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From: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: Re: AMIGA disks
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:11:04 GMT
Reply-To: br326@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Raphael Pungin)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, fabian@alkymi.unit.no (Fabian Gonzalez) says:

>This is how to copy things to/from the amiga:
>
>1. Buy yourself an amiga if you haven't got one.
>2. Get yourself a program called dos2dos.
>3. Use dos2dos to copy programs from the amiga to the pc or the other way
>   around (hint: You need one diskette of each sort, one formatted in MSDOS
>   and one formatted in AMIGA DOS).
>
>-- 
>
>
>          *** e-mail : fabian@alkymi.unit.no ***              
>---------------------------------------------------------
>   If your feet are smelling and your nose is running,
>        check to see whether you are upside down
>---------------------------------------------------------
>

Is dos2dos commercial or shareware program?
	- Raphael
From: mats.astrom@neurofys.uu.se (Mats Astrom)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: DMA : number of transfers
Date: 1 Oct 1992 07:40:17 GMT
Organization: Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Uppsala
NNTP-Posting-Host: mats.neurofys.uu.se

While doing DMA-transfer it's possible to read the number of transfers done
by reading a specific register of the DMA-circuit. I've manage to do so but
the result seem to be somewhat instable ! The instability is due to reads of
the register in the middle of a transfer, isn't it ????
Assuming I'm setting up everthing correctly, how do I read the number of
transferred bytes to get the correct value every time ?????

I program in TP 6.0, with the following declarations the code is:

BTW, I'm doing integer ( 2 bytes ) transfers, see odd(lobyte1) below !

   lobyte1,
   lobyte2,
   hibyte1,
   hibyte2  : byte;

   DMACountReg = $03; { byte Count, ch1 }

    version 1:
                      {--- check how far DMA has gone ---}
                      repeat
                         lobyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         lobyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                      until odd(lobyte1) and
                            (hibyte2=hibyte1) and
                            (lobyte2=lobyte1);
    version 2:
                      {--- check how far DMA has gone ---}
                      repeat
                         lobyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte1 := port[DMACountReg];
                         lobyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                         hibyte2 := port[DMACountReg];
                      until odd(lobyte1) and ( ( (hibyte2=hibyte1) and
                                                 (lobyte2<=lobyte1) ) or
                                              ( (hibyte2<hibyte1) and
                                                (lobyte2>lobyte1) ) );

The calculation of how many transfers done in both versions is:

                     nr_of_transfers := ( hibyte2 shl 8 + lobyte2 ) shr 1;

None of the above versions seem to give a stable result of the amount of
transfers done !!!
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tel: +46 18 66 34 52                  Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology
fax: +46 18 55 11 32                  University Hospital
                                      S-751 85 Uppsala
                                      Sweden
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Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: martin@eichow.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Schoenhacker)
Subject: Oh no ! - Amiga disks !
Reply-To: martin@eichow.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Tech. University Vienna, Dept. of Computergraphic
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:38:46 GMT

Dear everyone,

I can't remember subscribing to an Amiga newsgroup.
PLEASE, WHY ARE YOU DISCUSSING AMIGA DISKS IN ALT.SB.PROGRAMMER ?

Even though it may be interesting to transfer sound files or
the like from the Amiga, I don't think this belongs here.
Just stop it, will you ?

Thank you.

                         Martin


P.S.:  Send flames to /dev/null or your Amiga wastebin.
From: az@i5120h.nrl.navy.mil (Andy Zwirko)
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: SB MIDI Read using IRQ?
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:15:57 GMT
Organization: NRL


Good Day,

  I'm wondering, is there anyone out there who has programmed the SB MIDI port
who could direct me to a snippet of C code, (or other language) which makes use
of the SB READ MIDI IRQ mode. I've fooled with polling the port, looping on the
status of the input port, but would now like to experiment with using the IRQ
capabilities of the board.  Can anyone out there help me, or assist me in 
finding what I'm looking for??  Any/all info is welcome!  E-mail, or net post
will be fine.  thanks.

andy - ka1gd			zwirko@wave.nrl.navy.mil

 
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: ketrenoj@ucs.orst.edu (Lord Logics)
Subject: Sound Blaster Port 0x2?C 
Summary: Need some help . . . 
Organization: University Computing Services - OSU
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 03:12:44 GMT

... alright, i have a quick question for everyone out there.  i'm not sure if its been answered before, but if it has then please e-mail me w/ the information as i would have no idea which article the info would be listed.

anyway, my question is as follows:  
   Does anyone have a list of the commands you need to send to the Sound Blastervia the 0x2?C Port to let it know what you want it to do?  ie, to play a byte,
you have to first tell the SB you want to play a byte, then you send the byte toplay (at least that's how i figure its gotta work)  Anyway, i've figured out through trial and error that you do send the command to 0x2?C (the ? is for the base number of ur SB port)  I have also figured out that if u send 0x10 (i think)
as the command byte, u can then play a byte (the next byte you send) *sometimes*.  i am not sure what timing needs to be used before another command can be sent
to the port, nor am i sure how to initialize the SB's speaker and all that otherstuff.

   So, to help me figure this out, a list of the commands the SB recognizes and
a little description of how long you must wait before you send another command
would be greatly appreciated.  i am fluent (to a degree) in .ASM and .C (and
debug if necessary) so don't worry about needing to explain the basics (like 
what hex numbers are and that sort)  Thanks.

ketcha l8r-  (hey, tfinn--recognize me?  hehe)

James
From: james.kelly@factory.com (James Kelly) 
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
Subject: RE: SCREAMTRACKER
Date: 25 Sep 92 18:11:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-1243v.32bis
Reply-To: james.kelly@factory.com (James Kelly) 

 In message : <markus.20.717351628@clement.info.umoncton.ca> Mark
writes:

-> In article <1992Sep24.075846.1@tesla.njit.edu> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
-> writes:
-> >I managed to find 2 source codes (written in C for the pc) for .mod
-> or .stm >files.  I can post them here if anyone is interested, I have
-> no idea about >what they are, just saw them a long time ago and
-> downloaded them but never >took any interest (my friend was going to
-> write a mod player and needed some >ideas of how to work the formats)
-> > - Kirk
->
-> I'm interested.  I'd like to have and take a look at those two
-> programs.  My e-mail address is 8900795@info.umoncton.ca

I'd also be very intrested in seeing those files... May I also request
them?

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::      James Kelly     email: james.kelly@factory.com       ::
::            pkk productions .mod music files               ::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
                                
Newsgroups: alt.sb.programmer
From: fabian@alkymi.unit.no (Fabian Gonzalez)
Subject: AMIGA disks
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 13:49:29 GMT

This is how to copy things to/from the amiga:

1. Buy yourself an amiga if you haven't got one.
2. Get yourself a program called dos2dos.
3. Use dos2dos to copy programs from the amiga to the pc or the other way
   around (hint: You need one diskette of each sort, one formatted in MSDOS
   and one formatted in AMIGA DOS).

-- 


          *** e-mail : fabian@alkymi.unit.no ***              
---------------------------------------------------------
   If your feet are smelling and your nose is running,
        check to see whether you are upside down
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From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Questions...
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:20:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.magick
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <97374@bu.edu>, mjmh@doc.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes...

>->THE SITUATION
>In August, 1984, a group of [about-to-be] college freshmen and 
>sophomores started using a Ouija Board.  We all came from Catholic 
>backgrounds, most of us going to Catholic High School.  

Figures.  (This is not meant as a snide comment.)  You describe one 
of the few backgrounds in which one is raised to believe in the 
mystical side of things.

>So, does anyone have any thoughts as to what was really going on?  

Sounds like small-group psychodrama to me, with a few interesting 
twists.  I wouldn't worry about it, or take it too seriously.

Would make a good movie.

- Peggy -
From: loki@castle.ed.ac.uk (A Kashko)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: alt.magick con
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:52:02 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Sep29.194713.5493@linus.mitre.org> ptrei@bistromath.mitre.org (Peter Trei) writes:
>
>     The nice thing about Britain is that there are so many sites
>worth a visit. Here's a couple comments on your list:

	Why not Edinburgh. Not so extrovert magically as say Glastonbury,
or Avebury, but with quite a nice tradition in ghosts, ghouls, etc.
There are even regular tours of haunted sites (Finishing at a pub,
of course). I collected a few of these tales, but haven't had time
to tidy them into post/publishable form. Oh yes... the little people
were last seen here in 1930.

	And Edinburgh, while slowly deteriorating, is still 10 to 100
times nicer and more civilised than London. I know, I've lived in both.
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: jasonp@tiger1.prime.com (Jason Pascucci)
Subject: alt.magick support group
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:52:02 GMT

I believe there might be a fundamental difference under what light 
some people see this newsgroup. Some people perhaps view this group 
as a support group for Us Poor Outcast Occultists (tm), or People 
Who Have Wierd Things Happening To Them (tm). Admittedly,
if you wish to treat this group in this manner, that
is perfectly acceptable, however you cannot (and,
under my worldview, should not) expect other people to
abide by another arbitrary standard on what is correct
or not correct to post. 

For those who wish this, perhaps an alt.magick.support might
be in order. Either way, perhaps this throws a little
more light on the Flames argument.

From my own view, I see support groups as, well, silly, and
completely irrevelant to my case. Anything Anonymous, Adult Children 
of Disfunctional Families, Divorced Overweight People Bitching 
about their Ex's, etc, whatever, are perhaps a symptom of a wider 
problem than the ones they are addressing. Similar, also, to the 
Personality Direction groups, etc. 

Why do they have these groups? The pat answer, I believe,
is that sometimes people can't deal with their own problems,
need support from people going through similar problems, need
to know they are not alone, etc, etc. Why? Is it possible that one
fundamental inadequacy is being emphasized up by the very existance
of these groups? That one doesn't 'feel' in control, perhaps?

I have made joking reference at one point to GroupJoiner's
Anonymous...but I expect I could make a lot of money if I
wanted to start up a group like this. People have assured
me they 'helped', and perhaps in what they were trying to do,
they did, but I tend to feel they do more harm (societally) 
than good. (AEEEEE! The Con! The Dups! They are after your 
SLACK! Just send me $20 or kill fnord me.)

Then again, I'm beginning to believe in Abortion (at least until 
the Gov't makes it such that having a baby doesn't screw up the 
mother's life...then I'll reconsider), Tax-credits for people
who have 0 to 1 child, Volentary Suicide, legalized personal 
duels, and legalizing drugs.Many things, mind you, I would 
never engage in, but feel that society would feel the benefits 
of...eventually. 

Jason
-- 
Jason R. Pascucci
jasonp@primerd.prime.com

When Two Tigers fight, One is Injured and One is Killed. 
What the hell's wrong with that?
Newsgroups: alt.magick,alt.pagan,alt.religion.all-worlds
From: eddie@hermes.oit.unc.edu (Edward M. Averett)
Subject: Re: Seeking Creator of "Practice Random Kindness"
Keywords: random kindness, guerrilla goodness, deep thoughts, Marin
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:00:16 GMT

In article <BvCDAs.43F@acsu.buffalo.edu> oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
>This has nothing to do with magick either...
>..but at least was better than the sappy version.
>
I admit that one can half-way see where someone like you Peggy would occupy more bandwith complaining about something she didn't want to see rather than just
hitting "k" and going on.  

But reposting the very messages you objected to with your snide comments 
UNEDITED was really a stupid waste of energy, everyone's time, and  was 
completely self-defeating, as you only are likely to irritate those very 
folks who, like me, were willing to just let the subject go through and then
fade away. 

I don't know What Planet Josh is dialing in from these days either.  As a 
magickal statement, the topic concerned is certainly one of the better ones
kicking around for the general populace to have.  Disagreeing just to disagree
has its place, but this was pretty stupid on both your parts.  

Both of you considered yourself flamed. 

			-eddie@legba.oit.unc.edu
			Bunny with a carving knife

Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: jasonp@tiger1.prime.com (Jason Pascucci)
Subject: Re: EVIL
Keywords: EVIL
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:43:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.021509.15056@linus.mitre.org>, tucker@maestro.mitre.org (William Tucker) writes:
> 
> Hi -
> 
>    To deny evil on humanity's plane of conciousness is as unrealistic as to

I believe I can sum up the entire argument to the rest of this quote
in that this statement is the first step on the cause of my disagreement. 
In fact, the words 'Humanity's plane of conciousness' is the problem...
in fact 'plane' is the problem. (In addition to 'Humanity',
and 'conciousness', but those can be hashed out at some other time). 

To buy into her comments relies on an implicitly weak worldview,
reguardless of her presentation(Which is most of the content of this
excerpt). Also, she is using criterion which are equally true as 
false (i.e. the term 'unrealistic'), and making extrapolations from
there. 

[Rest of the quote deleted]
>                           by Eva Pierrakos
>                             from "The Pathwork of Self-Transformation"
>  will i am t.
> .standard disclaimer

-- 
Jason R. Pascucci
jasonp@primerd.prime.com

A man walked down the road to Tsa-Aang, carrying a watermelon. Apon 
coming across the Master Therion, he handed him the melon, as
thanks. The Master threw it to the ground in a fit of rage. The 
man was indignant, at which the Master embraced the man, with a 
smile. They both sat on the road, and enjoyed the pieces. In silence.
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe)
Subject: Re: Toe Dipping
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:47:34 GMT

ed@amigans.gen.nz (Edward Kitto) writes:

>I have seen that there are some extremely erudite contributers here. Now 
>would someone out of all this erudition inform me as to the location of 
>the psychic centre in the human body?

There is more than one center.  Different types of magical practice use 
different energies and so use a different center.  The one general center
which everyone I've worked with closely finds useful is what is simply called
'your center'--your center of gravity.  It is a common practice to focus
attention on the center of gravity to make certain that one is in good balance
before and after all magical work.  However, certain types of magic appear to
draw energy from different parts of the body.  Mentalism, for example, generally
focusses on the head and the sexual centers.  Vitalism sticks to the center of 
gravity, in general.


              Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again,
                               Br'anArthur

Queer, Peculiar, and Wyrd! :-)

******************************************************************************
Newage is hypoallergenic spirituality--
it's for people who are allergic to the word religion.
                                   --Jon Jay Obermark
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: rjb@milton.u.washington.edu (LeGrand Cinq-Mars)
Subject: Re: 2nd Merlin Tarot Workshop
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:58:30 GMT

Well, not necessarily cowardly.  After all, this was only the second class.
Perhaps it might be just as well to let things unfold at their own rhythm, 
and see what they want to look like, so to speak...

--LeGrand
From: kdc5072@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.D. Colagio)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Hi!
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:30:31 GMT
Followup-To: sender
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: kdc5072@ultb

I was wondering if anyone would like to recommend someone in the Rochester,
New York area who can answer some questions and maybe direct me to someone
who can train me in a given (and as of yet, unknown) direction.

If you want any information about me, feel free to drop me a line and let me
know...

Thanks in advance...

     =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     -  Kevin Colagio...student at large -   In Gods we trust,      =
     =               aka                 -   All others pay cash.   -
     -      KDC5072@ultb.isc.rit.edu     -        -Vladimir Taltos  =
     =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

          Warning: Government is hazardous to your health.
     Save me from those who would pass laws to protect me from myself.

  "The right to take drugs, the right to an abortion, the right to suicide, 
  the right for people to engage in private, consensual sexual activity, be 
  it commercial  or not, these are all interconnected.  The loss of any one 
 of these rights diminishes the strength of the others, giving the govenment 
 more control over the bodies of those it governs -- control it should never 
 have."
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From: cward@Think.COM (Christopher)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: EVIL and "dualism"
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:55:11 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: godot.think.com

In article <1992Oct1.205455.25387@shearson.com>, scarrobi@shearson.com (Steve Carrobis) writes:
|> Evil is in the eye of the beholder .... like everything else ...
|> in Good hands an Evil act can have a Good conclusion.
|> just like in Evil hands a Good act can have an Evil conclusion....

Only if you believe the ends justify the means.  This is a common
rationalization of "evil-doers".

|> I had skimmed through a copy of the satantic bible and came across a single line that blew my mind ....
|> 
|> WithOut Satan , God would be out of busines... 
|> 
|> and of course the reverse is true ...
|> 
|> Without God , Satan would be out of business....

Without God, everyone would be out of business.

Without Satan, LeVay would be out of business.

Since God was around long before "Satan" ever showed up, LeVay's quote
is nonsensical.

	-Christopher
From: cal@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Low)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:25:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Necronomicon and the Vow of Secrecy
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: EVIL
Keywords: EVIL
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:08:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep29.234330@tiger1.prime.com>, jasonp@tiger1.prime.com (Jason Pascucci) writes...
>In article <1992Sep30.021509.15056@linus.mitre.org>, tucker@maestro.mitre.org (William Tucker) writes:
>> 
>> Hi -
>> 
>>    To deny evil on humanity's plane of conciousness is as unrealistic as to
> 
>I believe I can sum up the entire argument to the rest of this quote
>in that this statement is the first step on the cause of my disagreement. 
>In fact, the words 'Humanity's plane of conciousness' is the problem...
>in fact 'plane' is the problem. (In addition to 'Humanity',
>and 'conciousness', but those can be hashed out at some other time). 
> 
>To buy into her comments relies on an implicitly weak worldview,
>reguardless of her presentation(Which is most of the content of this
>excerpt). Also, she is using criterion which are equally true as 
>false (i.e. the term 'unrealistic'), and making extrapolations from
>there. 
> 
>[Rest of the quote deleted]
>>                           by Eva Pierrakos
>>                             from "The Pathwork of Self-Transformation"
>>  will i am t.
>> .standard disclaimer
> 
>-- 
>Jason R. Pascucci
>jasonp@primerd.prime.com
> 

You're so clever, Jason, that I think you missed the point.

- Peggy -
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller)
Subject: Re: The Magical Philosophy
Organization: Institute for the Study of Ancient Science
	<Bv7MHL.79v@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 10:56:20 GMT


In article <Bv7MHL.79v@acsu.buffalo.edu> oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy
Brown) writes:

>   In article <Bv72wM.7DI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. 
>   Davis-Howe) writes...

> >3.  I haven't bothered with Vol. 2, since it is exclusively Kabbalah, and I
> >won't work with Kabbalah for ethical reasons.  

>   What are your "ethical reasons" for *not* working with quabala?

too much work, maybe?

not fuzzy enough?

josh
Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: johnt@netcom.com (The Mad Croat)
Subject: Where is Naia Kirkpatrick-Passo???
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:49:49 GMT


	Where oh where is she?

-- 
  John Tomicich 				johnt@netcom.COM
       I joked with two men in a Harlem bar. Everyone suddenly
  felt happy because my laughter was unafraid. I thought I
  could borrow some money from them.
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