From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Some Amiga questions!
Date: 24 Dec 1992 03:34:13 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <1992Dec23.064455.14012@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>I found where to change the point... I made something a lot better...
>but now when I click on the desktop, or something, it changes into
>the number '1016' with a red band on the top and bottom if it...
>and THAT acts as the '
>pointer!
>
>What gives?

God question.  My best guess is that you did something wrong.  :)

>Also, the way it recognizes when there is a floppy in the drive is neat, just
>like the Mac.

Doesn't every system?  ;)  It only requires that the disk drives
(chinon, in this case) signal when a diskchange occurs.  Most drives
have the capability to do this, and of course, the system supports it.
:)  Actually, a diskchange signal actually creates a "diskchange"
event within the OS.

>Hey, I figured out the 'screens' trick!  Granted, I'd rather just iconize    
>something, perhaps...  hey, how DO I iconize something?!  Anyway,
>I 'dragged' the Dpain II screen down and saw the workbench!

There is no standard for iconizing.  Other than AppIcons, perhaps,
under 2.0, but that's not exactly it.  2.04 does have a standard for
shrinking windows into nothing more than a title bar, though.  :)

>Also, did you guys know that if you fold down the feet on the keyboard it
>can fit snugly *under* the Amiga 1000?   Nice to get it out ofthe way sometime
>I cannot imagine why C= would make the A500..well, AT ALL with the nice 
>looks and detached keyboard ofthe Amiga1000.  The A1000 looks a lot
>'better' than the A500, IMO.

You'd be amazed how many people think the 1000 is the best looking
Amiga made, me included.  And the thing you talk about is the
"keyboard garage" that gets referred to so often by us old folks.

>What's this 'F -> E' scrollbar thing on the left of my windows?  What is it?

Full -> Empty?  It tells you how full your disks are, if I remember.
Umm, that's gone as of 2.0, thank god.  ;)

>Hmm... ohm regarding the usefulness of screens, since windows do not
>seem to move off the screen edge, you sorta need them.  In my OS/2,
>for example, I can drag down a full screen app by the title bar.  Drag it down
>to the side, any where, and it is still 'full screen'.  Now, it can't
>be some weird resolution or color difference like on the Amiga, but real close
>and better in some respects.  And the 640X400-type mode (
>640X480) on my my PC doesn't flicker so bad.  Wow!

:)  That's an artifact of non-AGA/ECS chipsets.  70ns pixels is it,
boy.  :D  Which means, 640x400 interlaced.  AGA/ECS machines support a
640x480 "Productivity" non-interlaced on 31.5KHz screens.  AGA
machines support DBLPal/DBLNTSC resolutions, which are near identical
to the Hires-interlaced, but they're not interlaced.  ;)

>Well, lemme go try to find Lemmings in this box..... 8)

Well, it's about TIME you played lemmings on the machine it was
designed to be played on.  No jerky lemmings, no sounds just a little
bit off.  ;)

Greg
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