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From: MOOREL@CWU.BITNET
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Subject: Re: IDE Cards
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:10:00 GMT
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Yes you can use an IDE drive in the A2000. All you need to do is get a
controller card that will talk to the drive. The one system that I worked
with had a GVP 030/33 accelerator in it with an IDE controller. This was
used with a SCSI controller in the same machine. Both worked just fine. The
only drawback that I can think of is that this configuration requires two
drivers in memory and takes up two slots in the machine. Other than that things
should work just fine.

                                -Lloyd-
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From:         "Matthiew Clemence" <mclem@MPH.SM.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: dead mice

At the risk of sounding facetious (is that spelt right?) I had a similar problem
caused by a dirty ball. A quick wash of the rubber ball, rub down with acetone
(nail polish remover) to degrease it and then replace it. Also all kinds of
grunk build up on the rollers which can degreade performance (it only happens`
in one direction as the ball is actively pushed onto the roller one way but
only rubs the other)

Alternatively, a wire may be broken in the mouse lead. Can you borrow someone
elses mouse to check ? Does a joystick work in that port ? If so, its the mouse!

Matthew
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From:         "(Stephen Vermeulen)" <SVermeulen@RAGNAROK.CUC.AB.CA>
Subject:      Re: A4000

:All ram added to the 3000 is 32bit (unless someone was foolish enough to
:buy a zorro II card for the 2000 and put it into a zorro III slot.  It would
:work but would make no sense.

I actually did this once when I needed a few extra megs in a 3000.  I
installed an old CBM 2052 (2 Meg ram card) in a 3000 and it worked fine
except when the 3000 was using that area of ram things slowed down a LOT!

:        ->dave
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Subject: Re: A4000 test drive
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Date sent: 13-OCT-1992

>"(Arc Wave)" <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU> writes:
>>  Hard drive seemed fast, and for some reason so did the floppy drive
>>  (somewhat, maybe I am dreaming about the floppy speed).
>
>Two possibilities.  If the floppy was formatted specifically for 3.0, it
>may have used the directory cache filesystem, which speeds up simple
>directory operations on floppies.  Also, if you were browsing around in
>the ASL filerequester, note that both the 2.1 and 3.0 ASL file requesters
>are *tons* faster than the 2.04 version.  However, actual transfer speeds
>from the floppy wouldn't be any faster than previous versions.
>
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:) Guess what guys.  According the the AmigaWorld issue on the A4000 the new
FFS under 3.0 is substantially different and faster than the older FFS.  This
could account for the noted speed difference.  For more info see the latest
AmigaWorld issue on the A4000. :)  Sounds great.

-Nyle
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From: martinh@cac.washington.edu (Martin Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Networking on the Amiga
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:56:27 GMT
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In article <718838826.130000.STU529655672@WSC.COLORADO.EDU> "An Incarnation of Deva Winblood" <STU529655672@WSC.COLORADO.EDU> writes:
>Does anyone have any tech information to compare how Amiga handles
>Networking? How do Amigas compare to Macintosh in this aspect?
>What kind of cards do we have? How do we Amigas handle TCP/IP, DECNet, etc.
>?

The Amiga has TCP/IP, DECNet, and Novell protocols available. Because the
Amiga multitasks, the Amiga can fully interact on the net, unlike most
PCs.  In other words, you don't have to put it in "server" mode to have
it respond to other machines.  You can also run different protocols
simultaneously.  With the new SANA2 drivers, you can run DECNet and TCP/IP
on the same ethernet card.

Ethernet and Arcnet cards are currently available.  The Amiga can network
over anything a SANA2 driver exists for.  However, SANA2 is very new
(most products using it are in Beta now), so few drivers exist.

An excellent X windows package is available for TCP/IP and DECnet. All the
X libraries are available, as well as Motif and Open Look.

At the low end, there are some public domain serial port networking
packages, such as Dnet, that are very popular.  These allow you to do simple
things like share files on PCs and Unix machines at slow speeds.

Martin

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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:43:29 EDT
From:         Andrew <IBY141@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: PC emulation without Bridgeboard?

  I'm looking for a tower case for my 2000.  I don't want to buy anything
BUT the case.  I need something that I can get my Amiga motherboard into
and have enough drive bays for my two 3.5" maybe three and 2-3 other hard
drive bays,  as well as a bay for my 5.25" bridgeboard drive.  If anyone
knows of ANYTHING that even remotely fits this bill,  drop me a note
directly.  It would help me out greatly,  thanks in advance.

Andrew Iby141@URIACC.URI.EDU
       Iby141@URIACC
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>hi,
>
>
>  Is there such a thing as a screen saver/blanker for an Amiga ?????
>
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There are number of them available via anonymous FTP, some can be found on
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From:         "Turbulent hair willy." <STU521530304@WSC.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:      Seeking a video toaster program

Ok,

        A friend of mine has a question hw wants to know where to find
a program for the Video Toaster that converts a 2D paint image IFF to a
3D Toaster/Lightwave object format. He would appreciate any information
on that... The information can be sent to me and I'll refer it on.


Seizure later,

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From:         "Peter M. Krummrich" <I7091202@DBSTU1.RZ.TU-BS.DE>
Subject:      terminal programm supporting TCP/IP protocol

Hi,

is there any PD terminal software package available that supports
TCP/IP protocol via the serial interface? I would like to log into
a HP workstation network. The network has modem access, but a TCP/IP
protocol is required. A simple terminal emulator (VT100, for example) is
not enough...

Any suggestions?

Peter


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From: bradley@jester.usask.ca (Alan Bradley)
Subject: PC emulation without Bridgeboard?
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:29:22 GMT


	I realize that this has probably been asked and answered many times
before both here and in comp.sys.amiga.emulation. As the latter seems to be
no longer available at this site I am posting here with apologies.

	A young friend wants to know if there is available for the Amiga,
any software-only PC emulator that will allow the running of text-only PC
software, such as a statistical package, or word processing.

	Since he is a penniless student, he would be especially pleased to
hear of PD software to fit the bill.

	Many thanks!
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Andrew <IBY141@URIACC.URI.EDU> writes:------------------------------------------
   >
> BTW:  Someone is using TCP/IP on an Amiga at my work.  I can find out the
>       details if anyone is interested..
>
        I am very interested on it, and I think that some people at the list
could find it usefull too.

> Andrew / Iby141@URIACC.URI.EDU
>

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From: CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU
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Subject: Computer Market
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:46:37 GMT
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Hello all,
I'm currently working on a presentation for my Strategic Management
class which deals with CBM, and other computer makers. I have been
using my school's CD-ROMs to learn the sales of the major players
in the computer market (Home, desk-top, PC's, Microcomputers, etc..)
Can someone recommend some sources that break down a companies
revenue by SBU, or product group. I'm at wits end...

Thanks in advance... ;-)

Carlos Camacho
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The A-3000 does have a 2MB Agnus and space for 2MB of chip ram, but CBM
configures the machine with 1MB of fast and 1MB of chip.  I think I know
why they do this but, as I am not sure, I won't share this possibly
miss-information.
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From:         Jim Loomis <LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: upgrade: Final Copy to FC II

Well Jason, -- how can I put this without being offensive -- I'm not very
impressed with MacWrite either.  I'm using ProWrite most of every day now.  In
fact, I have a document in progress with PW3 even while I'm writing this
on-line with EVE (VAX editor).  Before ProWrite, I used Wordperfect
extensively -- thousands of memos, several articles and two books.

Wordperfect never quite got it right, either, but there are a lot of things to
like about it.  WP has the right idea, IMHO, in keeping certain aspects of the
program in modules, e.g., printing, spell checking, thesauraus, graphics, math,
etc., but many things about WP are extremely esoteric and/or awkward to use.  I
found myself resorting to researching features in the manual entirely too
often, even some that I used frequently.  This was agravated by the
inconsistancies with the way A-DOS does things.  Despite all that, on my darker
days with PW3 I threaten to return to WP.

Fundamentally, as a writer, I am a keyboard person.  I like Qed a lot, and I
can almost work up a passion for TransWrite (formerly TransScript), except that
the formatting codes on screen seem a bit primative and the print requesters
are odd.  I often do larger projects in straight text with Qed and them move
the text into Pro-Page for adding formatting and graphics -- usually just line
drawings.

PW3 carries all that weight around with it.  Even on my A3000 (25mHz / 40M HD
/ 5M RAM) it is relatively slow to load.  I'd love to know how much of that
code is devoted to graphics and loaded whether it's used or not.  I would like
to be able to select my printer's (Panasonic KX-P1124) fonts from the program,
but that feature has never been enabled.  In fact many of the output formatting
features are spread all over the place -- terribly dissorganized menus, IMHO.

PW3 incorporates a number of significant improvement over the earlier versions,
but there are still no recordable keystrokes for macros -- even Qed has that!
Only a few of the commands have keyboard equivalents, requiring frequent need
for the mouse to do routine things, such as inserting a hard space.  There is
no auto-hyphenation -- a mixed blessing, but it should be there.  No ability to
mix column widths except by laborously tabbing things in -- essential for
certain types of scripts.  No math for tabed columns.

I could go on, but if you compare it to WORD or Wordperfect on the Mac, rather
than MacWrite, you'll pretty much see what I mean.  None of which is to say
that PW3 is not a good buy.  In fact, I will upgrade as soon as New Horizons
gets around to making me an offer.

Jim Loomis      LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET        607-274-3913
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Subject:      Re: A4000 test drive
              13 Oct 92 10:26:08 EDT."
              <9210131429.AA19915@MATHSUN1.MATH.UTK.EDU>

I have a simple 'C' question...

How can I get #? expanded?

i.e., I wrote this program that I want to give a list of file names

	myprogram #?

should give argv[n] = filenames, right? what do I need to do to get this?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:36:42 -0400
From:         "Daniel S. Riley" <dsr@LNS598.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Avoid A4000?

CAMACHO@ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU writes:
>My friend down in Pittsburg mentioned that he's seeing alot of
>messages to avoid the A4000 due to bugs, and interlace problems.. etc..
>Does anyone know what he's talking about?

There's a lot of noise on comp.sys.amiga.misc and comp.sys.amiga.hardware,
most of it generated by Marc Barrett (who is truly without a clue on this
one), about reasons to avoid the A4000.  Almost all of it is dead wrong.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don't know any better, and by now Marc is
in the kill files of just about everyone at Commodore.

The one bit of truth is that if you want full compatibility with older
software (especially system unfriendly games), you need a monitor that
scans down to 15 kHz, which many of the newer multisyncs will not do.
This is because the A4000 does not have a hardware deinterlacer--instead,
it uses software to "promote" older interlaced modes to new non-interlaced
modes with the same resolution and palette.  For well behaved software, the
3.0 mode promotion works fine in getting rid of interlace flicker, and is a
much cleaner solution than the flicker-fixer type hacks, but it doesn't work
for take-over-the-machine programs or other poorly written software.

Other than that, everything I've seen against the A4000 in the "avoid
the A4000" threads should be ignored, as the authors are basically
clueless.

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From: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [POSTMASTER])
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Quoted from <...unknown> by crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal):
> In <overlord.0bnj@megalith.miami.fl.us> overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [POSTMASTER]) writes:
> 
> >	Yes, there is an ASCII Version on GEnie.  What they did was
> >filter out the postscript code.
> 
> 
> So, what is the address for Genie?  Or could you upload it one of the  FTP sites.?

	GEnie is a commercial network.  You can't exactly FTP it.
I will try to get it though.

Carlos
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:02:55 EDT
From:         "(Daniel Roman)" <roman@TIX.TIMEPLEX.COM>
Subject:      Re: PC emulation without Bridgeboard?
              92 12:43 am

Andrew writes:
>   I'm looking for a tower case for my 2000.  I don't want to buy anything
> BUT the case.  I need something that I can get my Amiga motherboard into
> and have enough drive bays for my two 3.5" maybe three and 2-3 other hard
> drive bays,  as well as a bay for my 5.25" bridgeboard drive.  If anyone
> knows of ANYTHING that even remotely fits this bill,  drop me a note
> directly.  It would help me out greatly,  thanks in advance.
>
> Andrew Iby141@URIACC.URI.EDU
>        Iby141@URIACC
>
I'm confused here, you aren't really looking to go through all the
trouble of getting an entirely new case for your Amiga are you?  Why not
just buy a external hard drive case?  You can get them in all kinds of
sizes with power supplies and if you buy a Mac style case it'll have all
the right connectors (SCSI) and cables with it.  I did it for my 3000 to
add another hard drive and a tape drive, it was a snap.  Save yourself
alot of time, money, and aggravation!

Look in Computer Shopper for sources.

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