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From: angst+@CMU.EDU (Jon C. Slenk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A500 questions
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:38:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: cerebus.718515497.12141.0
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Yup, more neophyte questions about the A500

1) About memory expansion - can you please either recommend a company and
product, or comment on ones to avoid?

2) About SCSI interfaces - comments would again be appreciated. I already
have a SCSI drive, so all I need is the hardware interface and the software
drivers. Thus, I'd like to avoid those deals where you get a drive + interface.

3) Getting Zorro slots - what good ways are there to get Zorro slots for
my machine? I have seen advertisements for conversion kits which turn
an A500 into a tower machine, and these have A2000 like Zorro slots in them.
Is there a way to get such slots without spending a lot of dough on a tower
kit? Also, in regard to the SCSI question, if I get some Zorro slots, should
I then be able to get a SCSI interface card that plugs into the Zorro slot (and
should I want to do it that way)?

Well, many thanks for anything you might be able to send me.
If I get enough responses, I will post a quick summary to the group.

Sincerely,
-Jon.
PS: I really don't have much of a system yet, so I am really drooling
over the whole get-your-SCSI-stuff-and-get-the-drive-hooked-up-and-have
some-fun-grabbing-kul-pd-software thing... :-)
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Jon Slenk           angst+@cmu.edu     EVERYTHING is
Carnegie Mellon     Pittsburgh PA      Disclaimed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: IBM floppy in Amiga drive
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:07:30 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>        Sorry about this, but a few weeks ago someone posted details of a PD
>program which would ascertain the format (IBM or AMIGA) of each floppy, and
>provide file conversion if it was IBM format. I accidentally deleted my
>reference to this. Could someone please tell me what it was called?

It's called MultiDOS.  It's unlike the other DOS utilities (CrossDos and
MSH) in that you don't mount another name for your floppy (ie PC0: on
top of df0:).  With MultiDOS you shove in a MSDOS floppy and still refer to
it as df0:.  I would think you could FTP it from most active Amiga sites.  I
know for sure it is on Portal.

>        Thanks

You're welcome.

>                Richard
>|---------------------------------------------------------|      ///
>| Richard Lovejoy, Sci/Elec Eng, Melbourne Uni, Australia |     ///
>| Email: rjlov@ecr.mu.oz.au or rjlov@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au  | \\\///
>|---------------------------------------------------------|  \XX/

-Joel
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From: DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How to "leave out" the trashcan
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:40:08 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na
  <1992Oct08.214751.118901@watson.ibm.com>
  <epa.718831521@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>

>Or you can do it the easy way.  edit sys:.backdrop and add the line
>
>:Trashcan
>
>to the file.  Workbench won't do anything about it until you reboot
>though.
>--
>Eric P. Armstrong        epa@cis.ksu.edu        cis.ksu.edu!harry!rtfm!epa
>       "I plead the fifth, because I'm too dumb." -- Karl S. Hagen
>
First:	That works but only for the TRASHCAN on your sys: partition, if you
	drag something from your WORK: partition it won't get deleted, just 
	copied to sys:trashcan.
	
Second:	Damn it... is this stuff in USER documentation? ENVPREFS and standard
	tooltypes and all this stuff seems to be really usefull but I don't 
	see it documented!

Don DeCosta           |The nice thing about sanity is|  VM/Nomad2
DonD@cup.portal.com   |you can lose it more than once|  Amiga/Imagine
From: rvmst1@gl.pitt.edu (Rainer V Mager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: BBS
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:22:17 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh via AMIGA

Hi,
	I was wonderin' where should I post a message about a new Amiga
BBS that is accessible through telnet?  Yes it is a BBS not an FTP site.
And its mine.  Please tell me where to post this in on and Amiga sub,
coz' I already posted it on alt.bbs and I'd rather prefer mainly Amiga
peoples to call.

			Thanx n advance.


-- 
Rainer Mager
SysOp Of ---   Right Here-Right Now  (412)-648-4835
From: gt2038a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2038a gt2038a BROWNING,CHRIS SHERMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: How to "leave out" the trashcan
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:10:26 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Have you ever tried to leave out the trashcan under 2.04 so that it would
be accessible for whatever you are doing?  Unfortuately, it doesn't work.
Workbench will not allow a "garbage" object to be left out.  After playing
around for a little while, however, I figured out how to make it work.
Basically, just create a link to the trashcan, give it an icon (not a 
garbage icon, a directory one), and leave it out.  Now when you drag
something on top, tada, it appears in the trashcan.  Unforuately, the only
way to empty that trash is to click on the REAL trashcan.  Here is a
summary of how to do it.
cli> makelink <name> trashcan force
(you must use the "force" command with directories)
cli> copy <cool_directory_icon>.info <name>.info
Now just go back to workbench and drag the icon you made on to the workbench
and select "leave out" from the menus.....

Chris


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Computer Engineering      AMIGA or give  "Neural Networks 'R Us"        
gt2038a@prism.gatech.edu  me NOTHING     ESML /EIB
From: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (Hans Bergengren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Avoid the Amiga 4000
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:07:52 GMT
Reply-To: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (Hans Bergengren)
Organization: THULOS!, STROMSTAD, SWEDEN
OD-Comment-To: Eyvind_Bernhardsen


 EB> So it won't run on a >=31KHz MultiScan (BTW, MultiSync is an NEC
 EB> trademark...  Not many people know that :)

Off-topic remark: MultiScan is probably trademarked by someone else.
'Amiga' is also a trademark, as well as Commodore, CBM, Quantum, NEC etc etc
etc. Writing "(tm)" after each and every trademark protected word in a message
is both stupid and silly, so why bother?

 EB> PPS:  MB, please reduce your postings to one line or less, I'm NOT
 EB> impressed with your ability to talk out of your a** using a keyboard.

:D


Regards:

  InterNET/BadNET: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (92:901/603.1)
          FidoNET: Hogen BBS, 2:203/511.7@fidonet
   /  /
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: atul@Cadence.COM (Atul Srinivasan)
Subject: lh5 compression
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:06:58 GMT

Hello,
	I'm looking for a pd compression program which
handles lh5 compression (.lha sufix). I'm unsure if
only lha handles this right now, or if a newer version
of lharc will too.

Could someone please tell me

1) which Fish disk contains a version of lha/lharc
to handle lh5 compression (and what the version of the
executable is)

or
2) the full path to the executable on an archive.
I have to rely on an ftp mail server, so finding the
file could be time consuming.

or
3) (preferred because I'm lazy) uuencode and email me
the executable. 8-)

Thanks very much in advance

Atul

atul@cadence.COM
From: acs_brath@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: CD+G disk compilation
Date: 7 Oct 92 07:05:18 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

I am looking to compile a list of CD+G disks.

If you have some disks with graphics please send me a mail message
and I will make a compilation list.  I myself have about 40 CD+G diskettes
and I will tell the names of mine when I make the final post with 
everyones lists combined.  Please exclude the disks that were in the 
INFO review as I am already aware of those titles. 

Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mathers@sibelius.trl.oz.au (Steven Mathers)
Subject: PARADOX virus??????
Reply-To: s.mathers@trl.oz.au
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:52:38 GMT


Hello, I am using the commodities virus checker called Virex.

A while ago, I cold booted my 600 HD with no floppies inserted, and a
message from Virex came up saying that it had detected the Paradox virus
in memory and killed it.  Great!  I then had Virex scan every file on my
hard drive and it found nothing...what gives?  

Has anyone else been able to kill the Paradox virus, and what does it
do to if not detected and killed in time?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:09:14 GMT+2
Subject: Re: A4000 utility for "global promotion" avail. for FTP
From: harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi (Harri P Pesonen)
Distribution: world
Organization: Fipnet, Helsinki, Finland
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article ??? boberg@lysator.liu.se (Stefan Boberg) writes:
>   It's here!
> 
>   I have put up a utility for forcing all opened screens into DblPAL/DblNTSC
> on an A4000 (or any other AGA/ECS machine with the appropriate monitor files).
> It patches GfxLibrary so all screens opened without explicitly specified 
> display modes are opened as DblPAL or DblNTSC screens.
> 
>   The archive is called `a2ntsc11.lha' and the program was written by Nico
> Francois.

Hey!  I'm a great fan of Nico!  I have used his AmigaToNTSC v1.0 for a long
time now on my A3000 and I love to get ALL screens in NTSC 60 Hz mode!

>   It was uploaded to `ftp.luth.se', and should be available from all AmiNet
> FTP sites shortly. I don't know what subdirectory it will end up in.
> 
>   Regards, 
>             Stefan (who is anxiously waiting for his A4000 ;-)

I think that AmigaToNTSC v1.1 is the MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF SOFTWARE FOR
THE A4000, not counting kickstart 3.0!  If that program works as advertised
it makes the A4000 a much better computer than A3000, which it is not
without it!

C= software engineers should include an option in kickstart 3.0 to force
all screens to 31.5 kHz.  It should be saved in battery backed up memory
like the option to use NTSC or PAL in kick 3.0.  After that even old games
would work on A4000...

It's amazing what a tiny program like AmigaToNTSC can do...  I just started
to consider upgrading to A4000...

-- 
    Harri Pesonen               harry@elfuerte.fipnet.fi
    Helsinki, Finland, EC?      Markka is floating...  1 USD = 4.5 FIM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Subject: Re: Workbench 3.0 DataTypes
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:49:29 GMT

>  The possibilities with BOOPSI/DataTypes are endless and I believe that
>Datatypes is only the beginning of a new era in Amiga programming! The
>only thing we need now is a decent native Objective-C or C++ compiler
>with class libraries - `emulating' OOP in C is a bit frustrating.
>

     OOPulating?  
-- 
Don Lloyd                / "No, I just think that a computer grafted on top of \
don@chopin.udel.edu      | another computer is a kludge.  It has nothing to do |
GeNIE: D.LLOYD7          \ with the Intel CPU"  - Jerry Shekhel                /
BIX: DRL
From: dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Cygnus Ed & Turbotext
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:53:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Oct7.185322.29354
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <54427@dime.cs.umass.edu> barrett@scooby.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>	Both are great editors from what I have heard.  I use TurboText.
>It's full of features, is totally customizable, and has *never* crashed for
>me.

Make a line more than 32k (64k?) long. 
:)

>	No, TurboText does not have unlimited undo yet, but it's "on the top
>of the list" according to the author.  On the other hand, TurboText has

When are we due an upgrade anyway?  Has there been one?

>	My only real complaint about TurboText is that it is too
>asynchronous.  For example, between the time that I invoke the "OpenFile"
>command (to open a new file) and when the file requester appears...

There is also a race condition wrt the right-menu button and the file
requester.  I only ran into that one once.

I believe it suffers from a few mungwall hits too, though that could
be my compiler as much as TTX....

>	I can't wait for the next version.  The author has been very
>response to suggestions for improvement.

Very true.
I use TTX all the time and just love it.

David C. Navas						dnavas@oracle.com
Working for, but not speaking on behalf of, Oracle Corp.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler)
Subject: Re: Is PARNet available as PD?
Keywords: parnet, amiga
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:51:25 GMT

mlm@rhi.hi.is (Magnus Logi Magnusson) writes:

>Yo folks.
>  Im posting here to ask if someone of you could informe me on PARNet.
>  I have a friends A2000 with Magnium/040 and a 120 Mb harddrive and
>  my humble A500 with only one meg and a extra drive.  I have heard of
>  parnet and I want know wether parnet is comercial or PD ( shareware,
>  giftware, etc...).  If it is PD, then where I can obtain a copy 
>  through anonymous ftp.  I would be much better to get it instead of 
>  writing one myself.

I think one article would have been enough ...
You can find parnet e.g. on ftp.uni-paderborn.de [131.234.2.32]
in "/amiga/tools/datacomm" as "parnetfs.lha" and "parnet.lha".

[gigantic signature deleted]
-- 
Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)
From: arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU (Arc Wave)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Amiga 4000 - WILDNESS
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:56:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: judy.9210092156.AA21052

I presume Marc Barrett is an engineer at Commodore right? NOT!

Compare these two systems, which one would you own:

A. A500 SYSTEM w/ CBM 1080:
    68000/7.14mhz
    3mb RAM (1 chip, 2 fast)
    80mb Hard Drive (SCSI)
    4096 colors
    880k 3.5" disk drive. (899 w/ FFS)
    AmigaOS 2.04
    A 16 bit machine.

B. A4000 SYSTEM w/ CBM 1960:
    68040/25mhz
    6mb RAM (2 chip, 4 fast)
    120mb Hard Drive (IDE)
    256,000 colors out of 16.8 million (--in the future AAA chipset 24bit)
    1.76mb 3.5" disk drive.
    Module CPU
    AmigaOS 3.0
    A true 32 bit machine!
    - Sysinfo rated it, 38.9 times faster than a stock A500.

I chose system B :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A4000 is not a piece of sh*t, its a great step forward.
I can live with Flicker, and thanks to the guys on this net, I will be
considering the CBM Display enhancer.

Paul
"...waiting on CBM & UPS!"
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From: vmkiili@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ville-Matti Kiili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: What is the default video mode of the A4000?
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:43:28 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted) writes:
: No, only wimps has to. Any fool can still read the text. I have used
: A2024 mode on my 1084 for a year now, and it works OK. I agree it can
: be annoying with the rolling image sometimes, but you get what you pay for.

Are you kidding? I tested A2024 mode on my Nec Multisync II and the
screen was really messed up. It was entirely unusable. And my monitor
really can show anything (I've tested it with 150 Hz screens and it
worked... 160 Hz was too much. :) )...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:57:31 -0400 
From: Michael Witbrock <mjw+@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Any BlackHole users out there>
Distribution: usa

Yes, or at least an ex blackhole user.<nl>
<nl>
Blackhole crashed my machine and caused my harddrive to revalidate. Since this=
 wasn't the first time it had crashed, I deleted it, pronto.  <nl>
<nl>
I regretted having to do this, since it was a very useful. I hope someone will=
 be able to contact the author so he (yes, it was a he) will be able to fix it=
, or write a replacement for it (without stripes on the options window, if pos=
sible :-) ).<nl>
<nl>
Michael <smaller><cyan> (whose messages contain things like MIME coloured text=
, in the hope of encouraging other amiga users to use, or write, MIME complian=
t newsreaders and mailers)</cyan></smaller><nl>
<bold><excerpt><nl>
</excerpt></bold><blue><bold><excerpt>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.mis=
c: 9-Oct-92 Any BlackHole users out there> M.BiSON@prism.cs.orst.ed (1070)</ex=
cerpt></bold><nl>
<excerpt>It seems work fine but their are a few things that =
make me wonder.<nl>
</excerpt><nl>
<excerpt>Basically, the very first time I used it, it crashed...in the process=
<nl>
of deleteing a large directory (it was ProWrite).  And when I<nl>
rebooted and tried it again, it did it again!</excerpt></blue><excerpt> </exce=
rpt><red> [etc]<nl>
</red>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: eyvind@Lise.Unit.NO (Eyvind Bernhardsen)
Subject: Re: A4000 and scan-lines, mode promotion, flicker
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 03:10:18 GMT

MB whinges:

>>Yes, it rules out games that use interlaced displays (not screens).
>>Marc, how many games do you know that use an interlaced display ?

>   Well, there's SimAnt and SimEarth.  There are probably others.

Now, let me see.  The way I've read this discussion (not too well; i try to avoid
reading stuff from MB), stuff which runs from WB should be flicker-free (stop me
if I'm wrong).  Now, MY version of SimAnt runs just fine from my Workbench...  
Maybe MB has one which is non-DOS?

-Eyvind (GOD how do I get myself INTO these things?) Bernhardsen
(eyvind@lise.unit.no)
From: ianm@icsbelf.co.uk (Ian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need Printer Driver for Epson Action Laser II!
Date: 12 Oct 92 08:25:04 GMT
Organization: ICS Computing Group Ltd., Belfast
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Keith Connors (kconnors@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: 
: I'm looking for a printer driver for an Epson Action Laser II printer.

I hope I'm wrong but there are no printer drivers to support Epson
laser printers in their native mode. The best you can hope for is
HP emulation. I too own an Epson laser the GQ5000, in the 2
years I have had it I have *never* come across a driver for it. I wrote
to Epson but they are not interested in supporting the Amiga, a somewhat
different attitude to that adopted by Star and Citizen, both of which 
now produce Amiga specific drivers for their range of dot 
matrix printers.

Strangely enough whwn I was in the market for a laser I went for the Epson
because of its support in the dot matrix market. It will be the last
Epson printer I ever buy :-|

Regards

 Ian

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From: mwelie@cs.vu.nl (Welie van M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A1200 IS THERE !!!
Date: 16 Oct 92 09:35:32 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam

The A1200 is there , here are some features :
68EC020 at 14,19 MHz (PAL) max 16 Mb
A sockel for a 68881 or 68882
32-bit architecture
AA-chipset (with Lisa and Alice)
OS 3.0
1 or 2 Mb Chipmem
Looks like a A600
880 Kb diskdrive
Optional 2.5" IDE harddisk (A1200HD)
a PCMCIA slot for RAM,ROM and Flash-rom modules

The A1200 is about 5 times faster than a standard A500.

-----------------------------------------------------------
Martijn van Welie and Bastiaan Schonhage.
mwelie@cs.vu.nl and spschonh@cs.vu.nl
VU Amsterdam , department of Computer Science.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rghester@eos.ncsu.edu (Rodney Hester)
Subject: Re: 2.05 ROMs needed for Amigados 2.1 upgrade?
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:57:11 GMT

In article <-a1z4#=@rpi.edu> pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:
>
>I was told by a friend of mine that his local Amiga dealer insisted that
>the 2.1 software upgrade requires the 2.05 ROMs, not the 2.04 ROMs.  Is
>this true?  Or is this dealer simply misinformed, or possibly duping my
>friend?

The dealer is either misinformed or looking to make an unnecessary sale.  I'd
suggest your friend find a new dealer.

>I myself have an Amiga 3000 and boot kickstart from the hard drive -- as
>far as I can tell I don't have any of the `real' ROMs.  Will there be a
>kickstart patch available for 3000 users who want the 2.05 kickstart?

There is no need for any non-PCMCIA class machine to have a 2.05 Kickstart.
All it adds is IDE and PCMCIA support, things most Amigas have no use for.
(BTW, your machine has 1.4B3 ROMs installed.)  There will be no Kickstart
patch.

>Perhaps a Commodore rep could answer this; I want to upgrade ASAP.

I'm not a Commodore rep, but I play one on TV.  :-)  (No, seriously, I have
several registered developer friends running 2.1 successfully with 2.04
Kickstarts on both 2000s and 3000s.)

Please note that the upgrade will not be available for two more weeks yet.
-- 
           //       Rodney Hester - rghester@eos.ncsu.edu         //
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