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From: stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: If AA then Why OpalVision?
Date: 11 Aug 92 03:13:41 GMT
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

In article <63540@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
>
>If the AA Chip Set exists... And it can be installed in a 500/2000/3000...
>And developers know they exist... Why would Centaur bother bringing
>OpalVison to market? Why would INOVAtronics bother bringing AVideo 24 to
>market?
>
>These things worry me... >:-|
>

Perhaps because they are two different things? Assuming the posts on AA are
correct, we have 256 colors possible on screen (forgetting about HAM and the
like). OpalVision and AVideo24 allow each pixel to have a different color.
AA is enough for most users with average applications, the others for high-end
video and graphics work.

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-- Greg Stelmack (stelmack@eggo.csee.usf.edu)
-- FullTime Grad Student, PartTime Amiga Salesman, PartTime Amiga Developer
-- Author of: Spades, Pro Port Analyzer Plus, more to come...
-- DISCLAIMER: The opinions reflected here are mine and mine alone.
From: bod@fy.chalmers.se (Bj|rn 'Bod' Sj|lenius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: NEC 3fg
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:27:34 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden

In article <1992Aug9.234948.21818@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> temp@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Temporary Account) writes:
>
>	Hi I have been looking around for a monitor and have come up that the 
>best possible one (Price wise) That syncs to all frequencies is the NEC 3fg
>Is there anybody out there that has used it with an Amiga (A3000 pref).
>What would your opinion be ?
>	Thanks in advance. I wont be able to receive Email so please
>post to c.s.a.misc
>	George

If you only will use it for NTSC, its perfect! But if you will go for PAL, buy
the 4FG instead. I bought a 3FG to my 3000 earlier this year, and all it gave
me was a headache after trying to keep ut with that jumpy screen, nodding at
the same rate it jumped. Of what I got from C= the 3000 gives out a signal
at 31.250khz (horiz), and the 3FG can only handle signals down to 31.500khz...

Now a 4FG stands on my desk, and its wonderful. :)

The 3FG can view NTSC thanx to the rate of 60hz (vertical), it takes
signals down to 55hz (I think it was), but sorry to say not the PAL's 50... so
the poor monitor didn't get anything to lock on.

Please forgive all 'electronic-explanation-blunders'. :)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: chechik@rtsg.mot.com (David S Chechik)
Subject: KeyMaps and Fonts
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:26:45 GMT

I need to crate a new keymap and font to display a set of symbols from 
0x80-9a and would like to use ctl-alt-key for this.

1. how do i create a keymap.  the usa keymap seems to leave some of
the ctl-alt combinations as dead keys.

2.  how do i install my font as the default  font for  CLI window.

Thanks,
Dave
-- 
Dave Chechik
Cellular Software Engineering
Motorola Israel Ltd.
Tel Aviv
From: gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (James is just this guy, you know...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Neww Amigas??
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:11:48 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Aug15.165830.8894@news.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (George L Skank) writes:
>In article <1992Aug10.043056.20642@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
>>
>>Just take a look in the August issue of BYTE.  In the multimedia article it
>>says see next months article on NNNEEEWWW Amiga models...  Maybe we won't have
>>to wait till September or December for a glimpse of the new models, just don't
>>introduce 'em into an Amiga magazine (real smart C=, sarcasm.)
>
>     If new Amigas are going to show in next months Byte magazine, I think
>that would be a smart move.  The *rumors* I've heard sound very nice.  It's
>good to see Commodore finally getting coverage in a traditionally MS-DOG/
>MAC/yuppy magazine.  It will probably be good for Amigas, *IF* they are
>*NEW* Amigas, not the A600.  If it's just coverage of the A600, it will
>probably make us look stupid...
>

First off, BYTE, which is traditionally a DOS mag, has only had very good things
to say about the Amiga. One issue about GUIs panned the resolution limitations,
but hailed the Amiga UIs as "clearly superior and infinitely more customizable
than the competition". Another article on OSs (specifically the Amiga OS) raved
about the speed and efficiency of the Exec kernal and AmigaDOS, it also was very
complimentative about all of the IPC options available on the system.

That said, none of that stuff was written by Jerry Pournelle. JP may have used
just about every machine that ever hit the desktop, but that doesn't mean he
has got any idea what the hell he's talking about. I don't care what you give
hime, he'll probably still prefer 8-bit CP/M machines.

One more thing, the A600 is old news, and only sold in Europe. Since CBM has
announced the A3000T/040 and their '040 card, I'll bet dollars to donuts that's
what he was referring to. We may luck out though, maybe CBM will suprise us all
with some goodies that have up till now been nothing but creative rumors
From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Null-modem-cable : help needed
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:23:32 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In a previous article, rensing@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Stefan Rensing) says:
>>>Does anybody know how to make a correct null-modem-cable ?
>>>
>>>I tried connecting GND-GND, SHIELD-SHIELD and cross-connecting
>>>TXD-RXD but it doesn't work.
>>>           Stefan.

Try cross connecting RTS-CTS as well - the program may be using hardware flow
control. (Hmm.. that's often called '7 wire', so there are probably a couple
more.. try cross connecting DSR and DTR,  or maybe linking CTS to DSR at each
end, if that doesn't work...

Probably the best bet is to look in a cable catalog and see what they do :-).
Many of them list which pins are connected to which.




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From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Directory Opus 3.51 is also bogus
Date: 11 Aug 92 17:07:41 GMT
Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <16028@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> jpotter@itd.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:
> 
> I have been informed that there is also a version of Directory Opus
> going round called 3.51. I would like to publicly announce that this
> has nothing whatsoever to do with me at all. 3.50 is a legitimate
> beta version that escaped, but 3.51 has obviously been hacked by some
> mindless idiot, for what purpose I'm not sure.

First, I'll say, that I had the chance to see Directory Opus 3.41 with one
of my friends here in Denmark, and that it has a terrible bug:

When moving e.g.  a directory call 'C' from somewhere to your SYS:C and you
move the directory (not the files singlehandedly), it deletes the
destination 'C' directory before copying the source to it!

So I bought DiskMaster II, but:

I have seen another bogus version of DirOpus called 3.52 -- I'm informed,
that it is entirely incompatible with the 3.41 configuration and has
several serious bugs in it.  Better beware of that one, too...

I haven't seen it, though, as I'm very happy with DiskMaster, so this is
all as-is information...  call it a rumour for what I care, but be warned
about it!


> It is accompanied by a file called the Dorex.library, and version 3.51
> of ConfigOpus and DirOpus itself. You should on no accounts even
> consider running this version; it could be a trojan virus for all I
> know.

I inquired about the dorex.library, but no-one has seen it around 3.52...


> Jonathan Potter

-- 
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  Since I am the president of this company, I speak not only for myself!
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:47:43 EDT
From: <TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: using RAD: drive with extended memory

Ok, I have a GVP Series II 030/22 with 5 megs of ram (1 meg surface,
1 4 meg 32-bit simm) in a 2000 with 2.04.  all of the memory on the
board cannot be used as autoconfig (I would have to buy 4 more megs of memory
for that, so I might as well buy a hard drive and then I wouldn't need a
stinking RAD: would I :)  NOTE:  A G-Force 030 board CAN use this as
autoconfig, the Series II cannot.
This causes a little problem with the RAD: drive; it doesn't recover (so
whats the point, eh?)  This seems to be from the fact that the expanded
memory list is not maintained on warm boot so the OS doesn't know where
the rad: was.  GVP was kind enough to tell me that I need autoconfig
memory and that I just need to get some more memory (thanks guys!) which,
of course, only they make.  So, is there anyway to get the RAD: drive to
mount in the 512k of autoconfig fast ram that my 2000 came with?  And there
by hopefully allowing it to recover?

Thanks for any help!
and please note that any comments which appear to have an bit of malice
behind them are due to the fact that I just read though that stupid
thread on the falcon that is totaly misplaced in comp.sys.amiga.misc.  It
was just so stupid I couldn't manage to tear myself away and in the process
just generally pissed myself off more.  I really gotta learn some self
control and quit out of that kinda stuff! :)
+L8R+                                +Every time I try to pick it up its like
HonuS  internet: TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu|falling sands, as fast as I pick it up it
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Thank goodness for the smiley face!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: gcattley@deva.demon.co.uk (Gary Cattley)
Subject: Re: SFX archives
Reply-To: gcattley@cix.compulink.co.uk
Organization: Me, Myself and I (Private)
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 beta rel1
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:39:42 +0000

In article <1992Aug13.221144.973@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>, Kevin MacDonald writes:

> What archiver is needed to extract files from a .SFX file?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 


A .SFX file is a self extracting file, just copy it to the disk/directory
where you want the unarchived files to go, open a CLI or shell and then just
run it.

prog.sfx
or
run prog.sfx


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: skank@iastate.edu (George L Skank)
Subject: Re: Neww Amigas??
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:58:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug10.043056.20642@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
>
>Just take a look in the August issue of BYTE.  In the multimedia article it
>says see next months article on NNNEEEWWW Amiga models...  Maybe we won't have
>to wait till September or December for a glimpse of the new models, just don't
>introduce 'em into an Amiga magazine (real smart C=, sarcasm.)
>
>Teddy


     If new Amigas are going to show in next months Byte magazine, I think
that would be a smart move.  The *rumors* I've heard sound very nice.  It's
good to see Commodore finally getting coverage in a traditionally MS-DOG/
MAC/yuppy magazine.  It will probably be good for Amigas, *IF* they are
*NEW* Amigas, not the A600.  If it's just coverage of the A600, it will
probably make us look stupid...

					--George
-- 
George L. Skank                 |"Religion and Politics will both          ///
Graduate, Electrical Engineering| exist in greater purity the less        ///
Iowa State University, Ames, IA | they are mixed together"           \\\ ///
skank@iastate.edu               |               --Thomas Paine        \\X//
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: krsear02@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (Kendall 'Opusii' Sears)
Subject: Re: Sour grapes (was Re: @$#^@$%# 2.04!)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: University of Louisville
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:59:57 GMT

Sorry, this discussion has gone too far...

> 
> I've been quoted a 6 wk delivery time by my dealer, at $90.
> 
> -Joe.

Then your dealer is an idiot.  Actually that isn't fair of me.  The _only_
time I've ever encountered problems wrt getting products from C= was when
I was affilitated (unknowingly) with a dealer who owed a large sum of money
to C= and therefore C= refused to ship until some sort of payment agreement
was made.  This dealer soon went out of business.

This far into the production cycle the ONLY reasons I can think of for a dealer
to not get products are:
   1) The above stated reason.
   2) The dealer is not going straight to C= for products
   3) The dealer has mismanaged something somewhere

My advice is to either find another dealer, or see if you can talk C= into
selling it direct to you.

Kendall.

PS
  Gee I must be awful edgy lately... Usually these things don't get to me.

-- 

   Kendall Sears                   KRSEAR02@ULKYVX.bitnet
   Programmer                             ///
   Child Development Unit                /// Amiga
   Department of Pediatrics          \\\/// Currently running AmigaOS 2.04
   University of Louisville           \XX/ And Supporting Unix Sys V Rev 4.
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From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:10:40 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Aug18.041440.22414@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) writes:
>
>	I just got my A3000T and I was wondering if there is any way to tell if
>I have high(er) density floppy drives than the standard 880K.

Just take a HD diskette, put it into the drive and format it. Watch what
capacity it's formatted to. If it's still 880 KB, then you have a normal
drive.

Remember: DO NOT use HD disks in DD drives!!! These disks need higher
magnetization and cannot be written/erased properly in DD drives.
(Though some rumors state that the material of *3.5*" HD and DD floppies
were the same, I do NOT believe this.)

-- 
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				   or  peterk@public.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
From: tarquin@athena.mit.edu (Robert P Poole)
Subject: Looking for gl2p0.lzh (GL animation viewer)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:50:56 GMT


Hi.  I have been looking for gl2p0 for a LONG time.  I had a copy once but it
got nuked; now I am trying to find it again on the net, but no luck so far.  I
have found gl2p0.lzh.readme on amiga.physik.unizh.ch, but not the file itself.
ARCHIE gave me no clues about possible locations of this GL animation viewer.
Anybody out there know what's going on?  Thanks in advance....
Rob Poole
tarquin@athena.mit.edu
--
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46 Massachusetts Avenue               MIT Course VIII
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Cambridge, MA  02139                   laundromat of oblivion."
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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: SAS/C v6 and...
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:25:14 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Hi all,

	I just called SAS Institute Inc. and asked them about C v6.0.  
The rep. told me it will sell for us$395 (197.50 for the academic 
discount).  She told me SAS will cover the shipping, and the software
will be available for shipping in September. 

	Also, I have just learned True BASIC v2.0 is coming out.  Surprisingly,
the special limited Amiga offer only sells for US$15.00 + shipping.  It 
includes the entire package, (as I have been told it even supports
the Amiga's custom chips) with the exception of generating stand-alone
executable files.  This version of BASIC also supports WB2.04 and the
Amiga 3000.

(I am not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned above.  I personally
 find these two news very exciting, and would like to share them with the
 netters out there) 

BTW, I have a question regarding my subscription to Compute!  Has anyone
subscripted to Compute!'s "Multi-Edition"?  I did... but I have only
received one copy of (apparently) IBM edition of Compute!.  I wonder
what's wrong.  Does the Amiga section come out bimonthly or...?  
I know Compute! does cover the Amiga.  However, I want to know if they
have messed up my subscription...

Thanks in advance.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin


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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: high density floppies on A3000T?
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:24:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Aug21.222437.1043
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > Note that the incomplete support for HD floppies in 2.04 will cause the
 > machine to crash if you change from HD to DD without rebooting in my
 > experience. There are hacks around that correct this.

My A3000 with HD floppy drive cares not what floppy is inserted.  It
happily accepts either one and in any order without rebooting.  I am not
running any hack to correct the prob you mention as it has never been
necessary.  There *may* be programs out there that die when a HD disk is
offered to it but I haven't seen any.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: Re: The Byte article on New Amigas
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 18 Aug 92 11:56:32 CDT


  I thought little of his article.  Every other paragraph, just about, 
 was flip-flopping from good to bad.  It was alot like the first time he
 reviewed the Amiga 2000.  But even still, I read this article with an  
 open mind.  When I finished I was left with a "neutral but negative" 
 impression of the A3000T.  

   At least there was an ad on page 31 (?) for the A3000T!


    Daniel Baehr

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From: slbfn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AWK Found!  ff406.  Japanese review not moderated yet, sorry...
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:57:21 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

> 
> BTW, the moderator for comp.sys.amiga.reviews hasn't replied to my
> mail or posted the Japanese system review yet but I'm sure he's
> swamped so everyone that keeps writing hold on to your britches for a
> little longer or e-mail me for a chat.  I don't want to have to
> rewrite the review and see the old one posted the next day but I'll
> give you some genereal info if anyone needs it until the review gets
> posted. 
> -- 
> jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu


If you look really closely, you might just see that there is no longer
a comp.sys.amiga.review newsgroup.

						--Travis Carter
						  slbfn@cc.usu.edu
From: Mike_Noreen%cave@sweden.eu.net (Mike Noreen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Bug in QMouse v2.10?
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:18:50 GMT
Organization: The Misty Cave BBS +46 753 33132

I've found what I believe to be a bug in the new QMouse (v2.10); it will
freeze the screen on my A3000, which is a PAL-machine, but run under NTSC
because I don't like the flicker... I've tried using SetSpeed, SetNTSC and
Degrader, but as soon as the mode is set to NTSC, QMouse crashes.
If -on the other hand- I boot my Amiga in PAL, and goes NTSC from
screenmode,
QMouse works OK - but then very few other video-mode aware programs will.

If anyone knows how to reach the author of QMouse, Dan Babcock, or have any
suggestions, please MAIL, since I don't always have the time to read in the
newsgroups.

MVH: Mike Noreen

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: johnt@netcom.com (The Mad Croat)
Subject: Re: Why I don't upgrade my A1000 (was Re: AA Chip set)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 20:18:34 GMT
Organization: Perot Computer Corp.
Summary: Give me a real computer

In article <1992Aug18.164437.18970@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:
>
>There certainly seem to be a lot of A1000 owners out there still despite
>all of the trade-in offers from Commodore.  I personally see "Insufficient
>incentive to upgrade."  The keyboard garage, though minor, is a factor.

>be out again.  To cause me to upgrade, Commodore will have to impress me
>like the A1000 did in 1985.

	I have no incentive to purchase *any* micro on the market
when my A1000 with plenty of RAM is more than adequate.
	I don't want to buy a new home computer until its got CD-ROM
built in with various OSs, molecular level memory (already done),
holographic display (ancient history), speech recognition, etc etc.
	Perot has promised to have this on the market by next
year :). Why waste your money on inferior products?

-- 
  John Tomicich 				johnt@netcom.COM
       I joked with two men in a Harlem bar. Everyone suddenly
  felt happy because my laughter was unafraid. I thought I
  could borrow some money from them.
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