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From: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs - From CBM
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 92 23:05:06 +0000
Reply-To: Roger_Nordin@atb.bbs.bad.se (Roger Nordin)
Distribution: world
Organization: ANet Test Bench, Karlstad, Sweden 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway

> We'll all just have to sit tight and wait for C= to release
> their upper mid-range machine,

They just did, the A4000. The high-end AGA machine with improved sound and 
possibly a 33MHz '040 (just speculating) is not yet released, but as you say, 
C= only release their new machines 1 at a time.

We are waiting for a lower/normal mid-range machine in the same price range as 
the A3000, i.e $1500-2000.

                        _       .    __
    Roger Nordin     _ //      /!Net /est Bench
 2:203/602.0@fidonet \X/  Internet: Roger_Nordin@bad.se

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From: umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Daryl Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:22:38 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

>
>I, myself, am a pirate!  yes, even after the comments I made above, I have the gall
>to say that.  Now, before you go jumping down my throat, listen to what I have to
>say.
>
>I believe _very_ strongly in paying for what I use.  I'd like to point out that the
>active word her is _use_.  Accross my desk in the past while, I've seen, among
>others.... TurboSilver, Populous I and II, Battlechess II, Agony, Lemmings,
>ProPage, Aztec C.....
>
>Of these:  I've bought Populous II, Agony, Lemmings, ProPage, and Aztec C.  Of these,
>about the only once that I _might_ have bought if I had not messed with a copy first
>is Aztec C.  As for TurboSilver, I decided I just didn't like it, and am glad I didnt
>have to pay money to discover I didn't like it.  Battlechess II??  just plain bad,
>if you ask me.  wouldn't pay $2 for it.  Only reason I haven't bought Pop I is lack
>of funding... but it is on my list 'to buy'...
>
>Other near-future buys: Armour-geddon, Awesome, SOTB2, Rise of the Dragon,
>Pinball Fantasies.  Why??  simple: I have pirate copies of them all.  Yes, the
>companies have not made money off of me for these titles _yet_, but I wouldn't have
>even considered buying *any* of these titles if I hadn't played them first...
>
>And the list goes on and on.  If I use something, I pay for it, if I don't, I don't.
>I see no reason to waste my money (of which I have precious little) on some of the
>garbage that is out there today... call it 'insurance'...
>
>go ahead, flame me.  Note I even left my name/email address on this note, and didn't
>hide behind an anonymous posting.  I find nothing wrong with what I'm doing, and I
>challenge anyone else to find _anything_ wrong with this.  (I know, I'm just asking
>for it with that one). 
>
>that's my $.02.  may the flames begin.
>
>:)
>
>							-WW
>
>

You want a flame..ok...try and make your articles neater.  :)

On the whole, I agree with you.  I've been burned, buying stuff that looks
good in ads, but is complete CRAP when you actually load it up.  And since
one of the local stores stopped selling Amiga software, the best thing to
do is go via mailorder.  So, if I get a chance to try out something before
buying it, I try it.  If I like it, it gets put on my 'buy list' that gets
used 3 or 4 times a year.  If not, re-use disk time.

Also, there are some games that while I have bought them, I use the pirated
version because of extra features, ie. hard drive installability.  If the
pirates were able to add this, why didn't the programmers do it in the
first place?

     Daryl Turner <umturne4@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Subject: Re: A3000 Speed Improvements
Reply-To: dingebre@imp.sim.es.com (David Ingebretsen)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:34:53 GMT

In article <J3c4TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us>, mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley) writes:
> As a new owner of a 25 mhz Amiga 3000 (6 megs)  I recall many discussions 
> of how you could speed the 3000 up (Quantum Reselection, CPu Fastrom 
> etc..)  Can someone summarize everything I can do to ensure that my 
> machine is running at the optimum speed?
> Email me at mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us

Please post. I would like to see a summary as well.


-- 
	David

	Disclaimer: The content of this message in no way reflects the
	            opinions of my employer, nor are my actions
		    encouraged, supported, or acknowledged by my
		    employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK))
Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:01:34 GMT

In article <n0d8at@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
[YABP]
>>      BIFFF!!!!!!1
>
>BAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!  You just made my day, that is a RIOT!  :D!
>
>"DEWD!!  I HAVE *ALL* THE LATEST
>WHAREZ!!!  YOU'RE A LAMER, DEWD!"

Thanks, but I can't take credit for the "BIFF" phenomina, I saw that 
quite a long time ago.  Someone was making fun of the C=64 posters. :)

The sad thing is that the reason I'm so good at emulating BIFF is that
in my early "BBSing DAZE" I posted messages like that.  I'm so ashamed.

--Jason Balicki
KODAK@MENTOR.CC.PURDUE.EDU!!!!1!

> ---------------------------------------------------Given that the universe-
> - Eeny Meeny Miney Moe; George Bush, Bill Clinton -is infinate, and god is-
> -   and Ross Perot!  Its off to the polls we go!  -all powerful, would you-
> ---------------------------------------------------like some toast?       -
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: cshort@nmsu.edu (MetaPope, Internet in a Day Tour.)
Subject: Re: A two-part Sun (was Re: A1200 and Amiga owners)
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:39:37 GMT

>>> On Sat, 31 Oct 1992 13:36:46 GMT, breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) said:

> It's more likely a IPC (I never head of a LPC.)
> Problem: How do you get a new monitor?

it might be a ELC or a SLC..

c.


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From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: TeX Utilities (eg. FIG, etc)
Keywords: TeX , FIG , OS2.0x
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:21:50 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: rbm2273@ultb

FIG is not, strictly speaking, a TeX utility, but I USED it to produce
simple figures for TeX documents.

I've noticed Enforcer hits on:

  FIG     - Facility for Interactive Generation of figures
  FIG2DEV - translates Fig code to various graphics languages

The FIG hit is 2 reads at address 0 on invocation of the program.
Other than that, it seems to work properly.

FIG2DEV resulted in a flood of read and write violations, ending in
fatal error (software failure) and a spontaneous re-boot.

I'm using an A3000/25/882 with 8+2 megs ram + SCSI HD, OS2.04 without
the 2.04 ROMs (KS loads from disk).

			-----------------

Is anyone aware of more up-to-date versions of these utils?

  [22,11] 91-10-07 03:06:57   664  319110 fig.zom
  [23,20] 91-10-28 06:29:43   241  115578 TeXFIG.lzh

The utils were extracted from one of the above archive files.

rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu
From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WordWorth 2
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:09:30 GMT

In <1992Nov6.144855.9761@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:

>In article <1992Nov6.055826.17076@leland.Stanford.EDU> alexm@leland.Stanford.EDU (alex matthews) writes:
>>>I installed and ran the last version, 4.1.12 on an Amiga 500 with
>>>Quantum 40M drive, 1M chip ram and 2M fast ram, with WB2.04.
>>>
>>>When I tried the page preview option it hanged. This is embarassing
>>>as I recommended the program, and now I have to advise the person
>>>(my mother in law) not to use preview.
>>>
>>>WordWorth2.0 is reportedly out now or rsn. It can read and write 
>>>WP format files.
>>
>>No kidding?  I don't suppose it can read/write WP5.1 files?  I've 
>>never heard of WordWorth, is it available in the U.S.?

>No kidding. Yes. Yes.

I saw a demonstration of Wordsworth 2 at the Future Entertainment Show
(UK) and very (VERY) impressive it was too. Much enhanced HIP
Hotlinks, really super Agfa font machinery. Get it!!!!

----

E.F.Pritchard                       ///
efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs           \\\/// Amiga     I seriously need something
University of Southampton        \xx/            to go on this side of my
England.                                         signature, any ideas?





Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: 8800529@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
Subject: Re: Longest FTP route ?????
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:26:41 GMT

>>
>>FTP servers
>>It's Better Manually 3090
>>VAX/VMS
>>Intentionally Bollocks Machines 386
>>Amiga 1500
>>
>Oh yeah?!
>
>Well here's my best!
>
>FTP servers
>UUencode the file
>More the file, and write it down to paper (since the printer is not working...)
>Type the file into the Amiga by hand, using "ed"
>UUdecode the file
>Extract the archive (and hope you didn't make a typo!!!)
>
>Yeah, I don't download much... ;-)
>
	I think it's dan barrets turn :-)

	Anyway my attempts on getting Spice for the mac to run on
amax.

	Finding it (Well a coincidence)
	D/L
	Now it's in hqx format 1.6 megs worth.
	Compressing it (down to 1.1 megs) splitting it and  taking it home
	joining and uncompressing.Would not uncompress. back to
	uni and getting other uncompressors (this is a 
	 ftp<->UNIX<->IBM<->amiga<->Amax path everytime) Now those
	uncompressors would not uncompress (them selves let alon another
	program !!!) I get around to getting uncompressors. I find a
	program that uncompresses binhex files on unix. (mcvert)
	Use that get the binary home (same path including splitting
	and lha compressing) Still no sucsess. It seems that along
	the way the file type entry gets altered and the name of
	the file does not show up in the requester. I also atempted
	to get the file via modem 1.2 megs compressed to 1.19 megs with lha !!
	and the on 2400 baud overnight. Still no success. I have managed
	to work out all the problems though and I can now get everything
	working for small programs. Spice though is still living as a
	compressed file in my unix account because I have now finnished the 
	subject I needed it for. Maybe during the holiday I'll bring it home !!
	Other problems was going to mac support and the telling me I was not
	allowed to D/L from the mac site stuff. only from america !!! 
	Also trasfers from a mac to an unix machine and the problems that
	arose with that. Let alone IBMS going dumb infected by virus
	and macs refusing to show the file in requesters. To put it
	mildly I am sort of going bold :-)
		Beat that above and it's all true (except the bold part)
				George



>-Chris
From: guglielmetti@elia.epfl.ch (Philippe Guglielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga as a debugging machine: BLECH
Date: 13 Nov 92 14:52:28 GMT
Organization: IA-DME-EPFL
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X-XXDate: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:56:50 GMT

Sam Hulick, shulick@yankton.ucs.indiana.edu writes:

>(side note: the A3000 has an MMU.  doesn't this entitle me to memory
>protection and/or blocking crashes?)

probably not, but it could be used in a modern debugger to trap some
weird bugs like it is done in the Turbo Debugger from Borland... It is
possible to put "breakpoints on memory" i.e. to trap any access to a
given address range... Anyone working on that over there ?

Goulu
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From: jgreene@dorm.rutgers.edu (Jeffrey Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: WANTED TCP/IP SLIP AMIGA
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:10:24 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Go look on comp.sys.amiga.datacomm for the articles on AmigaNOS, a TCPIP/SLIP
driver for the amiga.

-jak
From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: A4000/030/other
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:59:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Nov10.215900.4618
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

> Actually it says 030/040/Other. Why doesn't anyone react!?!

Ok, here's a reaction.  Can you say 68020?  yawn... bzzzz...  just kidding!
It's probably some wild and wooly 68060 or 88x00 chip that'll blow
everyone's socks right off!  ;-)


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From: raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez | 802-36-4453)
Subject: Re: 68060
Organization: UPR-Mayaguez--ASEL Lab
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 22:39:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.035520.21338@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct30.161050.7022@ichips.intel.com> tjehl@sedona.intel.com writes:
|> <
|> <In article <1992Oct28.211235.27906@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:
|> <> 
|> <> Intel and Motorola engineers last week detailed the superscalar,
|> <> pipelined architectures of the respective P5 and 68060 microprocessors
|> <> at the annual Microprocessor Forum here.
|> <> 
|> <   For those of you who are really excited about future-ware, I'll attempt
|> <to run down the foil set I have from the above mentioned conference with
|> <respect to the '060.  I will leave out some of the information which
|> <wouldn't be of interest to people who aren't designing new systems.
|> <
|> <8) Summary
|> <
|> <   060-50 w/ new compiler  ~3.5x  040-25 with existing compiler
|> <
|> <   design targeted for 50/66 MHz, with 3.3 V operation
|> 
|> 	Is the '060 as unimpressive as this sounds?  A 50MHZ '060 being ~3.5x
|> faster than a 25MHZ '040 makes it only ~1.75x faster than a 50MHZ '040.  And
|> that's with a new compiler.  Rather disappointing.  Motorola should have called
|> it the '045 ;-)

  BLEAGH!  Sounds like the P5 will be much better!

|> 
|> 	- Kyle
|> 
|> -- 
|> +-"Remember, [MS]DOS is sort of a UNIX deviant already" - dmoscny@piglet.-----+
|> |    // Only /\          kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu                 cincinatti. |
|> | \ //      /--\MIGA     kyle@nick.csh.rit.edu                    oh.us       |
|> | \X/ SQLdb - $40 rdbms  Rochester Institute of Technology                    |

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            the SkyNet will never be built." - OUCH! were not my words!
From: loginf1@gipsy16.cs.uni-sb.de (Uebung Smolka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: R.D. McVey collection ?
Date: 10 Nov 92 11:57:59 GMT
Organization: U of Saarbruecken, Dept. of Computational Linguistics
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hello !

Can anybody help me ?
I've seen some nice Icons yesterday. But I don't know where to get them.
In the ReadMe-file, I read 'several icons from the R.D. McVey collection, a beautiful set...'.
Who can tell me, where I can get this collection ?

Thanks.

Michael

P.S: If possible post to 'mith@stud.uni-sb.de'
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV Boot disk for ParNet
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:36:09 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I am trying to use a CDTV with my A3000 via Parnet (the A3000 Multimedia
>offer). I have it working with the FF CDROM, but a couple of questions:
>
>1) is there a version of Parnet that doesn't generate a host of Enforcer
>hits under 2.x on the A3000?

Dunno.. I don't have a 3000, but I use Parnet to connect my CDTV to
my 2500 and use the thing almost daily and it works fine for me.

>
>2) What is required to create a stable CDTV boot floppy that will allow me to
>access other CDROMs through ParNet. Alternately, is there a way to keep the
>CDTV from rebooting when you place another CDROM in it?
>

I took a copy of an original WB1.3 disk out of my original 1.3
enhancer box, and stripped off some extraneous stuff I didn't need
and then put the various bits of Parnet's distribution onto it.
"netpnet-server" into its c: directory.
"parnet.device" into its devs: directory.
the mountlist for "net" at the tail end of devs:mountlist
"netpnet-handler" into its l: directory
Then I modified the floppy's startup-sequence to call a script
called "parnet_switch" which I found on the Hypermedia Concepts
Fish CD ROM, which I also copied to the 1.3 boot floppy.

The script looks like this:
>NETPNET-SERVER UNIT 0
>echo "Activating ParNet Now ... You Must Reboot to"
>echo "use the parallel port for printer. The CDTV "
>echo "is now ParNet Unit 1. "
>MOUNT NET:
>ENDCLI

Having done all of that, I shove the floppy into CDTV's floppy
drive, boot up the machine, run the similar Parnet software on my 2500 
via an icon, when both of them have initialized, they handshake
with each other and voila... a network.

I can then shove any kind of CD ROM into the CD drive on CDTV,
or eject one and insert another one. Since CDTV was booted up from
a floppy workbench and not from a cD ROM, it ignores the ejection
and insertion of other CDs and never reboots itself unless I
power it off/on or use its reset switch on purpose. 

I've used this method to boot the machine and then load in GIF
pictures from Walnut Creek CDROM's "GIFs Galore" package (6000
pictures on one CD) and sat here for literally hours loading them
in and viewing them on my 2500 via ADPro and Firecracker24 without
incident. 

I've uploaded via my 2500's serial port/modem directly from my
Parnetted CDTV's CD ROM drive, so that works fine too. 

>I have compared files on the Fish CDROM vs a standard 1.3 boot floppy and
>accounted for all differences I can think of, but still can't create a CDTV
>boot floppy that doesn't crash within the first few minutes of use.

Does it crash just sitting there doing nothing? or is there some
particular sequence of actions you take to repeatedly crash it? 
Or one particular program you run that always causes it to crash?
>
>Thanks,
>Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
>Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu

Hope this helps,
Harv
From: stinerkt@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kevin T Stiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: A4000 - PC486 comparison?
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:15:11 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Reply-To: stinerkt@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kevin T Stiner)
NNTP-Posting-Host: g222-10.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

Could anyone send me a thorough, NON-BIASED (ok, biased towards the A4000,  
but doesn't LOOK biased), comparison between the A4000 and a PC or IBM  
486?  Specs, prices and what a 486 would have to look like to be as good  
as the A4000.

Thanks a lot,
Kevin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kdarling@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Subject: Re: Future Entertainment Show, London
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:18:32 GMT

> [Philips] was showing off CD-I. I don't know who their target market is,
> but if the size and design of the trackball controllers on most of the
> machines is anything to go by, it appears to be the pre-teens. (ie large
> brightly coloured buttons, and a large trackball). 

That's the "Roller Controller," for kids.  They probably use them at shows
simply because they're large, sturdy and easy to mess with. (That's also why
U2's guitarist, The Edge, uses one in their ZOO T.V. concerts to select song
rhythms/sounds from a custom CD-I disc.  On the other hand, lead singer Bono
uses the stock thumbstick controller to select localized messages from his
own CD-I disc.  Both applications are shown on the audience "video walls".)

You can also buy a normal-sized trackball, mouse and joystick.  I haven't
heard anything about when the keyboard will be publicly available.

> On a more technical point, there was a demo disk running and showed off
> FULL SCREEN FULL MOTION VIDEO. This was very impressive, and if CDTV wants
> to compete then Commodore better have the same thing ready soon !

MPEG encoding is still pretty expensive, at least for very-low-budget titles.
The larger CD-I production houses pay about $80K for an encoding setup.  Or
you could send out to have it done, but I've been told that it costs $600+
per minute of video because of the current 100+:1 encoding time ratios.

kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>