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From: mjsagar@sandia.gov (Mathias J Sagartz)
Subject: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 16:01:31 GMT

From the Wall Street Journal 11/6/92

Commodore International Ltd. Had Loss of $18.8 Million for Fiscal
First Quarter

        West Chester, Pa. - Commodore International Ltd. reported an
        $18.8 million loss for the quarter ended Spet. 30, saying it was
        hurt by softness in its main European markets.
        
        The computer maker said the first quarter of fiscal 1993 was hit
        particularly hard by weak markets in Germany, the biggest market
        for its consumer-oriented computers. [Shame on you Germans!]
        
        For the quarter, Commodore said its loss was equal to 57 cents a
        share, compared with a profit of $5.3 million, or 16 cents a
        share, the year earlier.  Revenue dropped more than 22% to
        $158.6 million from 204.1 million.  
        
        "I think we can look for a gradual improvement as we go
        foreward," said Ronald Opel, an analyst with Fechtor, Detwiler &
        Co. in Boston.  He added that while the current period will be
        tough, Commodore's recovery should start whenever European
        economies begin to bounce back in 1993.
        
        Steve Eskenazi of Alex. Brown & Sons Inc. said new products,
        including new models in the company's Amiga line, also will play
        a crucial role.  But he said it"s too early to tell whether a
        strong comeback is in the cards.
        
        "There are a number of questions before we determine whether
        Commodore returns to profitability in the long term,"  Mr.
        Eskenazi said.

This may not sound very good to some of you, but Commodore was very
successful in achieving it's Principal corporate goal.  IRVING PAID NO
From: 890530m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Darren MacKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AMIGA STINKS
Date: 13 Nov 92 03:20:55 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Acadia University

infinity@iesd.auc.dk (Thomas Hedemann) writes:


>Sorry guys!

>I forgot to log out for a min. and some asshole from my group
>thought it was funny to send the above letter!
>I use amiga myself and is very pleased with it. The asshole
>is just envious because the amiga is better than his LAME PC.
>By the way, could you please e-mail him and tell him that he
>is a LAME ASSHOLE. He deserves it!!!E-mail him at:

>#coacho@iesd.auc.dk#

>AMIGA RULES! That is why non-amiga-users are so busy putting it down!!

>-Thomas (infinity) Hedemann

OOPS...sorry about previous article...
-Doc

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Babs  : "Goodnight, Babs."                                                      I'm tiny, I'm toony, and I'm a little looney!                                   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darren MacKenzie                                                                ("The Doctor")                                                                  890530m@aucs.acadiau.ca
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From: tine@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Stefano Tine')
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: HELP: using Apple Stylewriter with an Amiga ?
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:59:50 EST
Organization: Dept.of Physics,Ohio State

I apologize to everybody but I am trying to repost the following question
bacuase I did not receive any reply on the first attempt and I have no other
way of finding an answer but via this newsgroup. 

 Hi everybody,
              I need help.
 I own an Amiga 2000 and an Apple Classic.
 I even own an Apple Stylewriter, the ink jet printer.
 My question is: can I use the Stylewriter with my Amiga ?
 The Stylewriter uses the normal printer port of the Classic, i.e. a
 serial  port (RS422).
 Can I simply buy the correct cable (25 pins on Amiga side and 8 pins
 on Apple side) and connect it to Amiga's serial port (RS232) ?
 
 If this is correct, where to find the Amiga driver for the Stylewriter ?
 Any FTP sites ? Any commercial or pD drivers collections ?
 Anyone willing to write a driver for me for a reasonable amount of bucks ?
 
 I will really appreciate any help, thanks in advance for any repl or
followup.
 
  Stefano
 
                 TINE@GENOVA.INFN.IT
                 TINE@OHSTPY.MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU

 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Pound sign
Organization: City University, London
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 12:52:07 GMT

grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
>I hate to add confusion, but a few days back I saw a message that contained
>the backslash-pound sequence "\pound".  I wonder if the person who saw the
>British pound sign was using a news reader that knew how to interpret such
>escapes...

No. As far as I know, the \pounds notation is from LaTeX, and some
people (including myself) sometimes use it to show that they mean
pound-sign, but could not get a proper one. Please correct me if
the \pound notation has a more universal use.

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: jfriesne@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Jeremy Friesner!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a few good mice...
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:47:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Nov10.032457.16564@ncsu.edu> stjw21@stat.ncsu.edu writes:

>All I know about mice is that there are 3 button optical
>mice, but whether it is compatible for the amiga I do not
>know...

Thanks, a nice person wrote me and said the the Boing!
optical mouse has three buttons (oh, and is Amiga compatible,
no less ;-) )

Jeremy

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: itch@cbnews.cb.att.com (richard.m.brack)
Subject: AGA, mode promotion, SwitchNTSC
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:41:18 GMT

Well, I picked up my 4000 this past week.  After getting most of my
"important" stuff from my 2000 to the 4000 I started playing with
some software to see how it acted under AGA.  I'm using a DblNTSC
workbench and have mode promotion turned on.  I started checking out
a bunch of software and noticed that _nothing_ was being promoted.
This upset me a bit, and I started looking for one of those hacks
that is supposed to open the correct screen for you.  THEN it hit
me!  I was running the SwitchNTSC commodity.  I was using this 
so screens would open up centered and with the appropriate pen
colors set to give pre-2.0x screens the 2.0x 3-d look.  Apparently
SwitchNTSC forces NTSC (or PAL) screens open too (so _that's_
were the name came from).  Thus nothing was getting promoted.  I
trashed SwitchNTSC and so far everything I've tried has been promoted
just fine and I haven't needed one of the screen hacks yet!

So basically this is just a warning.  Don't run SwitchNTSC if you are
using promotion on an AGA machine...


Rich...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk (Bryn Williams)
Subject: Help!  Networking Amiga and Mac
Reply-To: williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk
Organization: Aston University (Comp Sci)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 11:48:45 GMT

I have recently come by a basic Mac, and I'd like to network it to my Amiga,
so that the Mac could mount the Amiga's hard drive as a file server via 
Appleshare.  Is this possible, and has anyone done it?

Cheers,

Bryn

williabv@cs.aston.ac.uk


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: csg019@cch.coventry.ac.uk (-~=Zaphod=~-)
Subject: Re: I found a pirate - what shall I do?
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:32:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.152511.12182@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>I suppose this really only applies in the UK, as laws differ
>around the world.
>
>In the London classifed ads paper, LOOT, there is an advert
>from a private advertiser which is repeated every day and
>has been for several months. He claims to supply any Amiga
>program, one pound for games, five pounds for applications.
>A few times he mentioned ProPage, PageStream, WordWorth etc.
>When I phoned him and questioned him, he became abusive and
>said `report me'.
>
>What shall I do? Would FAST be either interested or effective?
>Would the police be interested? I could `buy' some stuff from
>him as evidence. LOOT reaches millions of Londoners every
>day and is a very widespread paper. Private ads are free. I
>would hate to estimate how much Amiga software is being stolen
>and distributed in London in this way.
>
>I am leaving off my .sig as I am not keen on letter bombs or
>what not.

I would tell FAST if i were you, and claim you 1000 pounds.

But don't hold your breath, as they say in cracking circles:

There's nothing slower than FAST.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
Subject: Re: Flicker fixer for A4000
Keywords: flicker fixer a4000
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:22:12 GMT

In article <36941@cbmvax.commodore.com>, ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.120850.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cikp14@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
>>Is there a flicker fixer coming out for the new A4000 that will flicker fix
>>all resoultions in 24bit or at least 640x400 (640x5120). I hear that there
>[...]
>
>Hey!  Didn't we tell you to keep quiet about that 5120-line "MegaPAL" mode???  
>We don't want folks to know that they could just cut a trace on the A4000 
>motherboard to get that thousand-fold increase in bandwidth.  But at that 
>resolution, who would notice the flicker anyway???
>
>But seriously, folks, I'm pretty sure there's no flicker-fixing device 
>available for the SuperHires modes...yet.  Don't hold your breath waiting 
>for Commodore to work up such a device, but it does sound like a plausible
>third-party target.  
>
>How many people will want to pay for what it would cost is a more pertinent 
>question.

Anyone know anything about the TurboSync product which was mentioned some time
back on one of the groups here?

Terje Marthinussen
terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
From: alf@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Anthony Fiarito)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: ZIP!?!?
Summary: Does ZIP exist for Amiga???
Keywords: Looking for CLI/Shell version of ZIP
Date: 8 Nov 92 01:19:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6288

Does anyone know if the ZIP archiver (Not PKAZip!!) exists for the Amiga?
One that can be used in the CLI/Shell?  Thanks in advance for any info!!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull)
Subject: A1200 availability in Australia
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:29:07 GMT

CBM people please read!

Any ideas on when the A1200 will be available in Australia (or more importantly
Tasmania :) )?  And what sort of price we will be looking at? (pressumably
about $999AU for the A1200 and about $1199AU for an A1200HD?)

I supose we will get treated with the usual contempt because of the limited
size of the Australian market - however this contempt is a bloody good way
to allienate potential developers.

Its just a damn irritation - with the summer holidays rolling on down here -
ie a chance of getting some serious coding done (possibly for release), but
no sign of an AGA machine to do the coding on...

Regards, James.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: colindse@nmsu.EDU (LINDSEY)
Subject: AXsh 1.26  HELP!!!!!
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:05:21 GMT

Im trying to AXsh1.26 (demo) to work with a modem but every time a call comes
in the banner and login prompt is presented and then an immediate hangup.
What is wrong?  I've read the documents several times but to no avail.  Is
this demo really crippled or what?  Please help.

Thanks
Coy lindsey
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Subject: Re: Another Amiga Sighted On TV!
Reply-To: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Organization: College of Computing
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:47:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.194905.20134@fcom.cc.utah.edu> dave@news.ccutah.edu (dave martin) writes:
>huebner@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Huebner) writes:
>: Speaking of Amiga sightings in T.V. ads, has anyone else noticed that
>: the geeky kid in the Encyclopedia Brittanica ads has an A2000 on his
>: desk?  Or maybe someone already pointed that out?  Or maybe I'm wasting
>: bandwidth on trivialities.  And so it goes...
>: 
>: R Huebner					rhuebner@expert.cc.purdue.edu
>: 
>In some of the ads he has a 2000, in others he has some sort of pc-clone.
>
>dave@csulx.weber.edu (ignore the header address, its probably wrong)
>

Yet another Amiga sighting --- I watched StepFather III last night. 
The main kid character used an Amiga 500 extensively throughout the
movie.  You could even see the Amiga logo on it at one point. 
It's a shame such bad graphics were all that were shown---they 
looked like they were from a C-64!.

			- Kenneth Moorman (kennethm@cc.gatech.edu)
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: The Amiga 1200 Specs - From CBM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 3.4, 1992/08/12 15:49:52
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:24:49 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

In <1992Nov7.054616.23020@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>, tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) wrote:
> In article <1992Nov6.171329.8056@nynexst.com> clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
> writes:
> 
> >All right, enough about detachable keyboards...
> >What I want to know is if you have to buy a new
> >monitor for the A1200 to use the new graphics
> >modes, whatever they are...
> 
> To take full advantage of the AGA chipset, you will need a monitor with
> multiscanning capabilities.

However, this doesn't mean you have to have a new monitor to _use_ the
AGA chipset. You're liable to want one, though.

> >I've a choice of spending $1100 to upgrade
> >my A500 with the GVP 530 Turbo with 120 MB HD
> >or waiting to see what the A1200 comes out with
> >(hd, ram, price).  If I have to buy a new monitor
> >it'll definitely swing me towards the GVP.
> 
> I'd urge you to go with the A1200, as it offers increased graphics

One thing to consider is future resale value. What can you sell your
A500 for now? How much will you be able to sell it for later, with the
GVP 530 on it? How much will an A1200 be worth at the same time?

The newer product is almost certainly going to have more resale value
down the road. That would be enough reason to go with the A1200 for
me; it certainly was when the choice was buying an A3000 vs.
upgrading an A2500/20 clone.

	<mike
From: unseen@mcl.ucsb.edu (Roger Wilco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Looking for MARTIN BLATTER, author of FontDesigner
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:54:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.unseen.721518881

If anyone knows of his e-mail address, please forward it to me. 

Martin, if you read this, please contact me regarding your FontDesigner
software.
From: srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: New Amiga Store
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:22:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.

In article <1992Nov4.025129.24437@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hbechtel@luke.wsu.edu (H. E. Bechtel) writes:
|> I would like to inform the net about a new Amiga store in the area of
|> Lewiston Idaho/Clarkston Washington.  
|> 
|> Contact:
|> 
|> TJ Clark
|> Icontech Computers
|> 500 6th Street
|> Clarkston WA  99403
|> (509) 758-5677
|> 
|> I am not sure if he plans to go mail order, but his prices are good.
|> 
|> Mention Hans Bechtel informed you about his store since I am trying
|> to help him get customers!
|> 
|> Hans Bechtel

Great! Next time I'm unicycling from New Jersey to Washington, I'll be
sure to stop in! 

By the way, a new Stewart's Root Beer place opened in Flemington NJ
recently, for those of you in Nebraska.

-- 
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Scott Ferguson                        Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
Project Engineer                      New Jersey
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"Always bark at a dog."
From: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu (Robert Fentiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Another Amiga Sighted On TV!
Date: 12 Nov 1992 23:16:13 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

In article <kXV2TB3w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> dduff@infopls.chi.il.us (Dennis Duffner) writes:
>The geeky kid knows a good machine! ;)
> 
>As for Nick...they also have, through the Grapevine, Toaster 2.0
>that they use for some of their titling.
>
>Dennis Duffner                           dduff@infopls.chi.il.us
> 
>Member, AAAF-American Association of Amiga Fanatics


I still have some of the Amazing Computing ads where Nick wask asking
for experienced Amiga C programmers.  BTW, what about the Amiga on the
Arcade front.  As I understand it, the first Virtual Reality video game
(Terydactil Hunt (<- please forgive the misspelling)) was done unish
Amigas.  Also, there is a BATTLETECH simulator (in Chicago, I think)
that is run using Amigas.

	Thanks
	Robert Fentiman

UseNet: rfentima@ub.d.umn.edu
At: University of Minnesota, Duluth
"I've never bothered to write a .sig file" -Robert Fentiman-
From: mjsagar@sandia.gov (Mathias J Sagartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:32:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov6.163219.28170
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories

Sorry about losing the last line of my Post.  I have to 
get used to our local Pnews quirks.  Anyway the last paragraph
was supposed to read:

This may not sound very good to some of your but Commodore was
very successful in achieving it's Principal corporate goal.
IRVING PAID NO INCOME TAXES.  Feel better now?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin)
Subject: Re: A4000/030? (was Future Entertainment Show, London)
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:04:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.053645.26264@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>In article <BxG7J9.BEC@brunel.ac.uk> cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey)
>writes:
>
>[cross-posted from c.s.a.misc]
>
>>There now follows a summary of what I saw at the Future Entertainments Show
>>held last weekend (6-8 Nov) at Earl's Court in London...
>
>>       "The Commodore Amiga 4000 SERIES Technical Specifications"
>>		                  ^^^^^^
>>PROCESSOR/SPEED : Motorola 68040 32-bit processor, 25 MHz clock speed *
>>			.
>>* On Amiga 4000/030 the processor is Motorola 68030
>
>>So ! It looks like an A3000 replacement will be with us soon.
>
>Food for thought. Sounds encouraging to me.
>

I don't know if it was mentioned here before but on the box my 4000 came in
it had a configuration display on the side.  It had the usuall:
NTSC __
PAL  __
But it also had check mark spaces for different hard drive sizes
AND for different processors (030/040) 

Adam Benjamin
From: Eric_J_Rainbolt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: History OF AMIGA Video - Excellent Buy it...
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:32:18 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I just bought "The History of the Amiga" on Video.  It was
a thouroughly captivating, really cool, and enlightening video.


Get to know the personalities that went into the design of this
fantastic machine.  Mail order from almost any Amiga Supplier.

Later,
EJR
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: The Death of the Juggler
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:27:51 GMT
Reply-To: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett)
Organization: BLAZEMONGER INCORPORATED

In article <crystal.721492977@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
>Where is this Juggler?  Where may he be exumed? 

	Fish Disk 97.

                                                        Dan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Subject: Re: WordWorth 2
Reply-To: accs1@bagheera.mumath
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 10:32:32 GMT

In article 15556@ra.msstate.edu, jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce) writes:
>alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) writes:
>>(Seriously, is there any Amiga WP where I can say "chapter headings are
>>16pt Times bold with underlining and autonumbered", and save that in a
>>template, and later change the template and have all my headings change
>>format. From the demo, "copy and paste format" is the closest Wordsworth 2
>>has. I do know about TeX).
>
>  Final Copy II lets you create style sheets and save them, but I think
>this word processor is only available in the US and Canada. It has sizable
>fonts. JimP. 


Available in Germany as well. (According to the ad's)

Frank
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: s882745@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Alex F)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Picture view prog with AREXX control?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 03:13:33 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au


I am after a picture viewing program that can be controled
with AREXX.  Does such a beast exist and if so,
which is the best?

Thanks in advance.

Alex.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc