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From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: "Rainlight" song posted.
Date: 21 Dec 92 06:23:37 GMT
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Originator: shulick@navajo


Sick of the techno mods? Me too. :)  I composed "Rainlight" in one day..
WHEW.  It lasts about 2:49.  It's piano, strings, a tiny bit of flute..
something different.  Check it out, it's on amiga.physik.unizh.ch.

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From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Registered for LhA; never got a reply!
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:30:02 GMT
Organization: Vallen Software

In article <1992Dec15.095103.22049@news.cs.indiana.edu>, "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@blueberry.ucs.indiana.edu> says most sayishly:
>I send in my registration for LhA a couple weeks (months) ago and
>have never gotten any reply from Stefan Boberg (that is not me...
>my name is Stefan _Berg_... :-)
>
>I also sent him e-mail, but nothing.... can somebody please tell
>me if he is still alive and sending out copies of the program?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stefan

Nah. He's apparently ripping people off.  So what are the people doing
in turn to rip HIM off?  Take a wild guess. :)  I know a handful of
people who just figured 'screw it' and pirated the thing.  Look around,
I'm sure there's a copy somewhere. :)

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From: sknkwrks@hubert.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Your comments on Supra modems
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
	<1992Dec17.084755.22036@u.washington.edu>
	<1992Dec17.191310.10701@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:49:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.191310.10701@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
> I like my Supra modem a lot too...but I have gone through 3
>of them and each one has the same problems. They cannot connect to
>each other. they cannot answer the phone (important for a guy like me
>who runs a BBS). I have told Supra again and again what the problems
>are. The next one I get will be hooked up in 5 seconds, and I will
>load my terminal program and type ATA. If I hear it making squeal
>noises and send improper answer tones, then it is going right back in
>the box and back to Supra. If the LED starts flickering like crazy, it 
>is going back in the box. If it suddenly drops carrier on me, it is going 
>in the box. If it suddenly for no reason turns on the send and receive
>lights even when it isn't being used, or if a verticle bar slides across
>the screen, or if it makes one more hiss noise, or if another speaker
>blows, I am sending it  back.

I have several callers to my BBS who own Supra modems (at least one of
them was at my recommendation); they never have had problems
connecting.

The modem is supposed to emit answering tones when you enter ATA...
unless you have previously entered ATM0 (mine runs silent because I
don't want modem chatter to wake me up at 4 in the morning :-) ).

I've never had problems with unexpected carrier drops, or with the TX
and RX lights turning on for no reason.  No speaker problems, either,
and the display problem (related to an MNP bug) was fixed by a ROM
update.

Sounds like you need to make sure you have current (1.2H or later)
ROMs in your modem.  If you already have them, make sure you've
entered the appropriate AT&F command to set up the modem for your
machine.  After that, all I can suggest is RTFM.

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From: alex@lamarck.lif.icnet.uk (Alex Whittaker <alex@biu.icnet.uk>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: MAC2Amiga / Amiga2MAC
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:50:15 GMT
Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund
NNTP-Posting-Host: lamarck.lif.icnet.uk


  This probably lies on a FAQ sheet somewhere, but can anyone tell me where I can
 get a MAC utility to write data to Amiga format disks, or get an Amiga program
 (less preferable) to read MAC format disks..

  thanks in advance.

  ..alex

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From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 Educational Discount
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:23:31 GMT
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <KENTD.92Dec16092056@zappa.FtCollins.NCR.com> kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com (Kent Dalton) writes:
>>>>>> On 8 Dec 92 21:08:03 GMT, yoav@athena.mit.edu (Yoav O. Yerushalmi) said:
>Yoav>    About X11... minot problem.. it is manufactured by GfxBase (and
>Yoav> is only at the X11r4, X11 I think is on R5 mostly....)
>Yoav> <etc...>
>
>You're really confused. C='s Amiga UNIX includes the X/NeWS based
>OpenWindows GUI (same one shipped by Sun with their workstations). Even
>if it didn't, it would be pretty simple for C= to just grab the sources
>and compile it for their UNIX.

It does.  Amiga UNIX 2.1 comes with MIT X11R4 binaries & source, and
with the MIT X11R5 source as a bonus.  Lots of PD X11 stuff is bundled
as well to save you some FTP'ing.  The X11R5 package needs some work
and the latest patches, though.  While Amiga UNIX does have the AT&T
Open Look widget set and window manager, it doesn't have X/NeWS, which
includes Sun's X11 + Display Postscript server.  It has the generic MIT
X11 server with Amiga-specific backends.  It works well enough on my
A3000/25 w/8Mb that I sometimes develop widgets for work at home.

By the way, it's not a simple "grab and compile" to get X11 up on any
machine.  Writing the machine-dependent portion of the X11 server can
be a real pain.

GfxBase's product is X11R4 for AmigaDOS, which is not available from
Commodore.  From all accounts, it is an excellent product.

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Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:20:55 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <Bz9rHw.8Ls@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> by shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick):

> 1) Snapshotting.  It would be much better if the DOS would remember
> where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do.  To
> quote a friend of mine, "Snapshot my ass."

    Could be made optional for different devices. Having a disk update
    happen every time you move a window would be a real pain in the
    ass on slow floppies.

> 2) Window activation/depth.  If windowA is behind windowB, and windowA's

    You can get commodities to do this sort of thing. I use a program
    called JDMouse that brings a window to the front if you double-
    click on it. It also does logarithmic mouse acceleration, etc.
    Stuff I miss on OS/2 on a PC.

>     // Amiga 3000   ___ \ Sam Hulick: shulick@indiana.edu (NeXTmail OK!)
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From: mark@visionware.co.uk (Mark Ripley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Any Amiga PD sites ?
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:32:16 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Hi,
	After recently buying an A1200, I'm trying to find some
bulletin boards / Usenet sites where I can get some demos/utils etc

Any suggestions ?


Thanks,

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn)
Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:29:44 GMT

In article <Bz9rHw.8Ls@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>I'm surprised not a lot of people talk about changing AmigaDOS.  It has
>a couple things that would be better off gone (IMO)..
>
>1) Snapshotting.  It would be much better if the DOS would remember
>where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do.  To
>quote a friend of mine, "Snapshot my ass."

No.  There's nothing much more annoying than coming to my PC at work (running
Windows) and finding icons out of place because one of the clumsy people
around here accidentally dragged an icon when trying to double-click it.
If you've carefully arranged your icons in Windows, it's just so easy to lose.
Too easy.  Using snapshot makes the saving of icon positions a deliberate
action, and, in my opinion, is one of Workbench's best features.

>2) Window activation/depth.  If windowA is behind windowB, and windowA's
>depth gadget is obstructed, it's kind of a hassle to move them around so
>you can change A's depth.  Yes, it's lazy. :)  It would be great if all
>you had to do was click on windowA's titlebar to activate it and bring
>it to the very front.

Yes, so long as it's possible to activate a window without bringing it to
the front.  I like being able to type into a partially obscured window.
OpenLook has this behaviour - click in a window to activate, or anywhere in the
title or border to bring to the front.  That's how it should work.


-- 
David Meiklejohn (davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au)
 - PC's, Unix, and networks by day, Amigas by night...
Currently residing in Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: WOC Toronto: Amiga's Future
Organization: City University, London
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:01:04 GMT

(Shawn E Switenky) writes:
>[ Show report]
>Lou Eggebrecht [...]
>fascinating man.  He designed the first IBM-PC ...

Could someone please comment on this? I mean no disrespect to
Mr Eggebrecht, but I thought the first IBM-PC was _bad_. Did
he really have a hand in it?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dueker@xenon.arc.nasa.gov (The Code Slinger)
Subject: Re: Minimum Room Temperature for an Amiga
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:23:00 GMT

I had a Chemistry/Physics instructor back (way back!) in high school that
gave a different (and interesting) conversion:

  F = (C + 40) / 1.8 - 40
  C = (F + 40) * 1.8 - 40

The only diff between the two conversions is either multiplying or dividing
the 1.8.

Chris
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From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
Date: 12 Dec 92 08:20:17 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

In article <1992Dec12.001353.6340@pro-freedom.cts.com>, eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com
(Ed Brown) writes:
>> >Anyway, if I want good sound, I'll buy multimedia.  Can't beat that, can
>you?
>> 
>> 
>> AACCK!! ATTACK OF THE KILLER BUZZWORDS!!!
>> 
>> 
>> You'd think they sold "multimedia" in black-and-yellow bottles
>> at Ralphs, the way some people talk....
>
>
>OR, you'd think that the makers of some other computers *invented*
>multimedia... at least their ads for it would seem to indicate that to be
>the case.  :-/
>
>
>* Edward E. Brown II             * Internet: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com *
>* Chemist On A Mission From GOD! * FidoNet: 1:105/135                *
>*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
>               Annoy the media...Think for yourself!
>==============================================================
Name one personal computer manufacturer who was pushing thier machine as
multimedia capable before two years ago!
(except Commodore of course we already know that)
                Jay Brown

==============================================================================
IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT     
                           POSSIBLE.
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From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
Date: 11 Dec 92 12:07:05 EST
Organization: High Tension BBS

        In order to keep the Amiga alive we have to voice our opinion not to
the developers, but to C=.  They do not push the machine at all.  They have let
the major group of systems sold stay with a 16 bit CPU that is really slow
compared to comparably priced PC clones.  There is nothing wrong with the Amiga
being pushed as a video machine or a multimedia machine, but it must be able to
do more.  It can.  In reality any computer can do all of the applications that
any other computer can, but the software must be there.  I heard that NBC was
looking at buying a Toaster system, but when they found it couldn't run any of
their IBM productivity software they passed on it.  C= can expect that reaction
if they don't have Lotus, or Excel, or Word an whatnot.  My point is, that we
have to push our company of choice to aid developers.  They need to push the
machine.  They need to make it available to the public.  C= has made some
STUPID mistakes in the past regarding buisiness descisions.  I heard that they
would not provide an A2000 to a movie studio, becase they wanted it to be a
sale.  This studio then went to Apple, and walked away with a Mac Plus.  That
Mac was used to run an animation of molecules in Star Trek: The Voyage Home. 
God, what advertisement that would have made.  As it is, the only movie I have
ever seen an Amiga in was Earth Girls Are Easy, and in that they rolled a
boling ball into it.  What does this say?  
        Basically, no competitive productivity software, decreasing market
share.  Macs used to be a fantics platform only.  Most of the PC users I know
looked down on Mac users like they look down on Amiga users, but now that the
Macintosh has been accepted into the mainstream (even priced so much higher
than a comperable Amiga) they get respect.  I love games, but all of the best
are INM compat. only games (i.e.: Ultima Underworld, Ultima VII, Castle
Wolfenstein, Falcom 3.0, Comanche...), but I also need applications software. 
Otherwise, a person either has to have both an IBM and an Amiga, or foresake
the AMiga community altogether.
                Jay Brown

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IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT     
                           POSSIBLE.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Subject: Re: What the HELL are Commodore playing at ?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 17:30:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.135709.5982@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> ajs@news.dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Satterthwaite) writes:
>
>	There is an article in the current issue of Amiga Format stating
>that from Jan 1st 1993 Commodore are increasing the price of Amigas in the
>U.K. - A600s by 30 pounds and A1200s by 40 pounds. This is reportedly due
>to the fall in value of the pound in respect to the dollar (currently 
>$1.50/pound ish - I think).
>	When Commodore released the A1200 they made several claims that they
>were determined to stick to the #399 price point - hence no DSP and no HD
>drive.
>
>	What the HELL do they think they're playing at - There has been no
>drastic change in pound/dollar ratios since the A1200 release, so they must
>have known ages ago that they were going to increase the price after xmas -
>so why did they not just make it #499 (the same price as the Falcon) include
>a HD drive and a DSP, and avoid all the criticism they aquired for these
>omissions and all the criticism they will get for the price increase.
>
>	How much is an A1200 in the states anyway - unless its $600 then
>Commodore are upping the price for the U.K. market anyway and they make the
>damn things in Scotland anyhow (I know most of the components come from the
>far east - but that applies to the US machines as well).
>
>	Comments and explanations of Commodore's collected mental problems
>are definitely needed.
>
>
>Andy.
>
>
>

Well, the 1200 hasn't been released here yet.  Sometime between now and the first of the year.  Manufactureer's Suggested List Price is $599 (I think).
I have found a mailorder place that will quote me $569 .
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: New Product Releases
Date: 20 Dec 92 01:38:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Dec19.183826.6799
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> ECS Fallback is a feature of the AGA chipset.

Yes, I know.  That's how AGA equipped machines run the current crop of
non-AGA software.  I did not intend to make a distinction between ECS chips
and AGA chips in ECS mode.  Semantics?  Maybe.  ;-)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:43:19 GMT

shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:

>1) Snapshotting.  It would be much better if the DOS would remember
>where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do.  To
>quote a friend of mine, "Snapshot my ass."

I disagree.  When I move a window, it's usually a temporary matter, and I
want it to reappear where I deliberately told it to go.  I guess it would
be best if it were configurable, so that people could have it both ways.

>2) Window activation/depth.  If windowA is behind windowB, and windowA's
>depth gadget is obstructed, it's kind of a hassle to move them around so
>you can change A's depth.  Yes, it's lazy. :)  It would be great if all
>you had to do was click on windowA's titlebar to activate it and bring
>it to the very front.

Here too, I have found advantages in the existing system.  It is not
unusual for me to want a window activated but *not* have it be the front
window.  Am I just weird?
-- 
Jon Reid    j-reid@uiuc.edu    GEnie: THE.REIDS
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: ENHANCEMENTS: C= Please consider this
Date: 16 Dec 92 09:25:03 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:
>
>I'm surprised not a lot of people talk about changing AmigaDOS.  It has
>a couple things that would be better off gone (IMO)..
>
>1) Snapshotting.  It would be much better if the DOS would remember
>where you put things, like the rest of the icon-based DOS's do.  To
>quote a friend of mine, "Snapshot my ass."

NO!  I like arranging my desktop the way i want it, then snapshotting it so
that no matter what i do to it, it comes up the same every time i turn it on. 
I *HATE* it when the mac thinks that when i move something, i want it there
permanently.  Windows allows you to turn off saving, but i think that's kind
of kludgey..

>2) Window activation/depth.  If windowA is behind windowB, and windowA's
>depth gadget is obstructed, it's kind of a hassle to move them around so
>you can change A's depth.  Yes, it's lazy. :)  It would be great if all
>you had to do was click on windowA's titlebar to activate it and bring
>it to the very front.

did you consider sending the window that's upstructing it to the back, then
bringing the window you want to ther front?


In any case, ClickToFront comes with Workbench 2.0, it's in your commodities
drawer.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tzcf1@isuvax.iastate.edu
Subject: RGB HELP NEEDED
Reply-To: tzcf1@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:01:27 GMT

I am looking for a rgb moniter for my snes/genesis.  
I am considering the Magnavox professional rgb..(commodore 1084s clone)

EGM says that in order to connect the rgb to the genesis, you need 
a custom cable.

The magnavox has a built in a/v input.

My question is:  Will it make any difference whether I connected my
game systems to the a/v jacks or directly to the 23pin rgb input via
custom cable?  EGM claims that the a/v input is Composite.. and therefore,
the colors bleed together and the image is not a true pure rgb image.

I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY HELP

Jesse
tzcf1@isuvax.bitnet
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