HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:31:22 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Mattias Myrberg (m92mmy@tdb.uu.se) wrote:

: >Ehh.. Are we talking AGA-machines here..?

: Exsqueese me, but just more colours doesn't make games BETTER, it's
: the SPEED that makes people turn their head.

I wasn't talking about COLORS I was talking about SPEED. Apparently
you haven't tried AGA yet. AGA-machines, as I wrote, are 32 bit computers
with a blitter that works four times faster than on older Amigas. This
is a fact.

: Now, will I burn 8000 SEK to get a A1200 HD ?

Nope, I'll go for an A4000. The A4000/EC030 shouldn't, by the way, cost
a lot more than 10000 SEK.

: (I #%$$#%$@ hate this %$#@% country :P )

Yes, the krona is definitely weak now...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: ramsch@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Martin Ramsch)
Subject: Re: De-fragmenting?
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:52:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.215056.10939@cs.mun.ca>, thom@odie.cs.mun.ca (Thom the Tyrant) writes:
|> Could someone point me in the right direction to find a good HD
|> defrager? or if I even require one.

The fastest and most reliable disk optimizer I know is ReOrg V2.33 by
Holger Kruse (kruse@eola.cs.ucf.edu). It knows both OFS and FFS and can
work on floppy disks and hard drives.

Please notice, that it's shareware.

You can FTP it at e.g. 'forwiss.uni-passau.de' named
'/pub/amiga/aminet/disk/optim/ReOrg_2_33.lha' or at any other aminet
site (you could also try 'ftp.etsu.edu', 'ftp.wustl.edu' or
'oes.orst.edu').
-- 
Froehlich gruessend

 _ // Martin Ramsch
 \X/  ramsch@forwiss.uni-passau.de
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Keywords: documentation amigaguide
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:46:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.726270364
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <38304@cbmvax.commodore.com> ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:

>In article <1993Jan5.002843.46106@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>[my response to a user's documentation gripes]

>>I would like to make two suggestions.
>>
>>Include *ALL* relevant manuals with *ALL* machines (not just
>>"high-end" machines) in Amigaguide format & / || ascii.

>A nice idea indeed.  Purely from a documentation standpoint, we would love to
>give every user every book.  From a more "practical" (i.e. bottom-line)
>standpoint, this probably can't happen.  That being said, we do fully intend
>to start producing some docs in AmigaGuide format, and that will go a long
>way toward augmenting our docs in general, and making up for any lack of
>printed docs that may be necessary.  

Great!  So does that mean that AmigaGuide will be available for EVERYONE,
even 2000 owners?  As a free upgrade of course... ;>  

Kinda useless to print up documentation in a format that can't be accessed
by those who need it.  (IMHO)

I'm all for saving trees...but sometimes paper is more accessible to the 
masses...

*sigh*

Crystal
  :>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela)
Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 08:42:17 GMT

> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

>    Where?

amiga-request@uunet.uu.net.

-- 
Kari Sutela	sutela@utu.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: Legal question on 2.1
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:36:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.184103.13203@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
>I happen to have two Amigas.

So do I.

>(How lucky can one get.)

I don't know - the other is an A1000
From: colas@opossum.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Why are they ignoring the Amiga?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:33:50 GMT
Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France

In article <C0nJM8.Hoq@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
writes:
>    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. 

not true (but what else could be xpected from MB?)

Word perfect is a very old program, with a user-hostile user interface.
People who bought amigas expect a more user-friendly prgrm than that.
Either they want power and buy AmigaTeX, or they want user-friendliness, and
Final Copy (and others) are competing on this niche, or they buy amax and just
run a Mac program.

Word perfect can only suceed in a PC market with customers with low
expectations.

PS: What we need is frame maker!

-- 
Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research Koala proj. Wool, Gwm, KoalaBus
Pho:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE.
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From: cdj@LNS62.TN.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: need help choosing monitor
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:39:17 GMT
Organization: Wilson Lab, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY, 14853
Reply-To: CDJ@lns62.tn.cornell.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: lns62.tn.cornell.edu

Concerning post from Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)
I was the originator of this thread and I ordered my SONY 1302
monitor from COMPU$AVE yesterday for $550.  It comes with a
1yr factory warranty and they repair or replace DOA's.  There
is also a good place in NY to order from who have a 15 day
money back policy but since I live in NY I didn't want to 
pay sales tax.
			Chris Jones
		cdj@lns62.tn.cornell.edu
From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:09:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: pith.1icbsmINN2qq
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
NNTP-Posting-Host: cie.uoregon.edu

In article <0210aa5@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
>
>> CD-ROMs.  The audio industry will almost certainly insist on circuitry to
>> prevent read-write CD drives from copying audio CDs, and the software
>> publishing industry may get on the bandwagon by insisting on similar
>> circuitry
>
>Well  the Sony MiniDisk is already out.  I dont know if it has this kind of
>circuitry in it.

   I saw a Sony 2.5" MD player/recorder advertised in a catalog this last
weekend, and it mentioned that the user could make a digital copy of a CD or
a tape (ie: DAT or whatever), but they would be unable to make another copy
of that copy. In essence, I guess the answer to the question is yes, such
circuitry is in place.
   Sony (who controls both hardware and software for the audio
industry) is going to hold digital audio for ransom for as long as they can.
Break the chains, dammit. I live for the day that CD-players all have
Digital-I/O ports... I'm sick of tapes.

-- 
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All opinions expressed are my own.          ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu, BIX: ggiles
Willy Beamish (MS-DOS CD-ROM, Sega-CD), Space Quest V (MS-DOS), A10 1.5 (Amiga)
From: LadyHawke@cup.portal.com (Classic - Concepts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Is it possible to get an Amiga to read an MS-DOS formatted
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 21:05:10 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na
  <C92CAREN.93Jan10005145@ide16.IDA.LiU.SE>

> ... Is it possible to get an Amiga to read IBM
> formatted disks ?. And if so how do I go about doing it ?.  Any advice

   There were two solutions proposed above, but I thought I'd add that
MSH:  (MessyDOS) available on Fish Disk 382 will read/write and format PC
floppy disks (DS/DD).

                         Julie Petersen (LadyHawke@cup.portal.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cs50665@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Enter Scogman)
Subject: Question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:23:35 GMT


I am having some troubles with my hard drive startup and I am not quite sure
where to ask this.  Originally the harddrive was set to autoboot.  I got a
read/write error on the drive so I re-formatted the drive (I realize that
that was a mistake now) I restored the drive from backup but now it
won't autoboot.  I have run the instillation software that is supposed to
allow autobooting but that has failed.  Does anyone have a clue what
might remedy the problem???


Chris

(please respond thorugh e-mail)
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		   +  And fear walk hand in hand.
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Great feature in 1200 (3.0?)
Date: 11 Jan 93 08:48:03 GMT
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science

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.

>	Thanks
>	Robert Fentiman
>
>UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
>At: University of Minnesota, Duluth

Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Blank keys on the A1200?
Keywords: Amiga 1200 blank keys
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:06:38 GMT

bdraschk@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke) writes:

>>The reason for this is the addition of two blank keys, same size as the
>>letter keys.  I couldn't figure out what they're for, and as usual, the
>>clueless salesmen at Creative didn't know either (at least they didn't try
>>to make something up this time).

>>What's the deal with these keys?  Do they serve some essential function? 
>>And is the keyboard (which otherwise seems exactly the same) replaceable
>>with a standard A500 replacement keyboard?

>That's curious. Apparently this is a production error, or C= want's to save
>money by building only ONE version of the keyboard for Germany and USA. These
>two blank keys are needed for the German layout of the Keyboard. The left one
>has > and <, i don't remember the letters for the right one. 
>If your dealer has the Germann keyboard file installed, try prefs/input and
>select the German keyboard, the two keys should work then.

I think it's a smart idea.  For those of us in the USA, we can theoretically
use those keys for commodities, etc.  They don't bug me yet (but I've only had
limited time to use a 1200 since mine has not arrived yet.)

-- 
+ Rick __     + EMAIL:charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu +   //\          + /|\ It's +
|      /aylor | IRC  : Tomalek / The Romulan     | \X/--\miga 500 |  J rainy |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: vmkiili@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Ville-Matti Kiili)
Subject: Re: AmigaOS Versions
Organization: University of Helsinki
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:10:18 GMT

Dingbats (c92caren@IDA.LiU.SE) wrote:
> In article <C0J819.143@dcs.ed.ac.uk> dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke) writes:
> >      1.4 - (Never happened - became 2.0)
> Wasn't 1.4 a specia| version of 1.3 with support for the 2024 (or
> whatever it's called) greyscale hires monitor?

Well, I have soft-kicked A3000, but it has a 'hidden' kickstart ROM in
it. It is called 1.4 beta or something like that. It is extremely buggy
and quite ugly, but it looks almost like KS 2.x. :)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Subject: Re: need help choosing monitor
Reply-To: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Organization: College of Computing
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:07:06 GMT

With all the talk of monitors and with a supply of Christmas
cash, I decided to look into getting a better display for my
system.   I've seen/heard nice/good things about the Sony
1302.  Question--what kind of prices have you all seen on this
monitor?   The only local place I can find which has them 
quoted me a price of 700-750.   Seemed kind of on the 
high side.   Comments?

			- Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)
From: s37732v@snakemail.hut.fi (Markus Juhani Aalto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Wing Commander Amiga
Date: 07 Jan 93 16:21:21 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: lk-hp-16.hut.fi
In-reply-to: m92mmy@tdb.uu.se's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:33:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.003326.2195@tdb.uu.se> m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg) writes:

   In article 22260 Mattias Dahlberg writes:

   >>Robert L. Thomas (rlt20429@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
   >> Amiga has lost what made it a great game machine

   >Ehh.. Are we talking AGA-machines here..?

   Exsqueese me, but just more colours doesn't make games BETTER, it's the SPEED
   that makes people turn their head.

   And as we ALL know the A1200 still has a 16-BIT blitter that works at
   the same OLD SLUGGISH pace.
   32-bit BANDWITH gives more opportunities for blitter to do it's thing.

You don't think that better and faster processor has nothing to do with 
speed? A1200 has 14Mhz 68020 while A500 has only ~7Mhz 68000.

>   Mattias Myrberg


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From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: WorkBench 2.1?
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:46:03 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

cs_e445@ceres (Vlod Kalicun) writes:

>I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:
>: 
>: Am I missing something here?
>: 
>: I thought Commodore went straight from WB2.04/2.05 to WB3.0.
>: 
>: This version of WB never appeared in Britain.
>: 
>: What the hec is WB2.1?
>: 

>I think it was a beta version of WB3 sent to developers so they can make
>sure their progs work under the new opsys.

Not at all... ...there's quite a gap between 2.1 and 3.0.  2.1 basically only
adds AmigaGuide, CrossDOS, internationalization, the icon-based Devs, and
sound prefs, while 3.0 also has MultiView, DataTypes, AGA support, new video
prefs, a vastly improved layers library, faster fd & hd access/transfer even
with FFS, and a lot more (I don't have any tech docs).

>Vlod
>-Amiga Advocate.
>----------------------------------------------
>Amiga - Anything else isn't worth considering
>----------------------------------------------
-- 
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jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu::                     One sees mud, and one the stars.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: A1200 HD question
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:51:30 GMT

ag@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (andy garton) writes:

>Where did you "whip" the HDToolBox from?!?  (not from a disk that came with
>your 1200 that's for sure :-)

As an aside, is it possible to use 2.04's HDtoolbox to set up a user-installed
IDE drive in a 1200, or do you have to use HDtoolbox borrowed from an A4000
Install disk?  I have WB2.04 for my 500, and it came with disks and a manual,
unlike 3.0... :) (Hey Commodore!  Next time give people *all* the d*mn system
disks, OK????  And how about an AmigaDOS manual? :( )

-- 
+ Rick __     + EMAIL:charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu +   //\          + /|\ It's +
|      /aylor | IRC  : Tomalek / The Romulan     | \X/--\miga 500 |  J rainy |
+-------------+----------------------------------+----------------+----------+
+ "Every Girl Already Has A Boyfriend" --- Murphy's Law Of Dating...         +
From: wanderer@tcsi.appleton.mil.wi.us (K.T. Wieringa)
Subject: Re: Commodity question
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 3 Jan 93 09:07:56 CST
Organization: The River

Jeff Dickson (jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <Gerard_Ng.0p9a@a68k.denver.CO.US> Gerard_Ng@a68k.denver.CO.US (Gerard Ng) writes:
: >
: >> All the Amiga user manuals are *not* written by programers but by doc
: > specialist.
: >
: >That doesn't mean that they are still any good. I am not a programmer but
: 
: Whew! I'm not the only one who thinks they suck in comparison to the 
: manuals available on other platforms.

I upgraded to 2.04 not long ago and have been wading through various parts
of the new manual.  I think the index really bites.  This morning I was
looking for Enforcer information (the requestor asks for command line line
arguments).  Still haven't found it in the big book (which goes into
great detail explaining such weighty topics like using window gadgets,
double clicking, etc).  I'll keep looking.

What really gets me is that I stopped in at Safe Harbor the other day and
they had these down and dirty quick reference guides to things like
AmigaDos, Arrex, etc.  Half a dozen pages of really useful information for
$7-8 a copy (ouch).  This is kind of stuff Commodore should be including in
the manuals themselves instead of sending me off to get gouged by third 
party people filling in the gaps.  (no offense intended to the third party
suppliers - supply and demand - at least they're providing us with useful
information.)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Subject: Re: X Windows on Amiga ???
X-Disclaimer: All opinions expressed herein were sent to me telepathically
              by Elvis from Mars.
Reply-To: akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
Organization: None
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:11:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.170711.37@condor> bamboroughp@logica.co.uk writes:
>Does anyone know if there is an Amiga port of X Windows and where I can  get
>the source code for such a port ???
>
>bamboroughp@logica.co.uk	- 	Home for the mentally undertall !!

Email to you bounced.  Here is the relevant FAQ extract:

2. X-windows ===============================================================

A commercial version of X-windows is available from GfxBase.

For more information contact
Dale Luck: dale@ntg.com

What follows is the response to my emailed questions:

From: dale@boing.ntg.com (Dale Luck)
Subject: X11 info

> 1. Address, phone, fax 

GfxBase, Inc.
1881 Ellwell Dr.
Milpitas, CA 95036
USA

Phone: (408) 262-1469
FAX: (408) 262-8276

> 2. system requirements

Minimum 1M RAM, 7M disk, recommended 3M RAM, 14M harddisk

> 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount

Price: [US] $395,  Eduprice: [US] $316.  Site licenses available.

> and whatever else you would like to provide.

Please send a postal address and we can send you our
printed literature.
Also available, XView 2.0, Motif, Xtk programmers libraries.

-- 
Richard J. Akerman   | akerman@QUCIS.QueensU.Ca    |    "There is no plot."
                     | akerman@QUCIS.BITNET        | -Guinan in Time's Arrow II 
                     | akerman@bill.phy.queensu.ca |    Star Trek: The Next 
                     | akerman@qucdnast.BITNET     |        Generation
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From: I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Amiga<>PC Harddisk.
Keywords: HELP!
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:50:36 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Can I attach an Amiga to a PC, in such a way the Amiga accesses the PC
harddisk, as if it were it's own.

I have had one suggestion, but it used the parrallel ports of both machines,
and as I have a printer which can only be attached to the parrallel port, this
is not really feasable.   The best approach seems to be via the serial ports.

I understand the PC would act as a server, where could I get ahold of such
software (preferably P.D., and stable)?

The reason for this is I can't afford a hard disk for my Amiga.

Oh, the other major pproblem is the PC is a '286 IBM PS/1.

								I.A.Inman.
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Why are they ignoring the Amiga?
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:41:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.726691284
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <C0n89n.A42@newcastle.ac.uk> I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman) writes:


>In article <stefan.35w3@terapin.com>, 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!

>The only way to convince, say Microsoft to do this would be to convince them that
>there would be sufficient return.

>If such companies would wake up to the size of the European Amiga market, I think
>they would soon change their minds.

I have quite a few software packages that state on the box "Not for export
outside US or Canada".   (So, if I ever move to New Zealand, I can't take my
software with me???  *sigh*)   Might have something to do with "technology
leaks".  I dunno... it's weird.

Crystal 
  ;>
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