HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wjbaird@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Baird)
Subject: Re: A4000 or SGI for video
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:02:54 GMT

In article <dmkasten.05b9@redorc.chi.il.us> dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag) writes:
>
>Considering you can buy a board for an Amiga for $9000 that will give you 2x
>the power of a $200,000 SGI Workstation, yup, id say the Amiga is a wise
>decision.. 

I'd like to see some numbers to back this up...  The IRIS Indigo
workstation sells for roughly $10,000 (I have a price sheet at work,
but not with me), and pack a hell of a punch...  I would be really
surprised if a 4000 is twice as fast as the Indigo R4000 at anything...

I've got price sheets with all the relevant data for the various
options, and I can post it if anyone is interested...  

I'd really like to see similar data for the 4000.  Does anyone know
how many flat shaded polys per second you can get?  Will the Amiga do
hardware or software Gouraud shading???

The figures for the lowest end of the Indigo (without any graphics
accelators) was around 100,000 flat shaded polys per second (I
think...  Don't quote me on this until I check the info sheets).

>
>
>
>        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>        |o|              I think, therefore I Amiga.              |=|
>        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>        | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
>        |  dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us   | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
>        +------------------------------+----------------------------+


(P.S.  Please don't flame me for being "anti-Amiga".  I love my 2000,
but I'm realistic enough to realize that it may not be the best
possible graphics box...)
From: cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WB Font? (VENUS!!!!)
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:45:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <C15rJK.IDB@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick) writes:

>venus.font!  It is GREAT!  I trashed mine, though. :(  Anyway, it can
>replace topaz, and is much nicer, except for ONE thing.  The H's look
>like W's.  And so when I tried to fix this with WBFed, it trashed the
>font.  Does anyone know of a GOOD font editor for 2.0?  Thanks.


SSSSSSoooooooo.....  where can i get this little bundle
of joy?


Jeremy
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From: bushwick@mind.ORG (Pete Rittwage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Faery Tale music (was Re: Music for Sword of Sodan)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:07:52 -0500
Organization: Fortress Development HQ

barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:

> 
> 	Music-X comes with several sample music files.  One of them
> contains all the music from Faery Tale Adventure, but in Music-X format.
> I don't know if the original game used these files or not.
> 
> 	It's great fun hearing the (wonderful) Faery Tale music played
> on my synthesizers!
> 
>                                                         Dan
> 
>  //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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> | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  01003  --  barrett@cs.umass.edu |
>  \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////

So I don't suppose there is a publicly redistributable player for these 
files?  W/out MIDI?  I suspect not, oh well...
 
Pete
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
Subject: Re: Fred Fish and no more fishes??
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:26:59 GMT

In article <1jme0vINNh5@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> s892031@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Pumpkin Power) writes:
>
>Our local user group stopped their subscription because they simply
>couldn't afford it.  The prices then were US$4.00 per disk I believe.

     How do people subscribe to Fred Fish anyway?  

                                              -TKH '93

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: rnelson@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (roger nelson;S23487)
Subject: Re: EVE or edt/tpu for Amiga??
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:50:05 GMT


It appears that my reply didn't make it:


In article <1993Jan23.161250.2172@msus1.msus.edu> martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU writes:
>Is there a port of the EVE (VMS) editor for the amiga computer?
>

I have written a text editor which is similar in functionality to EDT and EVE.
REDT follows a VMS/EDT text editing model and is similar to the SEDT
text editor by Anker Berg-Sonne. 

REDT is curses based and should compile under any UNIX system. It is 
known to compile under SGI/IRIX, IBM/AIX HP/UX, SUN/OS, AT&T/SysV and 
DEC/ULTRIX. 
The Amiga version has been Intuitionized with pulldown menus and mouse support.

REDT allows you to make full use of your keyboard so you can bind commands
to almost any escape/control/function key sequence (the Amiga verions
uses Alt/A/Ctrl/Shift keys instead of escape sequences).  

A full screen interactive utility is provided to generate [the human readable] 
command key binding files.

Under UNIX, REDT can be compiled with Mike Sweet's cmenu library for 
pulldown menus, and gadgets.  The Amiga version uses Intuition.

REDT features:

    - Columnwise cut and paste. 
    - Sort selected lines by selected columns.
    - Cursor movement and character insertion past EOLN.
    - 4-way scrolling with no wrap around.
    - Can use ISPELL or another similar spell checker within the editor.
    - Format ruler line and paragraph fill and justify.
    - Auto indentation and highlight matching parenthesis - for LISP users.
    - Status line.
    - Multiple buffers (9) which you can cut and paste between.
    - Save, recall and repeat keystrokes. (Macros can be saved
      between editing sessions, and are human readable/editable.)
    - Automatically adjusts to your terminal screen size. 

Let me know if you are interested in receiving REDT.

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From: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AmigaDos version 2.1 documentation comments
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:01:37 GMT
Reply-To: dcc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (David Crooke)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

I think "credit card" refers to PCMCIA

Dave

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From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid Workbench 2.1 and path command!
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:33:04 GMT
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you

slhmz@cc.usu.edu writes:

>          The "path" command no longer works!

>  Well, actually, it works if I pop up a shell and type:

>          path SYS:Tools add

>  But, I can't get the path command to work while in the startup-sequence.
>  I get no errors, no messages, just nothing.

I found this to be true as well.  So far, the only thing I have found
that works is to have each shell start up with "NewShell FROM
s:Shell-Startup", which has commands to set the stack size and path.  I
cannot figure out how to set the default path and stack size from
anywhere else.

I also noticed that any program started from WB's Execute menu item will
come up in the SYS:WBstartup directory.  Just before the "LoadWB"
command I added a "cd Work:" to switch to my user partition, but WB must
have changed it back.  I hate that.

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From: Jonas_Marten_Fjallstam@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A3000 help (Kids Stuff)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 23:33:47 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I've also got an A3000 and recenty installed a new Quantum LPS240 hard drive.
Anyway when I try to boot off of my new disk I get a requester asking
for the "68040.library". This file has never existed on any hard drive I 
have booted from. I load KS from a hard drive kickstart file by the way.

It boots fine from the old Quantun LPS52. What is the library file??
Why does my system require it to boot??
From: karl@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (J Karl Meinhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A1200 Harddisk problems
Date: 23 Jan 1993 21:34:12 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: karl@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I am on my second Maxtor 120Meg disk and am still having difficulity.  The
disk still doesn't work properly.  I am using WB2.1 HD Toolbox to set drive
parameters which are read from the drive.  I am leaving the parameters at the
defaults but, the drive still behaves eratically.  The 1200 does not come with 
software to install the harddisk hence the use of 2.1 HDtools.  I am aware
of the maxtransfer bug, but changing this value makes no difference.
Does anyone have any sugestions?

Thanx,
Karl
From: matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Electronic Arts
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:02:00 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Anyone working for, or having contact with, Electronic Arts? If yes,
please drop me an email.

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=  Mattias  =  matt-dah@dsv.su.se  =  I love it.        =
=========================================================
=  If we don't *buy* our programs, there soon won't be  =
=  any new software for the Amiga. Obvious, is it not?  =
=========================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: nilss@lgserv0.uit.no (Nils Sudmann)
Subject: Re: New machine sales
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:21:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.133928.23230@hsr.no>, geir-s@hsr.no (Geir Haakon Strand) writes:

] In Norway, where I live, the A4000 is selling good. I've been waiting for my A4000
] 2 weeks now. This is because C= are unable to deliver enough A4000.
] I've heard rumors that this also happend back when the A500 was released even
] though C= had large stocks of A500. If so, and if this is the case now, what the 
] h*ll is wrong with C= ?
] 
] Geir Strand
] Rogaland University Center

Well, be prepared for some more waiting.
It took my A4000 about seven weeks before it arrived, and it did so AFTER
my Xmas holidays (most boring ever). Anyway; maybe the dust is beginning to
settle now...
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From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Backup software needed for Exabyte 8200
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:28:19 EST
Organization: Privately owned and operated UUCP site.

In article <1k1461INN4bf@digex.digex.com> jclark@access.digex.com (Jamie H. Clark) writes:
> I tried Matt Dillion's TAPE handler and GNUtar to backup my Amiga 3000
> hard disk to Exabyte 8200 (2.3GB 8mm) tape drive.  The tape drive light will
> turn to inform me that it is writing data to the tape, then the SCSI bus
> hungs up (hard disk light stays on).  Is there any updated version of TAPE
> handler and backup software that will work fine with Exabyte 8200?
>
> 	Jamie
>

Have you tried Ami-Back 2.0 with your DAT drive? It's supposed to work. There
are some demo versions of Ami-Back 2.0 that you could try with it.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cmatting@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Mattingly)
Subject: Re: 32bit versions of wb3 ??
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:22:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.163819.25003@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
>In article <1jmnp8INNfan@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_e445@king.ac.uk (Vlod Kalicun) writes:
>>Hi Netters,
>>Does anyone know why C= don't make specific version of Workbench for specific
>>chips.??
>>What I mean is compile WB (presume in C) with flags, so 68020/68040 instructions
>>can be used.
>>Wouldn't WB/and its other applications run faster, as the later chips will
>>have better instructions??
>>
>>I relize that this wouldn't work on a stock 68000, but I don't see any real
>>cost in doing this. Amigas generally come with WB so, if I upgrade to a 
>>4000, then I get a faster version of WB.
>>Or is the speed increase minimal and a waste of time.. ??
>>
>>[sig deleted]
>
>
>What makes you think that they don't?
>How can you be sure without disassembling the code?
>As WB3.0 won't run on a non-32bit processor they might well of done.
>However, this is Commodore we're talking about.
>Do they know _how_ to set compiler options ?? :-)
>[sig and disclaimer deleted]

Hmm..pardon me, but my 500 does not have a 32-bit processor, yet I can
and have run WB3.0 on my machine.  Now, some of the programs that come with
it will mot run, like MultiView, but WB3.0 WILL load on a non-32-bit processor.

--Chris



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From: sotakaj@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: close
Date: 21 Jan 93 09:43:33 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire


   Want to Sell:

       Amiga 500
   
         --comes with required monitor cables and mouse

        For further inquiry respond personally at  SOTAKAJ@uwec.bitnet.edu

        MAKE AN OFFER !!!
From: ahansfor@bigwpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000 with 68EC040?
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:40:12 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: mark@killdeer.Stanford.EDU's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:17:24 GMT

>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:17:24 GMT, mark@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Mark Hosang Yim) said:


mark> voiding warrantee). Showconfig and CPU programs say I've got a
mark> 68040/68882.  (looks kinda bad...though doesn't say 68EC040
mark> explicitly) Are all current A4000's EC's or full 68040's?  Does
mark> anyone know just how different they are? (besides no MMU)

The EC040 has no functional floating point unit or MMU units.
The LC040 has no functional floating point unit.

I would not expect Commodore to release a machine that has Zorro III
slots but no MMU due to the problems this can cause with caches
and burst access. If Commodore were to release a machine without a
full blown 040, it would proably be a LC040.  Of course anything can
happen...


-- Andrew Hansford
   ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
From: cs64wag@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Interesting clock program
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:38:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan20.072857.1@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:
 >Hello,
 > 
 >This is a strange question based on what may be a faulty memory...
 > 
 >About a year ago I -thought- I saw a clock program on an FTP site
 >that was possibly called DaliClock or something similar.  It was
 >supposed to be a Salvador Dali type of clock (melted clock) that
 >actually worked.
 > 
 >Does any one know of a program like this?  As I said, this memory may
 >be faulty, I spent a few days at the time trying to re-find this
 >program with no luck but the idea persists.  And... for interested
 >programmers out there, if this is a product of my faulty memory, is 
 >anyone out there interested in writing such a beast?
 
I have seen this program, I think on the FishDisks... check
the local Aquarium!

Jeremy

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From: rickt@bnr.co.uk (Rick Tait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Email address for suggestions & bugs to Commodore
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:23:34 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe, New Southgate, London.
NNTP-Posting-Host: bnsgs158.bnr.co.uk

In article <ABAIR.93Jan24232537@parsons.sps.mot.com> abair@parsons.sps.mot.com (Alan Bair) writes:
>In article <johnv.0484@acix.DIALix.oz.au> johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>The latest set of RKM's list only one USENET address and it is for bugs:
                                       ^^^^^^
>	bugs@commodore.com

It's not a USENET address! There is no such thing as a USENET address,
apart from perhaps the physical location of a USENET backbone site. It is
an INTERNET email address, and has nothing to do with USENET other than
the fact that you can send mail to it via trn/rn etc!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu (Sam Hulick)
Subject: NEW AMIGA NEWSGROUP PROPOSAL
Originator: shulick@navajo
Reply-To: shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu
Organization: Vallen Software
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:13:45 GMT


Very biff-like subject. :)  Anyway, how about:

  comp.sys.amiga.music

c.s.a.audio is too general.  That can be digitizers, programming
waveforms, etc.  IMO, we definitely need c.s.a.music where people can
announce new mods, talk about music programs, etc.!  So what do you say?
If this gets enough votes, I'll take it to alt.config and then 'control'
and get it created.

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From: johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Subject: Re: Email address for suggestions & bugs to Commodore
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: 23 Jan 93 08:13:59 WST
Organization: ACix - Private UUCP Node, Cloverdale, Western Australia.

John Verhoeven (johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
> Many, many moons ago there used to be an email address for submitting
> suggestions to Commodore.  I think it was

Thanks for the many replies on this subject.

For  suggestions:   suggestions@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com
            bugs:   bugs@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com

The Rom Kernal Manual:  Libraries 3rd Edition pp 22 has information on
contacting Commodore via Email and other methods as well.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: taaustin@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Amiga multi-user system, if you still need it
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:42:17 GMT

A few days ago there was a fellow trying to set up a multi-user
system on an Amiga for his church.  I e-mailed a response but
also mentioned another program that I could not recall... Well, I
have found it.  If you are still reading the postings, this just
might be EXACTLY what you are looking for.  It is located on wuarchive
and probably on physik.
 
the readme file follows:
 -----------------------------------


                      AmiStation - The Amiga Workstation
                      ----------------------------------
Do you get tired of your roomates always using your computer?  Are you
afraid that your children or coworkers might accidentally destroy your data
or beat your hi-score at Tetris while you're not around?  AmiStation
provides a way of not only protecting your machine from casual users, but
also gives your Amiga the look and feel of a hi-cost workstation machine.

AmiStation is a security program that restricts use, and can also track it.
Each "trusted" user is assigned a login name and password.  At bootup they
are presented with a login panel, ala a NeXT workstation where they must
enter their assigned username and password.  The system then records the
date and time of their login, so if someone screws up your system you'll
know who to blame.


Requirements:
-------------
     KickStart 2.x is REQUIRED!
     Has been tested on A500/A2000/A3000 and with the 68000,6030,68040


Purpose:
--------
   o Provide somewhat of a multi-user environment
   o Make your Amiga look a little bit more professional looking
   o Limit machine access (to the less knowledgeable user)


Features:
---------
   o Login panel (ala NeXT) at startup, unique username and password
     are required to access machine.
   o Logs user's access
   o Utility to add/remove/edit users (password protected)
   o Finger utility to display user information
   o Unix like user data
   o Backdoor maintenance password
   o Passwords are encrypted within the data files
 
 
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Hope this helps...