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From: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Q-Link
Date: 20 Dec 1992 06:31:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, leahy@math.rutgers.edu (Andrew Leahy) says:

>IACHETTA@BCRVMPC2.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>> 
>> For those of you with a subscription to Q-Link, How do you like it?  When
>
>		[ . . . . ]
>
>> download cost / min?  Finally, how do I sign up?  Thanks.
>> 
>> Rich Iachetta
>> IACHETTA@BCRVMPC2.VNET.IBM.COM
>> IBM -- Boca Raton, FL  407-982-7705
>> 
>
>You can get their `800' number by dialing `800' directory assistance
>(1 (800) 555-1212) and asking for Quantum Link.  There is an answering
>machine waiting for you when you dial the Q-Link `800' number.  You can
>work through the menus until they ask you to leave your address,
>number, etc. and they'll send you a free start-up kit (5-10 working
>days).
>
>Now my question to the net:  What is the relationship between Quantum
>Link and America Online?  I've been looking at various information
>services and these two seem to be quite similar in billing ($7.95 a
>month + $6.00 per hour after the first two hours) and start-up (they'll
>send you a kit).  The only difference seems to be in what computers
>they support (a tear-out card for America Online that I got with my 
>`U.S. News' today only had boxes for Apples and IBMs).
>
>Andrew Leahy
>leahy@math.rutgers.edu
>

America Online now owns Quantumlink, but you cannot connect from AOl 
to QLink, or vice versa.
-- 
Basic Bits Commodore Group, No. Ridgeville, Ohio: Quantumlink - RidgeRunr
Light Of Day C= Sysop (216) 327-1603, 9600  (216) 327-1423, 2400
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: kevint@sad.hp.com (Kevin Taddeucci)
Subject: Wanted: Koala pad for C64
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:38:17 GMT
Organization: HP Sonoma County (SRSD/MWTD/MID)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Does anyone have a koala pad for the C64 they would like to sell.
If so, send e-mail to the address in the sig. Thanks!

       ----------------------------- ------------------------------------
      | Kevin J. Taddeucci          | e-mail: kevint@hpsad.sad.hp.com    |
      | Hewlett Packard Firmware QA | HPDesk: Kevin TADDEUCCI /HP5300/A0 |
      | Telnet: 794-4192            | HP Mailstop: 2LR-N                 | 
       ----------------------------- ------------------------------------
From: terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Demo Pardy/Denmark 1992
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:57:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

tonyc@compnews.co.uk (Tony Clark) writes:


>For more information don't contact me but.......

>	Camelot Contact:-
>	Trix of Camelot
>	Mads Nielsern
>	Markuej 30
>	2660 Brundly Strand
>	Denmark
>	+45 (435) 41625

Some misspellings are present in this address. A bettter one would be

Mads Nilesen
Markvej 30
DK-2660  Brondby Strand
Denmark
+45 43541625

-- 
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------------------------------------------Morten Welinder, terra@diku.dk
From: ci450@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James P. Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: NEEDED: Schematics for the 128D
Date: 20 Dec 1992 06:46:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


   Does anyone have, or know where I can find, schematics for
the Commodore 128-D?  Please help!  Reply e-mail to:

                ci450@cleveland.Freenet.Edu

Thanks in advance.

- James -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
Subject: Re: c64 emulator
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 15:41:20 GMT

oberland@vax.sonoma.edu writes:

>C-64 is MUCH less than 640*480*256 colors!

Yes, it's 320x200x16.

>Got the Amiga emulator to work.... now I need an Amiga test-disk...

WHAT?  Are you guys talking about an IBM c-64 and Amiga emulator here?
Since WHEN was this released, and are you serious??

-Doc

-- 
=============================================================================== The Commodore Amiga 4000 - 24 bit          16,777,216 colors (4096^2)!!         ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buster: "Say goodnight, Babs."                                                 
Babs  : "Goodnight, Babs."                                                      I'm tiny, I'm toony, and I'm a little looney!                                   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darren MacKenzie                                                                ("The Doctor")                                                                  890530m@aucs.acadiau.ca
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: raid on bungeling bay
Keywords: solution
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:26:03 GMT

m_rheau@pavo.concordia.ca writes:

>The action only starts when you REALLY destroy a factory.
>Bombing it until the smoke disappears isn't enough, I found out.
>Keep bombing it (concentrate on one factory at a time, because they
>regenerate over time) until you see it explode.

Um...  This is all explained in the MANUAL.

-- 
#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
#define  FALSE  1   | "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
#endif              |    the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada."
From: cb317@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephanie J. Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Bard's Tale II
Date: 12 Dec 1992 03:09:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I really appreciate your help.  Unfortunately your information
has left me stuck once again (*sigh).  Hopefully, you can come to
the rescue again.  How the heck do you solve the 4th Snare (at
the bottom of the Maze of Dread).  I've got an alchemist giving
me a vial that I can't seem to do anything with and a magic
mouth asking me to "Say to me the value of rote actions"... No
idea at all...
 
If anyone can come to my aid, I'd appreciate it... this is really
frustrating.. I'm usually better at these games, but these
puzzles are getting to me...
-- 
The United States is a nation of laws:  badly written and
randomly enforced.     Frank Zappa

cb317 @ cleveland.Freenet.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: tom@microsoft.com (Tom McConnell)
Subject: GEOS information---ftp sites
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:45:34 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

I just recently booted up by Sx64 with GEOS, and have a strange
itch to program GEOS some.  

Can anyone point me to a ftp site for GEOS software?

Someone told me there was an extension to the 1.2 Geos programmers
reference which explained GEOS 2.0.

Thanks in advance...

-Tom


-- 
"Hey COW!"  _____________((     
           /       **     o\    ______     _______________________
          /|      ****      \ _/moo...\    |     Tom McConnell   |
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From: Russell.Alphey@p1.f570.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Russell Alphey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: PD C compiler for C64
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:13:00

I've seen mention of a (supposedly) not very good public domain C compiler for
the '64.  I'd like a look at it anyway, so I was wondering if anybody had an
ftp address for it, or even be able to send it to me?

Reply either to the newsgroup, or to my internet account (ralphey@msl.oz.au),
or even my Fidonet point 3:536/570.1

Thanx in advance,

Ralphey.

 * Origin: A pointed message from Ralphey! (3:635/570.1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel)
Subject: Re: NovaTerm 9.4 comments & question
Summary: Differences in VT100 and VT102
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:25:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.103542.1@cs2.lamar.edu> rigney_ne@cs2.lamar.edu writes:
>>>>  *  what's the difference between VT100 and VT102?  The 9.4 module is called
>>>>        VT100 and 9.3's was VT102.  I'm not after differences between the two
>>>>        modules, I'm after what (if any) difference exists between the two 
>>>>        terminal types.
>>>
>>>There is no difference at all between VT100 and VT102, as far as I know.
>
>Actually, technically, there is a difference between Vt100 and Vt102.  VT102 is
>the official nname for the IBM ANSI we all kknow and hate.  VT100 is the
>offiicial name of the ANSI used by terminals.
>Just an interesting bit of trivia I picked up...
>
>
>-Cy
>

 There is also the ability to get wider fonts and larger letters in VT102..
 I don't think Novaterm would be able  to support this where there is only
 one font in memory at a time?
  
  Someone was using VT102 codes the other day on my BBS to make larger and
  wider letters and I tried viewing it using ANSI/VT and VT100 terminals but
  couldn't get the effects (whereas Atari, IBM and Amiga users could).
   
   -=*George*=-
From: gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1541 II and 1581 combo question:
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:24:33 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Dec13.002525.15594@netcom.com>, fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
> rerickso@cwis.unomaha.edu (Ronald D. Erickson) writes:
> 
>>Does anyone know what I am doing wrong with hooking my
>>1541 II disk drive and 1581 disk drive in series like two
>>1541 II disk drives?
> 
> You didn't say, but it sounds like you have a C64.  You might be running
> into problems with the extra pin on the 1581 used for fast-serial
> transfer on a C128.  If you disconnect the center pin on the cable that
> leads to the 1581, it should work with a C64.
> 

The problem sounds like the same one I had when I got my 1581, the cause is the
pin as was mentioned.  To find out for sure, unhook all your I/O devices (1541
II's, tape drive--which, BTW, will cause the problem you describe) and then
hook up only the 1581.  If it still doesn't work, it's prob'ly just plain
broke.  If not, hook up everything one-by-one and see what works with it.  If
it locks up, the pin is the problem.  If you can't do without the devices it
won't work with (mine was the tape drive, no big loss) put the 1581 last in the
daisy chain and snip the pin (FAST serial, whichever one that is).  Everything
should work.  Note you may not be able to use an 1581 utilities (like
fastloaders) that make use of this pin.
From: wolfy@stein.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Modem Wars!!!
Summary: Any players??
Keywords: c64, 64, c128, 128, commodore, games
Date: 12 Dec 92 13:21:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec12.132139.27181
Organization: University of Washington


	I have found a game that I thoroughly enjoy, and that I just can't
seem to get enough of:

			Modem Wars

	If anyone knows of what I speak, please, please mail me.  I have 
absolutely *no* problem calling anywhere in the world, any time, for any
length of time, so don't worry about the long distance stuff.

	Also, if you are playing with only the standard issue of Modem Wars,
the creator released a mod file that edits your disk to include some great
utils... like convert game films to DOS files (so you can transfer them to
a friend), find out batting average, and more.  Plus, with the new version
each game is date-stamped, so you know when it was played.

	So if you enjoy playing, and are looking for another such person,
look no further.  I'm actually not that good, I lose the majority of games
I play against locals.

	If interested, please (please) mail me.

						Signed,

						Starving in Seattle!
						wolfy@u.washington.edu


q
From: amyt@romulus.rutgers.edu (Amy Humphries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: UPloading
Date: 13 Dec 92 00:16:31 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I have several questions about uploading:

Note: I am using desterm.

1.  When I try uploading a text file, all the lines are appended
together (i.e. no carriage returns).  How can I fix this?

2.  I have downloaded some stuff from Qlink, including Mah-jongg.  I
know it was requested that this stuff be uploaded to an ftp site.  I
want to know if this is "legal" or will Qlink be upset.

2b.  What ftp site should I put them on?

2c.  Will there be problems similar to that with text files (i.e. read
question one)?

3.  I also have novaterm9.3 but I don't use it.  Would this be better
to use for uploading, than desterm?
From: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Help needed on keyboard (again)
Date: 14 Dec 92 21:34:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: General Dynamics Corp.


Okay, I'll try again.  I have a Sequential Circuits model 270 , 2 1/2 
octive keyboard for hooking up to the joystick port of my commodore 64.
The kids have torn the wiring out of the side, the wiring consisting of
five lines.  This wiring was torn out of the board such that no color
exists on the solder glob to make identification for me easy.
 Sequential has been bought out by Wine Country Productions,
whom I've written months ago for assistance on how to rehook the wiring
back up.  All I've received from them to date are two ads for new midi
interfaces, so I know they at least got my letter. (and then ignored it
after I was put on their mailing list.)
This last weekend I took the keyboard apart, and inside was a 40-pin
IC, a resistor, and a capacitor(?).  FOr the folks in the electronics
group, the chip had the following marking on it.
I-600
5A-2084
8438

The IC had 32 lines connected to the keyboard keys.  Of the five lines,
one was connected to pins 1 and 2, one to pin 20, one to pin 3, one to
pin 39, and one to pin 38 through a 915 ohm resistor.  There is something
connected across pins 1 and 20 that could be a small cap, but the only
markings on it are 104m.

I assume pins 1 and 20 are ground and +5 volt, but I'd hate to guess 
wrong and burn out the chip.  The other three lines are joystick data
lines, and I could vary the connections with them until they work 
provided I have the power hooked up right.

For the c64 folks, the three data lines are A0, A2, and A3.

If anyone knows the proper power connections for this IC, please let 
know.  If anyone knows how to hook the final three lines up correctly,
please save me the experimentation time.
Thank you.
-- 
Joe St.Lucas    stlucas@gdwest.gd.com        Standard Disclaimers Apply
General Dynamics Space Systems, San Diego
My blood runs Husker red.
From: CTuna@cup.portal.com (Don S Gladden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Q-Link
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 18:32:41 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <19921208.122442.23@almaden.ibm.com> <1h13vlINNpm8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

Now that America Online can be reached via the internet, (aol.com), does
anyone know if QLink is also reachable?  (qlink.com???)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: agb001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: 2 Meg Reu Question.
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:14:08 GMT

Just curious but would anyone out there know a few things that they could help
me out with...
 
A)HOW in the world can a 64 go beyond the 2 MEG point...
 
B)What chips are needed to expand the REU to 2 Meg? I forget the kind (256K,
1M, x8, x9???) and also how fast must they be... (60ns,70ns,80ns...)
 
I ask because next semester I am going to be making twice as much as I am now
in an attempt to have some extra spending money... And because of that I am
thinking of expanding the REU... Any suggestions?
 
Thanks...
 
Tony Bossaller
AGB001@acad.drake.edu
ParaPsykotic (DSW)
From: fm2d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank M. Michels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Pitfall 2
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:26:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0f=CsC200iUxA40mBd
Distribution: world
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

OK, listen carefully ... it's rather tricky ...

At the beginning of the game, fall down into the river, and swim all the
way to the RIGHT.  As far as you can.  Jump on the ledge (just swim into
it).  Follow your instinct and you'll head into this LONG staircase with
bats.  (On every floor that there is a bat, there is a pot of gold. 
FYI.)  Anyway, keep going down the staircase until you come to the first
frog.  Get on that floor with the frog and go to left.  Fall off the
ledge, but do not jump off it because you'll hit a bat and go all the
way back to the red cross.  You'll land on a floor with a scorpion.  Go
to the left.  When you reach the ledge, DO NOT FALL OR JUMP.  Simply
wait.  After the bat flies by, a balloon will appear.  Jump to grab the
balloon and you can steer left and right and go faster and slower by
moving the joystick up or down.  Stay to the left hand side of the
canyon and let the bat pop the balloon.  One floor gets you the diamond.
 The top floor gets you your sister.  Now, on the top floor, follow the
staircase all the way down until the staircase ends, but DON'T FALL INTO
THE RIVER.  On the bottom floor, go to the left.  Now follow that
staircase all the way UP.  Get the cat and the rat, go into the river,
jump up onto the first river, and go to the left to where your started. 
If you make it that far with 110,000 points, you're a pro!

Computer Regression with a Commodore 64 ...

Frank Michels
Carnegie Mellon University
fm2d+@andrew.cmu.edu
From: amyt@romulus.rutgers.edu (Amy Humphries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: milton
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:37:19 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Does anyone know where on milton to upload files, I can't find an
incoming directory and it doesn't allow me to put files directly into
a directory.
From: bab@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Alan Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Pitfall 2
Date: 13 Dec 1992 01:30:19 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

Does anyone know how to get to the left side of the dungeon in
Pitfall 2?  This has bugged me for God-knows-how-long!  


 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  "Laugh and the world laughs with you.  Shoot someone   |   Brian Baker
  and you really limit your appeal." - Joe Martin        |   bab@wpi.WPI.EDU
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: "p. colagiacomo" <p..colagiacomo@canrem.com>
Subject: ftp info
Reply-To: "p. colagiacomo" <p..colagiacomo@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Dec 92 04:17:40 EST

I live in toronto and would like to know if there is any local FTP sites
to here or can someone tell me where I can get a list of FTP sites?  I
would like to logon and check out the system.  Please tell me how to
logon the system as well.  Thanx.
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: schuetz@fm11ap07.tu-graz.ac.at (Alexander Schuetz)
Subject: HELLO TO PRIME EVEAL sorry to the rest (hehe)
Organization: none
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:04:20 GMT


Yoho Prime Eveal!

It is very nice to see that there is another decent C64 guy here.
Actually, Horizon/NEI should be here too; he gave me his INTERNET address
but I haven't got any E-mail from him for more than a week now.
Thanks for replying to my message but actually I had rather expected some
E-MAIL from you. I hope you are familiar with the UNIX crap, how to E-mail,
how to use FTP and so on? It's damn cool, with those FTP you can upload
a meg in 15 minutes, most times even faster than that! 
Please try to reach me by phone or by E-MAIL, or, if that fails, by getting
in touch with a common friend of both of us. This should be DERBY RAM/ILS
whom I'm mailtrading alot with.
I haven't heard much about you at all, except Massive Onslaughts' funeral
note, but I can guess from that one that you much be a decent guy, right?
Again, my E-MAIL address is "schuetz@fm11ap03.tu-graz.ac.at".
Hope to hear from you soon!!

Oh by the way, yes OFCOURSE I'm still in [L] and not that incative at all,
aswell! (More details via EMAIL only ok!)

Later
        Alex
From: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:41:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: General Dynamics Corp.

Well, the reason I wanted to try to extend the 1541 directory is to find
my options available for a program I wanted to play with.  My 1581 has
296 files available, I think.  ANyhow, I wanted to find a recipe program
for the c64.  I know there are programs out there, but the ones I've 
found do one of the following;
1.) store recipes in a humongous sequential file.  Access would be slow
and messy.
2.) store recipes using one or two files per recipe.  The 2/file stores
ingredients in one file, instructions in another.
The reason they all existed is because no one in their right (or left)
minds would ever type all these recipes in by hand, so it was easy to
grow bored and quit after 10 entrys, therefore never taxing the programs
to the limit.
I'm rewriting an old database program (original in assembly, my version in
basic) that wouldn't use all the 40 sectors on my 1581 because the program
only used the 1541 setup.  So, I figured with the enormous amount of recipe
files people have already typed in and posted to rec.food.recipes, I could
electronically suck them up and dump them into a program, because I don't
have an ibm to get a cd-rom to get the $40 Julia Childs 1000 recipe disk.
I thought I'd modify what I'm working on to read recipe files.   
So I'm looking at options to storing and accessing the recipes, including
individual files, maybe glueing 5 or 10 per sequential file (saves disk
directory entries).  Since the recipes are random lengths, no one good
format exists to easily do the program reads.  Anyhow, I plan on making
it flexible enough to use either 1541 or 1581, using multiple disks,
but searching only on recipe title, not ingredients.  I know ftp'able
sites for ibm and mac programs exist for this purpose, but I haven't seen
any for our commodores.  If one exists, let me know and save me the time.
(average recipe is 3 blocks long, so > 200 could fit on one 1541 disk)
When (if) I get it done, I'll post it for interested minds.  I also have
a ton of bread-making recipes that need this also.

-- 
Joe St.Lucas    stlucas@gdwest.gd.com        Standard Disclaimers Apply
General Dynamics Space Systems, San Diego
My blood runs Husker red.