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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:04:21 +0100
From:         sigam@BIOMED.EE.ETHZ.CH
Subject: Re: AGA compatibility

the programm finalcopy can display up to 256 colors on an AGA machine.
The only problem is that it is then so slow that even the 4000 is useless.
The best mode to use FCII is the 16 colors mode.

I was very disappointed with can do 2.0 it does not make any use of the new
 chipschipset and you can not use the pal version with a ntsc computer. Can Do
 2.0 is not supporting the animatin from Dpaint IV and does very bad
 transformation of other animation. It does not support the ASL File requester
 so that you can only use the very bad requester the people from Innovatronics
 found fine to make(very bad looking and useless).

BYE

EVA
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re:      RKM
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:02:31 GMT

 AUBERT@FRFLU51.BITNET writes:
>I'm concidering changing my old 1.3 RKMs for new 2.04 RKMs. But with 2.1
>(introducing local.lib), 3.0 (with AGA), and now 4.0 (rumors ?), I'm
>wondering if it's a good idea, or does CATS plans to publish a new
>release ?
>Any opinion is wellcome.
>Stef.

  From discussions on comp.sys.amiga.*, the AGA chips are only going to
 work on the AGA Amiga machines. No earlier machine will be able to go
 beyond wb 2.1. Dave Haynie and several others have said it wouldn't
 be possible to put AGA chips in an A1000, A500, A2000, or A3000 because
 of the buss not being wide enough, etc. I don't remember all of the
 reasons, but if you want AGA you will have to get an AGA machine { A600,
 A1200, A4000 }. SO, it looks like there are now two upgrade, And RKM,
 paths, i.e. AGA and non-AGA. Later, DJ.

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
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From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
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Subject: Re:      RKM
Date: 9 Jan 1993 12:05:20 -0600
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In article <1993Jan9.080231.8336@ra.msstate.edu> jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
: AUBERT@FRFLU51.BITNET writes:
:>I'm concidering changing my old 1.3 RKMs for new 2.04 RKMs. But with 2.1
:>(introducing local.lib), 3.0 (with AGA), and now 4.0 (rumors ?), I'm
:>wondering if it's a good idea, or does CATS plans to publish a new
:>release ?
:>Any opinion is wellcome.
:>Stef.
:
:  From discussions on comp.sys.amiga.*, the AGA chips are only going to
: work on the AGA Amiga machines. No earlier machine will be able to go
: beyond wb 2.1. Dave Haynie and several others have said it wouldn't
: be possible to put AGA chips in an A1000, A500, A2000, or A3000 because
: of the buss not being wide enough, etc. I don't remember all of the
: reasons, but if you want AGA you will have to get an AGA machine { A600,
: A1200, A4000 }. SO, it looks like there are now two upgrade, And RKM,
: paths, i.e. AGA and non-AGA. Later, DJ.

From what I read on comp.sys.amig* groups, people *can* run WB 3.0 (and
some are) on earlier machines (using their 2.X ROM).  The part about no
AGA solution sounds like what I heard, though, excapt that the A600 is
ECS and *NOT* AGA.

:-- 
:         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
:             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
:                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
:          'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV talk shows !'

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:43:44 CST
From:         "Alejandro J. Kurczyn S." <AKURCZYN@ITESMVF1.BITNET>
Subject:      CIA problems list

A while ago, (like 8 months or so) some kind person started to send a
plubication made on GEnie to this list, it was called something like
"StarShip" , "5-Minute" or else. On one of those files there was an article
about the CIA chips on Amigas and what they control.

If anyone has that file, could you please send me a copy?

Thanks in advance!
-Alejandro K.
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:58:23 +0100
From:         Chris Tann <christ%gwelup@ES2FR.UUCP>
Subject:      Re: uudecode problems

Jim Ventola writes:

> I got the index from the MRC serv of Amiga files.  It came as two
> ascii messages with uuecoded stuff.  I think I extracted and joined
> the right stuff and ended up with a file called amiga-file-list.zoo
> that is 48423 bytes long.  But zoo reports that it has a bad directory.
> The directory is 000000 or some such, from what I can tell.  Am I
> doing something wrong in creating the .zoo file?

The problem with this method is that after joining the pieces together,
you have to do some hand editing to get read of the mail headers in the
middle of the message. uudecode is clever enough to ignore headers before
the "begin" statement, but not in the middle.

A quick visual check is this: A valid uuencoded file can have any amount
of mail header information, then a line such as :

begin 750 amiga-file-list.zoo

then the data statements, one per line, always beginning with an "M",
and always the same length (62 characters I think). The last two lines
may not follow this however. Finally, you will find and "end" statement.
Any extra characters in the body of the data (even a blank line) will
corrupt the data. However, uudecode doesn't tell you this!!

I have a small unix script which does the work for me. I then get:

-rwxr-x---  1 christ      48361 Jan 11 11:49 amiga-file-list.zoo


Hope this helps.

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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:13:15 EST
From:         "P. Larkin" <IQM259@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      ...

  So C-Net is halfway decent on the Amiga..  Can you give me some numbers
of some Amiga C-Net boards so I can call and check out the software?  I
really want to SEE what i'm buying before I go and buy it.


P.Larkin
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From:         Daniel Roman <roman@TIX.TIMEPLEX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tape drive
              Jan 8, 93 10:08 am

R.Tait@BNR.CO.UK writes:

> I suppose I'm asking too much for one of these babies to read from SUN 150MB
> tape drives too?

I can easily exchange tar tapes between the Suns here at work and my
Amiga.  There's no reason the Commodore drive could not do the same.  I
used a SCSI tape-handler which is PD and can be found on wuarchive.
It's called scsitape.lzh I think.  GNUtar or another tar program work
great!
--
_________
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Ascom Timeplex (NJ)  Homebrew is better brew!  Only AMIGA!  \X/
From: billsey@agora.rain.com (Bill Seymour)
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Subject: Re: Mitsubishi Diamond scan monitor aum-1381a to amiga?
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:52:29 GMT
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	While we're on the Diamondscan... I have one which appear to be
showing a different scale on the intensity than it should. Setting a color
of 0:0:0 give me a full black, F:F:F gives me a full white, but 7:7:7 
gives me almost full black still! The greys only start appearing at
8:8:8 and above. Needless to say, this isn't too much of a problem on
my workbench screen, since I can just pick displayable colors (Though
with half the normal range to my palette) but if I boot up a commercial
program that doesn't allow me to adjust the colors, I may not be able
to read the display. (Lemmings is almost unplayable when this monitor
is attached to the Amiga) 

	Any ideas what it might be?


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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:17:15 PST
From:         EBRUC@CATGSG.DNET.HAC.COM
Subject: RE: Problem with 2 hard drives

I had the same problem with a 42 MB and 50 MB quantum drives. I never solved it.
I now have a 127 MB Quantum.  I have not tried disk to disk copies yet.  I am
don't want to rebuild another partition.  When I copied it locked up and then
when I rebooted I got a corrupt disk or the drive light came on and then the
system would hang.  I then had to boot from a floppy and attempt all sorts of
things to get the disk back.

Ed
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:25:19 MET
From:         AVERHE@BANRUC60.BITNET
Subject:      Out of this World codes: (fwd)

>
> .of course this is cheating!!!
>
> lvl 1 = HICI
> ..     FLLD
> ..     LIBC
> ..     CCAL
> ..     FADK
> ..     KCIJ
> lvl 7 = ICAH
>

Out of this world ?
Thought the game was called Another World !
Is you want to find all the codes, use a program like diskwik or so,
which displays the date f each sector. Let it search for the first passwd
(hici), and you will find all the rest ! All the passwds are written into
1 sector, I don't know exactly which one it was.

  Regards,

       Aeneas.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:17:00 EST
From:         RABID SPINACH <QCZUSEA@IUP.BITNET>
Subject:      PD CAD programs anyone??

                Any one know of any good PD or shareware CAD
         programs for the AMI?  I'm looking for somthing
         that I can use to draw some AD+D game maps and city
         layout on...
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:26:48 EST
From: <GDH3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: State College, PA, Amiga game-players

Are there any other people here in (or near) State College, PA that
use an amiga to play games?  We have an amiga-500 and quite a few games,
even some that were bought new.  We would like to meet anyone near
here that plays games on the amiga.  Mitch Timin 234-8090 (or e-mail)
From: hal@caty.north.de (Holger Lubitz)
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Subject: Re: Amiga rumours
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:36:30 GMT
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In article <01GTE60BS1FK000WJD@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE>, Fergus o'Hea writes:
> What do you mean, stop hardware coding! People get confused between hardware
> coding and jumping into the ROM.

No, I meant hardware coding. ROM jumping is a no-no anyways. Hardware
coding was fine way back in the A1000 days, when no other Amiga models
existed. I also did a bit of hardware coding way back then. But that
was 86/87, and nowadays we have multiple Amiga models with different
processors, different chip sets and different revisions of their
operating system. It is somewhere near impossible to test your
hardware oriented code on every and any amiga configuration out there,
so just obey to the rules if you possibly can.

Of course I could try to code some hardware level stuff on my 4000 and
have it work. But I won't. You can do impressive stuff with the OS
under 3.0 and with an 040, you don't need to bang the hardware
anymore. This machine is FAST. (No, I won't write an AGA-OS-demo. I
hardly have enough time to write all those magazine articles I am
supposed to write :)

> (BTW if my code refuses to work on the new hi-end and lo-end chipsets, I will
> happily burn my hardware manual and take up OS programming! :-)

Better start now. (At least you didn't promise to _eat_ your hardware
reference - you're lucky :)

Holger

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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:56:00 PST
From:         "26637::BRZWICKY" <BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@CONSRT.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: AA Animation Speed

Me:
> > All that isn't necessary!  Just make an anim, put a spot somewhere special
> >on the first frame or two, and verify that the spot appears twice per
> >second.  (Make it a 25-fram anim if you're in PAL.)

You:
> Your Method would NOT be a FULL frame animation...
> Ed :-{

Yeah, yeah, I meant add the spot to a full frame animation - ie. Do squiggles
around the whole screen for 25 (PAL) or 30 (NTSC) frames, then pick a clean
spot on a single frame and put a spot there.  I don't know if drawing just
the corners will work, as the compressor might get sneaky and compress just
those corners.

Also, if you're determined to use a VCR and it has freeze-frame and single-
step, it's usually not too hard to determine whether single-step moves ahead
1 field or 2 (1/30 or 1/60 sec, NTSC), and by single-stepping your recorded
anim, you can see if any frame stays up longer than it should.

By the way, does either the A4000 or A1200 even have composite video out?


|\      / Bill Zwicky                       / I multitask!
|<      / Insight Industries, Inc.          / So does my Amiga!
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:56:00 EDT
From:         PSZABAN@WNEC.BITNET
Subject:      RE: uudecode problems

> I got the index from the MRC serv of Amiga files.  It came as two
> ascii messages with uuecoded stuff.  I think I extracted and joined
> the right stuff and ended up with a file called amiga-file-list.zoo
> that is 48423 bytes long.  But zoo reports that it has a bad directory.
> The directory is 000000 or some such, from what I can tell.  Am I
> doing something wrong in creating the .zoo file?

Hi -

    Yes, I too ordered that file a while ago and had the same problem.  It
looks like the archive was made on a VAX.  The file pathname is something
like /000000/amiga-file-list.  The way I de-archived the file was by
copying the UUDECODE'd .zoo file onto a floppy disk in df1:, then entering the
following AmigaDOS commands to dearchive the file onto the ram disk...

    cd ram:
    makedir 000000
    cd 000000
    stack 8000
    zoo -extract df1:amiga-file-list.zoo

    Note that zoo210 is needed (it requires a stack of at least 8000).  It is
important to create the directory 000000 (zero's, NOT letter O), and cd into
that directory BEFORE running zoo.  Hope I got that right; I'm doing it from
memory.

    By the way, if you don't have zoo2.10 it won't work.  I got zoo210 from
wuarchive.wustl.edu as the pathname:

   /systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive/zoo210.lzh

    Good luck

                                                Pete Szaban
                                                PSZABAN@WNEC.BITNET
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From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re:      DTP & Graphics enhancers
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:13:34 GMT

In article <01GT9FP618008Y5EHR@ALBION.BITNET> GADGET <SHALEY@ALBION.BITNET> writes:
>I am currently considering doing some DTP with a new amiga.  Regardless of
>which system I choose, I am certainly planning on buying a graphics board
>to go along with it.  What I am curious about is who out there has done
>something similar.  I specifically need to know
>1)  What are the maximum resolutions supported by the DTP software out
>        there.

It is only limited by the maximium resolution of the OS. If the
environment is 1280 x 400, you can launch the prgram in the resolution.

>2)  If it supports higher than standard resolutions which graphics boards
>        does it support?
>

ProPage 4.0 supports AGA machine. Currently, there is no graphics board
supported by any DTP package.
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:40:32 EST
From: <JOB102@psuvm.psu.edu>
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Subject: Amiga Modem W/ Games ???

I have an Amiga 500 with a Commodore 1680 (1200 Baud modem) {groan}.  The
thing works fine with Jr Comm, but when I go to use it with Battlechess,
Firepower, or any of the modem compatible games, it's like my modem doesn't
exist.  For example, on Battlechess I type ATDT 5551212, but it won't give
the command to the modem (Firepower is the same way), yet it works on a friends
Supra 2400+.  Any suggestions?
Jack
From: tigner@MSUPA.PA.MSU.EDU (Barnon)
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Subject: AMI-HARD ,AMI-TECH, AMI-SYS
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:06:33 GMT
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I haven't received any mail from these since Jan 1st. Is there a problem ?
Will I have to re-subscribe ? Does anyone know ?

I have a 2nd item to bring up here. I bought and installed WB2.04 in DEC 92
on my Amiga A2500/030. I have the A2091 SCSI controller card and have
updated the ROMS to at least version 6.6. I have an Archive 2150 SCSI tape
drive at address 0. I started using HDBackup ,which worked fine, but could
not EVER select the DIFFERENCES or INSPECT items on the pull down menu. A
friend told me that he thought they had not been fully implemented yet and
that these functions could be obtained only by using BRU through the CLI.
Well ,I was mollified that the documentation specifically made mention of
selecting and using these menu items even though they did not work. I
decided to let the matter stand and not make waves. Now , I have upgraded
to WB2.1 and I find (again) that the new manual still makes references to
the DIFFERENCES and INSPECT menu items and how to use them. However the
HDBackup program is the same version that came with the WB2.04 release and
the DIFFERENCES and INSPECT STILL DON'T WORK ! I have Emailed off a request
to several people at CBM and have not received one single reply after 2 weeks.

What gives ? I called my local dealer today and he said to call 1-800-go-amiga
to get an answer. Guess what ? the number 1-800-go-amiga has been disconnected
with no new number available. So I called the dealer back to see if he could
give me another number and he said that was all he had for CBM. I complained
that to have TWO releases of an operating system that both claimed to have
a feature and didn't, was tantamount to fraud. He then replied that what did
I expect , after all it is CBM.

I didn't like this attitude, I can't get support from any of the 3 local
dealers, I have no access to CBM or they just ignore me. I'm close to being
totally fed up.

COMMODORE / CBM / CATS ... ARE YOU LISTENING ? ARE YOU OUT THERE ? DO YOU CARE ?

Good grief, I'm starting to sound like Marc Barret, -=shudder=-.

Give a little support to the dealers and users , please .

Bitching over, I probably overdid it anyway and over reacted. (maybe not though)
--Barry-->
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:43:00 +0200
From:         "Dr Y.M. Engel - The Hebrew University" <ENGEL@HUJIVMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Convertoe from DVI to HP laserjet emulsion?

Hello,
Where could I 'ftp' a VMS-workable program for converting a dvi file
(produced by TeX) to a file to be sent to a laser printer WITH
HP lasetjet emulsion?
Thanks,
M. Engel
(e-address: engel@hujivms.bitnet OR engel@vms.huji.ac.il)
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:46:00 PST
From:         Jim McIntosh <Jim@AMERICAN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: EWTN

On Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:24:00 EST Alfred S. Chavez <achavez@UMSA.UMD.EDU>
responded to my query by saying:
>>Why is it we humans have to be threatened with punishmment in order to
>>want to do good?
>
>Don't know a good way to explain this.  But I do know it is in line with the
>gospels.  I grew up somehow focussing on the doom and gloom aspects of the
>gospels, all the "Woe to..." parts.  (As Barbra Streisand sings, "I was
>raised on the good book Jesus...now I don't believe I want to see the
>morning."  I'm very much grateful for the change brought on by Vatican II
>that corrected this over-emphasis.  But the dire warnings are still there.
>You can look at the Medjugorje experience the same way, and if not careful,
>miss its positive emphasis.

Many years ago, while taking a Liberation Theology course, someone posed the
question "What if there is no hell?" I'll never forget my surprize when the
Jesuit teaching the class responded "If there's no hell, why should we
bother being good?"

If the only reason you avoid shooting your mate is because you are afraid of
getting caught, and you'd do it in a minute if you could get away with it,
then the fact you are avoiding the act of murder isn't doing much for your
marriage.  You should avoid killing your spouse because you love him or her.

Similarly, we should do good because we love God and want to do what is
pleasing to God.  If we are only doing good and avoiding sin because we fear
some punishment, it can hardly be beneficial to our relationship with God.

Jim McIntosh, SFO (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington, DC USA 20016-8019