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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Looking for NON-trackers...
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:54:49 GMT
Organization: The Synthy EuroTechnoWack Beat, Inc.

In Message-ID: <Paul_Trauth.0bkg@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US>
          Paul_Trauth@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Paul Trauth) said:
|What I'd *really* like to find, but am afraid i'm probably going to have to
|code myself, is a player that'll let me do stuff like this:
|voice 0 sequence: patt 0 patt 2 patt 2 patt 7 ...
|voice 1 sequence: patt 1 patt 5 patt 6 patt 1 ...
|voice 2 sequence: patt 9 patt 9 patt 9 patt 9 ...
|voice 3 sequence: patt 8 patt A patt B patt B ...
|where each pattern is for -one voice only-.

I suggested this to Teijo (MED) Kinnunen, but I don't guess he's added that
feature yet.  For that matter, he may not have received my suggestion.
Anyway, you'll have to write it yourself most likely.  As I say, it's a
feature I've thought about, but never seen a program that does it.  It would
be Tracker-incompatible, of course.

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From: sgeertge@burner.UUCP (Scott Geertgens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: SITES FOR MODS? (now that ab20 is shutting down)
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:32:17 MDT
Organization: The Back Burner BBS, Lakewood CO (via C-Net Amiga)

   Could ytou please give an Internet number address for that amiga.psyick FTP site (sorry about spelling)?

            Scott G.

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From: aq061@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Devine)
Subject: Looking for Mods...
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 22:22:24 GMT



I have no FTP access and I really like amiga mods (I have 20 megs powerpacked)
but I don't have  many that I know the songs for.  I am looking for theme
songs to movies, TV shows, etc.  Also looking for pop song hits from 
artists like Rod Stewart, Paula Abdul, Bryan Adams, etc.  If you can mail me
a few, I would be real grateful (I'll mail you my list and you tell me which
you want.)
-------------------------------------Scott Devine
From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: New Amigas Announced!!!!
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:02:38 GMT
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL

Mike_Whalen@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Mike Whalen) writes:
> R> Personally, Bud Dry is my favourite.  Also: Bud, Busch Light, Genuine
>
>  Wait.. you actually LIKE Panther Urine (read: American Beer). What about
>Guiness Extra Stout?

Wait.. you actually LIKE road tar??

>  Jeez.

Ditto.

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From: mcarp@sun75.uucp (Michael Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Xerox adds "screens" to windows
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:09:50 GMT
Organization: Microtec Research Inc., Santa Clara, CA

In article <1992Apr5.085150.8077@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray) writes:
>
>    Well, with all the people here bashing the Amiga's Multiple Screen
>on one monitor capability (and it's virtual screen scrollable desktop)
>you'll be happy to know that you can now get this ability for Windows.
>
[... deleted ...]

Have you ever seen Xerox Rooms?  I think you are correct that Amiga's ability
to have multiple screens is good, and is similar to Rooms, but it is 
fundamentally different and I wish the Amiga had a Rooms program.  

Rooms is more like have "n" different Workbench screens, not just one 
Workbench screens and "n" application screens.  To my knowledge you can
only have one Workbench screen on the Amiga.  (Admittedly, I'm still 
running 1.3, so I don't know if you can do  this in 2.0.)

Don't knock it until you've seen it.  HP VUE also has something similar,
although they call them virtual workspaces or something, instead of rooms.
From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (Kenneth Jamieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple problems "Home computer"
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:19:55 GMT
Organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc.

In article <1992Apr06.145755.2881@public.sub.org> peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
>Murphy's law: As long as you don't announce a product, all works flawlessly.
>The minute you tell the world a single word about it, everything fails
>miserably.

	I know :-) and you'll notice I don't imply I have a solution
to the dilemma.

	The problem is that when I discuss computers with potential
purchasers, there is nothing I can point to the indicates a commitment
to improve the Amiga at all! There is a big black hole in the future.  

	They ask me what will be comming out and I can tell them whats
possibel, but when they ask I have to say honestly that there are not
even RUMORS of new stuff. (that count)



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From: davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn)
Subject: Re:  C= policy (Re: Apple problems "Home computer")
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:12:35 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.020525.20486@nic.unh.edu> ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene) writes:
>
>	I little shake up wouldn't hurt in my opinion.  But I think your wrong
>  about prices ever rising.  Amd is cloning the 486 and Intel is going to re-
>  lease the 586 this year ( well, maybe ) this will cause prices on all the 
>  lower CPU's to drop even more.  

I think that the 586 will cause all the lower cpus to shuffle down one level,
with the 286 dropping out completely.  This happened when the 486 came in - can
you buy a new XT now?  Many companies already don't sell 286 systems.  So, I
doubt that anyone will end up paying less money - they'll just be getting more
powerful systems for the same amount.


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From: har@ux.acs.umn.edu (--SeebS--)
Subject: Re: Intel HW
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 06:03:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.213210.5408@seas.gwu.edu> gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) writes:
>In any event Mr. Shekhel did not say what performance he was comparing.
>Perhaps the 386 falls faster from a 2nd story window.

One can only hope.

>-- Gerald

-s
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From: espen@coos.dartmouth.edu (Espen H. Koht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac OS just sucks -- "ease of use" = "lack of freedom"
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:42:13 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes:

>In article <1992Mar31.135307.9185@ms.uky.edu>, justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan) writes:
>|> MacOS would not *DARE* support some completely NONstandard font technology.  
>|> PostScript Type 1 and TrueType are superior (the latter being the better  
>|> technology), and will both be fully supported in System 7.1.
>|> 
>	TrueType is a marketing scam,
   Of course, and Apple are making lots of money including the technology for
free in the system software.

> PostScript Type 1 is the only real scalable standard
   That would depend on what you mean by the word 'standard'.

> and it has probably been pointed out before than
>	the scaler used in AmigaDOS does not preclude the use of Postscript
>	as the font technology.
   Would anything else be acceptable? Or are you trying to say that this feature
is beyond anything you'd expect on an Amiga?  
   
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From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: Considering switching to IBM
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:09:35 GMT

mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>
>As to getting a 486 or the A3000...   You really have to look at what you
>are getting.  In the case of the A3000, your machine will be useful to you
>for years.  In the case of the 486, it will be obsolete as soon as the 586
>comes out.  Sorry, OS/2 v3 doesn't work on anything less than the 586.  Sorry,
>windows NT doesn't work on anything less than the 586.Then you end up spending
>more for your Intel stuff than for your Amiga.
>

Yeah right.  One minute you accuse the PC world of being too concerned with
backwards compatibility; the next minute you say that the PC world is too
quick to abandon old technology.  Make up your mind, please.  And don't try
to make progress look like a disadvantage.  Finally, cut the speculation
and stick to the facts, OK?

>
>Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
>
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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:30:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr7.173036.9551
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
: In article <1992Apr7.131648.7075@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
: Well I could have been a bit more tactful I agree. Perhaps reading this
: newsgroup has gotten to me! In any case there's a big difference between
: a MacII and a CDTV unit. For the most part, people will buy the CDTV unit.
: Few people actually buy Mac II's.

Well, at the time, they were "state of the art".  ;)  Tell that to the
people that bought them.

: In any case can it be "fixed"?

Yup.  You use 1mb simms instead of 4mb simms.  ;)  Fixes the problem.
No, no way.

: Actually I got a MacII when it first came out. The idea of putting 4meg
: simms in a computer has only recently crossed my mind as meemory has
: not dropped to a more affordable level. Having a 10meg RAM drive for CDTV
: would be great though.

MacII users thought so too, but kind of gave up when 4mb simms didn't
work.  ;)  Max of 8...  (giggle).

It happens...  And sometimes, things just go wrong.

Greg	
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From: har@ux.acs.umn.edu (--SeebS--)
Subject: Re:  The Under $10K Unix Workstation!
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 06:24:09 GMT

In article <p9ztbrc@rpi.edu> borres@aix.rpi.edu (Steven D. Borrelli) writes:
>After paying lic. fees to AT&T and Adobe, UNIX is going to be expensive. 
>Price Commodore's UNIX offering or any other one (like AU/X).

Last I checked, 1300 dollars for an unlimited user version, including
the source for all device drivers, which is a *hell* of a lot cheaper
than a lot of places go. Some unixes have separate source licenses that
go upwards of a hundred thousand dollars *per year* for non-educational
sites. Amiga Unix just ships with a kernel and all the source to rebuild
it. Not bad.

>Steven D. Borrelli                
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute '92                  
>borres@rpi.edu  (NeXTmail)                      

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington)
Subject: Re: Intel HW
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:38:12 GMT

jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>OK, the A3000 has standard Amiga graphics and 9MB RAM.  The 386 has an SVGA
>with the ET4000 chip (1MB video RAM) and 8MB RAM with a 64K static RAM cache.

Okay.  If you are comparing graphics performance, then you would have to use
an Amiga equivalent to the ET4000 SVGA card.  The DMI Resolver should do it.
In any event it is not easy to accept a claim that a 386 performs better
than an A3000.  I have yet to see it happen, even if it is possible.

-- Gerald
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AppleEvents, how to they work?
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:34:34 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <3433@tronsbox.UUCP> by tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (Kenneth Jamieson):

> 	Every application is, for most purposes, a seperate language
> that must be learned (though REXX will standarddize the control constructs).

    Another way to think of it is like learning a new library in C. The
    language is the same, but you have new functions to use.

    So switching your editors would be like switching which comms library
    you use in a C program.

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From: hauer@roby.ecn.purdue.edu (Corey Hauer)
Subject: Floptical (was Re: Wild rumor...)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:32:47 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.172117.39421@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2frwreel@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Hey, I'd be surprised if Commodore released anything at all!!!!
>Oh sorry, let me qualify that...I mean anything that the Amiga
>community desperately needs(ie. 68040 System, RTG, New Custom Chips,
>High Density Floppy Drive, Floptical Drive, SCSI II controller, etc.
>etc. etc.......)

I read in Computer Shopper that C= is the only computer manufacturer currently
shipping a machine with a floptical drive.  Which machine is this?  Or is
CS plain wrong?

-Corey
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From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Considering switching to IBM
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:24:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: Armstron.1992Apr6.152427.3752
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA

>Also, I typically transfer files while doing a hell of a lot more 
>than just mouse around in the GUI with no problems at all.  Let me
>describe what I was doing just yesterday, for example.  Just for
>reference, I have an Amiga 3000, which is a 25Mhz 030/882 box.
>
>I was simultaneously downloading files at 9600bps V42bis speeds
>(pulling a good 1100 cps with compressed files), converting JPEG
>images around in 24 bits, backing up one of my hard drive partitions
>to tape, and freeing up some space on another of my hard drive
>partitions.  This is a normal session for me.  (Yes, I do make
>backups approximately weekly.)
I have in the past been dowloading long distance in Dallas and uploading
locally here in Savannah, two different terms, plus running battlechess
playing itself. All on my 'puny' little A1000 (Hurricane 33Mhz 020/881)
>
>Now try to run two terminals under Windows (or DesqView for that
>matter).  
>DOUBLE WHOOPS!  (For the unitiated, I've never seen two terminals
>run under Windows or DesqView (yes, through different serial ports)
>for longer than about 5 minutes before a crash.)
>
>OS/2 can handle these situations _relatively_ painlessly, but not
>quite as smoothly as AmigaDOS.
>
There is a local sysop here in Savannah That runs a 33Mhz 486 based BBS
He operates 2 ports with Desqview. Although I have never been on his BBS
while both ports are active. I do know that 3 other 386/486 based BBS's 
that have tried going multi-port have always had port hanging and crashes.
No reports from Mr.Desqview.. Maybe he is hiding the truth??

Gene Prall   prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu

u
Gene P{rall
From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 040 and 486_ (bunch O' Kaka anyway)
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:52:38 GMT
Organization: Amiga makes it possible
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.29 4/10/92 (Beta) by Mike Schwartz

In article <1992Apr13.231232.12366@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip 'AdaX' Sauls) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.190041.16557@ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>
><compiler bashing  deleted>
>
>>I think the best thing to do would be to use UNIX SVR4 and Gnu C on both
>>machines (with similar RAM) to see which produces faster results.  This would
>>give a reasonable overall CPU performance estimate.
>
>Sounds fair enough.  Why don't we ask Rob H. (frequent comp.unix.amiga poster)
>to perform the tests?  He has an A3000UX, uses a 386 with SVR4 and would
>probably run them if we asked nicely.  What sort of tests should be run?

The way to do the benchmarks is to code them in hand crafted assembly.  That
way, the quality of the 'C' compiler does NOT come into play.  The same coder
should do both programs.

The above test will show how the shuffling of registers makes a difference.

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From: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Gail-chip and its uses
Keywords: chip, piracy, AFD, Gail
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:37:40 GMT
Reply-To: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Organization: Commodore Sweden

In article <1203@lysator.liu.se> grubba@lysator.liu.se (Henrik Grubbstr|m) writes:
[description of new copyprotection Gail chip deleted]

>All of the above information from issue #7/1992 of `DatorMagazin' (the largest
>swedish computer newspaper).

Check the cover date. April 1st.

>A couple of questions:
>
>	* Will Commodore recall all old amigas to swap Gary and Gail, since
>	  this obviously doesn't apply to the ones shipped with Gary?

No, we will replace all old Amigas with the new Amiga 3711, which uses
the Gail chip together with a Motorola 66066 to physically detroy all
non-copyprotected software within a 5 meter radius. Offer only applicable
in Sweden, until April the 1st 1999.

>	* Is it really possible for the chip to write on write-protected disks,
>	  even on external drives?

Of course. Technology licensed from BlazeMonger (sorry, BLAZEMONGER) Inc.

>	* Will these disks be usable on old amigas?

No, stupid! Only on PC4s.

>Regards,
>--
>Henrik Grubbstrom					grubba@lysator.liu.se

Best Regards, Peter Hjalmarsson, Amiga Drivel Engineer, CBM Sweden
hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com
Disclaimer: I4m not me. And just to be sure: The above is a joke, OK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Mac OS just sucks --
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:59:40 GMT
X-Bytes: 

Chris Hurley writes

> Apple is trying to catch up with the PC world.  I imagine all things
> considered,  With clones being sold at the corner drug store, they outsell
> Macs by quite a huge margin.  No one claims the Amiga rules the world.  We
> all know PCs rule the world.  Many Amiga owners, myself included, don't
> exactly know why.  The Mac has had much better penetration than the Amiga,
> but it is a pittance compared to the clones around.

I wouldn't say they were trying to "catch up" with the PC world.. I would say  
they just want more market share, and since people aren't willing to pay NEARLY  
as much for a computer anymore (for ANY kind of computer), prices go down,  
down, DOWN! :) The PC clone market is enormous, but not nearly as lucrative as  
many people think. True, people like Dell have made such a practice into a  
billion-dollar corporation, BUT.. The profit margins are very low. It's the  
whole market.. Even though Apple has record sales and revenues, profits are  
going down. Apple has a good market share, but it needs much more. PC clones  
rule the world, that's true.. I don't know why.. :) :) :)
 
> 	Who are the Amigans saying "I wish I had 32-bit QuickDraw"?  Many
> Amigans want RTG.  Most Amigans don't even know what Quickdraw *is*.
		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Good point..

> 	Justin is the Marc N. Barrett on the Macintosh side.  He refuses to
> acknowledge anything nice about the Amiga, and knows *everything* about
> *everything*.  Heck, I don't know who's posts I dislike more. :)  

Not true at all.. There are nice things about the Amiga.. But I can't say I  
envy any of them.

> Imagine .advocacy without all the Fanatics.  Imagine all the fanatics in
> correctional facilities.

Well, sorry to see you go..
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