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From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:34:56 CST

In article <1925@lysator.liu.se> marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans) writes:
>kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) writes:
>
>>Most people I know who pirate software _have_ the money to pay for computer
>>programs, it's just that they _choose_ to spend it on tangible goods.  They
>
>It's not that strange really. Many people don't want to buy for example a game,
>because the next day a friend has got hold of a cracked copy of it. Not fun
>for the one who has payed $100 for it...

You're quite right.  I don't feel so great when I've just gone out and paid
good money for a program and come back to a person who says, "Oh yeah!
I got that a long time ago!  It's a really great program!"  I still know
that the program really is worth the money, but it seems sort of unfair
to those of us with decent MORALS out here.  I suppose I could simply
compromise my morals... :-)
From: Ulf_Svensson@fluff.bbs.bad.se (Ulf Svensson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing HP Deskjet with PC
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: Ulf_Svensson@fluff.bbs.bad.se (Ulf Svensson)
Organization: UAP, Karlstad, Sweden
OD-Comment-To: Derek_Ward


 DW>   I am going to be getting a PC with a Deskjet printer (part of a
 DW> package), and would to know if there is anyway I can hook my Amiga 500 up
 DW> to it WHILE the IBM is hooked up as well.
 DW>   Do I need special software/hardware, or is there such thing as a
 DW> "splitter" which will have Amiga/IBM -=> Deskjet.

You could buy an automatic parallell switch. They work great. The automatic 
switch senses when it comes something from either one of the computers and 
directs it to the printer.

I have an Amiga and a PC connected to a HP Deskjet, but I have a manual switch 
(much cheaper).
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From: bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AmigaGuide Distribution
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:37:51 GMT
Organization: IDK/Frontec - System Design Group

jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
> The distribution scheme of these things is simple.  You must have a
> Workbench license, and you *cannot* distribute them electronically.
> 
> Easy, eh?

Yup. Thanks.
(You too, Carolyn!)

		-- Bjorn




       ///  Bjorn Stenberg, Stockholm, Sweden         bjst@sth.frontec.se
      ///  main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee)
Subject: Re: PCMCIA products?
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
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Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 21:15:49 GMT

In article <36796@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:

>>logicstics of finding compatible masters/slave drives
>>between 2.5" and 3.5" drives are questionable.

>As george said, master/slave compatibility in the IDE world
>is a can of worms, and it is or was especially bad in the early/cheap 2.5"
>drives.

 Two C= Engineers, and one Zenith worker have said this in the same week.
Is anyone willing to post a list of compatible IDE drives or 
cross-reference table of drives that will work properly in a master/slave
setup? 3 of C= Amigas have IDE interfaces, one of which offers the
'supported' addition of a slave. Publishing a list of drives that are 'known'
to work would probably be VERY welcome.

 I'm all for opening a can 'o worms. I hate fishing without bait.
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From: charro@ee.ualberta.ca (Dan Charrois)
Subject: Re: My GVP A500-HD+ is making some super-mega-weird noises!
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 07:45:19 GMT

jmb0389@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.M. Bail ) writes:

>In article <syuyTB6w165w@amigans.gen.nz> batman@amigans.gen.nz (Kerry Emerson) writes:
>>My GVP A500-HD+ is making some super-mega-weird noises!  Well, it IS!
>> 
>>It will be going perfectly find for ages, then every so often, it sounds 
>>like the speed of the fan or something slows down, then speeds up again.  
>>Sounds weird, and makes me very nervous. :)  Anyone know whats wrong with 
>>my little HD?
>    I had the same problem. I kept getting these strange errors on my
>drive. Eventually I became fed up because I couldn't back up my HD and
>the errors re-appeared even when I reformatted the drive. GVP tech
>support told me that the speed of the drive was changing with the fan
>so the data was being written at different speeds. He told me to send
>the whole thing in, and in about a week and a half they sent me back an
>entire new drive, which is working just fine.

I, too, had a similar problem.  Since I live in Canada and bought the
drive in the States, warranty repair work couldn't be done here.
After a talk with the GVP tech support, they actually suggested that I
open it up myself instead of ship it to the States for warranty work..
(but then, I guess the fact that I'm in Electrical Engineering helped
matters a bit...)

Anyway, the fan (in my case, anyway), was unrelated to the problem.
Even when the fan was totally unplugged, the hard drive would
periodically spin down and then back up.  It was happening with more
and more regularity all the time.

And to make a long story short, eventually I traced the fault back to
a couple of bad solder connections in the power supply.  It was the
connections for the jack connecting the plug going to the Amiga
(inside the power supply...)  It was hard to isolate, since I was
still getting the voltages I needed in the drive, but the bad contact
limited the current.  Anyway, I re-soldered the joints and everything
has been working fine (for the last couple months, anyway..)  So if
your warranty is expired, you may want to take a peek (if you are
comfortable around electronics..)  If your warranty is good though, by
all means send it in for repair - if you get a new hard drive out of
the deal it may be worth a bit of wait!

ttyl...and good luck...Dan

-- 
Dan Charrois - University of Alberta, Electrical Engineering
INTERNET: charro@bode.ee.ualberta.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:10:58 GMT

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

>In article <1992Nov5.152511.12182@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>>Subj: I found a pirate - what shall I do?

>Offer him a mug of ale and polish his pegleg.

>>When I phoned him and questioned him, he became abusive and
>>said `report me'.

>>What shall I do? Would FAST be either interested or effective?
>>Would the police be interested? I could `buy' some stuff from
>>him as evidence. LOOT reaches millions of Londoners every
>>day and is a very widespread paper. Private ads are free. I
>>would hate to estimate how much Amiga software is being stolen
>>and distributed in London in this way.

>Boo!  Evil pirate!  Throw him away!  In my little terminology, there are
>good pirates, and bad pirates. :)  Bad pirates are the ones who buy/copy
>major products and SELL them to others.  Eeevil!  Good pirates are the
>ones who just distribute the stuff free. :)

You are partly right here. The worst pirates are the ones who sell the stuff.
They do more damage, since the people who buy software from them are
obviously the kind of people to _buy_ software, so if they couldn't get it
from the pirate, they'd buy it in a shop.

>...would still kick prices up for their own benefits.  And if there is so
>much piracy going on these days, I don't see the side-effects.  Shadow
>of the Beast 3, a brand spankin' new game retails for $50 on the market.

Remember you're talking US prices. I don't know how much Beast 3 costs here
in Sweden, but most good games exceed at least 400 SEK, that is about US$ 80.
AND piracy is more common in Europe (at least I think so), so the prices do
play a role in how much the game will be sold and pirated. Compare how often
you buy a computer game and how often you buy music records! Computer games
are _expensive_, that is a obvious reason for at least some of the pirating.
Then there are these really stupid 'swappers', who upload and download games
(a few years ago they mainly used normal mail, but that is too slow, as
a game gets old a few hours after it's cracked), just for the sake of it, and
for becoming a name in the so called 'scene'. Most of them don't even make any
money out of it. They're just plain stupid, spending lots of time and money
on their modem trading.
From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs - From CBM
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:18:34 GMT

In <9998@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:

>In article <1992Nov3.194832.1836@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
>waw5805@ultb.isc.rit.edu (W.A. Willis) writes: So the last remaining
>(and indeed valid) argument is that there are so many cables attached
>to it (when compared to a detached keyboard) so that you can't easily
>put it on your lap. 

I mean, I ask you, why the hell would anyone want to put a keyboard on
their lap? It is the most awkward way of using a keyboard possible! It
moves all around the place when you press a key, and makes you sit
with an incorrect posture. For years Unions have been trying to get
correct height worksurfaces for computers, eliminate glare and
radiation from screens, and yet people on this board seem to think
that just because you cannot use the A1200 like a TV dinner that it is
some sort of crime!!!!

The A1200 is so small and manuverable that it is easy to rearrange it
on a desktop, and as Dr Kittel says, its not that bigger than a
keyboard (certainly an IBM keyboard) anyway...

And yes, there are other computer manufacturers actually trying to
sell on the built-in-keyboard model, only last month I saw an advert
in PCW which was for an IBM PClone with disk-drive and CPU built into
the keyboard... it's the way you think about it... (snobbery?) Is the
Keyboard built into the CPU (seemingly Bad)? or is the CPU built into
the keyboard (a marketing point, Good)?

Really, this discussion is just plain silly. 

If you don't want an A1200, don't get one, and don't try to put off
other people from getting one. A1200 will be the life blood of CBM
over the next few years, it is only by selling lots of these machines
that CBM will be able to afford to develop the pizza boxes you
require...

Sorted? You should be!

----

E.F.Pritchard                       ///
efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs           \\\/// Amiga     I seriously need something
University of Southampton        \xx/            to go on this side of my
England.                                         signature, any ideas?
From: kent@hal.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV Boot disk for ParNet
Date: 10 Nov 1992 23:39:17 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.nde.swri.edu

In article <69239@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>>I am trying to use a CDTV with my A3000 via Parnet (the A3000 Multimedia
>>offer). I have it working with the FF CDROM, but a couple of questions:
>>
>>1) is there a version of Parnet that doesn't generate a host of Enforcer
>>hits under 2.x on the A3000?
>
>Dunno.. I don't have a 3000, but I use Parnet to connect my CDTV to
>my 2500 and use the thing almost daily and it works fine for me.

It works, but only if I shut down Enforcer...

>>2) What is required to create a stable CDTV boot floppy that will allow me to
>>access other CDROMs through ParNet. Alternately, is there a way to keep the
>>CDTV from rebooting when you place another CDROM in it?
>>
>
>I took a copy of an original WB1.3 disk out of my original 1.3

I'm using a WB1.3.3 disk. Maybe thats the problem. Otherwise I did the same
thing. But I also made a WB disk from the files on the Fish CDROM and it
exhibited the same problems, so I figured there was something magical to the
process of making a boot floppy for the CDTV.

>Does it crash just sitting there doing nothing? or is there some
>particular sequence of actions you take to repeatedly crash it? 
>Or one particular program you run that always causes it to crash?

Moving the mouse or trying to use Parnet on it (it connects ok).

Will keep trying. Thanks,

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: Ronny G. Nordvik <edorn@alf.uib.no>
Subject: Demo Scene
Organization: Edb-senteret, UiB
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:05:02 GMT
From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: A1200 IS THERE !!!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Oct27.165649.3683@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4764@equinox.unr.edu>
Date: 06 Nov 92 19:20:31 GMT

In article <4764@equinox.unr.edu> dollens@equinox.unr.edu (C Blake Dollens) writes:
   We'll leave that open for debate. ;-)  I am surprised that a Mac fan
   would be so uninformed about his own computer.  I don't even _own_
   one and I know this stuff....  It's in all of the popular Mac magazines.
   I just work on Macs once in a while at work.  It's not like I went out
   of my way to some tech journal to find this out.

I'm not. Every Mac user I know is more or less a Mac fan ("They're so easy!"),
and I can't imagine one of them getting any facts right about their own,
personal system they use every day. Then again, I don't know many Mac users,
and I know a lot of PC users for whom the same thing applies. I also know one
Amiga user who can't get the terms 'icon' and 'window' right.
I guess 80% of all computer users don't know anything more than what keys to
press to get the word processor, and 98% of those don't even want to know.
Of the rest, only a minority _know_ their system in some depth.
--
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This article does not necessarily represent anyone's opinions, not even mine.
If you are offended by this article, be so in silence. I am not interested.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: larsm@ii.uib.no (Lars Magnus Nordeide)
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Reply-To: larsm@ii.uib.no
Organization: University of Bergen
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 17:11:56 GMT

In article B7@brunel.ac.uk, cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey) writes:
>With the return of the great piracy debate, I just wondered how many people 
>out there have pirated music in their tape collection ? The main reason that 
>I think that piracy of any form will never die is that most people don't think 
>there's any harm in it (I should imagine just about everyone with a tape 
>recorder has copied a friends CD/Tape/LP at some time or another).
>
>Obviously computer s/ware can't be copied quite as easily, but it's still possible.
>
The difference between this and copying software is that when you copy
software you get an exact copy.  If you copy music from CD to tape you get 
a copy that's not as good as the original.  Sure, I have copied music that
way some times, but more often than not I rather go buy the CD because I
want the original quality. 

To the guy who started this thread :
(because he wanted help, NOT to start another piracy discussion)
I suggest you contact FAST and report the pirate.  I am sure
they would take action. That's what their there for, isn't it?

Here's a motto :
"Hurt a pirate today, you may want to get paid for your 
 software tomorrow."
 
--
Lars Magnus Nordeide, University of Bergen, NORWAY
larsm@ii.uib.no
"Hey! Somebody has stolen my quote!"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Wanted: address of net.poster who found some cheap software...
Reply-To: peter@taronga.com
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:51:31 GMT
Summary: Sent mail, no response, and now I don't know who it was...

OK, this was in one of the comp.sys.amiga groups. Someone had found some
Amiga software for sale really cheap, and posted a message soliciting people
who might want to buy it... I sent mail in the affirmative, and asked for
more details, and got no response. The product was something like a word
processor, for $10, from a warehouse sale or liquidator.

If anyone else recalls this, or if the original poster reads this message,
please let me know...
-- 
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Das kann nicht mein Zimmer sein, denn ich atme kein Ammoniak.
From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Hard drive problems
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:47:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Nov11.204706.2579
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

I've got a problem with a flaky Seagate ST-157N ahrd drive.  The symptoms are
these:  I'll be sitting at the computer, when I'll hear a sound exactly like
a hard drive spinning up.  I'll wait until the sounds go away, and try to
access the drive, only to have the computer tell me that "Volume Warpdrive
has a read/write error".  A cold boot will fix the problem for a while (a
while being anything from 10 minutes to 3 days), but it's a recurring problem.

I doubt that it's a stiction problem; I had a 157 with that problem, and it
didn't act like this at all.  Any clues out there in net-land?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (M.S. Ashton)
Subject: Juggler....
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:51:00 GMT

We could always do a HAM8 version in 262,000 colours @ 1280*512 
non-interlaced....
??
mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
--
Hmmm....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: lhoward@javelin.sim.es.com (Larry Howard)
Subject: Re: GVP phone # anyone?
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:48:26 GMT

jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jeff Murphy) writes:


>	can someone please email me GVP's phone #? thanks. jm.
>-- 
>jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu                   cit network installation & repair
>opnsmurf@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu                                          sunyab
>				   

Main Office: 215-337-8770
Tech Support: 215-354-9495
BBS: 215-337-5815

They are located in Pennsylvania, so time calls accordingly.

Larry

-- 
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Larry Howard   Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.  Salt Lake City, Utah

Don't forget, economics is the science that made astrology respectable.
From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 17:18:32 GMT
Subject: Re: I found a few hundred copies
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc

kontos@clipper.ingr.com (Thorne Kontos) writes:

>There is a place in Silicon Valley selling these two programs for
>$10.00 each + tax. There were about a hundred copies of each. If
>there is an interest in these, maybe I can pick them up for you.
>
>If interested. E-mail me at kontos@clipper.clipper.ingr.com or reply
>here. Originals still in plastic wrap. Anyway, maybe we can work out
>something ( you send me a check, I'll pick it up for you and mail it.)
>
>For those in the valley, it is the Surplus Stuff warehouse on Milpitas.
----------

_WHAT_ two programs???  We need names here, at least, and maybe
versions, too!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Amiga core-dump? *sigh*
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:38:37 GMT

mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) writes:

>> It lacks an MMU, which is not a must, but very useful, for proper memory
>> protection.

>Hmmm - how are you going to do MP without an MMU, except by
>restricting the languages people get to use (ala Burroughs)?

Sorry, should have been:

...but very useful, for proper error handling.
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with LHA
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:34:36 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

ric@altreality.ann-arbor.mi.us (Rick Root) writes:

>I recently downloaded the dikumud source from ucbvax.berkeley.edu.
>In this source there are a couple of files of ZERO length, and they
>seem to cause *SEVERE* results.

What version of LhA are you using?  I have a vague memory of reading
something about a bugfix along these lines in the latest docs.  Stefan?
-- 
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: dmacphee@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don mac phee)
Subject: Re: amiga int. drive
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
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Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 00:45:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.4247.22087@dosgate> "grant robinson" <grant.robinson@canrem.com> writes:
>
>I'm in the process of buying a new internal drive for my Amiga.  Someone
>stated that I can use normal internal 1.44 meg IBM drives in the
>machine.  Is this so?  I was under the impression that the ibm drives
>lacked a sensor of some sort.

  The part number is A2015 or A3015. It is a proprietary drive made by
Chinon (Part No FB-357A). The only way you are going to get another drive to 
work at HD is to buy a bridgeboard, and a multi-function card.

 What is lacking is the ability of the custom chips to handle high-speed
access. Specificly, Paula. The theoretical upgrade to the ECS chipset
mentioned in WOC may address this lack, but I wouldn't put any money on it.

 I would make strong bets that if you buy another HD drive for your Amy
it will only be half as useful as the Chinon unit... :)

Naptime.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ddking@dante.nmsu.edu (Dwight King)
Subject: GVP G-FORCE 030 For Sale!!!!
Organization: New Mexico State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:07:47 GMT


For sale : GVP G-FORCE 030 50MHz with 4 Meg RAM.

Never been used still in the shrink wrap wrapper.

Cost: $1450.00 + Shipping

Offer good until 11/20/92