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From: specter@disk.uucp (Byron Max Guernsey)
Subject: Re: PLEASE, the TRUE legal scoop and distibuting music samples
Organization: The Alaskan Organization for Amiga Domination
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 21:56:34 GMT


There is no doubt, if you sample anything including a 1 second instrument it
is consider infringement. 

Like someone else said, read that copyright notice on a CD. It says there is
to be absolutely NO reproduction (Digital or otherwise) without the publishers
consent. I don't even think the recording artist can make copies of his own
stuff :) I remember hearing about someone who had some problems with this
because he sent recordings out and they were duplicates of stuff he had
recorded with a record company. They sued him.

If your gonna distribute sampled stuff, watch out. In the next few years
things are gonna be changing drastically in the laws concerning computer
reproductions of copyrighted materials. I would suggest using an alias if
you are a MOD artist and want to sample instruments and small segments from
other peoples commercial songs. And don't even think about selling your MOD
for a game if it has sampled commercial stuff in it!

Byron

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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: GEnie software for Amiga
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:12:47 GMT
  <pianoman.0065@misseye.uucp>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Portal is another net, which is quite decent. Harv Laser & Company
>took the Amiga group there when People-Link died (actually, of all
>the nets I've been on, I liked People-Link the best. I was sorry
>to see it go. Anyone ever hear anything of WHY it died? Too few
>subscribers--too much overhead)?
>Portal charges a flat $13.95 a month with un-limited access, but
>the SprintNet/Telenet connection tacks on another $2.50 an hour. Portal also
>has UseNet, and that is also included in the flat rate. I would
>still be a Portal subscriber, but they don't take American Express
>(sounds like a commercial), and I don't have a VISA or MasterCard.
>Even with the small SprintNet/Telenet surcharge, it's probably the best on-
>line network deal around (NOTE: The $2.50/hr surcharge applies to
>off-peak times. The charge is considerably more during peak hours).
>    Their address:
>                   Portal Communications Company
>                   10385 Cherry Tree Lane
>		   Cupertino, CA  95014
>* Sing me a song           \  Alan D. Ray  /         BERKS AMIGA BBS     *

Thanks for the kind words about Portal. Note that they also accept
prepayment by personal check or money order even if you don't have one
of their "acceptable" credit cards in your possession. Further,
for those who have a SprintNet PCPursuit account, you can access
Portal via SprintNet using your PCP information during non prime
time hours for $1. an hour. This includes speeds up to and including
9600bps. 

It's also worth mentioning that Portal's Amiga Zone is currently the
ONLY (strong emphasis there) Amiga SIG in America on a commercial
dialup system which has the entire Fred Fish Disk collection, currently
at 630 disks, online. CI$, Genie, Bix, Delphi... they might have 
some indiviual files from recent disks but Portal has the entire
collection online. All of it. All the time. 

Also you asked why People/Link went out of business. In a word: greed.
It was a combination of (a) mgmt paying themselves exhorbitant
salaries, (b) spending more than they took in and (c) the owners
eventually deciding they didn't want to own a commercial dialup
service anymore and so they shut it down. During the last two months
of its existence, Plink's management violated the legal contracts
of every contracted sysop on the system, including me. It was a
very ugly, not to mention very sad situation.

At any rate, that's history. The Amiga Zone's on Portal now and doing
very very well. 

Harv

ps.. Portal moved in January '92. Their current address is:
Portal Communications
20863 Stevens Creek Blvd. Suite 200
Cupertino, CA 95014
phone numbers have not changed
From: mohrc@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: SID 2.0 questions
Date: 14 Apr 92 05:54:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Apr14.055429.26275
Organization: CS Dept. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Is there anyway to make SID 2.0 recognize new formats such as Powerpacked files?
By this i mean if you double click on a PP file it will read it (just like a 
plain text file) I know that this can be achieved through PP patch BUT i have
other formats that i would also like it to recognize (mod files is one). If 
anyone has any idea on this please email or post here, Also any other neat 
tricks you might have found out i would love to know.

thanks

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From: bairds@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Cheradenine Zekalwe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Face it, Amiga's are no good!
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:28:25 GMT

c9228224@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (McLeod) writes:

>  Has anyone ever noticed how Amiganites seem to think that Amigas' are
>the best computers around, despite the fact that no self-respecting business
>would go near them? I mean, lets face it, Amiga's are nothing compared with
>MS-DOS machines. And, they never will be. Oh sure, they have such pretty 
>graphics, but that doesn't mean zip when it comes down to how good they are 
>to use, now does it?! So come on all you egotistical Amiga users. Get your
>heads out of the sand and face facts. Amigas' are nothing, they never will be
> and haven't a chance in hell at ever being any better then MS-DOS machines.

First of all, let me point out that comp.sys.amiga.advocacy is the
appropriate place for postings of this nature, not comp.sys.amiga.misc.  If I
wanted to listen to this kind of drivel, I'd be subscribed to advocacy.
Secondly, you overlook the fact that each machine has its own merits.  If the
Amiga didn't have at least a few merits it wouldn't have been around as long
as it has.  To point out a few that are on my list:  a true multitasking OS
kernel, a standard layer for device drivers and dynamic libraries, an
architecture based around the MC680x0 processors, a native windowing GUI,
etc.  MS-DOS machines, on the other hand, have their own merits such as
expandability (though many Amiga models are as expandable as well), price (a
few Amiga people might disagree here, but it seems to me I can get more raw
computing power for the buck with an MS-DOS machine nowadays), not to
mention a very large software base.
     Any user of any type of machine tends to be somewhat clannish in its
views of other computers as evil and as its own machine as perfect.  These
are clearly distorted views, as each machine serves the purpose to which it
is put and no one machine can do everything that the others can (or if it
can, it can't do that and a real-time ray-traced space game, which means
they're all pretty boring ... :).  As far as pretty graphics not meaning
diddly, I suppose you can explain then why VGA is fast becoming the de facto
standard for MS-DOS machines and why the technology is continually pushing
towards higher resolutions and larger numbers of displayed colors for desk-
top machines.
     The fact is, by posting such an inflamatory statement you prove your-
self to be no better than the near sighted people who claim that an Amiga
is the be all to end all of computers.  I, personally, own an Amiga, but
more than likely I'll expand my horizons and include an MS-DOS machine in
the near future.  Why?  Because each has its relative merits.  So rather
than discard one for the other I'll just have both.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: fineberg@wugate.wustl.edu (Charlie Fineberg)
Subject: ab20 archives available from wuarchive.wustl.edu
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri USA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:31:56 GMT


      This is an official announcement that the "frozen" version of
    the ab20.larc.nasa.gov /amiga and /incoming trees are available
    for anonymous ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4].
    The directories can be found in either /systems/amiga or
    /mirrors/ab20.larc.nasa.gov.  The incoming directory will be
    read-only until an archive maintainer can be found.

      Wuarchive also has a mirror of gatekeeper.dec.com's fish disk
    library (up to disk 580 - as far as gatekeeper goes) and an
    archive of the comp.{sources,binaries}.amiga groups also
    available from /systems/amiga.

      NFS mounting of the archive is also possible.  Please read the
    document README.NFS in the root directory very carefully before
    asking questions about problems.  The appropriate partition to
    mount is /archive/mirrors2.

      Wuarchive is available for use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    As wuarchive is a dedicated system, you need not worry about
    "overloading" it.
--
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Campus Box 1048, 534 Jolley Hall		fineberg@wugate.wustl.edu
St. Louis, MO 63130					(314)935-4865
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: nicolai@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Nicolai Leymann)
Subject: Re: Sun->AmigaDOS File Xfer
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: fb20
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:57:49 GMT

nicholas@vax.sonoma.edu writes:

>In article <1992Apr8.223221.4506@acuson.com>, cary@acuson.com (Cary Farrier) writes:
>> Does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to copy files onto AmigaDOS disks
>> from a Sun Sparcstation 1+?  The Sun uses the high density (1.44Mb) floppy disks,
>> so will it be able to even read/write the AmigaDOS 880k disks in the first place?
>> 
>> -- Cary

>do is use one of those IBM-Amiga converters and presto!  It is easier 
>if you have a modem.
But it's not very fast. You can use msh (on Fish 382) to read 720 KB DOS disks
on the Amiga and fdformat/mcopy/mdir etc. on your SPARC-Station. If you want 
low density on the SPARC use "fdformat -ld" .

        Nic
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip 'AdaX' Sauls)
Subject: Re: A600 specs
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:54:36 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.153431.25384@cs.rose-hulman.edu> gunnbr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Brian R Gunn) writes:
>In article <EACHUS.92Apr1170407@Dr_No.mitre.org> eachus@Dr_No.mitre.org  
>(Robert I. Eachus) writes:
>> In article <1992Mar29.182400.19551@cs.rose-hulman.edu>  
>gunnbr@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Brian R Gunn) writes:
>> 
>>    What's the power supply on the 600 like??  Commodore seems to
>>    ALWAYS have problems including wimpy powersupplies--have the
>>    finally fixed this problem??
>> 
>>    Hmmm...  I have an Amiga 1000 and an Amiga 2500, what wimpy
>> powersupplies?  As far as I know the only Amigas with power supply
>> limitations are Amiga 500s where the stock power supply is designed
>> for a bare bones machine.
>
>I was referring to the wimpy power supplies on the 500 and the 64.  Sounds  
>to me like the 600 will be another one of those machines that Commodore  
>assumes will remain bare bones, and therefore provide a wimpy power  
>supply.

So don't buy a 600 if you want to expand.  There is such a thing as market
positioning and low end machines are typically harder to expand.  The Mac
Classic and the IBM PS/1 have similarly limited expansion capability, yet
you are not complaining about them.

If you would open your eyes you might realize that C= sells more models
that allow easy expansion (A2000, A2500, A3000, A3000T, A3000UX, A3000TUX)
than models that do not (A500, A500+, A600, CDTV).

But don't worry, some hack-job expansion boxes with bigger power supplies
will probably be available soon.  You will then be able to expand the A600
so that it covers your desk and becomes a total nightmare.

I wish C= would design the A600 with an airtight seal around the motherboard
so that the motherboard disintegrated if tampered with.  That might prevent
all of the ridiculous hacks which cause consumers grief as well as the others
such as the Action Replay or whatever that are clearly for pirates.

>Brian

Skip Sauls                     //    Graduate Student & Instructor
skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu    \X/     CS Department, University of Mississippi 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: zambotti@wpowz.enet.dec.com (Walter Zambotti DEC)
Subject: Re: Everything killer on the way!!!
Reply-To: zambotti@wpowz.enet.dec.com (Walter Zambotti DEC)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:57:22 GMT

Kenny Miller rights :->

>1. make all operators (exept MOVE) ONLY work on Registers
>2. make several forms of MOVE.  They could be divided into two classes:
>   move TO a register, and move FROM a register.  The non-register source/dest
>   would be the usual 680x0 addressing modes.
>3. make about 256 registers available, as a "page" of special on-chip RAM (1K)
>   this way, there would be ways to access the "registers" in clever
and useful
>   ways (but simple to implement in hardware)
>4. divide those huge MULx and DIVx instructions into one-bit
increments, each
>   of which is ridiculously fast, so you can have just as many bits in
your
>   multiplies and divides as you want (only want to multiply two 8-bit
numbers
>   together?  fine...just use 8 steps).  This isn't too bogus.  The
MIPS-X
>   architecture(s?) use it.

I have no arguement against points 1,2 or 4 but 3 has as many bad points
as its does good.

Do you realize that during an interupt all registers must be pushed to
the stack.  How long would it take to push 256*4byte registers? 
Remember that a context switch is also driven via the interupt
mechanism.  This makes for one very fast single user single tasking
machine but for one very slow multitasking multiuser machine.  Even if
there is only one task running under a multitasking operating system the
clock is continuously generating interupts say 50-100 times a second
plus all the I/O driven interupts.

There was an article entitled "IBM RS6000 fast workstation slow server."
in one of the more popular computing magazines because of this exact
architectural oversite.

Walter Zambotti
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: aj733@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Hnat)
Subject: Re: Hardwired Demo
Reply-To: aj733@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Hnat)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 07:32:38 GMT


In a previous article, taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu () says:

>I have seen several posts in teh past few days about the "Hardwired"
>("Hardwire"?) demo...  It was highly praised by all who mentioned it.
>One claimed it was the best Amiga demo seen yet.
> 
>Where can I find this thing?  Someone mentioned ab20 in the post.  I 
>have checked amiga/demos/euro (also traditional) as well as a
>incoming/amiga/DEMOS...
> 
>No luck, so where is this beast?!?
> 
Try incoming/amiga/DEMOS/PARTY91 on ab20.
The praises come from this end also...it is *very* impressive.
If you have an external drive turn it off before you reboot (ths works for me)
The beginning and end are in cinematic form...really impressive.
This is definately the one I show my friends first! *8)

It's amazing what co-operation can do.

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From: pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.org (Paul van der Heu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Maybe a revival of comp.[binaries|sources].amiga is in order
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:59:05 GMT
Reply-To: pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.org
Organization: The MotherShip Connection
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00 alpha rel3

With the end of ab20 in sight it might be a good idea for the programmers
out there to start using the appropriate newsgroups again..

Ever since ab20 came to life, a massive library where you could store/get
your files a HUGE part of the world was left in the cold and/or dependant
on the few who could get to ab20.. 

Just keep in mind the VAST majority of amigas is overhere in Europe and 
with the end of that library you will not get your stuff over here as 
before, at least not as fast and widespread, and so it just might be a 
good idea to start using the designated newsgroups again.

PW

          Paul van der Heu, FALCON CBCS The MotherShip Connection
          FIDO - 2:280/207.0 , UUCP - pvdh@motship.comsat.gna.com

   AQUA BOOGIE BABY !!  (Psycoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) - Parliament
From: wulf@elfie.async.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: 337 shells on an Amiga 500 - WB is **slow**
Date: 6 Apr 92 17:39:54 GMT
Reply-To: wulf@elfie.async.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Organization: NeuSoft

In article <30072@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
>Now, some other design changes can make a big difference in speed of both
>layers and the graphics rendering methods.  And such changes can easily
>gain 500% to 600% in speed.

Please, go on!  I want to hear how the system can be optimized so much, and
also why CBM hasn't gone and done it yet!

>/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
>|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Software Engineer             |
>|     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
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>|\\\///    "A master's secrets are only as good as the                 |
>| \XX/      master's ability to explain them to others" - Michael Sinz |
>\----------------------------------------------------------------------/

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Face it, Amiga's are no good!
From: tbear@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Sam Mazzotta)
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 10:15:17 EDT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

c9228224@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (McLeod) writes:

> 
>   Has anyone ever noticed how Amiganites seem to think that Amigas' are
> the best computers around, despite the fact that no self-respecting business
> would go near them? I mean, lets face it, Amiga's are nothing compared with
> MS-DOS machines. And, they never will be. Oh sure, they have such pretty 
> graphics, but that doesn't mean zip when it comes down to how good they are 
> to use, now does it?! So come on all you egotistical Amiga users. Get your
> heads out of the sand and face facts. Amigas' are nothing, they never will be
>  and haven't a chance in hell at ever being any better then MS-DOS machines.
>   
>      Face facts, guys.
>          MR B.
> 
> 
> 

FLAME BAIT!

FLAME BAIT!

DANGER!  STAND CLEAR!
From: rmwhapham@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Where's XPKMASTER.LIBRARY?
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:27:44 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

Mentioned in the doc file for MultiPlayer v1.17 is the fact that it will 
load crunched modules if you have xpkmaster.library (and 
powerpacker.library if you use PowerPacker).  So where do I get this 
library?  I sat through an archie search ('prog xpk') and only got tons and 
tons of IBM stuff with 'xpk' in it, and 1 mention of an Amiga site (I 
couldn't tell by the filename if it was the library or not).  
Unfortunately, the site was amiga.physik.unizh.ch and the file was in the 
/amiga/priv/ directory...untouchable by mere mortals.  Any clues as to 
where to ftp a copy?  As always, thanks in advance...

Rob Whapham
Etc. Software
From: korczyns@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph Korczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga BBS's in Baltimore, MD
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:03:19 GMT
Reply-To: korczyns@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph Korczynski)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.sys.amiga.misc, drew@bluemoon.rn.com (drew wenger) writes:
>I'm going to be moving to Baltimore, MD in a few week and was wondering if
>someone could email a few phone #'s for Amiga supportive BBS's or any that
>support Fidonet, Usenet, or just about any other net.
>
>Thanks for your time in advance!!
>
>Drew Wenger
>drew@bluemoon.rn.com


AmigaBASE BBS (410)-760-2483

This is a very popular Amiga only BBS in the Baltimore,MD area. It's
been up and running for over 4 years. Knowledgeable and mature user
base. Supports many different Amiga Users Groups.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: c9228224@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (McLeod)
Subject: Face it, Amiga's are no good!
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:19:25 GMT


  Has anyone ever noticed how Amiganites seem to think that Amigas' are
the best computers around, despite the fact that no self-respecting business
would go near them? I mean, lets face it, Amiga's are nothing compared with
MS-DOS machines. And, they never will be. Oh sure, they have such pretty 
graphics, but that doesn't mean zip when it comes down to how good they are 
to use, now does it?! So come on all you egotistical Amiga users. Get your
heads out of the sand and face facts. Amigas' are nothing, they never will be
 and haven't a chance in hell at ever being any better then MS-DOS machines.
  
     Face facts, guys.
         MR B.