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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: How to install a HD in A3000
Date: 9 Oct 1992 13:42:19 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <David_Corn.0ftm@fcircus.sat.tx.us> David_Corn@fcircus.sat.tx.us (David Corn) writes:
>
>How fast is your new Quantum 170ELS(or whatever you got) ?

I'm still working on setting it up, but preliminary disk performance ratings
on my A3000 showed 256k WRITES to be about 1.1MB/s. Reads were actually
slower than that, so I figure I need to rearrange a few things still.

I'll probably get back with disk performance ratings when things have
settled. I'm also trying to get real work done with it, so this 'playing
around' will have to come a bit later.

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
From: sevigny@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Benoit Sevigny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Neat amiga advertisements (English usage)
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:02:50 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

In article <Aeqs4b200hsBRERkdS@cs.cmu.edu> Michael Witbrock <mjw+@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
>give it a try. I will however, risk the ridicle of the world, and try it
>in french....ahem....
>
>bien que le Version OPM de Multimedia cout plus cher que le notre, il
>est plus complique, et a besion d'equipments suplimentaires.
>
>Horrid, wasn't it, perhaps a real French person will try, using the

How about:

"La version multime'dia de l'OPM cou^te sans doute plus che`re que la
no^tre.  Il toutefois plus difficile d'utiliser et de ne'cessiter plus
d'e'quipement."

or:

"Bien que la version multime'dia de l'OPM cou^te plus che`re que la no^tre,
il est plus difficile de mai^triser et de ne'cessiter autant d'e'quipement."

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From: iwoehr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ivan Woehr)
Subject: Another World II DEMO VIRUS?!?!?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.)
Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of
Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 01:57:09 GMT


	Ack!  After running this program, downloaded from one of the FTP sites
mentioned before, THings went wrong with my system! My clock died, and typing
ls would say "1 not found".

	I would reccomend against using this with anything - the demo isn;t
very great anyway... 
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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: 2.05 installation question
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:49:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

This is on an A1000 running 2.05, booting from a hard disk.  In a 
nutshell, the problem is this:

Some of the config changes made by Iprefs require closing/reopening
the workbench screen; if an external program is running you get this
requestor asking you to exit it first.  Iprefs is run out of Startup-
Sequence, so the initial CLI is still running when the changes start
being applied, and I get several of these requestors.  Further, if I
start up something like clock in User-Startup (or via the WBStartup
drawer), it'll start before all of the changes are made, so I have
to kill the program to get the last couple of items.  This prevents
automatically starting anything which opens a window.

It seems like what I need is to be able to save the final config in
system-configuration so that Iprefs won't have any work to do, but
there doesn't seem to be anything to write system-configuration
any more.  Putting pauses in Startup-Sequence or User-Startup wouldn't
help because the CLI window will still be present during those times.
And that just about exhausts my list of ideas.

I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious.  How does everyone
else handle this?
-- 
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From: oahvenla@blob.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: VIRUS - Filesearcher on protection???
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:58:27 GMT

In <14849@chalmers.se> thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig) writes:

>That Subject was really confusing! Let me explain. 

>Since WB2.0 has the DOS made better use of protectionsflag on each file. So
>you can't anylonger read a file that are readprotected from any WB or DOS
>program. So you start your latest viruskiller and let it seach for virus.
>After some minutes it will read this file:
>						  OBS! READ protected!
>						     |
>						     V
>	Format_HD_10h_after_infection     132322 HSPA-WED 15-Sep-92 02:11:06

>You will not see it if you write "dir" in a shell! You will not be able to
>read it any program. Some program like DirOpus makes it possible to see the
>file but not whats in there.

>So your viruskiller will not check "Format_HD_10h_after_infection" for virus!

>My question is: Is there any filesearcher that makes it possible for me to
>search after files that have there read protection flag reseted???

>	Thanx,	Thomas Lydhig, Sweden
>		thly@pe.chalmers.se

Although this file is read protected, it is not write or delete protected.
This means that you can to one or all of the following:

Echo KILL >Format_HD_10h_after_injection
 - replaces the file with a file consisting of the word KILL and a null.
   Effectively wipes out anything that was in the file.
Delete Format_HD_10h_after_injection
 - guess what it does?
Protect Format_HD_10h_after_injection RWED
 - I don't remember the AmigaDOS command, but this would work in Cshell.
   It changes the file flags to the normal configuration.

As you yourself said, various directory utilities see this file and show it
in the directory, although it doesn't show up with the normal AmigaDOS Dir.
I think List would show it, but I'm not sure.
--
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My opinions are mine, and though someone else may share them, that's not my
fault. You may freely agree or disagree with me, I don't much care.
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From: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Bewildered One)
Subject: Re: NEW AMIGA OS NEEDS PM, VM, AND JOB CONTROL
Keywords: pm vm job
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:06:30 GMT

jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber) writes:

>In article <1992Oct15.042722.5167@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (The Bewildered One) writes:
>>and better job control.  I would actually like to be able to compile most all
>>unix source code with gcc.  I have successfully compiled most of the gnu 

>A cheap unix box will probably do what you want.

I love the amiga's hardware system.  But I and others want more!!
and this could be a cheap unix box with some changes to the os And a great
one.

>>I have been told by 80% of my friends that own an amiga, that
>>they will not buy another amiga if the os doesn't start using pm,
>>vm, and job control.

>Either (a) I'm in a minority or (b) I'm not your friend.   :)

>If I had the cash to burn, I would probably have a NeXT.  But I

I personally don't like the Next.  I like the amiga, but come on get with the
90's.  The need is there, and people are looking for in other places.  But
they could be looking here at the amiga.  And you are probably with a large
percentage of people not needing amiga's to be a unix.  But there are lots and
growing numbers of people looking for a unix.  I think amiga could be there.
Call it a pipe dream, but i want to use my amiga or future amiga as a unix.
And with the versatility of unix it can be done and sould be done.
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From: pejanes@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Peter Janes)
Subject: Re: PARADOX virus??????
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:27:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.055238.10590@trl.oz.au> s.mathers@trl.oz.au writes:
>
>Hello, I am using the commodities virus checker called Virex.

I'm using Virus_Checker 6.15....

>A while ago, I cold booted my 600 HD with no floppies inserted, and a
>message from Virex came up saying that it had detected the Paradox virus
>in memory and killed it.  Great!  I then had Virex scan every file on my
>hard drive and it found nothing...what gives?  

I warm-booted after running ReOrg on my HD....  Did the same check.  ReOrg
was the only program that had changed on the HD.

>Has anyone else been able to kill the Paradox virus, and what does it
>do to if not detected and killed in time?

ParaDox hasn't shown up again, but I killed ReOrg just in case...

My sys. con. is:

	A2000 (2.04 in ROM)
	A2090A + 40MB Fujitsu (2 meg DH0:, 38 meg FH0:)
	GVP 2MB RAM expansion

Software:

	At the time, Virus_Checker (6.15), ToolManager 2.0, ReOrg (1.32)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Need FishCat up to 740.
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 10:27:46 -0500

I must have messed up my FishCat program somehow. It doesn`t want to accept
Fishdisk number 731 to 740, although the format seems to be correct. Maybe
my index file is screwed somehow.

Where can I find a complete FishCat distribution?

Thanks,

Stefan

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From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Subtitling software help!!!
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:13:00 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Purdue University


     I have recently purchased the A4000 and the G-Lock by GVP.  Is there
anyone out there who knows what kind of Subtitling or video productions 
software(s) is good?  I really need the names of the software(s) in order
to buy it.  Any opinions welcome.  Thanks...
  
                                                           -TKH '92

P.S.  Compatibility with the AGA (AKA AA) preferred.

P.S.2 Please reply by email since this post has been crossposted and
      I have no idea on where reply-posts will go.  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ry41@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernhard Moellemann)
Subject: Re: Fonts structure
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:08:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.143642.12922@greco-prog.fr>, uru@deater (Uru [rauzy]) writes:
>Someone knows the structure of a file font ( [font name].font ) ,
>              the structure of [font name directory]/[size] file ,
Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries (ISBN 0-201-56774-1)

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From: mlm@rhi.hi.is (Magnus Logi Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Is PARNet available as PD?
Keywords: parnet, amiga
Date: 13 Oct 92 18:26:15 GMT

Yo folks.
  Im posting here to ask if someone of you could informe me on PARNet.
  I have a friends A2000 with Magnium/040 and a 120 Mb harddrive and
  my humble A500 with only one meg and a extra drive.  I have heard of
  parnet and I want know wether parnet is comercial or PD ( shareware,
  giftware, etc...).  If it is PD, then where I can obtain a copy 
  through anonymous ftp.  I would be much better to get it instead of 
  writing one myself.

| Magnus Logi Magnusson               |  Owns a humble A500 runnig 1.2         |
| CS student at University of Iceland |  Works on A2000 with Magnium 040       |
| E-Mail:  mlm@rhi.hi.is              |  with 4megs(soon 12) and 120Mb HD      |
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| Magnus Logi Magnusson               |  Owns a humble A500 runnig 1.2         |
| CS student in University of Iceland |  Works on A2000 with Magnium 040       |
| E-Mail:  mlm@rhi.hi.is              |  with 4megs(soon 12) and 120Mb HD      |
From: bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu (Boy Wonder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Memory Upgrade in A3000
Date: 12 Oct 1992 17:07:59 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: potato.ecst.csuchico.edu

I own a lowly A500, but am currently working on a 3000 at work.
I need to upgrade the memory in the 3000 to at least 5 megs,
(assembling code).
On my 500, I have expansion in my hard drive controller, but I don't
know much about the differences between the 500 and the 3000.
What I'm asking is what's the best way to upgrade in the 3000?  Would
it be a mem-expansion card, or are there slots on the motherboard that can
be configured for 5 megs?  (The least cost the better)  If I need a
expansion card, could I buy a 2000 compat. board, or does the 3000 have
a different bus?  Also, where's the best place to buy for the 3000?

Thanks in advance,
Boy Wonder
From: vmkiili@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ville-Matti Kiili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Is Black bad in Europe ?
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:42:00 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

monty@sagpd1 writes:
: 
:     I was just talking to one of our design engineers and he made a statement
: that I would like to verify. It seems that Europeans do not like electronic
: equipment that is Black. I do not know if this is true or not and would like

*laugh* I don't think so... :) Most of the audio equipment is black,
and people still buy them. :) BTW, I've pondered if I should paint
my A3000 black... :)

:     Could this be why CDTV did not take off as well in Europe as was expected?

A really bad explanation, I think. CDTV is supposed to lie near the audio
and video equipment, and that equipment is mostly black nowadays. A white
or beige box would break the harmony.

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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 and scan-lines, mode promotion, flicker
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:56:51 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

>In <1992Oct8.031833.3257@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>>[doom and gloom about flickering screens on the A4000]

In article <1992Oct8.074830.9706@cs.hut.fi> oahvenla@blob.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:
>Marc Barrett, the resident genious strikes again. Imagine a utility that
>hacks the system calls so that every possible interlaced screen is opened in
>the DblPAL or DblNTSC modes.

	I have heard first-hand from a Commodore engineer that he is
considering adding exactly this feature.

	Followups to .advocacy.

                                                        Dan

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From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Overscan
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:51:47 GMT
Organization: City University, London

In article <35766@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com
(Michael Sinz) writes:
>
>>	We had a very hard time trying to make the A4000+A1960 do full
>>overscan using the Overscan preferences.  But then again, I really didn't
>>know what I was doing with all those dozens of monitor modes listed by
>>ScreenMode.  I couldn't get the Overscan to stretch far enough.  [NOTE TO
>>COMMODORE:  Please document the differences between these new monitor modes
>>very carefully, with enough detail to satisfy the technically adept user.]
>
>Some of this is the 1960 and some of this is people thinking that non-video
>modes have a concept of overscan...  Overscan is the area of the display that
>in *television* (NTSC/PAL) standards is said to not always be visible.  Variations
>from monitor to monitor give only a certain amount of room.  In NTSC, to
>make the display look better (and PAL) the industry specified a scan that
>will actually go well beyond the bessel of the display.  This scanning is
>known as overscan as it scans beyond the edges of the display.
>
>In high resolution monitor technology, this no longer exists.  In fact,
>the monitors many times will not take a signal beyond the "major plateau"
>(as some monitor vendors call it) of the picture tube.  This is because
>it is very hard to maintain colour convergance and pixel linearity beyond
>that point in the tube.  Also, the specifications for the displays are
>also much more tightly followed.  That is, the retrace timings are different
>and fixed (for the most part) and this limits your pixel resolution.
>
>On multiscan monitors, the active area changes based on how well the monitor
>can recalibrate itself to match the sync rate you are feeding it.
>

Thank you for the info. Please excuse me if this is an FAQ but I also
cannot get the full area of the overscan on an A3000 with NEC multi
sync2 monitor. Should it be possible or should I expect to see an
unusable strip at the right hand edge?


--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: pmancini@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Mancini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Amigas cry HAVOC!!!
Keywords: amiga jaeger fighter duel pro war
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:17:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.1992Oct15.191741.14185
Organization: Northeastern University


	In april, Battle Group Boston, a large historical wargaming
group will host their annual war games convention.  This will be their
9th in a row.  Attendence is usually under 400 but this year they are
doing a bit more advertising (hard to do when you are a not-for-profit
corporation).  For several years (barring last year) they have had at
least one computer set up running games that people would pay $0.50 to
play for a set amount of time/lives.  2 Years ago it was an Atari ST
running the Hunt for Red October (or some other boomer game).  This year
my friend Tom Ballou and I want there to be Amigas.  You'll never
believe who wants to get involved and help us get good equipment... A
commodore rep.  !?!
	Yes, you read right.  If you have never met the Boston/East
Coast representative, Chris Richardson, you have too.  This guy is
really cool.  And unlike other reps I've met (suit, tie, pamphlets, no
personality and no clue as to what an Amiga is all about) Chris is a
born hacker.  In fact he came over my house and we played Steve
Jackson's "Hacker - the computer crime card game" with my roomates.  He
insisted in always upgrading to the Ameoba 3000 though...
	Anyway the point of this message is two fold:

	A) I am interested in some ideas as to what we should do with
the Amigas.  Looks like we can get 4-6 together for the convention.  I
was planning on building two cockpits and running the 4 amiga setup for
Fighter Duel Pro (and charging $2.00 a flight...).  Chris wants to pump
in stero sound with 100w speakers so the participants have a ride to
remember (all the way to Massachucetts Eye and *EAR* clinic...).  So if
anyone has other impressive (historically oriented) concepts such as
cool CDTV disks you know about or other games let me know.  I think this
is a good opportunity to get several people interested in Amigas when
they were least expecting it!

	B) If you get the chance to meet Chris, Do So!  Say hi and tell
him you love the Amiga.  All day long he has to *convince* IBMers and
MacHeads that the Amiga is cool.  He'll probably be at the desktop video
showcase at the Hynes Convention Center Room 100 in boston on Oct. 28
(free admision from what I can tell).  And despite Commodore Marketing
flames here on the net, Chris Richardson is a guy on the inside pulling
for us all.  And if you think we flame the company, imagine meeting
MBish people for work!  (gasp! the mind boggles)

--Pete Mancini

Northeastern University's opinions and mine may or may not coincide but
they have made me what I am... (besides poor, jeez).  ;-)

All other disclaimers assumed.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
Subject: Re: $12/chip SCRAM price -- here's the phone number
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:57:01 GMT
Reply-To: crash%ckctpa@tct.com (Frank "Crash" Edwards)
Organization: Edwards & Edwards Consulting

easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton) writes:
>  So I called them today to order 8Mb for my A3000 and the guy on
>the other end of the phone insists that they are $15.50 apeice.
>Oh, well.  This is the same price as the advertised price of 80 nSec
>parts from Memory World.

Well, well, ... I guess I should have ordered a couple hundred, eh?!
I got 16 chips for $204.70, or $12.79 each including shipping and tax.

>  ___  ___    Jeff Easton             easton@zds-oem.zds.com
-- 
Frank "Crash" Edwards            Perceptual Technologies, Inc.
Fax:  813/786-6526               [Our office is moving; watch this space
Home: 813/786-3675               for the new phone number.]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: Is Black bad in Europe ?
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:24:04 GMT

In article <sheldon.719071808@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:

> My father used to work for Zenith back in the early 70's designing audio
>amplifiers for their stereo equipment.
>
> At that time the engineers wanted to put everything in black metal cases,
>which they thought looked cool and were pretty functional.
>
> Unfortunately the marketing people didn't agree, they were convinced that
>Americans don't like stuff in black boxes, and much prefer equipment in
>simulated wood boxes.
>
> The end result:
>
> Zenith no longer makes stereo equipment.

  :-)

  Zenith no longer makes computer equipment either :-)

>Steve Sheldon         sheldon@iastate.edu

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