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From: hunter@phoenix.apana.org.au (James Gardiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: WHY DirOpus when there are Just as good PD ones?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:33:37 +1000
Organization: Phoenix ComSystem
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.apana.org.au


Why is there such a following of DirOpus when there are many PD/shareware
tools which are just as good and better if you ask me.

I use DirWorks by Chris Hames.  There is nothing my friends with DirOpus
can do which I cannot do with DirWorks.  There are also many features
DirWorks has that DirOpus cannot do.

DirWirks is a very configurable program.  You really have to read the
manual to find this out.  I see many complaints about DirWork which 
it can do but users just don't READ THE MANUAL.


My advise to anyone thinking about getting a file utility, have a good
look at the PD/shareware ones before you go out and spend your money.


James
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: nrichers@trentu.ca (NIKOLAJ RICHERS)
Subject: Re: Why are they ignoring the Amiga?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent Computing and Telecommunications Department
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:06:00 GMT

> 
>The problem with the Amiga's base in Europe is that it is composed almost
>entirely of A500 owners who do not buy productivity software.  If a big
>company did develop Amiga versions of their software in European languages,
>they would lose lots and lots of money because none of the Amiga owners in
>Europe would buy it.  Amigoids in Europe are far more likely to buy 
>Lemmings II than a graphical Word Perfect for the Amiga.
> 
>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>-------------------------------------------------------------------

Marc;

I think that is a very poor judgement; there is a strong subculture of Amiga 
users with higher-end Amigas in Europe, particularly amongst computer science
students. I have seen it in Germany, Switzerland, and Britain, but I hear it
is also quite strong in Italy and Scandinavia. Personally, I know quite a few 
people who use Amigas for professional purposes, some of them self-employed; 
none of them, except for one, own an A500. As for corporations, the Amiga has 
always had this image of a (powerful) outsider machine, one of the reasons why
I have two, but I think with video applications this is changing in at least 
one area. Even one of the national German TV stations, the 'ZDF', is using 
Amigas and Video Toasters.

Besides, I was born in Europe and I have lived there for many years, and I own
an A2000 and an A3000, not an A500. Plus I've spent at least $1000 on software 
over the past four and a half years, since I bought my A2000. I have grown up
with the Amiga; right now I am about to embark on my doctorate--guess what it'll
be written on? excellence! and PageStream.

Nikolaj (1)

__________

(1) Nikolaj Peddie-Richers, Trent University, Canada, nrichers@trentu.ca
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:19454 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:22417
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Accelerators/FAST RAM for A1200s?
Date: Tue,  5 Jan 93 10:37:44 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan04.184345.23839@zds-oem.zds.com>

I am not certain of the availablity, but the MBX1200 is exactly what
you are looking for(the Microbotics Fast memory/FPU board).
The MBX1200 comes with 1-8MBs of memory and has 14-50 MHZ FPU units
available.  I can get some very good prices on them.  Email me it
you want a price list.
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Date: 12 Jan 93 09:45:02 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1993Jan4.124126.5992@sunbim.be> accs1@bagheera.mumath writes:
>
>In article 10372@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com, peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>>
>>Sorry, wrong in this case. All the Amiga user manuals are *not* written
>>by the programmers but by docs specialists.
>
>I bet the German version of the docs have been translated by doc specialists without
>technical (computer) background. 

Oh yes, they have some (PC) computer background. But yes, all Amiga specifics
were (and mostly are still) new to them. In such a case it's the task of the
reviewer (that's me) to correct misunderstandings by them before such a
translation goes into print.

>So, the ideal would be to have a technician trained to write docs.

Hmm, perhaps better the other way round. In the best of all worlds, you
would have some genius who excels in all regards, but then this being
wouldn't be payable by our company, and could perhaps do even more useful 
stuff within this company.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: anybody used their PCMCIA port yet?
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:16:29



I was just glancing at Open Systems Today, and they had a reasonably
interesting article about the "standardization" of PCMCIA cards.  It
looked prettty cool, an ethernet card for $400 or so, wireless cards,
PCMCIA<->you_name_it I/O adapters, PCMCIA ram expansion, etc etc.

So, have you found a PCMCIA card for your Amiga yet?  Perhaps it's the
perfect place to put one of those game-cracker doodads?

--
J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311 (DoD# 0378)
"It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence
of content.  It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce
itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard
From: bamboroughp@logica.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: X Windows on Amiga ???
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:07:11 GMT

Does anyone know if there is an Amiga port of X Windows and where I can  get
the source code for such a port ???

Thanks in advance ...

bamboroughp@logica.co.uk	- 	Home for the mentally undertall !!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
Subject: Re: Why are they ignoring the Amiga?
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:28:10 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19

stefan@terapin.com (Stefan Eguizabal) writes:

>From an Amiga user (and lover) to anyone:
>        Why is it that all the big PC and Macintosh devolopers seem to be
>ignoring the Amiga? Don't big companies like Microsoft, Claris, Lotus, and
>Cricket realize what a treasure a community like the Amiga is? Many Amiga users
>are desperate for good productivity software, and yet are adamant about not
>going over to IBM or Apple, because the Amiga is definitely the superior
>computer. I am one of those. If Microsoft came out with Word or Excel today, I
>would go out and buy it, no matter how much it cost, because programs like
>Professional Calc (Gold Disk), and MaxiPlan (The Disc Comapany) are like big
>jokes...they're really pathetic! Somebody, please, you've got to know!

This one's easy.
Because it's not worth their time and effort.  The Amiga market is still such a
small part of the computer market in the US that it's not feasible finacially
to port the software to the Amiga.  In any case, the Amiga market is likely
better off without Micro$oft.  Every time Apple has upgraded either their
hardware or software, virtually every M$ product on the market breaks.  That
sort of track record I can do without.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Subject: Mail FTP questions
Organization: None
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:24:31 GMT

I would like information about Mail FTP and sites that support it.  

This information is for inclusion in my next posting of the Amiga Science/
School/UNIX FAQ.

Reply by email please.

Thanks.


-- 
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                     | akerman@QUCIS.BITNET        | -Guinan in Time's Arrow II 
                     | akerman@bill.phy.queensu.ca |    Star Trek: The Next 
                     | akerman@qucdnast.BITNET     |        Generation
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tim@lenti.med.umn.edu (Tim Leonard)
Subject: Re: Re-partitioning GVP 500HD with 2.04 and FAAASTprep?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:08:44 GMT

In article <64sVwB2w165w@coyote.datalog.com> cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson) writes:
>
>* You should be able to boot up in 1.x mode (and using the 2.x ROM, it'll 
>be running in 2.x mode...), and then fire up the FaaastPrep program to 
>clean off the HD.
> 
>You've already saved the drive contents...this is good; as you'll need to 
>reformat the drive in order to create the partition.
> 
>The manual I have on the HD+ drive gives enough detail to partition the 
>drives...I created a ten meg DH0: and have two 53 Meg partitions for 
>Work: junk and Data: junk.  If you give it a size that you want, it'll 
>let you know how much room you have and whether you have the room to 
>format a partition of the sizes you request...it's pretty 
>self-explanitory.
> 

Thanks.  I guess the only real difference is that, as someonelse told me,
the "Automatic" set-up option does not function well under 2.04.  Nice
to know I can still use the old disk.  Just wish that the manual was a
little more thorough.

Tonight's the big night :-|

Tim Leonard  tim@lenti.med.umn.edu
From: c92caren@IDA.LiU.SE (Dingbats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Is it possible to get an Amiga to read an MS-DOS formatted disk ?
Date: 9 Jan 93 23:51:48 GMT
Organization: CIS Dept, University of Linkoping, Sweden

In article <20249.2b4d88b7@ul.ie> brehonyt@ul.ie writes:

>   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:-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: a484amid@cdf.toronto.edu (Rudy Amid)
Subject: Re: BBS for Amiga in Toronto
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:28:37 GMT

In <C0qwtH.JLy@ecf.toronto.edu> kuschel@ecf.toronto.edu (KUSCHEL BORIS) writes:

>Is there anyone who could list a few bbs's for the Amiga in the Toronto area? Or some 800 numbers for the amiga 

  Try picking a copy of Toronto Computes! in the Engineering Annex Library.
It should be listed there.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: Accelerators/FAST RAM for A1200s?
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:43:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan04.052542.6963@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>I just got a new A1200. Wonderful machine!
>
>however, it is lacking in both memory and raw speed for some
>if the stuff I was used to doing on my 6 MB A3000. So, does anyone
>out there know of memory/accelerator upgrades available or available RSN
>for the A1200?

  Tell me about it.  You should try running Image F/X on 2 Mb of chip
RAM. :-)

  Wasnt it Microbotics that announced a Clock/FPU/Memory board for
the A1200 trap door?

  Personally I'm holding out for a '030/FPU/Memory/SCSI board.  I hope
somebody makes one soon, I cant stand 2 Mb of RAM much longer. :-)

>MAIL : IANK@MICROSOFT.COM			 Crime and Puzzlement

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: HERE HERE!  *toast*
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:00:39 GMT


I'd just like to thank all the FreeWare/ShareWare programmers out there
for making EXCELLENT stuff, comparable with commercial software.  You've
made peoples' Amigas able to grow, without eating our wallets.  THANK
YOU!

Special thanks to
    John Veldthuis (Virus_Checker)
    Stefan Becker (ToolManager 2.0)
    "Zop" (Csh)
    Holger Kruse (ReOrg)
    Ed Mackey (EdPlayer)
    Nic Wilson (SysInfo)
    Sebastiano Vigna (Mostra)

And, of course, enormous thanks to Fred Fish!

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    // Amiga 3000   ___ \ Sam Hulick: shulick@indiana.edu (NeXTmail OK!)
   // 68030 25 MHz /__/\ \ My opinions wear combat boots.  Or whatever.
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 \/                     / taxi."  --George Bernard Shaw
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: PLEASE help with modem setup??
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:20:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.C0nHLH.GH0
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Originator: shulick@navajo


It seems I can never get my SupraFAXModem V.32 set up just right.  What
are ideal settings for an A3000 machine, dialing a University dial-up
that supports MNP5?  If I turn on compression & use MNP5, when I type,
the characters are lagged.  Also, I still notice that if I do long
listings, they come in bursts.  Any reason why?  And, the last thing,
playing mods while using the modem gives me "line errors".. with VLT, at
least.  And Jr-Comm would screw up on downloads because of a mod.
Someone said this is a CPU problem.. why?  Thanks for any info.

-- 
    // 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Re:  New program: CaveComm
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 03:17:58 GMT

In article <jperkski.02v0@kentcomm.uucp>, jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski) says most sayishly:
>Is this a real program? CaveComm?

Of course not. :)  Just a silly parody.

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    // 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
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:19512 comp.sys.amiga.applications:9807
From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re:  Notebook
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:54:20 GMT
Organization: Andrews University

In article <1993Jan5.173711.6582@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu) writes:
>
>
>Anyone heard of a program called Notebook and/or have anything
>to say about it?  It's a utility where you can record notes,
>and organize them.  I think it's by Black Belt.  My husband
>is looking for a birthday present for me.  I know...  Too
>close to Christmas, and he hasn't even paid the Mastercard
>yet!  :-)
>
>Thanks, Clare
>clare@nynexst.com

I've heard of it but have never seen it.  I think I read a review on it in
one of 1992's Amiga Worlds.

Edsel
--
"That girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life
forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid
meeting."
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|    It brings me naught but sorrow     | Computer Science / Mathematics Major
|    I know that I should stop it       | Andrews University
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From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: AmigaOS Versions
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:03:09 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

Amid all of the confusion, I will now survey what I believe are the major versions of
the OS and submit for correction by the wisdom of the net.....

   1.0 - Was there one? Perhaps for early 1000's.
   1.1 - On Kickstart disk for A1000 - the oldest version I have.
   1.2 - First version to be found in ROM, in early 500's and 2000's - could be
         crashed by moving a Workbench window offscreen.
   1.3 - The first reasonably stable, and longest lived version (3 years).
   1.3.2 - Disk only upgrade, released with later A500's.
   1.4 - (Never happened - became 2.0)
   2.01, 2.02 - Disk-only (SuperKickstart) for early A3000's. Unstable.
   2.04 - The first major release of 2.0x, for 3000's and in ROM for A500+/2000.
          ROM size increased to 512K. No more meditation. Lots of fixes. First
          decent version of Workbench. ECS support.
   2.05 - Upgrade to above with minor fixes and support for IDE HDs (A600). Supplied
          with A1500 as software-only upgrade to 2.04 and in ROM in the 600.
   2.10 - Current version for non-AGA machines. Locale.library, fixes, PostScript,
          some other stuff. I don't know if this is official in the UK but it IS
          available. Supplied with current A3000's.
   3.0 - 2.10 with some extra bits, mainly to support the AGA (AA ?) chipset.
         Supplied with A1200/A4000.

Can people add to or correct this?

Dave
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From: shulick@cineret.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: ReOrg ever fatally messed up?
Originator: shulick@cineret
Reply-To: shulick@cineret.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:57:22 GMT


Has anyone had ReOrg trash their HD?  I can't afford a decent backup
method for my HD, but it needs defragmenting.

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    // 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
From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Using non-default icon for RAM:
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:38:41 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

In a message dated Mon  4 Jan 93  2:49, alfredo@ajahnv.lonestar.org
(Alfredo Jahn V) wrote:

AJV> I colorize my RAM: disk icon and save it. Looks great. Re-boot, and
AJV> its back to its old self! I tried saving the colorized ram:disk.info
AJV> to harddisk and after booting, copying it to ram:.  It didn't work!

Are you copying it to RAM: before you LoadWB?  You can accomplish this by
copying it to RAM in your user-startup.  If you copy it *after* LoadWB
(ie through a shell or with a script file you've placed in WBStartup
using IconX), you may have to follow Rick's suggestion and use diskchange.
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:19429 eunet.jokes:2730
From: I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,eunet.jokes
Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Date: 3 Jan 93 15:50:42 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
Originator: n08dp@tuda


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: Re: WHY DirOpus when there are Just as good PD ones?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:03:58 GMT

tdenbo@eis.calstate.edu (Tom Denbo) writes:

>I can tell why I bought DOpus.  SID wouldn't run under 2.04

SID ran under 2.04 for me, and is currently running under 2.1.
-- 
Jon Reid    j-reid@uiuc.edu    GEnie: THE.REIDS
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: Re: PROJECT IDEA: Please respond
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:11:53 GMT

In article <kkrebs.078p@amilink.UUCP>, amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs) says most sayishly:
>> 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:

Yes, I'm aware of its features.  I'll still release it.  Just because
some comm program exists doesn't mean other people can't write one.

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    // 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