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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:03:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Circuit Diagrams

>Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:44:16 GMT
>From: "R Ambridge (UG3)" <ram@CS.STIR.AC.UK>
>Subject: Circuit Diagrams
>
>Howdy
>
>Does anyone know of a program for the amiga which can be used for
>drawing circuit diagrams. You know, chips, wires, and gates etc.
>
>All I need is a name and I can look it up on archie.
>Please note I only have 2megs so it cant be big and it should be WB2.0
>compatible.

I use a PD program called MCAD for this.  The latest version is 1.26.
It lets you create parts, and then use those parts in diagrams, infact,
an entire diagram can then be called a part, and used in another diagram,
and so on...

I got it off of MRCSERV (see the startup file for the address.)

>
>Many thanks.
>--
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>Richard Ambridge            | Coo what an amazing signature.. Not
>University Of Stirling      |
>Stirling                    | Maybe i'll copy a friends idea.
>Scotland.                   |
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-Lance
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From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Need help fast PEOPLE!

Date sent:

>  Our school is going to buy an Amiga, but which one?
>
>  We have $2200, that's it, no more...so which one:
>       A3000 or A1200
>  I am thinking A3000 and wait for DIG for later use...what you think?
>
>Paul
>
Paul,
    Have them check out the price of the Amiga 3000 in the latest Amigaworld.
$1399 for 25 mhz 030 and a 50mb HD. <--- This is from memory folks.
For $2200 they should be able to get a couple A1200 though.

The A3000 prices look sweet now, but the A1200 has the AGA chipset.

-Nyle       Oh, no dilemas.

P.S. I want a 4000 what's the current shipping price without HD?

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|________________________________________________________________________|
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From:         ECZCAW@VAX.CCC.NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Subject:      Amiga go.

Does anybody know of a copy of the game "go" for the Amiga?  I try archie but I
get about a zillion answers......


8o)   Adam


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Date:         Mon, 2 Nov 1992 12:57:44 CDT
From:         Dan Szkola <A02DJS1@NOC.NIU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 1X4 SC zip / 4 MB

--->Date:       Tue, 3 Nov 1992 15:48:53 UCR
--->Reply-to:   Info-Amiga List <@netmgr.cso.niu.edu:I-AMIGA@RUTVM1.BitNet>
--->From:       "Victor M. Jimenez" <@netmgr.cso.niu.edu:VJIMENEZ@UCRVM2.BitNet>
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--->Friends,
--->
--->     I would like to know the current prices for 1X4 Static Column zips
 needed
--->to add 4 MB to my A3000.
--->     Can anyone look at the latest Amiga World issue (suppose November) and
--->tell me?  I think VisionSoft is a good option, any comments?
--->
--->                                   Thanking in advance,
--->
--->                                   Victor M. Jimenez
--->                                   Vjimenez@ucrvm2.bitnet
--->                                   San Jose, Costa Rica

    I ordered 4 megs of 1 x 4 SC 70ns RAM from Visionsoft and the
total price (including 2nd day air) was $138. $128 + $10 S/H
I am extrememly happy now that I have 6megs. (Well 5.5 with
Superkickstart)
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From: "carl bannenberg" <carl.bannenberg@canrem.com>
Subject: amiga 'classic' specs
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Date: 5 Nov 92 00:52:15 EST

Last week I posted the unofficial specs of the new A800 'Classic'

-> Here are the unofficial specs of the new A800 "Classic"
->
-> - 68000
-> - 256k chip, 256k fast expandable to 512k chip, 1M fast
-> - KickStart 1 on disk, Workbench 1
-> - No expansion slot, no pcmcia, no hard drive
->
-> Carl.Bannenberg@canrem.com

I now have the official specs of this machine which will be announced at
WOCA-Toronto Dec. 4th.

- 68000
- pre-ECS chips (Agnus (512k), Denise, Paula, Gary)
- all chips including Boot-rom SMT
- Pizza-box case with detachable keyboard + garage
- 256k chip, 512k fast ram expandable to 512k chip, 4M fast
- Kickstart 1, Workbench 1
- 1 880k FD
- standard connectors including ethernet (thin) port
- DSP optional
- MSLP $299 US (will likely sell for $150 - 199)

Carl.Bannenberg@canrem.com
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Grapevine Re: AmigaDOS 2.0
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:26:32 GMT

    When I tried to upgrade by buying a MegaChip from Grapevine, I purchased
  the version with the 2 meg Agnus. I open the box and no Agnus in there !
  I called them, got a return number, and it took 5 weeks to get it back.
  { This time it had the Agnus in it... }
       
  I get the impression they don't keep much inventory.
     Later, JimP.

-- 
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             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
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Subject: AmigaDOS 2.0
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Rahter than forward or edit -Lance's message in full,  I'll just ask one
question.

I thought that under AmigaDOS 2.X that when you launched an aplication no busy
pointer appeared and it was done as a background task.  Subsequently letting
you click on another program right after the first and lauch it, and so on.  Am
I right or wreong on this one?  I still haven't gotten Grapevine to re-send me
my 2.X rom.

Also,  I'm sorry about the .tar and .Z mix up, but as I said in my letter I had
been unable to get them to decompress either.  Someone had mentioned to me that
tar would do the job.  They were wrong.  Thanks for settting me straight though
guys.

Compress I got it.  Ok, Compress = .Z
                        Tar      = .tar

'Nuff Said. :>  *Chuckle*

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|________________________________________________________________________|
|  C= Amiga  For creative power.  Any A4000s shipped with 68030s???????? |
|________________________________________________________________________|
From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
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Subject: Re: Cool demos
Date: 13 Nov 92 10:35:48 GMT
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Tech Duinn <WAREP@WABASH.BITNET> writes:

>If you can, get ahold of the Enigma-Azatoth '91 demo.  It is sweedish

[stuff deleted...]

>A little info on it:  it is 10 minutes long, has a really neat star-field
>TV-box demo, a blitter busting sphere rotation scene, a virtual-reality type
>trip to "mars", a ray-traced fractal(!) animation and a 'star-wars scroller'
>that  looks like it uses bit-mapping techniques that are just amazing.  All
>in 34K.  It is a bootblock demo that calls a whole 33K data file. I was
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Huh? Didn't you see the drive light flashing when watching the demo?
It loads while running! It is NOT possible to squeeze all that stuff
into 34k. No, not even on Amiga :) It's true that the bootblock not
loads much but the stuff it loads will load even more stuff so...

>later....
>Phil
>WAREP@WABASH

Carsten
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Subject:      Re: A1200 compatability

Richard my understanding of the situation is that the AGA in the A1200
is "backwards compatabile" with the ECS in the A600
which means in theory that games that work with the A600 *SHOULD* work
on the A1200 but due to the quantum theory of games programming they pro
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From:         "(Ferette L.)" <lferette@IS1.VUB.AC.BE>
Subject:      Re: What is a .sfx archive?
              92 1

>
>
>         Ok, I got the blackboxvideo archive files, one of which is a .dms
> archive..  So, I go get the dms archiver/dearchiver.  Only problem is,
> somebody used some never-heard of archiver that ends with .sfx.  Does anybody
> know what the HE** this is?  My next question is, is it archived with a
> NORMAL utility (re: zoo, lharc, lha.  heck, even ARC is acceptable!)

        Well, I never heard of an archiver with .sfx extensions...  But I think
that sfx means 'Self Extracting', so you could try to run this archive...

>
>         BTW, I was able to find an older version of dms, but I need a higher
> version, 1.11 or something like that...
>
>         I tried to find the FAQ file for amiga, but was not able to.
>
>                 Many thanks for any help...
>
        You're welcome.

        Hope this helps,
        Lionel 'Mac Gyver' Ferette
        lferette@ulb.ac.be
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Date:         Sun, 8 Nov 1992 00:01:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: UCBVAX

>Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:36:53 CST
>From: Allen Wittenauer <CA2096%SIUCVMB.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
>Subject: RE: UCBVAX
>
>I thought I heard not too long ago that ucbvax quit forwarding news on, and
>that using another site was recommended.

It also does not seem to be accepting news articles for posting to news
groups via mail either.

-Lance
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From: jonin@NETCOM.COM ((Daniel Joseph Oak))
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Subject: Re: DMS probs...
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              92 5:15 pm

> Nothing...  Did u try BOOTING the disk??!  If you un-DMS a non-DOS disk, the
> Amiga haz a fit, but it should still boot normally...  I thought ZOOM was
> spozed to be better than DMS, how come noone uses it???

I will tell ya why. - No site that I have seen has it. :) Not Wuarchive,
Not Physik, not Lud, nobody.  If you can tell us all where it is - or better
yet simply throw it on a aminet site I am sure everybody would then get the
chance to use it. :)

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From:         "(David Johnson,
              CSIRO Div. Wool Tech.)" <DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU>
Subject:      ROM Switching and Hard Disk Formats

How should I format my hard disk for use under both 2.04 and 1.3 ROMs?

I know that the 2.0x ROMs have FFS built in. This FFS is (according to
the 2.05 upgrade kit documentation) different to the 1.3 FFS, so a disk
based file system is also provided for compatibility. The doc also states
that the 2.0x FFS offers significant performance advantages over the 1.3
FFS. I know that the startup-sequence will need to work out what ROM it's
booting under (this bit is easy) so that appropriate C: commands are used,
but how should the disk be formatted?

Should I:

a) Stick with the (disk-based) 1.3 FFS and forsake the performance
   advantages?

b) Backup everything and repartition the drive into 1.3 and 2.0 partitions.
   Format them each with the approprate FFS, and use only one partition
   when I'm in 1.3?

c) Backup everything and reformat under the new FFS and hope like hell that
   the disk based FFS that came with the 2.05 upgrade will be used when I
   boot under 1.3?

I'm hoping that c) is correct. Could anyone confirm this?


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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: 050 Re: 68060
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:08:20 GMT

>Was there ever an 050?  If so what happened to it, and if not, why not?
>                                                        Kevin Shafer

   From the things I have read, they are skiipping the 68050 and going directly
  to the 68060.

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From:         "M.C. Freddy !!" <CSC9017984R@LUST1.LATROBE.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: What is a .sfx archive?

>        Ok, I got the blackboxvideo archive files, one of which is a .dms
>archive..  So, I go get the dms archiver/dearchiver.  Only problem is,
>somebody used some never-heard of archiver that ends with .sfx.  Does anybody
>know what the HE** this is?  My next question is, is it archived with a
>NORMAL utility (re: zoo, lharc, lha.  heck, even ARC is acceptable!)

.sfx means SELF-EXTRACTING!!  ie: You dont even NEED any sort of archiver, you
just run the file, and it extracts itself... [the new LHA allows you to archive
files of this type...]

>        BTW, I was able to find an older version of dms, but I need a higher
>version, 1.11 or something like that...

All ftp sites should have the 1.11 version.. try wuarchive.wustl.com

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From:         Wim=Lockefeer%BIB%LW@CC3.KULEUVEN.AC.BE
Subject:      ixemul

Okay, okay, before all of you start flaming me for asking a question again
which has been solved a month ago, I KNOW !!! ;-)

Now that's settled, here's the question.  I downloaded the SQLDB from that
swiss FTP-site.  Everything seems to be OK : standard ANSI SQL, special
interface, the works.  Only, two problems :

1. The program needs IxEmul-library.  What is it and where can I get it ?
2. The tutorial file is missing.  Could somebody mail it to me, and more
important, how do I tell the site that one of their files is incomplete ?

Thanks for any answers in advance...

Wim...

ps : seems like the I*M-world has a new miracle : local bus video.  It's
supposed to be a special processor devoted entirely to handling the monitor
and it's supposed to be a revolution.  Somebody ought to tell them they're
behind.
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Date: 9 Nov 92 16:33:26 GMT
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>Lastly, There is this gcc in one of the ftp site, someone mentioned to split
>up the 3+Mbyes of stuff for easy download. I would appreciate that. Coz I only
>have 1M of disk space to use. And is this gcc object-orentated?

I hope to start splitting this archive up next weekend (Nov. 14 & 15).  It has
been requested that the size be limited to 720KB.  I expect this may take more
than 1 weekend of work, depends whether I get access to a DEC 4000/200 here at
work. I have a copy of lha-1.00 running on it and it will make the job easier on
this machine. I have a 200+ Kilobyte LAN connection to it, so transfering 3 MB
doesn't take very long.

Ed Bruce
edward@hac2arpa.hac.com
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From:         Jim Loomis <LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET>
Subject:      68060

Sorry if this is a duplicate post.  I usually delete files after I've posted
them and this one was still lying about...

(Captured this from the FIDO Amiga International echo!!!)
-------------

Intel P5, Motorola 68060 In MPU Forum Limelight.
By Jonathan Cassell

Burlingame, Calif. -

Intel and Motorola engineers last week detailed the superscalar, pipelined
architectures of the respective P5 and 68060 microprocessors at the annual
Microprocessor Forum here.

[P5 decription - deleted]

Motorola's 060 is a 32-bit processor with a superscalar, pipelined
architecture.  It has more than 2 million transitors, using a 0.5-micron,
triple-layer metal, 3.3 volt process in a static design.  Performance will
be 3.5 times the 25MHz 68040, or about 46 Specmarks, according to Joe
Circello, 68000 advanced microprocessor architect for Motorola.

Separated in the 060 are instruction caches and data caches; instruction
fetch pipelines (with four-stage instruction processor, a physically-mapped
8Kbyte instruction cache with four-way self associative, a virtually mapped,
256-entry branch cache and a FIFO instruction buffer), and operand execution
pipelines (with four-stage operand processor, a physically mapped 8Kbyte
data cache with 4-way interleaving and a 4-entry, 32-bit write buffer).

The floating point unit - implemented in the execution stage of the operand
execution pipeline - is compatible with the 040 FPU programming model.
Floating point execution times range from 1-24 cycles.  The 060 superscalar
dispatch algorithm can execute 50 to 60 percent of integer code instructions
as pairs with existing compilers.

The 060 will come in 040-style packaging, with a similiar external bus.  The
first versions will sample in the second half of 1993, go into production in
Q1 1994, and run at 50MHz and 66MHz.

--
And I thought the 68040 would be the last of the line!

Jim Loomis      LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET        607-274-3913
        Director, Telecommunications Facilities
        Roy H. Park School of Communications
        Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850-7256 USA
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Date: 5 Nov 92 23:18:12 GMT
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I tried the @genie.com address and it is not known to the DDN.  This is what I
received:

ac2arpa% theodrake@genie.com... Connecting to genie.com via ddn...
theodrake@genie.com... Host unknown

Ed
edward@hac2arpa.hac.com
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From:         PSZABAN@WNEC.BITNET
Subject:      Re: What is a .sfx archive?

    A .sfx archive is a self extracting archive.  Once you get the .sfx file
to your amiga, key in the file name at a shell (CLI) prompt.  For example,
to extract files from an archive named XXX.SFX, move the file onto your
Amiga, start a shell or CLI window, and type XXX.SFX.

    I suspect you will have an additional problem if you are trying to take
apart the wuarchive.wustl.edu file:

    /systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive/DMS111.SFX

    There is a problem with this file; if you delete the first 128 bytes of
this file, it will come apart fine.  When I got the file last week, I had
to look at it with a file zapper to figure out what was going on.  Just
write a quick C (or whatever language) program to strip off the first 128
bytes, and you should be able to extract DMS fine.

                                           Pete Szaban
                                     Western New England College
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From:         ARGO <FRASER50@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: 68060

  The 68050 is going to be a 50 Mhz 68040 cpu. I beleive i read that in
 amiga world.

fraser50@snypotva
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