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From: arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU (Arc Wave)
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Subject: CrossDOS under OS 3.0
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:03:02 GMT
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        For some odd reason CrossDOS doesn't work under 3.0.  Maybe I did
something wrong...doubtful.  PC-Task works fine...hmm.  Anyone have any
ideas???

Paul

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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:01:48 -0500
From:         STECY DUBE <dubes00@DMI.USHERB.CA>
Subject:      C64 Songs for SidPlayer

Hi folks...

Does someone have some songs for the SidPlayer (this is a C64 songs player
for the Amiga...) or knows of a site that have some?

Thanks...
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:25:00 EST
From:         Charles McCreary <CHASMC@IUP.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Term 2.4 problems

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>From: dleland@NMSU.EDU
>Subject: RE: Term 2.4 problems
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>Well, no. I am using Term 2.4 right now and it's never had any problems.
>In fact it's the nicest and most 2.0 compliant program of its type I know
>of, much better than any comercial program. What do you mean by "iconizing"
>the program? If you mean something like the old "Iconify" program on
>Fred Fish, maybe it on't let go of the program. I don't know....
>
>
>dleland@nmsu.edu
Well, I have Term 2.4a and there do seem to be a couple of problems. While
interfacing with my university VAX, the "hangup" function does not work at all.
I have to wait until the VAX times out. Secondly, it seems the buffer displays
each character on a separate line. Quite annoying!
--Charles McCreary
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Heart of China
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:48:04 GMT

>    If you *are* playing it on an Amiga, there certainly *are* other
>    mailing lists that would be more than happy to receive a message
>    from you (I hope ;-)...

  Actually, on Internet, newsgroups are broken down into a hierarchical
structure. Not so on Bitnet. On here, there is only one I-AMIGA
for all Amiga related questions and answers. 
  So yes, it was a legal question.

-- 
 Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM - Gulf Park Campus 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
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Date:         Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:55:30 EST
From:         RenderMan <GILL@IPFWCVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: for the numbers lovers my A4000 speed results

>I'm still somewhat puzzled over the choice of and IDE drive, although I
>understand that it may be slightly less expensive.  I wonder how that data
>transfer rate stacks up against the SCSI alternatives.
>
>Jim Loomis      LOOMIS@ITHACA.BITNET        607-274-3913
>        Director, Telecommunications Facilities
>        Roy H. Park School of Communications
>        Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850-7256 USA


I just installed 2 Quantum drive's on my 4000 and sysinfo reports the speed at
1.5MB/sec where as my friends 3000 and Quantum is about 1MB/sec. So it is a bit
faster in reading, but this could be the fact that it's on a 040.  Overall the
machine is not too bad, just has some bugs to work out.


Andrew Gill
Gill@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu
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From:         Wim=Lockefeer%BIB%LW@CC3.KULEUVEN.AC.BE

just a simple question : is it necessary to buy any extra hardware to connect
a multisync monitor to an A2000, or is it just plug in and go ?

Wim

ps.  where is everybody ?  Or did I accidentally scratch myself from the list
?
From: LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET (The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair.)
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Subject: Re: Wolf 3D for Amiga?
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:30:00 GMT
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>  On this monitor topic.  I've got an Amiga 2000 presently and want to
>get rid of my 1084 for a couple reasons.  First being that it seems to be
>getting a little quirky.  Second,  because I wanted a clearer picture
>and I want to get rid of the interlace flicker.  I'm considering a C1960.
>Is this a good choice?  How much do they run mail-order?
>
>P.Larkin Iby141@URIACC.URI.EDU

I picked up a flixer fixer and a NEC Multisync 2A.  The picture on my amiga has
never been better.  You probably could do a little better price wise on the
Panasonic PANASYNC monitors..... My friend got a 1024X768 on his PC for about
the price I paid for my NEC 2A 800X600.  And he paid less........ Overall
though the flicker fixer works very very nicely. :>
-Nyle

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|________________________________________________________________________|
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:38:12 PST
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Subject:      FORWARDED article from bit/listserv/i-amiga

This is an article from bit/listserv/i-amiga,
forwarded by Ronald Elliott <ronell@caron.ati.com>.

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Will someone pleeease upload the latest Setpatch? I mean it's less than 2k
and would obviously help out a great deal of us.

My version shows 37.10 and I know it's not the latest.

Ras, iqm109@uriacc
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Problem is is copyrighted and you know how C= is about their stuff. I got
an updated setpatch from my dealer.

Ronald Elliott                   Science and Technology Center
ronell@caron.ati.com                     P.O. Box 2968
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                        Serving Education throughout the High Desert Area
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From:         Owen <91016@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: How to use Aquarium

I sugest you get NewAqua.  It has a better look than the aquarium and can use
the same database.  Also, it has complete docs (including how to add more).
                                                        Kevin Shafer
                                                        91016@tayloru
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:38:02 EST
From:         Arc Wave <arc@JUDY.INDSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      CrossDOS Problems - HELP needed

OK,
        Here are the versions I have of:

        CrossDOSFilesystem = 38.9
        mfm.device         = 38.5

        My A500 has same verion (2.1 workbench).

        So far I cannot get CrossDOS to work on my Amiga 4000 which is:
                Kickstart version 39.106
                Workbench version 39.29

        This is becoming to be a pain.  Anyone with a A4000 having this
        problem?

        Here is another question, I have an external floppy disk drive,
        which works fine on my A500 but when connected to my A4000, doesn't
        work.  Why? Is a jumper on the motherboard needed to be moved?

        I hope no one else has this (these) problems, would make the Amiga
        look *bad*!

        Glad I haven't had any IBM owners over yet, this would be a laugh!

Paul
"Having a pain of a time with CrossDOS and external drive!

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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:54:24 PST
From:         Daniel Joseph Oak <jonin@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: DMS probs... (hey carefull how you edit!)
              at Nov 16, 92 2:43 pm

>
> the
> > > Amiga haz a fit, but it should still boot normally...  I thought ZOOM was

I did not! :)  I like the letter 's'. :)  Anywho - zoom has been pushed on
all major ftp sites now so go get it. :)  Personally I prefer DMS.


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From: DJOHNSON@GEEL.DWT.CSIRO.AU (David Johnson,
              CSIRO Div. Wool Tech.)
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Subject: Re: WHAT?!
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:04:32 GMT
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Omar Colocci writes:
[....]
> WHAT THE HELL IS DMS!!!!
It's an archiving program which allows entire disks to be compressed
into a single file. It even works with disks that AmigaDos refuses
to recognise (i.e. NDOS). I think DMS stands for something like
Disk MaSher.

dave
djohnson@geel.dwt.csiro.au
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Date:         Sat, 14 Nov 1992 08:27:33 -0500
From:         MCADOO@EDINBORO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Quick $ price question on A4000.

,



dir
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:12:48 +1000
From:         "M.C. Freddy !!" <CSC9017984R@LUST1.LATROBE.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Wolf 3D for Amiga?

>There's a new game coming out for the Amiga.  It is called "Legend of
>Valour."  It uses the same 3-d technique as Wolf-3d.  Yet, it isn't
>an arcade game.  More like a D&D role-playing game.  Pretty cool though.
>It runs *REALLY* fast on my 25Mhz 030 Amiga.
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>Kelvin
>e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu

Iz this game PUBLIC DOMAIN??  And if so, where can I ftp it from???!

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From:         Robert Harnaga <rharnaga@ARISTOTLES.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: DMS probs...

...
 |> Amiga haz a fit, but it should still boot normally...  I thought ZOOM was
 |> spozed to be better than DMS, how come noone uses it???
 |
 |I will tell ya why. - No site that I have seen has it. :) Not Wuarchive,
 |Not Physik, not Lud, nobody.  If you can tell us all where it is - or better

Eeeeeeehnt!
  Did you happen to try archie first?  <no>
  On wuarchive.wustl.edu, Did you happen to look in
  "/systems/amiga/utilities/archive"?  <no>

Well 8^)   --If you did, you would see zoom54.lha

 |yet simply throw it on a aminet site I am sure everybody would then get the
 |chance to use it. :)
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From: dsr@lns598.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley)
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In article <00963E54.4A84F1C0@rhea>, treczoks@rhea.Informatik.Uni-Bonn.DE writes:
> ... There is a hacked version of GNU makeinfo... yep, there is, but
> (currently) of no use (at least for some). Mr Spiesser and Mr Vigna
> compiled them with GCC, which means an ugly-big-executeable and  >150k
> runtime-library ixemul.library (which does not run under 1.3).
> Why do they put a `complete' unix in a text-to-text-converter?
> I'm going to ask them for the sources and recompile it...

The copy of makeguide I have (probably from amiga.physik...) includes
source (and, of course, it is copylefted, so they have to make source
available).

Why did they use gcc?  Because compiling GNU software is tons easier
with gcc and ixemul.  I used to port things like bison and flex to
SAS/C, and it usually took several passes to track down all the filename
dependencies, emulate various unix routines, and all that.  With gcc,
I can usually type "sh configure", edit the makefile a bit, type "dmake",
and it builds and works.  I imagine the same is true for makeinfo, and
thus for makeguide.

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From:         RenderMan <GILL@IPFWCVAX.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Has any one heard of these machines (800 and 2200)

>from Amiga World and they forget something...Since the chips have new res
>I think we will need a multisync (because the TV or monitor can't afford it)
>
>In fact, the new amigas (like the A800 and the A2200) need a multisync. They
>have a high-density drive and a 68030, and the new workbench 3.
>
>L
>a23404@iteso.BITNET



From the info i know, the 800 is going to be like the Amiga Clasic, with no
AGA, it supposed to have the original chipset and a 68000, basicaly a 1000.
Not sure about the 2200, but i think it will be an AGA machine.

Now the AGA chips's DO NOT REQUIRE an multisync!!! It will work fine if you
have a TV and the A520 RF Modulator. I know, I used it on my 4000 before I got
Mode promotion working on my VGA monitor. The Multisync will of couse look
nicer, and support alot more modes, but it is not required.

Andrew
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From:         "Magnus Wissler... Amiga rules..." <NDB120@NOV.HB.SE>
Subject:      Re: A4000 and GVP Series II

Yeah!
             +---------------------------------------------+
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From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: C64 Songs for SidPlayer
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:06:13 GMT

STECY DUBE <dubes00@DMI.USHERB.CA> writes:

>Does someone have some songs for the SidPlayer (this is a C64 songs player
>for the Amiga...) or knows of a site that have some?

When you say SidPlayer, do you mean the tons of .MUS files available for
the C64 SidPlayer, or do you mean something else?

The site milton.u.washington.edu has tons of C64 files, including a
large number of .MUS files, but that may not be what you're asking
about.

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From:         walaj@SX.AC.UK
Subject:      Re: SAS 6.0 Student Discount
              18 Nov 92 18:15:40 -0500. <9211190026.AA16449@serv3>

Does any one know if there is a UK stickist that does student discounts,
and the price?

thanks

jon
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From: mgemmel@cs.vu.nl (Martin Gemmel)
Subject: Re: CygnusED 3
Organization: Math & CS, VU Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:58:28 GMT

Hi,

First of all, remember I was not saying that an editor should be mixed
with a wordprocessor. I merely wondered if it is possible. Although I
do think it is true, it is probably overkill since those of us who use
editors often tend to use wordprocessors rarely. Thus it would be a
waste of size and speed.

Now, my editor wishlist is not small, so I will pick just a few points
out of it and await your reactions (probably from Blaz :-).

An editor should be totally configurable. Menus, constants,
keybindings, macro's, etc. The user wants (and should be able) to
change everything.
Imposing a limit on the line length (like 1024 characters) is
ridiculous. Lines should be allowed to have unlimited length.
It should also be possible to edit files that won't entirely fit in
memory. This problem however is not often encountered on an Amiga, so
it can probably be ignored.
CygnusED (henceforth called CED) does not know about regular
expressions, and that is a major pain. I want to be able to search for
any imaginable pattern. Better still is an agrep-like search, to find
approximate matches as well.
Everybody knows that text-editing is not limited to pure
human-readable text, but there will be occasions where you want to
edit really strange files, perhaps even totally binary. CygnusED
handles non-printable characters by not complaining. But wouldn't it
be nicer to see the ASCII codes of those characters instead of a
strange graphic.
And then, it should be possible to have fixed-length lines. In
combination with "binary" editing, this allows one to edit any file
comfortably.
There should not only be simple (key-recording) macro's, but a
complete embedded editor-language. This way you can define your own
functions in case they were left out originally. (I'm talking about
conditional statements and loops amongst others).
There should be multiple buffers for flexible text-moving. Variables
are a must too.
Moving around easily is essential in an editor. For example, what do
you do when you want to move to the middle of the text in CED?
Having a table of statistics would be nice too. Just having a few
numbers in the titlebar is not enough.
I have often been thinking about buffers/blocks in editors. They turn
out to be very flexible tools for a lot of operations. There seems to
exist some kind of Cut/Copy/Paste paradigm in editors, using
buffers/regions. But you can do a great deal more with buffers. It
should be possible to handle large chunks of text (in any shape) as
easily as single characters.
And, I want an on-line help system (hypertext-like).

I have only scratched the surface here. Please let me know what you
think.

Martin
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In article <1992Nov18.110435.20636@bradford.ac.uk>, S.J.E.Champion@bradford.ac.uk (SJE CHAMPION) writes:
> I'm quite peeved. It's only been atwo months since I paid #330 for
> my RocHard 85Mb Hard drive with 2meg memory. The least C= could've
> done is put an edge-connector on the A1200 so I wouldn't have to
> sell that too, with corresponding loss in value. Aaaauuuurrrrggghhh.

The a500 edge connector is basically a direct connection to the 68000
cpu bus, so it is tied very tightly to the 68000 bus protocol.  Emulating
68000 bus cycles on 68020 based machine is a pain.  Obviously, it is doable,
since all the A500 and A2000 accelerators do it, and the A3000/A4000 have
to do it to run Zorro II cycles on the Zorro III bus, but it does add cost
and complexity to the design.  Adding it into the A1200 would have added
way too much to the cost--C= would have missed their price point by a wide
margin, and everyone would be complaining about how much the A1200 costs.

There is a trapdoor on the bottom with a connector to the 32bit 68ec020
bus (incompatible with all previous amigas), which is where high performance
add ons are expected to go--the PCMCIA slot won't really cut it except for
relatively simple or low speed expansions.

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