From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Dan got the Amiga 10
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 23 Dec 92  07:13:00

> Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
> From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
> Message-ID: <1992Dec23.053811.10127@usl.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
>
> Okay, here are some first impression, and some question.  You Amigans
> *barely* advocated the Amiga enough for me to see about getting one,
> and I have: an Amiga1000, with half Meg, a 1080 monitor with a broken
> speaker, and an extra floppy drive.  I almost gave up on
> this group, what with Amigoid Whackos telling me, a DUMB PC USER,
> to 'go away' and all.
>
> Yea, verily, this about the rock-bottom as far as Amigas go, and surely
> isn't representational, say, of Dan Barrett's mega-Amiga (wanna let me
> borrow it? 8) ), and some of you will tell me to compare it to a
> 1985 PC, etc etc.  Go ahead and waste your time; I'll ignore those
> replies.. it is trivial to type 'd' at the end of you email...
>
> Anyway, here are my First Impressions:
>
> 1) FLICKER-O-RAMA
> 2) They should have orange and blue as the default colors.
> 3) The windowing is rather adnaced for way back then.  A Shell resizes
> fine and all.
> 4) The scrollbars *are* proportional after all!  Yay!
> 5) The pointer looks goofy.
> 6) Real Low Res-Like.

I'm sure lots of people will respond to this, but I've just downed a cup of
coffee after an unusualy short sleep so I'm real wired this morning...

Of course you know, points 1,2,5 and 6 are quite fixed on new machines like
the 2 year old A3000, A1200, A4000, and any Amiga with a flicker fixer.  So
I wont flame ya for that.  :)

> Question, please:

Sure.

> How in hell do I kill a Shell?!  (for example)  Some things have that
> square-with-a-dot in the top left, you click on it and it goes away.
> But sometimes there isn't one...and it just stays there.

type Endcli.

> Why can't I drag a window DOWN so that part of it 'hangs' off the side or
> bottom?

Because  thats  not suported.  That is one thing I kinda like about the Mac
and Windows.  It seems like it could be supported, perhaps even possible as
a  PD  utility.   If you had AmigaOS 2.x, you could make large screens that
are  bigger  than the display area and achieve a similar, and more usefull,
result.

> I am Deluxe Paint II here.  I can 'drag' the screen down in it... is that

Eww.  We're on IV now..  But of course you knew that..

> supposed to do something?  How do I toggle from the paint program
> and the WorkBench (which is 1.3.2, by the way)

I  guess  DPaint is closing the Workbench or something?  There is an option
in  DPaint's  menus  to Open/Close Workbench.  Amiga-M and N will bring the
Workbench screen to the front or send it back.

> Real quick like - how do I change the resolution of the workbench, and
> the colors?

Get Workbench 2.x.

> Also does someone know how I might hook this baby up to my 386 (which has
> an internal modem) and use a term program FROM the AMiga?  You know,
> route it through my PC, going straight to the modem?  That way I
> can download stuff.

If  there  was  (is?) a version of parnet for the IBM, you could do it that
way  (parnet  lets  two  Amigas  form  a small network through the parallel
ports, allowing the machines to access each other's drives and ports).  All
it  would  require is the right software on the IBM, but I don't know if it
exists yet.

You  can,  however,  download on the IBM with an IBM term program, and then
transfer  the  files  to  the  Amiga  through the parallel ports - there is
software for that on both ends (I recall something called "Twin" with Amiga
and IBM executeable programs to allow such transfers.  It was PD).

> Where can I get the Work Bench Lander thing?  Peter da Silva, you know what
> I mean?

You got me.

> --
> Dan Stephenson                                         das9674@usl.edu
> "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld.  From my point of view it
> appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
> everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy

 -Dances With Coyotes - World's slowest programer-Given that God is infinate-
 -AKA Dances V2.0, Coyote, Critter, Magnet, Major-and  that  the universe is-
 -- Former Net-Lurker - YES, an AMIGA godammit! --also  infinate,  would you-
 --- Still limping along with AmigaOS 1.3  :(  ---like a toasted  tea  cake?-


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