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From: rkorczyk@sadis05.sa.aflc.af.mil (RICK KORCZYK - SCDR (AI LAB))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Joystick / Sound Cards
Summary: Which is the best?
Keywords: HELP!!!
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:27:16 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: 1923CCSG/SC Kelly AFB

What is the best Joystick for Apogee game playing and other games?

Also, which is a better sound card --- Graves or SB Pro V2.

Thanks in advance.

Rick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 00:58:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

And another reason that people want shareware/public domain stuff is that
they can't use or don't want all the features in the commercial software.
A prime example is Winfax Pro.  This is a program that causes your faxmodem
to act like a printer under windows.  It also allows background receiving
of faxes and comes with filters to convert the fax into various picture 
formats.  Some of the packages come with OCR software.  The developer wants
$120 list (about $70, mail-order) for this program.  But, many fax modems
and most older Notebook fax modems can't receive faxes; they can only send.
So why should the owners of such boards buy an expensive program that they
are only able to use less than half of its features?

Also, word processors are incredibly powerful, but would you use word for
windows just to create some source code for a class assignment or for work?
I don't think so.  You'd want a simple, pure ASCII editor that allows
copy/cut/paste and maybe a search/replace feature.

Besides, most commerical software seems to be way over-priced for their per-
formance.  Look at many games.  I've seen Gunship 2000 (if I remember the
title correctly) that was $50 when it first came out.  It's now on the <$10
shelf at several software stores.  It wasn't worth $50 since it had cheesy
graphis and sound, but it is worth $10.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: omar@osf.org (Mark Marino)
Subject: Re: How to get mouse driver into upper mem?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:07:06 GMT


Thanks to all who replied.  It turns out that the MS mouse driver takes about
30K to initialize and I didn't have a 30K chuck of UMB for LOADHIGH to load it
in.  The mouse driver requires about 17K resident, which I did have in UMB.

My temporary solution (until I can get QEMM 6.0 cheap) was to grab an older
version of the MS mouse driver (v8.10) which still supported the /e and /u 
options, which leaves about 8k in conventional mem and throws the rest in high
mem.  It's a kludge, but it works.  My only question is why did they eliminate
the /e and /u options from the v8.2 mouse driver?


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From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:45:32 GMT
Organization: Harris Computers Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale,FL

In article <1992Aug18.205648.23544@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
->In <9251@travis.csd.harris.com> mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole) writes:
->
->>In article <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June) writes:
->>-On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:
->>-
->>- MM- From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
->>- MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
->>- MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
->>- MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
->>- MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
->>-
->>- MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold 
->>- MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak 
->>- MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.
->>-
->>-Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.
->>-
->>-I love it!
->>-Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...
->>-
->>-
->>-
->>---  
->>-Ed June
->>-
->>-Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
->
->>Ed,
->
->> Apparently you don't care to play DOS games that tax your hardware.
->> Try that with the DOS game Ultima VII and post your results.
->
->There are a a small handful of games which don't run correctly under
->OS/2.  Of course, you give him one of those and then act like it is
->representative.  Ultima VII and Civilization don't run correctly (or
->so I understand).  However, the number of DOS games that fail to work
->under OS/2 is smaller than the number of Windows 3.0 programs that
->fail to run under Windows 3.1.
->
->

Fred,
  Ultima VII and Civilization are representative of the state of the art
  for PC based games.   They are also the two top selling PC games right
  now.  I am not slamming OS/2, the market has already done that.  Any
  application that expects to have comlete control of sytem resources is
  going to be problematic for OS/2 or any true multitasking operating
  system on a PC.  My comments about OS/2 as an operating system for a machine
  that primarily runs games stand.  I suggest you look up my post that Ed
  replied to and view them in that context.

  Mike

__
  mikem@travis.csd.harris.com  Mike McCole  305-973-5466
  2101 W. Cypress Creek Road  Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 MS 143
  All opinions expressed are mine, not Harris Corporations.
From: june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: OS/2, VERY cool!
Date: 16 Aug 92 09:54:24 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:133/308 - Information Overloa, Riverdale GA

On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:

 MM> From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
 MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
 MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
 MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
 MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

 MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold 
 MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak 
 MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.

Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.

I love it!
Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...



--  
Ed June

Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
Internet:  ed_june@over.mind.org
Internet:  june@gisatl.fidonet.org
UUCP:      ...!emory!uumind!overmind!ed_june
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From: lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Internet Connection from Home
Keywords: Internet,Connection,Home,Modem,Cost,How
Date: 16 Aug 92 01:33:42 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


How would I go about getting an Internet connection from home?  I
don't mean be connected all the time, but how would I be able to call
someplace and pick up Internet mail and Usenet news?  Does anyone have
information on this?  Please email me.
   Dean
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08879-2464  USA          at 908/727-1914 (1200/2400/9600)
From: sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Keywords: Unknown
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:23:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division

nunn@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN) writes:


>CONCLUSION:

>  Microsoft!!....invent UNIX and make it free. The UNIX system is perfect,
>nothing bets UNIX. UNIX rules the world and UNIX was implemented properly!.
>If you can't do that, give us the source code for messy. At least that way,
>32 bits hackers can built it 32 bits.

Ever lost an inode in UNIX, especially one for a file that is needed during
boot?  UNIX ain't perfect.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:19:38 GMT

In article <q2aDPB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org> sharky@buscard.fidonet.org (Gary Sciacca) writes:
>Anyone know why I would modem problems with windows and
>not in DOS. I have 2 com ports and 1 internal modem at
>com 3. The mouse is working fine as com 2 in windows
>but I'm having flacky probs with and windows application
>that uses a modem. Hangs system, with faults, download 
>problems. If I use the internal modem with Procomm
>under DOS 5.0 only, everthing works fine. Do I have some

Ah, the classic question every windows user with a fast (>2400)
modem asks, sooner or later. The problem is that when a character
comes in the serial port, it signals with an IRQ that the computer
should copy the received character into memory. This has to happen
immediately because the UART (8250 or 16450) has room for one character
only. With windows running, there is so much activity going on that
the CPU can't serve the serial port fast enough. This of course
results in losing incoming charaters.

Solution: replace your serial port UART with a 16550. This has a 16 byte
buffer, so that the serial port can hold 16 characters before starting
to lose data. This has solved all my friend's problems similar to yours.

How to find out what UART you have? There must be several programs
that can report this. The one I know of is Port Finder v2.7
You can get it via FTP from SIMTEL20 from msdos' sysutl directory
named  pf270.zip.
European users: nic.funet.fi /pub/msdos/utilities/sysutl/pf270.zip



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From: T.D.G.Sandford@bradford.ac.uk (TDG SANDFORD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to undelete
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:33:23 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 90908106@muser

In article <jf=ylsk@rpi.edu> ncc1701@acm.rpi.edu writes:
>Sounds like some of the files were cross-linked.  As long as
>they were all deleted, they had equal chance of being recovered
>in an "orderly" fashion.  However, once one file that was
>cross-linked with another was recovered, the second file
>would see part of itself as being allocated, and would
>therefore no longer have a good chance at recovery.
>
Not necessarily - more likely the files were fragmented, and undeleting one
of the earlier ones incorrectly included the start cluster of one of the later
files (since, without delete tracking, there is no way of telling which
clusters apart from the first one to use - so undelete programs generally
allocate the next available cluster until the file length is satisfied). It
can be better to undelete starting from the LAST file in the directory and
working up, but the best solutions are i) don't delete the wrong files in
the first place :-) ii) keep backups iii) use delete tracking iv) unfragment
your hard disk regularly
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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:40:51 GMT
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

In article <1992Aug21.201734.20379@PA.dec.com> reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com
(Jim Reisert) writes:
>To me, given equal functionality and comparable prices [...]

     You may just have hit the nail on the head there.  Usually, for
equal functionality, shareware is cheaper.  (This is not always the case,
but usually so.)  There is a good reason for that:  Shareware authors
don't pay much for advertising and distribution.  People find out about
their products by word of mouth and the software then gets around by
being passed from BBS to FTP site to BBS at no cost to the original
author.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
From: bytehead@bp1742.UUCP (Bryan Price)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PC Support/400 on clones?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:53:09 EDT
Organization: Burning Point, Columbus OH  43229-5646

nectar@world.std.com (Jacques A Vidrine) writes:

> Has anyone had any experience running PC Support/400 from IBM on 
> a vanilla clone?  

Yep

> I have tried to run PC Support on three different brands of clones
> and I have met with failure each time.  For those familiar with
> PC Support, the component that fails is STARTRTR.  Just as soon as
> you hit enter after this command, the machine hangs.
> 
> IBM tells me it's hardware.  Vendors say it's software.

I'm not shocked.  I've had IBM pull this shit on me before.  They
backed down right before I gave them the riot act.

> I tend to believe it is software, since my other network applications
> (TCP/IP, Novell Netware) work without a hitch on all the clones.
> 
> This is a Token Ring environment, BTW.

Hmmmm.  We're using Enhanced 5250 emulation cards currently, and
we'll probably go to Ethernet later. :)

Actually, it's been a while since I've installed it (Version 1
Release 1 I think), I've got people to do that for me now! :)

More information please.  What version and release are you running,
which TRN cards are you using?  If the cards aren't IBM, you might
want to check with the TRN vendor to see if they have any specific
drivers for PC Support.

Do you get the banner of STARTRTR, or does it immediately hang?

What brand clones are you using (BIOS mfgr if nothing else)?

Bryan L. Price       | [ bytehead@bp1742.UUCP ]           *Burning Magnesium*
<Why would I make    | [ {n8emr|nstr}!bluemoon!bp1742!bytehead]
my disc any laimer?> | [ Bryan.Price@p1742.f340.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG ]
From: lio@ornl.gov (MILLION D L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Need some good PC diagnostics
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:31:04 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

I'm having one of those maddeningly intermittent problems with my
Zeos 486/33 wherein the machine hangs completely at what seems like
random moments.  Everything stops and nothing but the RESET button
can recover.  It's happened in Windows 3.0, in Windows 3.1, and in 
plain ol' DOS as well.

I suspect some sort of hard-to-locate hardware problem.  I would like
to find some good diagnostic software for PC's that can really wring
the system out and possibly locate a bad memory chip or whatever.
Unfortunately, I am not real familiar with what's available in this line.
I've had someone suggest CHECKIT.  I've also read about something called
AMI Diag in PC Magazine (which is $150!!).

Can anyone out there recommend anything?  Surely by now someone has 
written some decent diagnostics for PC clones.  I'm willing to consider
PD, shareware, or commercial.  What I *don't* want is an "exerciser"
or "burnin" program that just runs until something breaks, but doesn't
really tell you what's wrong.

Thanks.

Dan Million               Internet:  milliondl@ornl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rjmathia@novell.com (Robert Mathias)
Subject: Re: What's the Best PD term program?
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:58:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.224946.14099@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes:
>Yeah!  Qmodem 5.0 is the BEST.  I used to use Telix and it was ok, but now
>I use Qmodem after someone made the suggestion.  Only problem is that Qmodem
>and Telix are shareware, but they are better than most commercial comm
>programs.  I have people who bought comm programs and after trying Qmodem,
>they hate them all.

I also like Qmodem and would certainly recommend it to a novice user.  But
Qmodem 5.0 is now a commercial comm program.  Mustang who bought Qmodem
last year plans to stiil have a shareware version, but it will be one
version behind the commercial version.  I believe that 4.5 is the current 
shareware version.
Bob Mathias
rjmathia@Novell.com
CSERV: 70340,165
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bevans@mta.ca
Subject: Re: How do I send a binary file to a printer?
Reply-To: bevans@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:45:25 GMT

In <6536@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> georgew@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (George Walker) writes:
>
>I'm running Windows and I have a crummy printer, but I have access to
>another PC running DOS that has a laser printer.  If I do a "print to file"
>from my word processor under Windows, with the correct printer setup, and
>then take that file to the DOS machine, how do I print the file?  My DOS
>manual says that the DOS "print" command is only for text files.

>Thanks for any help.

COPY the file to the device (e.g. LPT1:) with the /b switch which:
"causes MS-DOS to copy data to the device in binary mode...all characters
(including special control characters) are copied to the device as data."

	-from TFM

Bill
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Wang IBM emulation
Date: 12 Aug 92 06:08:40 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

I've got a Wang computer that has an IBM card in it. Does any one know 
how to configure it to boot up into the IBM mode rather than having to go 
through the boring sequence of starting it up via the Wang startup??

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems:  Celebrating 10 years of service to Northern Alberta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
Subject: Convert xt => 386 for $150?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:14:56 GMT

A local computer shop offers to convert any xt or 286 to a 386, 35mhz
machine for about $150 US.
Does this make sense?
Would it be worthwhile?
-- 
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Dept. of Philosophy                  | FAX:     (204) 261-0021
University of Manitoba               | Voice:   (204) 474-9136
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: shedevil@leland.Stanford.EDU (Anne P. Mitchell, JD)
Subject: Error Trying to Shell Out of PcPlus Host Mode
Reply-To: shedevil@gw.home.vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell, J.D.)
Organization: Fathers Rights & Equality Exchange
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 05:16:59 GMT



When I dial into my host machine, using ProComm +'s host mode, and try
to shell out, I get an "Error 18" message.  Now, if in regular
procomm, you can get that message w hen you hit alt-f4 if the program
can't access your command.com, I think.  I made sure to put my
command.com in my path, and actually while at my host machine I logged
in by hitting f4 after entering host mode [which lets you do a local
login from the host machine] and I was able to shell out with no
problem.  But now, back home, I still am unable to shell out.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks.
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Are Seagate hard drives any good ?
Date: 16 Aug 92 02:40:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


  My first hard drive was a used Seagate that I got free from a friend of a
friend who was upgrading.  It was two years old then.  After I used it for 
four years, I gave the computer to my nephew, who's still using the thing
now, two years later.  The drive has about ten bad sectors.

  It's an ST-157R, by the way.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: WANTED : Looking for LIST Plus...
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:14:21 GMT

In <77555@ut-emx.uucp> pokey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Da VinceMeister) writes:


>	I'm looking for the V.Buerg's shareware program LIST Plus
>	(I'm not sure what the most recent version is). Is there
>	an FTP site on which I could find it?

Check out wuarchive.wustl.edu in the mirrors/msdos/txtutl directory for the
file named list76b.zip . This is the last shareware version as far as I
know. LIST has gone commercial.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Algirdas Avizienis)
Subject: Wanted : FIDOnet Nodelist...
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 23:10:22 GMT

	I don't know if this is the right newsgroup to post this in,
but it didn't seem to fit into any of the others in the comp.sys.ibm.pc
hierarchy.  I need a copy of the (preferably most recent) FIDOnet nodelist.
Is it possible to find an FTPable copy of it somewhere?

Thanks a lot.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: mcmanus@dxcern.cern.ch (Leo McManus)
Subject: 287 emulator program? 286 to 486 upgrade
Summary: help needed
Keywords: help
Organization: CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:24:31 GMT

s there a 287 emulator available?

Is it possible to upgrade my 286 system to a 486 yet?
Leo

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:21:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.173743.12633@crpmks.uucp> billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems)) writes:
>If you're playing timer specific games, like Shooting Gallery, uner OS/2 you 
>will suffer from periodic cpu slowdowns ans spurts as the system does other 
>things, robbing the DOS session of cycles.

On the other hand, DOS does not let you do other things, so these is no other
thing to steal cycles. How true.

As a matter of fact, under OS/2, most "time-critical" games actually run 
quite well even with background jobs. It all depends on how you set up your
system. (Face it, there isn't all that many programs more demanding than
multitasking a couple of 9600baud transfers with other jobs.)

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