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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Amiga -- NOT CDTV -- CD-ROM
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:25:09 GMT

In article <199226.4247.24454@dosgate> "grant robinson" <grant.robinson@canrem.com> writes:
>-> >C= is going to come out with CD-Rom so the whole point is really
>-> moot.
>-> Is it?  Commodore has been very quiet on the isuue of **AMIGA** (not
>-> CDTV)
>
>Yes! Yes! Oh Yes! Oh Yes!......YES!  I was assured repeatedly at the
>WOCA when speaking with more than one C= employee that was indeed the
>case.  They said that given the level of growth of CD-Rom in the MS Dos
>world C= will follow suit such that CD-Rom is accessable to Amiga's
>across the board.  There is no clearer answer than that.

   That still leaves the question unanswered as to whether or not we can
expect any Amigas with CD-ROM drives as standard hardware.  

   Everybody knows that the CDTV is an A500 with CD-ROM drive.  In the same
way, CDTV titles are "A500 CD-ROM software".  Commodore could have left the 
market for A500 CD-ROM hardware and software entirely up to the third-party
companies, the way they have left the market for high-end and mid-range
Amiga CD-ROM software entirely to third-party companies.  But how many A500
CD-ROM titles (AKA CDTV titles) would have been developed if Commdoore had
done this, and not developed the CDTV?  Probably, none.  At most a very tiny
few.  But by developing the CDTV, Commodore unified the third-party companies,
gave them focus, and revolutionized the A500 CD-ROM market.  The result is
150 CDTV titles, about 50 times more than would have been developed for
A500 CD-ROM had Commodore left everything to the third-parties and had not
developed the CDTV.

   I basically want Commodore to do the same for A4000 CD-ROM that they did
for A500 CD-ROM.  Develop an A4000/030 to with CD-ROM drive as standard
hardware, to compete directly with the Tandy Sensation.  If they did so, the
third-party companies would again be unified and given focus, and many times
more uniquely-Amiga CD-ROM software products would be written.

   I think Tandy has the right idea by hitting the low-end and high-end 
CD-ROM markets at once with the VIS and the Sensation.  But Commodore could
do it better.  Commodore could kill both the Sensation and VIS fairly
easily, and it would not require the development of any new technologies.
All Commodore would have to do is bundle CD-ROM drives with the A1200 and
A4000, and develop some CD-ROM software for each.  The hardware of the
A1200 would require minor modifications to make it into a "CDTV II" to
compete with the VIS, but the A4000 would require none to compete with the
Sensation.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
Subject: Adjusting AGA (A1200) display tips for new users...
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:28:37 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

Since I just went through the hassle of getting my new A1200
display configured for my A1960 monitor I figured I would
relate the info here and add it to the distributed mind
of the UseNet.

First of all, if you are using a multiscan monitor and want to
take advantage of most of the screen modes provided by AGA you
must put the VGAONLY monitor in DEVS/MONITORS. For some reason
this fixes most of the problems I had.

Next drag all of the monitor types you want to play with into the
devs/monitors drawer and reboot.

After your workbench comes up go into the overscan prefs tool
and adjust the overscan so it look like you want it to. Using
a tool called "BBlank" will help you get the screen centered.
You will probably have to use the controls on your monitor to
move the screen to the center. After you get one screen mode
overscan prefs set up save it and switch to the next screen 
mode and then repeat the process. NOTE: you should only need
to mess with the controls on your monitor once. On my 1960
I have the vertical size set to auto and the other switch set
to "add". I then meeded with the horizontal position so it
looked OK.

This process will allow ou to use all of the screen modes fine
except for "MULTISCAN:Productivity" and "EURO72:Productivity".
For some reason the presence of the VGAONLY monitor type causes
these two display modes to be limited to 636 displayable horizontal 
resolution, resulting in a WB the scrolls left and right 4 pixels
when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen. Weird. But the
ability to get all of the other screen modes to work right more
than make up for it!

If you are going through hell getting your A1200 display configured
feel free to mail me at IANK@MICROSOFT.COM.

Ian.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: clldomps@cs.ruu.nl (Louis van Dompselaar)
Subject: Crunching is driving me MAD!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:52:54 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
Keywords: dasdsdas sdaas wewqe ewr fdsgdfg

Since I got enough disk space, but not enough computer time
(never enough :-). I'm getting pretty annoyed by all these
crunched programs that I can't seem to uncrunch.
Among these are my most-used programs SID2 and OctaMED Pro.
Can anyone tell me which program will uncrunch these for me?
It seems SID2 is powerpacked, but I can't uncrunch it with PP3.0.
OctaMED's cruncher isn't recognized by any program.

...help....

Louis
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From: ekrieger@quasar.hacktic.nl (Eric Krieger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Help with hard drive, please?
Date: 28 Dec 92 05:49:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Private
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Jason 'KodaK' Balicki (kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:

> Hello, I've recently come accross a used st-251 drive, and I've worked
> with this beast for quite a while now and if I don't get something
> done about it I'm going to hurl it in the local toxic waste dump.

> Here's what's going on:  I get the drive formatted (2-127 for System2.0:
> and 128-819 for Work:) install the system software, install some other
> piddily junk (fonts, jrcomm in the work: partrition) and it works fine for
> about a half hour with minimal disk useage.  After a while I start
> getting "Sector xxx has a read error", something about an unreadable
> header, and a score of other junk.  

> Am I doing something wrong? 
> Could the drive just be hot (I've got the cover off, so no airflow
> through the vents, I put a fan on it just to see, nothing to report so
> far.) 

Hmm, it could be a temperature-related problem.  You could try to
back-up the HD, and perform a low-level format, ADos format and
restore.  But do the low-level format only when the drive is warmed
up, let's assume an 1/2 hour after starting up your equipment.

When this doesn't help, i'm afraid there's really something with it.

> --Jason Balicki
> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

Good luck and an Happy New Year.

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From: eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Help needed recovering ASCII data from FAST RAM
Date: 21 Dec 92 16:59:37 GMT
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.


     My daughter was working on a project for school this weekend.
She was using Micro-Gnu Emacs 2a and AmigaDOS 1.3.2 on an Amiga 1000
with a hard drive, a Wedge controller, SOTS 2 Meg board, ConMan and
DMouse 1.20. Unfortunately she never saved her work, and last night
when she asked me to show her how to set up Promise, we discovered
what acts like a layers library lockup. :-(  I can't open the (two)
iconified MG2a instances, and I think I caused a requester to try to
pop-up from the shell.

     Of course the nicest way to fix the problem would be to figure
out how to unlock it from the shell (if I can get a prompt back), but
even then every useful tool I can think of opens a window.  (The
behavior is that I can resize the shell window, and move the MG2a
icons/windows around, and ConMan is active in the shell, but Workbench
can't update anything, and validator.device does nothing if I swap
floppies. 

    Absent a miracle like that, I figure I will have to nerve pinch
then try to recover the text from FAST RAM.  I have another Amiga at
home so I can create a custom boot disk if that is a good idea, but I
assume that booting from the current boot disk will not overwrite
anything I care about.  (It's what happens next that gets touchy, but
anything smaller than MG2a will probably be safe.)  If I had a small
program to copy FAST RAM to the hard drive, that should do the trick.
Any ideas?

     Also, does anyone know of an upgrade to or replacement for
billsdisk.device?

    (Use e-mail for suggestions of how to recover the data, and
/dev/null for posts telling me I'm out of luck or to upgrade to
AmigaDOS 2.1.  While she was working on the paper, I was arranging for
the local dealer to install a Kwickstart board in this machine for
Christmas...but I need to recover the data first. Hmmmm...Hardware
upgrade suggestions should go the same place, since I will probably
get a 4000 and a 1200 under the upgrade deal, but this machine will be
in my daughter's room for a year or two longer. :-)  



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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Using non-default icon for RAM:
Date: Sun,  3 Jan 93 20:38:49 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I colorize my RAM: disk icon and save it. Looks great. Re-boot, and
>its back to its old self! I tried saving the colorized ram:disk.info
>to harddisk and after booting, copying it to ram:.  It didn't work!
>What am I doing wrong, and how can I accomplish what I am trying to 
>do?  Thanks in advance.
>
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>Dallas TX 75206                         voice: (214) 821-5481     \X/

Alfredo.. make sure that you copy your new ram disk.info to the ram:
disk BEFORE the line "LoadWB" appears in your startup-sequence. Also
make sure it's a "disk" type icon, otherwise, it won't work. 

Harv
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: "roger bouchard" <roger.bouchard@canrem.com>
Subject: reasons for amiga cd
Reply-To: "roger bouchard" <roger.bouchard@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 1 Jan 93 06:03:40 EST

HR>They sold out of every one they had brought with them. C-Ltd was
HR>selling one of the first Amiga hard drive interfaces (remember,
HR>back in '86 the only Amiga you could buy was the A1000 :-)
HR>Ahhh... o/~ memories o/~

MEMORIES ?! if you are talking about the non-autoboot one , I am still
USING ONE .

a bear to set up but works flawlessly with ANYTHING I ever threw at it , a
claim not to many A2000 controller can do I am told :-)

still happy with my 1000 but looking at the 1200 .


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: A1200 Notes
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 15:02:12 GMT

In article <Paula_Lieberman.07re@amicol.UUCP> Paula_Lieberman@amicol.UUCP (Paula Lieberman) writes:
>re article by Jeff Easton discussing briefly his new Amiga 1200: There're
>markings on the two extra keys (extra compared with the US 500s, etc.)  The
>ones on my 1200 -- which is still the -same- 1200 with the read-only
>internal floppy drive -- Commodore Express provides -no- support for the
>1200 in the US whatsoever.  "We haven't gotten any of them yet, we don't
>even know what they look like, go bother your dealer and ask the dealer to
>swap it with another 1200"   Yeah, sure..... The dealer hasn't gotten a
>second shipment of them in yet, and the dealer's comment is also,
>"Commodore Express is supposed to handle that, in the first place."  If the
>dealer HAD gotten ne machines in, I've been assured the machine would be
>swapped.  But it's -supposed- to be Commodore Express, and within 24
>hours.... it's been a week and a half..... I called Monday, I called
>Thursday, on the latter I was told to call back Monday.  Commodore Express
>rates an "F" for responsiveness to Amiga 1200 problem.

  Paula, you took a left turn in there somewhere.  Sorry about your
A1200 floppy.  Mine works fine.

  As to the first sentence above, my A1200 has two blank keys, no
graphics on the top or the faces.  Your saying that yours has markings?
Does your barcode label say US on it, as in;

	A1200
	2M
	US
	MA


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: tim@lenti.med.umn.edu (Tim Leonard)
Subject: Re-partitioning GVP 500HD with 2.04 and FAAASTprep?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:17:16 GMT

I would like to repartition my GVP 500-8+ drive.  I want
to have a separate partition for workbench files but
my problem is this. I am using workbench 2.04 and 
my GVP FAAAST Prep disk has old 1.3 files on its'
floppy.  If I re-prep and partition the drive, how
do I re-install the workbench partition with my
2.04 files?  Do I make a 2.04 boot floppy and copy
the FAAAST Prep install program to it?

I saved the present contents of the hard disk with ABackup.

The GVP book isn't very complete.  It doesn't even explain
the bad block remap button or the low level format button.

Thanks much,

Tim Leonard  tim@lenti.med.umn.edu
From: kkrebs@amilink.UUCP (Ken Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: What's the story on CPUBlit & 3.0?
Distribution: world
Reply-To: amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:35:35 PST
Organization: Citizens Against Whiny A-Holes, Sacramento, CA

In article <OD.6BadNetOA92-901-231p0_55b2ce0b@piraya.bad.se> Mike_Noreen@anet.bbs.bad.se (Mike Noreen) writes:
> (You told me that 'cpublit -b' would make CPUBlit work under kick3.0)
>  
> Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, that made PowerSnap start to produce '?' whenever 
> I try to snap something... Oh, well, back to the drawingboard.
>  
> On a sidenote; the '-b' stands for 'broken', doesn't it? Does that mean that 
> CPUBlit considers kick3.0 blitmaps to be defective?


Probably not.  KS 3.0 has introduced new interleaved screens to prevent
flicker and CPUBlit does not recognize it as a "normal" mode.  Anyone know
if the author of CPUBlit is ever going to update it?  It's a wonderful
piece of software!



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Re: New Datatypes?
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:19:42 GMT
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Jon Reid (jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:

: >sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle) writes:

: >>Does anybody know if anybody has created any extra Datatypes for WB3.0,
: >>such as GIF, and if they do exist, an FTP site or other place they are
: >>available?

: >I have been looking, but have came up empty so far.  Would like to see
: >a gif and jpg.

: If you have access to GEnie, file #18002 in the Amiga *StarShip* libraries
: is described as "GIF Datatype for WB3.0".
: -- 
: Jon Reid    j-reid@uiuc.edu    GEnie: THE.REIDS
: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

Can somebody please d/l that file and either post it here uuencoded, or
send it on its merry way to wuarchive or amiga.physik, along with details
on which programs can use it?
From: cg18ffl@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Spumoni...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: 3000 performance
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:17:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: University of California, San Diego


	I am a proud new owner of an A3000/25 with 6 megs of mem and a 52 meg
HD. I was wondering about those various ways one would use to squeeze a bit
more speed out of the system (not that I'm complaining, mind you. :) ) I've
heard of something referring to 'VBR' which I assume stands for 'Vector Base
Register' and has something to do with Exec. At any rate, I've heard of a
patch for the VBR which was supposed to speed up the system somewhat. What
exactly is this? My memory is furry.
	Another trick I've heard of is to map the ROM (2.04) to 32 bit Fast
Mem. I'm not sure how to do this. Does it involve using SetCPU (which I don't
have right now)? What kind of advantages does this offer?
	Sysinfo (other than confirming that I'm running at an already healthy
speed) also 'says' (I'm not sure of the accuracy) that the Ramsey, Buster, and
DMAC chips are all the first revision. According to the Sysinfo (3.01) docs,
these chips had some bugs in them. Would these bugs affect any attempts to
play with the aforementioned settings? A nuclear meltdown?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. E-Mail preferred; however, the choice is
up to you. Aren't I nice.


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From: mlelstv@spckls.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Subject: Re: Looking for Amiga GIF2PS
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Radioastronomie
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:41:09 GMT

In <BzpC63.GAu@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
>   Could someone tell me where I can find the source and Amiga executable for
>GIF2PS, the GIF to PostScript converter?  I could not find it on any of the
>Amiga FTP sites, and had no luck compiling the UNIX version on Amiga.  

Try pbmplus:

giftoppm pic.gif | pnmtops >pic.ps

will do the job.

Regards,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Subject: NEW RELEASE:  KingFisher v1.15
Summary: All bugs fixed, several new features
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:56:59 GMT


  Available via anonymous ftp is version 1.15 of KingFisher, fixing all
  bugs (including a problem with national characters the presence of which
  could lockup the program.)  Version 1.15 also adds a number of features,
  such as FirstFish/LastFish gadgets.

  General overview of KingFisher:

  KingFisher is a freely distributable replacement for Aquarium, providing
  a mechanism to search for software in Fred Fish's Library of Freely
  Distributable Software.  KingFisher has been designed for users of both
  floppy-only and harddisks systems operating under either Kickstart 1.3
  or Kickstart 2.0.  Some features are available only under Kickstart 2.0.

  KingFisher v1.15 offers the following features:

  - Maintains a split database across multiple disk volumes,
  - Searches this database more than 3 times faster than Aquarium,
  - Provides a small and very fast program name search index,
  - Adds new fish directly from Contents files or Usenet postings,
    even from multiple concatenated postings or email contents files,
  - Fish can be deleted from the end of the database to undo errors,
  - Database is a line-oriented text file accessed through index
    which can be modified by hand and then reindexed,
  - Flexible print and export functions, including search-filtered
    output,
  - Select from multiple different search strings,
  - Limit searches to a portion of the database,
  - Follow version links to older or newer versions of software,
  - Maintain multiple different "bookmarks" into the database and
    switch between them with a single mouse click,
  - Supports proportional and scalable fonts for description text,
  - Now supports the 2.0 display database including Text Overscan.
    Limited support for overscan, PAL, and interlace displays is
    available under 1.3.
  - String gadgets are optionally kept active for keyboard comfort,
  - Full configuration saved between executions,
  - Iconifies to save Chip RAM (46K).

This update does not include a database.  To obtain the database you must
obtain a file named KingFisher.lha which is 477691 bytes in size, or obtain
version 1.11 from the Fish Disks.  KingFisher115.lha is 75809 bytes in
size.

KingFisher115.lha can be found at the following ftp sites:

wuarchive.wustl.edu	128.252.135.4	   /systems/amiga/incoming/fish
grind.isca.uiowa.edu	128.255.19.233	   /amiga/Read.These         (*)
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	128.174.5.59	   /pub/amiga/KingFisher     (*)

(*) May take a little time for KingFisher115.lha to show up there.


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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Reasons for Amiga CD-ROM
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 22:44:11 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In article <Bzu958.DvD@news.iastate.edu>
barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:

|  [...]
|     See?  Now you're getting the idea.  There are more possibilities with
|  CD-ROM than without it.  

Y'know, probably most don't remember this, but at one of the FAUG (First
Amiga Users' Group) meetings during 1986, Jim Becker demo'd his InfoMinder
program with a CD-ROM on the Amiga.  Some encyclopedia on a CD-ROM, stereo
sound, and intermixed with the Amiga's generated graphics.

Stupendous.  It brought down the house.  And the "house" was packed literally
wall-wall and floor-ceiling in those days (when even Allen Hastings demo'd
his first efforts).

NOTHING else on ANY computer at that time could compare.  NOTHING.  Period.

That was over 6 years ago; sadly, another idea before its time killed due
to poor marketing and lack of vision of promoters AND users/buyers.

The Amiga could have totally dominated the multi-media market had 6 years'
of intervening development continued.

Sigh.

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]