HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Designers Names Please C=
Date: 14 Sep 92 13:12:40
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu



As long as the C= are here shooting holes in MB postings could one of
you put together a credit list.

Board designer
Architecture
Lisa designer
Alice designer
040 designer
3.0 authors
SCSI-II card :-)

Just curious.  I like to give credit where due.  

-- Andrew Hansford
   ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
From: robertk@taoami.lerctr.org (Robert Kesterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon...NOT
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 10 Sep 92 07:23:17 CDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Sep8.133230.12650@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> The other day I FTP'ed SiliconMenus from amiga.physik and instantly fell in
> love with the pop-up-menu feature.  The problem is, I also rely HEAVILY on
> ToolsDaemon 2.0b and these two utils do NOT coexist peacefully.  I can't
> exactly explain what's going wrong, but here's what happens:  After
> starting an application and using the pop-up-menus a bit, my resident Avail
> command becomes corrupted (I run a cron program that cleans my VD0: every
> minute and flushes my memory every 5 mins.) and hits me with a recoverable
> error.  I've tried the program PopUpMenu and even the older, more OS
> "legal" version of ToolsDaemon, and the same thing happens.  But, without
> ToolsDaemon running, SiliconMenus works perfectly.  Is anyone else having
> problems experiencing problems with SiliconMenus and a similar Tools menu
> utility?  Is there something I can do to fix this (aside from giving up
> ToolsDaemon)?  As always, thanks in advance...
>
> Rob Whapham
> Etc. Publishing

I run both SiliconMenus and ToolsDaemon 2.0 on my A3000 without any such
problem.  I also do not use VD0:.  Could that be part of the problem?

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 Robert Kesterson             "First learn computer science and all
 robertk@taoami.lerctr.org    the theory.  Next develop a programming
                              style.  Then forget all that and
                              just hack."        -- George Carrette
From: david@ariane.uucp (David Lebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 discontinued?
Date: 7 Sep 92 22:52:59 GMT
Organization: SilverBox Development Group
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn 1.16c (6/22/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <Bu76Hu.3q1@tik.vtt.fi> Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius) writes:

>500. I also think that a computer of the size of the 600 should have
>been portable with its own screen. In that case a slightly old fashioned
>processor and 20 MB HD would even had been acceptable. Now it still seem

   In Canada, the Amiga 600 comes with a 40 MB HD instead of European A600,
that comes with a 20 MB HD. It's suggested list price is 795$ CDN$ (about
695$ US$)

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|     ... Software for the masses  \X/     |   - Blasphemous Rumours, DM      |
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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Bad News about INFO
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:47:20 GMT

   I went to the Omaha "AUoH" user's group metting tonight.  I actually met a
real Amiga commercial developer in person for the first time -- *AND LIVED*!!!
:-) :-)

   Anyway, that was just an aside.  I heard tonight that it looks like INFO 
magazine really is done in for good.  Next Sunday, September 20 1992, at
9:00 AM in Iowa City, INFO will be auctioning off everything.  There is said
to be about $150,000 worth of stuff they will be auctioning, and I may be
attending.  In case some of you people want to meet me for the first time, 
I will be wearing a cardinal-colored ISU jacket (if it's cool enough for a
jacket) and will have about $10,000 in cash with me to purchase stuff.  

   Since INFO appears to be auctioning everything they have, it looks like
they won't be coming back.  This is really unfortunate.

---
| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
--------------------------------------------------
From: esser@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Chris Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 problems
Date: 13 Sep 92 18:27:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1992Sep13.075420.7780@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>	I am having some trouble with my new Amiga 4000. It doesn't run
>some programs that ram on my A3000/16, such as Populous II, Deluxe Paint II,
>Fighter Duel II, Leisure Suit Larry II, Where in the Hell is Carmen Sandiego?,
>Amiga BASIC, Sybil, some of U4ia's music modules, Notepad 2.0, etc. Running
>Kickstart 1.1 and 1.2 didn't help either. Also my MAST floppy drive seems
>to not work very well anymore. If anyone has any suggestions please email.
>

Tell you what...  Out of the very kindness of my heart, I would be willing
to purchase for you an A500 in exchange for the 4000 -- I am CERTAIN that
you will be able to run such programs and more.  Although it will be
difficult, for certain, I will take that 4000 off your hands, and burden
myself with its troubles.

>
>	Thanks in advance.
>
Anything I can do to help out a fellow Amiga user in need...

-Chris Esser
(you can e-mail it to esser@en.ecn.purdue.edu)
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SysInfo MHZ weirdness
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 04:45:29 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I used Sysinfo 2.73 and it told me that my 40 Mhz VXL-30 is a 33 Mhz
one...  AIBB 4.58 always hits it correctly.  I think the speed algorithmn
in Sysinfo needs a little tweeking(about 7 mhz worth in my case!).
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: emacs in AUX: mode?
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 92 17:07:23 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep4.201628.19136@cci632.cci.com>

In article <1992Sep4.201628.19136@cci632.cci.com>
den@cci632.cci.com (Dennis J. Buttery) writes:

|  [...]
|  Yes there is!  I am running that exact setup myself currently.  I am
|  using a version on emacs that is designed to work off the AUX: port.
|  Works great, except I can't get the Cntrl-@ to work form the VT100
|  [...]

Try CTRL-spacebar to set mark.  Works for me with DEC-VT100 and Datamedia
DT/80 (VT100 clone) terminals.
From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 68010
Keywords: 68010
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:33:20 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

In article <4444@equinox.unr.edu> dollens@equinox.unr.edu (C Blake Dollens) writes:
>Someone on a local BBS suggested to me recently that a 68010 processor supports
>virtual memory.  My immediate response was no, because you need a PMMU for that
>purpose.  On the other hand, I realize that I know very little about the '010.

You're both right.  The 68010 pushes enough information onto the stack after
receiving a "bus error" indication that it can restart the failing
instruction.  That is, it can stop in the middle of an instruction when an
external MMU detects a page fault, make the page accessable, and then resume
the instruction.  At the time the 68010 can out, manufacturers had to design
their own Memory Management Units.  The Sun-2 workstations (which ran
VM-UNIX) consisted of a 68010 and Sun's proprietary MMU.

>dollens@equinox.unr.edu |                            -Walter Slovotsky


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CA license plate: "POPJ P,"    Married to the LB, Quantum Leap's #1 net.fan
PDP-10, 36-bits forever!    Humorous disclaimer: "My Amiga 3000 speaks for me."
From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AA & A3000???
Date: 13 Sep 92 17:44:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Sep13.174410.20796
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange

In article <92256.230906JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>How will the AA chipset be installed in existing 3000 machines?  A ZorroIII
>board, something in the CPU slot, or a more radical mother-board swap?
>Inquiring 3000 owners want to kNOW.

   I think I answered this in another newsgroup already, but here goes:
   You can't put the AGA chips in the A3000. Plain and simple. The AGA chips
require more system bandwidth than the A3000 has (four times more, as a matter
of fact). It's not going to happen. Even if a hack got the AGA chips running
in an A3000, the chips couldn't make use of the new graphics modes because
the bandwidth isn't there.
   Did I say that the bandwidth isn't there? Well, it isn't.
   Oh, BTW, the bandwidth isn't there.
   It's not going to happen.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: xpkmaster.library -- out soon!
Reply-To: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:14:02 GMT

I was playing with WB 39.97 and ran snoopdos.  I noticed something strange
besides the title screwing up...  ranlib was trying to open xpkmaster....
any comments?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: More AmigaWorld Lies
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:50:37 GMT

In <9225422.26648@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> ianr@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian Rowlands) writes:

>	Could those people who insist on crossposting advocacy material to
>the misc group please F.O.A.D? It's getting damn annoying. Note where the
>followups are going, where I won't read them. Flames to my mailbox, if you're
>lucky I'll read it.

 If I recall correctly this thread dealt with Amiga dealers and is not 
appropriate to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.

 Wouldn't comp.sys.amiga.marketplace be more appropriate, since it deals
with dealers and sales of the Amiga?

 My feeling is that this material should never have been crossposted to
advocacy, I believe that is the fault of Marc Barrett for including it in
his original message.

 Actually considering this thread died out a couple of days ago, it did seem
rather pointless and stupid to reply publicly anyway.  But I'm getting tired
of self proclaimed net police who just don't know how to use kill files.




-- 
Steve Sheldon         sheldon@iastate.edu
Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University  (515) 294-5429

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sjc28473@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Joseph Chmura)
Subject: Re: AA Chipset and NEW Amigas
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 21:11:19 GMT

guru@hotcity.COM (Darren Schroeder) writes:


>Well, here is some *true* info, no rumors....

>The AA Chipset IS a reality, highest resolution is 640x512x256 (Pal) and
>640x480x256 (NTSC). These new chips willl *ONLY* go into the NEW Amigas and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh?  So C= has decided to drop the SuperHire modes?
I do not think so.

-- 
  "Given enought time the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable,
	and the probable inevitable..." - George Wald - "The Origin of Life"
	Steven Chmura /////////  University of Chicago School of Medicine (M1)
From: HANKINS@PKEDVM8.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:51:43 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Problems with MSH: and subdirectories

I've noticed recently when using MSH (version 1.3) that occasionally an
attempt to write to a subdirectory on an MSH disk will trash the disk.

I've been getting this a lot recently, as I exchange floppies between
IBM and Amiga systems and use 'copy df0: msh: all' a lot.  If there are
subdirectories with files in 'em on the source disk, it will almost
always trash the MSH: disk.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Can anyone recommend a work-around?

I'm trying to put together a program to flatten directories so that all
files can be put on the root of the MSH disk, but MSH disks only permit
112 files on the root.


Dan Hankins
dan-hankins@cup.portal.com
hankins@pkedvm8.vnet.ibm.com
"Twin Peaks... At its best it was like a soap opera with teleplays by
Franz Kafka" - Steven King
From: sn15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steve Neas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WHAT is THIS?! (bizarre error)
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:37:46 GMT
Organization: Senior, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>In article <9209131139.AA23562@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> z3kpw@TTACS1.TTU.EDU
>   ("Wheeler, Kevin") writes:
>>Argh.  The weirdest thing happened yesterday.  I was trying to connect an
>> audio cable behind my Amiga setup and in the process I wiggled the monitor
>> cable amongst the nest of cables.
>>The screen become "garbled" and the 'puter locked up, so I had to reboot.
>>Lo and behold, BOTH of the disks in my floppy drives had been corrupted!
>>So if anyone can please tell me a) what the hell happened
>>
>>I've had heaps of experience with Apple IIs, IBM PCs and Macintoshes for
>>10 years and nothing like this has ever happened.  Guess it is true,
>>"Only Amiga makes it possible."  Argh.
>>
>
>What happened is that you decided to hook a device up to a computer while it
>was powered up.  Not a very smart thing to do, and you probably deserve what
>happened.

I've heard this warning many times (and occasionally not heeded it).
So what would this actually do to harm the computer?

Just curious,
 -Steve-
sn15@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: hibrown@thor.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: A4000 problems
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 13:04:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.075420.7780@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>
>	I am having some trouble with my new Amiga 4000. It doesn't run
>some programs that ram on my A3000/16, such as Populous II, Deluxe Paint II,
>Fighter Duel II, Leisure Suit Larry II, Where in the Hell is Carmen Sandiego?,
>Amiga BASIC, Sybil, some of U4ia's music modules, Notepad 2.0, etc. Running
>Kickstart 1.1 and 1.2 didn't help either. Also my MAST floppy drive seems
>to not work very well anymore. If anyone has any suggestions please email.
>
>
>	Thanks in advance.
>
>
>-- 
>      //   David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 516-473-5156 AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
>     //  bounce-resistant:    dtiberio%libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu@sunysb.edu
>   \X/	 "Who will PROTECT TRUTH when I no LONGER HERE?!!"  - Jeff Young
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It's because of your .sig. It's outdated!!! Try updating it by eliminating
the bottom 5 lines. Now all of those programs will run properly.

Herb


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From: novalis@darkness.gun.de (Joerg von Frantzius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AA chipset in the A3000 -> I don't c
Organization: DARKNESS Public Mailbox, Kerpen, Germany
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 23:12:00 +0200

> >IF the AA-chipset ever becomes available for the A3000, it WILL be able to
> >use all the colours/resolutions available.
> 
> Well, guys, it does not.  The Custom Chip accesses to CHIP RAM is 16-bits.
> The number of pins == 16-bits.  The controller (AGNUS) does not handle
> more nor does it do page mode.

I won't cry a single tear if I won't be able to plug the new AA Chips onto
the motherboard of my A3000, _IF_ Commodore finally provides OS-support for
DIG/RTG/CallItWhatYouWant.

I'd be happy with a nice Zorro-III video card (doesn't my Computer have a
Video slot, btw?), and it does not necessarily need to be made by Commodore,
as long as the OS fully supports it.

It would be a nice thing, btw, if video cards would be detected by the system
early after boot up, so that one can leave the monitor plugged into the video
card. The PC I am working at has a TIGA card connected to a normal VGA card,
and the video signal of the VGA card is put through to the TIGA card so that
I don't need to change the monitor cable when I am switching between DOS and
Windows (which supports the TIGA card).
Maybe AUTOCONFIG (TM) could be extended to support display drivers on board
of video cards (EPROMs), so that you simply plug in the card and play, or
whatever you want to do with it :)
Something like that would be most comfortable, IMO.



> /----------------------------------------------------------------------\
> |      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
> |     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
> |    ///   BIX:  msinz      UUNET:  mks@cbmvax.commodore.com           |
> |\\\///                                                                |
> | \XX/     "I think not." said Ren'e Descartes, then he vanished.      |
> \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
> 




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 06:43:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep13.200109.2014@pro-freedom.cts.com> eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown) writes:
>
>Yes, they would.  If they don't, this is one of thousands of A3000 owners
>who is gonna haul ass for greener pastures.  This is NOT a debate point...
>merely a statement of fact.  

Do you honestly think Apple and co. treat their customers any better?
C= are in the business to make money, like everybody else.

>|Edward E. Brown II               | Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com  |

-- 
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  "And if I seem a little strange, well that's because I am." - The Smiths 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
Subject: A4000 problems
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 07:54:20 GMT


	I am having some trouble with my new Amiga 4000. It doesn't run
some programs that ram on my A3000/16, such as Populous II, Deluxe Paint II,
Fighter Duel II, Leisure Suit Larry II, Where in the Hell is Carmen Sandiego?,
Amiga BASIC, Sybil, some of U4ia's music modules, Notepad 2.0, etc. Running
Kickstart 1.1 and 1.2 didn't help either. Also my MAST floppy drive seems
to not work very well anymore. If anyone has any suggestions please email.


	Thanks in advance.


-- 
      //   David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 516-473-5156 AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
     //  bounce-resistant:    dtiberio%libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu@sunysb.edu
   \X/	 "Who will PROTECT TRUTH when I no LONGER HERE?!!"  - Jeff Young

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From: Metin_Savignano@turttwo.tynet.sub.org (Metin Savignano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SysInfo MHZ weirdness
Date: 16 Sep 92 02:43:59 GMT
Organization: TurtleSystems II, Stuttgart FRG

In a message dated Sun 13 Sep 92  7:01, Mmcalees@cs16.uvic.ca (michael Mcal
wrote:

 MM>    The first time I used SysInfo was the first time I had used
 MM> anything
 MM> like it on my (somewhat) new A3000.  I was floored when it reported
 MM> my
 MM> 25MHz A3000 as running at 16MHz - had I been slipped a 16MHz A3000
 MM> when
 MM> I paid for the faster model?  A friend of mine was there at the time 
 MM> and reassured me, he had an A2000 with the 25MHz A2630 card and his 
 MM> machine wasn't quite as fast in general execution as mine, so we
 MM> reasoned
 MM> SysInfo must be on amphetamines.  We later did a rendering comparison
 MM> 
 MM> to double-check tho. :-)

SysInfo often fails computing the MHz. When I ran it on my A2000 with a
newly bought A2630/25, it reported 25 Mhz correctly, but after I had
switched my display to NTSC (60 Hz) by software, SysInfo insisted on
running on a 20 MHz Amiga... Don't trust this program too much!


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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help! My amiga can't walk! (Lost its feet)
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:06:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Sep5.090646.1613
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > Get real.  If a machine needs feet, the feet need to stay on.

YOU get real.  The feet on MY A3000 are solid as hell.  Sure, I *could*
flatulate around and rip them off, but so far I have had ZERO probs with
them.  Several people have emailed me to report the same thing... no probs.
 If this is the worst prob you have, you are doing well.


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