HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: phillips@uwa.oz.au (Christopher Phillips)
Subject: Re: Mac <--> cbm
Keywords: mac disk drive convert
Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:33:43 GMT

cdminter@icaen.uiowa.edu (Corey D Minter) writes:

>I know that the there is a program converting from ms-dos 
>to cbm (i uploaded it to a site a while ago) but is there
>any reason that the 1581 couldn't convert from Mac to cbm
>or is there some kind of limitation of the 1581?

As the mac uses a variable speed drive, the 1581 cannot read mac disks.
However, there are several utilities around that allow a mac to read PC
disks; ergo: get a PC disk reader for both c64 and mac, and happily transfer
between the two ;)


--
Christopher Jam	__________________________________________________
'Another day, another try.  But remember, SHOOT OR DIE!' -turrican
phillips@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au		c64 forever!!!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: digdon@ug.cs.dal.ca (Mike Digdon)
Subject: Re: Copy program - What's the best one and who's got it?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:04:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.231813.3389@infonode.ingr.com> drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude) writes:
>After a long lull,  I'm playing with my C-64 again.  I've got two 1541s
>and lots of original game disks produced during a wide spread of years
>('84-'90). But, I don't have a copy program to back them all up.  Last
>time I was active with the C-64 everybody was raving over Di-sector, 
>Fast Hack'em and ISEPIC.  Are any of these still on the market in
>updated forms?  What's the most all-encompassing copy program that works
>with older and newer game disks? 
>
>Any recommendations?
>
>Thanks, 
>
>- Ted Drude (drudetb@infonode.ingr.com)


I would have to say that in all of the years I have been with the 64, the
Maverick copier is the absolute best.. you name it, it does it.. It can
copy almost everything (certainly all of the "old" disks), and if it can't
copy it, it tells you what can.. you can also get a ram board that Maverick
will work with, which will copy all of the stuff that can't be copied..
I think they have finished at version 6, but they send out the parameter disks
on a fairly regular basis..
-- 
	     Mike Digdon - Vice Prez DSCSS - Dalhousie University
		     digdon@ug.cs.dal.ca  -- Halifax, NS
	 	 - Real programmers never work nine to five -
From: edgar_e@pain.la.ca.us (Edgar Estrada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Hard Disk...
Keywords: cbm,hd,buy
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 18:52:02 PDT
Reply-To: all
Organization: Public Access Info Network  (818/776-1447)

I'm looking for a cheap hard drive for my C64. I would like to pay no more
that $200 for a 10 or 20 meg. drive. Any Ideas as to where I might find 
one?
 
Thanks,
 
edgar_e@pain.la.ca.us

--
edgar_e@pain.la.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
Subject: Copy program - What's the best one and who's got it?
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:18:13 GMT

After a long lull,  I'm playing with my C-64 again.  I've got two 1541s
and lots of original game disks produced during a wide spread of years
('84-'90). But, I don't have a copy program to back them all up.  Last
time I was active with the C-64 everybody was raving over Di-sector, 
Fast Hack'em and ISEPIC.  Are any of these still on the market in
updated forms?  What's the most all-encompassing copy program that works
with older and newer game disks? 

Any recommendations?

Thanks, 

- Ted Drude (drudetb@infonode.ingr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu (BRIAN KEITH PIPA)
Subject: Need a terminal program for C-64
Originator: bkpipa@c00547-106ps.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu (BRIAN KEITH PIPA)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:38:32 GMT


I need a terminal program for my C-64.

I heard novaterm 9.2 (or 9.3) and kermit 2.2
were good. Anybody know where I can get one or both
of these? Mail-order, etc.

I can't get ftp stuff in a Commodore usable format, so
that won't help.

If they are public domain could someone send me a copy on disk (I'll send a
blank disk with return postage)
OR if they are commercial, does someone have an extra copy to sell?

Thanks a bunch!
Brian

P.S. OR I could trade for a game (see next post)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: bs338@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael T. Biehl)
Subject: Muppet learning keys
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 04:39:14 GMT


I picked up this Muppet learning keys keyboard at a garage sale.
It plugs into joy port 1 and came with a software disk.
It looks like it was made for different  overlays and more programs.
Has anyone ever seen this before and if so, is there any overlays and programs?
Please reply here or leave me e mail.

Thanks
From: colley@wang.com (Mike Colley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Is there a 64 group in Austin Tx?
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:31:34 GMT
Distribution: TX
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

Is there a '64 user group in Austin Tx?

Please reply to uudell.dell.com!sneezy!mcolley.

Thanks in Advance 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: lxm8184@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: C128 PRGs for sale
Reply-To: lxm8184@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:05:59 GMT

Hello!

     I have a few C128 Programmer's Reference Guides that I can part with.
If anyone out there would like  one, please E-mail me.

(What do these things cost nowadays, anyway?  Make me an offer.)

They haven't to my knowledge been used before.

                      -Larry
From: farmer@cs.utk.edu (SUSAN FARMER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: "autocad" and Logo for the C-64
Date: 18 Aug 92 03:46:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Is there an auto-cad like program for doing line drawings or making
gaming maps for the C-64?  Public domain would be peachy, for-pay
is ok too.  (The machine in question does have geos).

Is there a version of Logo for the C-64?  I have a four year old who
wants to "compute" like mommy and Daddy.  Where do I find/obtain
these programs?  Please e-mail as I don't regularly read this newsgroup.

Thanks,
Susan


-- 
Susan B. Farmer     farmer@cs.utk.edu     Lady Jerusha Kilgore     
I can't even find time to clean house and you want me to come up with a .sig?
     And now she wants to go back to grad school after 14 years .....  
     We'll let her out when the delusion passes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Subject: Re: Comm64 acting quirky
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 23:36:20 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: na

In article <1992Aug12.200059.24685@iitmax.iit.edu> nowlola@elof.iit.edu (Olatunji Nowlin) writes:
>I was wondering if someone out there could explain to me whats wrong
>with my C64...

Does it seem to be temperature-related?  Does it happen more often on
hot days?  If you leave the power supply unplugged for a while (hours)
is the problem less likely to appear?  If so, it's most likely a flaky
power supply.  The C64 power supply is infamous, and usually should be
the first suspect for this sort of thing.  My C64 was doing lots of
flaky things, and suddenly was as good as new when I put a new power
supply on it.

Forget trying to fix the old PS; it's cast in a block of epoxy.

Anybody know of a good source for these things?  Or better, an
alternative that's better made?

-- 
Mike Van Pelt          | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
mvp@netcom.com         | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
                       | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
                       | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: par@nwu.edu (Pete Rodriguez)
Subject: Re: stereoplayer10.3 sidplayer
Followup-To: comp.sys.cbm
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:34:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.161933.8814@cs.tu-berlin.de>, depke@cs.tu-berlin.de
(Florian Depke) wrote:
> 
> Scott K.Stephen writes in the readme-file at
> milton.u.washington.edu:/public/download/c64/sids: 
> > mainly, you need to add another sound-chip to the C64. These can be done
> > in two ways, by directly adding the chip to the C64 mother directly (for more
> > information about this get "stereplayer10p3.sda" and read the docs inside)
> > or you can buy a special cartrige that simple plugs in the expansion port
> > (for information about this cartrige, post your inquiries to the
> > comp.sys.cbm newsgroup)
> 
> I downloaded the "stereoplayer10p3.sda", dearched it but there is _no_
> doc inside. So, if anyone has information on how to make my c64
> stereo, please email.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> "Evening Falls..."	         _	depke@vax.hmi.dbp.de
> 			       ./  __	depke@cs.tu-berlin.de
> "Kommen Sie nicht?" -	       0`--'0`	dnu@dcon1.hmi.de
>   "              ....  Nein."

I would like instructions on how to do this, too.

____________________________________
Pete Rodriguez
Undergraduate Admissions
Northwestern University
E-mail:par@nwu.edu
       pete@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Music, stereo, NTSC, PAL
Date: 14 Aug 92 21:20:44 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

par@nwu.edu (Pete Rodriguez) writes:

>Even if you add another SID chip, I don't understand how it can be
>"stereo".  The sound output on the monitor cable is mono.  Wouldn't this
>only result in having access to six voices instead of three?

The audio chip in your 64/128 generates an audio output; this can be separated
form the video signal using the right cable.  This audio output can be plugged
into anything that'll accept it; you can plug it into the audio jack of an
appropriate monitor, or into a channel of a stereo system.  The second SID
chip would generate another audio output, and you would have to find another
channel to play it.  If you have a 1084S monitor, your 64/128 as it is only
uses one audio channel, so you can use the other channel for the SID from the
setereo cartraidge (and thus you really do have stereo).  If your built-in
SID's audio output goes to one channel of a stereo, you can put the second
SID's audio output to the other.  A number of other combinations are possible.
Whether or not you get true stereo will depend on how you hook it up; if you
have a mono audio system that will accept two input channels then, no, you
won't have stereo output, just 6 voices.

Question: does anybody know how well in tune the SID chips in the stereo
cartraidges tend to be with the SID's inside 64's, 128's, and 128D's?

-Rob
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu
From: 72560.3467@CompuServe.COM (Howard Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: E-Mail from LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:30:51 GMT

To:   >INTERNET comp-sys-cbm@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm

In article, aq743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William P. Maloney) writes:

>        I received a file from the above, in 6 parts and uuencoded.  I
>uudecoded the combined files into an ARK file.  This file was too huge,
>(about 240K) for any dearc file that I have for my C128.

Why?

Wouldn't CP/M's UNARK.COM or CS/DOS' ARC128 work?  Both can read from and 
write to different drives.

For speed use a REU and/or a RAMLink 

And to read the expanded text file in its entirety I'd sugggest ZED 128.
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INET:  72560.3467@CompuServe.COM

Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: R1TMARG@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Tim Margush)
Subject: Star GEMINI 10X - documentation
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:07:34 GMT

Does anyone have a 10X manual they no longer need? Or could
someone send a list of some of the control codes and DIP settings.
I got one second hand and it has no manual.
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Department of Mathematical Sciences               University Of Akron
Akron, OH 44325                                        (216) 972-7109
From: akersse@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Elwix of Style)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: PAL vs NTSC
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:09:57 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology


In article <20827@optima.cs.arizona.edu> mcbride@cs.arizona.edu (Chris M.  
McBride) writes:
> 
>     Christmas in August! I just received a nice little package from
> London, today, my PAL 64. I quickly hooked it up and ran one of my 
> PAL demos, to see what the RAVE was about. (I selected Dutch Breeze)
> The Demo was incredible, no flicker, it worked perfectly! EXCEPT
> EXCEPT it had no color! It was hooked up to my Amiga 1084 monitor, so
> I tried flipping every switch on the machine. Still no color. So then
> I tried connecting it to my 1702. And it still worked, but again no
> color. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get my PAL 64 to display
> color on my NTSC equipment?

Hey Chris! Lucky boy...
You know, the same thing happened to (our friend) Eric, the thing he got was  
just a board with no cover, but it worked fine outta the box... just no color.  
Anyway, ya don't need color to make sure our demos work fine in PAL from now  
on... just don't start coding in PAL eh?

My big question - any overseas people know where I (an American) could get a  
cheap PAL 64? Any of you interested to swapping an NTSC 64 for a PAL 64? (I'm  
not too sure exactly what you'd do with an NTSC 64, unless you make a diskmag  
and want it working 100% for NTSC-users... I've heard of that before - Script  
from Clique is made on an NTSC 64!). What does a 64 cost in European areas?

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: kentsu@microsoft.com (Kent Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Swiftlink Programming
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:15:33 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Summary: Call CMD

In article <jwaleke.04ri@tcedge.mi.org>, jwaleke@tcedge.mi.org (Jim Waleke) writes:
> 
>  
> Does anyone have any info on how to program the Swiftlink-232 Cartridge? Or
> could point me to where I can find such information? (Books, Magazines,
> FTP, or FREQ?)

If you bought your cartridge from CMD, they will provide you with a pretty
complete set of programming notes.  When we sold them the rights to the cart
we also gave them the developer's kit we had been distributing.
  
> I am currently working on a BBS and I want to write it to work with Swiftlink
> and a 14.4k v.32bis Modem.  It will run on the 128.

You should tell CMD this when you call.  Their number is 413-525-0023.
  
> How different is it from normal User Port communications?  About all I know
> is that is is mapped around $D700.

The SL-232 is somewhat similar to the user port in its register configuration
but programming it is more complicated because (a) you have to write handlers
yourself because the standard routines can't keep up and (b) there are more
features to the SL-232 than the user port.  The chip in the SL-232 (6551 ACIA)
is the model that the user port routines were made with in mind.

It in fact is NOT mapped at $D700 unless you have a special situation.  The
default mapping is $DE00.  A jumper cut can give you $DF00.  If both of those
locations are full (perhaps fairly common with a BBS operator), you can rig
$D700 but an internal jumper wire is required.  $D700 is only possible on the
C-128.  The developer's notes talk about how to do this.
-- 
Kent Sullivan - Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, WA - kentsu@microsoft.com

The opinions expressed in this article are my own and do not necessarily
reflect those of my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: sledz@cs.tu-berlin.de (Steffen Sledz)
Subject: modem TH002-1
Keywords: modem TH002-1
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 09:41:32 GMT

I have a modem for my commodore computer but I don't know
anything about it. I'm looking for informations about it (all I can get).
The type:
                     TAIHAHO  TH002-1



-- 
/----+----\        Steffen Sledz          email: sledz@cs.tu-berlin.de
\__  |  __/        Wichertstr.73                 sledz@informatik.hu-berlin.de
   \ | /           O-1071 Berlin
___/ | \___        Germany                phone: +49-30-314-21390
From: omancd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Christopher D Oman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Commodore books for sale
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:58:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Aug19.175803.4832
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology


I have the following books for sale.  All are in good shape except for the  
one marked as not being that way.


-----  C-64  -----
C-64 User's Guide  :$5:
C-64 Programmer's Reference Guide  :$10:
Machine Language for Beginners  :$10:
The Second Book of Machine Language for Beginners  :$10:
   (contains a type-in machine language assembler that the book analyzes)
Compute!'s Third Book of C-64  :$10:
   (lots of type-in programs)
Compute!'s First Book of C-64 Sound and Graphics  :$5:
   (not in the best shape, but all the pages are there)
   (lots of type-in programs)

-----  C-1541  -----
C-1541 Disk Drive User's Guide  :$5:
1541 User's Guide  :$10:
   (not the same as the above book, more like a reference manual)

-----  C-128  -----
128 Machine Language for Beginners  :$10:
Mapping the C-128  :$15:
C-128 Programmer's Reference Guide  :$15:
C-128 Programming Secrets  :$10:
C-128 Troubleshooting and Repair  :$10:

-----  Other  -----
Basic Computer Programs for Business (standard Basic, not CBM)  :$5:


Contact me by e-mail if interested.  Oh, yeah, buyer pays shipping.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: nowlola@elof.iit.edu (Olatunji Nowlin)
Subject: Comm64 acting quirky
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 20:00:59 GMT



I was wondering if someone out there could explain to me whats wrong
with my C64...
Lately it's decided to be a big pain.
Depending on how bad it gets the following will happen:
the screen scrambles up (as if the TV box were loose).
The screen fills up with a few random characters.
The computer resets itself.

Does anyone know whats wrong with it?

PS the machine is about 8 yrs old and was heavily
used for about 4 of those years...

Olatunji Nowlin
nowlola@elof.iit.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: nevs@cs.tu-berlin.de (Sven Goldt)
Subject: Re: Music, stereo, NTSC, PAL
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:34:28 GMT

mcbride@cs.arizona.edu (Chris M. McBride) writes:
> Fast music? The music sounds fast, but otherwise it sounds ok? Sounds
> to me like you have a PAL player, on a NTSC machine. (yes there are
Chris, he has a PAL machine ! And the player should be for
NTSC machines.

What do u mean with frequency ? If the speed is corrected,the
frequency is corrected with it !

Greets, Sven


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From: 31ochs@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: VIC-20 Info needed
Date: 12 Aug 92 19:58:54 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <Aug.9.12.03.51.1992.26988@electron.rutgers.edu>, chase@electron.rutgers.edu (Kevin Chase) writes:
> Sorry if this is the wrong group to be asking for this, but it was the
> only one that I found that seemed appropriate.
> 
> This weekend I bought a VIC 20 at a flea market for $5.  The problem:
> It has no power supply or monitor cable.  But looking at it closely
> I figured I could use the power supply from my Atari 130xe (same style
> connector) and make my own cable to hook it up to a composite monitor.
> Before I try this I'd like to know what the VIC-20 expects going into
> its power connector so that I don't accidently fry anything.
> I'd also like to know what are the two connectors at the back.
> I think one of them is for a composite monitor and one is for a TV
> set, but I'm not sure.

One is for a disk drive, I think it's the one on the right, looking at it
from the back(the one next to the user port and cassette port)
the other one is for a monitor I guess. The computer originally came with an
adaptor that plugged in the back that gave you a regular RF output for a TV set
I'm sure you'll have fun with the whopping 3.5K RAM for basic ;^)

Fred Ochs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: MSO@eeyore.usc.edu
Subject: re: Re: Prime's Changes
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:15:45 GMT

Tom,
Please feel free to contact me (mso@eeyore.usc.edu) at any time.  I will direct
all questions, chat, etc., to the people who may be able to answer/respond.
Mike O'Rear, University of Southern California,  (& we are on Prime)
(Assuming that San Diego can stomach talking to people from the Smog Pit.)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: GORMAN_B@prime1.lancashire-poly.ac.uk (Barry Gorman)
Subject: Re: A challenge - raise my confidence in Pr1me
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:32:05 GMT

>Alan Dosset writes: "is it a serious bug", mentions SPAR

Well when I write software I like to test it to destruction. This includes
throwing a wide range of numbers at it if it is numeric. If appropriate this
includes the largest and smallest possible numbers. At this stage the program
is probably full of printf's. I rely on printf to work correctly. As it is I
have to print in both decimal and hex/octal as a check. What I regard as
serious is that the result is *very* wrong for very small numbers. It caused
me a lot of hair tearing when I first encountered it. Serious? I think so.

So I should have raised a SPAR. Well I am only faculty, with over 25 years
programming experience. I have to take my bugs to the Centre. Their attitude
is to say that there is no point in raising a SPAR, nothing gets done. We are
Rev21 and the standard answer is to upgrade and all will be well. However
the Centre is too busy with their insecure network of toy machines.

>Kevin Cummings writes: .. fixed .. P$ATOA

Great, my challenge worked! What worries me is where the fault lay. This
implies that this fault is lurking around for the users of other languages.
Why has it not cropped up before, does nobody do any serious testing? I
would have thought that because of the number of combinations of models and
revs that this should be well planned, is it?

So Alan (or somebody) tell me how to raise a SPAR, and what info you require.

Barry
.....
From: gadget@hsepm1.HSE.NL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: re: unsubscribe
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:44:59 GMT
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