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From: uphyf594@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de (0084)
Subject: Re: Mathematica/Derive
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 10:26:40 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld

In article <1992Sep13.130054.7614@sarah.albany.edu> hibrown@thor.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
>In article <1992Sep13.050756.29240@udel.edu> weigand@pecan.cns.udel.edu writes:
>>Just wondering... Does anyone know if there's a public domain/freeware/
>>shareware program for the Amiga that is similar to Derive or Mathematica?
>>I'd like the ability to plug in some calculus formulas into it and have
>>it simplify the expressions I give it and possibly solve them. 
>>
>>Thanks, 
>> - Steve
>>  (weigand@ee.udel.edu)
>>
>>
>
>There is one called Schoonschip on a recent FF disk.
>
>Herb
>
Another good choice is "Form". It only does symbolic manipulation but is
a good Program, i think freeware and available on a dutch FTP-Server, i
think in amsterdam.
ciao

-- 
Carsten Hammer         UPHYF594@unibi.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: No! Say it's not so, Ed! (re CDTV)
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:09:43 GMT


CDTV is DEAD, no!  Does this mean it will become extinct after some time?  And
if so, how much time?  Does this also mean that poor Jim Sachs worked on
Defender of the Crown CDTV version in vain?  I was hoping to buy CDTV at some
point, since C= was lowering the price under $500, at least that's what I
heard.  Can someone give me details?  I hope the thing doesn't vanish off the
market completely.  CDTV is great!

-- 
Sam Hulick         \ "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is
shulick@indiana.edu \ poverty."  --George Bernard Shaw
(NeXT mail welcome) /
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: AGA chipset
Summary: Bleah.
Keywords: AGA chipset 4000 new modes resolution color
Date: 13 Sep 92 04:11:08 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

So, what exactly are all of the new modes on the AGA chipset?  Please be very
very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very
specific and include which are HAM modes and which are "pure" modes.  Thanks! 

Wulf                    | "Martha, it's another one of those CS majors asking
jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu |  if cow chips are pin-compatible with 68040s..."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Compugraphic Outline font causes a guru?!?!?
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:57:48 GMT

pooler@vccnortha.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:


>A while back, I installed a bunch of compugraphic outline fonts on my 3000
>using the Fountain utility.  Today, I noticed that one of those fonts,
>BlackChancery, causes a guru if I select & preview the 15-point or 45-point
>version of the font.  Specifically, if I select either of those font sizes
>in the reqtools font requestor or the DeluxePaint IV font requestor.

>Why am I guru-ing my machine?  Why does BlackChancery in 30 point work fine?

Dunno ... but it won't work in 48-point either.  Gurus Fountain, Canon
FontShop, or anything else that tries to access the font in certain sizes.
I just deleted the font...

>This is really, really strange...
>And yes, it happens consistently.

Just thought I'd let you people know that it happens somewhere else too... :)

System: Amiga500, Supra 500XP, 1 meg chip / 4 megs fast.

>pooler@rpi.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts)
Subject: csh 5.19 fix?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:10:32 GMT


I find myself unable to recompile the source to csh 5.19 using Sas C 5.10a.
If someone has mangaed to do this (fixing the Flush() bug at the same time),
I would really like to get that binary.  Even better, would be if someone has
both fixed that bug and compiled it for 030 machines.

Thanks,

Ken

[ I can't compile it because it generates to many errors and stops LMK.]
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Gizmos2.0 help
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 22:31:46 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I still like most of the Gizmos2.0 applications I got so many years ago.
I do have problems with two of them that I've always wanted fixed, so I
think I'll toss out these questions.

1.) In rollodex, has anyone ever gotten the dialer to work?  I've tried it
on a Supra2400, Supra9600 and Courier Dual with no luck (w/WB1.3, 2.0 and
2.1).  What pre, and post strings do you have entered?  Their "Hayes"
strings do nothing for me.  Do you also use ;\013 for return?  Does it work?
What speed and other settings do you use in your serial prefs prefs?

2.) Their otherwise excellent calculators do not recognize all of the keypad
keys (the ()*+ and enter key).  Back under 1.2 there was was a small,
somewhat flakey program called "keys" that fixed the problem, but it only
crashes under 2.0 or later.  Has anyone ever figured a patch for these
calculators.  I really like them, but without keypad support they are hard
to use.

Thanks for helping me with some of my old Gizmos questions.

And BTW- how about some cheers for these early (1986!) Digital Creations
gems.  They may still be the best set of all-purpose desktop utilities ever
written for Amy.

-Joel
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========================================================================
***** PORTAL NOW SUPPORTS TELNET, IRC AND FTP ACCESS TO ITS USERS! *****
     ALL FISH DISKS, LARGEST AMIGA SOFTWARE BASE, NIGHTLY CONFERENCES!
                   FOR <$2/HOUR AT 9600BPS! (w/PCPursuit)
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/11 (LONG)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 12:30:00 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep13.115645.20399@NeoSoft.com>

>In article <1992Sep12.022801.11267@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (An
d
>re T. Yew) writes:
>>       The question and answer session was pretty long and
>> mostly devoid of stupid questions.  The first question
>> was (can you guess?), why IDE over SCSI?  Dionne explained
>> that it was cheaper to get large drives this way,
>
>Not true. There are some cheaper mid-sized drives available for IDE, bu
>they're cheap drives. Where the *same* drive is available on SCSI and IDE
>versions the price difference is negligable. Quantum drives cost the same
>for either. I've wasted my share of money on cheap drives, and on a $4000
>machine I'm damned if I can see why saving $25 to $50 by crippling the hard
>drive subsystem is such a great deal.
>
>*Large* drives (1/2 GB or more) are available in SCSI first, IDE later or
>not at all.
>--
>Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
> `-_-'   "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
>  'U`
>

Agreed totally.  IDE was a crappy move.  Good thing we can add a SCSI card -
and WASTE a slot!  Hopefully the 4000s WILL include SCSI or SCSI II on
the motherboard.  Let's hope so...

-Joel
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========================================================================
***** PORTAL NOW SUPPORTS TELNET, IRC AND FTP ACCESS TO ITS USERS! *****
     ALL FISH DISKS, LARGEST AMIGA SOFTWARE BASE, NIGHTLY CONFERENCES!
                   FOR <$2/HOUR AT 9600BPS! (w/PCPursuit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: frank@clark.edu (Frank Torres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Gcc, 386BSD
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:18:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA


     I believe that GCC has been ported to Amiga. I would like to know 
where I can ftp it from.  Also, is there a assembly compiler that is
PD or Freeware. Oh, almost forgot has 386BSD been ported over to the 
amiga's (2000,2500,3000). Sorry if this is the wrong place to post
this news.

Please Email me at:

frank@clark.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cvmalone@unix2.tcd.ie (Colm Malone)
Subject: What *IS* the best way to go?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:29:09 GMT

Greetings fellow Amiga Users,
	Having had the loan of an Amiga 500 for the Summer I find I like it,
in fact I like it alot ;)
My liking of the Amiga has prompted the decision to buy my own - the problem
is which model? A few weeks ago I would have been happy with an A500 with
a hard-disk (which could take memory expansion chips) - but now I am not so
sure.
	I've just recently seen a friend of mine's seriously expanded A2000
machine (120MB HD, 11MB RAM, 68030 40MHz accelerator card, display enhancer etc)
running WB2.04 - needless to say my jaw hit the floor. True Multi-Tasking is a
joy to watch especially when you have 20 million applications open at once :^)

I realise that that sort of a system is a wee bit out of my price range but I
figure a A2000 could be acquired at a reasonable price, since Commodore have
stop production of this model, and a HD with HD controller card are generally
cheaper for the A2000 than for the A500. Then maybe in a year times or so,
upgrade to an A3000 when their prices start to fall due to the advent of the
much rumoured new Amiga's.

	The more I research into the Amiga and its hardware add-ons the more
I am confused. I am just wondering is the A2000 route I have mentioned above
a good way to go - or will this model and others like it be outdated when these
Super Amigas arrive around Christmas?

	I have even contemplated getting a PC with the recent plummeting of
prices in the IBM market (eg. a decent 486 40MB HD for just over a 1000 pounds 
in England). I know all the die-hard Amiga fans are shuddering at the thought 
of such a move :) At least the Amiga is still doing fairly well over here in
Europe - from what I here in America if it ain't IBM compatible people don't
want to know about it :(

	So what I basically would like is some reassurance why I should
stick with Commodore, and what would be the best upgrading route to take. Maybe
some avid PC users could send me their reasons why I should jump ship. Or do
I need to jump ship? (are these PC bridgeboards for the Amiga really IBM
compatible?)

Mail me or the net with all help, hints, tips, suggestions etc. Preferably mail
me direct, as we miss the odd letter in our NewsNet, and I will post the
most interesting, funny or weird replies that I receive.
	
Thanks in advance from a confused micro-user,
Colm.
+-----------------------------------------------------------+------------------+
|There are some micro-organisms that exhibit characteristics|   Colm Malone,   |
|of  both  plant  and  animals. When  exposed  to light they|  S.S. Comp. Eng. |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders )
Subject: worthless Amiga's(?)  (Was Re: amiga 500 discontinue)
Originator: kxs5829@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:12:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.4247.19570@dosgate> "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com> writes:
>
> Now that the Amiga 4000 has been released with a Suggested Retail price of
>$3699, we should be seeing a dramatic drop in the price of an Amiga 3000. 
>The A3000 could very will sell for under $2000 by christmas. Not a $1200
>machine but very competitive power machine at an affordable price!

	After hearing how cool the AGA chipset is, and that it won't be in any old models, I am pissed.  I spent $3600 for A3000T/030 and 1950 only a month
ago (educational).  Now I find an A4000 will be about the same price, and my
(formerly) top-of-the-line Amiga is probably worth about $2000.

	Well, if I have to pay more than $1500 to power up to the equivalent
A4000T, all I can do is "Send in the clones...".  I sure as hell am fed up.

	- Kyle

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: AnimPlayer
Reply-To: cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:19:05 GMT


I know of two, RTap (which I use) and BigAnim.
See previous topics entitles `***NEED*** real-time anim player'

								- JIM CAD*
From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Jay Miner gets first A4000
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:28:48 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange

In article <65821@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
>>Jay was wheelchair-bound due to a recent health problem and was being
>>pushed around the show by a tireless member of a user group who
>>volunteered the task.
>
>Anything further on this???? minor illness? kidney problems? What!

   If I remember correctly, Jay said it was a kidney problem. (Note: I'm
going on memory - the last time I chatted online with him was about a month
ago, at least.)


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From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:03:37
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
	<1992Sep13.112204.18476@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
	<1992Sep13.154259.22497@cco.caltech.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: toddal@cco.caltech.edu's message of Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:42:59 GMT

>>>>> On Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:42:59 GMT, toddal@cco.caltech.edu (Todd Michael Allendorf) said:

toddal> lindblad@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jarkko Lindblad) writes:

>This information sounded so unbelievable that I find it almost hard
>to believe. That is why I'd love to see someone to confirm this
>information on the future plans of Commodore before I spread it to
>the local BBS'es.

>-- Jarkko Lindblad lindblad@cc.helsinki.fii

toddal> I don't blame.  I was sitting next to Andre and I couldn't
toddal> Just remember, this was a public conference, not a
toddal> private developer's conference.  They intend to follow through
toddal> on all these projects.

toddal> -Todd Allendorf
toddal> toddal@cco.caltech.edu


Well, if it is true, what did they say about upgrading a 4000 to the
newer chips, or even to some new sound.  I am willing to believe that
Commodore is working on new sound but if it can't be fit into the 4000
there would seem to be lack of foward thinking.  Anyway, it was an
entertaining post.

--Andrew Hansford
  ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
From: Michel@mike.CAM.ORG (Michel Lauzon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon...NOT
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: Michel@mike.CAM.ORG
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Sep8.133230.12650@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:

> The other day I FTP'ed SiliconMenus from amiga.physik and instantly fell in 
> love with the pop-up-menu feature.  The problem is, I also rely HEAVILY on 
> ToolsDaemon 2.0b and these two utils do NOT coexist peacefully.  I can't 

SiliconMenus do not coexist with DirectoryOpus to. Each time a menu is used
the display screen of DirOpus become more and more trashed and become 
unusable.

           __
          ///
     __  ///   Michel Lauzon
     \\\///    michel@mike.CAM.ORG
      \XX/     1:242/193.0

Sorry for my bad english
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker)
Subject: How identify motherboard revision?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 05:00:43 GMT


How can I tell which revision motherboard I have?  Is it necessary to
open the unit up, or is there a "soft" way to find out?

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From: sevigny@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Benoit Sevigny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
Keywords: new chipsets, WOC
Date: 13 Sep 92 19:40:27 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

In article <1992Sep13.001854.21763@cco.caltech.edu> andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew) writes:
>default or not).  It would also have 8 channels of 100KHz
>16-bit sound (sounds like overkill, no?).  Supporting all

Did anybody talked about 16-bit sampling?

>EVERY bitplane!  There will be 24-bit truecolor (yeah, now
>where's my 48-bit color?).  There will be some kind of

I think they should consider an alpha channel, especially if they plan real
time video play back along with enhanced genlock capability.

>of 100Hz.  The processor slot would be 32-bit and processor
>independent.  He mentioned RISC processors, but said

>of that now -- Commodore will keep up with the industry,
>which means, Eggebrecht says, they will introduce 100MHz
>processors as soon as they are out.  Commodore "won't

Any hint about the functionnality of these processors?  Will they be used
as general purpose coprocessors or they will port AmigaOS on RISC
processors?

>5).  Specifically, release 3 has all of the 2.1 stuff
>plus AGA support and multimedia support.  3.1 has API
>network extensions.  I asked Allen Havemose about this,
>and he seemed to imply that the 2.0 TCP/IP software is
>not going to be released but instead integrated into
>the OS.  3.1 also will have file and printer sharing,
>and DSP support.  Release 4 will be retargetable and
>have full Postscript printer support.  I asked Havemose
>about resource tracking, and he said, "Not in the next
>version", meaning 4.0, but he said it will be in later.

Did you hear about virtual memory and multi-processor support?

>Andre Yew                             andrey@tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.48.100)

I would also like to know if the 4000 will be upgradable to that 'high-end
chip set' or if it will be part of a brand new machine?
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-=*                                                                         *=-
   __ Skipping every ?86 numbered lines in your code will remove all your
__/// remaining bugs and bottlenecks 8^)
\XX/  Benoit W Sevigny, software engineering student, sevigny@info.polymtl.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 discontinued?
Reply-To: cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:14:26 GMT


RE: PCMCIA slot

Don't forget, it's not only ROM/RAM - there will be *very* nice peripherals
in time, e.g. already 21Mb HD on a card for just over $200! The idea was
that the DMA bus was Amiga-specific and hence not supported *very* greatly.
PCMCIA is standard, and has already over 70 developers working on it. I
think it WILL be nice in time :-)

RE: AA and compatibility...

I fear the worst, but Friday will tell. Hold faith!

								- JIM CAD*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: gordon@quixote.b23a.ingr.COM (Gordon Streeter)
Subject: Re: My Amiga 3000 died today
Organization: Intergraph, Huntsville, AL 35894, USA.
	<1992Sep13.005402.28031@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:17:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.005402.28031@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:

   If you think making such a joke (like the one above) was funny, well, I can
   tell you, I didn't laugh.  I might have laughed... but it wouldn't be
   because I was laughing at your joke.  It would be because I was laughing
   at you.  You are just about one of the most insensitive people I have
   ever met on the net.  Congratulations, buddy.

   (I realise this sounds like a flame, and I don't intend to perpentuate this
   flame.  If you feel like arguing or defending for yourself, feel free to
   e-mail me.)

Geez.  And I was thinking about posting a "Please send donations
because I'm tired of my Amiga and want a 486" request.  Glad I didn't.

--
Gordon Streeter
...uunet!ingr!gordon
gordon@ingr.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt)
Subject: Re: Recent uploads to amiga.physik.unizh.ch
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:23:11 GMT

In article <2344@forty2.physik.unizh.ch> ftp@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (FTP Admin) writes:
>All of our mirrors have the files listed below (see end of article).
># Recent uploads to amiga.physik.unizh.ch [130.60.80.80] on 09-Sep-92 09:35
>#
>#File                Dir   Age Size Description
>#------------------- ---   --- ---- -----------
>PinballFantasies.lha cdemo   1 258K Demo of Pinball Fantasies, the follow-up to 
>These sites are members of AmiNet and have a copy the files listed above:
>
>USA         wuarchive.wustl.edu         128.252.135.4 mirrors/amiga.physik..

This mirror site doesn't have this file? How soon are they updated?

matt.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
Subject: Re: World of Commodore summary, 9/12, part 2 (LONG)
Keywords: new chipsets, WOC, MMU
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:44:56 GMT

chandler@uni-paderborn.de (Martin Grote) writes:

>Does this mean OS 3.1 will have the long-spoken MMU support, i.e. will
>every task have memory access physically restricted to properly
>allocated memory, and will it be possible to remove tasks with all
>allocated resources properly in OS 3.1?

	According to Peter Cherna, no.  It would be incredibly
hairy to do memory-protection, and resource-tracking is
not worth the time compared to implementing retargetability.

--Andre

-- 
Andre Yew                             andrey@tybalt.caltech.edu (131.215.48.100)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc