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Subject: Ok, so where do I get a MOD player that doesn't play 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Serial Port
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:04:54 +0000


In article <1992Dec13.025218.29513@infodev.cam.ac.uk> idg10@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:

>
>Did you ever try my suggestion of basing timings off sound DMA buffer events?
>These presumably are reasonably regular (we hope) and you won't getter any
>better temporal resolution than that out of the sound system.
>
>Ian Griffiths
>
>
Mmmmm, but during heavy activity the sound system can lose quality - I
assume this is missed buffer fills, which would cause problems. Suppose
it's a pretty good method though... (pity I don't write players anymore :-))

Hugo

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From: simmsg@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Graham Simms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn Direct Mail Order (T-shirts)
Date: 14 Dec 92 11:17:21 GMT

smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:

>In article <1g29orINNs4c@bnsgd245.bnr.co.uk> rap@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Richard Porter) writes:
>>Prices in pounds Sterling (inc. VAT) are:

>>Mug                   2.45
>>Product directory     3.00

>I wonder if they would swap a Product directory for a mug? :)

>Simon

I seem to have missed the first post!

Could someone mail me the address and details.

Thanks.

Graham
simmsg@cs.man.ac.uk
From: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Indirected template icons and resspr lib.
Date: 11 Dec 92 15:26:53 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <FL.92Dec11120834@pierre.tools.de>, fl@tools.de (Frank Lancaster) writes...

>Beware: using resspr_area in the window templates forces you to define
>the sprites for radio buttons etc. in your sprite file. This is a waste
>of space since they are already in the wimp sprite area.

What do you do when you have sprites that aren't in the wimp sprite area 'cos
they're private to your application?

Pete Goodwin
goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: chris
Subject: News2
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:49:15 GMT
Distribution: chris@chris.ioc
Organization: Intelligent Office Company Ltd.

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: csudp@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr R E Broadley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Beeb emulator
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:33:14 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk


	It's strange that the !PCEm emulator seems to be so much better than
!65Host.  Why couldn't Acorn have the beeb emulator running in a separate
window so that it is RISC OS compliant? Also, the number of times I have had
errors, such as 'unknown opcode' which causes the emulator to finish there and
then. Surely it is possible to have a beeb emulator which completely emulates
the hardware?  The current emulator doesn't even get mode 7 text printed
correctly (very slowly!).
	What would be the best way for me to obtain such a perfect emulator?
Does anyone know if Acorn are thinking of releasing an improved version (or
have they already)?
	Also, can someone tell me if it's possible to read DFS format discs
under the current !65Host. If so, how?

Thanks very much,
-- 
Richard Broadley,	       (      ...  rebroad@uk.ac.warwick.dcs      .
Dept of Computer Science,      )      ..    csudp@uk.ac.warwick.csv      ..
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn Sales in NZ
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:25:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

pdenize@waikato.ac.nz writes:

>One consolation is that a local Appliance store "Noel Lemmings" is now stocking
			   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^       ^^^^^^^^
			National appliance chain      Interesting typo!

>A3010 and A4000 ranges. The local dealer must be really &%$$ed off. I think if

Why should Acorn dealers be &%$$ed off? From what I've heard, some dealers
have made more sales because people wanted to buy Acorn machines after
seeing the advert on TV... The advertising campaign by Noel Leeming is
helping by making the public *aware* of the *existance* of Acorn computers,
and this in itself is a good thing for Acorn, Dealers, and users alike.

The dealers will also benefit from the much larger market base to which they
can sell software. I think that most people buying a 3000/4000 are likely to
discover local 'specialty' shops where they can get a better range and more
knowlegable salespersons to purchase from than a high-street store can hope
to supply...

As to sales, I hear that Acorn are selling something like 50 machines a week
at the moment, which is somewhat better than 1 machine a MONTH that I
heard rumored near the beginning of the year... These facts and figures
are not facts and figures, just hearsay...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat)
Subject: Re: How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?
Originator: tytgat@rilke
Reply-To: tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat)
Organization: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:59:54 GMT

In article <JKH.92Dec15115649@whisker.lotus.ie> jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
>	It could be that you have taken (OCTA)MED files.  As far as we know, no
>	Archimedes soundtracker program can take these as input yet. We hope to
>
>No, I don't use MED.  These were straight protracker files, transfered
>in binary mode (and working fine on the Amiga in any case, so that
>couldn't be it).  For the record, it appears that Protracker does
>indeed have trouble with certain mods.  I've mailed some of the worst
>offenders to John..

Yes, indeed.  ProTracker seems to go wrong on your examples.  However,
Digital Symphony doesn't have any problems with these. ;-) No wonder, the
play-routines of DS were completely rewritten from scratch.

> [...]

>	Another solution could be 'Digital Symphony' :-) : there you can
>	straightaway save your files in Symphony, Tracker or ProTracker
>	format.  There is no
>
>I knew you'd say that. :-)  Where is it for sale?

Ok, you asked for it :

Oregan Developments
36 Grosvenor Avenue
Streetly
Sutton Coldfield
B74 3PE
England

John
BASS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
Subject: WARNING! Tracker player disaster with RISC OS 3.1 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Serial Port
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:28:46 +0000


In article <Bz3Ft7.KtB@cen.ex.ac.uk> CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk writes:

>!Protracker gives all sorts of horrible problems on an A5000 with
>RISC OS 3.1 too.  It is especially nasty with the TCP/IP suite, so
>bad in fact I thought it was a very malicious virus.
>
>Ctrl-Reset doesn't get the machine working, it needs at least power
>off/on, sometimes several times and a Delete-power on reset to cure
>things.  I have never seen these problems with RISC OS 3.0.
>
>          ***DO NOT USE TRACKER PLAYERS WITH RISC OS 3.1***
It's not that bad - also, have you got the latest version of Protracker?
The one I have (admittedly not exactly new) is v1.11.
I've had no problems with A5000/A4000/A540/RO3.1

Hugo

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From: rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Titch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Russian programmers writes...
Date: 17 Dec 92 09:20:26 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

I'm sure that if you posted your (snail) mail address, then plenty of
people would send you any information/magazines you needed. I certainly would.

So, could you supply your address?

Cheers,

Rich.
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From: cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Aeon Flux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Hang after ten disks seen
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:55:14 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Roger (8910782@sunvax.sun.ac.za) wrote:
: Hi

: I would like to know if there is any solution for the error I experience 
: each time my A3000 has seen more or less 10 different stiffy disks. It says 
: Abort on data transfer, Filecore in use or something like that. I have RISC 
: OS2. I heard that the bug was fixed for RISC OS 3. Also is there anything I 
: could do about the flickering screen while accessing the disk in MODE 21.

Three possible solutions:

a) Buy Risc OS 3.1
b) Dismount your discs before ejecting them
c) Get a copy of !FileCore (or something like that - it is supposed to be able
   to patch up once the bug strikes: YOU MUST have it on the icon bar though
   and I'm not sure how long it will last, ie: it probably gives enough time
   to save things safely then reboot)

As for Mode21 - not simple, bottleneck on the bandwidth!
(does CC's colourcard get round this???)


Jayce.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: idg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (I.D. Griffiths)
Subject: Re: Indirected template icons and resspr lib.
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:56:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.152725.3691@rdg.dec.com>, goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com (Pete Goodwin) writes:
|> 
|> In article <FL.92Dec11120834@pierre.tools.de>, fl@tools.de (Frank Lancaster) writes...
|> 
|> >Beware: using resspr_area in the window templates forces you to define
|> >the sprites for radio buttons etc. in your sprite file. This is a waste
|> >of space since they are already in the wimp sprite area.
|> 
|> What do you do when you have sprites that aren't in the wimp sprite area 'cos
|> they're private to your application?
|> 


Um, you have a res_spr area, but get template_syshandles and set the sprite
area back to being the system one and then give icons explicit pointers
to the sprites in your user area before creating the window.

Easy huh?

Ian Griffiths
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: m_sattle@informatik.uni-kl.de (Matthias Sattler)
Subject: TCP/IP programmers package
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:57:36 GMT

Hi

I recently read about a TCP/IP programmers package in the catalog of GMA
(german Acorn distributor) in the book ??! section.
Can someone tell me what this package?? book?? exactly does?

Matthias Sattler
email:m_sattle@informatik.uni-kl.de
From: exorcist@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (HORSNELL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: re: Hang after ten
Summary: Don't do it.
Keywords: Hang
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:28:36 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London


>                                                 Also is there anything I
> could do about the flickering screen while accessing the disk in MODE 21.

yes, don't do it.

The problem is caused by too much DMA traffic.

      Jason.H.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: !PcEm: too many floppies (???)
From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:45:40 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:

[stuff about 4-year-old on a rampage deleted]
>While on this track, is there any way of protecting files against accidental
>deletion or copying / moving, in a non-network environment? If he can find
>out how to delete files, then he can also figure out how to unlock them.

By the sounds of it, I'd say that a muzzle and leash ought to do the trick...

Though you might be able to put important stuff on another hard drive or
a separate hard drive partition, and write-protect the whole kaboodle...
it depends on the type of hard drive(s)/firmware you have...

If you're running off floppies, you can write-protect them individually...
Maybe with the aid of some super-glue?
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From: rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Titch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Reading mac discs
Date: 17 Dec 92 09:32:30 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
> 1) It was a lame-brained half-assed piece of code

Well, you're wrong. It was a damned fine piece of code.

And how do I know?

Well, I wrote it.

Happy Xmas,

Richard.
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From: bts-a@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: !HELP
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:38:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Help!
Could someone please mail me a list of Beeb/Arch related FTP sites?
I would be much grateful and big rewards will come to those who are nice!
From: DPetrov@arm.msk.su (Dimitry Petrov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Russian programmers writes...
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 12:02:38 MSK
Organization: Russian ARM Support Group

Hello,

Here is the letter from Russian ARM Support Group also known
as Petrov Software.

We suspect  that some mail  haven't reach us due to frequent
changes   of   our  email   address   (inteltech.msk.su   ->
fsdsb.msk.su  ->  ifpe.msk.su ->  arm.msk.su).  Our  current
address is valid at least till the end of the year.

We are seeking for people who can help us to  distribute our
programs outside Russia or who wants to cooperate with us as
with   software   developers   or   distributors   of   your
software/hardware.

Does anybody  know the email  address of MISS D. SEGROVE, or
can help us to reach her?

We haven't  seen any acorn magazines  for more then  a year.
Possibly  somebody  could  send  us a couple of  issues.  In
return we could send some of our latest programs.


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From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: !Yow.!RunImage fix (v1.06)
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:08:36 GMT
Organization: Computing Department, Imperial College, London, UK
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In-reply-to: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 15 Dec 92 10:00:49

Perhaps I better not post the whole thing!  Mail me if you want it or
anon FTP it from wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.22.42).  I'll send it to
c.s.a as well.
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From: rap@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Richard Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Clip art
Date: 17 Dec 1992 13:28:30 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Limited
NNTP-Posting-Host: nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com

I decided to try one of David Pilling's clip art packs. They're not bad
value at around six pounds for three disks of compressed sprite files
(with !Sparkplug to unpack them). The contents are mainly American PD
stuff converted from other formats, and it is remiss of Mr. Pilling
not to mention this point in his catalogue.

The same criticism also applies to the Panorama program which produces
maps to various projections, scales and levels of detail. If you display
cities they come out with the country tacked onto the end (e.g. Paris,
France) American style. This takes up a lot of space and in many cases
is unnecessary or incorrect (Luxembourg, Luxembourg or Monte Carlo, Monte
Carlo - not Monaco).

You can contact David Pilling at  david@pilling.demon.co.uk

Richard Porter
From: leslie@cse.ucsc.edu (Leslie Grate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Information about Pixie file formats
Date: 18 Dec 1992 05:35:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

I am looking for the file formats of the files generated by
pixie, the MIPS code analysis tool.
Specifically, the .Addrs and the .Counts files.
From: mjohnson@netcom2.Netcom.COM (Mark Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Information about Pixie file formats
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:31:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service

In article <1grnu9INNh9h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> leslie@cse.ucsc.edu (Leslie Grate) writes:

  > I am looking for the file formats of the files generated by
  > pixie, the MIPS code analysis tool.
  > Specifically, the .Addrs and the .Counts files.


I believe MIPS/SGI *sells* (i.e. doesn't give away) a bundle of
software called "SPP" which enables you to untangle these file
formats.  It's aimed at hardware designers who are engineering
a complete system, and it includes a cache simulator to let
them explore (using pixie et al) the cycle-by-cycle tradeoffs
of cache design parameters: size, associativity, blocksize,
latency to main memory, stall-on-miss, snooping overhead, etc.

For freebies there is (reputedly) a pixie work-alike from
the University of Wisconsin at Chippewa Falls, distributed
in source code form.  So you automatically get the pixie-like
file formats at no extra cost :-).
From: hennie@datatek.csir.co.za (Hennie Rautenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Info needed on ftpd and syslog...
Date: 12 Dec 92 08:54:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: datatek.hennie.30.0
Organization: CSIR Information Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: valiant.csir.co.za
X-Disclaimer: The opinions expressed below are purely personal
X-Disclaimer: and in no way represent the official view of CSIR.

Hi

We're running a CD4680 with EP/IX 1.4.1 and I would like to log all FTP 
transactions thats taken place on the machine without installing one of
those fancy PD ftp daemons. 

I've edited the "inetd.conf" file, and included the "-l" flag for ftpd.
I then added the following entry to the "syslog.conf" file:

daemon.info;daemon.notice		/usr/adm/daemon.log

I created the logfile and refreshed the inetd daemon. There is no errors on
the console or in the logs, but yet no logging take place of my ftp 
transfers.

Can anyone help ? I'm not a frequent reader of this group, so I would 
appreciate it if can you mail me directly.

Thanks

Hennie
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: shhong@dbserver.kaist.ac.kr (Seok-Hee Hong)
Subject: help : strftime()
Organization: KAIST in Seoul, Korea
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 10:03:14 GMT

Hi,
We have mips rs2030 whose os is UMIPS 4.52.
I know that strftime is in only posix Library,
When i compile a program which is calling strftime, 
	I can't compile it because linker don't find strftime.

And i compile the program after extracting strftime.o from 
posix library but can't compile it again because of global variable 
of posix library...

How can i solve this problem ?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: bhuang@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Bill Huang)
Subject: Is there a MIPS native C compiler port to SPARC environment?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:29:19 GMT
Keywords: MIPS , C, Sparc

We are doing some imbedded software development on the Sparc for IDT 305x
MIPS RISController. We are using the IDT/c cross compiler for our project
now. I like to know if the MIPS/C, which is considered the best optimizing
C compiler, is available for the Sparc environment.

Please follow up or send mail directly to me.

Thanks in advance.

Bill Huang
AT&T Bell Labs.
(908) 957-3892
att!mt747!bhuang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: larry@shark.mitra.com (Larry Williamson)
Subject: 2030 won't boot, IOP diagnostics hang
Organization: Mitra Imaging Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:56:09 GMT


We have an old 2030 that has not worked for a long time. I pulled it
out of the cabinet the other day to see if we can get anything out of
it. 

When turned on, the internal hex display counts from 0 up to F, then
wraps around to 1 and hangs. (I'm not sure if it ever displays F or
the following 0, but it does count up once and only once).

No message is display on the monitor connected to tty1.

All three keyboard leds remain on.

The machine has no disk drives installed. It has an 8 bit colour
display adapter installed and 16 Meg of ram.

Does anyone have any suggestions? (pitching the machine is a valid
suggestion :-).

-Larry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
From: marenda@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Subject: Problems using 1/2" tape
Organization: University of Koblenz, Germany
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:59:02 GMT

Hi all,

I have problems reading
1/2" tapes with DIN 66029/ ECMA ??? / ANSI X3.27-1978 / ISO ???
IBM MVS/370 / ...
Magnetic Tape Labels and File Structures.

We try to use an Cipher Tape Drive with an Cipricio TM3000 Controller.
We run mips-os 4_52 on a C2000.

An old PCS Machine running SVR2 can read the standart tapes,
mut this new MIPS Machine with newer OS cannt.

It seems to be the problem that it cannot read the 80-Bytes blocked headers
and then the 4K or 8K Data Blocks.

Juergen.

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