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From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Are mouse problems supposed to happen??
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 12:30:47 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Jul19.221148.1@vaxr.llnl.gov>

>
>Hmmm!  I've had the same (out of the box, run of the mill) mouse on my A2000 
>for atleast five years and I've NEVER (yes, that means never, ever) cleaned 
>it.  It has always worked fine for me.  I know that you're supposed to clean 
>it periodically, but since I haven't ever had problems with mine, I've left 
>it alone.  (Forgotten about it actually).  I AM using a mouse pad, so is this 
>what makes the difference?  I'm just curious if my lack of mouse problems is 
>rare. 
>
>Now that I've said that, my mouse will probably become un-jambable, the next 
>time I use it.  (Knock on wood)!
>
>Joe
>-- 
Lots of factors come into play as to whether or not one has to
clean a mouse frequently or rarely or never. Given two identical
mice in two different households or office environments, you could
get two totally different sets of results. 

Do you smoke? Cigaret smoke's tiny airborne particles cling to all
kinds of surfaces and leave a kind of yellowish film on things.
This film can attract dirt. Do you eat or drink near the computer?
Are you using a slick mousepad with a kind of smooth "wet suit"
or leather surface or are you using a soft fuzzy-surfaced pad?
Back when I used the standard Amiga mouse (I switched to a Boing
optical mouse a few years ago), I tried different pads and the soft
fuzzy pads tended to make tmy mouse gunk up its innards faster and
more often than the slick plasticky surfaced ones,... with those
it appeared as though the mouse left the deposits ON the pad (mouse
droppings :-) rather than inside on its rollers. 

At any rate, I think you'll find that the cleaner you keep your
computer area, the less likely it is that the mouse will require
frequent and constant cleaning. 

Harv
From: sbiddle@aviate.welly.gen.nz (Steve Biddle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga appoint./diary scheduler
X-Newsreader: Ann 0.9
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:01:47 +1200
Organization: Steves Amiga - Wellington, New Zealand.

In article <1992Jul25.012516.6627@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
	dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman) writes:
>Does anyone know if a package called On The Ball has been released yet
>for the Amiga. Someone sent me a message a few months (?) ago saying
>it would be released soon but I have heard nothing since.

I haven't heard of there program, but on a related note, I did pick up a
program the other day, that I recall seeing on a FTP site somewhere, by the
name of filofax which seems to be quite a nice program, 2.0 look and all..


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From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: Mysterious tool in Tool dir
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 2.0, 1992/06/25 01:41:36
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 25 Jul 92 14:11:44 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

In <1992Jul24.231916.2727@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>, u2112539@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> 	Has anybody spotted a program in the Tools directory that goes by the
> name .. PrepCard ?

I believe that's for cards that go in the PCIA slot in the A600.
Putting it on all WB disk doesn't do any damage to other machines, and
saves CBM money. Sorta like the clock-tweaking software for the A2000
that showed up on my A1000 once upon a time.

Somehow, I doubt that the pre-A600 machines will grow a PCIA slot.

	<mike
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:12064 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:20017
From: sboutwel@sandbox.kenn.wa.us (Scott Boutwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: C= speaks!!! let's spread the words!!!
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:20:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: sandbox.1992Jul30.012051.7319
Organization: The Sandbox, Public Access HP-UX


If Commodore is so all fired concerned about their Image why then is Marketing
now trying to squeez our only affiliated Amiga Dealer in the area in to death.
Buy having marketing tell him that if they don't sell $3000 in merchandise per
month they are going to jerk his right to be a Commodore Affiliate???  

What the H*ll is up commodore?  The only other place to purchase Amiga's is
150 miles...  Why is the Amiga dying... Because of lack of exposure.  Users
have been telling you that for years!!!  I've seen alot of folks from
Commodore Engineering and Software developement on the Nets but why aren't the
guys that are killing the machine looking in on what is being said.  Why is
Marketing not paying attention??  WHY?  Sorry about he rating and raving... 
But some of us users in this area have worked hard to try and get some kind of
Amiga exposure in our area.   I'm starting to feel betrayed for thinking that
the Amiga was the best platform by a company that many are starting to feel
does not really give a D**N.  Well marketing what is your response????

-- 
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.misc:12075 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:20070 bit.listserv.i-amiga:5985
From: doiron@starpt.UUCP (Glenn Doiron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re: Robinson 1, Commodore 0
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:37:23 GMT
Organization: 68K Software Development
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga GRn V1.16b 5/26/92 by Mikes Schwartz & Smith

In article <1992Jul28.233245.8900@leland.Stanford.EDU> dvoelker@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Voelker) writes:
>Add my name to the list of those who were underwhelmed by Commodore's
>reply to Philip Robinson's column proclaiming the Amiga's death.  They
>would have done better to keep their mouths shut; their anemic response
>essentially concedes the argument to him.
>     Never mind whether the machine is "dead;" that's a rhetorical 
>point that people could argue all day and not resolve (are black and
>white movies dead?  Ask Woody Allen).  But who knows better than
>Amiga owners that Commodore is guilty of taking a design that was
>light-years ahead of its nearest competitors and squandering its
>potential with negligent marketing, snail-paced development and often
>indifference to users?
>     I personally would like to see Commodore's "Sic 'em, users!" strategy
>blow up in its face and result in a flood of mail from Amiga owners
>thanking Robinson for giving the machine a proper eulogy.
>     The only support Commodore has now is the blind allegiance of the
>"My Amiga, right or wrong" cheerleaders.  Wake up, people!  Haven't we
>been their dupes for long enough?
>-- 
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>|   Dave Voelker      Stanford University     dvoelker@leland.stanford.edu  |
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

[Dave, this isn't directed at you in particular.]

My, my.  Such strong words.  How have you been duped in the past 6 or 7 years?

The way I see it is that we have a bunch of screaming, whining babies who are
afraid to buy 3rd party enhancements for their computer and/or are angry
because they won't get a free upgrade to whatever technology they want next.

I'm not saying that CBM is perfect (far from it); but you can whine all year
long, and just like -MB-, if you can't put your finger on what exactly you're
whining about, you'll be ignored just like him.  There is a lot of hot air
in this newsgroup.  I have yet to figure out why.

Come on, folks, let's hear it.  WHY are you so angry?

Remember: TANSTAAFL

Glenn Doiron
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From: Daryl_Austman@tvbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Daryl Austman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: BRU HD/Backup
Distribution: world
Date: 26 Jul 92 14:26:02 PST
Organization: Tunnel Vision BBS!

I recently experienced a problem that someone out there may have a solution
to! I've backed-up my hard drive with the 2.0 HD-Backup util and find that
I can not access disks after disk36 due to a format error on disk 36.  Is
there any way around this? Can I access disks 37-51 any other way? Help?
Daryl Austman

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 12:50:46 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <fQhF4vU@quack.sac.ca.us>, chetc@quack.sac.ca.us (Chester L. Cuaresma) writes:
|> I have this zip file which claims to be an Amiga emulator for the PC.
|> Now, this can't be for real, is it?  Does anybody have any information
|> on it?  Does it really work?
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> 
|> 					Chet C.
|> 
|> -- 
|> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|> +      Chester L. Cuaresma                chetc@quack.sac.ca.us        +
|> +          FLIP, FLIP, FLIP, GASP, GASP, GASP, "meow" (BOOM!)          +
|> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|> 

 Forget it. Best you can do: del amiga.zip.
 The file is a joke. It is on the PC-Scene for years now, and had always been
 a joke. All it really does is to display the Workbench-Hand on the
 Screen and to make strange noise on the Floppers. 
 Where does it get the Kickstart from ? Look at the size of the emulator ...

 Anyway, the hardware of the Amiga can't be emulated by software.

 Again, delete it, be happy that a PC can't emulate an Amiga.

 Markus.

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Angewandte Informatik  SnailMail: Postfach 100131, D-4800 BIELEFELD 1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
From: wesdia@sniap.mchp.sni.de (Wolf-Eckart Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Amiga programmers UNITE
Reply-To: Wolf-Eckart.Schmidt@sniap.mchp.sni.de
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 09:28:00 GMT

In article <156tmgINN94r@network.ucsd.edu> simon@ivem.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) writes:
>
>I've got an idea...maybe all the amiga programmers available can pool
>together their resources and start developing the necessary programs
>people have been seeking from the commercial companies and distribute
>them as mail-ware.
>
>For example:
>Word processing...People always complain about one thing or another.
>   The hot shot amiga programmers can either get together at one location
>   and start their own company or work through the network at their home
>   locations to write the ultimate Microsoft Word/Word Perfect killer for
>   the Amiga!

That would be very necessary I think!
The "company" could be widely spread, divided in local groups, who work on
special units of the software for their own. Therefore the interfaces between
the units should be defined by some developers before starting the project.


>Spreadsheets...ditto.
>
>Instead of all the amiga programmers working individually to write little
>or medium sized applications/tools, they should communicate with one another
>and write some more professional applications to compensate for the lack of 
>productiviey software.  Mail-ware would be where they would announce the
>[stuff deleted]
>So how about it?

I would participate in a project like this to help the Amiga coming out
of the hole, in which it has fallen! Especially word processing is a point,
that has to be worked on!

>-Simon

Eike


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: c8908461@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Robert Lang)
Subject: Fish CDROM & ab20 CDROM ?
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:37:40 GMT

Can someone please post or email me details about how to get the
Fred Fish CDROM and the ab20 CDROM ??? Any other good PD CDROMs for
the Amiga ?

Thanks, I'm in Australia by the way, so include postage if possible.

Robert.
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: a Path for Workbench
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:33:52 GMT
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere) writes:
>I think that Workbench needs a path handling, just like a shell. That
>would ease the
>launch of project thru theirs icons.
>
>Hence, we'll no more write that defaultool is c:PPmore (just an example)
>or sys:c/PPmore,
>or :c/PPmore (etc :) which could fail (and will on my system ;) but only
>PPmore.

Get 2.0...  It has all of this and more...
(Workbench searches the path for the file.  It uses the path that was
set when LoadWB is called or the path that was in the shell when you
do LoadWB NEWPATH.

AmigaOS Release 2: The more you know, the more you want it.

/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
|      /// Michael Sinz  -  Senior Amiga Systems Engineer              |
|     ///                   Operating System Development Group         |
|    ///   BIX:  msinz      UUNET:  mks@cbmvax.commodore.com           |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: bell@comute.enet.dec.com (Shane L. Bell)
Subject: Pagestream Demo
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:31:41 GMT

What happened to the Pagestream demo on amiga.physik.unizh.ch and its mirrors
in the cdemo directory???

		-- Shane L. Bell

		school - bell@alpha.ecs.umass.edu Sept '92 and after
		work - bell@flails.tay1.dec.com Summer '92
From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: Amiga Yarn 2.0, 1992/06/25 01:41:36
Keywords: 
Summary: 
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:38:03 PST
Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica

PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET (Cem Turgay) writes:
>In <1992Jul24.125046.16117@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>,
>markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) wrote:
>>  Anyway, the hardware of the Amiga can't be emulated by software.
>
>mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer) saids;
>> How about "Can't be legally emulated" or "Can't yet be emulated at
>> reasonable speed". If you want to fund it, I'll write the emulator for
>> you. Just don't expect to run as fast as say, PC-task on an A500.
>
>May you can write it only in your dream. B-)

In my dreams I have the money to fund such a project. Other than that
- and having better things to work on - there's no good reason it can't
be done.

>IBM has a fund. Go and say; 'I will write an Amiga emulator for
>you, if you give me more money...' to IBM guys.
>I bet, they will only laugth to you.  They have money but
>they have also knowledge about the Amiga hardware...

I bet they'd laugh at me, too. Because they *know* that an Amiga
emulator has almost no commercial viability, and would be a waste of
money.

>It is imposible my friend.

It is possible, and I try to chose my friends from those who aren't so
narrow minded.

>If you don't trust me, go and try my comments. IBM has a more
>funds for R&D. (about 5,000,000,000 dollars)

If you don't trust me, send me a check to start developement.

>So, real system programmers never come with the project of Amiga
>emulator, because they know software and hardware capable of PCs.

No, real product developers would never bother with an Amiga emulator,
because they know it would never be a commercial sucess. In fact,
building an emulator that you could make money on selling for less
than the cost of an Amiga might be impossible in the current market.
Building one that runs at more than .1% of the speed of an Amiga might
be impossible with current technology.

But one that works, damn the cost and damn the speed? That's easily
possible. Just not worth the trouble. If you think otherwise, I'd be
glad to get started for a small fee (say US$1,000,000).

	<mike
From: gsrfy@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: JPEG version 3 on Csh
Date: 30 Jul 92 09:41:56 GMT
Organization: University of South Australia


	Using JPEG ( Version 3 ) on Csh
	-------------------------------

Some people will think I am some sort of dinosaur, but I took my Amiga 500
into my neighbourhood computer repair shop to have it upgraded from
Kickstart 1.2 to Kickstart 1.3. The reason that persuaded me was the
"pipes" facility, and a few other goodies that 1.3 makes possible.

I have been using some binaries for JPEG, Version 3, and notice that the
documentation recommends using it with PBMPLUS. Do the two binaries
"djpeg" and "cjpeg" write to standard output and input, like the PBMPLUS
programs ? If so, then I suppose you could pipe the output of "djpeg" to
one of the PBMPLUS programmes ?

Thanks in advance.

Rick Yuan
South Australia

........Amiga, because they are more fun !
From: Dan.Bendiksen@f601.n105.z1.therose.pdx.com (Dan Bendiksen)
Sender: postmaster@therose.pdx.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Help -- again -- for Pos
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:24:00 -0700

u >From: u2112539@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
u >Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
u >
u > Hi netland, I have a problem I can't get around. I have tried
u >everything. It's about Post again. IT does not Print 
u >%$#%$#. Screan rep is fast
u >and great. But printing will not work. I have tried may 
u >things I can't see what
u >is wrong.I have an A3000 with 6megs. I have tried low resolution, only p
u >output, postband, editing the init.ps. I mean it finds the 
u >fonts for the screen
u >but cannot print them #@$@$@$#. Yesterday I managed to print a page with
u >round dots (ie if it can't find the fonts so it does not have a problem 
u >the prt: or par:) But if I can see the fonts on screen whay can't they g
u >the printer ?????

Hmmmm... Does it report something like "post: can't get page buffer"?
If so, bring up the printer GFX preferences screen and set the limits
to something (I use pixels). This might help.
         Dan Bendiksen.
         
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From: eeb@pro-freedom.cts.com (Ed Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Random Guru with JRComm1.02a. Can it be fixed?
Date: 29 Jul 92 04:53:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: pro-free.1992Jul28.215330.92
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)


 > ...the only problem I have had was using it while playing a mod -
 > it crashed 10/10 when I did that - otherwise no problems no crashes...


That may not have been JRComm's fault.  Same thing used to happen to me
with NComm v1.92 and v2.0 when attempting to use Intuitracker and the
serial port for modeming and especially during DL'ing.  The cure is to run
Multi-Player by Bryan Ford... great program and no crashes during DLs at
14,400 baud.  You might give that a try and see if your crashes persist.



                -=- Ed


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: craigs@odie.cs.mun.ca (Stace)
Subject: Re: Random Guru with JRComm1.02a. Can it be fixed?
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:07:56 GMT

My main problem is that I can't seem to get my Evaluation copy working
to my satisfaction.  I'm not gonna shell out the money to register the thing
if it's going to crash.

F'rinstance, when editing my phone book, it is not uncommon for me to get a 
software task held message, and then have the damn thing lock up on me.  

So, can someone using an A2000HD with WB2.04 fill me in on how it's working
for them?  I'd love to register it, confident that it would work.

->Stace<-
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From: cse_stu@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Compression
Date: 23 Jul 92 12:15:37 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

>  But, at any rate, I am not aware of anything similar to Superstor for the
> Amiga.  It's entirely possible that this could be done.  But I don't know
> if the speed would be acceptable on a 68000 based machine.  And I'm sure
> the user base would not support the development effort, as there is a 
> great deal of beta testing that must be done with a product of this nature.

Last I heard someone was coming out with a 68040 card for the Amiga that would
have compression to the harddrive build end to the hardware. Supra or someone
back last year when everyone was saying they had a card real soon now. I have
not heard of anything lately.

==========
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========== 
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 14:25:08 -0400 
From: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: ! Pournelle [sic] says that there is a new amiga !
Distribution: usa

Well, I was looking in a copy of BYTE in a bookstore, and I looked at
the list of topics (not the index, the other list), which I do, rather
forlornly, out of habit, and lo and behold, the word "AMIGA" was on the
list. So I turned to the page mentioned, and it was Pournelle's
``column''. I searched, and near the end, I found about two sentences to
the effect that: His next column would be about the state of amigas, and
that he had recieved a *new Amiga* just the previous week. 

O.K. that's what it said. Fire up the rumour mills.

michael
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