HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: faith@amiganet.chi.il.us (Fred Drummand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Pagestream Docs.
Date: 16 Aug 92 18:54:23 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

In article <1992Aug11.132521.832@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>, ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed
Wilts) writes:
>In article <faith.05iq@amiganet.chi.il.us>, faith@amiganet.chi.il.us (Fred
Pienk
>os) writes:
>> Somehow my pagetsream docs disappeared.. And I Was wondering if anyone would
>> let me borrow theirs for just mayybe a week.. or so..  Thanks
>
>Phone Soft Logik.  They'll sell you another copy of the docs for a small fee. 
>Be sure to give them your registration number (you are registered aren't
you?).
>
>Note that if somebody does lend you a copy and you photocopy it, you're most
>likely violating the copyright on the documentation.  And if you never owned
>the docs and have pirated the disk distribution, you're definitely violating
>the copyrights on the program and should be shot.
>
>-- 
>
>Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X
4S8
>EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604)
389-3430



GREAT!  You and another personinformedme that i couldget another copy from
softlogic for only $25.00...  So things will beback in order ina while...

Thanks..

Fred Drummand
Collumbia College
Graphic Arts Major
From: Terry_Langille@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Terry Langille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: FutureVideo Cyberware
Date: 11 Aug 92 10:50:05 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

Another call for info: is anyone using either Cyberware from futureVideo,
or Ami-Link Jr with a FutureVideo editing unit?  The cost of Cyberware is a
bit steep, and I'm interested in knowing if it might actually be worth it. 
Thanks.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: flui@fraser.sfu.ca (Francis Wai Gee Lui)
Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 03:50:48 GMT

In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0ijg@telepro.UUCP> James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes:
>In a message dated Sat 22 Aug 92 15:36, Barrett@iastate.edu (marc N Barrett
>wrote:
> BNB>    This kind of support from IBM is the straw that broke the
> BNB> cammel's back.
> BNB> I am sick and tired of seeing so much CD-ROM support from IBM,
> BNB> Apple, and
> BNB> other companies, and absolutely none whatsoever from Commodore. 
>
>You can buy a CD ROM drive and appropriate driver software for your Amiga,
>right now. What is your point, exactly?

The point is that Commodore doesn't sell one, nor the "official" drivers for
a CD-ROM drive.

>And there is no evidence to indicate that these offerings from IBM and
>Apple will be successful. It is pointless to try to use the educational
>market to boost sales - that is a no-win situation with taxpayers having it
>up to here (indicating a point well over my head) with expensive
>educational programs that produce children that cannot read. CD-ROM
>multi-media presentations make for great TV commercials, but the reality
>out in the educational field is quite different. For an eye-opener, I
>suggest you take a gander at this month's MacWorld cover story on the sorry
>state of computer education.

True.  In comp.sys.windows.advocacy, a debate on CD-ROM is currently raging,
with most users complaining that CD-ROM is being shoved down their throats.
However, the difference is that Apple and IBM are being perceived as making
efforts to advance the state of the art in multimedia, while the Amiga seems
to be stuck in the mud.  It's the public perception that's sickening, more
than anything else.

  __   __
 / /\ /_/\__   Francis Lui
/_/ /\\ \ \/\  e-mail: flui@sfu.ca
\ \  / \ \  /
 \ \ \  \_\/   You know you're a techno-dweeb when
  \_\/         floppy drive applies more to your love life,
               and hard drive to your machines.
From: dave@ainfo.equinox.gen.nz (Dave Hassall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: CDTV TITLES
Summary: Does anyone have a CDTV Title List 
Keywords: CDTV,List
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:58:56 +1200
Organization: AmigaINFO BBS,ChCh NZ
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Does anyone havew an upto date list of CDTV Titles available
I had a list about a year ago but lost it.

Please either Post it here or Email it to me

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Hassall     dave@ainfo.equinox.gen.nz      AmigaINFO BBS CHCH NZ
From: Kevin_Carruthers@telepro.UUCP (Kevin Carruthers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN??
Distribution: world
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:39:38 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Sat 15 Aug 92  4:49, Cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (catheri
wrote:

>Just when??? It IS needed.. I use AV daily, and I manage to squeeze just
what
>I want out of it.. it's just that I NEED a standalone player!!! 

 C> Commodore is working on a new version of AmigaVision.  I cannot say 
 C> much about new features or the release date yet, but I am able to tell
 C> you that this new version will include a stand-alone runtime player. 
 C> Cathy
 C>               ============================================
 C>               Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
 C>               Authoring System Support Specialist        
 C>               Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
 C>               ============================================


  Congratulations to Commodore on finally recognizing the one major flaw of
an otherwise excellent program!

  Cathy,  I assume the runtime player will handle flows created with
previous versions of AmigaVision?

Thanks Kevin

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: jkh@sparc3.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard)
Subject: MPEG upgrade for EXISTING CDTV owners?  DCTV?  Photo CD?
Organization: Lotus Ireland
Distribution: comp
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:53:13

I have two of them and would be somewhat tweaked if it proved
impossible to get this functionality by doing anything but buying
another CTDV (which I basically would refuse to do and that would be
that).  This goes double given that Commodore more or less promised
that this technology would be made available for EXISTING owners just
as soon as it became available in a "we won't abandon the brave souls
who took the first step" pledge, of sorts.

There was also a DCTV-on-a-card thingie that people reported seeing at
various times and was supposed to be really cheap (some Commodore
salesmen were throwing numbers like "$50 and $75" around at
tradeshows).  What ever happened to that?

What ever happened to the much vaunted Kodak Photo-CD support, for that
matter?

It almost seems as if Commodore are determined not to tell us anything
here - I had to hear about the 2.0 CTDV from a 3rd party, still no word
on buying the new ROMs as an upgrade.

Sigh..

				Jordan
From: Terry_Langille@neonate.amiga.atl.ga.us (Terry Langille)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Sony S-VHS edit info requested
Date: 11 Aug 92 10:48:05 GMT
Organization: The Village BBS

A friend is surveying the market for a pair of editing S-VHS VCRS, and has
noted the attractive price and unique features of the Sony R5 units.  The
alternative is the AG1960 from Panasonic, priced 40% higher, and not
equipped with the dual PIP feature.  Can anyone using either the R5 or the
Ag1960 give us a few things to consider that we may have missed.  One
dealer told us that the Panasonics have pre-roll built in.  Wonder if
that's the same as Sony's sync edit?  Image quality is not an issue, as the
Sony and Pans are virtually identical.   Thanks in advance.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 04:17:44 GMT

In article <James_Hastings-Trew.0ijg@telepro.UUCP> James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) writes:
>In a message dated Sat 22 Aug 92 15:36, Barrett@iastate.edu (marc N Barrett
>wrote:
>
> BNB>    This kind of support from IBM is the straw that broke the
> BNB> cammel's back.
> BNB> I am sick and tired of seeing so much CD-ROM support from IBM,
> BNB> Apple, and
> BNB> other companies, and absolutely none whatsoever from Commodore. 
>
>You can buy a CD ROM drive and appropriate driver software for your Amiga,
>right now. What is your point, exactly?

   Just because I can read generic IBM (ISO-9660) CD-ROM discs, does this give
me a library of interactive Amiga CD-ROM software?  No.  Having read access
to IBM CD-ROM discs is directly analogous to having read/write access to
IBM 720K discs with something like CrossDOS.  It does nothing to give a user
a library of usable software.  I explained in a message in advocacy that 
Amiga users have to expert programmers with degrees in computer science in
order to use CD-ROM drives on Amigas.  This is because none of the most 
popular generic CD-ROM databases have Amiga access software, so the Amiga 
user has to write his or her own access software.  There is also no Amiga
CD-ROM software of the quality and style of software for CD-I, CDTV, and 
IBM.  

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
     "Beware the ides of September..."
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: AmigaVision Bug Report
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:32:07 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

After a few hours of swearing at AmigaVisions DataBase features, I decided
that there had to be some other bug in AmigaVision that was causing my
problems.  

Here is a list of bugs I've found since I started using AmigaVision 
this week.

	Variable tests and initialization fail.  Definately fails with
	integers... I haven't tested to see if the string tests and
	assignments work or not.
	
	Examples:
		Counter=0
		Counter==OtherInteger
	Symptoms:
		Counter not even recognized as a variable at times.
		IfThen and IfElse fail to execute condition PART of the
		time.
		>= and <= *seem* to have worked so far.
	Workaround:
		Add spaces around *all* operators to make the problem go
		away.
		The problem seemed to be cured by placing a space *after*
		the operator, but put spaces on both sides to be safe.
	Examples:
		Counter = 0
		Counter == OtherInteger


	Several functions do not work at all.  I haven't used it long
	enough to know all of them yet, but there are two that have definate 
	problems.
	inc() and dec() seem to have no function.
	Examples:
		inc(Integer)
		dec(Integer)
	Symptoms: 
		Variables don't get incremented or decremented.
	Workaround:
		Do the obvious... don't use them.  Add one or subtract one
		from the variable.
	Examples:
		Integer = Integer + 1
		Integer = Integer - 1


I posted these bugs here in hopes it will help some of you out there that use
AmigaVision.
I cannot seem to mail dirrectly to CBM's bug reports address so someone
should forward them.

The Version of AmigaVision I use is V1.7 Z.

James Diffendaffer

***********************************************************************
Utah State University
Instructional Technology Dept.
Nexus Lab.
***********************************************************************

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Database Record search?
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:08:07 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Aug20.035225.58284@cc.usu.edu>, sl1zm@cc.usu.edu writes:
> I'm using AmigaVision and I wanted to know if the database has a way to
> retrieve a specific record number without enclosing the numbers in a search

I found searching with no index and keeping a counter and grabbing a copy of
the data record I wanted was the only way to do this.

James
From: sl1zm@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: AmigaVision Database Record search?
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:52:24 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I'm using AmigaVision and I wanted to know if the database has a way to
retrieve a specific record number without enclosing the numbers in a search
field.

Some of the file accesses would be much faster since the records are
permanently stored in a specific order.

I couldn't find an option to do this on the read or search icons and
well... the manual doesn't have much usefull info on the database 
features.  Come to think of it... the manual doesn't have much usefull info
on anything.  If someone is without an extensive background in programming,
getting started with AmigaVision could be a real chore.

James Diffendaffer
From: pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN?? (Cathy G.?)
Summary: When are we going to see an AV standalone player??
Keywords: amigavision,amiga,multimedia
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:52:54 GMT

Just when??? It IS needed.. I use AV daily, and I manage to squeeze just what
I want out of it.. it's just that I NEED a standalone player!!! When you're
working within the confines of available memory, you need a compact player
program. Give me all the functions, and throw away all the editing functions.
Just maybe, I'd like the file requester only, to select what flowchart to run.
I think many ppl have already asked for this, so why hasn't it been done?
I KNOW C= hasn't dropped support for the program, as we have seen a (somewhat)
recent upgrade (1.70) PLEASE do it! (Please please please.)

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From: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: AmigaVision Standalone player-->>WHEN??
Keywords: amigavision,amiga,multimedia
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:40:21 GMT
Reply-To: cathy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Catherine Godfrey - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <pl159410.713631174@academ01> pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez) writes:
>Just when??? It IS needed.. I use AV daily, and I manage to squeeze just what
>I want out of it.. it's just that I NEED a standalone player!!! 

Commodore is working on a new version of AmigaVision.  I cannot say 
much about new features or the release date yet, but I am able to tell 
you that this new version will include a stand-alone runtime player. 

Cathy
              ============================================
              Cathy Godfrey   {rutgers,uunet}!cbmvax!cathy
              Authoring System Support Specialist        
              Commodore Applications and Technical Support 
              ============================================
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.multimedia:1192 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:21417
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: CDTV harddisk available
Keywords: CDTV NOT dead
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:51:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Organization: Commodore Germany


Ok, here's an add from the german Kickstart magazine that will cheer
up all CDTV addicts: They have a SCSI interface that plugs into the
back slot of the CDTV, and connect harddisks to it that come in a
separate box including also an own power supply. Also all other SCSI
devices like removable disks or streamers are thinkable.
Company is W.A.W.-Elektronik, Berlin, Tel. 0049 / 30 / 4043331
Price example for the interface with a 52 MB Quantum: 899 DM (ca. US$ 600)

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
				   or  peterk@public.sub.org
From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:16:16 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Sat 22 Aug 92 15:36, Barrett@iastate.edu (marc N Barrett
wrote:

 BNB>    This kind of support from IBM is the straw that broke the
 BNB> cammel's back.
 BNB> I am sick and tired of seeing so much CD-ROM support from IBM,
 BNB> Apple, and
 BNB> other companies, and absolutely none whatsoever from Commodore. 

You can buy a CD ROM drive and appropriate driver software for your Amiga,
right now. What is your point, exactly?

 BNB> Apple is
 BNB> getting ready to introduce several Macintosh systems in a month or
 BNB> so that
 BNB> have built-in CD-ROM drives, and all we get from Commodore is the
 BNB> standalone,

And there is no evidence to indicate that these offerings from IBM and
Apple will be successful. It is pointless to try to use the educational
market to boost sales - that is a no-win situation with taxpayers having it
up to here (indicating a point well over my head) with expensive
educational programs that produce children that cannot read. CD-ROM
multi-media presentations make for great TV commercials, but the reality
out in the educational field is quite different. For an eye-opener, I
suggest you take a gander at this month's MacWorld cover story on the sorry
state of computer education.

 BNB> modified; the
 BNB> rest of the OS is the standard 512K 2.04 ROM.  What I propose is
 BNB> getting a
 BNB> dump of the 2.04-compatible 256K CDTV ROM into the hands of one of
 BNB> the bigger
 BNB> European cracking groups, with the challenge that they develop a
 BNB> software-only
 BNB> package that would allow A2000 and A3000 systems with a capable SCSI
 BNB> CD-ROM

I doubt that you are serious about this. One wonders though, why you used
the term "European Cracking Groups." Is there something about them that
makes you think that they are somehow better programmers that the engineers
at Commodore? There is nothing about the code that these people produce
that makes me want to pollute my computer system with it.

 BNB> drive to run CDTV software.  After all, if Commodore will not
 BNB> support us,
 BNB> why should we continue to support them by remaining loyal to them? 

Adherence to copyright laws is not optional.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: pl159410@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Alejandro Garza Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: emulating PIP with...
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:54:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: academ01.pl159410.714254092

Lee.Bosch@f601.n105.z1.therose.pdx.com (Lee Bosch) writes:

>OA>I thought that I could use DPaint to make up the slides and then
>OA>place them ontop of the video. Are there any other nifty ways of
>OA>doing it?  I want to use some interesting fades/wipes as well for the
>OA>border pictures.

>  Without some fancy hardware, you CANNOT do fades.  Genlocking
>requires that a particular color register (zero) be overridden by the
>video image.  You cannot place any color other than zero on the areas
>that you want to peek through nor can you do anything to shade that
>area (aside from dithering in an animated or still image).

The 'fancy hardware', specifically, is either a Video Toaster ($2000) or 
a SuperGen Genlock ($300) ... the SuperGen can be software-controlled,
like the VT, but it is limited to fading video and graphics. A slideshow
can be automated using amigavision (or some oter authoring software) by
calling up your graphics via keypresses (or mouse clicks) and have the 
SuperGen fade up your particular graphic(s) on top of incoming video 
(just like CNN) :) To do this you need the authjoring software to be able 
to execute DOS commands, and compile the software included with the 
supergen. Mail me if you need more info!

>___
> * Amiga-Reader V2.00

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From: aces@mcode.amdahl.com (Jeffrey D. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: Selling older versions which have been upgraded.
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:32:47 GMT
Reply-To: jds30@amail.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale Ca.

In article <713642632.AA8856@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose) writes:
> Someone *please* correct me if I'm wrong, but on most software license
> agreements, isn't the owner of a package which he or she has upgraded
> required to consider both the old version and the new version as one item,
> from which he or she may not sell just the older version?
Absolutely correct. The original registered version is the owner's
proof of license. Subsequent revisions are simply upgrades.

Some software vendors require reregistration for MAJOR releases, but
they are unclear about what to do with the earlier release.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
From: mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: A2091 SCSI controller for A2000 forsale $99
Summary: A2091
Keywords: A2091
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:19:43 GMT



 I have an A2091 SCSI controller that I need to sell.
 Asking $99 + Shipping.

 Thanx for dropping in

Mubashir.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mubashir Cheema: Computer Engineering student at Mississippi State University.
Amiga User and Star Trek Fan (me too :)
I can be reached at Fax/phone : (601) 324-7324 
US mail  : PO Box 4887, MSU             UPS/FedEx: Greentree T.H. # 33D 
           MS State, MS 39762-4887                 110 Lynn Lane #1A
                                                   Starkville, MS 39759 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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              If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
From: hastings@unislc.uucp (Clint Hastings)
Subject: FOR SALE: A500, 1 meg chip, KS 1.3, 2nd floppy, and more
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:21:10 GMT

  FOR SALE

  Hardware
  ~~~~~~~~
  Amiga 500, KS 1.3, 1 meg chip ram
  External 3.5" floppy
  External 5.25" floppy with cable - homebrew job, 2 bad tracks
  Amiga RF modulator for color videotaping A500 output
  Perfect Sound audio digitizer
  Midi adapter - 1 in, 2 out, 1 out/thru - by Golden something

  Software
  ~~~~~~~~
  Empire             game


  $400 for everything listed, plus any other Amiga stuff I have
  that I have forgotten to list. Small stuff available separately.
  All offers considered. I'm moving soon and don't want to take this 
  stuff along. I reserve the right to sell it to the highest bidder.

  email: hastings@ee.utah.edu  -or-  hastings@unislc.slc.unisys.com
From: bcleve@ha10.eng.ua.edu (Brian D. Cleve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: C=1300 genlock
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:24:35 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Have a couple of questions to any one willing to answer:

Can a C=1300 be used on a A500?
     I know it can fit if you put the 500 on legs, but
     does it work?
How much is the C=1300 selling on the net, I've seen 69 new?

thanx in advance!
Brian
bcleve@buster.eng.ua.edu