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From: Jason.Price@launchpad.unc.edu (Jason Price)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to get an Amiga to read an MS-DOS formatted disk ?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:40:13 GMT

>>   As the subject line says , Is it possible to get an Amiga to read IBM
>>   formatted disks ?. And if so how do I go about doing it ?. Any advice 
>>   would be appreciated. Thanks.
>Yepp, it's not only possible, it's totaly transparent too. Just get a
>copy of MultiDOS (should be available anywhere...) and your Amy will
>never notice the difference...
>CrossDOS is another product that does the same (included in Release
>2.1 and 3.0 of AmyOS:-)

Although, MultiDOs does seem to crash my A500 512/chip 512/fast, 2.0. But
only sometimes, when I do alot of closing windows.  But I've never tried using
it on 1.3 either.


Jason Price
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus)
Subject: Re: A1200 HD question
Organization: Med-Systems, Kingsport, Tennessee
Date: 13 Jan 1993 01:26:36 GMT

khan@cheshire.oxy.edu (Onnie Lynn Winebarger) writes:

>In article <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com> wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus) writes:
>>ccb8m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy) writes:
>>
>>>I've had my 1200HD/80 for a week and a half.  The problem is this :)
>>>My Maxtor HD is acting flakey.  It started giving me block errors as
>>>I put stuff onto the HD.  Needless to say I immediately whipped out 
>>>HDtoolbox and did a "verify drive."  Five times I ran it and five
>>>times it came back with "No Errors"!  However when I would attempt to
>>>read certain files I still got the "block error" requestor.
>>
>>>OK me thinks, let us do a low level format!  Well I tried and tried AND
>>>tried, but it never worked!  Nothing was ever deleted! No Low level format
>>>was ever done!  Before I yell at C= or my dealer, I thought I'd see if
>>>I was doing anything wrong.
>>
>>>Can anybody give me any clues?
>>
>>Is this a Maxtor 2585AT you're using? I'm going to be installing two of these
>>particular drives for customers in 1200's either Tuesday or Wednesday of this
>>week. I sure hope they work ok! Has anyone verified whether they have the 
>>64K maxtransfer bug many 2.5" drives have? I thought I read that they didn't.
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>-- Wendell Dingus    internet:  wendell@medsys.rn.com       //  

>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you couldn't low-level format any
>IDE hard drive.  This could present a real problem :).
>Lynn
>khan@cheshire.oxy.edu

Right... Sort of. You *CAN* low-level format an IDE drive but you don't
WANT to! They all come low-level formatted and all defects mapped out from
the factory. Also, most of them have fake numbers for heads/cyls/secs since
drives have been shrinking and lots of them only have 1 or maybe 2 platters.
PC's have these nice hard-coded numbers for various sizes of drives which
is so utterly stupid. For some reason that 1" thick Maxtor 7080A with 
parameters of 980cyls, 10heads and 17secs/track looks just a bit "thin"
to have 5 platters (10 r/w heads) :-)  Have no idea on that particular
drive, but suspect it's a single platter. 

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From: app@shamash.cdc.com (CDII Advanced Pkg/Processes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: ftp site with Amiga news fags?
Date: 12 Jan 93 03:51:58 GMT
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN

Hi!

I'm about to loose my access to the Amiga newsgroups :(, and I was wondering
if there is an ftp site which has the Amiga news postings.

Does anyone know of one?  thanks.

Mike Lundberg
app@shamash.cdc.com
or:
	michael.s.lundberg@cdev.com
From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Reality Laboratories Newsletters: Anyone getting them?
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:10:47 PST
Organization: AmUsers - The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Mon  4 Jan 93  5:08, keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
wrote:

 KS> OK I'll bite What is a HAPPY FUN BALL ?

It's from SNL of course.  Now you're not going to ask, "what's SNL" are
you?

 -- AEd V1.37/Eval

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

-- Rick Lang
   Editor of the AmUser News - the Victoria Amiga User Group Newsletter

E-mail replies use rlang@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca - not the address in this
message!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: farhi@athena.mit.edu (Bill Hoston)
Subject: Help me identify Guru Meditation #
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:18:00 GMT

Can someone please tell me what Guru 8(1|0)000 0005 is?

Thanks,
Bill Hoston


--
	Bill Hoston
	farhi@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mikep@sr.hp.com (Mike Powell)
Subject: Re: Game-maker "Visionary"
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:45:18 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.9 PL6]

	I have Visionary.  I have not worked with it for some time
	as I lost interest in it (and got too busy).  It is o.k.
	There are a few bugs, and the manual is just plain wrong
	in many instances.  The support is poor, and I believe that there
	are no upgrades available or planned (and upgrades are needed
	badly).  The adventure development environment is only
	so-so.

	If you have a burning desire to be an adventure maker, then
	your money will not be wasted, but be prepared for a little
	frustration and abandonment.

	-Mike-

	P.S.  Sorry that I don't know it intimately enough to do a review.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cwahl@panix.com (Charles Wahl)
Subject: Question -- how to make bootable FFS floppy under 2.04
Keywords: bootable FFS floppy
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:40:41 GMT

The system disks that come with the 2.04 AmigaDOS distribution are of
the Old File System variety -- i.e. their capacity is 837K rather than
the 879K which a disk formatted with the Fast File System will hold.

Since I am still floppy-bound, it would be nice to have a boot disk
which is FFS, but I don't know how to go about making a boot disk unless
you have a bootable disk to copy (which was the technique I always used
under 1.3).  The manual only says "A bootable disk is one that contains
the files the Amiga needs to start operation" (p. 1-40), but that is not
the whole story, obviously, because copying everything on my 2.04 boot
disk onto a FFS formatted disk still results in a non-bootable disk (I
didn't use DiskCopy, since that would just give me an OFS boot disk).

Anyone know how to get around this?  I'd appreciate a tip in the right
direction.  Post or email are both ok.

Happy New Year,

Charles Wahl    <cwahl@panix.com>
From: cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Wing Commander
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:55:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan6.214304.22638@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M.S. Ashton) writes:
>Only on a PC can one fighter craft fly through another and survive.
>Some game to put forward as a clinching argument...

What does a hardware architecture have to do with the the
misprogramming of a flight simulator?  I'm sure you could
write one for the Amiga with the same bug, if you really
tried.   ;^)


This is starting to sound like .advocacy fodder...


Jeremy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: GP Soft people read PROJECT IDEA post
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:41:16 GMT
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Please read the PROJECT IDEA: Please read!!!  post

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The best Disney girl?  Definitely Belle (BatB)

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farmers would just die. I can live off of lawn clippings.  -- Dave Tiberio
From: I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Computer Joke.
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:49:11 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Let's make things interesting and have a thread of computer jokes.

Here's a crap one to start...

	What do you get if you cross a lawyer with an ST owner?

	Nothing, there's some things a lawyer wouldn't do!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Subject: Re: A1000 & misc. questions, advice
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:51:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.135008.23086@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
>How about a newer version of AmigaDOS?  What the best the 1000 will support? 
>What improvements does it have over 1.3?

I'm running 2.04 on mine.  2.1 should work too.

>If I were to bag the 1000 and buy something new, what would a complete,
>reasonable system cost?  What's the old 1000 worth?  I see the 1200 lists for
>$600--whats the street price?  Can I use the monitor or floppy drive from my
>1000 on a 1200?  If not, what would a new one cost?  How much would a decent
>hard drive cost?

A1000 are sold by the pound these days.  $150-$200 tops.  Don't know street
price of an A1200.  The monitor and floppy drive should work as well
as they do on your A1000.  IDE hard drive are a couple hundred bucks.

>What's the current state of Amiga technology?  What are Commodore's stated
>plans for the Amiga's future?  Is the user base steady, growing, or declining?
>I've seen people complaining about software vendors dropping Amiga support.

Better, bigger, faster.  Growing steadily.  Vendors come and go.  Most stay.

>Should I just save up for '486 clone?  If not, why not?  I'm a computing
>professional with a CS degree.  I'm a UNIX weenie and a competent C
>programmer.

No.  Then you would be stuck with a '486 clone!  UNIX weenie's and C
programmers don't like stuff that runs on '486s (except UNIX of course).
You'll like Amiga's system more that DOS.

>I realize the Amiga is a theoretically superior platform but I
>also realize that the PC platform has a huge user base, endless third party
>support, trillions of software packages, and very competitibe pricing.

True, but you won't live long enough to run all the programs available
for either platform at this point.  About 4.5 billion people on the
planet and only about 3 million have Amigas.  Enjoy the privilege.
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 _/    _/_/_/                             a mountain drink a mole hill.
From: Jayson_Hahn@hq-bbs.wisdom.bubble.org (Jayson Hahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: California Access
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:00:17 GMT
Organization: Headquarters BBS (Morristown, NJ)


   I was wondering if anyone knows if California access is still in
business?
They are the ones who made the Bodega Bay and other items. If they are
still in business and you know the phone numbern please send it to me!


Thanks,

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jayson Hahn
Amiga Sysop Headquarters BBS
1-201-672-8944

Jayson_Hahn@hq-bbs.wisdom.bubble.org

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From: kkrebs@amilink.UUCP (Ken Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PROJECT IDEA: Please respond
Distribution: world
Reply-To: amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:43:55 PST
Organization: Citizens Against Whiny A-Holes, Sacramento, CA

In article <C0K4D1.G7B@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
> 
> Finally, a decent project has emerged.  =u)  First, the boring info:
> 
> GfxRing, Copyright (C) 1993 Sam Hulick and Matt Lewallen.  All rights
> reserved.
> 
> Basically, you put GfxRing into WBStartup.  Loading GfxRing will start a
> server in the background, which waits for your phone to ring.  (NOTE:
> Your modem must be on and you must be offline).  The server detects this
> and puts a little graphical bell on your current window/screen
> momentarily.
> 
> Purpose:  In case you live in some place where you're cursed w/
> roommates, and are expecting a late phone call.  Turn your modem on,
> turn your phone ringer off, and turn on GfxRing.  Sure, you could just
> load up VLT or soomething and wait for "RING" to appear, but this is
> much more cosmetic.  =u)
> 
> If you have any suggestions, please do e-mail them to me at
> shulick@indiana.edu.  Thank you.
> 
> - SH
> - Vallen Software
> 
> -- 
>     // Amiga 3000   ___ \ Sam Hulick: shulick@indiana.edu (NeXTmail OK!)

There is a program out there called RingDetect v1.09 by Tomi Blinnikka.  It
does exactly what you ask and more:

-----Snarfed from RingDetect.Doc-----

WHAT DOES IT DO?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This program tells you when your phone is ringing. You may specify a
program for it to run when the phone rings. As extra options, it can bring
the screen it was opened on to the front, display a beep and of course
all options can be disabled.

-----EndSnarf-----

If anyone wants a copy, send me EMail and I'll uuencode it and mail it to
you.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: Here's an idea for a different ring-detect
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:55:22 GMT

In article <C0CqIx.4Ez@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@cineret.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>Would it be easy to make a prog that detects that 'boop' sound when you
>have another call, and notify the user 'You have a call waiting.' ?  I'm

That would be a wonderful thing, but I doubt it could be implimented
universaly anytime soon as regional "boops" are different.  For instance
my "boop" here (GTE) is higher than the "boop" I used to get in another 
region inside Indiana (Indiana Bell) and in Missouri where my mother lives
there is no "boop" just a "clickclack".  

Does anyone know of a standard or masterlist?  I'll ask in comp.dcom.telecom.

>-- 
>    // Amiga 3000   ___ \ Sam Hulick: shulick@indiana.edu (NeXTmail OK!)
>   // 68030 25 MHz /__/\ \ My opinions wear combat boots.  Or whatever.
>\\// OS 2.04       \__\/ / "Walk!  Not bloody likely.  I am going in a
> \/                     / taxi."  --George Bernard Shaw


--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Serial Connection from A2000/030 to Mac?
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 12:02:21 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

If the MAC uses a standard serial cable, just load a terminal program on
both ends and u/l from one and d/l from the other.


I was hoping to perform file transfers between an Amiga A2000/030
and a Mac Classic. Has anybody made a serial cable that will do such
a thing?

Thanks for any info,
Rob
-- 

Robert Mee     Boston University Information Technology      (rem@bu-it.bu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kruse@cs.ucf.edu (Holger Kruse )
Subject: Re: ReOrg ever fatally messed up?
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:06:39 GMT

dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag) writes:

>In article <1ic17lINNdik@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>, cs_d604@ceres (David Scutt)
>writes:
>>shulick@cineret.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
>>: 
>>: Has anyone had ReOrg trash their HD?  I can't afford a decent backup
>>: method for my HD, but it needs defragmenting.
>>: 
>>: -- 
>>
>>       I have used ReOrg on my nice 52MB HD, and had no problems.  It has a 
>>NOWRITE option (type Reorg -NOWRITE DH0:), which allows you to go through the 
>>scanning and re-ordering without actually writing anything back to the disk.  
>>This is the option to use to see if it causes any errors.  

Right. This can be used with the Kick1.3-compatible ReOrg versions V1.x.
For ReOrg 2.x (Kick2.x-compatible), there is an option in the "advanced
options" window "simulate optimization only" that does the same job.

>>
>>       It should be safe to use, as long as you don't get a power cut, or 
>>interrupt it half-way through....
>>
>>       As far as the Backup is concerned, what's wrong with AmigaDOS copy and
>>a good file archiver????
>>
>>Dave Scutt - cs_d604@ceres.king.ac.uk

>An early version of ReOrg that I used BADLY screwed over my HD.. this was about
>7-8 months ago.. Went like 15% through the defragmenting process and just
>decided it wanted to quit for some stupid reason.. botched every single file on
>disk..

That's right. Earlier versions had some trouble with certain types of
controllers. Please use V2.33 and make sure that ReOrg has sufficient
stack (40000 bytes should be fine). Unfortunately some archives have been
distributed with a wrong stack setting in the icon.

>        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>        |o|              I think, therefore I Amiga.              |=|
>        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>        | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
>        |  dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us   | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
>        +------------------------------+----------------------------+

Holger Kruse
kruse@eola.cs.ucf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Great feature in 1200 (3.0?)
From: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??)
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:22:16 -0600
Reply-To: martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Organization: St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

In article <1993Jan11.084803.20756@ra.msstate.edu>, skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
>In article <1iqvv9INNnmp@ub.d.umn.edu> rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman) writes:
>
><talk about the 8 second reboot on Guru Errors deleted>
>
>>Anyone know if this feature is on the A4000?
>
>I have never really checked, but I suspect it is so.  I've never come in
>to find my A4000 with a flashing guru erro message, yet I know it had
>crashed at some point.  Next time, I'll watch it and see.


It sure does reboot on it own...rather suprised the first time it happened.
I was reaching for that LMB and before I even got my hand there it took off.
WHAT's this I thought...they added that rumored telepathy/DSP board...nah,
must be a fluke...


but to answer briefly, , yup it does reboot.


                                            

>                                           
>>	Thanks
>>	Robert Fentiman
>>
>>UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
>>At: University of Minnesota, Duluth
>
>Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
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From: guru@hotcity.COM (Darren Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A1200 flicker
Date: 5 Jan 93 00:24:09 PST
Organization: BBS

Is there anyway to kill the flicker on an A1200 with a 1960 monitor? I thought
it had a built-in flicker fixer.. Am I wrong? I had the MultiScan and VGA
monitors installed.
From: docbliny@mits.mdata.fi (Tomi Blinnikka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: PROJECT IDEA: Please respond
Date: 9 Jan 93 15:46:16 GMT
Organization: Microdata Oy

shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:


>Finally, a decent project has emerged.  =u)  First, the boring info:

>GfxRing, Copyright (C) 1993 Sam Hulick and Matt Lewallen.  All rights
>reserved.

>Basically, you put GfxRing into WBStartup.  Loading GfxRing will start a
>server in the background, which waits for your phone to ring.  (NOTE:
>Your modem must be on and you must be offline).  The server detects this
>and puts a little graphical bell on your current window/screen
>momentarily.

I've already written a program almost like this. My program, RingDetect, allows
you to run any program (scripts, play samples etc.), flash the screen and
bring its window (and the screen it's on) to front. Using RingDetect you
should be able to achieve your goal (Except RingDetect is Copyright (C) Tomi
Blinnikka 1993 :).


>Purpose:  In case you live in some place where you're cursed w/
>roommates, and are expecting a late phone call.  Turn your modem on,
>turn your phone ringer off, and turn on GfxRing.  Sure, you could just
>load up VLT or soomething and wait for "RING" to appear, but this is
>much more cosmetic.  =u)

Another situation is when you're listening to music real loud and can't
hear the phone ringing (you have to be at your computer though). I also
use it to log the time/date of calls. This way I can see when someone has
called and left a message on my answering machine.
 Well, graphics are always nice, but....

--
docbliny@mits.mdata.fi             | Tomi Blinnikka           /// CBM |
[Insert smart quote here]          | Tel. +358-0-3511462  \\\/// 2500 |
Mines an Amiga Black Tower 2500 Tzi, what's yours?     |   \XX/ AMIGA |
From: zerkle@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Byte A4000/A3000T-040 Review
Date: 10 Jan 93 02:29:50 GMT
Reply-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis

In article <1993Jan9.095350.7566@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
>> And come on,how many "home" users (with all the images that brings up)
>> need a 25MHz 68040 machine?
>
>Perhaps more importantly... how many home computer users WANT a 25 MHz 040
>machine?  ;-)

Me! Me!  Oooh!  Oooooooh!  Gimme!

Then again, I'm not a "typical" home user (if there is such a thing).

--
Dan Zerkle  zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 756-5170
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Keywords: manuals documentation 2.04
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:13:58 GMT

In <38444@cbmvax.commodore.com> ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:

>Still, I am only quibbling.  Your basic point is valid.  I'll look into how
>we could improve our docs to take account of possible newbie reaction to 
>unexplained disk contents.

How about just including a directory tree of the install disks?  You
could even do it in that half point font that the laywers like to use. :)

>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Ross Hippely:                                               Technical Writer
>employed by, not speaking for:              Commodore Business Machines Inc.


--Jason Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc