
>you *might* sell it enough to get a mega-486.  Considered it?

I don't want to part with it, unless they make an Amiga emulator for the 
IBM.  A$2500 - A$3000 for a 486dx ISA is a bit much just to play games on.
The word-processing software which I have is adequate.  Microsoft Word 
doesn't come for free you know.  Full blown EISA or local-bus 486's with 
SCSI drives, S3 graphics cards and sound boards cost way too much, about
A$5000 - A$6000.

>Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu

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From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: Interlace video (Was Re: PC (OS/2) / Amiga debate)
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:48:24 GMT
X-Posted-From: connection.prospect.com
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull) writes:
>>
>>WHAT?!?!  Interlacing reduces flicker?
>
>	Yep... pretty simple to understand.  Compare interlaced video at 30Hz
>with uninterlaced at 30Hz.
>

I think you are being a bit deceptive with the Hz numbers.  It seems that in
the display that you call "30Hz interlaced", the whole image is retraced
30 times per second, meaning that the beam actually goes to the top of the 
screen 60 times per second.

The deception is that a monitor which can sync up to a certain frequency can
display its highest resolution either non-interlaced at that frequency or
interlaced at a much lower frequency.  The result is that on any particular
monitor, an interlaced display has much worse flicker than a non-interlaced
display.
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Subject: Re: Random tidbits regarding WOC & A4000
From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Date: 15 Sep 92 07:24:11 EST
 <1992Sep14.031650.29583@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Sep14.062605.4090@desire.wright.edu> <1992Sep14.160954.6749@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <1992Sep14.160954.6749@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay) writes:
> In article <1992Sep14.062605.4090@desire.wright.edu> fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>	I am a little disapointed that Commodore is putting IDE on the 
>>	A4000.  
> 
> 	It isn't that big a deal.  I still cannot see why everyone is bitching
> about this move.  Think about the PC market -- most PCs contain much
> less sophisticated sound and graphics than what is available.  This gives
> PC users a choice, if they use their PC for mundane things that need 

	[stuff about PCs this and that deleted]

	I am only disapointed because I want to take the 100m drive out
	of my A2000 and put it in the A4000, when I get one.  I am not
	against IDE specifically.

	I still think it's a bad move, relatively speaking.  C= should have
	put IDE in the low end models only.  IMHO, the target user for
	the A4000 wants SCSI.  He/She is probably an experienced user who
	will appreciate SCSI and may already have SCSI devices to hook
	to the A4000.  

	I hope the SCSI adapter is reasonably priced.

> nearly no graphics and sound,  so be it.  If they want EGA graphics, buy 
> an EGA graphics board.  Same for VGA and SVGA (and for sound boards).
> Putting IDE on the motherboard was just another example of A4000 modularity.
> As C= engineers have stated, in production the IDE connector costs nearly

	If I wanted the A4000 to act like a PC, I would buy a PC.  After all
	they're 'cheaper.'  Right?

Fred Heitkamp,  ** Not an organization.  My opinions only **
From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000/Atari Falc
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:33:26 GMT
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.

In article <gate.49ymqB1w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (mr_scary) writes:
>-> From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
>-> 
>-> fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
>-> > 
>-> >	I think XMS and EMS fits the discription of kludge that someone
>-> >	posted.  I believe the definition was from Byte.  Would someone
>-> >	repost the definition?  I don't want to paraphrase.
>-> >
>-> 
>-> Lots of things may fit that definition, including FlickerFixers and
>-> BridgeBoards.
>
>	I would agree that a FlickerFixer is less elegant than a new video
>card that doesn't flicker and replaces the existing hardware, but how is a
>BridgeBoard a kludge?

Well, a bridgecard has (depending on model) either an 8086, an 80286,
or an 80386SX.  How can one help but call it a kludge ?

What's surprising is that _Jerry Shekhel_ admits this in public.
Usually the mere presence of the 'Intel Inside' sticker will
cause him to defend a kludge to the death. :-)

>-> | Jerry J. Shekhel  | Molecular Simulations | Time just fades the pages      |

>Chris Hurley                     // 'Technical Engineer', Student, Game

			andy
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From: storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: SCSI Vs. IDE?
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:05:28 GMT

In article <mykes.0dn7@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>In article <1992Sep6.003545.4418@gbrmpa.gov.au> matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt) writes:
>> In article <65330@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>> >In article <1992Sep5.020858.11399@gbrmpa.gov.au>
>> >storage@gbrmpa.gov.au (FTP Storage A/C) writes:
>> >
>> >|  In article <copes.715597537@pride> copes@pride.cs.curtin.edu.au (Simon Cope)
>> >|  writes:
>> >|  >
>> >|  >BTW, last week I read a comparison test between 14 486/50's.  They all ran
>> >|  >around 400-500k sec on the Hdisk tests
>> >|
>> >|  What a crock of shit, my 386/33 with IDE pulls around 850k/s.
>> >
>> >What a pathetic piece of shit (the 386/33); my 68020/20 with SCSI "pulls"
>> >1.5Mbytes/Second tested on 50MB and 100MB files.
>>
>> So what? We all know SCSI is faster, that's why I've got SCSI in my 486,
>> your statement is "typical" of a die-hard Amiga owner.
>>
>
>Thad is hardly a die-hard Amiga owner.  He's just blasting the PC for having
>slow disk access.  And especially because the PC is newer technology.

	A truly interesting and fact filled debat,e considering that my 340MB
IDE Maxtor Drive pulls 1.5MB per second with no caching enabled whatsoever.

	My other 82MB Maxtor disk pulss off 900KB/sec.

	Toodlepip.
	Marc 'em.
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From: tony@ais.org (Tony Poole)
Subject: Re: Critical mass getting bigger? - was re: AmigaWorld Lies about Links
Organization: UMCC
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:32:25 GMT

jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:

>>
>>>Hmmm...  No wonder people see Amiga buffs as an annoying bunch of ignorant
>>>fanatics.  John Dvorak was right.
>>
>>Jerry, you're such a moron sometimes.
>>
>>Here's a guy that appears to be giving an honest opinion of at least two
>>machines (a GS and a clone).  He doesn't even really mention anything abou
>>the amiga being better, just that it "has nothing to apologise for".
>>

>He was being really annoying about it, with his bitching and moaning.  He was
>contributing to the animosity that exists towards Amiga enthusiasts.  He
>was being as much of an asshole ("... the worst micro ... most games are
>terrible, the computer is awful ...") as you accuse me of being.

Heh....he was creating to it, so you thought you'd join in and fuel the
fire, eh?  What a hypocrite.

>>
>>Why would you post a two line *bash* of an Amiga user (or is he, he doesn't
>>say, and I can't remember) for these comments?  
>>
>Because his comments were chock-full of lies.  For example, the part about
>the 8MB PC only having 550KB of usable RAM.

So you decided to personally bash him, rather than calmly pointing out why
"his comments were chock-full of lies".

>>Can't you face the fact that everyone doesn't like the same things as you,
>>Jerry?
>>
>Oh, I see.  You blast me for being partial, but it's OK for someone who shares
>your point of view, right?  I hope you asked Philip that same question; if
>not, you're a hypocrite.

No.  Not at all.  He was being partial, or so it seemed anyhow.  

Please explain how:

>>>Hmmm... No wonder people see Amiga buffs as an annoying bunch of ignorant
>>>fanatics.  John Dvorak was right.

typifies partiality.  I'd really like to know.  Please quote this statement
again, and explain this.

If you don't, you're a hypocrite.

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From: gfm@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George Francis McBay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Random tidbits regarding WOC & A4000
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:09:54 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1992Sep14.062605.4090@desire.wright.edu> fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
>	I am a little disapointed that Commodore is putting IDE on the 
>	A4000.  

	It isn't that big a deal.  I still cannot see why everyone is bitching
about this move.  Think about the PC market -- most PCs contain much
less sophisticated sound and graphics than what is available.  This gives
PC users a choice, if they use their PC for mundane things that need 
nearly no graphics and sound,  so be it.  If they want EGA graphics, buy 
an EGA graphics board.  Same for VGA and SVGA (and for sound boards).
Putting IDE on the motherboard was just another example of A4000 modularity.
As C= engineers have stated, in production the IDE connector costs nearly
nothing, and the drives probably cost very little in such bulk.  The
IDE will be fine for a lot of people, if they want something better they
have a *choice* (SCSI-I, SCSI-II, something completely different, etc)
via cards.  Most PC dealers/sellers do offer models with SVGA/VGA/Whatever
built in, but it's inevitable that dealers (and maybe C= themselves) will
offer deals with SCSI (of various types) connectors and drives built in.
Considering the price of the A4000 I'd be the last to complain about
IDE.  (Besides, I can always use my A2000-slot SCSI card and drive in the
4000 until something better comes out like 32bitSCSI..I'd hate to pay more
for SCSI when I already have such a card)
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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: Interlace video (Was Re: PC (OS/2) / Amiga debate)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 22:55:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep05.031953.27917@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>In article <187t3iINNk58@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>
><Amiga user argues PC use interlace all the time>
>
>>I think you're wrong on that one.  Standard VGA use 31.5 KHz horizontal
>>syncing frequency and 60 Hz vertical non-interlaced refresh.  And I don't
>>think EGA and CGA is interlaced either.
>
>I though I'd inject here that IBMs vaunted XGA and 8514 cards are
>interlaced video. How more official can you get? IBM uses interlaced video.

   True, but there is a BIG difference between 90Hz interlaced to 45Hz (what
SVGA, 8514, and XGA use) and 60Hz or 50Hz interlaced to 30Hz or 25Hz.  The
flicker in the SVGA/8514/XGA interlaced modes is noticable, but not nearly as
annoyig as on the Amiga.

>:) :) :) 
>
>If one does not like interlace flicker on their Amiga then they can
>get hardware to fix it. It's cheap and you can fix ANY amiga to solve the
>interlaced video flicker "problem".

   Not in the SuperHiRes or Productivity interlaced mode on the ECS, and not
on the Productivity or Super72 interlaced modes on AA.

>-- 
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>/* I want my 32bit chip set	*/

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