HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fred@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: I think I need a fuse for 1541C drive
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:19:50 GMT
Reply-To: fred@cbmvax.commodore.com (Fred Bowen)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

ckunz@src4src.linet.org (Charles Kunz) writes:
>I've had my 1541C drive for almost 6 years, and I'm quite happy with it.  My
>Dad installed JiffyDOS 5.0 and since then I'm -extremely- happy with it.  Now
>it's starting to act quirky on me, and I think I need a new fuse, anyone know
>where I can get a fuse rated at 250V 1A ?  Does Radio Shack carry them?

Radio Shake carries them, but that's not your problem.  If the fuse were
blown, your drive would not power up.

You have to explain what's "quirky".  The problem might be a bad power
supply, but more likely it simply needs its head cleaned or perhaps its
alignment checked.

If you have other peripherals attached, remove them and see if the situation
improves.  Make sure the drive and its cable are not too close to the monitor.

Also, this is the time of year that some folks plug little heaters and
things into the same outlet or power strip that their computer, disk,
and monitor are plugged into.  Funny how every time the heater clicks on
their system acts quirky! :-)  There once was this guy who had a little
'fridge plugged into the same curcuit as his computer, and every time he
opened the 'fridge and reached for a beer... 

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From: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: To Jay Wilkinson
Date: 14 Oct 1992 07:45:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac803@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael W. Kelley)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, jay@lafayette (Jay Wilkinson) says:

>
>
>To: All,
>     Forgive the reply here but the Email is still bouncing.....
>
>
Jay,
It's still bouncing.  I'll call you voice line.
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From: jrd@cutie.acns.nwu.edu (John R. Dennison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Needed 1541 / 1571 drive for Commie 64
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:35:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Oct12.153517.13738
Distribution: usa
Organization: Black Bag Midwest

Greetings everyone,

I am need of a used 1571 or 1541 drive for an old Commie 64.  Heck, its been
so long, I can't even remember if a '71 will work on an old C64.

Anyhow, if anyone has such a beast that they would be willing to get rid
of at a reasonable price, please either followup to this article, or mail
me at "jrd@speedy.acns.nwu.edu".

Thanks in advance,



					John
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From: ckunz@src4src.linet.org (Charles Kunz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C64 output ports
Keywords: C64 hardware ports
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:34:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Source for Source Pub Access Unix

There was an article in Compute about how to use the joystick ports as
output (yes, -output-) ports, I just can't remember which issue it was in.
Anyone else remember?

Chuck
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From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: The End of RUN
Date: 15 Oct 1992 05:32:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
Keywords: RUN, Magazine, kaput

randy@athena.mit.edu (Randall W Winchester) writes:

>I got two pieces of mail today from RUN.  One was the
>November/December 1992 issue.  At 48 pages, it's looking pretty
>scrawny, but otherwise contains good up-to-date information on CMD's
>new 3.5 inch disk drives.

>I also received a letter, from which I quote:

> [Death Knell deleted]

This is sad.  Yeah, RUN has been getting rather scrawny, compared to the glory
days, and the ratio of advertising/text was getting higher all the time it
seemed.  I was wondering how long it would be before the RUN product catalog
completely ate away the rest of the magazine.

The market is slowing down, we all know that.  Still, it's ironic that the
last major newstand glossy dedicated to the C= 8-bits dies with the issue that
announces an exciting new piece of hardware that is ahead of what is available
for the Mac and the Amiga.

>Let's see . . . that leaves COMPUTE with its Gazette section - usually
>only 20 or so pages, and Twin Cities with its erratic publication
>schedule.  LOAD*STAR still publishes a disk magazine and recently
>released issue #100.

Does anyone know how stable Load*Star is?  Twin Cities appears to be pretty
stable, and he is working towards a regular bimonthly publication schedule.
Also, very soon he will be introducint Twin Cities 64.  I am not sure how he
will do it, but a number of people are going to receive a demo issue of TC64.
Also, both TC128 and TC64 are magazines with disk companions.

>Other than user group newsletters (I'm not knocking newsletters - some
>of them are pretty good) what other Commodore magazines are being
>published?  Are there English language magazines published in Europe
>or Australia?

Some user group newsletters are darn good.  I was impressed with what I saw of
the old TPUG newsletters that were bundled in TPUG members' issues of
Transactor.

There is also Micro-Bytes, which is actually a magazine rather than a
newsletter, although it "looks" like a long newsletter, in that it comes in
the form of laser printed geoPublish pages stapled together.  I will post
subscription info here.  I've been meaning to do that for several weeks now,
and hopefully this will finally prompt me.

-Rob Knop
rknop@cco.caltech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: georg@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: Re: +==[====----GIFs Again----====]==+
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: tub
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:55:25 GMT

In <1992Oct13.120019.26862@cv.ruu.nl> rvloon@cv.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) writes:
>This brings back memories of the good old days - I have written a program a
>few years (over 5) 
>ago, the Graphics Transformer II, that could read and write the
>formats of about 20 different drawing packages, like Doodle, Art Studio etc.
>etc. With a bit of luck I still have it somewhere. It was able to slideshow,
>to show printshop and printmaster pics... it was never completely finished,
>but the conversion stuff works quite well. Let me know if anyone is
>interested.
>-- 
I also wrote a similar program some years ago. It's called converter v1.2
and should be available via ftp at cco.caltech.edu.
Or you could contact me at georg@marie.tu-physik.berlin.de if you do not have
ftp access.
From: Troll@cup.portal.com (rf banzai tolli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: SIGN O'TIMES demo  (part 1 of 2)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 19:36:11 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Do you suppose next time you have something like this you could
just mention in a line or two that it was available, with maybe a
net address?  I'd venture to say that probably 95+% of the
people that see it have no interest in unrequested binaries,
and, at least in MY case, I have to *pay* for my online time.
 
Certainly you are entitled to distribute anything you've written,
but my understanding of this net is that it is designed for messag.
is available for binary transfers.
 
Thanks for your consideration in this matter.
 
-RFT-Troll@cup.portal.com
From: duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: ForSale
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:07:32 EDT
Organization: Pembroke State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: pembvax1.pembroke.edu

> In article <67545@cup.portal.com> CTuna@cup.portal.com (Don S Gladden) writes:
> 
>    Because items have been deleted (and sometimes added) as they are
>    purchased/aquired.  Following all the rules, and feeling completely
>    within my rights, until I hear otherwise from a conference moderator
>    that the rules have been changed, I will continue to try to sell my
>    unneeded Commodore equipment on these newsgroups once a week.  My
>    suggestion to you is that when you see the header of my forsale
>    messages, simply do not bother to read them.
> 

Note: I have changed the distribution line on this to just comp.sys.cbm. 

I agree with the original flame in that these postings to comp.sys.cbm (I agree
with your statement about posting on comp.sys.forsale or whatever the other
group was however). 

Periodic postings are fine but I am getting tired of seeing it posted like
clock-work every week or two weeks. While not the original list or what-not->
SO WHAT?? 

Comp.Sys.Cbm I believe is intended for discussion of C=64/128/whatever
computers -- not as a for-sale C= anything. Yes, people do post stuff for sale
and that's fine but it seems you're using it regularly, exclusively for that
purpose and that's what we're bothered with.

-- 

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duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu (Pembroke State University)
                ||| PEROT for president '92!! |||

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	Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible
	corner of the workshop.
  
Corollary:
	On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike
	your toes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: warren@col.hp.com (Warren Tustin)
Subject: Power C - Spinnaker
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:14:47 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division


--
Help,

   I dug out my copy of Power-C for the C=64 (aquired before I bought my
C=128) and have a big question.  Does anyone familiar with this program
know how I can get it to output to a printer besides re-directing the output
with '>>'?  I tried the open() command, but it demands a filename.  Putc()
doesn't seem to work either, I tried:

char ch;
putc(ch,4);    This didn't work,  I got a "wrong # of parameters" message.

I want to open the printer in a graphics mode, but can't figure out how to
do this.  Must I resort to an assembly language call?

Also, it seems like graphics control must be done by assembly, is this true?

I have C on my computer at work and was trying to run it at home.  It seems
to work well except for the printer accesses.  If you can help, let me know.
Thanks!

Warren Tustin

Also, If anyone has any comments or suggestions on using Power C, I'd
appreciate info.  Such as, is it possible to use it with Ramdos, and/or with
a 1750 Ram Exp Cart?  Also, the peek and poke commands in C seem to be
designated only to work with the C=128 copy of Power C, which I don't have :-(


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: techy@iastate.edu (Technobabblonian)
Subject: Re: +==[====----GIFs----====]==+
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:31:03 GMT

In article <Bvt9GH.D2r@acsu.buffalo.edu> v131p9t3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ninstar Cybermage - Back Again from the Mists!) writes:
>Could someone direct me to some kind of GIF viewer for the C-64?

There are several good ones for the 64...

VGIF
GIFFY
GEO-GIF

Giffy is nice and fast, Geo-Gif does grayscale into a GeoPaint document,
I haven used VGif any so.. heheh..  beats me what it does. :)

-Troy Rutter
-DATASID
-LtCmdrData
-QDJ Troy
-QDJ Data
-Troy
-etc,etc,etc,etc


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: "henry sopko" <henry.sopko@canrem.com>
Subject: c64 oldies wanted
Reply-To: "henry sopko" <henry.sopko@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:52:26 EST

Hello All.
           I'm looking for some oldies but goodies for the C64. If you
have any of these titles could you please leave me mail with the amount
wanted for each title.

            BURGERTIME
            SUPERPIPELINE
            TAPPER
            WORLD GAMES
            MINER 2049'er
            FORT APOCALYPSE


Henry
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Zmodem
From: cshamis@desire.wright.edu
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:29:22 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

>   Did the Zmodem 64 project just phase out, or what?
> 

I dont think that the 64 or 128 are fast enough to do Zmodem.  I dont think
that they can compute the CRC in time before the next block is halveway thru
done.  At least not at 9600 baud.  Probably not at 2400 either.  What I /WOULD/
like to see is Ymodem-G, since I am one of the fortunate few who have a 14.4k
V.32 modem.  (Hey eat my shorts I had a 1200 baud modem before getting this one
three months ago so I paid my dues.)  

:)
CShamis@Desire.Wright.Edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich)
Subject: Re: Zmodem
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:52:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.024520.5585@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>Since when does Zmodem do compression?  I did look at the spec once, and
>it appears that there is a flag for compression, but I have never seen
>that flag implemented anywhere.

DSZ for MS-DOS and rz/sz for Unix have done RLE compression for a while 
(-Z flag).  I think the newer rz/sz sources for Unix do LZW compression as
well by spawning `[un]compress'.

>>> Dan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: agb001@acad.drake.edu
Subject: Prelude To The Commodore Classifieds #9 - 10/16/92
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:38:21 GMT

Sorry everyone for the delay...

I got behind here at college and had to dig my way out of it and unfortunately
I was not able to publish the Commodore Classifieds in the meantime.
However, I HOPE to be able to keep on schedule from here on out.

Now, the only reason I was able to get out is because I go on Fall Break this
weekend and didn't want to have homework to do, so I got it done before time.
And I found I had some extra time, so I decided to get this done. But now
that I am caught up, I will be able to keep up. :) And I will make sure
not to get behind again...

In this issue, there are more items. Some new wanted, some new for sale.

If anyone wants to pass the Commodore Classifieds onto other networks, or
BBSes, or such, please do. I'd love to know where it is reaching. :)
If you want to place an item for sale or for wanted, just send me a message
and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Also, if you have an item in here that is sold, please tell me so that I do
not pass information that you have the item for sale around still so that 
you will not get annoying messages about it. Nobody wants that.

Thanks...

If anyone has any comments, just tell me. I'd love to hear them.

Tony Bossaller
AGB001@acad.drake.edu
ParaPsykotic (DSW)
Sysop of Deja Vu BBS
(314)-894-9271


I know the controversy here on Comp.sys.cbm over the posting of ForSale items.
But I decided to post this since it is actually a compilation of many
people posts' who might have posted seperately. So therefore the justification
for posting this is in reduction of the bandwidth of the Newsnet by
compressing the 20+ posts into one. If anyone objects, just simply skip
over these items...

Thanks...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: phillips@uwa.oz.au (Christopher Phillips)
Subject: Re: Zmodem
Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Date: 13 Oct 92 02:55:33 GMT

shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich) writes:


>The bottleneck in a C64 [XYZ]MODEM implementation (aside from the broken
>Kernel routines) is the CBM serial bus.  I've clocked data going to the 
>drive at an effective rate of something like 3200 bps.  While it's true
>that YMODEM-g is ever so slightly faster than ZMODEM (even with MobyTurbo --
>see the file ZDOC0814), YMODEM-g doesn't give you segmented streaming which
>is a requirement for direct-to-disk recording in a stock C64.  Even with
>an external UART, YMODEM-g is a no-go at >3200 bps rates.  A custom DOS
>would help, but ultimately you're looking at a RAMLink buffer.

You can easily write data to disk at 90,000 bps if you use a custom
format with only one sync per track and 4 bits/disk byte.  The problem
is, that doing this requires the c64 to sync to the drive, not vice
versa, as you need to write on the fly.

I may be able to snaffle aspot on an automated server for a mailing
list; turnaround of a few minutes, but occasionally goes down for a day.
Is the occasional down time worth saving Craig lots of work?

Christopher.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Zmodem
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:45:20 GMT

gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski) writes:

>Also, given that much of ZM's "speed" is owed to the fact that the file is
>compressed in the send phase and decompressed on receive, I doubt that a
>segmented streaming (flow control) implementation of ZM will be noticeably
>slower.  (An off-line decompress phase may result, though).

Since when does Zmodem do compression?  I did look at the spec once, and
it appears that there is a flag for compression, but I have never seen
that flag implemented anywhere.

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Organization: The Pennylvania State University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:49:47 EDT
From: Ernie Oporto <EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C= Hacking Issue #4 3/5

In article <1992Oct5.100145.1@pembvax1.pembroke.edu>, duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
says:
>
>LITTLE RED READER: MS-DOS file reader for the 128 and 1571/81 drives.
>
>by Craig Bruce  <csbruce@neumann.uwaterloo.ca>
>
>1. INTRODUCTION
>
>This article presents a program that reads MS-DOS files and the root directory
>of MS-DOS disks.  The program copies only from drive to drive without
>buffering file data internally.  This is simpler and imposes no limits on the
>size of the files transferred, although it requires the use of two disk drives
>(or a logical drive).  The user-interface code is written in BASIC and
>presents a full-screen file selection menu.  The grunt-work code is written in
>assembly language and operates at maximum velosity.
>

I just used this yesterday to read some PSPICE files from an 3.5 IBM disk on
my 1581 to a 5.25 CBM disk on my 1541, and it worked just perfectly.  I cant
wait to get Little Red Writer so that I can have my CBM interact with an IBM
perfectly!"

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                               __       __    Computer Lab Attendant
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From: v131p9t3@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ninstar Cybermage - Back Again from the Mists!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: +==[====----GIFs----====]==+
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:21:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Could someone direct me to some kind of GIF viewer for the C-64?


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From: beman@terapin.com (Bemis Jarvis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: 1541, oki 20 color printer, 4 sale
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:35:01 PST
Organization: BBS

I have a 1541 disk drive for sale its in great condition 40.00
and a okimate 20 color printer with plug and print and manual 45.00
ant the following software for sale 
cobol 64
rerun c64/128 productivity pack with manual

also an adapter to make a commodore modem into a IBM/ Amiga compatable modem
25$ 
all price are debatable. discount for purchace of 2 or more items
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
Subject: C=128 parts...
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:15:21 GMT

     Where could I find parts and what each part in the C=128 do?
I am primarily interested in the computer chips.  It is for a GRAND 
PROJECT of mine.
  
                THANKS...
 
                                                   -TKH '92
From: shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Zmodem
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:37:46 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In article <1992Oct7.121021.7376@iscsvax.uni.edu> gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski) writes:
>More importantly, what ever happened to the idea of setting up a mailing list?
>Although I don't have the capacity to properly run a list (ie send all messages
>to x address and they get forwarded throughout the list), if anyone feels like
>doing this using distribution files (that's what they're called in VMS anyway,
>don't know about unix, but I'm sure you could alias it) I'd be willing to
>gather & then forward a the mailing list itself.  

Is there a kind soul who will volunteer to provide a host for a mail list
package?  Perhaps that is the catalyst needed to get people ahead on the
project.

>>> Dan
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