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From: gibb@cgowgs.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Help adding memory on 2386 Bridgecard
Date: 12 Aug 92 03:55:02 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Calgary Canada

Hello,

I have just purchased a 2386 bridgecard. At the same time I picked up
2 meg of additional memory, so there is a total of 3 meg on board.

Using the setup utility (BBSETUP), it see's the total ram on the
bridgeboard, 3072, but when the card is booted it see's 640k of
base memory and 0k of extended.

Playing with the on-board ext memory setting, ie setting it to 2048,
saving then rebooting, it complains of a config error. It seems the
only way around this is to set this on-board ext memory setting to
zero.

Has anyone installed additional memory on the 2386 card?. Is there something
that I am missing or is something missing in the user guide in how to install
additional memory.

Any help would be appreciated... Thanks

John Gibb
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: edmondse@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: XT Bridgeboard & 720K floppies??
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:51:19 GMT

Hello,

I have an been unsucessful in getting my A2088 bridgeboard to
accept a 720K 3.5" floppy in place of C='s 360K 5.25 drive. I've tried
adding the line "drivparm=/d:0/f:2" in my config.sys file but it doesn't
seem to realize the disk has 720K not 360K. 

If anyone has sucessfully been able to substitute a 720K floppy for the 360K
variety I would appreciate any advice you may have to offer.

Also, with 2.04 roms in my A2000 (rev 6.2), everytime I attempt to look at 
PCPrefs a meet the guru. Is this also a common problem when using the Janus 2.0
software?

Thanks in advance.

Eric Edmonds
UMASS at Lowell
Dept of Nuclear Engineering



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: ghanna@cse.unl.edu (gary hanna)
Subject: Re: Where to get sytem disks
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:06:14 GMT

Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:

>     I'm kina confused here. Are we talking about the Mac's Operating System
>disks? Aren't they copyright Apple Corp? (i.e. you gotta BUY them!)

>--
 Well, Apple Corp itself maintains an FTP site with them on it, so I guess
that means you don't have'ta buy them.
From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: WordPerfect purchase.
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:14:07 GMT


	Recently, I bought WordPerfect (yes, I know, after I flamed it 
intensively, but I thought I would try it out because the box boasted
"advanced Amiga functions."  I bought it used at a half-price bookstore
for only $30 U.S.  

	After looking it over, everything appears to be fine, however;

	1.)  I can't find my warranty registration card.  What I think 
happened is the guy or gal before me who had this used it and sent it in.

	2.)  I can't find the keyboard template thingy for the Amiga 2000.

	
	I know, I know, in the manual there is an 800 number that I can call,
but I remember reading something in a magazine somewhere about WordPerfect
dropping support for the Amiga.

	So, a few remaining questions.  What is the current version number?
Where can I get it?  Will I have to pay a lot of money for the upgrade simply
because I don't have the user-registration card?

	Also, where can I get the template?

	One final question, does anybody know where I can find an ASCII 
dictionary?



		Kyle
From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Pagestream Documentation Woes...
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 11:04:33 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Well,
>
>I finally did it, I went out and bought PageStream 2.2HL.  I've been following
>the debates over which is better, ProPage and PageStream, so when I got it
>yesterday I was amazed to see that PageStream's documentation was so small!
>Compared to MS-DOS, Mac, Unix and NeXT DTP applications, the documentation
>which came with PageStream is tiny.  I use ventura for DOS at work and the
>documentation for that program has to be twice if not three times the size of
>PageStream's.  Admittedly, Pagestream is a much better program than Ventura,
>and it doesn't have the Billion different video configurations that MS-DOS
>machines have, but this is silly.  The main manual has pictures of PageStream
>2.0, and there's only a 19 page Addendum to describe the differences between
>v2.0 and v2.2.  Needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed Soft-Logik, the progra
m
>is a very polished piece of software which deserves a better manual.
>
>Don't take this poorly S-L, I just think that you coulda made it a little
>bigger, with a few more examples, tutorials or even some clip-art...
>
>Anybody have anything to say about the ProPage v3 manual???  I'm interest in
>seeing if all REAL Amiga application's manuals are not up to the caliber the
>actual programs are (except maybe DPaint which has always had a wonderful
>manual).
>
>Teddy
>
>     ////////
>       //                                             twang@thor.albany.edu
>      //                                              TWANG@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
>     //  eddy Wang                                    TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
>    //   Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
>         New Illusions      Albany, NY                  "Increase the Peace...
"
>

You're entitled to your opinions.

To be specific, the PageStream 2.0 manual is 266 pages in length. It is heavily
illustrated and personally, I think it's a first-rate manual (and have had
others to say the same thing). 

I've used the Aldus Pagemaker manual and found could rarely find what I was 
looking for. I don't like having to thumb through 3 or 4 separate manuals
(as the case with much PC software). So I think that the PageStream manual
has quality and some others quantity.

As for turorials, you will find that the PageStream explains how to do the
various functions in a step-by-step turorial style.

Finally, I like it that the PageStream manual explains how to do things in
an orderly fashion (Working with text, working with Graphics, Page Layout...)
rather than just taking you through a tour of the menus.

PS. The Deluxe Paint IV manual has 290 pages, so we're 24 short.

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Professional Draw 3.0 - Comments?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:35:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.162100.3618@digi.lonestar.org> ajahn@digi.lonestar.org
(Alfredo Jahn) writes:

>This is my question... Has anyone out there seen/used/heard-about
>the latest version of ProDraw (3.0)?? Is it worth the $50 + $7 (SH)
>that they want to charge me for upgrading?

Based on what I've seen, investing in ProVector would be my advice. While
Gold Disk claims that PD 3.0 is a significant upgrade, it still maintains
many of the 2.0 liabilities, particularly the non-standard interface and
lack of support for DR2D.

With additional import capabilities (particularly WPG, CGM, CDR or DRW),
ProVector would virtually eliminate the competition. 

Mark

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From: yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject:  Splitters???
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn 1.16c (6/22/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:00:26 GMT
Organization: Blue Knight Productions

	Does anyone know of a good split program for Amiga. The UUSPLIT
that comes with UUCP has a very bad habit of encoding the file and
breaking it up into sperate parts...
	If you know of a file that just splits a UUENCODED file please let
me know!! Thanks!!

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From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: UUENCODE for amiga
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:09:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


I'm looking for an amiga version of uuencode / uudecode.
I have been searching the FTP sights with no luck.  Does it 
exist?  I imagine that the source is straight forward.

Steve
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From: mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: WShell menu's
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:00:28 GMT
Organization: AMiSYS Consulting
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <2208@fnnews.fnal.gov> gad@fncrd6.fnal.gov (greg deuerling) writes:
> 
> I've had WShell for a while now and I've tried several times to attach a
> menu to a shell with no luck. Hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> My menu file is very simple:
> 
> 1 LABEL "Project"
>  2 LABEL "New Shell" DATA "newshell*N"
>  2 LABEL "Quit" DATA "*E[11]"

This looks fine, although I'm sure you'll be adding more functions to your
menus once you have them working.
 
> file is called "MyMenu"
> 
> Then my shell startup is:
> DHOpts PIP: CNC:0/11/666/418/New/CLOSE MENU S:MyMenu

This is also fine.  However, this line only loads the menu, it doesn't attach
it to your shell.
 
> Is this all I need ??? If it is, it doesn't work. Can any one tell me
> what I'm doing wrong ???

Attaching menus to your shells is a three-step process, and you've done two of
the three.  The final step is to reference the menu when you issue the newwsh
command.  Using your setup above, the command would be:

   newwsh CNC:menu#MyMenu

Rather than enter all of this every time you want to open a new shell, you can
use WShell's 'shellwindow' environment variable to provide default settings
for newwsh to use.  Create a file in ENV: named 'shellwindow' and enter the
following line:

   CNC:MENU#MyMenu

Once this variable exists, newwsh will use this just as if you had typed it on
the command line yourself.  Be sure to copy the 'shellwindow' file into your
ENVARC: directory too, so it will be available every time you reboot your
system.
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From: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  Virtual Memory for the Amiga?
Date: 16 Aug 92 17:44:35 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

It also includes technology issues.  Some technologies, or implementations
therof, are (or were) not exportable.

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From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Problem: PageStream PS File Barfs on Linotronics 300!!!
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 16:25:15 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I've got a huge problem so anybody out there who know's the solution please
>send me e-mail or post to the net!!!!!!!!  :(
>
>Here's the problem, I'm using PageStream to layout 17" x 11" posters.  I'm
>using the following fonts:  CG Triumvirate, Stencil Caps, and CG Times.  I
>printed the page as a postscript file and moved it to an MS-DOS disk using
>MultiDOS.  I brought it over to a service bureau, to be printed on their
>Linotronics 300 which is hooked up to an IBM compat.  Here's what happens:
>
>The page is printed but the output is duplicated twice on one 17" x 11" page!
>It cuts off the ends of the page, and centers it twice.  Here's a graphic
>illustration:
>
>                        Original Page (in PageStream)
>
>                                ____________
>                                |          |
>                                | My Stuff!|
>                                |  ----    |
>                                ------------
>
>                           When Printed, it becomes
>
>                                ____________
>                                |          |
>                                |y St  y St|
>                                |----  ----|
>                                ------------
>
>This was a rush job, and each page is costing me $20!  What's up with this!!!
>I need a solution by Monday, Please help.  I'm using v2.2HL of PageStream,
>which I BOUGHT last week from Computability, I'm using v2.2.5 of the printer
>driver (postscript that is!)
>
>Please help me...
>
>Teddy
>
>     ////////
>       //                                             twang@thor.albany.edu
>      //                                              TWANG@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
>     //  eddy Wang                                    TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
>    //   Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
>         New Illusions      Albany, NY                  "Increase the Peace...
"

I'm not a LINO Guru, but check 2 things. 1) make sure you set up your PAPER
SIZE correctly in the Configure Printer requester (NOT the PageStream document
itself). Second, make sure that your service bureau can actually print 17x11
sized documents (some of them actually have a bit smaller limitation).

I will e-mail you a later version of the PostScript driver, but that will
likely not make a difference. 

Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
               <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
        SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
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From: dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: GNU-emacs-18.58-Amiga-1.25 memory & lock woes
Summary: There are two ways...
Keywords: amiga misc applications emacs problems fixes
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:43:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Organization: Environment Canada --- Atmostpheric Environment Service
In-reply-to: plav@cup.portal.com's message of 16 Aug 92 19:27:44 GMT

>>>>> On 16 Aug 92 19:27:44 GMT, plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky) said:

Rick> With all the talk about GNU-emacs that was taking place in
Rick> c.s.a.programmer, and since Mike has indicated he's dropping
Rick> support for mg3beta4, I figured that I owed it to myself to
Rick> check out GNU-emacs for myself.  After poking about a bit it
Rick> seemed to me that David Gay's amiga version 1.25 was the latest
Rick> so I FTPed a copy of emacs-18.58-Amiga-1.25-bin.lha...

	To my mind, you've got the right one.  This is what Ihave.

Rick> First reaction: Nice!  Performs reasonably well even on my
Rick> anemic 68000-based B2000.  I could live with this even though
Rick> it's kinda large...

	EMACS == Eventually Mallocs All Computer Store!... but seriously,

Rick> But I noticed rather quickly that this port suffers from a
Rick> couple of problems.  First, each invocation appears to eat 64
Rick> bytes of memory.  And when emacs is shut down, it leaves an
Rick> outstanding lock on gnuemacs:.

	Probably related.  What's the size of the lock structure?
Anyways, there's two ways of going about this.  One, as you mention,
is to ignore it, and use emacs once per session... or suffer the 64
byte loss.  The other is to get the source for the port, and fix it.
I don't have Lattice (I have manx), so I think I'm out of luck for
recompiling it without a lot of work.  The Amiga specific stuff is in
only a few modules, so it should be easy to fix for someoen.

Rick> Anybody else noticed this?  What do you do about it?  (Er, besides
Rick> simply starting emacs once per session :-)  Perhaps David's released
Rick> a patch? 

	Actually, I start Emacs roughly once per session, but then I have
8 meg of 32bit ram.  (Via the VXL30 && VXL*32.)  It is GNU stofware,
afterall, though... so anyone can fix it ;).

Dave.

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From: w_kueting@tron.gun.de (Wolfgang Kueting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ProPage3.0 question...
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:03:00 GMT
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany

Now I have updated to ProPage 3.0 and now I have a problem.

I have programmed an page-genie for automatic money-transfer-form fill in.
For every textfield I open a textbox. On screen all is beautiful, but
printing is bad (dot-matrix, Fujitsu DL1100).
I get an black box (pagewidth x ~4cm) on paper, the vertical position is
variable.
As test I have print an old ProPage 2.0-page. This comes beautiful.

Can someone say me where I can find the error? - Thanks.

Wolfgang
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From: aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:01:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Virtual Reality Laboratories BBS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications

| Anybody called VRL's BBS lately. I have been calling 0018052372312 - the
| 001 is our STD code for the USA - and can't get a reply.

| Anyone know whats happening?

I haven't tried this number or this board.  I'll give it a try as well and 
get back to you.

Jim 8')s  |  aites@hpsmpa/lvld.hp.com
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Need application to validate hard drive partition
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:08:00 GMT
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.

In article <16q14mINNpih@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> smythe@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Matthew Aljian) writes:

>Sorry for being in a pissy mood, but zoo v2.1 has, for the bazillionth time,
>unvalidated my hard drive by crashing in the middle of an operation (not

Well, Zoo 2.1 is enuff to ruin anyone's day.

>and 2) my partition is 75 mb and FixDisk v1.2 won't work on anything greater
>than 49 mb (at least that's the requester I got when I tried to use it).
>
>Are there any other *PD*, and I stress the word PD, applications out there,

I've never tried it on such a large partition, but you might give DiskSalv
(latest version 1.42 I think..) a try.  It's always been good to me.

>P.S. -- Remind me *never* to use zoo *ever* again.  It has given me more
>headaches than it's worth.

Never use Zoo Ever again.  ;-)

Actually, 2.01 is OK.  It's just 2.10 that has the problems.  I still have it
for nostalgia purposes, but prefer Lha or even Zip to Zoo at this point.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Re: Looking for info on Digital Sound Studio
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 06:50:14 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: usa

In article <Jason_Peacock.096b@fcircus.sat.tx.us> Jason_Peacock@fcircus.sat.tx.us (Jason Peacock) writes:
>RE: DSS-8 from GVP...
>              
>  I'm not sure if you can get the magazine, however, the August issue of
>Amazing Computing has a review of DSS-8.  The reviewer sounded reasonably
>favorable of the product.  It supports IFF, Sonix, and RAW(the type
>generally used by 'trackers) sound file formats.  It has a built-in
>Soundtracker clone.  The 'tracker allows you to enter notes from the Amiga
>or a MIDI keyboard.
>  The reviewer finishes:
>                   
>  "
>      The DSS 8 is a solid product, easy to use, yet powerful, with
>   the ability to record 8-bit samples, edit them, and then use those
>   samples to create music.  The manual is well done, with plenty of
>   illustrations and useful information.  If you are looking for an
>   8-bit sampler for your Amiga and also want to create music, consider
>   the DSS 8.
>                                                                       "
>                   
>  Hope this helps....

Obviously, these guys never heard of MED. 
I heard (when DSS-8 first came out) that DSS-8 software crashed and GURU'd
systems when trying to perform simple tasks.

Actually, I would rather get MED and an old sampler than get DSS-8 
with a ST-clone. ST was free to begin with. ;-)

By the way, MED will also enter notes from the MIDI keyboard. 
If the articles for the DSS-8 say that you can enter polyphonic 
data instead of monophonic data through MIDI, then that would be 
something different. MED supports monophonic MIDI input, in fact I 
use my AX73 with my ECE midi interface to compose songs on MED. 
MED is free!!

Sonix samples is a raw format, really. IFF is a supported format under
MED. And RAW is too. The diffeence between RAW and IFF is 
IFF supports Start/End loop settings so you can loop samples, 
for sustaining notes beyond the sample length.

MED supports something like 32 samples in memory at once, 
16 channels of MIDI, MIDI in and out, MIDI presets, 
Synth sounds, samples, and several useful sample editing tools 
like reverse, echo, cut&paste, mix, etc. Even lets you sample
from the music program (providing you have the right kind of sampler.

And it is FREE!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications