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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:26:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      A3000s no longer made??

Hi,

A dealer told a friend today that A3000 systems were no longer being made.
Is this true?  It make be look bad recommending that he get a system that
was no longer in production.  I had not heard anything about 3000s not
in production anymore!

That same dealer has A1200/40Mhd systems for $899.  My friend will probably
get one of these then.  (he had asked me to recommend a computer for him to
use for the business he is starting).

-Lance
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:20:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Commodore's Power Up deal....... The one that "Wouldnever be
              offered."

Date sent: 30-DEC-1992



Sorry :> *Evil Grin* But I just need say HA! to all the doubters that Commodore
would offer a power up plan to the A4000 and the A1200.  It amounts to slashing
MSRP on the A4000 by $1500 and the A1200 by $600 I believe, accordingtoannounce
I can't wait to see the price drop so I can buy one of these puppies and start
a fabulous Ray Tracing spree. :>


-Nyle

P.S. Does anyone have a recomendation f where to buy a A4000?  What companies
have given you best support withough questions asked.  Preferable reply dirrect
to me. :>  Hopefully only companies that you have dealt with at least twice. :>

I've heard good and bad about AmigaMAn, Briwal, etc.  Any more beefs or
suggestion.

  I want an A4000 but I want great service after I get it. :>



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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:41:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Games and Amiga

Date sent: 30-DEC-1992

>All,
>        Foreword: I hate copy protected games!
>
>        I purchased a game called AWESOME a while back, but I didn't get to
>play it much, because of college, etc.  Now it doesn't boot (on the A500).
>This is depressing somewhat, a $49 dollar game = $0 now because I couldn't
>back it up!  Wonder how long SWIV/SpeedBall 2/STreet Fighter II will last!?!
>
>        I do not want to resort to pirated versions, so if anyone has a way
>of copying AWESOME/SWIV/SpeedBall 2/Street Fighter II, email me.
>
>Paul.
>"My game killed itself! Hey man, that's awesome!"
>
>
>--
>
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MY friend had a similar problem with AWESOME.  It has eaten itself 3 times.  He
sent for replacement disks, but the copy protection continues to eat the disks.


See if Utilities Unlimited still sells it's supoer copy program with plug in
module.  The last I heard it copied almost anything.  This included ALL
Psygnosis games to date.  Which have very tough copy protection schemes as you
can probably tell by now. :>

Later,
Nyle

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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:18:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SCSI or IDE drive??

>Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 15:49:50 EST
>From: Chris Arrowood <carrowoo@ST6000.SCT.EDU>
>Subject: SCSI or IDE drive??
>
>Hello!
>        I'm looking at getting a new hard drive for my A2000 and need some
>information. Could someone please differentiate between IDE and SCSI
>drives.  Although the technical aspects would be interesting, I think the
>pros and cons of each is what I'm looking for.
>        Thanks in advance.
>
>                                                        Chris Arrowood
>                                                        Southern Tech

SCSI stands for Small Computer Systems Interface. This is an intelligent
interface for connecting many types of peripherals to a computer, including
hard drives, tape drives, CD-Rom drives, Floptical drives, ect.  Being
intelligent, the CPU does very little work (comparitively) getting data to
and from the drive.  In a multitasking system, this is a good thing.

IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics.  On this interface you can only
connect hard drives, and typically only one hard drive, but at most only two
(if you are luck enough to be able to get two IDE drives to work together
in a master slave arrangement-there was a big discussion of this problem on
comp.sys.amiga.hardware a while back).  IDE drives are not as intelligent
as SCSI drives, and the IDE interface tends to require much more CPU time
then compared to a SCSI interface.  On a system like an IBM-PC running MS-DOS,
this does not matter, as the CPU has nothing better to do.

IDE drives to have the advantage of being somewhat cheaper than SCSI drives.
But if you shop around a bit, you can get a scsi interface and drive for
your 2000 for the about the same price as an IDE interface and drive, and
the SCSI interface will be more useful to you in the long run.  Also, SCSI
interfaces (2091 for example) tend to come with memory expansion capability
on the board.

-Lance
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:19:14 -0600
From:         flasar@WUGCRC.WUSTL.EDU
Subject:      Re: Amiga ads ( Babylon V ) :)

    Re the new SF shows. Check out the latest teevee guide.  It has a cover
story on DS9, which I understand starts next 1/9/93.  It also details some
of the other shows, such as Space Rangers, which starts wednesday, starring
Linda Hunt, who can be really great, or really bad.  then there's B5, of
course,and some really lame sounding shows.  Also, there's a listing of some
mini-series coming later, one of which is being produced by Oliver Stone, which
is good or bad depending on what you think of Oliver Stone.
    We'll see.
       Dan Flasar
       Wash U school of Medicine
       St. Louis, MO
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Subject: Re: Supra...
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:40:15 GMT
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HYLBKL@MOREKYPR.BITNET writes:

>I can't speak for anyone else, but I have a supra 2400 modem, a 500xp
>52M supra hard drive and a 1/2M supra expansion card
>for my A500 and have had absolutly
>no troubles with any of them.  I have been very
>pleased with the products I have purchased from them.
>Am I just lucky or just an average supra user?

Well in the case of your 1/2 Meg expansion you are just lucky or you don't realize the problem with it.  
I have the same 1/2 Meg thinger and I figured out that it slows my Amiga down
to .58 mips .  It should be up at .9 or so (i took it out and tested it and got
that anyway).  So that darn ram board slows down your whole system.  Pretty crummy.  I am looking to get rid of it, but I need the clock.(I have lots of ram on 
my hard drive controller anyway).

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From:         RABID SPINACH <QCZUSEA@IUP.BITNET>
Subject:      virus checkers....

        Greetings once again.....  :-)

        Just wondering where the latest versions of virus checker progs are
hiding, and which ones are getting reccomended the most lately...
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From: ggiles@cie.uoregon.edu (Gregg Giles)
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Subject: Re:      Re: Amiga ads ( Babylon V ) (hurmish)
Date: 24 Dec 1992 13:55:28 GMT
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In article <9212171850.AA03731@netcom.netcom.com> Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM> writes:
>
>  My sources also say a law suit is pending and bab V may never go passed
>the first runner because dep 9 and bab v are almost exactly the same thing
>and dep 9 was written first by the same person who made bab v.

   Babylon 5 has been in production for a couple of months, now. However,
the two shows were most definitely not written by the same person. The
creator/director of Babylon 5 hung around on BIX for a while recently, and
stated that there were uncanny similarities between B5 and DS9, but that B5
had been in the works for years. (IMHO, DS9 sounds like it's going to be a
lame spinoff. Oh, well.)

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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:41:16 EDT
From:         HYLBKL@MOREKYPR.BITNET
Subject:      PCQ and Narrator

Hi.. I have been playing around with the PCQ pascal compiler and
was trying to write a program that used the narrator device.  I haven't
had much luck with it though.  Does anybody have any program that does
this and could you send me a copy?  Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks.

Ken Hylbert
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:50:44 -0700
From:         Stephen Vermeulen <SVermeulen@RAGNAROK.CUC.AB.CA>
Subject:      Re: Amiga ads ( Babylon V ) (hurmish)

:My sources say sometime in mid febuary.
:  My sources also say a law suit is pending and bab V may never go passed
:the first runner because dep 9 and bab v are almost exactly the same thing
:and dep 9 was written first by the same person who made bab v.
:
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If you read the Cinefantastique artical it seems like the Bab-5 people
should be sueing DS-9 (StarTrek) for copying the idea.

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Subject:      Re: Demo / Intro Maker

RE: demo or intro maker.  Look on Fred Fish disk 760.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:28:36 PDT
From:         Susan Lively <slively@LCCSD.SD.LOCUS.COM>
Subject:      Re: system error messages / 4mb ram for 3000
              29, 92 11:08 am

>
> >> What are the IC's ? Are they zips, dips , or what ? Could you post the
> >> part numbers on the IC's ?
> >
> >I am at work and don't have the part numbers with me - will post them
> >on the morrow though.  I believe that they are static column zips,
> >but I will check to be sure.
>
Okay - the original IC's are part number D424402V-80
                                              ^^
and the new IC's are part number TC514400AZ-70
                                       ^^

So much for the "They are all static column" statement! :)

> You need to be absolutely sure that if your original 4MB fast was static
> column, then your new 4MB are also static column.  Failure to do so will
 result
> in a crash on boot (I've been there :-().  The part numbers for static column
> versus page mode are listed in the "Introducing the Commodore Amiga 3000"
> manual on page 4-17.  This manual is the smallish 100-page or so manual that
> should have come with your system.  If your first bank is static column, then
> all the rest *must* be static column.  If your first bank is page mode, then
> the rest can be either page or static but your system will run slower.  A
> mixture of 70ns and 80ns is okay.  Anything slower than 80ns is not okay.
>
> Since your new chips are Toshiba, they should be part # TC514402.  The
 standard
> appears to be be that page mode chips end in 00 and static column mode chips
> end in 02.
>
> Also, try to boot from an original 2.04 workbench and bypass the
> startup-sequence (holding down both mouse buttons while booting while give you
> this option).  If you can boot to a CLI then at least you're getting
 somewhere.
> If/When you get this far, try running SetPatch and see what happens.  The 2.04
> SetPatch would work for me and the 2.05 would cause a crash since burst
> automatically gets enabled (typing in CPU BURST had the same effect).  This
> helped me prove that the memory my dealer sold wasn't static column when he
> said it was (and he replaced it at no extra charge and he did the installation
> of the new stuff).
>
> Hope this helps,
>       .../Ed
>
> Ed Wilts, BC Systems, 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
> EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA     Office:  (604) 389-3430   Fax: (604) 389-3412
>

Yes, actually this helps alot!  I guess I will be making a trip back to the
chip vendor.


Susan Lively
slively@locus.com
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From:         Amiga is power computing! <BURTON@IPFWCVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Commodore's Power Up deal....... The one that "Wouldnever be
              offered."

I would suggest getting one from Tenex! 1-800-prompt-1 GREAT SERVICE!
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From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Amiga ads ( Babylon V ) :)

Date sent: 31-DEC-1992

>> The air date has been moved as previsously posted, but I still see ads for it
>> so it hasn't been canceled.  Yet anyways. :>
>
>Nyle,
>   What network and time are they saying it will be on?  I havent seen a single
>advertisement here in the west coast area and I am getting conserned.
>
>
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Ah, let's see it's channel 11 ooout of NYC they have something like 3 new shows
coming on Kunbg Fu Theater Returns, Time (something), And Babylon 5.

-Nyle

P.S. I alks heard there is another new SCI-FI show coming on called Star
Rangers or Space Rangers something like that, it is rumored the effects done on
that were done on the Amiga Also.  C.I.O.  I hear it's gonna be on CBS....

Go Amiga GO!!!!!!!!!

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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:58:00 EST
From:         YDEZTJA@IUP.BITNET
Subject:      ??HAM Paint PRGS??

I know this question was asked before, but I wasn't paying attention!
Is there such thing as a PD 'Paint' program which allows you to
work with HAM images???

Thanx!

Captain *CRASH*
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From:         "26637::BRZWICKY" <BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Commodore64

I have an old free version of TheA64Package, but it doesn't like my A3000.
When I run it, something pops up a windows complaining about the CPU.  Is
there a version that will work, either free or not?

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Subject: Driver for Color Scanner
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:36:47 GMT

HELP! Recently, I bought ScanPlus full page color scanner which is HP
ScanJet compatible. However, where can I find the color driver? Thanks
for advance.
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From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Kermit on Amiga?

Date sent: 31-DEC-1992

>>Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:49:00 EDT
>>From: "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair."
>> <LANDAS88%SNYPOTVA.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
>>Subject: RE: Kermit on Amiga?
>>
>>Happy New Year Chris,
>>   :>    Try Kermit V2.20c I use it to Kermit software from the VAX t my Amiga
   .
>                     ^^^^^^
>
>Don't you mean Handshake 2.20c and its kermit emulator?
>
>
>>
>>It should work just fine. :>
>>
>>-Nyle
>>
>>__________________________________________________________________________
>>|  Nyle F. Landas      |   LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA      |   SPOTVB::LANDAS88   |
>>|________________________________________________________________________|
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>>|________________________________________________________________________|
>
>
>-Lance
> ---------------- Amiga - The Wild Side of Power Computing -----------------
> Lance Tagliapietra                       Internet: 96720919@ucs.uwplatt.edu
> P.O. Box 26                                BitNet: 96720919@uwplatt
> Platteville, WI 53818

Oooooooooooops... Yes, that's what I mean. :>

Must be New Years Day!!!!!! :> PAERTY!!!!!!

-Nyle

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From:         "P. Larkin" <IQM259@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      Poskanzer bitmaps @ Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU

   Does anyone know how I can view the Poskanzer bitmaps that are at
Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU?  I've tried just about everything I know of to
no avail.  What actual type of files are they?

P.Larkin
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