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From: hilton@leechs.lzo.dec.com (Greg Hilton)
Subject: PC Task problems
Reply-To: hilton@bahtat.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Company
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:01:34 GMT


I just got PC Task demo 1.02 on my Amiga 500 with 1mb chip and 2mb fast
ram I have a small MS-DOS partition on my hard drive which was created
for the IBeM demo version. Now IBeM will boot from this, but PCTASK won't

I can boot PC task from df0: and then access C:. But then I hit my next 
problem! I have Wordstar 2000 installed on the c: drive. PCTASK guru's
when I try and run it. It will run fine under IBeM.

I can use a shareware WP package, but under both IBeM and PCtask I can
type too fast (and I'm not a fast typer!) for the programs meaning I 
lose characters. Is this because I've only got a 68000? Would an
accelerator cure this problem?

Greg
From: aoml@enh.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: How do I get a bigger AMAX screen?'
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:26:50 GMT
Organization: NIST

In a previous article, pat_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Pat Meloy) wrote:
> 
> I had the same problem with Amax at first. I decided that since the
>"defaults" worked that it wasn't a matter of simply having an overscanned
>screen, but that it was the particular size I had chosen.
> 
> Someone else out there may know the actual limits.

I was able to get A-Max working at up to 687 x 484 interlaced.
This was on an A1000.  Caveat: The RAM disk stopped working at
this screen size.

Christian Labbe
AOML@ENH.NIST.GOV or Labbe@3338.DNET.NASA.GOV
From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A3000T's with HD floppies and MSH
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:53:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: crash.1992Apr07.205317.4886
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

Is it possible to create a mountlist entry for MSH on an A3000T
equipped with a High Density Floppy disk which will allow
one to read/write 1.44M MS-DOS floppies?
If so what would it be.
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From: tlee@mickey.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Timothy Lee)
Subject: Re: AMAX questions
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:27:20 GMT

In article <worley.702765136@updike> worley@updike.sri.com (Steve Worley) writes:
>I just got an AMAX-II (and Apple ROMS) and am just starting to set it up.
>Before I go through the big hassle of making my first system disk, what
>is the best version of the system software to use? 6.0.7 and 6.0.8 are
>the "latest" but I don't know anyone who's tried anything past 6.0.5. 
>Can anyone recommend the best version to use so I don't have to do this
>installation more than once? :-)
>
>BTW: All Mac system software is copyrighted, but freely distributable.
>You can even FTP 6.0.7, 6.0.8, 7.0.0, and 7.1 from Apple at the site
>ftp.apple.com. This is very convienient! :-)
>
>Also, the AMAX instructions say that it works with an 800K external
>floppy drive. Will it also work with an HD external Superdrive?  These
>drives can read and write 800K, but it does the 1.44M as well.  Or do
>I have to get an 800K? [I already have the external HD floppy on a Mac
>that I can move.]

  The BEST system to use would be 6.0.5 because some mac programs require
  at least system 6.0.5 to run... I never seen any programs that required 
  system 6.0.7 or 6.0.8 .. But I think there are some programs that require
  system 7.0.x...   

   Run SYSTEM 6.0.5

			---tim
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 2.  If it stinks, it's chemistry.              |  timlee@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
 3.  If it doesn't work, it's physics.          |  timlee@WORK.SLEEPING.ZZZ
From: cqn1676@zeus.tamu.edu (CHINH QUOC NGUYEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Trick for flicker on Amax
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:01:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


To the guy that asked about interlace flicker and to all of you that have to
deal with it I've got a tip for you.  If you have KS2.04, set your screen to
PAL Hi-res interlaced and put your polarized screen cover on your monitor.  Now
try it on Amax, or even your Workbench.  I haven't tried this (I have a 3000 :-)
but I saw this on a friend of mine's system and the flicker was minimal!

I agree with Mike when he says that those polarized screens don't help but this
time it does, any technical guys wanna tell us why it works so well with PAL?

Chinh Nguyen

*As of 4-13-92, active member (again) of He-Man Women Hater's Club*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: jojo@alessia.dei.unipd.it (Paolucci Giorgio 264433/IL)
Subject: AT-once
Keywords: problems...
Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova - ITALY
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:36:52 GMT


Hello, i'm a purchaser of the ATonce 8MHz by Vortex and i've some problems
with it: could you help me? Here are my problems:
 1)The VGA emulation doesn't work, or better, it works but not as a
VGA.  I explain: if you use Turbo Pascal 5.5, and you use the
autodetection function do detect the graphic adapter, it says that you
have an MCGA.  Because of this fact, all program that support the VGA
(for example MathCad) don't work (the VGA emulation is not VGA
indeed).By the way, if use T.P.  and try to select the VGA or the VGA
monochrome driver, all the graphic functions don't work.

2)The EGA emulation doesn't work too.I've the same problems with a
difference: if you select the MCGA driver everything works fine (that is you
obtain a 640x480 monochrome screen),if you select the EGA driver you obtain a
640x350 screen but nothing works... 

3)p2a.exe doesn't work.  When you run it, it fills 5 or 6 screens with the
character "U", then prints that the transfert is performing and then..(here
is a nice thing) if you had specified ramdisk as destination(i.e.  p2a myfile
ram:myfile) everything works fine; if you had specified another device as
destination (i.e p2a myfile df1:myfile) and myfile is less than what you have
specified for the buffers in the config.sys, then everything works fine,
while if myfile is more than this,the Amiga crashes. 

4)a2p.exe : same problems.... 

I remind you my hardware configuration:
Amiga500 rev.5
512K internal expansion
Two 3.5" drives
AT-once system disk V1.28
AT-once utilities disk V1.27

If you have any solutions, please e-mail me.
You can e-mail me at jojo@alessia.dei.unipd.it

thankyou in advance

		jojo
From: sevigny@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Benoit Sevigny)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amax Mountlist
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:51:00 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

In article <14APR199210503683@zeus.tamu.edu> cqn1676@zeus.tamu.edu (CHINH QUOC NGUYEN) writes:
>
>I previously put up a post about having trouble making a mountlist for Amax.
>From the letters I received about this, I think I wasn't very clear as to why I
>wanted to do this (thanks anyways guys!).  I know how to get my Amax partition
>to automount using HDToolbox, but when I do that, I get the stupid icon
>AMAX:#?$0.  I would like to get rid of that by not automounting the partition
>at startup (boot) but mounting it when I run Amax.  I can't seem to get my
>mountlist right and the example in the manual doesn't work.  My configuration
>again is a 3000/25 with 52meg quantum drive.  Because I can't seem to get the
>mountlists right, I also have the same problem with my IBeM partition.
>
>Chinh Nguyen
>cqn1676
>
>*As of 4-13-92, active member (again!) of the He-Man Women-Hater's Club*

Use HDToolBox to select the reserved option of your partitions.  You can
find it in the partitions/advanced/filesystem option.  You won't see them
anymore in your Workbench.

BTW, you don't have to mount your AMAX partition (I think) if you wan't it
to be used exclusively by AMAX.  I don't have any AMAX entries in my
mountlist, I don't see it in my Workbench, but I can still have my 30Mb
partition in AMAX.  AMAX doesn't use the mountlist and reads directly your
partition names to find any AMAX-prefix.

My IBeM partition is visible in my Workbench since I can use it from both
sides (Amiga and IBeM).  I use MultiDOS for this.  It is great because
MultiDOS filters .INF files as .info (I think it looks into it to make sure
it is really an Amiga icon), so you can put icons in your disks and you
will see them in your Workbench.

The only problem I have with MultiDOS 1.2 is that once started, IBeM can't
see the files I copy to my IBMC partition from the Amiga side until it is
restarted.  Maybe IBeM uses some buffering method that is not aware that
another system can modify its directory entries.


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From: yury@bknight.jpr.com (Yury German)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re:  A3000 & 2.0 ROM Problems
Distribution: world
Date: 4 Apr 92 18:59:50 GMT
Organization: Blue-Knight Productions

In article <fqd+-Y=@engin.umich.edu> cython@irie.ais.org (Tim Devlin) writes:
>not known the answer to.  On an A2000, you are limited to 7 megs of ram
>when using the Bridgeboads, due to where in the address space they address,
	Its wrong..... I have an amiga 2000 with GVP 33 mhz board.... so
that I want to say that I had a bridgeboard... worked fine. So its not
onlyt he 3000.

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From: u9050912@golum.riv.csu.edu.au (Jason J. Strudwick)
Subject: ATonce Plus Software
Organization: Charles Sturt University-Riverina, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:08:16 GMT

I have version 2.22 of the software, which was released in December last
year. Have there been any updates since then? They seem to release a new
version every 1-2 months, so there should be a version above 2.22 by
now.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: A-Max Disks and Systemcrashes.
From: hoffmann@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (Arthur Hoffmann)
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:12:41 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

HI,  
I just found out that my Amiga hangs everytime I insert an Amax formatted disk,
What is the problem here? Maybe 2.04?
Now don't tell me that i  shouldn't put Amax disks in the amiga anyway, but what
if you want to reformat some old amax disks for the use on the amiga? By the way
the system doesn't hang when I first enter  the Format command in the shell and
then put in the disk to be formatted.


Thanks for your info.

Arthur.
From: chem194@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: IBeM, is this the PD MS-DOS emulator?
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:03:20 +1200
Organization: Chem Dept, UoC NZ

In article <32740@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, vittu@cats.ucsc.edu (Matthew Daniel Rothwell) writes:

> Am I correct that IBeM is the IBM emulator I saw several months ago 
> that was only available for 68030 Amigas?  Is there now a working version
> for 68000 Amigas?  If so, where can this program be ftp'd?

that was ancient history - there are now versions for 68000 and 68030.
However, IBeM is _not_ PD, it is shareware with a freely distributable
crippled demo version. 

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From: eha@phoenix.oulu.fi (Esa Haapaniemi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: J. Drew...UUCP
Date: 7 Apr 92 06:00:50 GMT
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland

Hi Jim, I cannot reach you through net any more, DON'T YOU HAVE
ANY OTHER ADDRESS THAN UUCP ???

Esa Haapaniemi	(Proud owner of Sybyl :)
University of Oulu
Department of Chemistry
Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: bdraschk@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke)
Subject: Re: HOW FAST IS PC-TASK?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:19:31 GMT

derek@kirk.tmc.edu (Dariusz Bolski) writes:

>Couldn't test it. Transformer crashes our A3000 before the boot even.
>But It is possible I do something wrong. Did someone make Transformer to
>work on A3000? If yes, could this person post how to do that?
One of the Gurus Transformer creates is 08 Priviledge Violation. I managed 
to run Transformer on my 68010 by using Fix68010 on it. This programm changes
the privileged instruction MOVE SR into the UserState equivalent.
After that Transformer didn't crash 08 anymore, but often enough to throw 
it away.
But even if you'd fix it this way, Transformer wouldn't run on a A3000
because it doens't know of 32bit RAM and such.

Ciao,
	Arty
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From: magundi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (john macdonald)
Subject: Re: AMax II roms-macrom program
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:35:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.193858.917@desire.wright.edu> antioch@desire.wright.edu writes:
>
>Are you talking about the Mac Roms on disk?  That is not distributed by
>anyone as far as I know of because it is illegal. I have run AMAX on
>my AMiga using the 'Roms on Disk' but of course  I still cant hook up
>a Mac drive so its not too helpful.

Well...
You can use a Mac Hard drive with the Rom's on a disk version.
And you can always use the crappy file transfer program to get
Mac stuff onto Amax format disks.

john
From: cqn1676@zeus.tamu.edu (CHINH QUOC NGUYEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: DJ Printer Driver...
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:43:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Is anyone here having much luck with the DJ printer driver 2.1?  I just got a
DJ500 and after turning off imagewriter emulation on the startup (AmaxII) I
still get text/graphics and garbage.  Since I just got it, I'm not sure if I'm
supposed to change the dips but it prints perfectly on the Amiga side.  If
there is a more recent/better printer driver, could you please send it me?
Bin-hexed of course.  Also, while I'm on the subject of the DJ, a friend of mine
said there is a program that reads in postscript files and converts and outputs
them to the DJ.  Sounds great but he's not having much luck getting it to work.
Anyone know anything about it?  Thanks in advance.

Chinh Nguyen
cqn1676@venus.tamu.edu

*As of 4-15-92, I have renounced my association with
 the He-Man Women Hater's Club*



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From: jojo@alessia.dei.unipd.it (Paolucci Giorgio 264433/IL)
Subject: At-once
Keywords: p2a.exe & buffers
Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova - ITALY
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 18:25:08 GMT



Hello, i'm a purchaser of the ATonce 8MHz by Vortex and i've some problems
with it: could you help me? Here are my problems:
 1)The VGA emulation doesn't work, or better, it works but not as a
VGA.  I explain: if you use Turbo Pascal 5.5, and you use the
autodetection function do detect the graphic adapter, it says that you
have an MCGA.  Because of this fact, all program that support the VGA
(for example MathCad) don't work (the VGA emulation is not VGA
indeed).By the way, if use T.P.  and try to select the VGA or the VGA
monochrome driver, all the graphic functions don't work.

2)The EGA emulation doesn't work too.I've the same problems with a
difference: if you select the MCGA driver everything works fine (that is you
obtain a 640x480 monochrome screen),if you select the EGA driver you obtain a
640x350 screen but nothing works... 

3)p2a.exe doesn't work.  When you run it, it fills 5 or 6 screens with the
character "U", then prints that the transfert is performing and then..(here
is a nice thing) if you had specified ramdisk as destination(i.e.  p2a myfile
ram:myfile) everything works fine; if you had specified another device as
destination (i.e p2a myfile df1:myfile) and myfile is less than what you have
specified for the buffers in the config.sys, then everything works fine,
while if myfile is more than this,the Amiga crashes. 

4)a2p.exe : same problems.... 

I remind you my hardware configuration:
Amiga500 rev.5
512K internal expansion
Two 3.5" drives
AT-once system disk V1.28
AT-once utilities disk V1.27

If you have any solutions, please e-mail me.
You can e-mail me at jojo@alessia.dei.unipd.it

thankyou in advance

		jojo


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: atul@Cadence.COM (Atul Srinivasan)
Subject: AMAX Questions
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 17:06:35 GMT

Hello,
	I have some questions on AMAX, any answers would be appreciated.

1) What is the easiest way to transfer LARGE files between a MAC 
and AMIGA running AMAX ? 

2) DOes the file transfer method allow splitting up one large file into
smaller chunks, then reassemble on the AMIGA ?

3) Does anyone know the ftp location of a PD term program for the MAC ?
(I don't have direct ftp access, so please specify full path to
file, so I don't have to ftp request by mail a zillion times.)

4) Has anyone gotten SAM Intercept Scan to be compatible with the Shutdown
or Restart commands ? When I place the SAM control panel doc in the system
drawer so SAM starts up automatically on boot, the Shutdown / Restart
commands don't work. The system just goes blank and stays that way.

5) The manual says something about holding down the right mouse button
while the MAC boot screen is showing, to alter AMAX preferences.
I can't get this to work. Has anyone done this ?

Thanks in advance
Atul
atul@cadence.COM
From: jwalker@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Amax and SupraDrive Series III HDs - how?!
Date: 12 Apr 92 03:38:05 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Does anyone know whether there is a HD driver for Supra Series III (not 
II - there is a driver for that on ab20) that allows you to use an AMax 
partition on the HD? Thanks alot!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
Subject: AMaxII+ Availability
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:06:08 GMT

As of today (92 04 13), I have been informed by ReadySoft that the AMaxII+
hardware emulator will be on dealer shelves within two weeks. Registered users
of the current AMax II software should receive upgrade notices within the
next three weeks. While we've heard this all before, ReadySoft was emphatic
that this was not a projected release date, but rather an official announcement
of availability.

For more information, contact ReadySoft at (416) 731-4175 or
(416) 764-8867 (FAX).

Mark

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From: siera@imada.ou.dk (Soeren Berg Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: PC-TASK Problems II
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:26:10 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark

obaby@ens-lyon.fr (Olivier Baby) writes:

>PC-TASK doesn't seem to work with the msdos command  'keyb' :
>as soon as i type keybfr, the letter 'h' appears under the cursor
>each time I hit a key !

>Is this due to PC-TASK ?

>I have also remarked that the C Drive is still unvailable even when
>created with the start up menu ?

>What's wrong with it ?

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>ENSL-UCBL	|	obaby@frensl61.bitnet	|  FRANCE
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Had the same problem, but figured it out. U know, that u have to use
fdisk to create a harddisk partion for the PCTask. Only thing is, that
the demo version (which I assume that u are using) has writing disabled, and
thus you can not format the harddrive, nomatter how hard u try :(

About the other problem, I don't know. I'm planing on being a registred
user though, and I'll get back with my experiences then.




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From: 01ksdavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re:AMax Roms IU GUY PLEASE READ THIS
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:44:08 GMT


	Hello again.  It's me (Kyle.)  And I wanted to post another message
because the one I tried sending earlier to IU bounced.
	I have a feeling that the person who mailed me was the same who mailed
me before, and I really want to thank you for your help.  I just have a few
questions.
	Where can I get one of these Eprommers?  Radio Shack?  Will it wind up
being cheaper than just getting the Roms-the lowest offer I've seen has been
$130-which is $130 I don't have.
	I really couldn't figure out how to take apart the macs at the lab
anyhow.  I looked, and I didn't see any screws.  Just seams.  Why was I looking 
to take it apart-it ate my disk, and even a paperclip couldn't convince it to
let go of it.
	Nothing important was on it, thankfully, because I have an Amiga and
all of my important stuff is on its hard drive.
	I wouldn't even think about some other method if I could afford the
roms.  Preferably, I would like to buy a dead Mac off of some unfortunate Mac
user for $50, with the boot roms intact.  This won't happen, though.
	You know, I couldn't believe that the Mac ate my disk.  It was funny
when the labs weren't full, but as sooon as they became full it was no longer
funny.  
	Instead of waiting for the repairman-who hates Amigas-I decided to fix
it myself.  Needless to say, I won, and the Mac lost.  I used to wonder why we
had so much problems with the macs crashing, but I was talking to the
repairman-he came to repair a computer that I had reported weeks earlier-and it
turns out that they use seagate drives, not my reliable quantum drives.
	Sure, my Amiga has had it's share of gurus, but it doesn't seem to
match how many system bombs that have happened at the labs-I lost count.
		Well, once again, thanx.
			:-)Kyle