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From: borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest)
Subject: Re: Questions for people attending WOC
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:17:15 GMT

In article <+l0yv+q@rpi.edu> danaf@rpi.edu writes:
>So, if the A4000 isn't FINISHED yet, why didn't Commodore wait 9 months, get it
>__DONE__, and release it at the WOC New York next summer? 

I prefer it this way. Should show that C= is capable of doing something
(though you can still bitch about _what_ they do).

>**SH_T**

IYNSHO I guess.

>=======Amiuser============Frank R. Dana, Jr.============Doc Ami=======     
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From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: Re: Random tidbits regarding WOC & A4000
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:46:00 GMT

>>  Arguing the technical merits of IDE is one thing, but the economical
>>advantages still can't be denied, it's cheaper, both on the motherboard and
>>for the user since the drives themselves are so widely avaialable.  Also, how
>>many people are going to need more than two drives?
>
>Jim Dionne mentioned the IDE vs. SCSI debate in his talk. He admitted that
>the selection of IDE was to compete pricewise with 486 boxes. Knowing how

	He's dreaming if he thinks the A4000 with IDE is competition for the
  various 486 boxes out there that offer much more for the same price.

							G.Greene

>
>Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike
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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Random tidbits regarding WOC & A4000
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:00:45 GMT

In article <18rh75INNpga@aludra.usc.edu> dleslie@aludra.usc.edu (David Leslie) writes:
> Second, there still may be 32bit SCSI on the motherboard. They are 
> still working on the scsi, and havn't decided whether to put it
> in a zorro or what.  The marketing guy said that they very well
> might put it on the MB.

PLEASE. IDE is a whimpering horror, a mutant cross between SCSI and ST506,
with some of the advantages of SCSI along with all the disadvantages of ST506.

Actually, it's worse than ST506... at least with ST506 you can build a 4 drive
controller (though you have to set the jumpers on the drive instead of using
the twisted cable kludge).
-- 
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 `-_-'   "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
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From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Subject: Re: A3000T and Mac Quadra pricing
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:06:40 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.143638.11248@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:

>Make that "Quadra" w/o a "s" please.  The only Quadra which has 24bit gfx
>builtin (I believe) is the Q950.  I am using a Q700 right now... unless 
>Apple successfully makes the transparent 24bit transparent to a point
>which the users don't see it (and cant use it) ;)...  I think not! :)

I could be wrong on this, but I think all the Quadras technically do
have 24-bit capability standard, but the catch is that you have to add
more VRAM to the base models in order to use it.

Paul

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From: mlelstv@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: A4000 at WOC
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:45:46 GMT

In <1992Sep12.071832.16158@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
>   But along comes the AA chipset, and we finally get to see how an Amiga 
>performs with 8 bitplanes at 640x480, and we see that it **CRAWLS**.  In fact,
>we find that the Workbench is **UNUSABLE** in 256-color mode because it is
>so slow, even though the Mac and IBM systems -- which have been available for
>much longer -- are pokish but still very usable with 256 colors.

Hey Mr. Intelligence, still feeding the net with lies ?

*sigh*
-- 
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From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Subject: Re: number of infinite loops
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 12:28:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.210047.11830@oracle.us.oracle.com> dnavas@oracle.uucp (David Navas) writes:
>This could be explained by the fact that computer fans generally "blow"
>instead of "suck", but that's another story too....
>
>And as there are quite a number of computer fans here in csaa, this in turn
>explains the general good humour around here ;}

:-)

>But I digress.  You assume continuity over a finite, non-zero space-time
>region, whereas the claim was that "at any given instance", which implies
>a ZERO length time dimension.

Of course.  Why didn't I think of this...

>How'd I do?

Pretty good.  I can't say I agreed with the proof, but the lines about
computer fans "blowing" made up for it  :-)

>David C. Navas						dnavas@oracle.com

-- 
Colin Adams       Honours Student - James Cook University of North Queensland
  "And if I seem a little strange, well that's because I am." - The Smiths
From: simon@ivem.uucp (Simon Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Way to go Commodore! Yeah...right.
Date: 14 Sep 1992 05:35:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: ivem.ucsd.edu

In article <1992Sep13.204454.7061@microsoft.com> iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy) writes:
>Yeah, then who develops new software for the "AGA" chips? If all of the
>low and mid-range can ONLY do ECS stuff?
>

AGA has ECS compatability built in.  That means developers can write programs
to handle both chipsets without much of a hastle in much the way most PC games
are written.

I don't see why developers couldn't write code that used the AGA chips and
still run on an ECS system.

>/* The AA chips are here! Too bad they won't work in my A3000	*/
>/* Once again C= screws its entire user base. Way To Go!	*/
                             ^^^^^^
>/* Now I know how the A1000 owners felt. Oh well.		*/

From who's perspective?  Yours?  Not everyone needs AGA chips.
Not everyone who owns an Amiga needs 256 colors for word processing or even
games.  It's you who WANTS the AGA, but since you can't get it, you whine
about it.  I don't see people driving into their car dealerships yelling and
whining that their 1992 engine is not as powerful as the 1993 model's.  PC
owners have to buy a new motherboard for faster processing power.  Everyone
has to pay for what they want.  Capitalism isn't free.

-- 
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*   simon@ivem.ucsd.edu    *   Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy *
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From: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com (Dances With Bikers)
Subject: Re: Icon default tool paths (was Re: A4000 Specs? Who knows.)
Reply-To: blgardne@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:07:07 GMT

barrett@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
>In article <92250.195010DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>In article <raymondu.1d8q@terapin.com>, raymondu@terapin.com (Raymond Ulibarri)
>>>   DEFAULT TOOL:  Sys:Utilities/More

>>Developers who don't want tech support headaches (and frustrated
>>single-drive users) use ":c/more".

More has never been located in C:, so how does this help?

>	Unfortunately, when the user drags the icon onto DH1:, and his/her
>system disk is DH0:, this fails too.

What's wrong with "More" ?  If the user has More in his path, Workbench
will find it.
-- 
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Organization: The Leader Desslok School of Diplomacy
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:08:47 EDT
From: Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: No AGA for current users!?! *Excuse Me?*
 <AHANSFOR.92Sep13172548@wpi.wpi.edu>

In article <AHANSFOR.92Sep13172548@wpi.wpi.edu>, ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L.
Hansford) says:
>I do understand the feeling of the 3000 owners.  The 500, and 2000
>owners had a way to expand to 3000 capabilities (Although this was
>not cheap if you wanted all of the 3000 options sans Zorro3.)
>The 3000 owners seem not to have these abilities.  C= would do well to
>give the 3000 owners a good deal.

I have to say maybe we 3000 owners deserved it... I mean, for years, people
have been posting to complain about the A1000 being orphaned, and we reply
with an air of superiority, why didn't you take any of the dozens of powerups
to a 2000 or 3000?

Now it looks like the AGA chipset is passing the A3000 by. Even if there is
a decent power-up...

Well, I'm rather attached to my Amiga 3000, dammit! I don't WANT a new machine.
I want the one I've already GOT, just better, if you see what I mean.

Maybe we'll be more sympathetic to the 1000 owners in future, eh? (Well, maybe
some brilliant third party engineer will pull our bacon out of the fire with
a fancy AGA-Zorro III board, but still, I Think We've All Learned Something
Today.)

[Your blood pressure just went up.]       Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
       DISCLAIMER: If it ain't money, Penn State doesn't care about it.
   "Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music! Now it's your turn!"
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From: davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn)
Subject: Re: Unreal demo!
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:48:18 GMT

In article <1881aiINNnm2@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>davidme@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (David Meiklejohn) writes:
>
>>Of course, this discussion is irrelevant - HAM8 at 800x600 is going to blow
>>SVGA well out of the water...
>
>Even 800x600x24bit SVGA?  ;-)

Here we have a problem - just what _is_ SVGA?  Anyone care to define it?

As I see it, IBM defined the VGA standard.  This standard was extended by
providing higher resolution versions of 640x480x4 (16 colours) and 320x200x8.
These modes were all 16 or 256-colours from an 18-bit palette, and were
arranged like extended versions of the original VGA modes, so they called it
"Super VGA", or SVGA for short.

In other words, SVGA is an improved version of VGA.  But, but VGA offers no
direct-mapped (true colour) modes, such as 15, 16, or 24-bit.  The cards
which offer these modes don't refer to them as SVGA, they talk about things
like "HiColor" modes.

Am I just splitting hairs here?  No, I think it helps communication to have
meaningful labels.  If every framebuffer, with whatever features - full
24-bit even, that gets introduced is called "SVGA", how do we distinguish
those with only VGA-style 8-bit modes from true colour framebuffers?

And, to answer the question, no, 24-bits is clearly better than 8-bit HAM.
I just don't call 24-bit displays SVGA.


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Subject: Re: Perot
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 11 Sep 92 08:40:50 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Sep10.060508.13745@usl.edu> by das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A):

> Where has the US overthrown a democratic government by miltary force?
> Like the democratic government of Iraq?

    It is MUCH more complex than this. You also support non-democratic
    governments, interfere with their operation, etc. Stuff that isn't
    any of your business, really, though I think under Bush a lot of
    this seems to be passing away. Maybe coming from the CIA Bush has
    more of a clue.

    Furthermore, you export an amazing amount of cultural trash with
    your fundamentalist missionaries! I've been watching a program
    here on Sundays called "Missionaries", which looks at what various
    churches are up to, and in every case the most ludicrous ones are
    the American fundamentalists (though of course not all are
    Americans - some are Australian and some are English... :).

    Anyway, last week they were doing South America, and interviewed a
    Catholic priest in... Nicuragua (sp). He was from the US, and he
    said something about how when he was a kid he saw aid packages to
    banana republics labeled "a gift from the American people to ...",
    and was proud of his country. Now, he says funerals for folks
    killed by US backed forces, and thinks "... a gift from the
    American people ...".

    In Chile, they interviewed some fundamentalists. Apparently Chile
    is (or was) a fascist country. These fundamentalists saw it as
    part of their task to make the poor "good citizens" - spending
    their money on building a church, instead of feeding people or
    improving sanitation (or protesting the Govt), etc.

> As can I say that for ever how bad I think it may get in America, at least
> its the best.

    HA HA HA HA HA!

> Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu
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From: uduck@mcl.ucsb.edu (Segmentation Fault)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with the A4000
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:26:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy

In <AHANSFOR.92Sep14125200@wpi.wpi.edu> ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford) writes:

>For those who want SCSI it will be available from C=.  Hopefully they
>will offer a configuration with the SCSI card and SCSI drive and the
>IDE shut off. (I take it that the IDE interface can be bypassed.)
>Yes, you paid a little more because it's not on the board, but how
>much difference does that make to Mr. High End buyer.  

Right you are, when I go out to buy a 4000, the added cost of a SCSI device
is not likley to be too tragic. What IS nasty is that I will have to give up
one of my precious zorro3 slots. (Mr. High End Buyer certainly wants his
slots free for other more exciting boards, such as a sampler to get the 
sound enhancement that C= should have added as well.) 

-steve galle
test1@wavefront.wti.com
uduck@mcl.ucsb.edu
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Subject: Re: Unreal demo!
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:01:00 PST
 <laf1qfINNh0l@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Sep4.175451.1738@usl.edu>
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Sep4.175451.1738@usl.edu> by das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A):

> Good grief! Of course it cannot run on an A3000! It runs on 'even
> a lowly A500'.  _Simply buy an A500_ and view Hardwired - that is

    Heh, it's funny eh? When I get UNREAL I'll have to find someone
    with a 386 to see it, but on the Amiga you often have to go _down_
    the machine scale to run a demo.

> Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu
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From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Subject: Re: A3000T and Mac Quadra pricing
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:57:55 GMT

[someone wrote:]
>IVS is about (or have) to release a program to play back full overscan
>anims in REALTIME at 25/30 fps off a hard disk.  The demo I saw was on
>the DCTV demo tape.  Using a GrandSlam card, 360 Mb Quantum in a A2000
>with 3 Megs ram, it can play back 4 plane DCTV anims at 766x533 res
>(equiv 24 bit) full screen at 25/30 fps.  

Let's say it was to 766x480 NTSC fullscreen.  That's ~180K of data/frame.
On an A2000 under 4-plane hires you can only move ~25K/frame into chipram.
That's 1/7th of the screen that could be changed per frame... and likely
to be far less because most ANIMs are played back bytewise.

And that's not "766" res anyway.  The 4 bitplanes are combined to form
8-bit data for the DCTV, so the horizontal res would be 383 instead.
Also, the output is not 24 bit color res.

So it's more like "Partial screen updates at 30fps in lores horz mode
at the rough equivalent of 21 bits/pixel."   The only way to get true
"full screen" updates is to run DCTV in its lower color res at ~380x220.

This doesn't mean it's not a useful/clever device;  it does mean that
people need to be more careful when posting incredible claims.

kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>
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From: danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Unreal demo!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:08:30 GMT

I didn't feel like quoting so I could delete all but 1 line, so I'l just
paraphrase David Alves...

David, I think you're wrong when you say that "some people think that ever
time someone says something nice about the MAC / PC, they are attacking the
Amiga". Or, rather, I think you're wrong in this case. I agree, there ARE
some people who feel this way. But, you have to remember, this is 
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy. It's a conference about how great that Amiga is. 
Therefore, when someone posts "hey, my PC has 341664x5427 resolution with
twenteen quadrillion colors from a palette of, oh, all visible light, all on
a laptop with a quadruple-super-duper-trpletwist LCD pasma-bob screen, on 
sale for twelve cents at the local church", they are saying that to "prove"
how much better their computer is than the Amiga. OTHERWISE, there would be
**NO** reason to post such a message in an Amiga conference!

I  am...
     -Frank Dana, known (718)-(212)-(516) over as Amiuser/Doc Ami!
From: eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Defaul tool (was Re: A4000 Specs? Who knows.)
Date: 9 Sep 92 03:53:31 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: eas3714@ultb

[tons of repeated and quoted stuff deleted.. figure it out!.. hehe]

I beleive the best tooltype is "more".. nothing more.  Why?  Because
it'll work in almost every case (except when someone deletes it, but
then ANY text viewer could be deleted.. moot point).  If more is where
it's supposed to be (SYS:Utilities), it will be in the default path set
by the C= supplied startup-sequence.  If more isn't there, it'll still
most likely work, since anyone who moves more out of Utilities will know
enough to have it in their path anyway.

-- 
"THAT is a DRY turtle.  That turtle is NOT moist!"
Ezra Story, a student at RIT, and
eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu, his trusty(?) mailing address.
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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: I WAS RIGHT!!!!!
Date: 12 Sep 92 04:41:44 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>>For those people who have been on Marc B.'s back because of his
>>attacks on Amiga World, Dionne said that there were between
>>200-250 commodore dealers in the USA(dealer being a reseller who buys
>>from C=, not a distributor).  That's a far cry from 1000.

>   See all of you jerks who flamed me for saying that there couldn't possibly 
>be 1000 Amiga dealers in the U.S.A. -- *** I WAS RIGHT***  !!!!

  Not the way I read it.  There might only be 250 who deal directly with
Commodore, but there are probably just as many who deal through Merisel and
the other distributors.

  -jack-
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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: Random tidbits regarding WOC & A4000
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:49:21 GMT

Holt@cheme.washington.edu (Brad Holt) writes:
:    Huh?   All of the Mac II line supports 24 bit graphics, just get the
: Apple
: 8/24 bit card.  In fact we have an old Mac II here (what year was that
: released
: anyway)that supports 24 bit graphics.

He did not say that cards weren't available to support 24-bit graphics
for the Mac.  He did say, however, that aside from the Quadras, which
cost more than the 4000, 24-bit graphics is not standard.  8-bit out
of 24 are.  And since those are driven by the main processor, the
Amiga has an advantage.  Again.

The same generally, as he said, goes for the IBM-compatible systems.

: and buy an a3000.  I remember everyone saying how upgradable it was.  Turns
: out it is not so upgradable.

Aren't you judging that a little early?

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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga World published by IDG
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 08:03:47 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Sep11.090344.22227@news.uit.no>

>
>
>Don't you write for other mags? Sadly Amiga World is the only US mag seen
>in Norway. I'd like to have some of the German mags too...
>-- 
>|/// borgen@stud.cs.uit.no (Boerge Noest) | Amiga B2000			 \\\|
>
>
I wrote for ".info" for a few years but they went outta business
earlier this year and next week a bank is holding an auction of
everything that was in .info's offices. :-( 

I'm writing for Compute's Amiga Resource edition.. dunno if you can
get that over in Norway.. it's a 32-page section of Amiga-only
which is bound into Compute magazine (Compute has a circulation 
of over 350,000, but the Amiga section only goes into 10% of the
issues printed). Also writin for AVID which is a smallish but
growing Amiga-specific mag published out of San Jose, Calif,
oriented towards Graphics/Video users.

And in the past I wrote for AMNews, Antic's Amiga Plus, AmigoTimes,
AX and Graf/X (same publisher) all of which are long gone. 
Oh.. and how could I forget :) in my early writing days (long 
ago and far away in '87 and '88) I wrote some for Amazing Computing.

Speakin of Norway (and Sweden and Finland as long as we're here) are
there any English-language Amiga magazines produced in Scandinavia?
I've never seen any but would like to. We get a lot of British
mags here: Amiga Computing, Amiga Shopper, Amiga Format, and two or
three others. My local dealer gets in all their new issues every month
and they're incredibly popular, even at high import prices (like
$10 to $12 for the mags with two disks stuck on the cover). 
Since I only read English, when I get my hands on the German mags
all I can do is revert to age 3 and look at the pretty pictures :)

Harv
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