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From: alex@lamarck.lif.icnet.uk (Alex Whittaker <alex@biu.icnet.uk>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Mac2Amiga etc..
Date: 18 Dec 1992 10:54:24 GMT
Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Distribution: world
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Keywords: Mac Amiga file conversion transfer

  Many thanks fo splendid advice on this data transfer, the conclusion is that 
 the best (and quite possibly only) method is to convert via PC format using the
 MAC's packaged file converter and a PD Amiga PC-format disk reader. The following
 is all the mail received on the subject:

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it is physically impossible for a
standard double density amiga drive to read a mac disk.  You see, a mac drive
speeds up it's rotation as the head goes towards the outside of the floppy.
Amiga and IBM drives maintain a steady speed.  So IBM format would be your best
bet as both Mac and Amiga have utilities for reading it.

Of course, I doubt that Mac would ever allow a program to be written that
would let a mac read an amiga floppy, as mac cannot afford to let anyone know
that they know or care about the existence of the amiga..  You see, the two
guys most responsible for the look of AmigaDOS 1.0 quit and then designed
Mac System 1's look (the two are for all practical purposes identical in
appearance. And the amiga look was copyrighted by Commodore first..;)

2.

Your best bet may be to transfer via IBM disks. I know of no way to read a 
MAC disk on an Amiga without buying a MAC disk drive. There is software to
read/write IBM 720K disks on both systems. The Amiga has Cross-DOS (included
with WB 2.1) MSH (Messy File System; PD on Fred Fish), as well as a couple
of others.

-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.

3.

Hi Alex

I would advise you to use MS-DOS format as the xfer format. There
is a utility for the Mac that reads/writes MS-DOS disks - I think
it comes with the installation package. On the Amiga you can use
one of the PD or commercial utilities for dealing with MS-DOS
disks (720 kB). I personally recommend MultiDOS from one of the
Fish disks.

Good luck!

Kurt Marcussen

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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:00:02 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <Bz9rHw.8Ls@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>1) Snapshotting.  It would be much better if the DOS would remember
>where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do.  To
>quote a friend of mine, "Snapshot my ass."

Hmm, don't have experiences with these other DOSes. But: I often have to
shuffle around some icons temporarily, where I would hate it if this
setup would stay permanent. So I definitely like the current way.

But perhaps this could be made a global switch in some prefs editor.

>2) Window activation/depth.  

As someone other already said, look into the Commdities, it's in there.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: New Product Releases
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:04:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.233530.6340@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:

[deletions]

>> I still don't think it's possible, it'd have to be a major hack, and
>> you probably couldn't go back to ECS afterwords.

After I wrote this I thought about AGA emulation of ECS, but that
may not be 100%.  This is, of course, a butt cover... :)

>About 99% of the software out there NEEDS the ECS chips to
>function.

Not exactly, if the software used system calls instead of poking registers
then anything could run on any later revision of the OS.

>If such a board were
>developed, couldn't it work in a way that is similar to the 030 boards that
>plug into the 68000 socket of an A500/2000, yet still provide a socket for
>the 68000 and use that chip as a fall back option?

Maybe, if it could even be produced.  To do this would require that
MANY leads and "stuff" be run all over your mother board, in effect,
you'd be piggybacking another mother board onto your existing one.
That wouldn't be such a bother except that you would have conflicting
addresses that is to say:  if a program wants to do WaitBlit() or
something similar with the custom chips, are you talking about the
blitter in the Agnus, or Lisa?  The only way to do this effectively
is to be able to shut off half of the system, and that isn't exactly
system complient, eh?  It may be possible with an MMU though, I'd
really like to know others thoughts on this as I haven't really given
this much thought.

>        -=- Ed
>
>* Edward E. Brown II             * Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com *
>* Chemist On A Mission From GOD! * FidoNet: 1:105/135                *
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>               Annoy the media...Think for yourself!
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--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: ja2z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Robert Avrach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Power & Emulation
Date: 13 Dec 92 06:23:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Yf_qBgS00YUn03h3AI
Organization: Sophomore, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I have had my A500 for about 4 years now.  I do so much on it now
(especially with networking) that I require more POWER!  Things like a
hard drive and lots of RAM seem necessary.  I am considering buying
either an A2000 or A3000.  Of course, many things go into consideration
here.  First, are there student discounts offered for either of these
machines?  If there are, what kind of discounts are they (i.e. what %
off list price)?

I need more speed (preferably, 25 mhz).  An accelerator would do this
(for $500 at least).  I have seen 32 bit 25 mhz accelerators for an
A2000.  This would increase the speed considerably not only because of
the mhz increase, but also because of the step up from 16 to 32 bits
(please correct me if I am mistaking).

A major factor is emulation.  I would like to have this new Amiga
accurately (not perfectly, I realize) emulate an IBM and MAC.  Is this
asking too much?  I know there are AT bridgeboards out there.  How good
do they work?  What kind of processers can you get with these
bridgeboards (i.e. 286,386,486!?)?  Also, I know the Amiga uses a
similar, if not identical, processer as the Mac (depending of the
models).  Is there software emulation available to make my Amiga run
Macintosh programs?  If so, how good is it?  What kind of Mac does it
emulate?   These emulation concerns are important to me.  I like Amigas
very much, and would like to buy another one.  However, IBM and Mac both
offer some software which is useful to me.  A happy medium would be
good.  I'm not looking for perfect emulation, of course.

What's the right choice for me?

-_- Jon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: d505i@wartburg.auc.dk (Cheistian Hoj)
Subject: Re: Question
Reply-To: d505i@wartburg.auc.dk
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:34:24 GMT

In article 21001@ncsu.edu, jkscott@eos.ncsu.edu (JENNIFER KAYE SCOTT) writes:
> Is there a PD program out there that will allow my A500 (WB2.04) to read a
> IBM DD formatted disk?

You can use MultiDos to read PC-disks. It should be available from most FTP-sites.
 
> Thanks

You're welcome

Christian Hoj


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: t92etr@tdb.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
Subject: Re: amiga 1200
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:12:43 GMT

Lockie      RJ (cs4gp6au@maccs.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
: 	I was just looking at an Amiga 1200 today. Unfortunately
: I couldn't change the WB screen to 800 x 600 mode. I couldn't
: find it in the preferences. The salesman (an idiot) tried to tell
: me that only the A4000 supports this mode because it's 'high end'.
: Anyone care to comment on this? Since I only have one dealer in
: my area I will be travelling 1/2 hour to a (hopefully) more
: informed salesman.
: 
: 	I'd also like to know if the PCMCIA card ram expansion
: is 16 or 32 bit ram? That's what they're selling but I have heard
: of a 'local bus' fast ram expansion from Microbotics that is
: definitely 32 bit. I'd want 32 bit, so comments?
: 


the PCMCIA expansion is 16-bit but there is also a slot on
the underside of the computer (just like on the 500) with 
a 32-bit bus. As for ram-expansion you can have 4MB in 
the PCMCIA-slot and 4MB in the trapdoor slot.

As for the graphics question the 1200 supports ALL the graphics modes
of the 4000.
It must have been a software problem. :-)
From: petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org (Petter Nilsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:56:12 GMT
Reply-To: cbmehq!cbmnor!pnilsen!petter@cbmvax.commodore.com
Organization: Ultima Thule Software
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Dec17.070805.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

> I have been having trouble with the commodity ClickToFront.
>
> I understand this is supposed to allow you to double click
> anywhere in a window and bring it to the front (?)
>
> I have tried starting this by double clicking on the icon
> and by putting it in the wbstartup and rebooting, neither
> approach got it to work.  Any ideas what I might be doing
> wrong?

You're problem is related to the default key which has to be pressed at the
same time as you double click the window you want frontmost. Change the
Tooltypes of ClickToFront and have a look at what key it is (I can't remember
offhand here) and change it or delete it as it suits you best. Then it'll work.

> Terry     taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu


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From: patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Tape question
Date: 15 Dec 1992 02:58:12 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: bodacia

My poor Amiga has been more-or-less ignored (games & check writing only) for
a couple of years now.  (I know, shame on me.  But I've got a SPARCstation
on loan, and have been spending too many hours at work anyway.)  Anyhow, I
just upgraded to 2.1, and added an Archive Viper 150M cartridge tape (in the
hope that adequate backup capability would improve my chances of using the
machine.)  This required replacing my old Series I GVP Impact SCSI+RAM card
with a new GVP HC8+.  Backups are now proceeding smoothly, but I'm left
wondering what I need to do to be able to use the tape to transfer data between
the SS1 and the Amiga?  (Which also makes it easier to pick things off the net,
since I have ftp access at work.)  I've got `tar' from Fish Disk 445, but the
tape: handler on that disk requires the ARP mount command, which makes me
wonder if there isn't another solution...



Thanks,
-Pat
P.S.	E-mail replies are best - I tend to be -way- behind on news reading.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: colindse@nmsu.EDU (LINDSEY)
Subject: Re: 2.04 -> 2.1
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:42:23 GMT

In article <BzEoFy.M6H@icsbelf.co.uk> ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran) writes:

>   Path: nmsu.edu!lynx!fmsrl7!destroyer!caen!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!icsbelf!ianm
>   From: ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran)
>   Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
>   Date: 17 Dec 92 13:35:58 GMT
>   Organization: ICS Computing Group Ltd., Belfast
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>
>   Has anyone bothered to upgrade from 2.04 to 2.1. I`m not sure whether there
>   is enough on offer in the latter for someone who already has Cross-Dos and
>   a full 2.04 manual set. Also I will more than likely want to upgrade my
>   2000 next year to one of the WB3 machines. The upgrade costs 55 GBP here in
>   the UK.
>
I have and the quicker requestors and CrossDos are pretty good reasons to
upgrade. The only complaint is the difference in the laserjet printer driver.
The one in 2.1 must provide its own formfeed and the previous version did not.
My prowrite version 3.0 also provides a formfeed so with every page I get a
blank also.  This is most annoying!  But other than that Its pretty clean.


>   Ian

Coy

>   --
>
>   Ian Moran                    Internet:  ianm@icsbelf.co.uk
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ajs@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Satterthwaite)
Subject: Re: What the HELL are Commodore playing at ?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:34:08 GMT

In article <soPwVB1w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley) writes:
>ajs@news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Satterthwaite) writes:
>> 	What the HELL do they think they're playing at - There has been no
>> drastic change in pound/dollar ratios since the A1200 release, so they must
>> have known ages ago that they were going to increase the price after xmas -
>> so why did they not just make it #499 (the same price as the Falcon) include
>> a HD drive and a DSP, and avoid all the criticism they aquired for these
>> omissions and all the criticism they will get for the price increase.
>> 
>
>Maybe they decided it was worth a little more for a machine that (a) had 
>software to run and (b) had at least some prayer of a future.
>
>        As always, no one owes you an explanation unless you are a stock 
>holder or management.  If you don't like it don't buy it or buy something 
>else.
>

Well the thing is, Commodore have already anounced plans that at some
anonymous time in the future they are going to add a DSP and maybe even a     
HD drive to the 1200, but as the original ones didn't have them it means that
software won't be able to take advantage of them - As they must have plans
for a price increase at the time of release, it would have made sense to
just make the machine even better, cut out future software probs, cut out
criticism and have the entire Amiga community swooning over a knock-dead
machine at a reasonable price.
	Commodore has got serious competition these days, certainly us amiga
owners know how good the machines are and will stick to them, but if the 
user base is to continue to grow then commodore need to do something 
astounding and at a reasonable price - When the Amiga was first released
it was the best thing out, now the 1200 has the spec (as far as immediately
obvious things like number of colours, memory, speed etc.) of a not 
particularly souped up PC - sad but true. 
	I want to see the Amiga survive, but it needs to re-assert its
position as market leader, not PC follower.

Andy.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
Subject: Re: How to make Final Copy print envelopes...
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 15:23:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.170711.27622@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
>
>  Did anyone come up with a clever ARexx script to
>  make Final Copy II print envelopes and want to
>  share it with us?  Is it possible?
>
>  Thanks, Clare
>  clare@nynexst.com

  Since I got a few replies like "just do it", I need
  to explain why it doesn't work on my DeskJet 500.

  The DeskJet 500 has a special escape code that you
  send to the printer to tell it is an envelope.  I
  tried to just load an envelope and print it from
  Final Copy.  But the envelope would slip and go
  crooked.  That is because Final Copy must send an
  escape code telling it is paper!  I also tried setting
  the dip switches and it wouldn't work since software
  commands override the hardware settings. 

  I did try printing out envelopes from a shareware
  program Addresser and it worked okay.  But I would
  like to use Final Copy since it has all those nice
  fonts!  I suppose I could hack up something with
  DJHelper.  But I'm wondering if Final Copy's
  escape code telling it is paper would override
  by what I set up with DJHelper.  

  I suppose an ARexx script wouldn't help here either...

  Any ideas?

  Thanks, Clare
  clare@nynexst.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: navy@iastate.edu (Scott V Rivera)
Subject: Re: 2.1 printer drivers
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:39:09 GMT

In <COLINDSE.92Dec11213454@dante.nmsu.EDU> colindse@nmsu.EDU (LINDSEY) writes:

>Does anyone know whether the HP laserjet printer driver was updated in 2.1.
>And if so, does it support PCL5 printer commands for graphics selecting 
>different fonts (scaleable or bitmapped)?

>Thanks
>Coy

The HP printer drivers WERE updated in 2.1. But, I cant test them (No laserprinter :(  )

Scott Rivera
navy@iastate.edu



Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: UPDATE:  KingFisher v1.1 now available via ftp
Summary: Adds faaast program name index, overscan/PAL/interlace support
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:28:19 GMT

Available via anonymous ftp is version 1.1 of KingFisher, now offering:

  1. the much-requested program name index (faster than Aquarium's.)
  2. capability to adjust to overscan, PAL, and interlace resolutions.

This update to the original version 1.0 does not include a database.
To obtain the database and complete program documentation, too, you
must obtain a file named KingFisher.lha which is 477691 bytes in size.
KingFisher11.lha is 66508 bytes in size.

KingFisher.lha and now KingFisher11.lha can be found at the following
ftp sites:

wuarchive.wustl.edu     128.252.135.4      /systems/amiga/incoming/fish
grind.isca.uiowa.edu    128.255.19.233     /amiga/Read.These         (*)
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu        128.174.5.59       /pub/amiga/KingFisher     (*)

(*) May take a little time for KingFisher11.lha to show up there.

 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: amiga 1200
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:01:54 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Dec15.000417.15165@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4gp6au@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Lockie      RJ) writes:
>
>	I was just looking at an Amiga 1200 today. Unfortunately
>I couldn't change the WB screen to 800 x 600 mode. I couldn't
>find it in the preferences. 

Look into the Storage/Monitors drawer for an approriate Monitor file,
drag it to the DEVS/Monitors drawer and reboot. Then the new monitor
will appear in Preferences.

>	I'd also like to know if the PCMCIA card ram expansion
>is 16 or 32 bit ram? 

It's only 16 bit.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Wer's nicht kann, soll's bleiben klopfen oder Steine lassen!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Needed: A backup tape drive
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:31:12 GMT

Quoth shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu:
]> 
]> Hello.
]>  I need some way to back up 105M of HD space every two weeks or so..
]> What's the cheapest (yet most effective) way to do this?  Tape drive?
]> Flopticals..?  Buying a second HD?  (This is only to back up 105M or so)
]> Thanks.
]> Sam Hulick          | "You can't discover new oceans unless you have the

I'd say a tape drive, unless you want to use it for other things as well,
in which case a Syquest is probably a better bet.  The nice thing about
the tape is you can do it all in one operation (no swapping required) and
thus can automate it with a good Cron program and an Arexx-speaking
backup like AmiBack, MRBackup, or QuarterBack.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
Subject: Changing Around the Left and Right Amiga Keys
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:59:38 GMT


Does anyone know if there is a way to either swap the functions of the
left and right Amiga ("A") keys, or simply make the two keys the same?

I find it very annoying to have to always take my hand off the mouse to
use hot keys.

David

--------------------------------------------------------------
David Salamon                Physics Graduate Student (Slave)
d-salamon@uiuc.edu           University of Illinois
--------------------------------------------------------------
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: wanted: your comments
Date: 20 Dec 92 16:08:08 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900

In article <1992Dec19.175928.6799@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
> Getting 14,400 baud over standard phone lines IS pretty amazing.

You think so? My ancient Telebit Trailblazer-plus (not even a T2500) can get
up to 18,000 bps, and falls back in 100 bps increments. I've had it get over
9,600 bps on an international phone line with audible static *and* a whistle.
There are places I've never been able to get better than a 300 baud connect
without a Trailblazer... for your adverse phone connections there is nothing
better.

The Worldblazers at work can get 22,000 baud with another Worldblazer, 18,000
with a Trailblazer, and still have room for 14,400 for wimpy little V.32+++
modems. All of this *before* compression, and it supports a number of schemes
including V.42, plus UUCP, Xmodem, and Kermit spoofing.

And the support from Telebit is exceptional. They recently sent us new PROMS
for all our TB+ modems, no charge.

The downside? A Worldblazer lists for the vicinty of $1000...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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