HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: j_manes@vger.nsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Beamish! Bats! Bashing!  Bonkers!
Date: 21 Nov 92 11:10:56 EDT

Help!  (again)
 
I just got the game WILLY BEAMISH, and have already run into problems.  There's
this babysitter, you see, who has turned into a bat and keeps dragging me 
off into the night.  How can I defeat her?
 
I have discovered that Tiffany's hairspray slows her down, but I ran out of 
that.  I assume I am supposed to suck her up into the vacuum cleaner, but
I need some 'bait for the beastie'....... I have offered her everything in
my backpack, including Horny and Horny's dinner of bugs.  No luck.
 
What should I be looking for here?  What does that *&$*_) bat want????
 

Jean Manes          |    Why are you guys skewing my curve???

                   

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank)
Subject: Re: CDTV, it's future and games.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:30:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.175151.9598@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
>stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
>
>
>My father wants to get a cd-rom equiped computer for my little brother, 
>but he is not going to get an amiga because there is really
>no support for them, ie good encyclopedias, note good, and other
>learning software is more available on ibm software.  As far as games, look at
>sega cd with their full motion video, albeit crappy graphics.  And the 
>super nintendo should have their cd player out soon, and since snes has better 

	The release date on Nintendo's CD-ROM was recently delayed a year.
Nintendo decided it needed some more work.  Nintendo's CD-ROM won't be out
now until the later part of '93 now.


>graphics their cd's should look real nice.  Where does that leave amiga cd or
>cdtv, dead in the water.  Only decent hope is that C= makes a cd-rom drive
>to be connected to the pcmcia port, and have several titles for the aga on 
>the cd roms.
>
>Martin
				--George




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: mortene@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Eriksen)
Subject: Re: Some words on OOTW2
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:10:01 GMT

>How about "Pierre" or "Boucier" (sp?)??  (What do they mean (in English...
I guess "Pierre" means rock and "Boucier" means shield. That's what they look
like in the game.

Morten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: sallen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Steve Allen)
Subject: Shuttle is OUT!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:26:11 GMT


Hi all,
 
 Well yes, Shuttle for the Amiga is finally out!

I purchased it last Friday (13th) from a shop here in the UK. It was
released 
that day so I would assume its immanent elsewhere.

Bad points.


According to the box it only runs on 68000, which is strange as its
just the sort of program that could do with being accelerated!!

Ive not really got into it yet, Im having difficulty on re-entry!
ie burning up!

Oh well, ill  try again...

Ant.
From: Andy@Birdland.UUCP (Andy Patrizio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Sierra is gone
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:45:22 EST
Reply-To: uunet!tension!birdland!andy
Keywords: Sierra games
Summary: They were in Europe
Expires: never
Distribution: world
Organization: The State of CT.... NOT!
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel2

In article <1992Nov17.093141.8418@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, fabrizio lodi writes:

> I'm sure you know much more than me, but I've heard a lot of voices about
> Sierra moving all Amiga conversion to England, because of the english programmers'
> capacity to make very good Amiga games, much more than americans' ones. Noone know
> anything about that???
> 
> p.s. I beg your pardon for my bad english!
> 

No problem Fabio. Anyway, I would have to dispute the idea that English
programmers are better. European Amigas are dual floppy, 68000 machines,
and they don't design games to take advantage of hard drives or accelerators
that many of us have.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
From: Timo.Jantunen@hut.fi (Timo Jantunen)
Subject: Re: Sierra is gone
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<TIMO.JANTUNEN.92Nov16104435@lesti.hut.fi>
	<1992Nov16.144712.12987@hubcap.clemson.edu>
	<1eb38oINNcnh@pith.uoregon.edu> <69723@cup.portal.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:41:21 GMT


>It seems silly now, but when Wing Commander II for the PC came out, it
>required a 386 and VGA. Unheard of! Who would produce a game that only
>about 2-3% of all gamers could play? They must've been loopy to produce
>a game like that.

At least in this corner of the World almost all who had PC at home had
already 386(sx). And I have never seen a 386 w/o VGA (many of them have
SVGA).

I think it will still take much time before enough new Amigas are sold.
And before it, not many games will appear to them.

// /
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Timo Jantunen _______________________________________  timo.jantunen@hut.fi
JMT 11 J 204 / I  always  look  to the  dark  side, /   jeti@vipunen.hut.fi
02150 Espoo / expecting the  worst.  If  something /    jeti@niksula.hut.fi
Finland    / doesn't go completely wrong, I  have /   d39080u@puukko.hut.fi
__________/ had a wonderfully pleasant surprise. /     jeti@otax.tky.hut.fi
From: Joe_Carp@republik.fidonet.org (Joe Carp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Music-X 2.0 Release
Distribution: world
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:15:24 PST
Organization: Eiffel Media of Orange County

In a message dated Tue 17 Nov 92  8:10, Borzieri@cavour.ico.olivetti.com (i
wrote:

 B> On Amiga Format Special out now,  I read a little article about Music-
 B> X 2.0.
 B> It said "it's going to be released very soon", but this time there was
 B> a photo
 B> too !
 B> It did not shw Music-X, but Notator-X, a notation softtware which will
 B> come 
 B> with MUsic-X 2.0.

Well, it's about time!  You know, the original version (and every upgrade
since...all one of them :-)), came with a notational font that was nevfer
used by anything.  Check it out sometime; it has notes down to the 64th
note and al the signs needed to score a piece.

I'm calling MicroIlusions ASAP.

   -Joe


-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
From: bn@mndcrme.uoknor.edu (Bo Najdrovsky)
Subject: Top 10 List?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Summary: how about top 10 mods
Keywords: Mods, top 10, charts
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:45:41 CST
Organization: Operation Mindcrime

    Is there anywhere out there on the net anybody that produces a  top  10
list of the best modules available? (sort of a  Billboard  chart  of  Amiga
audio) I think this would be a pretty cool thing to do and  it	would  give
people a decent idea what mods are good and what suck. It seems that  there
is an ever increasing number of modmusicians out there,  and  now  that  PC
owners are trying their hand at it too, it would make even more sense.
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Writing MIDI Programs
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:23:25 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <1992Nov16.153553.18701@emr1.emr.ca> dostie@ccrs.emr.ca (M Dostie) writes:
>What I would like to do is start to develop my own MIDI supporting piece
>of software but I need some understanding of how to send and receive
>MIDI commands and a list of what those commands are...

	You can get copies of various MIDI specification documents by ftp
from ucsd.edu.

	For coding with MIDI on the Amiga, check out Bill Barton's
freely distributable midi.library on Fish Disk 227 (yes, that is the
latest version).

	For experimenting with Amiga MIDI, testing your instruments' MIDI
implementations, writing MIDI "shell scripts", doing basic patch librarian
work, and other stuff, check out "MP" ("MIDI Playground") on Fish Disk 478.
This is a very versatile and general-purpose MIDI utility which I wrote.  It
has dozens of uses and can be extremely helpful for anybody who is working
directly with MIDI.

                                                        Dan

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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Amiga: IDEAL was Re: Amiga & Sound
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:20:21 +1100
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez) writes:
> Michael Whitten <M-WHIT2@UMINN1.BITNET> writes:

        Ricardo, did you have to include *everything* Michael said?

> |>   Nobody on the nets is saying much about the new Amigas and
> |> sound.  Probably because there really isn't much to say.  Commodore
> |> has never done one single thing for sound on its so-called
> |> 'multi-media' machine.  Jay Miner did.  The Amiga takes sole credit for
> |> the existence of a new music form/format - tracker modules, and

[ michael's flame of current C/A R&D deleted ]

        As one of the C/A engineers said, everyone was asking for better
video. Noone was asking for better audio.

>   I totally agree with you... while RTG is coming, I believe strongly
> in the "built-in" stuff of the Amiga...  if C= is going into modularity,
> I think that's a great idea as long as you include a "audio slot",
> "graphics slot" ,etc. to upgrade the custom chips and yet provide
> excellent performance.  To add 16-bit on the Amiga with just a card
> and that's it, I think is kinda ugly.  Let's see what happens in
> January.

        Cards are where the Amiga appears to be heading. The CPU in the
A4000 is on a card, not on the motherboard. RTG means that video will
be moved to a card/daughterboard. What's wrong with putting audio on a
card? By keeping audio on the motherboard in custom hardware, the only
people you can get audio from is C=. By putting audio on a card, the
doors are open for 3rd party developers to release their own products.
The key that will make or break 3rd party audio is what level of
support the OS will provide for audio cards.


           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  bull@monu1.cc.monash.oz
                    DOD# 251  '84 VF 750   Closet Ducatisto
             Disclaimer. If you love your llama, let it lambada.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: mknip@niksula.hut.fi (Mats Anders Knip)
Subject: Re: HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:47:56

> I am writing music on amiga and really need some help...
> I have almost no audio sounds(samples), if you have some (or know where
> to get some) could you drop me a line?  I'd really appriciate it.
> I'm mostly looking for drum samples, rap scratches, strings, and
> synth bass sounds.   Thanks a million!!!!!!!!

Well, one way is to download a couple of modules via FTP and "borrow"
sounds from them.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Borge Noest)
Subject: A flame of mine Was: New PC MOD Editor - Testers Required
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:02:48 GMT


The Newsgroups: field tells me that this group is comp.sys.amiga.audio.

I do not think mod editors for PCs are appropriate for this newsgroup. They
may be about mods, but not about Amigas.

This is hereby a flame of mine: KEEP OUT OF MY NEWSGROUPS.

Go make your own newsgroup. Comp.sys.ibm-pc.mod? comp.sys.music.mod? It
could be that I would come by to read the last one actually.
In my opinion the charter for this newsgroup excludes talking of any other
computer than the Amiga.


Thank you.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jrm@zeta.ma.adfa.oz.au (John R Marley)
Subject: Address of SunRize?
Organization: Maths Dept., A.D.F.A., Canberra, Australia
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:36:02 GMT

Hello!

I'm trying to find the address (plus phone + fax no) of SunRize.  I'm
interested in purchasing a couple of their dsp boards for some Community Radio
work..  I have their UK address, but am more interested in one abit closer to
home.  An Australian distributor would be ideal, but I can live with a USA
contact.

Thanks in advance,
John.

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lean not on your own understanding; in all  -+- j-marley@adfa.edu.au
your ways acknowledge him, and He will make  |  Programmer & Sys Admin
your paths straight.   - Proverbs 3:5-6      |  A.D.F.A. Maths Dept.
From: gacs4590@oswego.Oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: WANTED: voices for the DX-11/TX81Z keyboard
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:27:37 GMT
Reply-To: gacs4590@oswego.Oswego.edu ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Originator: gacs4590@cloy.oswego.edu


	WANTED:
	      -	Voices for the DX-11/TX81Z Yamaha keyboard
	      -	Voices must be in amiga format, preferably using
		James Smith's Librarian.

	If anyone knows where I can get these voices let me know.

						Andy
						gacs4590@cloy.oswego.edu
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: audio digitizer advice wanted
Date: 22 Nov 1992 04:22:15 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

I'm going to buy an audio digitizer.  The two that I see advertised are
PerfectSound and Digital Sound Studio.  Does anyone know the difference
between these (features, etc.)?  Also, these are probably external
devices.  Is there an internal audio digitizing card for the A3000?

thank
keith@caltech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: Trixal of Cryptoburners <edorn@alf.uib.no>
Subject: SYSEX HELP!!!!
Organization: CRYPTOBURNERS
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:44:02 GMT


Help world!!  I'm stuck with my Roland JV80...I would really 
like to know how to send sysex messages to my synth, it's
almost beyond my reach!!!

Yours, Trixal
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: lee@rose.brandeis.edu (charles lee)
Subject: Re: Great Mods on archives
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:21:12 GMT

Could ya' give the original filenames if you remember them?
The mod names probably don't match with the archived name...
Thanks...
From: elm4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Ed Mackey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Random modplayer?
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:46:07 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Nov17.064402.3689@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, jbrown@hal.gnu.ai.mit.ed
u (Justin William Brown) writes:
>Hi Ed :).  I guess it's about time I informed you of the old bug I found
>in EdP2.1... it still has a problem with playing zero-byte samples.
>Now, don't get me wrong... there really are advantages to being able to
>play such a sample... and besides, PT1.1b has no probs with it :).

Hmm, once again, this sounds like a problem with the actual playback
routines for ProTracker, not something specific for EdPlayer.  Of course
Lars has bigger and better things to do now than fix old buggy music code.
He has told me on IRC (a few times) to make my own playback code, as
if that were easy to do (and get _right_).  He has also posted to Usenet
that people who make their own code are bound to get it wrong :-)

As for this specific problem of zero-byte samples, there are other ways
to make a channel be quiet.  One is to issue a "volume = 0" command
(this is C00 in MED I think, and I'm not sure what it is in ProTracker).
(I'm obviously not a mod writer myself, which makes fixing other people's
mod playing code even harder).  Another way is to go use MED, a program
with a very well-documented, supported, functional playback code.
You never hear about EdPlayer messing up MED modules...ahem... ;-)

Maybe, if everyone who thinks EdPlayer and other modplayers don't play
PT mods right, all send Lars some money and ask him to make a new and
inproved PT playing sourcecode, maybe he will do it.  Any chance of this,
Lars?  Hmmm...?  Or maybe he will tell us [again] that if we want to
play ProTracker mods at all, we should do it with the Real Thing
[ie ProTracker, not Coke] and who needs ARexx support or random play anyway.

(This memo needs lots more smilies than it has if I'm going to have
any chance of escaping unflamed from this one.... ;-)

                                           --Ed.
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From: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Question on AIFF format
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:25:14 GMT
Reply-To: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Nov16.190101.22751@midway.uchicago.edu> dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
[stuff deleted]
>similar to 8SVX, but the IFF documentation  I have implies that proper
>IFF FORMs must contain a 'BODY' chunk -- which AIFF doesn't.  (It uses
>the 'SSND' instead, which is identical in structure to 'BODY'.)  Did I
>misunderstand the IFF specification, or is it a new policy that FORMs
>need not contain 'BODY' chunks?
>
>Thanks for clearing this up.

Yes, you've mis-interpreted the IFF docs.  Not all FORMs have to contain
BODY chunks.  By convention, many FORMs do, but it's certainly not a
requirement.  I can see how someone might get confused by this, since both
ILBM & 8SVX (the 2 most common FORMs) have BODYs.  Of course, other 
original EA FORMs (FTXT & SMUS) did not have BODYs.

     /// Christian Ludwig - Commodore CATS    (chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com)
    ///
\\\///   The opinions expressed may not reflect the official position of my
 \XX/    employer.   (Of course that depends on which position they're in!)
From: tim@corcoran.rain.com (tim corcoran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Yamaha TSR-500 (sp?)
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:24:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: corcoran.tim.02o9
Distribution: world
Organization: Not an Organization
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

I've seen this kybd. mentioned several times in this group. What do
users think of it? I'm interested in learning piano/keybd. and the
voices I've heard, together with touch-response seem like a bargain 
at $380 (my best local price).

I'd appreciate any opinions.

BTW: How would you rate it's MIDI capabilities?. That's important to
     me also.

Tim


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Matthew Frost)
Subject: Amiga to Sun Sounds
Summary: Sun Audio Tool
Keywords: Amiga Sun Audio
Organization: CompSci Dept., Aston University, U.K.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:25:17 GMT

Does anybody have a program that converts Amiga IFF or raw format to Sun.au
format or the Audio Tool format (I don't know whether they are the same)

If anyone can mail me a Sun or Amiga executable I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance.
Matthew

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: bak@iesd.auc.dk (Soeren Bak)
Subject: The best ModPlayer?
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University
Distribution: comp
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:43:55


I would like to hear what the AMIGA-folks have to say about
MOD-players.

I need a player which will multi-task, and is controlled by the mouse,
and at the same time uses as little memory as possible.

Send your reply by email or in this newsgroup.

bak@iesd.auc.dk


"Life starts at '030..."
	...getting fun at '040
	...impotence at '86"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jmarin@messi.uku.fi (Jukka Marin)
Subject: Re: audio digitizer advice wanted
Date: 22 Nov 92 16:49:52 GMT
Organization: University of Kuopio, Finland

keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:

>I'm going to buy an audio digitizer.  The two that I see advertised are
>PerfectSound and Digital Sound Studio.  Does anyone know the difference
>between these (features, etc.)?  Also, these are probably external
>devices.  Is there an internal audio digitizing card for the A3000?

There are the SunRize AD1012 (12-bit) and AD516 (16-bit) DSP boards.
They come with Studio 16 digital sound studio software.  The sound
quality is very good and you can then save the samples in 8-bit format
to be used on Amigas without these boards.

Studio 16 lets you record, play, mix, delay, echo, edit, etc. the samples
and uses SMTPE time code, has an ARexx port and an intuitive user interface
etc etc.

I was just playing with the AD516 board and Studio 16 and I really liked
them.

  Jukka Marin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
From: jbrown@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Justin William Brown)
Subject: Re: Random modplayer?
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:44:02 GMT

Hi Ed :).  I guess it's about time I informed you of the old bug I found
in EdP2.1... it still has a problem with playing zero-byte samples.
Now, don't get me wrong... there really are advantages to being able to
play such a sample... and besides, PT1.1b has no probs with it :).

-Maruku of Megawatts
jbrown@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu
Marc Brown
...fixing to finally make a .sig if that's even possible on this system...

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