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From: zap@lysator.liu.se (H}kan Andersson)
Subject: Re: CU Amiga / OctaMED V3 Problems ...
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:36:25 GMT

bigbod@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Rodney Coleman) writes:

>	Sorry if this has already been thrashed out (here in Oz this issue
>	of CU Amiga only hit the news stands this week !!). Has anyone
>	successfully installed OctaMED V3 onto Hard Disk ?? The only way
>	I can get OctaMED to run correctly is to boot the floppy that is
>	supplied with CU. Otherwise it trys to find OctaMED.gfx1 !! Also,

I have posted this answer previously. The error message is bad. What it
means, is: Can't unpack OctaMED.gfx1. I.e: Can't find powerpacker.library
in libs:! Copy it, and it will run!

>	it always locks up on exiting !! (BTW, I am running on a 3000 with
>	2.04 roms if that is of any assistance). Can anyone shed some light
>	on these problems ??

Firstly: That is Teijo's own setup (Med's author) so I doubt there is any
problem there. However, the locking up sounds bad. It down't do that on my
2.04 A500 (3 megs, HD) but then again, I am *NOT* running the AMIGANUTS thing,
I run a "real" OMedPro obtained from Teijo directly (I am one of his beta
testers). I had the same problem but Teijo had it sent to Amiganuts before
I could report the 'OctaMed.gfx1' trouble. It took me two hours to figure
that one out....and I'm a certified guru ;-)

What I'm saying is that the AmigaNuts can have screwed up. They have
fucked with the graphics, that I know. What else have they fucked with?
Don't ask me!

>							Thanks....
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From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Amiga KCS 3.5
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:42:14 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <92237.084659M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET> M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET (Michael Whitten) writes:
>>PS: I've used Music X quite a lot but have grown to hate the interface,
>>and absolutely cannot understand why the screen update is soooo slooow.

>One of my favorite debates!  MusicX: pretty and useless and doesn't work.

	Doesn't work?  Could you be a little more specific... like,
maybe actually present some evidence?

	I've used Music-X for years and it works fine for me.  It certainly
has some flaws -- in particular, the Bar Editor screen refreshes too slowly
during playback -- but it has tons of functionality.

                                                        Dan

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From: zap@lysator.liu.se (H}kan Andersson)
Subject: Warning about my songs (DAMN!)
Keywords: MED mod
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:14:50 GMT

Hi!

I just tried to play one of my songs in MED (Not OctaMED PRO, just plain MED)
and the violin sounds awful. Why? The goddamn pre-octa-pro MED's dont have
finetune! RAAH!

:-(

Try to get an OMedPro Player to hear TechnoViolin the way it should be :-(

Sob.

/Z

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From: metal@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Christopher Lawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: ATTENTION MUSIC MAKERS!!!
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:17:56 MST
Organization: The Nucleus 16 Lines 403-531-9353 -CNet Amiga-

                      ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION
 
        Needed are 15 modules. 13 modules must be under 75k!. 2 modules
will be used for the intro and credits, and can be up to 300k. The theme of
these modules will be based on an action/adventure game in a medevil era.
The 13 modules will be used as background music. Each level in the game
will have its own music to go along with it. Types of levels will range
from volcanoes in the bacground, jungles, artic fronts, forest and many
more. All musicians will be paid a flat fee for every module we use as
well as credits in game.
 
        It doesnt matter who you are or where your from, if your
interested get in touch! We need modules as soon as possible, there will be
a 1 month deadline from now, for us to choose the best liked modules for
the game. 
 
        Please Contact: Stephen Shatford 1-403-270-9512 between 9-8pm MST.
 
                If unable to call please leave mail to this account.
From: pac1@st-andrews.ac.uk (Paul Andrew Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: HELP : CONVERTING MOD.
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:57:32 GMT
Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.

I've has MSH for quite a while now and I use that to convert 

PC format files to Amiga format.

ie. A mod. that has been pulled through a ftp site.

But what I want to know is :-

Is there a program which will let you do the reverse process.

ie. Take an Amiga mod. and copy it on to a PC format disk.



If you can help mail me or write something in to this newsgroup.

thanks.

-= Paul =-
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From: ada@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Sunga Rettaf)
Subject: Re: No Figs in the Apple Newton
Organization: None
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:49:48 GMT

In article <kdarling.715298464@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>>TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:

<< Legal discussion deleted >>

>I believe that ATT and someone else is coming up with a line of PDAs
>to compete with Apple's Newton... only theirs are called "Hobbits"!
>Wonder if they'll have to pay for that name?

Will Commodore be offering a PDA of any sort?  It might be difficult
for them to develop a hand-held Amiga compatible, but they might at
least offer something which uses the many IFF files available.

>kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>

Sunga Rettaf


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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Tandy's Multimedia CD Player (VIS)
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:32:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.180557.5318@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

[ ]
>
>The "more colors at higher resolutions" part really bothers me.  I've 
>actually had the chance to see CDTV units in Chicago and New York in
>the last few months and was impressed by everything but the video.
>Some of the HAM pictures looked pretty good, but not as sharp as the
>ones I saw on a CD-I unit.  I'd sure like to hear that the CDTV Mark II
>or whatever included the DCTV unit or even better the AA chipset...

You can't get much higher resolution. The Tandy player may try for 320x200
with a lot of colours. NTSC has 512 horizontal lines (interlaced). The
vertical "lines" are an issue. I doubt that too many monitors could give you
80 column text for example.
 
The DCTV addon has been announced by C=, as well as an internal HD. Moreover,
you can get a 3rd party SCSI controller for either internal or external 
SCSI devices.
 
The situation is somewhat confusing. CD-I's main disadvantage is that it is 
not affiliated with any well-known line of micro computers for which one
could have a CD-ROM type device. Tandy's unit has its roots in an NTSC hostile
environment.
 
CDTV is looking better every day.            
 
One thing is certain. The whole market for entertainment/information units will
fail ( let's include SNES+CD, Genesis+CD, VIS,CDTV,CD-I,MPC, Mac+CD, ???...)
if companies insist on charging the outrageous prices they do for the CD's. The
situation is already serious enough with the SNES (where games are now 
selling for close to $100 including taxes in Canada) that people are simply 
going to go back to more interesting forms of entertainment.

[ ]
 
Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu

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From: 10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG)
Subject: Re: Commodore meltdown?! 
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:32:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.074329.14109@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
>From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
>Subject: Commodore meltdown?! 
>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 07:43:29 GMT
>
>Big NEWSFLASH over week said Commodore went into MELTDOWN and
>is pushing back NEW Amiga intro many months!! C= MUST send new
>letter to P. Robinson and say we are NOT BILLION dollor company
>anymore!!

Meltown?  Lost something like 66cents on a $30 share (approx).  About 1% 
loss in market capitalization?   Over here in Australia, banks can lose 
$1b and the sky doesn't fall in.

>C64 sales fell into BLACKHOLE and now is about 2000 every month!
>R&D cut 10% more so only A600 and A3000T/40 selling this year
>and developers will not get vAApor chip Amigas until next 1993!!

On what grounds do you make this claim.  I wish you wouldn't make up blatant 
lies.  

Atari corp filed for chapter 11 yesterday.  Elvis told me!  Salman Rushdie (
Elvis's room-mate) confirmed it.

Go back to atari land.



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From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: Re: Zorro III cards?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:21:22 GMT

In article <BttoAt.6Cy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng) writes:

>>Unfortunately, I'm quite certain that the Rambrandt is Zorro II, as PP&S
>>indicated its A2000/2500 compatibility in the AW Graphics Issue.

>A2000/2500 "compatibility" should not be read as "the card is strictly
>Zorro II---it does not take advantage of Zorro III features".  It is
>possible, as I'm sure Dave will explain better than I, to build a card
>that will operate in Zorro II mode in an A2000/2500 and as a Zorro III
>card in the A3000 and higher.

Even if this was remotely possible, it certainly wouldn't be feasible.
In order to take advantage of the Zorro III architecture, you would likely
have to develop a "double-edged" card, much like the ATI ISA/MCA graphics
boards. The fact that DMI restricted their Vivid 24 to Zorro III makes it
rather obvious that real-time 24-bit graphics support is not worthy of
consideration under Zorro II. It is my understanding that the Rambrandt
card, while based on the TI34020, is primarily a frame buffer. In the
end, A2000/2500 compatibility can be read as: don't expect any added
capability if you have an A3000.

Mark

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From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
Subject: Re: Commodore meltdown?! 
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:25:30 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Aug26.074329.14109@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young) writes:
>
>Big NEWSFLASH over week said Commodore went into MELTDOWN and
     ^^^^^^^^^
Cite your source boy! Where did you get this "information"?
C= did experience a loss this year, but then again who didn't?

>is pushing back NEW Amiga intro many months!! C= MUST send new

I doubt this.

>and developers will not get vAApor chip Amigas until next 1993!!

Next 1993? Is 1993 going to occur twice? Calm Down!
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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000/Atari Falcon
Date: 30 Aug 92 07:30:31 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:

>I had a 286 bridgeboard in 2 different Amigas.  It was slow and made the whole
>Amiga slower.  To make it go reasonably fast, I had to put a PC hardcard in the
>Amiga for the PC to boot from.  A complete and faster PC clone could be bought
>for the same money...  The only benefit from having a bridgeboard was to be able
>to move data from/to the Amiga/PC universe.  But there are other solutions which
>are cheaper or better.

This I agree--I have an XT BB, so I know.  However, as a student like
me, who needs to change from dorm to dorm, having 1 computer is enough.  
Therefore, I still like having the ability to emulate an IBM using
my Amiga.

>>
>> >>
>> >>Now... Jerry... just for the sake of argument  (oops... perhaps I shouldn't
>> >>say this...) what can a 486 do that a 386 cant?
>> >>
>>
>> >Not much.  There are some minor (minute) MMU and instruction set differences
>> >and a built-in FPU and cache.  It just runs a hell of a lot faster than a
>> >386/387 combo.
>>
>> may I repeat myself once again... "What can a 486 do that a 386 can't?"
>>

>What does an 040 do that a 030 can't?

None--in the presence.  I *never* said the Motorola series is any better
than Intel's.  Someone was making a point saying that the Amiga was
*incapable* of doing certain jobs... and I just wanted to point out
that the Amiga can be just as capable.  True, it might cost more--but
that doesn't mean it is not doable--so I pointed out that the Amiga (my
Amiga, at least) can emulate a 386 if I need to run IBM stuff.   Furthermore,
*if* necessary, a 386sx bb can be turned into a Cryix 486*** BB. 

>To me the Amiga represents both ends of the spectrum and nothing in between.
>The A3000 is a low-end computer system at high end prices.  But slap in the
>best Amiga 3rd party hardware and you have a machine that is a very useful
>workstation.  The schism has already happened.  The A500 is a game machine.
>The new high end Amiga sounds like a high end (low end compared, still) NTSC
>video workstation.

True, I agree with you--especially with the Amiga 2000... it is an
expensive computer, yet, it doesn't really give you much more than an
A500.


Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
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From: jyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Young)
Subject: Re: Commodore meltdown?!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 21:26:06 GMT

In article <34685@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
>Is it just me, or is this 'Jeff Young' parody of certain fairly
>vocal Atari users beginning to lose its freshness ?
>
>I'm beginning to feel about it the same way I feel about Dana Carvey's
>"Chicken man' character :-)

MANY french people mailed me and said what are you Jerry Louis?
School starting soon and TRUTH WILL BE IN JEOPARDY when I am not here
to protect it.

 


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From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: Re: AmigaWorld LIES about Amiga Links
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:30:30 GMT

>>>   What is my point about all this?  This is only the beginning for games on
>>>the IBM platform.  Now that some games have already started coming out that
>>>support SVGA, more will come.  It will be a *LONG* time before enough Amiga
>>>systems have sold with AA chipsets to justify software developers producing
>>>games that support comparable resolutions and color capabilities on the
>>>Amiga.  
>>>
>>>   Due to lack of progress, the "Ultimate Game Machine" is very fast becoming
>>>the "Ultimate Joke Machine".
>>
>> You may be right about resolution and colour, but when it comes
>>to animation - isn't animation, scrolling etc on a VGA PC a joke?
>
>Wing Commander II on a 486 with SVGA is pretty nice.  Scrolling is not as
>smooth as many Amiga games, but the number of colors is greater.
>
>Sunga Rettaf

	Ultima Underworld is pretty impressive also.  

						G.Greene

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From: u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull)
Subject: Re: IFF database of .advocacy folks
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:31:34 GMT

thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>Go ahead, send your 640x480x24 (921 KiloBytes) pictures to Skip and see how
>far it gets across the net.

	Suggest you learn a little more about JPEG, before you make such
an outrageous claim!
From: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Scheme
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:38:55 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <dsaban.2.0@cs1.uct.ac.za> dsaban@cs1.uct.ac.za (D SABAN) writes:
>Is there a version of Scheme for the amiga.  If there is not, there should 
>be!  It a very good language to use to introduce the basic concepts of 
>program design to beginners.

	Scheme is on Fish Disk 149.  The Scheme-to-C converter (Scheme2C)
is on Fish Disks 556-558.

	This information is courtesy of Matt Brown's fine "FishCat"
program.

                                                        Dan

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From: david@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (David Stimson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000/Atari Falcon
Organization: Zone4
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:01:56 GMT


>Hmm.  Maybe my memory is a bit foggy, but I can't seem to recall the
>tail-that-wagged-the-dog application for the Commodore 64.  :-)

Ok...then how about GEOS?  It may not have been there when it first came out,
but it did revive it for awhile.
 

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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: CDTV is dead.
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:03:54 GMT

kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
: Uh, Bushnell left long ago to join up with a networking company.  A friend
: of mine who talked to him last fall said that Bushnell had gotten "bored
: with CDTV."

:)  Yeah, I know he's a networker now, but once upon a time...  ;)

: As for it being his idea, we hashed that out last year here.  Everyone

Did we?  I've forgotten.  ;)

: from Commodore swore the basic idea had been around long before Bushnell.
: I, of course, maintained that it was obviously a direct rip-off of CD-I :^)

The point is, either way, it's not Bushnell's idea.  ;)

: In either case, it sure looked like Bushnell was hired mostly to lend his
: name to press releases :-)

Even if that was the only reason, it would be unsurprising.  :)

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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Atari Falcon Discount Supermachine  Re: Sydnes is gone?!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:09:03 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep1.064939.16744@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:

>: Falcons have DSP NOW but A600 will never have cheap PCMIA DSP card.

>There will never BE a PCMCIA DSP card.

There certainly could be.  PCMCIA 2.0 supports I/O mapped registers, which is
all you need for the MC56001 or several of the other low-end DSPs from folks
like TI, AMD, or AT&T.  Add to that a small amount of SRAM and an audio
quality CODEC and you're off and running.  I don't know if anyone would 
bother to build a PCMCIA DSP card, but it's no big technical challenge.
-- 
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