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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:29:00 EST
From:         YDEZTJA@IUP.BITNET
Subject:      RE:Availability of A500s and 3000s

I have called, asking about buying a new A500, and the mailorder compaines
 have said they no longer carry it, because it has been discontinued.
A few places still have it. This is probably why the A500 is only $299 now.

As to the A3000, I have heard the same thing. Prices have come down, to
liquidate the A3000's, so that the A4000 can take it's place.
As of right now, I guess the A2000s are pretty safe!

Captain *CRASH*

P.S. This is what I have been told, by mail-order companies, so if this
info is false, please let me know!
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:23:23 TUR
From:         OBL9136@TREARN.BITNET
Subject:      Archivers ////

 Hi... hikmet here ...
  I 've started getting files from the FTPSITES but all the files
 are packed either with this or that archiver. My point is, where can
I find these archivers,, DMS , LHA , etc.. Would anybody please tell
me if they are found in these FTPSITES and where in them ??
((unpacked, of course)).

                               Best Rgds, Hikmet S. Ozkan
                                  / Turkiye .................
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:53:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: New Amigas ???

Date sent: 16-NOV-1992

>Well, some more rumors... :-(
>
>A few days ago I spoke to a dealer in Vienna, Austria, who said, that there
>are at least two more new Amigas comming around March '93. One of them is
>supposed to have a 68040 at 50 MHz and a 8 times faster blitter, all the
>chips should be 32 bit (the A4000 does have only some 32 bit chips, all
>other are 16 bit), plus some more enhancements.
>
>According to that dealer, the A4000 was just there to satisfy all the people
>waiting for Commodore to release something new.
>
>Has somebody anything to say about that rumors?
>
>Greetings,
>                Blaz
>
>--
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>Ljubljanska 19/B                Phone:  +38 62 38228
>62000 Maribor, Slovenia         -*- Good, better, ... Amiga!!! -*-

These sound like ligitimate claims.  Unlike the A800 and A2200!!!! (*Ignore
them*)  Commodore's latest stock report states something about a whole new line
of machines.  And Amigaworld also mentions that there will be many enhancments
to the AGA chipset relatively soon.  But I wouln't worry these new schips
should be plug compatible with the A4000 existing chipset.

-Nyle

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|________________________________________________________________________|
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:32:44 CET
From:         "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
Subject:      Re: dms quirks

> I'm still having problems undmsing some files, like the sunstone demo.
> On completion of the undmsing I get : Header Identification Error ...
>                                       Fatal Error!

    Did you download them with the 'binary' option, if available, on?
    I had similar problems when downloading .ZIP files on the PC's
    over here... It seemed that if you were to download archives in
    ASCII mode (i.e. pure text stuff), somewhere along the way some-
    one would 'translate' them, thus corrupting the files :-(

                            Hope that helped ya a little :-)


> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Hardy
> Luther College SPO 888           hardymic@mainrt.luther.uni.edu
> Decorah, IA  52101                     (319) 387-1940
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From: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster])
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Subject: Re:      Emplant saga....
Keywords: 
Distribution: world
Date: 20 Nov 92 10:57:25 EST
Organization: Megalith Mail/News Server

Quoted from <1992Nov18.231059.23517@ultb.isc.rit.edu> by waw5805@ultb.isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis):
> In article <overlord.0gsa@megalith.miami.fl.us> overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster]) writes:
> >Quoted from <I-AMIGA%92111220090697@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> by         BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET:
> >> Has anyone heard any new info yet?
> >
> >	Supposedly there are quite a few folks on the net who have
> >received the Emplant already.
> >
> >Carlos
> >--
> 
> But NOONE (except those at UU) have reported to have gotten it to work!

	Not surprised at all with UU's record.

Carlos
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:22:41 MET
From:         Van den Panhuyzen Tom <tovdpanh@VUB.AC.BE>
Subject:      new virus, or what ?

Can anybody help me ?
One out of ten startups there is a letter on my keyboard that is corrupted. Eg.

Help,

Tom.
From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
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Subject: Re: FATER AGNUS
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:50:07 GMT
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ORLOWSPS@PLSZUS11.BITNET writes:
>there is no card with fatter agnus (nor AA) for this old stuff like A1000!
>better sell this one and buy some better (e.g. A4000)!

  Would you believe you are wrong ? There is a 1 meg Agnus board and a 2
meg Agnus board for the A1000 Amiga. They have been available for some
*years* ! They are called Rejuvenator 1 or Rejuvenator II. Several companies
listed in the back of Amiga World sell them. JimP.
Gee, sorry for the grouchiness, maybe these boards have never been introduced
where you live. My apologies. 

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:54:46 -0500
From:         "Frederick H. Wrigley" <fhwri@MVAX.CC.CONNCOLL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Minimum WB 1.3 disk with IconX

I believe that all you need is EXECUTE...

                                                --Rick Wrigley
                                BITNET:fhwri@conncoll

                                Internet:fhwri@mvax.cc.conncoll.edu
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From: 96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU (Lance Tagliapietra)
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Subject: Re: What that DMS "Fatal error" means.. Here goes.
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:43:00 GMT
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>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:45:00 PST
>From: Matt Sawyer <SAWYER_M%PLU.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
>Subject: RE: What that DMS "Fatal error" means.. Here goes.
>
>The HEADER IDENTIFICATION ERROR people are experiencing with DMS doesn't have
>anything to do with whether or not the disk is a DOS disk or NDOS (custom
>bootblock).  What the so-called "error" is, is that some systems (ie VAX/VMS)
>store all files in a fixed-byte format.  Which means they append extra bytes
>to the end of a file to round it up to the nearest 128, 256, 512, etc. bytes.
>For instance, on a VAX/VMS system with a 512 fixed-byte format would append
>200 bytes to a file which was originally 824 bytes (thus making it 1024 bytes).
>DMS checks the length of the file and sees a discrepancy and reports this as
>a header identification error.  If you were to take a program such as ChopIt
>(should be on wuarchive.wustl.edu) and chop off these excess bytes, DMS will
>not complain.  To see if this is what your problem is, check the file length
>of the file on your Amiga (using the list command) and compare it to the
>length of the file on the ftp site you got it from.

That is why I wish everyone would upload their stuff in .lha format.  At
least Lha knows when its archive is complete, regardles of where the VAX
from which you downloaded the file from thought it was.  If a file must
be in DMS format, why not upload it in an Lha wrapper.  This way everyone
would have much less trouble getting the data out of the archive, even
though this would be an extra step with DMS files.

Just my $.02.

>
>This problem will also affect executable files.  An executable will not work
>with these excess bytes on the end.  Using ChopIt or some such program and
>removing the excess bytes will fix this problem.
>
>Matthew Sawyer
>sawyer_m@plu.bitnet

-Lance
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:13:00 EDT
From:         BARNETTJ@SNYSYRV1.BITNET
Subject:      Term 2.4 problems

It seems every so often, especially after iconizing TERM, the term screen
fails to close...and subsequently you can't quit term.  Anyone else having
this problem?
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:05:53 EDT
From:         Omar Colocci <ALUNOINF@BRUFSE.BITNET>
Subject:      ARexx Compiler

   Hello everybody,

   I've heard about ARexx compilers, is there any?
   I really like ARexx but I cna't use it at home because I still have
a kickstart 1.3 <:^} , and I would like to know if a compiled ARexx script
will run perfectly on my old DOS version, even if it's dealing with ARexx
supported s/w and not onluy like a stand alone program.

   Thank you very much.


                                  Omar Silas Colocci
                                ALUNOINF@BRUFSE.BITNET

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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:54:44 MET
From:         AMIGA@BANRUC60.BITNET
Subject:      Pictures wanted ...

Hi,


   I'm looking for all pictures I can find of Cindy Crawford.
   It's to make a large slideshow (for the moment +4 disks),
   I already have all pictures of the wuarchive.wustl.edu, and from
   ftp.luth.ludd.edu (is closed now) of her.
   I have converted them with ADPro, to HAM, and with dithering, so they
   are of great quality (even as I say it myself), and a friend has made
   a show-routine, so you can scroll around to see the whole picture.
   It should be finished within a month.
   I still need some pics to fill the 5th disk, so if there's anyone out
   there who has some other, or knows where to find me, please let me know.
   (Preferabely where the original gifs are, not converted by someone
    to b/w or so)
   If there's anyone with a color-scanner, let me know too ...

  PS. I'm also looking for pictures of Erika Elienak (you know, that nice
      looking girl of Baywatch), her slideshow will come after Cindy's,
      but I just have 1.2 disk full ...

   Regards,

       Aeneas.

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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:31:22 UCR
From:         Juan Manuel Palacios Fabrega <JMPALACI@UCRVM2.BITNET>
Subject:      FATER AGNUS

I would like to knonw i f i can use a FATER AGNUS on my AMIGA 1000, is there an
y card or something similar that I can plug in. Do you know if it  works whit a
A1000 1.5 mg inboard.

              thanks in advance
                               Manuel Palacios F
                            Mechanical Eng. U.C.R
                           e-mail JMPALACI@UCRVM2
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:50:36 PST
From:         Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: DMS probs... (heh)
              at Nov 13, 92 6:03 pm

> ...
>  |> Amiga haz a fit, but it should still boot normally...  I thought ZOOM was
>  |> spozed to be better than DMS, how come noone uses it???
>  |
>  |I will tell ya why. - No site that I have seen has it. :) Not Wuarchive,
>  |Not Physik, not Lud, nobody.  If you can tell us all where it is - or better
>
> Eeeeeeehnt!
>   Did you happen to try archie first?  <no>
>   On wuarchive.wustl.edu, Did you happen to look in
>   "/systems/amiga/utilities/archive"?  <no>
>
> Well 8^)   --If you did, you would see zoom54.lha

Actually I did - before posting that message way back. the very day it was
posted - somebody was kind enough to throw it on Wuarchive. :) Now that
is what I call service.  I am curious since this is a fairly old message
when you recieved it.  Seems like there is a net-lag someplace for you. :)

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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:42:44 GMT
From:         Derryck Lamptey <D.Lamptey@DCS.SHEF.AC.UK>
Subject:      How to subscribe to comp.sys.amiga.xxx

I realize this is old material, but :

How does one go about subscribing to the comp.sys.amiga.xxxx groups.?

Also, I have lost my startup files. Can someone please send it to me.?

Thanks. Derryck.
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:56:48 EDT
From:         Omar Colocci <ALUNOINF@BRUFSE.BITNET>
Subject:      WHAT?!

   Hi guys, how do you do?

   I'm new in networking and I don't know the Amiga too deep inside
(there's no Amiga related books here in Brazil <:-}), so I would like
you to help me...WHAT THE HELL IS DMS!!!!

   THANX.


                                    Omar Silas Colocci
                                  ALUNOINF@BRUFSE.BITNET


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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:47:21 -0500
From:         CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject:      Re: Amiga...Thumbs up (what is the magazines name?)

Yes, that's the name... NewMedia..

Carlos C
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From:         "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
Subject:      Re: Has any one heard of these machines (800 and 2200)

    This one got me completely baffled... Can someone please help
    this guy? ;->


> From:
>                the legend live on!" <FRASER50%SNYPOTVA.BITNET@SEARN.SUNET.SE>
> Subject:       Has any one heard of these machines (800 and 2200)

> From:   IN%"AREXX-L@UCF1VM.BITNET"  "Amiga REXX Discussion List" 13-NOV-1992
 15:
> Subject: I'm sorry...
> Sender: Amiga REXX Discussion List <AREXX-L@UCF1VM.BITNET>

> Yes, I'm sorry WE can't upgrade any Amiga (except A3000) to the AA chips.
> Because the new chips works in 32-bit format (like the A3000). I read it
> from Amiga World and they forget something...Since the chips have new res
> I think we will need a multisync (because the TV or monitor can't afford it)
>
> In fact, the new amigas (like the A800 and the A2200) need a multisync. They
> have a high-density drive and a 68030, and the new workbench 3.
>
> L
> a23404@iteso.BITNET
>

    Aha! Yet another machine from C=! The 2200! Great! Commodore sure
    are flooding the market with new models! Wonder if any two people
    will have even remotely similar machines by the end of this
    year...;- >

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From: pati@milton.u.washington.edu (Pati Irish)
Subject: Supra HD HELP!
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:47:21 GMT

        I have a Amiga 500 w/Supra SCSI Interface + 40 meg quatom. I just
formated the drive last night and now whenever I try to access it, or actually
whenever i turn the computer on it just constantly guru's. The only way to
escape the guru is to unplug the controller card, can anyone help me here?
Thanks..

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From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Attacked!

        I thought that I'd update my virus situation.  Id say about 3 or 4
boots later, my hard drive partitions were not acknowledged.  Even though
VirusChecker (6.15?) and ZeroVirusIII said that all virii were gone, the
original virus must have altered something that was not detected as a virus.
I thought that I'd post this so you are more informed on this virus.  I'm also
wondering if there is anything that could have prevented the destruction to my
harddrive (outside of detecting the virus before it got put on my hard drive).
                                                        Kevin Shafer
                                                        91016@tayloru
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From:         Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM>
Subject: RE: ARexx Compiler (well..)
              "EBRUC@CATGSG.DNET.HAC.COM" at Nov 18, 92 11:03 am

>
> You can purchase ARexx for v1.3.  That's what I did originally.  It came with
 a
> book on how to use ARexx for about $42US.
>

Truth of the matter be known - if you are looking at buying arexx, and dont have
2.04 yet, you should just buy 2.04.  It's cheap now a days (about $70 in amiga
world) and well worth the difference in price.  plus Commodore simply doesent
support 1.3. :)  So get with the program as they say!


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From:         Arc Wave <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Cross DOS 3.0 - continued.

        I did try :
         1. I went into the Storage Drawer and then Dos Drivers , double
            clicked PC0 (since I have only 1 drive (for now)).
            It brought up PC0: (or something similar) on the workbench.
            I placed a 720k IBM floppy in the drive (had ftp stuff on it),
            the drive light turned on, and stayed on, I waited for 5 minutes.
            I repeated the above, but used a 1.44MB disk, didn't work either.

         2. I read the manual, did what it suggested, didn't work either.
            I even started the CrossDOS and then CrossDOS commodity, didn't
            work.

         3. Tried MultiDos, didn't work.

         4. Tried my friend's 2.1 workbench with cross dos, didn't work.
            Strange, that on my A500 CrossDOS worked fine?!

         5. I booted into PC-Task (A4000), and I could read all my 720k
            IBM disks.

         6. I even considered the problem could be the 68040, so I used
            degrader and degraded the 040 (no burst mode), didn't help.

Any suggestions??? Maybe I overlooked something?

Paul
"I have to use my A500 to transfer IBM stuff, but this defeats the purpose!"

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