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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:47:15 EDT
From:         MiguelFA@LCAEE.FEE.UNICAMP.BR
Subject:      Re: probs with WUSTL .DMS files

> From: "Mark C. Langston" <langston@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU>
>
>   Okay, here's a new twist on this story:
>
> I (yes, BINARY) ftp a .DMSed file from a site to my VAX, then ZMODEM it
> directly to my Amiga.  When I run DMS (ver 1.11), the only device it'll
> let my unDMS to is DF0:  (this is annoying, since I have a hard drive).
> So, I copy the file to DF0:, and proceed as it wants me to.  So.  I
> tell it DMS WRITE DF0:blah to DF0:.  It spins up the drive and then says
> 'please insert disk into DF0:'.  Now.  The disk didn't spin enough for
> it to read anything.  It's not telling me to _swap_ disks.  It can't
> recognize there's a disk in the drive!  What gives?
>

        Well, Mark, in a A2000 - WB 1.3 - with 5 megs and a Hard Disk I could
use the DMS to unpack files from the HD to a RAD: device. I try to unDMS a file
using the same device that I have the .DMS file (like you do with your DF0:) and
the DMS doesn't seems to work (it acts like you describe).

        You could try to give the complete path (dms write dh0:... to DF0:) or
to copy the DMSed file to RAM: and make "dms write ram:... to df0:".

        Hope this little bit could help you. See you later.

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From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: Coming to you live via my new Amiga 4000!
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:15:22 GMT

In article <9211180423.AA21135@judy.indstate.edu> Arc Wave <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU> writes:

>I have finally gotten most of my system installed on my new Amiga 4000.
>PC-Task screams now..hehehe... I am in most cases flicker-free and scan-
>line free mode all the time.  Man is this beast fast!

[.. annoying, to us non-A4000-owners that is, text deleted..]

>Paul
>"More on this later...  ..question of the day, it says it's using
> scsi.device.  But??? isn't it a IDE?"

Maybe you should read the manuals or something. The A4000 scsi.device is a
way to emulate SCSI on an IDE drive. You give SCSI-Direct commands to the
device, and it gives IDE commands to the drive, if it can. The same thing
with A600HD, I think.
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From:         "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
Subject:      Re: Heart of China

    Ok, sorry... I'll try to keep myself from raving... :-)

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Date:         Sat, 14 Nov 1992 11:29:09 EST
From:         Arc Wave <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Musicians - BYTE DECEMBER 1992 (AMIGA REVIEW - AUDIO)

        If your a musician (composer) you will probably like the DECEMBER
        1992 issue of BYTE, it has good articles on audio boards for not
        just Amiga owners, but IBM & MAC.  Okay, the Amiga review is good.
        Check it out!

        If you are going to buy a sound board consider the SunRise AD516
        sound board, sounds great (review on pg 184 on SunRise AD516)!

Paul


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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:42:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: UUENCODE/DECODE

>Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:17:51 EDT
>From: Omar Colocci <ALUNOINF%BRUFSE.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
>Subject: UUENCODE/DECODE
>
>   Hi guys, it's me again  @B^, ...
>
>   What are UUENCODE & UUDECODE? I'm having trouble when downloading

Uuencoding is a method of encoding binary files into completely ascii
files for transferring over email.  It would work for your purpose too.
The uue file usually has lines of 64 columns.  It was created because
normal e-mail cannot handle binary files.

>files...they arrive fine at my CMS userid, but when I try to transfer
>then to a PC (to finally bring them to my Amiga) the software sends me
>an error message because it only transfer files that fit in the display
>(80 cols) but the files come with more than 2000 cols...will UUDECODE or
>UUENCODE solve it? HOW CAN I TRANSFER FILES TO MY AMIGA ??
>   Please help me  <:-( !!
>
>   Bye
>
>                          Omar Silas Colocci
>                        ALUNOINF@BRUFSE.BITNET


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From:         "Evrard E." <eevrard@VUB.AC.BE>
Subject:      Re: Portable Amigas
              12,

>         After reading some of the adds in "Computer Shopper" and "Byte" I
> can't help but feel that a portable version is something that peopke would be
> willing to purchase if it were to come standard with these things:
>
>         1: full keyboard (does not HAVE to conform to the exact layout of the
>                 A1200/4000, but should have the full # of keys)
>                 in the new format.

I could do without the numeric keypad. *ducks* :-)

>         3: Standard Grey scale LCD display, with OPTIONAL color screen.

I like that.

>         4: THE MACHINE MUST KEEP VIDEO OUT PORTS TO ALLOW CONNECTION TO EXTERN
>                 MONITORS!  This will allow the use of the machine's color and
>                 graphics ability when at the home/office.

YES!

>         6: 3.5" _High_ Density disk drive.

I could do without. Remember that it DOES take up a lot of space. Imagine
a portable built starting from the A600 design. Where would you put the
batteries? Throw out the drive (you've got a harddisk and when you get
home you can connect an external drive) and put a LARGE and powerful
battery-pack where it sat.

No need to get angry, people... It's just an idea... Arg... ****

They got me.......   ;-)

Pres

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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:51:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Emplant Update....

Date sent: 16-NOV-1992

>Here's my experience with it.
>
>I ordered it 3 weeks ago.  The person said that it would arrive at my house
>between 10 to 14 days.  I asked if it was shipping, and she said "Yes."
>Later, she said I should get it between 10 to 14 days.  21 days now and
>now word.  Also, my credit card was charged for $384.90, but I ordered
>the full works including sybil(SP?).
>
>Normally I don't complain about companies being a week late, but I have
>had trouble ordering from Utilities Unlimited before.  Has anyone on
>this list actually seen one in person or even received one from them????
>
>BTW, I subscribed to the EMPLANT pseudo list group, but I have not received
>any mail from that.  Has any one else, or is there nothing to talk about?
>
>RJ
>
>Rick Johnson
>96942392@UWWVAX.UWW.EDU
>University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

How many of you have dealt with Utilities Unlimited before?  I tried to order
the Super-Board for the C-64 years ago.  They advertised it Months before the
had many produced.  The same seemed to be the same for the  SuperCard for the
Amiga.  I tried to order it, again it wasn't really available yet.  I'm
wondering if Utilities Unlimited has done it again.  That is not produced
enough units to supply the demand.  I would state the the products Utilities
Unlimited has been releaseing have always been phenominal, but in my experience
their service was quite lacking.  Anyways I thought I'd throw in my $.02 worth.
Feel free to ignore me at will.

-Nyle
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From:         "26637::BRZWICKY" <BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@CONSRT.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mixed Bag II

> I have a variety of peripherals left over from my C64 days, in particular the
> cheap 4" plotter that Commodore used to make. It seems a shame to leave it in
> it's box, is there any way of connecting it up to my amiga (A500)?

Get ahold of TheA64Package.  Itsa Commy 64 emulator for the Amiga, and it
comes with ordering info for a widget that lets you hook up Commy 64 serial
peripherals.  Is also has some AmigaDOS utils for messing with that serial
port, but I don't know how flexible they are.


> Has there ever been a game which uses MIDI to provide the background track ?

IBeM games do this a bunch.  I dunno about Amiga games.


> What ever happened to those straws filled with fizzy powder I used to eat as a
> kid ?
>
> Matthew Clemence

Do you mean "fizzy" literally?  In the US we have straws of flavored sugar,
but they don't fizzle.


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From:         Stephen Vermeulen <SVermeulen@RAGNAROK.CUC.AB.CA>
Subject:      Re: Polaroid's Slide Maker

:  A worthwhile screen shot can be obtained directly if have a decent
:enough camera, the right film, and a COMPLETE lack of outside light.

This is true, I once made an animation on 16mm movie film by waiting
for midnight before starting shooting.  At the time I used something
like 1/4 second for the shutter speed and about f5.6 or so.  Also it
is commonly recommended to use a short telephoto lens, say 100mm if you
are using 35mm film, as this will appear to "flatten" the curvature of
your monitor screen.

:Andrew Cerreault - Adversity of Vhode Island       Amiga 2000HD!
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:37:00 EST
From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      Attacked!

As I just loaded MED, my screen went blank and strangely a message started
on my screen.  i don't remember all of it, but the general message was this:

The terrorists have arrived.  Your system has been completely destroyed.
There is no getting rid of the terrorists.  Introducing the first terrorist
virus...  That's when I powered down.  Upon reboot everything looked to be in
order, until VirusChecker found a virus in three files on my hard drive.
Luckily they are now removed, and my system (seems) to be fine.  What I would
like to know is if anyone has ever seen this before.  In my panic, I did not
write doen the name of the virus.  It wasn't easy to remember because it was a
combination of numbers and letters.  If anyone has ANY information on this
virus, please send it to me.  Also, if anyone has seen this virus, what
happens later on in the message?  Did I do the right thing by turning off my
system?
                                                        Kevin Shafer
                                                        91016@tayloru
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From:         MiguelFA@LCAEE.FEE.UNICAMP.BR
Subject:      RE: ChopIt

> From I-AMIGA@RUTVM1.BITNET Fri Nov 20 15:32:26 1992
> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:58:56 CST
> From: Michael Hardy 6-93 <hardymic@MAINRT.LUTHER.UNI.EDU>
>
> Anyone know where abouts in wuarchive this ChopIt program may
> be?  I'd like to give it a try, since my file lengths were
> different, like I-forget-who, had mentioned.
> By the way, I-forget-who, thanks for all the info on the Header ID
> problem!  Much appreciated.
>
> Mike
>

        ChopIt is on the /systems/amiga/incoming/utils directory (files ChopIt.
readme & ChopIt.lzh.

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From: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
Subject: Re: (no subject given)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:11:28 GMT

In article <I-AMIGA%92111617110473@RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU> Wim=Lockefeer%BIB%LW@CC3.KULEUVEN.AC.BE writes:

>just a simple question : is it necessary to buy any extra hardware to connect
>a multisync monitor to an A2000, or is it just plug in and go ?

Depends on the multiscan. If it's something like C= 1960, which can sync down
to 15kHz horizontal, it's just plug'n'go (except that you need a D23<->D15
adapter), if its a SVGA multiscan, ie. 31kHz and upwards, you can show only 
flickerfixed/scandoubled and ECS Denise Productivity modes..
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From:         STST8138@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject:      Re: CrossDOS under OS 3.0

I dunno..,,,,,,,

I just double click on the PC1 (or PC0) icon on the storage disk and the
chosen unit then reads PC as well as Amiga disks, with a very small loss in
memory. It loads C:Mount first though. Did you try this?

Paul.

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From:         Charles McCreary <CHASMC@IUP.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: C Compilers

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>From: Matthiew Clemence <mclem@MPH.SM.UCL.AC.UK>
>Subject: RE: C Compilers
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>
>I would very much like to join the ranks of programmers who are able to write
>in the most unintelligible code system (C that is!) as I already use it on the
>SUns here at work, but with executables of the size quoted in a recent post
>(GCC) it just isn't feasible for me. So to the point,
>
>IS there a C compiler system which can run _comfortably_ on a 1Mb A500 with
>one (yes one) Floppy disk with no speedup-go-faster-stripe-additions. At
>the moment I use Hisoft Basic (a very good product IMHO). If a good compiler
>can be written this size with full intuition interface why are the C compilers
>so darn large ?
>
>Matthew
>
>P.S. I really did mean fizzy powder in those straws, used to call it kaylie as
   a
> kid.
Try SAS/C. According to the docs., it should be possible to use it on a 1 meg
machine. You would not be able to use the help system and I imagine you'd have
to do a fair amount of disk swapping. DICE (shareware) or North C might also
work.
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From:         uel111r2a.x.tferi4@UNI-LJ.SI
Subject:      Re: New Amiga Era?

>> The A4000 looks great, but what's that about IDE? and the flicker? I think
>> we got rid of it long time ago.
>    The reason the interlaced modes are still there is that (I'm not
>    100% sure, but I'm fairly convinced) all of today's most
>    widespread TV systems (i.e. PAL & NTSC) are themselves interlaced.
>    And since C= in their infinite wisdom has declared the Amiga as
>    *THE* video/multimedia machine, [sarcasm warning] it would in my
>    humble opinion be rather silly to remove the interlaced modes ;->.
>    After all, you don't *HAVE* to use the interlaced modes if you
>    don't want to...

The reason that the interlace modes are still supported is, that the
non-interlace modes have a horizontal frequency of 31.5KHz, but the
normal PAL/NTSC horizontal frequency is 15.6KHz. So it is not possible
to record the non-interlace output on a VCR. That's why it is so hard
to record a PC VGA card output to a VCR (VGA has 31.5Khz horizontal
frequency). Anyway, the PAL and NTSC systems all use interlace (the flicker
is not so visible on TV, becuase the resolution is bigger, the exact
PAL resolution is 768x625, but the normal hires interlace is 640x512 (PAL)).

Greetings,
        Blaz

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From:         "M. J. Cargill Psychology ext 4621" <mjcargil@DUX.DUNDEE.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Mixed Bag II
              at Nov 16, 92 10:20 am

>
>
> A variety of questions for Those Who Know :
>
> I have a variety of peripherals left over from my C64 days, in particular the
> cheap 4" plotter that Commodore used to make. It seems a shame to leave it in
> it's box, is there any way of connecting it up to my amiga (A500)?
>
> Has there ever been a game which uses MIDI to provide the background track ?
>
> Is there anyone out there who is using Dr T's Tiger cub who could mail me
> (on mclem@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk) a quick review and answer a few questions about it
 ?
>
>>> What ever happened to those straws filled with fizzy powder I used to eat as
 a
> kid ?
>
> Matthew Clemence
>
Matthew,

I don't know about the rest, but you can still buy those straws with sherbet in
'em in the UK!!

Mark :-)
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:42:00 GMT
From:         STST8138@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE
Subject:      Suspicious pins inside 1200.

Dear All,

        I just got myself a 1200 and immediately invalidated my warranty by
opening it up. (I tried to resist, honestly. I lasted nearly a day.) Well, the
point of my notice is: When you first open it up, you are faced with the
standard shiny metal shielding. Fair enough. On second glance, you notice a big
hunk of this shielding on top of the main shielding. I removed this first, only
to be faced with four RAM chips. Fair enough also. _BUT_, on either side of the
RAM chips, there is a connector (two in all). It looks like the IDE interface,
except the spacing in slightly bigger and there is 40 pins (if I recall correctl
   y, but that could be wrong).

The first thing that came to mind is the sound chips everyone was talking about
before the 4000 came out. Could this be a nice expansion slot for some future
kit from C=? Why is it so close to the RAM chips, maybe it is a boring RAM ex
expansion slot.

All speculative replies to :

STST8138@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE.
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