Date: 24 May 95 15:00:23 From: Monte Barnett To: Roy Smith Subj: Re: Smoke... ^MSGID: 1:120/421 28a2840d ^REPLY: 1:375/402.1@FidoNet 2fc1718a ^PID: Foozle 1.04 1301 Hi Roy! MB>> Computers run on smoke. If it leaks out it won't work RS> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RS> Well it's more like Magic Blue Smoke.... RS> * Origin: Magic Blue Smoke - Remote Point - Prattville AL USA Shameless plug, Roy! My boss is painfully aware of the necessity of retaining the magic blue smoke. He let it leak out of his monitor last week! It's actually one of the more interesting cases I've seen, as one of his power supply transistors fried a lead off, and blew a tiny hole right through its casing! I'm surprised the capacitor in the circuit only "domed" instead of popping its top. « Monte » --- * Origin: The Amigoid BBS (1:120/421) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:120/421@FidoNet 229 319 102 2410/116 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 ^PATH: 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 24 May 95 15:05:58 From: Monte Barnett To: Holly Sullivan Subj: Re: Echo Disk Beauties! ^MSGID: 1:120/421 28a28933 ^PID: Foozle 1.04 1301 Hi Holly! JG>> (does anyone know why I grin when I think of Kinko's?) MB>> Uhhh....it reminds you of Holly? ;) HS> BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!! HS> (absolutely hysterical laughter heard coming from Orlando Florida) HS> oooooo, my sides hurt! Thought you might like that! ;) « Monte » --- * Origin: The Amigoid BBS (1:120/421) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:120/421@FidoNet 229 319 102 2410/116 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 ^PATH: 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 24 May 95 15:08:02 From: Monte Barnett To: Holly Sullivan Subj: Re: Pix Conversion - .bmp to .iff? ^MSGID: 1:120/421 28a28b47 ^PID: Foozle 1.04 1301 Hi Holly! MB>> I've found some .bmp files which I'd like to have available on my MB>> Amiga 3000, and my clone notebook is DYING to have an Amiga-based MB>> background picture! HS> You and me both.. there's a gorgeous .bmp pic of a sand castle on a HS> beach somewhere that I very much want to use as one of my rotating WB HS> backdrops... When I finally get one of the suggested converters, I'd be happy to make the conversion and send it to you. Know what site the .bmp is on? « Monte » --- * Origin: The Amigoid BBS (1:120/421) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:120/421@FidoNet 229 319 102 2410/116 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 ^PATH: 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 24 May 95 15:10:50 From: Monte Barnett To: Glenn J. Schworak Subj: Re: DOS 2.1 Question ^MSGID: 1:120/421 28a28dc9 ^REPLY: 1:3406/32@FidoNet 20b32154 ^PID: Foozle 1.04 1301 Hi Glenn! GJS> I have DOS 2.1 for my A2000... GJS> I am upgrading to DOS 3.1 for the A2000... GJS> Can I move the 2.1 chip to the A500 and expect it to work? You certainly can! One thing, though: If I'm not mistaken, the highest ROM chip was 2.05; the software was 2.1. « Monte » --- * Origin: The Amigoid BBS (1:120/421) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:120/421@FidoNet 229 319 102 2410/116 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 ^PATH: 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 20:29:35 From: Monte Barnett To: Glenn J. Schworak Subj: Re: DOS 2.1 Question ^MSGID: 1:120/421 28a8fea4 ^REPLY: 1:202/720.0 2fc12e96 ^PID: Foozle 1.04 1301 Hi Glenn! JG> In a message of 21 May 95 Glenn J. Schworak wrote to All: GJS>> I have DOS 2.1 for my A2000... GJS>> I am upgrading to DOS 3.1 for the A2000... GJS>> Can I move the 2.1 chip to the A500 and expect it to work? JG> Yep. However, there were a group of A500 motherboards that required a JG> jumper to be on the chip. Hopefully, you have your original JG> installation instructions for the 2.x upgrade. If not, your local JG> dealer/club might have something to help you. JG> Note: installing the chip without the jumper won't damange it, it just JG> won't work on some version(s) of the A500 motherboard. Sage words, indeed! I'd forgotten about that darned jumper! If you experience problems (like not booting, etc.) let me know, as I have a file here that tells how to add in a jumper (piece o' cake) to those muthaboards which need it. « Monte » I'm most dangerous when I know what I'm doing. - Tag-A-Rama - --- * Origin: The Amigoid BBS (1:120/421) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:120/421@FidoNet 229 319 102 2410/116 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 ^PATH: 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 10:06:03 From: Holly Sullivan To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: Re: Echo Disk Beauties! ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a0a5083 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ JG> In a message of 20 May 95 Holly Sullivan wrote to me: JG> JG> JG>> I leave the rest up to your fertile imagination :-) JG> HS> heeheeheehee (G) Dangerous thing to do. JG> JG> Uh, oh.... You -better- worry. (EG) JG> JG>> HS> Todd sez "would it have to do anything with that giant blow- JG> up of JG> JG>> HS> Asha's pic over your bed?" JG> JG>> (Besides, I bet Todd's just envious of it :-) JG> HS> Him and every other red blooded woman loving male in the echo. (G) JG> JG> Well, you have a point... it's at least a 500 millihelen picture, maybe JG> a full helen! :) No argument here. JG> JG> HS> Maybe you could sell copies? ;) JG> JG> Hm, I have a few extra projects that could use the extra funding :-) :) Been burning that midnight oil again? Ought to take better care of yourself.. we can't have you sleeping all the time- who'd watch the inmates, I mean the folks, here in the echo? ;) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 10:07:21 From: Holly Sullivan To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: AAA ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a0a5084 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ JG> In a message of 21 May 95 Holly Sullivan wrote to Skipper Smith: JG> JG> HS> Where _did_ I put that AAA road atlas? HMMMMMM... JG> JG> That's your problem right there... AAA still has some bugs in it, use JG> the AGA or ECS atlas instead... :-) Abso-freaking-lutely ARRRGGGHHHHH. (G) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horseshit in the public park. - Charles Bukowski, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", 1969 --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 10:09:47 From: Holly Sullivan To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Netmailings ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a0a5085 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ AD> Holly, AD> AD> AD>> I'd love to see some pics of Todd! Where is he? How come I AD> AD>> don't see any posts from him, either here, or in the Bab5 echo? I AD> AD>> may have to AD> AD> HS> Todd's thoroughly disgusted with the almost constant guru'ing of the AD> HS> 500.. that and he got way spoiled having unlimited online time when AD> I AD> HS> had my node up. :) Says he can't get used to only having an hr AD> online AD> HS> to do -all- his mail. (that and he's working 12 hr days plus the AD> 45 AD> HS> min commute each way.. he's too tired for much of anything AD> lately... ) AD> AD> That's a shame! Give him a hug and tell 'im it's from me. That AD> ought to cheer him up a bit :) AD> I'm probably dropping Fido B5 in a week or so anyway. I'm AD> reading the B5 forum on CIS and that one runs between 200-400 messages a AD> DAY. Just can't keep up with both of 'em and the CIS one is MUCH better AD> (besides, JMS is there and he answers my posts!!! :) :) ) AD> AD> HS> Yeah, I know.. There's many other FIDO echos I like, but just don't AD> HS> have the time right now to get into them as deeply as I used to. AD> AD> I know THAT one.... heh! AD> AD> HS> (sigh) Been out scrounging boxes lately. (G) AD> AD> So I hear (big evil knowing grin) hee hee....:) AD> AD> AD>> As for requests... Tell him to be "creative"...:) AD> AD> HS> heheh.. I found one of him I think you'll like... Sent it to Jeff to AD> HS> put it on the next echodisk, with instructions to send it along to AD> you AD> HS> after he scans it.. AD> AD> Jeff told me. I'm really looking forward to seeing them! AD> AD> HS> (if you want more, I've a Polaroid camera, be happy to catch him AD> HS> sleeping or whatever suits you ;) AD> AD> Be creative....just make sure the lighting's right! :) :) I only have to mess up once to be cured of that particular problem... :) AD> (We're "bad" but it's SO much fun!!) (G) Isn't it though!!!!!!! :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 Scepticism is the beginning of faith. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 10:12:54 From: Holly Sullivan To: Asha Develder Subj: Orlando residents ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a0a5086 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ Hello Asha!! AD> AD>> * "Disliking the truth doesn not make it any less true." -- Jack AD> AD>> Butler AD> AD> AD> HS> I'll say.. given the current one on your msg, it pulled up a tag AD> from AD> HS> one of Orlando's strangest people. :\ AD> AD> Jack's from Orlando? Dunno about "from" but he lives here. AD> I've seen stuff from him in a couple of echoes. I'll admit he AD> is strange, but in a funny way I like him (at least online, in person I AD> suspect he's even MORE of a curmudgeon).....;/ Heh... I can stand him tolerably well til his ego gets out of control. just IMNSHO of course. :) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 10:15:23 From: Holly Sullivan To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: CO-MODERATOR ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a0a5087 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ AD> GP>>> Nah, I have it on good authority that you're a big old teddy bear AD> GP>>> just trying to fool folks into thinking you are tough! :) AD> HS>> bwhahahahah!!!! You certainly didn't get that from me! ;) AD> AD>> Nope, got it from ME! :) :) AD> HS> (G) Should have guessed. AD> AD> :) Yes, you should have! Hey, I was distracted for a few minutes... (G) AD> HS> But Jeff's _not_ furry all over... hmmmmm? (she said with a wicked AD> HS> twinkle in her eye) ;) AD> AD> Maybe not on the OUTSIDE! (cackle!) Bwhahahahahahaha!!!! Further research is clearly indicated..... (Ohhhhhh, Jeff, c'mere for a bit, would you?) (evil grin) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 The French drink to get loosened up for an event, to celebrate an event, and even to recover from an event. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 11:29:45 From: Ken Rumsey To: Tom Morello Subj: Re: ATAPI CDrom ! ^MSGID: 1:3633/1701@fido 2fc76191 ^PID: CNet 3.0 Stardate 17 May 95: Tom Morello beamed over to All's ship and used the universal translator to say: TM> How could I plug an ATAPI CDROM for AMIGA, where are the drivers, tell TM> me the FTP sites & files please !!! Don't let me down as no one in TM> France know of to make it !!! I'm sure they're on Aminet but I've got them also. This is v6.2 and requires an A4000, A1200, or A600. Filename: ATAPI.lzx Filesize: 21349 bytes FReq it from 1:3633/1701.0 - or - Logon with user name "Long Distance" and password "LONGDISTANCE" for immediate access to files without filling out new user forms. __ __/// Ken Rumsey | 2400-28800 Files - Games - Images | FidoNet TrekNet \\X/ AmiTrek BBS | An Amiga and Star Trek Support BBS | WorldNet DarkNet ... * <--- Tribble **7 <--- Secret agent Tribble * Q-Blue 1.9 * --- CNet/3 * Origin: AmiTrek BBS - Moving at Warp Speed!!! [407] 348-3365 (1:3633/1701) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:3633/1701@FidoNet 132 363/157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 21:58:00 From: Richard Dawson To: Wolfgang Kuhr Subj: RE: COMPRESS MODS ^MSGID: 1:372/57@fidonet.org d0bf54ee > A little Hello from Germany, > I think you have to use the XPK libs for best compress results. My best --- > Wolfgang Kuhr Hello Wolfgang (and anyone else over there in Europe!) I am trying to locate an man that helped me while I was stationed near Frankfurt. If you know him, or know of him I would appreciate hearing what he is doing these days. His name is Thomas Davis. A retired American married to a very nice German woman and living near Frankfurt. He was an Amiga Hardware developer when I knew him. I would like to here from him again if anyone there knows him. I can be reached at: Richard L. Dawson 119A Langley Dr, Summerville, SC 29485 Please ask him to drop me a line or two. Or he can just write to me here. -=Richard=- | AmiQWK 2.6 | UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY - SUPPORT THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT ... Read the docs? What a RADICAL concept! --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0389 * Origin: Dazed & Confused BBS - 8 Nodes/24 CD's - 803-873-5797 (1:372/57) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:372/57@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 13:57:20 From: Giuliano Pochini To: Ralf Buyna Subj: Re: Ram Disk Icon ^MSGID: 2:332/216.13@FidoNet 2fc4e0cd ^REPLY: 1:102/496@fido 2fbbbc49 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 RB> I have a question concerning my Ram Disk Icon. Is there any way to RB> permanently change it? There is no apparent "disk.info" file [...] You have to copy disk.info to Ram: every boot. Create you Disk.info icon for RamDisk and save it somewhere, then add "Copy Disk.info ram:" line in S:user-startup file. Bye. Giuliano. --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: ->)|(<- Silicon Warrior * Amiga BBS ->)|(<- (2:332/216.13) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:332/200@FidoNet 403 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 15:29:29 From: Giuliano Pochini To: Sebastien Seu Subj: Re: CDROM 4X ATAPI ON AMIGA4000... ^MSGID: 2:332/216.13@FidoNet 2fc4f5df ^REPLY: 2:323/1.3 12aa30ab ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 GP>> Subject: Re: CDROM 4x ATAPI on AMIGA4000... GP>> SS> I would like to know if it's possible to plug a CDROM ATAPI GP>> SS> (mistumi for exemple) 4x, in the Amiga (4000)... GP>> Yes, it can be done !! SS> I had the ATAPI62.LHA, but when I plug a MITSUMI 4X ATAPI with my SS> A4000, it didn't run at all. All stuffs are correct : slave, cables... SS> I don't know why ... I heard that MITSUMI 4X was not supported ??? Is SS> it true ? Have you ever read my Origin ? :-) Mitsumi-FX400 *is* supported. The problem is atapi.device. Version 6.2 only works with Kickstart v40. You have to search these files: Atapi68b.LHA (or LZX, I don't remember), Atapi69.LHA , Atapi71.LHA . You need all three files. 6.8 contains docs, CD32emul, CacheCDFS, CDDApalyer, atapi.device; 69 and 71 are upgrades. Anyway, from v6.4, atapi.device, works with Kick v39 too. SS> Where are the ATAPI67b ? I heard that ATAPI71 are out now ! Yes, I already have that. If you want, you can f'req them from my boss, in Italy :-)) SS> Yep, it's out soon... In 6 weeks (saied by writter of atapi 4 amiga!) Version 7.1 doesn't display annoying requesters for about 2 months. Bye. Giuliano. --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: A4000/040-25 10MB 120HD md14400 mn1940 Mitsumi-FX400 (2:332/216.13) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:332/200@FidoNet 403 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 12:30:34 From: Danny Barnett To: Herbie Van Staveren Subj: AMIGA WHININGS An Internet address for Escom would also be greatly appreciated. danny.barnett@chrysalis.org --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Chrysalis: 64 lines @ (214) 690-9295 & (817) 540-5565 (1:124/4214) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:124/4214@FidoNet 4218 1 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 27 May 95 13:43:24 From: Jim Belcher To: Guido Van Bercum Subj: RE: WHERE ARE YOU ALL? rz B00000000000000 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Chrysalis: 64 lines @ (214) 690-9295 & (817) 540-5565 (1:124/4214) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:124/4214@FidoNet 4218 1 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 27 May 95 13:44:13 From: Jim Belcher To: Rene Laederach Subj: RE: WHERE ARE YOU ALL? In my view, most of the discussions of what make an "Amiga" an "Amiga" miss a key factor. The hardware and the operating system appear to have been designed to work well together. One wasn't designed in the absence of the other.Look at the IBM and its clones: this is a machine in which hardware reins supreme. Software and operating systems are almost an afterthought. The hardware configuration was decided, and whatever software it takes to make it work was added. Like an aging prostitute, adding enough layers of cosmetics (software) almost makes the machine look desirable. If all the layers of software make the machine too slow, bring out faster processors. Ignore the fact that most of the machine cycles are necessary to hide the fact the hardware and software aren't a good match.The Mac is an example of software reigning supreme. It's no secret that the decision was made to implement the Smalltalk environment on a personal computer. That's a reasonable goal, but it does not mean that any of the available chip sets necessarily were a good match to the environment. Macs also tend to be slower than they really need to be, and the size of the software again partially reflects the mismatch between software concept and chip set.Conversely, the Amiga used a commercially available chip for general purpose processing, and added special purpose processors for video, audio, and I/O. The system clock is geared around video frequencies, and the interrupt system is designed to support multitasking. It appears that the software designers and hardware designers were in continual communication during implementation, and the two compliment each other.The Amiga's design is now 10 years old, and may be getting a bit creaky. We have seen fine tuning and upgrades to both hardware and software, which still make the two function well together. There may be a point at which the concept becomes outdated, and must have a major redesign. Let's hope that any such effort designs the hardware and software together in at least as synergistic a manner as we saw in the original Amiga.It should be evident from the foregoing that I'm not a great fan of migrating Unix to the Amiga. Unix is not necessarily bad, but I view it as another attempt to force an environment on a machine for which the machine was never designed. If you want Unix, go buy a Sun or an SGI (preferably the latter). --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Chrysalis: 64 lines @ (214) 690-9295 & (817) 540-5565 (1:124/4214) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:124/4214@FidoNet 4218 1 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 26 May 95 21:57:52 From: Cor Velde To: Sebastien Seu Subj: CDROM 4X ATAPI ON AMIGA4000... ^MSGID: 2:283/326.18 2fc69d5e ^REPLY: 2:323/1.3 12aa30ab ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message on 21 May 95 Sebastien Seu said the following about CDROM 4X ATAPI ON AMIGA4000... to me: SS> I had the ATAPI62.LHA, but when I plug a MITSUMI 4X ATAPI with my SS> A4000, it didn't run at all. All stuffs are correct : slave, cables... I SS> don't know why ... I heard that MITSUMI 4X was not supported ??? Is it SS> true ? The Mitsumi 4X speed IS supported, if you mean the FX400. the triplespeed FX300 should also work. Maybe you used the wrong driver? There's an a4000 version in the devs drawer from that archive, but also an a1200 version. Maybe if you use an A4000/030 instead of an A4000/040 you have to use the A1200 driver? Oh, by the way, do you actually have a CD filesystem installed? Without one the drive still doesn't work.. so you have to use this ATAPI driver AND the CD filesystem. You could use the freely distributable Amicdrom from Frank Munkert. Mail you later, Cor Velde ... So i'm an idiot, what else is new.. >> Gothic Tag v1.04 << --- Spot 1.3 Unregistered * Origin: The Wall I Central Mailer (2:283/326.18) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:283/326@FidoNet 3 35 1 512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 26 May 95 22:43:30 From: Cor Velde To: Michael Christensen Subj: Zip & HD ^MSGID: 2:283/326.18 2fc69f09 ^REPLY: 2:238/24.50@FidoNet 2fc0fd34 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message on 22 May 95 Michael Christensen said the following about Zip & HD to me: MC> Is it possible to read HD disk in a ZIP drive? - If yes how? The ZIP-drive only uses special floppies, which have a 100mb capacity. It isn't a diskdrive actually, but a removable. A floppy reads at about 20k per second, the zip can reach a transfer speed of about 1.3mb per second. If you try to stuff a normal (hd or dd) floppy into the ZIP I think you would damage the floppy or the drive, which i hope would be the floppy, because floppies are cheap... Mail you later, Cor Velde ... Know what to kiss -- and when. >> Gothic Tag v1.04 << --- Spot 1.3 Unregistered * Origin: The Wall I Central Mailer (2:283/326.18) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:283/326@FidoNet 3 35 1 512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 26 May 95 21:43:26 From: Cor Velde To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: Amiga 1200 not a serious Amiga??? ^MSGID: 2:283/326.18 2fc69fde ^REPLY: 1:202/720.0 2fbd7e0e ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message on 19 May 95 Jeff Grimmett said the following about Amiga 1200 not a serious Amiga??? to me: JG> That FCC approval must have been a bear, or we probably would have seen JG> it here :-) Nope, never heard of it. Of course, unless it provides JG> Zorro slots, I don't really consider it viable. Does it? The tower has ZORRO II slots, there's even a towercase called the Shuttle, which has Zorro III slots. Mail you later, Cor Velde ... Are you a Klingon, or is that a turtle on your head? >> Gothic Tag v1.04 << --- Spot 1.3 Unregistered * Origin: The Wall I Central Mailer (2:283/326.18) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:283/326@FidoNet 3 35 1 512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 10:53:16 From: Larry Baum To: Marshall Freedland Subj: Escom news... ^PID: T.A.G. 2.7c Standard ^MSGID: 1:2606/205@fidonet.org 2fc8561c Well, they have choosen the PowerPC route. That is sort of good and sort of terrible. If they had gone with HP chip they would have gotten a much more pwowerful machine with a more powerful 3D portion to Hombre. It would have been nice to see another truly A1000 revolutionary machine. On the other hand, with the PowerPC, IF it takes off, and all the latest IBM games and apps start gettign writtern for it instead of Intel 80x86, then it would make the Amiga PowerPC a very safe buy. 100% full speed emulation of both Mac AND clones would then be possible and AmaigaDOS could also get out more. However, going this route, the Amiga won't trounce other machines as much as it could which is not good at all, and if most code stays Intel then this could turn out to have been a very terrible decision indeed. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Alchemiga 28.8 NJ 201-398-6360 (1:2606/205) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2606/205@FidoNet 404 562 583 2605/606 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 10:56:17 From: Larry Baum To: Todd H Knight Subj: Re: ESCom. ^PID: T.A.G. 2.7c Standard ^MSGID: 1:2606/205@fidonet.org 2fc856d1 The new console really are much more powerful. Some have 16bit sound DSP, most have at least some sort of RISC 3D rotation and texture mapping engine (although most do it by panels instead of as out and out real solid 3D objects), blitters radically faster than the CD32's, faster CPUs, larger palettes, some, but not the Sony, have much better dualplayfield type modes, all have better sprites. Some do lack some of the Amigas neat copeer tricks and some lack register based modes, but still they pack a lot of power. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Alchemiga 28.8 NJ 201-398-6360 (1:2606/205) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2606/205@FidoNet 404 562 583 2605/606 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 11:00:59 From: Larry Baum To: Manou Billa Subj: Re: The AMIGA, ESCOM, C=. ^PID: T.A.G. 2.7c Standard ^MSGID: 1:2606/205@fidonet.org 2fc857eb > The last year did have one positive aspect: All those AMIGIANS who did > only > use their AMIGAs for gaming are now out of business, most of them > bought PCs to be up-to-date with games (DOOM etc.). So NOW there should > only > be SERIOUS AMIGA users (playing sometimes). The AMIGA will loose the > gamemachine image! How is this positive?! A lack of games does not help sales (plus I don't exactly dislike games myself), and sales are what we need. And who cares about worrying about image. All the game image stuff was a bunch of bull. When it suited IBM'ers to trash anything that could HANDLE games, they did so, deriding them as plastic toys. Now, years later, when they can actually support color gfx and have enough brute force to do at least certain types of games at speed, they brag about being a games machine. * Q-Blue 1.0 [NR] *--- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: Alchemiga 28.8 NJ 201-398-6360 (1:2606/205) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2606/205@FidoNet 404 562 583 2605/606 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 11:01:00 From: Larry Baum To: Nyle F. Landas Subj: Re: BYTE BACK!!! AMIGA US ^PID: T.A.G. 2.7c Standard ^MSGID: 1:2606/205@fidonet.org 2fc857ec > It's time to write to BYTE and tell them we want to see fair coverage of > the Amigas re-birth if they haven't already. They were more than willing > to post this RIP when CBM entered liquidation. Now lets hold their feet > to the fire and make them write an article about ESCOMS re-entry into > the Amiga market. With 60 billion dollars additional backing behind and > already billion dollar company. Don't get too harsh with them. That RIP wasn't exactly negative, plus CBM DID go under. BYTE is the only mainstream magazine to have ever consistently praise the Amiga. When the A1000 came out they even predicted that it would take over the computing industry. * Q-Blue 1.0 [NR] *--- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: Alchemiga 28.8 NJ 201-398-6360 (1:2606/205) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2606/205@FidoNet 404 562 583 2605/606 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 14:28:36 From: Tom Parker To: Jon Inghram Subj: Rodney Hester ^MSGID: 3:772/235 ea5e59cb JI> In a message of 16 May 95 Tom Parker wrote to me: JI>> Why would anyone launch a anti-ship missile at a land target? :-) JI>> Actually, I wouldn't mind someone attacking Stars & Stripes with one... TP> Hehehehe, 4 down, one to go :) JI> One to go? Didn't you guys win? :-) That's what I though was happening JI> when everyone broke out the giant wine bottles and started spraying it JI> everywere, but I guess I was wrong. :-) Hehe, if you looked at the timestamp, that was written about 6 hours before we aced the last race :-) And, due to fido lag, we've got it HERE and and the whole of Auckland went nuts yesterday when they came home :-) :-) JI> I've got to go downtown and look at Bill's replica of the cup, since I've JI> yet to get a firsthand look at it. Well, to see the REAL thing, you will have to come here :-) TP> See ya in Auckland :-) JI> Well, I don't think /I'll/ be going, but you can bet there's going to be JI> pleanty of US challengers next time! :-) Hopefully next time they won't JI> resort to cheating, changing the rules, and other un-sportsmanlike JI> stuff. It has been sort of spoilt by all that legal stuff... Hopefully Blake's new rules will stop things like that hapening :) JI> OOTAR --- That'd be cool if they a sailing game for the Amiga. Did you see the kiwi SGI graphics system, brilliant... JI> * Origin: My puny, non-existant BBS (1:291/37.1) Nice to know I'm getting out... I've had my doubts lately... bye. ... Iraq has won the toss, and has elected to recieve. Addtags v0.2 --- Xenolink 1.95, XQwk 1.4 [REG 10054] * Origin: C= User Group BBS, Auckland, NZ. 64-9-528-5872 (3:772/235) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:772/90@FidoNet 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 17:09:50 From: Tom Parker To: Mark Dickenson Subj: Re: PAL MODE on an A3000 ^MSGID: 3:772/235 45f7e090 MD> You need to use a File Editor and scan the CrossDOSFileSystem in the L: MD> directory. Look for disk.info and change it to anything (barf.info). MD> The system will nolonger use the default ugly CrossDos Icon (built into MD> the CrossDOSFileSystem) but will use the default icon you have selected. Hey, it works!!! Amazing. Ok, so no i have that problem solved, how do i get rid of the df0:???? icon? I assume it is produced by the standard file system, so is there any way of getting rid of it? Like when I put a normal amiga disk in the drive, and CrossDos doesn't bring up a "non dos" style icon? Thanks a lot. bye. ... But what's the speed of DARK? Addtags v0.2 --- Xenolink 1.95, XQwk 1.4 [REG 10054] * Origin: C= User Group BBS, Auckland, NZ. 64-9-528-5872 (3:772/235) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:772/90@FidoNet 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 01:58:58 From: Mark O'Neill To: Ron Keating Subj: Re: A4000 Hard Drive Jumpers ^MSGID: 3:711/461.1 2fc6dbc3 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On this day, 20 May 95, Ron Keating felt the need to write to All about A4000 Hard Drive Jumpers: G'day Ron, RK> I need to find out the jumper settings on the Seagate 3144 dive RK> that came in my A4000. I'm trying to install a new Maxtor 540 IDE The jumper settings should be on a sticker on the top of the drive. At least they are on mine anyway. :-) Cheers mate, /\\ark... --- Spot 1.3 Unregistered * Origin: Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more! (3:711/461.1) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:711/461@FidoNet 430 808 712/515 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 13:42:42 From: Mark O'Neill To: Mike Steele Subj: Re: Compress MODS ^MSGID: 3:711/461.1 2fc6de1c ^REPLY: 1:125/37.3 2fbe880a ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On this day, 20 May 95, Mike Steele felt the need to write to All about Compress MODS: G'day Mike, MS> I have gathered a lot of MODS and would like to compress them for MS> space. What I would like to know what is the best compression method MS> to use. I have most of popular players (SmartPlayer, APlayer, DAS and MS> Deli Tracker II). I'd use Lha as Smartplay can play arc'd modules. OTOH, if you register EaglePlayer you can use XPK libraries. OTOOH, you could use Crunchmania to pack your modules down. All you have to do then is have the Run Time Data Decruncher (rtdd) in your startup somewhere. Everything will be invisible to your system and Crunchmania gives the best compression while still leaving the files usable. Cheers mate, /\\ark... --- Spot 1.3 Unregistered * Origin: You shall be called Brian that is called Brian. (3:711/461.1) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:711/461@FidoNet 430 808 712/515 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 13:35:38 From: Mark O'Neill To: Jon Inghram Subj: Re: Tag You're it! ^MSGID: 3:711/461.1 2fc77f0a ^REPLY: 1:291/37.1 2fbb7ec7 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On this day, 18 May 95, Jon Inghram felt the need to write to me about Tag You're it!: G'day Jon, MON>> Pay TV station went online /very/ recently. Within the last 6 or 8 MON>> weeks AFAIK. Do you have technology related stations in the US? Have MON>> you got a spare room I could rent for a few years? ;^) JI> What do you mean 'Pay TV'? We've had Pay-Per-View shows here for quite Exactly that. Having to pay to watch the telly. Never had to before. Then again, in the capitals like Sydney, there's only six stations and they really suck. :-) JI> new thing where I can order movies and stuff directly over the cable JI> line, just by pushing the PPV button and selecting the show's I want. JI> Currently we've got to call Cablevision and order stuff by phone, How much does all this cost? It's $35 a month for this new service over here. JI> though we've never actually done it. What do you mean 'Technology [snipt] I thought you may have had shows on computers and all that. From what you say about them, they ain't much. :-) JI> of nausea, which lasts until B5 comes on the next day. :-) And sorry, JI> we don't have enough room for anyone else here. :-) Bugger! 'twas worth a try though huh? ;^) Chatya mate, /\\ark... --- Spot 1.3 Unregistered * Origin: Half a bee,philosophically,must ipso facto,half not be (3:711/461.1) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:711/461@FidoNet 430 808 712/515 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:05:00 From: Ian Robertson To: Jeff German Subj: LZX In a message dated 26 May 95 23:13:27, Jeff German replied to somebody: JG> I just cannot see it as a future compression util that will supercede JG> LHA right now. I have foriegn users also and it does not appear to JG> be taking off that some has hyped it up to do, sorry. On the other hand, wouldn't we all be choked if some author of a cool new free/shareware utility was to upload his creation compressed with LZX... And...oh oh... We had all deleted LZX in favour of good old LHA! I think I will keep a recent version of LZX handy... L.Bear --- DLG Pro v1.0/DLGMail v2.51 * Origin: >>>>>Phantom<<<<< (604) 939-4857 (1:153/229) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:153/229@FidoNet 295 7070 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 05:24:11 From: Bill Sidhipong To: Jesse Schmelzer Subj: Re: ShapeShifter Mac Emul ^MSGID: 1:115/300@fidonet.org 5c960129 Hi Jesse! JS> Were did you get the Roms for it?? Right off my Performa here. ShapeShifter supports many newer 1MB and some 512K ROMs. The newer Macintoshes come with the one megger version, except PowerMacs, which I think has some funky boot code in there, and not all 68000 instructions either. I would think that the ROMs for the 4xx, 5xx and 6xx series are compatible with ShapeShifter. Copying the ROM off a mac should be quick and painless, but YMMV of course. Cheers! Bill --- WackyMail 1.3c --- FidoPCB v1.4 [f0f92/b] * Origin: NezulD's DomaiN - 9 Lines 13.5 GIG (1:115/300) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:115/300@FidoNet 437 2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 05:21:11 From: Bill Sidhipong To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: full of it ^MSGID: 1:115/300@fidonet.org 5c96012b Hi Jeff! JG> Imagine my suprise... here I thought I was full of something JG> else! HS> Chambord? (BG) JG> SSsssh! It's illegal to drink and compute in this state. JG> The Byte Patrol might hea²¼¢³¢½NO CARRIER Dunno, but if she had said "chammy" or "chamois" then we'd be right back in the middle of that "I can spot a pun war" all over again. ok ... ok so it's been lambasted to death. =^) Cheers! Bill --- WackyMail 1.3c --- FidoPCB v1.4 [f0f92/b] * Origin: NezulD's DomaiN - 9 Lines 13.5 GIG (1:115/300) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:115/300@FidoNet 437 2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 05:24:11 From: Bill Sidhipong To: Dave Gomme Subj: Re: Multithread explanati ^MSGID: 1:115/300@fidonet.org 5c96012d Hi Dave! DG> Multithreading differs from multitasking in that it allows groups DG> of programs (or a single program) to run concurrently in their own DG> address space with their own set of global variables. Could be done with: AddTask(&mytask,entrypoint,cleanup); where "cleanup" would implement any resource deallocation needs. DG> If a program in a thread fails the entire thread can be terminated DG> and its resuorces returned to the resuorce pool. And the "entrypoint" could be declared with __saveds to allow access to global variables via A4. Variables could be declared as "volatile" if they are modified by other threads ... void __saveds entrypoint (void) { extern volatile int gNotSoImportantVariable; } All of this with the current Exec. Of course, you could take the more complicated route and use SignalSemaphore to synchronize your tasks. Hmm ... there are a couple of good and *cool* examples for the Mac thread manager. Maybe I'll port them to the miggy. =^) DG> Of course multithreading requires resource tracking and therefore DG> isn't currently possible on the Amiga. Why would multithreading require resource tracking? DG> design of the Amiga's exec directly supports forks, joins, and DG> semaphores, which are used to create and coordinate simultaneous DG> processes in an internally multitasking system. Right ... so, just because the Amiga doesn't call it "multithreading" doesn't mean that multithreading can't be done on the Amiga. It's just that the Amiga model is potentially a bit more complicated than other models which don't support preemtive switching (or supported as option that can be turned off)... The Amiga model: APTR AddTask(struct Task *, APTR initPC, APTR finalPC); BYTE SetTaskPri(struct Task *,long priority); void Forbid(void); void Permit(void); struct Task *FindTask(UBYTE *name); void Signal(struct Task*,unsigned long signalSet); void ObtainSemaphore(struct SignalSemaphore *sigSem); void ReleaseSemaphore(struct SignalSemaphore *sigSem); The Mac model: OSErr NewThread(ThreadStyle,ThreadEntryProcPtr,void *,Size,{...}); OSErr YieldToThread(ThreadID suggestedThread); OSErr YieldToAnyThread(void); OSErr ThreadBeginCritical(void); OSErr ThreadEndCritical(void); OSErr GetCurrentThread(Thread *currentThreadID); OSErr SetThreadState(ThreadID,ThreadState = {kReadyThreadState, kStoppedThreadState}); These are functions which roughly perform equivalent actions on their respective platforms ... The Mac model tends to be more "meaty", by providing distinct functions for just about any needs, while the Exec model tends to be a bit skimpy on functions --- you'd have to string together a couple of calls to do what you need. Cheers! Bill --- WackyMail 1.3c --- FidoPCB v1.4 [f0f92/b] * Origin: NezulD's DomaiN - 9 Lines 13.5 GIG (1:115/300) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:115/300@FidoNet 437 2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 05:24:11 From: Bill Sidhipong To: Guido Van Bercum Subj: Re: The AMIGA's Future... ^MSGID: 1:115/300@fidonet.org 5c96012f Guido, Guido... GVB> even before that; Archimedes or Archie for it's users. It was not GVB> that much more expensive then an A500 but delivered far more Power. Well, this might tick you off, but I'll risk it. =^) Am I right in that: The Archie OS is one sorry, brain-dead OS whose filesystem can only accept 76 entries (files) per directory; the filenames can be 10 letters long; directory seperator character is a period, which makes it h*ll to use files from other platforms (imagine using .c and .h files, for one. The graphics, while sufficiently cool, has no look-and-feel standard so each program tends to have its own look, kinda like the 1.2 and such (pre-GadTools/MUI). What's so powerful about *that*? Cheers! Bill --- WackyMail 1.3c --- FidoPCB v1.4 [f0f92/b] * Origin: NezulD's DomaiN - 9 Lines 13.5 GIG (1:115/300) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:115/300@FidoNet 437 2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 05:24:11 From: Bill Sidhipong To: Richard Aubin Subj: Re: LHA File Splitter ^MSGID: 1:115/300@fidonet.org 5c960131 Hi Richard! RA> I need a LHA Splitter that will halve *.lha files... I know there RA> is one out there, could someone please help me with this? This may, or may not, be what you need: ... Tear along the dotted line .............................................. *-------------------------------> Splitter <--------------------------------* *----------------------> Version 1.21 on 11/25/1993 <-----------------------* *--------------------------> by Martin Schlodder <--------------------------* Splitter is a very small utility to split and join files. It is written in ANSI C and thus completely portable to any system that has an ANSI C compiler. Usage: Splitter [] [-j] [-p n] [-s n] [-d] file the file to split spath optional path of the splitted parts -j join splitted parts -p split into n portions -s split into protions of n bytes size each -d MSDOS option, uses extension for marking and "\" for paths This is freeware, i.e. you may give this program to anyone you like and upload it to any mailbox, bulletin board or software server as long as you leave this package as it is. If you have any idea on how to advance the reliability or funtionality of this program, please let me know. But you may not use this code for anything commercial nor are you allowed to distibute any changed version on your self. The package contains th following files: splitter.c The C source code. splitter.doc This document. splitter.amiga Amiga binary. splitter.exe MS-DOS binary splitter.sun SUN sparc binary ............................................................................. You can find it on Aminet as "split121.lha". Cheers! Bill --- WackyMail 1.3c --- FidoPCB v1.4 [f0f92/b] * Origin: NezulD's DomaiN - 9 Lines 13.5 GIG (1:115/300) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:115/300@FidoNet 437 2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 18:51:54 From: Nacho Ruiz To: Nyle F. Landas Subj: BYTE BACK!!! AMIGA USERS!!!! ^MSGID: 2:343/143.0 2fcbbc5d -=> Quoting Nyle F. Landas to All <=- NL> willing to post this RIP when CBM entered liquidation. Now lets hold NL> their feet to the fire and make them write an article about ESCOMS NL> re-entry into the Amiga market. With 60 billion dollars additional ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sorry????!!!!! Can you explain that?? Who have 60.000.000.000$'s ??? See you later aligator! < N.R.O > * AmyBW v2.10 [NR] * ... AmyBW 2.10 Progress: [**********************************] 100% --- Blue Wave/Maximus * Origin: UAB BBS - +343-581-2884 V.FC - Telnet to bbs-ce.uab.es (2:343/143) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 121 133 134 137 140 SEEN-BY: 343/143 148 ^PATH: 2:343/143@FidoNet 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 21:07:56 From: Timothy Harris To: Larry Bolch Subj: Re: DAVE HAYNIE ON AAA... ^MSGID: 1:246/90@fido 2fc7e910 ^PID: CNet 3.0 I have read Dave Haynie's comments onAAA and I guess I have to disagree with them even though I am not an engineering genius like he is. The design of advanced amiga graphics environments using video chips which are now to be found on IBM video boards is a good idea along with RTG. I am in favour of it. It is something, however, that can be left to third-party developers who will be able to make up enhancement boards for the Amiga using these new chips. Any cooperation that the new company can give them should be given to them and as much standardization as possible should be encouraged. The AAA chipset is something which for the new Amiga would be standard and right out of the box, along with the 68060 processor and probably a new OS. It will be something on which the third party enhancement board makers would be able to BUILD UPON. At least, that is the way it should be. The third party developers can't very well supply us with it, and so this difficult job will have to fall to the new company to do. Even if they have to rehire everyone that was laid off before to work on it, they should do it. It is my belief that standardization is one of the BIG things about the Amiga that make it attractive; it's ability to do things right out of the box with no screwing around. If what I have read is correct, there are so many different combinations and permutations of videoboards , hardware, software, peripherals and drivers that to get an optimal system with PCs is rather difficult and can lead to unforseen and frustrating difficulties. AAA should go ahead, and the sooner the better . --- CNet/3 * Origin: FreeNeg: CANADA 'V.Airthang' 519/322-0450 (1:246/90) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:246/90@FidoNet 1 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 22:27:36 From: Todd H Knight To: John Larkin Subj: Re: LZX ^MSGID: 1:246/90@fido 2fc7fbbb ^PID: CNet 3.0 On Sat 27-May-1995 9:46a, John Larkin wrote: JL> JL> Hamlab has full Arexx control of all its JL> JL> function. I bleieve it also have JL> JL> a built in command line interface for converting to IFF. JL> THK> Hmmmm...I'll have to find someone with a copy and play! \\=^) JL> You can get the unregistered copy off Aminet. It hasn't been updated in a JL> while though, so I don't know if the author's still around to send out JL> registered versions or not. KUELLE!! It's already on it's way then!!! \\=^) Just placed my order for the "AmiNet Set 1" a few days back! Always nice to know that the toys you need you already have...or are about to, anyway...Trez bitchin' dooood!! --- ...and eaons hence, they shall ask their forefathers, "Micro what?" Leamington Amiga Research Group (LARGe) [=> ESCOM! ESCOM! RAH, RAH, RAH! <=] --- CNet/3 * Origin: FreeNeg: CANADA 'V.Airthang' 519/322-0450 (1:246/90) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:246/90@FidoNet 1 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:42:28 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Mark Dickenson Subj: Amiga competition... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f404 MD> That would definately be a big plus. If they do not charge too MD> much for the license fees we could see some competative Amiga MD> based computers. Well, it all depends on what Escom licenses the technology for. But I doubt that Escom will allow others to sell Amiga clones. You know, it's funny the way Amiga users see clones. They want other companies to sell Amigas for competition and extended development of the Amiga technology. BUT, when Commodore had such an agreement with NewTek, most Amiga users cried foul when NewTek put their own logo on the machine in place of the Amiga logo! Here's an example: ----------- Even Newtek themselves, until now completely dependant on AMIGA tech., also cover the AMIGA nameplate with their toaster label. It makes you wonder where their heads were, biting the hand that fed them. There was a spotlight on a talk show quite a while back now (Sally Jessy R I believe) where the Lightwave AMIGA tandem was highlighted. However Newtek was doing the demo & therefore AMIGA was never mentioned & was covered up as usual. ------------ --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:46:42 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: C64 facts... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f502 In a message of 12 May 95 Mark Dickenson wrote to Asha Develder: MD> The C-64s are dirt cheap. They were getting to the point where MD> there were only about 6 chips in the things at the end. They MD> could make and sell them in China for a fraction of the cost of MD> an Amiga 1200. JG> Six chips? Where did you get that number from? I was working JG> in a repair shop for C64's right up to the point that they were JG> discontinued, and the chip count hardly varied over the years. JG> I could find just about any chip I needed on any vintage board JG> -- which was our main point of spare parts, canibalizing one of JG> hundreds of 64's in the back room. Jeff, what I assume Mark is talking about is the last version of the 64C. The 64C used different chips than previous versions of the 64, so it was impossible to canibalize parts from dead 64's. They combined some of the custom chips to reduce manufacturing steps, and costs. They also reduced the RAM chips down to 2. If I remember right, in the end it costed less than $40 to manufacture a 64. And yes, I did work for a Commodore dealer which included repair work on 64's for 7 years! --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:41:18 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Chris Baillies Subj: CIA chips... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f3be DW> The same happens in Australia. I must find out if the CIA DW> chip is the same as the 8520 UART chip as found on old PC serial DW> cards (most now use 16550's). I think that they could well be! DW> Can anyone shed any light on this CB> No, an 8250 won't work, but if you have an old PET/VIC/C64 CB> knocking around I'm FAIRLY certain you could pinch the 652? CB> CIA's from that. They're supposed to be the same chip, a case CB> of C= using up bits from the old parts bin... Please check CB> before trying though! The chip you are thinking about is the 6526, and it WON'T WORK! Yes, the early 1000s (the ones without the daughterboard) did use the 6526, but I've tried them in my later 1000 and they don't work! Also, the 6526 was designed for a machine that ran at 1-2MHz, not a 7.14MHz machine like the Amiga. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:37:08 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Patrick Tessier Subj: Clones... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f2c4 PT> Well I guess you're right on that! That was IBM's biggest PT> mistake. To release its technology freely like that! IBM didn't release its technology to other companies. IBM made the mistake of using common parts that could be bought in any electronics store. The only thing copyrighted on the IBM is the BIOS ROM, and that can easily be copied. The Amiga on the other hand is very difficult to copy with its custom chips. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:35:32 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Larry Baum Subj: Commodore Germany... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f264 LB> Well hopefully things will turn out well (I just have nasty LB> memories of CBM Germany suceeding in getting the US proposal LB> for the A2000 (The Ranger) scrapped in favor of the inferior LB> A2000 we know today). The reason why the German machine was chosen over the American machine was the German machine could be put out to market quicker. BTW, are you biased against Germans because of that? After all, you have a German name...Baum is German for tree! Anyway, Commodore Germany has done some pretty amazing things including inventing the Bridgeboard, aka the Sidecar. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:40:08 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Danny Barnett Subj: Commodore saga... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f378 DB> Is anyone ever going to write a book on the Amiga saga? If DB> so, you've got your first customer. Heck, since I used to DB> head up a user's group, maybe I could even contribute something. The question is if a book was written about the Amiga, who would buy it? How many people (or Amiga people) would buy the book? Did you buy "The Home Computer Wars", a book about the home computer industry and all the companies involved (mostly about Tramiel and Commodore including the early days of the Amiga)? Probably not. Do you have "The Commodore Story"...a flyer put out by Commodore telling the story of Commodore including Amiga development? Maybe if someone produces a FAQ file on it, but I can't see too many people interested in the Amiga saga. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:30:46 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Asha Develder Subj: Delayed release of 2.0... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f146 AD> I hear the release of one of the OS upgrades (either 1.3 or 2.0X) AD> was delayed because DPaint X broke on it and C= changed something AD> rather than forcing (as if that would have been possible) EA to AD> fix DPaint. Maybe it was a rumor, but it wouldn't surprise me. WW> I hadn't heard this! Interesting if true. I know in the "old WW> days" DPaint was all but a must have for all Amiga owners, so WW> it woudn't suprise me either! Actually, there is truth in the rumor! The upgrade release of 2.0 for machines other than the 3000 was delayed for a year because many commercial programs wouldn't work on it. This gave those software manufacturers a chance to produce upgrades that would work with 2.0. Commodore put out certain rules for writing software for the Amiga, in order for programs to be compatible with future versions of the Amiga's operating system. If those rules weren't followed, the programs may not work with future OS's...and that's what happened. Anyway, Commodore held back the release of 2.0 a year to give those companies to come out with new versions of their programs, or produce maintenance upgrades to fix the bugs. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:44:44 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Todd H Knight Subj: Developing on obsolete computers... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f48c May 18/95 6:31a THK> Is that any reason to discontinue developing for the original THK> platform which gave you your start? It's akin to kicking your THK> parents out of their home when they're no longer convenient to THK> have around... May 21/95 7:34a, John Preston wrote: JP> Uh, if I held on to that analogy then I'd still be writing JP> software for the Radio Shack Model I !!!! May 21/95 4:40p THK> Jeeeeeeez...I never knew that teh Radio Shack Model I was more THK> powerful than the Amiga, doooooood...Please, tell us how?! THK> I'll buy thirty if you can prove THAT! Todd, you must have misread your own quote! Reread it. You were complaining about people discontinuing development on systems which gave them their start in programming. Reading what John wrote, the TRS80 model I was the first system that he developed on, and if he followed what you said he would still be developing on the TRS80! In my case, I would still be programming the Commodore PET, and mainframes via punched cards!!! You have to keep moving with the times. When the next generation of computer comes along and the Amiga and IBM are obsolete, I'll program on that machine and leave the Amiga and IBM behind...just like I left the PET and 64 behind. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:27:46 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Paul Lieberman Subj: Escom's plans for low end computers... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f092 PL> resurrecting production of the Amiga 600 (DEATH TO 16 bit PL> microcomputers MEGADEATH to 8 bit ones!), death to the concept PL> of resurrecting production of the C-64, etc. TK> Well, I look at it this way; As long as they do NOT publically TK> sell those machines in the North American marketplace, and ONLY TK> sell to those "third world" or "developing nations" that need TK> computers, but can't afford "real machines" yet, then I say they TK> should go for it. TK> <> all know that it's totally outdated tech, but there's a TK> definite FINANCIAL POSSIBILITY with the 64 in other countries TK> that's just ripe for the picking... First off, I agree 100% with Escom's plans to resurrect production of the 600. We can't forget that the best selling Amiga was the bottom-end 500. There is a demand for low-end Amigas, and the 1200 doesn't qualify...although it is the low-end AGA Amiga. There is plenty of software (and games) that people buy low end Amigas for. It was the sales of the low end Amigas that supported development of the 1200, 4000, and other Amigas in development. As well, there is still a lot of demand for the 64. So much so that Commodore was working on a new one called the 65. Commodore wasn't able to pull it off due to financial difficulties so they sold them all off "as-is". Those who did get it were amazed with it. In regards to interfacing a computer to "real-world applications", I can do it far easier with a 64 than I could with an Amiga, or an IBM for that matter. I've interfaced the 64 to control robots, to drive scientific experiments, etc. I could even task-switch with the 64. There are a lot of factories that use the 64 in interfacing to real- world applications. I even know of one in Germany that uses a 64 to test equipment before it is sold! There is still a lot of demand for the 64, especially in those countries that can't afford expensive computer equipment! --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:26:42 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Paula Lieberman Subj: First Amiga... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f052 PL> The Amiga 1000 was the -first- Amiga..... NOT!!!!!!!! Yes the Amiga 1000 was the first Amiga that was sold to the public by Commodore, but there were many incarnations of the Amiga including one that was as big as a Cray, and the original Amiga was a game machine without a keyboard. In fact, there were even two versions of the 1000...the early one didn't have the 256K WCS daughterboard for Kickstart storage. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:34:08 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Mike Liberatore Subj: IBM similar to the Amiga??? ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f210 ML> Can amiga programs and games be played on a IBM computer??? ML> I know that they are similar, but I never looked into this ML> issue... IBM's and Amigas are similar...what an interesting concept. Let's see...well, they both are computers, they both have screens, they both have keyboards, they both use electricity...gee, I guess they ARE the same! ;) I'm sorry Mike, but your statement made me do it! What gave you the idea that they are similar? Yes the Amiga can read/write to IBM disks and with special software and/or hardware can run IBM software, but the IBM can't do the same due to limitations. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 04:38:34 From: Mike Fellhauer To: Lance Tagliapietra Subj: Turning it off... ^MSGID: 1:250/620.0 2fc6f31a MT> For me...this Machine will keep getting turned on/off as long as MT> I can find parts for it. Once it fails to work any longer is MT> when I leave computers all together. MT> Nothing can ever replace the AMIGA...Nothing. LT> You mean you actually turn your Amiga off? Mine only gets shut LT> down when I am taking it about. Otherwise it is on 24 hours a LT> day. The reason I do this is that power on is the most LT> stressful time any piece of electronic equipment has to endure. LT> I have rarely seen things break while running, but I have seen LT> many things break when turning them on. My first 1000 died from HEAT, from not enough air circulation and being left on all the time. My 64 also died from heat from being left on all the time! My current 1000 only gets turned on when I need it. There have been quite a few times that I have just turned off the computer and realized that I needed to do something else and turn it right back on (20 seconds after turning it off). It's over 9 years old and going strong! --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: The House of Comments (1:250/620) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:250/620@FidoNet 601 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 15:21:00 From: Jeff Hellige To: Holly Sullivan Subj: Re: full of it ^MSGID: 1:2612/114.0 881C4A7E ^TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 94-0019 HS>Uh-oh. It'll be hard time for you now-- forced to program Pac-Man clones HS>on a Timex Sinclair..... Gee Holly, I still have one of these little beasties, still in the box too. Haven't tried to use it in years! Jeff Hellige@atc.ameritel.net * OLX 2.1 TD * E Pluribus Modem --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Hafa Adai Exchange, Great Mills MD 301-994-9460/62 (1:2612/114.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2612/114@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 27 May 95 15:29:00 From: Jeff Hellige To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Info needed on A1000. ^MSGID: 1:2612/114.0 881C4A7F ^TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 94-0019 Asha, AD> Probably more than you really wanted to know, but there you go...:) Thanks for the reply and the info. That was exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Another question though: at what resolution does HAM operate? Also, are the flicker-fixers still available for the 1000/500? Jeff Hellige@atc.ameritel.net * OLX 2.1 TD * Diplomacy - the art of letting someone have your way. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Hafa Adai Exchange, Great Mills MD 301-994-9460/62 (1:2612/114.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2612/114@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 27 May 95 16:38:28 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Dave Gomme Subj: Re: C= Buyout ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7a9e4 ^REPLY: 1:261/1189.1 2fc3afce ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Dave Gomme wrote to me: DG>>> me to feel better. Right now I'm in a mood to garrot the next visual DG>>> basic programmer I meet. JG>> Ooops... gotta go... DG> Say it ain't so, Jeff, say it ain't so! I cannot lie about this; I indeed program VisBasic from time to time at work. You do what you gotta do in order to make things work... :-) Basically, the Arexx for Windows, but without the interprocess communications abilities. And about 10 times as convoluted. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... I am not an animal! I am ... well, not an animal. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 16:41:28 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Gary Peake Subj: Re: Latest news on buyout ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7aa98 ^REPLY: 1:106/7512.2@FidoNet 2fc3e02b ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Gary Peake wrote to me: LB>>>> I think Escom might have gotten the designer of the AAA and Hombre GP>>> Except that, according to Dave Haynie, AAA is now already outdated and GP>>> both are far from nearing the finish line yet. JG>> That's odd, Dave usually doesn't contradict himself. A year ago, all JG>> that was needed for AAA was to rewrite two devices and a library, and JG>> off we go. GP> Maybe I mis-spoke? What he said on Usenet was that AAA was too outdated GP> and that the 6 months needed to get it in the product and on the shelf GP> would *really* put it out of date considering the other options GP> available now. That makes more sense, although I disagree with him :-) AAA is outdated on an AMIGA, perhaps, but since AGA still does things that I can't do on my top-o-the-line clone at work, I suspect that AAA still has a place. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... Facts are stubborn little bastards, be careful with them. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 16:51:59 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: CO-MODERATOR ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7ad0f ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 28a8a2b4 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to me: JG>>>> I beg your pardon, I am NOT a large, furry, fluffy pillow with ears. JG>>>> Well, OK, I'm a little fluffy on top. AD>>> You're NOT? Then who is it that keeps coming up here to visit AD>>> me and tells me he's YOU? JG>> Uh oh, is my evil twin on the loose again? Does he have a tatoo that JG>> reads "Born to raise heck" on it? AD> Nooooo...... Don't tell me there's more than one of YOU!! Weeellll... didn't you once tell me that George had made a sighting? You don't think that random chance could explain that, do you? JG>>>> Waitaminit... why are you dragging me to that airlock? AD>>> Just want you to have a better view! (chuckle) JG>> I can see JUST FINE from here, thank you! :-) AD> No you can't, look (over there!) it's (push) (clank) Heh! :) LET ME OUT OF HERE! I WANT OUT! I WANT OUT! I WANT ... ooooo... doughnuts.... mmmmmm.... *munch munch* Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "But in purple, I'm STUNNING!" -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 16:53:18 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: EchoDisk Finale! ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7ad5e ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 28a8a590 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to me: AD> Jeff, AD>>> Hmm...hadn't thought of that, but you've got a point there! AD>>> (Fortunately your hair covers most of it..heeeeehheee) JG>> ... and it's covered completely when I wear my propeller beanie! AD> Bring the beanie when you come up. Love to get a picture of AD> it! :) Okeedokee... AD>>> Which reminds me, now that I've changed my hair (radically) we AD>>> probably ought to get another pic of me. Maybe we should have George AD>>> take a few with you next time you're up here (mid June)? JG>> Sure! I've got just the tee-shirt for the picture, too :-) AD> Goodie! Talked to George about it this afternoon (don't do AD> mornings) and he seemed willing enough. But I may grab some poloriod AD> film "just in case"...:) Make sure it's the extra-halfbright variety.... :-) Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... Of course I'm sane. The voices say so. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 16:55:57 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Slippery ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7adfd ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 28a8dc7a ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to Holly Sullivan: JG>>> Dunno, there's something about younger balding men... besides, the JG>>> flowers were so NICE of him! :-) HS>> Erik sent you flowers? Awwwwww........... HS>> Guess Erik doesn't love _me_ anymore.. ;) AD> Or me.....;? Maybe Erik's just trying to butter me up for something... ;-) But, I like to think otherwise :-) Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "Very funny, Mr. Scott. Now, beam down my pants!" -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 17:06:01 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Mark Dickenson Subj: Re: He returns!!! ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7b059 ^REPLY: 1:284/92.0@fidonet E7284E60 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Mark Dickenson wrote to me: MD> protectors. So right there you have eight chips. :) About the only MD> thing you could exchange from past C64 mother boards with the last MD> version were the CIA, VIC and SID chips. And the CPU, and the RAM chips, and the line drivers... :-) Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "Suppose you were a total idiot. Suppose you were also a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself..." -- M. Twain -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 17:15:10 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Rene Laederach Subj: Re: Echo Disk Beauties! ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7b27e ^REPLY: <46645614@snoop.alphanet.ch> 8035560a ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Rene Laederach wrote to Asha Develder: RL> Could somebody put them on a file echo so I don't have to freq them They WERE! Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... All things considered, insanity may be the only reasonable alternative. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 17:21:54 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Jeff German Subj: Re: Dopus configs sharing... ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc7b412 ^REPLY: 1:2803/1005@fido-net 2fc51da6 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Jeff German wrote to Ken Rumsey: JG> I just said that because I feel that long posts like that can be cut JG> down or possibly shortened. Post your reviews of other people's posts in netmail, please, Jeff. It serves no purpose to rage back and forth on matter of style, except in the Pro_Writer echo :-) Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "Are you driving with your eyes open, or are you like using the Force?" -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 18:52:00 From: Sean Caszatt To: Nyle F. Landas Subj: Re: Escom Press Conf.anno -=> Quoting Nyle F. Landas to Brian Bell <=- NFL> BTE anyone over there going to attend this press conference??? Don Hicks of Amazing Computing is going to the press conference. Sean ... We have the finest congress money can buy - Mark Twain ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- DlgQWK v0.71a/PDQMail v2.54 * Origin: Amiga After Dark - 412.962.0961 (1:2601/612) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2601/612@FidoNet 100 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 09:36:00 From: Mark Squire To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Pressrelease ESCOM (G ^MSGID: 1:214/80@fidonet.org e427c5c9 Asha, -> NFL> It would be nice if they'd give the Amiga's motherboards a standard -> NFL> form factor. So, I could buy one of those large black beautiful PC -> NFL> Compatible Tower Cases I see in computer shopper and stick in my NFL> -> motherboard. I've always wanted a Tower Case but it shouldn't make -> That would be nice, and make economic sense also. wonder if they'll -> actually do it...:) I may be weird, but I like the idea of a clear box. (-: Mark --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:214/80@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 18:23:00 From: Carl Jolley To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Another question... ^PID: BWRA 3.02 [Eval] ^MSGID: 1:108/190.0 2fc88cfd ^TID: FastEcho 1.40 7708 AD> Chance, CH> 1. If I upgrade to the 3.1 OS, will I be able make it an AGA machine? CH> or am I still stuck with my OCS graphics (heck, even ECS would be CH> better) AD> You cannot make your A2000 into an AGA machine, but you can get AD> rather close if you want. You can upgrade Agnus (to 2 meg) and Denise, AD> which will make you ECS. And if you plop in a graphics card (Picasso, AD> Retina, et al) you can have some rather nice Workbench displays plus be AD> able to display 24 bit via AD> several programs as well as paint in it (TV Paint, XI Paint, etc..) CH> 2. Any picture viewers/Sound players/Directory Utilitys/terminal CH> programs /Bluewave readers, you can recommend that works with 1.3? AD> It's been so long since I ran 1.3 that I really don't know. If AD> you can find DiskMaster, it used to work under 1.3. Viewtek (viewer) AD> might, but I'm not sure. As for offline readers...don't know... CH> 3. Is there ANY Graphic Internet packages out for the Amiga that work CH> under 1.3? (the ones that let you view Web pages and pictures online? AD> Considering the major problems that 2.X and 3.X users are having AD> connecting to the Internet, I sincerly doubt that. ;/ I'm still running 1.3 and I know that Qblue 1.0 works to read BlueWave packets (it better I'm using it to read this message and send this reply). Also Terminus 1.0e works on 1.3. As far as I know there are no Internet related applications available for 1.3 since there is no TCP/IP stack that runs under 1.3. The best you'll be able to do is VT100 terminal emulation to a unix shell account. --- Blue Wave/RA * Origin: OVAUG BBS Cincinnati, OH 513-241-8817 *AMIGA* (1:108/190) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:108/190@FidoNet 220 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 01:27:02 From: Paul Schifferer To: Asha Develder Subj: New Amigas ^PID: OLMS 2.5 [PBTED47U] ^MSGID: 1:102/1313.0 12b2e690 Asha, AD> There's that! I think EVERYONE ought to buy a new Amiga when they AD>come out, but that's probably too much to ask for.. If you Western Union me about $1500, I'll be more than happy to!! I've been *ACHING* to by a 4000T, and as soon as they show up, I'm going to drool over it at the computer store at least once a week 'til I *DO* have enough to take it home!!! :) :Paul * OLX 2.1 TD * --T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E-- * Origin: Teen Town BBS - Home of LlanoWare - (805)264-0443 - (1:102/1313) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:102/1313@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 01:27:03 From: Paul Schifferer To: Wendell Watanabe Subj: WORDWORTH 3.1 VS. FINALWR ^PID: OLMS 2.5 [PBTED47U] ^MSGID: 1:102/1313.0 12b2e691 WW>big step into the DTP relm! That is one thing missing from Final Writer, but WW>then I do have Pagestream to handle that side. I'm really pretty happy with WW>Final Writer as a word processor, but figure it doesn't hurt to look at what WW>else is out! I've got FinalWriter 2.1, and WordPerfect 4.1.11. I'd have to say that I'm very happy with FW, except for the fact that it does run slower than that SNOT program everyone keeps fussing about [:)], since I've only got a stock 7.blah MHz 68000 (YUCK!). FW still lacks all the neat stuff that WordPerfect did. As far as the interface, FW can be rather annoying at times, but I've learned to put up with it. I'd like to try that demo of WW, though. :Paul * OLX 2.1 TD * All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound? * Origin: Teen Town BBS - Home of LlanoWare - (805)264-0443 - (1:102/1313) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:102/1313@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 01:27:04 From: Paul Schifferer To: Jon Inghram Subj: C64 LOADer ^PID: OLMS 2.5 [PBTED47U] ^MSGID: 1:102/1313.0 12b2e692 Jon, JI> SA> the '*' is a wildcard to find the first program on the disk, the '8' is JI> SA> the device no, ie the disk drive, and the '1' is to tell the OS not to JI> SA> relocate the code, but to load it in from where it was saved. Normally, JI> SA> the C64 loaded everything into $0800, which was the start of the BASIC JI> SA> area. All basic programs are stored here and consequently, saved from JI> SA> here as well. Machine code could also be saved from $c000. This would JI> SA> be loaded back to there with the '1' appended to the 'LOAD' command. JI>What do you mean "relocate the code", "$0800 and $c000", and "Machine code"? JI>:-) If "8" is the location of the drive, what are 7 through 0? I remember JI>using a tape "drive" when we used to have a VIC-20, and even using carts! :- JI>Actually, you could make some pretty cool carts for the A500! The whole game JI>fits in a cart that plugs into the expansion port, and it could even include JI>faster CPU and RAM. Let me take a shot at this... On the C64 and C128, on every program saved to any storage media (i.e., disk, tape, etc.), the first two bytes of the program were the address to which it would be loaded. If you typed in LOAD "program",8 the program would load into the memory area used for BASIC programs, i.e., 0x0800, ignoring the program's builtin load address. If you typed LOAD "program",8,1 instead, it would use that programs address to figure out where to put it. The first instance is "relocating the code". Now, as for the ,8 part of it...that's just a device number telling BASIC where to find the file you want, i.e., disk, tape, etc. Believe it or not, I still have my C64 user's manual, and C64 and C128 programmer's reference guides, and according to them, valid devices numbers are as such: 0 Keyboard 1 Casette 2 RS232 3 Screen 4-7 Printers (usually) 8-30 Disk drives (usually) What is meant by "usually" is that devices 4-30 were any type of "serial" device. But the C64's serial port is not the same as the Amiga's or a PC's. Same concept, different pin configuration. I hope that clears it up! :) :Paul * OLX 2.1 TD * Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. * Origin: Teen Town BBS - Home of LlanoWare - (805)264-0443 - (1:102/1313) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:102/1313@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 01:27:05 From: Paul Schifferer To: John Ardoin Subj: amiga comput/dv magx ^PID: OLMS 2.5 [PBTED47U] ^MSGID: 1:102/1313.0 12b2e693 JA>Howdy ! I wonder that you, as Amiga World magazine subscribers, got a postca JA>from IDG Publishing, were given the choice to continue the subscribation wit JA>either DV magazine or Amiga Computing magazine and ever one of you get the JA>first issuse of either magazine yet ??? I have not received anything now as JA>of yet!!! I called IDG and they said I have to contact the Publisher which I JA>did, they said to contact Amiga Computing Magazine adutior or editor..( I JA>choose Amiga Computing )... JA>Do anyone receive comments from IDG ??? I got a postcard from them, and sent it back IMMEDIATELY, having selected Amiga Computing. As yet, I haven't heard JACK-SQUAT from them about it. I miss my AmigaWorld! :Paul * OLX 2.1 TD * --T-A+G-L-I+N-E--+M-E-A+S-U-R+I-N-G+--G-A+U-G-E-- * Origin: Teen Town BBS - Home of LlanoWare - (805)264-0443 - (1:102/1313) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:102/1313@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 27 May 95 12:51:26 From: Sean Coldren To: David Misner Subj: Re: Looking for a 1200 ^MSGID: 1:270/421@fido-net 2fc774b6 ^PID: CNet 3.0 If you are let me know. I am currently looking into a 2000. I would like to get the 4000 or wait for the 5000, but I don't have the time or the 3000.00 to spend on one. Thanks for showing interest in the 1200, keep up the support of the Amiga, sean coldren --- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. --- CNet/3 * Origin: The Junkyard BBS (717) 394-2910 (1:270/421) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:270/421@FidoNet 415 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 08:29:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Todd H Knight Subj: Re: Escom's agenda ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA0 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Tod, MT> NFL> The guy is Dr. Kittel a well known and respected member of the Amiga MT> NFL> community. He's one of us - and actually uses the Amiga. MT> GOOD on Both accounts. Those help. 1 thing I hate is someone who talks MT> Good for the AMIGA but doesn't use it or Rarely uses it. Someone who THK> uses MT> it can TALK about it. :) THK> Then you'l be happy to hear that I'm absolutely psycho...and that I'm THK> targetting my BBS to become a kinda AmiNet Backup Site for the Non THK> InterNet crowd...just went for 600 Megs to 3+ GIG this weekend...and THK> I'm looking at a couple gig more to store 365 days worth of ADS files THK> for good measure...not to mention the 2 CDRoms that I had before...and THK> the 4 new ones that are here now! [Rest Deleted for Space] Though this is a nice idea; what does it have to do with Dr. Kittel? :) __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... Destroy the Borg? Give them Windows 3.1. That will do it!! * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 09:05:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Mark Dickenson Subj: Re: Blitzblank 2.60 ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA1 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Mark, AD> Just got Blitzblank 2.60 and I'm absolutely THRILLED! Finally a MD> Same here and I HATE Screen Blankers! To show you how much I really, MD> REALLY *HATE* Screen Blankers I juat HAD to install this one. I like them. I've been using GBlanker for a while now. But BlitzBlanker is pretty nice too...recently reinstalled it. 2.60 is a nicer release. AD> I can't look at it), Skyline is tasty! Three cheers for Maze and AD> Goats! I'm one happy blanker. :) MD> I loved MAZE. Ended up screen grabbing a couple of them (that was a MD> toughy) with the solutions. I tought Skyline was kind of ugly. 3 cheers for Maze...You Betchya! Goats is already...it's a lot better than ASworm... :) Grabbed with the Solutionds, hehe hehe...that's funny. AD> Only one module won't work, and that's Spot. I can't figure out AD> why not, but there you go. MD> On every blanker that has had a spot program none have ever worked on my MD> 3000. I was able to get one to work on my 500 but never the 3000. Spot wors on my 2000HD perfectly. If I recall, Spot, with previous releases of BB wouldn't work correctly. I like this one. AD> I do have a suggestion for Snow. How 'bout putting a tree in the AD> middle (bare of leaves of course, and, I'll draw it if you insist) and AD> have the snow fall on it, creating a really nice winter scene. You AD> could also program it so that if snow > thickness of branch it falls AD> off in a clump to the ground. Don't know how hard it would be to do, AD> but it could be neat. MD> YES! YES! YES! I was wondering what was missing! How about adding the MD> ability to add your own picture. Wouldn't mind having one with a couple MD> of hills, trees and a house in the distance. Asha's idea is Perfect!! I too knew there was something missing; even though it's Very nice like it is now. I'd like to Only see 1 Tree in the middle of the screen. Nothing else...just 1 Tree. And let Asha draw it. :) MD> One thing I really loved were the Flying Toasters. FINALLY, an FT MD> blanker that rivals other platforms. I loved how the wings were MD> reflected in the sides of the toaster as well as the little red glow MD> inside the openings. Looks fastastic on a highres screen with 10 of MD> those suckers flying around. :) I HATE the Flying Toasters idea but I was suprised at how much better this was as well. Nice details. A lot better than most! But I'm not sure I'll keep it active...as I still find them kind of stupid. Just a wird thing about Video Toasters I guess (haha). MD> And I finally saw your nifty Butterfly blanker. It's great! Such big MD> colorful butterflies that animate and move smoothly (take that Beemers MD> :P). DRATS!! DRATS!! And Double DRATS!! I'd like to see this one. But I can't get it to show up on my A2000HD. Darn! I can't even get a CONFIG window. :( __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... I don't cheat; I play by the extended rules. * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 09:16:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Richard Aubin Subj: Re: LHA File Splitter ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA2 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Richard, RA> I need a LHA Splitter that will halve *.lha files... I know there is RA> one out there, could someone please help me with this? You just need a file splitter & joiner. These do exist...problem is, I haven't see one around for a while now. If you have access, check AmiNet. I suggest D/Ling (Downloading) the INDEX file & then doing a search of "split" or such. (ADPro V2.5.0 comes with a File Splitter & Joiner for both AMIGA & ibm...that's why I don't know any PD/Shareware filenames). __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... I'm Locutus of Borg; your tagline will be assimilated! * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 09:20:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Sean Coldren Subj: Re: Looking for a 1200 ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA3 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Sean, SC> I have an A1200 for sale. It has an extra meg of ram. And it comes SC> with Termite and Simcity 2000 AGA. It has all the books and boxes to SC> every thing. I am asking for 500.00 firm + S&H $500???? I sure hope you left items out of that small list. :) SC> If you are interested leave me mail here. I am very interested but NOT for $500. For what I see there..maybe $200-300. __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... Windows/NT: From the makers of EDLIN! * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 09:24:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Jeff German Subj: Re: LZX ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA4 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Jeff, JG> I am sure glad that we are staying on the topic of "LZX". Funnt how we JG> all of a sudden start talking about graphic formats! hehe JG> So is LZX taking off like we all thought? What are your thoughts? Mine JG> is that it is not doing to good and LHA is still in the lead. LZX has JG> been out for several months and I noticed on other bbs and discussions JG> that it is slowly dieing out. That doesn't seem to be the case here. LHA is still in strong effect BUT LZX is making a Name for itself. I know that in This area I supports most of my local boards with new AmiNet files. I have a script that converts all Bigger LHA files to LZX... And most of the C-Net boards have added LZX into their Archives (for checking etc). LZX seems to be doing well in CA. I LOVE it. There are a couple of changes I'd like to see though. Shall I name them? :) __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... Only AMIGA Makes It Possible. Only Commodore Stood In The Way. * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 09:31:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Todd H Knight Subj: Re: LZX ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA5 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Todd, THK> with any new release. Overall, it's a VERY good util, and scheduled THK> for PC release shortly as well. Once it's available for both THK> platforms, we'll see something happening with it, but for now, it's THK> just hanging on, biding it's time. It's already his the "Personal Computer" ;-) Anyway, I don't know if I agree with the statement "Once it's available for both platforms, we'll see something happening with it" because while I was with IBM before I had an AMIGA (Years...ago) there was an Archive format that came out called "SQUEEZE". Does anyone else remember this beats? It was Nice. It compresses 20% (if I remember correctly) better than ZIP. But because so many think "ZIP" when "Archive" is said...I'd guess that's why it didn't take off (or did it??). So I'm not sure about that statement. ;) I HOPE so, however. P.S. What I Do like about THAT is having something on AMIGA 1ST before Beemers!!!!!!! It's been a while.... :) __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... Windows 3; world's fastest spreading virus. * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 10:15:00 From: Michael Taylor To: Gary Tabar Subj: Re: So wadda you really U ^MSGID: 1:203/370.0 881DBAA6 ^PID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 94-0326 Gary, Let's see if I can help.. :) GT> Here goes: GT> I have 1200 with wb 3.0 I have an A2000HD w/3.1. 040/28. GT> I use these shareware/freeware utilities: GT> Powerdata (automatically decompresses powerpacked files as if they I now use XLoad which is PPLoadSeg but for XPK & now also PowerPacked files. GT> ArcHandler 1.0 allows you to utilize lha files as directories!! you can I REALLY need to get this fully setup... GT> MuteFix.lha a pack that has all the voice files you need for 3.0 so GT> yur amiga can spaek again! Is this better than the Lame Synth voice? :) GT> Magic Menu (adds menus items to wb) I have it..like it a little. But it reminds me TOO MUCH of Windoze. Ick! GT> Powersnap (enhanced snapping/pasteing commodity) I LOVE this Utility. I wish there was something else though that did PATCH the OS. I truely love it. GT> KingCon 1.2 (enhanced shell replacement) Uh-huh....another kick butt prg! 1.3 has been out for a while, but it caused my machine to crash on me once in a while. So I'm back with 1.2. GT> muchmore 4.0 (text reading utility) Check out FullView Much nicer & handles Packed files. GT> multiclock (adds clock to wb, which speaks the time every 15 minutes) Not bad... GT> viewtek 2.1 (pic viewing utility) I don't use VT anymore... FastView is MUCH nicer. :) GT> Dms disk compressor GT> lha file compressor (moving quickly to lzx!!) GT> LZX1.1 (new file compressor) These Archivers are Nice. DMS, LHA, & LZX 1.1 are the Main ones we need anymore. :) GT> arc (file compressor) I'm glad this Dino is no longer used. :) GT> TUDE (best 1200 degrader I've found) Not bad. GT> degrader (another 1200 degrader) Love this one! GT> reqChange (much better requesters!!!lots of options!) I like RTPatch better. :) GT> fastblit (speeds up blitter operations) For some strange reason this always slows my machine DOWN. :( GT> fastmath 4.06 (faster math libraries) (am I missing and more of this Yep!! These are GREAT!! Q-Blue V1.9 PB. (THE BEST QWK/BlueWave Offline Mail Reader...I _AM_ going to get my registration sent in IF these would STOP happening that demand money I've saved...argh!) Frodo (the BEST 64 emulator out! It's also the Slowest one...but everthing WORKS with it...so far unlike the Others) MUI 2.3 (Some like it, some don't...I do. There are a LOT of files out for it) Bootman (A very nice Loader util.. Allows you to select different startups) Upcat (A very nice File Data base for keeping track of your files) DiskSpare Device V2. (With this you can increase your Floppy & even Hardrive disk space. I LIKE this one!!!) MT-Copy [Multi Tasking Copy] (Too bad it doesn't TRUELY Multi Task...but it's a nice Shareware Copier, handles DOS & NDOS). PopPhone (Newer...GREAT for keeping Addresses, Names, Phone #s, Comments, etc... Uses MUI. It's Full Functional). SnoopDOS V1.XX - V3 (Best System Monitor & bath displayer made!) RunIt (Great helping Older games with with Zero30/Zero40 machines.) And MANY others... I'm always going thru AmiNet...hehe. __ __/// /\ \XX/ /~~\MIGA Inet {rushmax@calweb.com} ... *** NEWS FLASH *** Bunny Arrested.... Charged with battery.... * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.00 * Origin: Amigalink, SACC 443-8786 ZyXEL U-1496E (1:203/370.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:203/370@FidoNet 992 540 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 24 May 95 14:07:59 From: Erik V. Petersen To: Holly Sullivan Subj: Re: Slippery ^MSGID: 1:134/27.0 1d8f0516 On Tue 95-May-23, Holly Sullivan said to Jeff Grimmett: JG> Dunno, there's something about younger balding men... besides, the JG> flowers were so NICE of him! :-) HS> Erik sent you flowers? Awwwwww........... HS> Guess Erik doesn't love _me_ anymore.. ;) HS> :)---Holly---<--<-@ There now (says he patting his green marble Holly) the only flowers I've sent the Grimm one were verbal ones. Once in a blue moon he (probably inadvertently) does earn those. We can't all be like you sending a flower with every message! --Erik IceIQle v2.04 - Why be Politically Correct when you can be right? --- IceBBS FidoExport v1.7 * Origin: AMUC Express (403) 282-5224/5238 (1:134/27) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:134/27@FidoNet 1 17 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 12:56:10 From: David Slonosky To: Holly Sullivan Subj: Echo Disk Beauties! ^MSGID: 1:249/120.0 2fc5c251 Hello, Holly Sullivan! On Sat 20 May 95 15:07 you wibbled to me: JG> (does anyone know why I grin when I think of Kinko's?) DS> It makes you think of Holly? ;-) HS> (laughing still) Geez, that's two of you.. if you start thinking like HS> Monte, we're all in trouble!! (G) What, having a perverted mind is rare on this echo? ;-) Hail and Farewell, Dave * AmyBW v2.11 * ... Only Amiga makes it possible. --- Blue Wave/Maximus * Origin: Illusionary Communications (1:249/120) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:249/120@FidoNet 200 99 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 13:00:15 From: David Slonosky To: Bill Jump Subj: amiga??? ^MSGID: 1:249/120.0 2fc5c252 Hello, Bill Jump! On 22 May 95 17:39:46 you wibbled to me: BJ>> Have you figured out how to format the MFMs to FFS? DS> Use an ALF 2 system (ALF 2 software and an OMTI 5527 card). :) BJ> Interesting. I've seen mention of the ALF system before, but don't BJ> remember much about it. I'm the kind of guy who only reads what applies It was a cheap way to get a hard drive on my 500. It's not supported now, as far as I know, but it was still working before I went up to SCSI on my 3000. BJ> friends junked 286 box. I have this running with a Supra WordSync and a BJ> Q40 drive. That took a bit of doing until I figured out the 2090/MFM BJ> combo insists on being DH0: and I already had the Supra/Q40 using that. BJ> Am I rambling or did you want to know all this. :) Well, you nver know what I can pull out of _my_ useless information database someday. :) Hail and Farewell, Dave * AmyBW v2.11 * ... Curses! Flamed Again. --me --- Blue Wave/Maximus * Origin: Illusionary Communications (1:249/120) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:249/120@FidoNet 200 99 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 12:28:27 From: Todd H Knight To: Gary Caine Subj: Re: The Amiga ^MSGID: 1:246/90@fido 2fc61dd0 ^PID: CNet 3.0 On Fri 26-May-1995 4:06a, Gary Caine wrote: GC> THAT is information they should be interested in. :) That's why I'm trying to get omre for them... GC> Getting people to try the Amiga is going to sell Amigas. And that's EXACTLY the reasoning that I'm applying, too! GC> It doesn't cost much to mail a letter to Europe, maybe the are just GC> sending thier own. 1) People are LAZY and think that everything will fall to them from the Gods...so they won't write. 2) People are STUPID, and refuse to accept offers because they "think that there's a catch." 3) People don't get it that by sitting on their asses and doing NOTHING, they won't have ANYTHING to say about the direction that things take in the future. See items one and two for clarification. --- ...and eaons hence, they shall ask their forefathers, "Micro what?" Leamington Amiga Research Group (LARGe) [=> ESCOM! ESCOM! RAH, RAH, RAH! <=] --- CNet/3 * Origin: FreeNeg: CANADA 'V.Airthang' 519/322-0450 (1:246/90) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:246/90@FidoNet 1 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 12:30:10 From: Todd H Knight To: Jeff Dallacqua Subj: Re: ESCom. ^MSGID: 1:246/90@fido 2fc61e37 ^PID: CNet 3.0 On Fri 26-May-1995 4:10a, Jeff Dallacqua wrote: JD> These kids don't care about specs, but about game quality. Who would JD> write for it, and how would it get enough killer titles by Christmas JD> so it can compete with systems like the Saturn, 3DO, Playstation, or JD> even the SNES? Most games for the Sega/PC market are mainly composed on Amigas anyway, so the only thing that they'd have to do would be to COMPLETE the games on the Amigas from start to finish. If they start on AMigas, they can easily END UP on Amigas... --- ...and eaons hence, they shall ask their forefathers, "Micro what?" Leamington Amiga Research Group (LARGe) [=> ESCOM! ESCOM! RAH, RAH, RAH! <=] --- CNet/3 * Origin: FreeNeg: CANADA 'V.Airthang' 519/322-0450 (1:246/90) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:246/90@FidoNet 1 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 08:51:00 From: Richard Aubin To: John Larkin Subj: LHA File Splitter Check out what John Larkin wrote on 25 May 95 00:42:24: JL> Or do you mean actually making two smaller LHA files out of one big JL> one? Bingo... Any clues? --- DLG Pro v1.0/DLGMail v2.52 * Origin: CyberSpace, Sudbury On. Canada, 705-566-6663 (1:224/45) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:224/45@FidoNet 25 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 11:31:02 From: Nyle F. Landas To: Gary Peake Subj: Re: Haynie ^MSGID: 1:2613/278.0 2fca04d6 *In a message dated 26 May 95 22:34:55 Gary Peake writes: > >> LB> I think Escom might have gotten the designer of the AAA and > Hombre > >> LB> chipsets on board. That sure would be great if it really is > true. > > >> Except that, according to Dave Haynie, AAA is now already outdated > and > >> both are > >> far from nearing the finish line yet. From Dave's viewpoint, the > dollars > >> and > >> time needed to get it up and running make it unworthy at this point. > NFL> So, what did Dave suggest they use/do/design? Do, you have his > post so > NFL> we can all be enlightened. 8 ) [No I'm not being sarcastic I'm > NFL> serious.] > Could be wrong, but I don't think he is opposed to moving in the RISC > direction > now. I will see if I can get the question and answer from him and pass it > back > here. > That would be great. :) Last I read from Dave he thought HOMBRE/PARISC was a pipe-dream still. -Nyle --- MEBBSNet 1.168 * Origin: FileWorks All Amiga! 716-377-0719/3695 (1:2613/278.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2613/278@FidoNet 5 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 11:32:22 From: Nyle F. Landas To: Patrick E. Snyder Subj: Re: I Wonder... ^MSGID: 1:2613/278.0 2fca0526 *In a message dated 27 May 95 08:27:07 Patrick E. Snyder writes: > > The closest thing to what you are talking about is a 486 BridgeBoard. > > And > > it's CGA graphics can be run in a window other than that and you'll > > need a > > VG card and manual switchbox. :) Or were you being sarcastic? > > > > That's what I thought. But by the time you spend all the cash on the Well you can get a used A386sx BB and Cyrix 486 upgrade and Super-Multi-I/O card for say $704 USD that's not too bad for low end 486 emulation with SVGA graphics, IDE controller, Multi-I/O, and maybe 5 MB RAM (Around there.). It's also nice to not have 2 computers cluttering your desk and to be able to say look my Amiga runs 486 software too. Can you run Amiga software? *Chuckle* -Nyle --- MEBBSNet 1.168 * Origin: FileWorks All Amiga! 716-377-0719/3695 (1:2613/278.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2613/278@FidoNet 5 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 17:45:03 From: Troy Silvey To: Michael Peteigney Subj: Re: 1950 Monitor Prob. ^MSGID: 1:133/1001@fido 2fc5168b ^PID: CNet 3.0 On Tue 23-May-1995 3:45p, Michael Peteigney wrote: MP> wideist POS the side border's are i inch from the side of the monitor MP> and when i put the switch at it's thinist it's 1" 1/2 inch, so like it's MP> BAD or Worse for me if anybody know's the position of the pot inside the you are looking for an adjusable coil. this is a plastic tube about 2 1/2" tall, with wire wrapped around it. it will be labled some thing like L301. it will be located some where near the flyback transformer. (big plastic blob with wires coming out. one going to the picture tube). there is a semi-metalic set screw in the middle of this plastic tube. you have to insert a plastic tool made to fit the screw into the center of the plastic tube and turn the "set screw". moving the "set screw" up or down in the plastic tube will adjust your width. CAUTION. i always tell folks to stay out of their monitors if they are not experienced. the monitors these days have safty features built in, but they will still kill if you screw up while inside of one. the width came be adjusted with power off. turn the screw, power on, see how it looks, power off and readjust. MP> p.s. i'v all ready looked inside the monster and it's a nightmare MP> not one thing with a name that makes sence to most human's MP> unless you understande R734 or R775 or R656... unless you have schematics, these numbers mean little to anyone. kinda like if i tell you i live on pine street in terra haute, indiana. if you don't have a map, so what. Good luck. The Chance. fido: chance@1:133/1001.0 usenet: the_chance@neonate.org --- CNet/3 * Origin: hurricane shores usa (1:133/1001) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:133/1001@FidoNet 1005 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 25 May 95 17:47:56 From: Troy Silvey To: Michael Peteigney Subj: Re: 1950 Monitor Prob. ^MSGID: 1:133/1001@fido 2fc51731 ^PID: CNet 3.0 P.S. you can get these plastic tuning tools at and electronic place like (ick) radio shack for less than $10 probably. The Chance. fido: chance@1:133/1001.0 usenet: the_chance@neonate.org --- CNet/3 * Origin: hurricane shores usa (1:133/1001) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:133/1001@FidoNet 1005 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 03:33:42 From: Eddie Moore To: All UK Folks Subj: Mugshots Wanted! ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 2:250/107.109 2fbbc5c3 ^MSGID: 2:250/107.109 2fc6f1c7 Hello Folks! In a message of 18 May 95 I wrote to All UK Folks about sending Mugshots and biogs to the US: EM> If anyone would like to EM> contribute, give me a shout via Netmail, and we'll get things rolling. EM> Come on, now; don't be shy, let's prove that this "English Reserve" is EM> just a stereotype ;-) EM> Okay, I'm going to sit by my Inbound:, and watch those details come EM> rolling in... Ten days on, and I'm *still* sitting here. I've been totally underwhelmed by the response, all *ONE* of them B-(( Come on, folks, you can do better than this B-) regards, Eddie --- Spot 1.3a #709 * Origin: Amigaholic's Workshop; off Aspects, UK (2:250/107.109) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:25/10@FidoNet 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 12:06:31 From: Marshall Freedland To: Mark Dickenson Subj: [Chef] Re: dopus 5 ^MSGID: 2:254/205.0@FidoNet 284B93E1 ^PID: MM v1.1a.410/n #1016 By presseeng my ier fery cluse-a tu zee muneetur, et preceesely 6:18 EM oon 21 Mey 95, I heerd Merk Deeckensun bloort oooot tu Juhn Lerkeen und sey: MD> True, it still has that problem but I have never used the built in MD> viewer or sample player. There are far better programs availible. I MD> use DSound and Viewtek for those functions. I have so many things MD> wired in to auto recognition my config file is over 20k in size. Merk, Hoo ebuoot shereeng yuoor DOpoos cunffeeg feele-a und jueening oozeers vhu ere-a gueeng tu be-a oon a deesk fooll ooff cunffeegs fur DOpoos? Check oooot zee messege-a I pusted releteeng tu pootteeng tugezeer un Ichu Deesk ooff DOpoos cunffeegs. It hes ell zee deteeels. Seeeeng vhet oozeer's hefe-a dune-a und ieseely incurpureteeng zeeur idees intu yuoor oovn cunffeeg is fery rooerdeeng, beleeefe-a me-a. Bork Bork Bork! Es a felloo DOpoos user, I infeete-a yuoo und Juhn Lerkeen tu cuntreeboote-a! --/\/\arshall ... " ." -- Mercel Merceoo * Q-Blooe-a 2.0 * --- MM 1.1a.410/n & The Chef * Origin: Creations: The BBS of Gods! (2:254/205.0@FidoNet) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:254/205@FidoNet 25/54 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 01:04:18 From: Lee Davison To: Asha Develder Subj: DOpus 5 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 2844309c ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc6cef2 Hi Asha ! In a message of 06 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to Joseph Waldvogel: AD> What specifically are you talking about? I've got DirOpus 5, AD> but haven't installed it yet (been ill--bad back). I've heard several AD> folks say that they preferred the older (4.11, 4.12) better but no one AD> has yet said anything specific (like it crashes when you go to do such AD> and such, or some other thing that doesn't work). Details! We need AD> details! Ok here's 3 reasons why I'm not going to upgrade to DirOpus 5.... (I tried out my brothers copy on my machine to see if I liked it.) 1) It's *slow* . I noticed straight away that changing between windows took a noticeable time, with more windows open the slow down was more pronounced, On a 28MHz '030 system you wouldn't expect delays (however short) in response to mouse clicks, on a slower system I can see it being very anoying. 2) It didn't like my WB layout and refused to mirror it on it's own screen, while this is not a terminal problem I found myself still using workbench for some things. 3) I just couldn't get everything I wanted on the DOpus screen at once, my Opus screen is *full* . There just isn't any room for anything else on the buttons, devices or menus, the window borders and tool bars on Opus 5 took up just that bit too much space and I found myself constantly looking for something hidden under something else. Having had my moan 8^)= I didn't, in the short time I used it, get it to crash (which 4.12 still sometimes does) and if I were buying for the first time I would probably go for it. However it isn't worth (IMHO) the money for the upgrade as the earlier versions are slicker in their opperation. Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 01:08:07 From: Lee Davison To: Asha Develder Subj: DOpus 5 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 28449193 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc6cfd7 Hi Asha ! In a message of 06 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to Hans Van Leeuwen: AD> No hotkeys? ALL mousedriven? Hmmm....:( 4 reasons .. knew I'd forgotten something. 8^)= Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 01:32:10 From: Lee Davison To: Asha Develder Subj: Maybe a Picnic? ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 28501331 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc6d57a Hi Asha ! In a message of 08 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to David Misner: DM>> I have an idea! How about all us Amiga types get together for a DM>> little gget together? AD> Sounds great! Only one (heh!) problem. This is an AD> International echo. We have folks here from Hong Kong, the US, Mexico, AD> Puerto Rico, Canada, and many countries in Europe, not to mention the AD> UK. So WHERE would you propose we all meet? :) :) Your place, a week next Tuesday, I'll bring the sausages. 8^)= Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 01:37:14 From: Lee Davison To: Denis Bucher Subj: amiga??? ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc6d6aa Hi Denis ! In a message of 08 May 95 Denis Bucher wrote to Daniel Rueegg: DB> BUT : Does someone know how the JUMPERS on a A2058 must be SET ??? DB> ******* ***** Here is the jumper configurations i Have from the 2058 install instructions J1 J2 Memory size. closed closed 2 Megs of Memory closed open 4 Megs of Memory open open 8 Megs of Memory open closed Disables auto-config That help? Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 02:45:20 From: Lee Davison To: Asha Develder Subj: PC0 - PC1 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 288e7539 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc6e6a0 Hi Asha ! In a message of 20 May 95 Asha Develder wrote to me: AD> Thanks again for all the trouble you went through! :) No trouble, there isn't much to do round here at that time in the morning. AD> * Sometimes the most loving answer is no. Would you care to explain that to my daughter? 8^)= Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 02:54:35 From: Lee Davison To: Paul Harris Subj: A500+ & Microvitec Monitor problem ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 2:441/701.100@FidoNet 45693ef6 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc6e8cb Hi Paul ! In a message of 20 May 95 Paul Harris wrote to all: PH> Thought I'd chuck this one in the general echo as I've had no responses PH> in the hardware echoes: [Snip].. PH> So, if I chose colour 0 to be white (max RGB), the result would be a PH> black screen, because colour 0 remains black and the other 3 screen PH> colours have everything subtracted from them. I can tell you what's happening (but not how to fix it) The Amiga is starting the background colour too close to the start of each scan line and the black level clamp in the monitor is turning any background colour into black. PH> Now, I've used a VGA monitor I borrowed from work with the official PH> commodore VGA adaptor and that worked fine. So the 'miggy is fine. PH> I've tried the commodore adaptor instead of the plug supplied with the PH> 1438 - makes no difference. Is this a faulty monitor, a "feature" PH> or is there a multiscan.monitor patch to fix this? Try giving MicroVitec a ring, if they can't help directly they may know a man who can. Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 17:18:45 From: Arno Griffioen To: Paul Harris Subj: Re: A500+ & Microvitec Monitor problem ^MSGID: 2:281/405.10 20BB1FF5 ^REPLY: 2:441/701.100@FidoNet 45693ef6 ^PID: CE 0.20 In a message of We 24-May-95 21:03, Paul Harris (2:441/701.100) wrote: PH> I've got an A500plus and use a MicroVitec 1438. This is fine in PH> PAL Hires PH> and quite acceptable in NSTC hires interlace. However, when I PH> use PH> productivity mode (VGA 640 * 480, 4 colours) I have a small PH> problem - colour PH> zero in the palette has to be black! Ah! That's one I know!! Same with some old NEC Multisync's The problem lies in the 31.5 Khz part of the monitor wich calibrates the screen intensity on the black-level of the incoming signal. Now.. The Amiga starts painting it's colors quite happily at the earliest possible moment (aka Overscan..) and these monitors get a bit confsed and they 'see' this color value as 'black' and adjust their color settings. Result: dark or false-color screen. Solution: Run borderblank! Borderblank creates a black border on ECS machines (and up) using a register on the ECS denise. This makes the monitor happy as it now 'sees' a true black level at the start of the screen. OK, so you now get an (according to some people..) 'ugly' black border (I like it!), but it should work OK after that.. Bye Arno. --- * Origin: Minas Morgul (2:281/405.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:281/405@FidoNet 2 1 280/0 801 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 10:42:16 From: Dieter Koelbl To: Gary Peake Subj: Re: Latest news on buyout ^MSGID: 2:246/2320.66 2fc8a7e8 ^REPLY: 1:106/7512.2@FidoNet 2fc3e02b ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 Hi Gary ! GP>>> Except that, according to Dave Haynie, AAA is now already outdated and GP>>> both are far from nearing the finish line yet. AAA is IMHO outdated and I don't think that ESCOM will use AAA for a new generation of Amigas. There are roumors that ESCOM already talked to SPEA (SPEA produces gfx-boards for PCs) about a special version of there 64Bit-boards for a new PCI-Amiga. Dieter Koelbl --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Immer locker bleiben (2:246/2320.66) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:246/2320@FidoNet 2300 2340 24/901 240/5500 396/1 270/101 115/2 ^PATH: 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 17:31:00 From: Matt Benedict To: Lewin Edwards Subj: Re: Amiga areas... ^Via SLMAIL v4.5 (#0247) >I'm suddenly in a dire position - I need to add Amiga support to my BBS in >a big way (promises...) but have no idea where to get a suitable horde of >shareware/PD stuff. > >Are there any **BBS-READY** (and I mean FILES.BBS-type ready) CD-ROMs avail >for the Amiga ? (Even secondhand ?) Flash me some titles, people. > >/=\ Lewin A.R.W. Edwards BBS 03 98276881 * Landline 03 98278807 >(o) Telecom 0419 320415 * Optus 0412 809805 * Alpha pager 03 92566393 I just saw a Frozen Fish PC CD-Rom full of Amiga stuff all ready for an IBM bbs.. Call Amiga Library Services at 602-491-0048(US) or GTI +49-6171-85937 (Germany) .. It costs $24.95 US.. ok hope this helps talk to ya later --- SLMAIL v4.5 (#0247) * Origin: Toon Town USA * Beacon,NY * 914-838-3073 * (1:2624/505) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2624/505@FidoNet 272/94 51 47 10/1650 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:39:00 From: Derek Woodlands To: Asha Develder Subj: Photogenics Is GREAT!! ^MSGID: 3:711/920.0 22b3f476 ^PID: OLMS 2.01 [Evaluation] Once upon a time, well, really it was 05-23-95 22:59 you wrote to me DW> Still, I've just about saved up the $$ for a graphics board. The DW> hassle is in choosing one that looks like it will have ongoing DW> support. I'm looking forward to checking out the new Cybergraphics DW> card. ;-) AD> I may be wrong here, but I thought that the Cybergraphics was only AD> for the 4000...???? I thought it was for Zorro 3 slots? I have both an A2000 and an A3000... AD> I'd suggest the Picasso, at the moment, at least, it's got the most AD> support of any of 'em, with Retina coming in a close second (I think). I've thought about a Picasso. Any hassles with them? And do you know if Emplant works with them (my next purchase after the gfx card)? Catchya * AmyBW v2.11+ * --- Fmailv1.0 +/RA2. +/IM2.+ * Origin: Galen BBS "A Happy Heart is like Good Medicine" (3:711/920) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:711/920@FidoNet 401 712/515 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:39:00 From: Derek Woodlands To: Dave Gomme Subj: Spot ^MSGID: 3:711/920.0 22b3f477 ^PID: OLMS 2.01 [Evaluation] Once upon a time, well, really it was 05-23-95 00:13 you wrote to me DW> One side effect of this seems to be the eventual screwing up of the DW> message area. I have seen many messages complaining of Spot screwing up DW> a message base. Very few of these complaints were from legitimate DW> registered users. Neither I nor my friends who have registered Spot DW> have ever had a problem in that area. DG> I can honestly say I'm using an unhacked, untampered with, and unregistered DG> (okay, the check's in the mail) version of Spot and I occasionally have DG> problems with message bases becoming corrupted. The last time occured DG> (just a few days back) when the power cut out right after importing DG> messages. As far as I can tell all echos with new messages were trashed. DG> Quite an interesting (and frustrating) effect. Very strange. I would have thought that a power cut would merely cause a hard drive validation area and trash one area only. Or are you using message base compression? Catchya * AmyBW v2.11+ * --- Fmailv1.0 +/RA2. +/IM2.+ * Origin: Galen BBS "A Happy Heart is like Good Medicine" (3:711/920) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:711/920@FidoNet 401 712/515 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 ^PATH: 343/121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 23:37:52 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Nyle F. Landas Subj: Re: Just wondering???? ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc6bab0 ^REPLY: 1:2613/278.0 2fc23cc9 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 24 May 95 Nyle F. Landas saw the light and spoke to me: NFL> *In a message dated 19 May 95 18:12:00 Guido Van Bercum writes: >> On 16 May 95 Nyle F. Landas saw the light and spoke to Steve Eggers: >> NFL> AGA for now and I haven't been able to find out what's next AAA or >> NFL> HOMBRE or something new. >> Hmm what's the difference between AAA and HOMBRE, and who designed them? >> Be greeted, /\_ _/\ {Info on AAA/Hombre} NFL> I want AAA over HOMBRE but that's my opinion. NFL> AAA and PowerPC NFL> HOMBRE and PARISC NFL> I say #1. Thanx... I'll go gor AAA to (for now) Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Pointing from overhere, Trace BBS Groningen. (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 10:54:02 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: Re: The Grimmett Echo... ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc7592a ^REPLY: 1:202/720.0 2fbd7041 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 19 May 95 Jeff Grimmett saw the light and spoke to John Maguire: JG> ... "Mr. Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage." What's a "fanny" ? Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: From the Home of BEHOLDERS (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 17:22:00 From: Johnny Kitchens To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: DirOPus 5 ^MSGID: 1:130/1013.0 881E1A42 ^TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 94-2080 AD> Johnny, JK> I see Directory OPUS 5.1 is out now! AD> Do you know what's changed since 5.0? And how one gets AD> upgraded? AD> Asha.DeVelder.... Internet: asha.develder@209-216-5.genesplicer.org No, list of upgrades were included in the announcement I saw. It said bug fixes, and said it would be provided for free to registered users of 5.0! * Q-Blue 2.0 * --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: WILDMAIL! v4 - Rewriting the Book on Mail Tossing! (1:130/1013.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:130/1013@FidoNet 509 124/1 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 15:57:01 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Eric Szulczewski Subj: Re: Memory protection ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8f1ad ^REPLY: 1:115/384@fido 2fc4a711 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Eric Szulczewski wrote to Nyle F. Landas: ES> Well, I found a copy of GOMF on Aminet. It's very 1.x and 68000 ES> oriented. The docs say that it's compatible (sort of) with 010/020 ES> machines, and it did execute on my 030, but it really didn't function ES> well. I'm not exactly sure if it was the 030 or WB3.1, but I'll lay you ES> odds that it was the 030. I'd say just the opposite. A lot of the things that made GOMF useful to people were addressed in AmigaDOS 2.0 and later, such as being able to recover from a Guru. Also, remember that the Guru dissapeared after 2.0! While the red-eye requesters we get now RESEMBLE a Guru, they are not exactly the same and GOMF was geared very much towards Gurus. Additional tidbit: the demo version was a VERY early demo and was not at all representative of how well the real program worked. The author felt that the demo actually HURT sales since many people figured that the commercial version was just as flakey. Finally, Gomf only really worked WELL when used in conjunction with the GOMF Button, a hardware widget that went directly on the motherboard. The software-only version was OK, but there's only so much you can do in software when the 68K comes up with a bus error. Functionally, the 030 and 020 are nearly identical, except the 030 has a lot of things internally that the 020 only has externally, as options. If a program will work on an 020 with math coprocessor, there's a VERY good chance it will work on an 030, right along the lines of 95%. I've never had an 030-specific program that did not also work on my 020, and vice-versa. Various tidbits for your cogitative nourishment. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "I'd give real money if he'd shut up!" -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:00:32 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Eric Szulczewski Subj: Re: PAL MODE on an A3000 ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8f280 ^REPLY: 1:115/384@fido 2fc4b266 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Eric Szulczewski wrote to me: JG>> I've created an Arexx script to change the backdrop whenever I reboot, JG>> so I get a fresh look every time. It's WAY too specialized to pass JG>> around, although I could be convinced otherwise :-) ES> Since I'm not that good at ARexx, I just use Magic Selector for the ES> same purpose. Nice GUI, good feel, easy to use, and removes the one ES> bug that I had with 3.1 on my 2000: it actually loads an alternative ES> beep file. This is one of those programs that I recommend. However, ES> your program is probably a LOT faster... Ooooh, I doubt it -- my program IS in Arexx, and that in itself says "not a speed demon." :-) I've seen word of Magic Selector before, but all that talk about a GUI tends to wave me off -- I want this to be automatic and unattended, no-brainer. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... Stop it! Oh, stop it! Oooooh, stop it some moorrrreeeee!!!!!!!! -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:04:47 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Mike Thompson Subj: Re: 550C FEED PROBLEM ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8f37f ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 27 May 95 Mike Thompson wrote to me: MT> Check out what Jeff Grimmett wrote on 25 May 95 23:10:05: JG>> Some bad news, though: the fix includes software that excercises the JG>> printer, and I'm willing to BET that there's no Amiga version of that JG>> software. However, I'll look into it and hopefully find a way for you JG>> to use the kit to clean it up, anyway. MT> You don't really need the software, just put the kit against the MT> rollers and turn the printer on, and it will still do the job. It MT> worked for me. Knowing what I know about DeskJets, this comes as no great suprise... although, the recommended time period for cleaning with the software was something like 10-20 minutes (can't remember zactly). At any rate, hope people potentially needing this information actually SEE it. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... Hollow chocolate bunnies have no calories. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:12:51 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Martin de Koning Subj: Re: AMIGA PARTY TOASTS ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8f563 ^REPLY: 2:282/529.10 2fc64406 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Martin de Koning wrote to me: MdK> In a message of 19 May 95 Jeff Grimmett wrote to me: MDK>>> Well I think Escom wouldn't have to do research on this item. It is MDK>>> the court who has to do the research, if there is one institute that MDK>>> should (and almost always does) follow the law than it is a court, MDK>>> they thought it was alright to sell, so Escom should think it was al MDK>>> fine.. JG>> I don't know how it is over there, but over here, if a company is dumb JG>> enough to go into court without doing thier research first, they end JG>> up with egg on thier face AND paying court fees for the judge's time JG>> and research staff. Not to mention time... MdK> Well if you don't know how it is overhere you shouldn't comment that MdK> fast, If a company is into liqudation(?) the court is doing the MdK> research, and who is Escom not to beleive the courts then?? Because it is illogical to assume otherwise. I have never encountered a court system based on the idea of philanthropy. They are not free research institutes -- they are there to render judgement based on evidence presented them. Sure, they do research for thier own purposes, but not to save some lazy lawyer (barrister, whatever) the trouble of doing his or her job. Every court system I have observed seems to work in this way; I would be remiss to assume EVERY court system worked that way, but I would also be foolish to ignore the evidence I've seen so far. And, unless you're a lawyer in that court system, I'd be a fool to take your word either way, as well. MDK>>> Hmm Why ain't you using 1 of those words than ;-) JG>> Because "fray" is, at least on this side of the pond, a fairly widely JG>> recognized term :-) MdK> Well your in a international area. So please append a dictionary to MdK> the mesage if you have the feeling you are using words that some of MdK> use can't understand ;-) ... and where do you think we GOT it from? Ask your neighbors in the UK... :-) Hey, I use a lot of words that ENGLISH speaking people don't recognize... I'm happy to educate them, as well :-) JG>> -*- ASTG 1.8 MdK> Did you solved the ^L (Ctrl-L) problem already?? What ^L problem? It's not doing it here, and since Asha cleaned up her tagline file, it hasn't shown there, or anywhere else that I can see. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "I believe I will take this opportunity to remove my ears." -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:21:20 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Jon Inghram Subj: Re: Signatures and ads ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8f760 ^REPLY: 1:291/37.1 2fc399bc ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 24 May 95 Jon Inghram wrote to Ron Freas: JI> In a message of 17 May 95 Ron Freas wrote to me: JI>>> I must have been bored, tired, or something, and must have posted that JI>>> and unless the moderator complains, I don't think anyone really JI>>> cares. :-) RF>> The first one is a bit of overkill... I can understand that if one RF>> posts quite a few messages, this would be out of line. If there is a RF>> complaint... then those with larger braglines should take a hint... RF>> ;] JI> A good sign of a bloated bragline is when it becomes larger than your JI> messages. :-) Actually, I discovered that there isn't anything in the JI> rules here that directly prohibit BBS adds. And, I agree that 10 line JI> braglines that written in gigantic fonts are too much. :-) Let me clarify it a bit, for those who slept through the last rules posting :-) 12) Users should not waste the money of the system operators who support this echo by including needless and excessively large "signatures" at the end of each message. In addition, "high ascii" (ANSI) characters are not permitted within the echo, since it cannot fairly be assumed that the receiving system necessarily has the capacity to display them. That's it. BBS ads are not specifically forbidden, but as part of a signature seen on every single message? No, it's quite clear that that would not be kosher. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "All right. We're lost. But we're making good time!" -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:25:06 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Jon Inghram Subj: Re: ? getting out ? ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8f842 ^REPLY: 1:291/37.1 2fc3f696 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 24 May 95 Jon Inghram wrote to me: JI>>> You mean she dosn't like 10 line .sigs clear full of ASCI art? :-) I JI>>> /hate/ it when people who include 8 bit characters in their tags or JI>>> sigs, because Ed barfs on most. JG>> That might just have something to do with her policy.. :-) JI> Well, you're the co-mod, so isn't it your policy too? Ah, Joyce is the one that cracks the whip, I'm just the one that cracks skulls together, see the distinction? :-) Or, in plainer English (since I seem to be getting a bit too allegorical as of late), Joyce is still the moderator and is the sole person to set the rules. My job is to enforce them for her until she gets back up and running. Any time I'm unclear on something, I call her or email her at work for a binding judgement (hoping Holly didn't read that last part... =) Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... Gotta run, cat's caught in the printer. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:33:19 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Jon Inghram Subj: Re: Strange Problems... ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8fa2f ^REPLY: 1:291/37.1 2fc42702 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Jon Inghram wrote to me: JI> Well, with DiskSpeed 4.2 I get a measly 200,000 b/s with a 262,144 JI> byte, FastRAM, word aligned buffer, which was the largest number I JI> could get with it. I'm only using the C= buffers, and there were 120 on JI> the tested drive. It's also formated with I-FFS, DOS3. WARNING: Excessive disk buffers WILL slow down your drive! I have no idea why this is, but I HAVE seen the effect. There was some talk at one time as to what the optimum buffer setting for a hard drive would be, so I did some experimentation. What I found was that the actual optimum setting depended on the drive itself, and that there IS such a thing as TOO MUCH. For my Fujitsu, anything over 50 or so caused it to slow down. JG>> Mega = million, bit = bit, so, one million bits, except in computers 1 JG>> million is actually x^1024. In other words, you are correct, sir. JI> Wow! I actually guessed correctly! :-) I see these new video game JI> consoles with wierd speed ratings that use "Megabits", and I kinda JI> wondered where they came up with it. Guess it's just to make them look JI> more impressive. That, and the fact that original game consoles were pretty measly, and the best way TO measure thier capacity was in bits, not bytes. Now, tradition has set in... :-) JG>> DLG comes with DLGMail, which is a very snazzy mail system (not as fast JG>> as some, but it's improving in its new incarnation, PDQMail). It also JG>> comes with TrapDoor and a key that only works with the particular copy JG>> of DLG that it was sold with (based on serial number). JI> Hmm... I think I remembered wrong about CNet coming with TrapDoor, JI> because my boss's using Porticus, or something similar. :-/ You probably heard right. Just because you HAVE TrapDoor doesn't mean you have to USE it. You can always substitute something else. JG>> Atredes might just be the FIRST commercial Amiga BBS software sold. JI> The first Amiga BBS software? I wonder if it'd even work on an 3.0 JI> Amiga thats got 32 bit RAM and an 68020. There's a good chance it would. It didn't have any Intuition elements to it, and it only allowed a single line, so there's a good chance it wasn't too convoluted and thus stands a good chance of surviving across DOS barriers. JI> Just the other day, my boss's CNet setup got wierd and forced me to use JI> a strange "Hotkeys" type menu system, which wouldn't allow me to just JI> type the commands, like WHO to see who's online, directly because it JI> filtered key presses. Guess it's for less advanced users who arn't good JI> at remembering which commands do what. Seems it was another bug in CNet JI> which caused the problem, which combined with the internet/email bug, JI> and 3D addresses only bug, add up rather fast! :-( Actually, I think that's a third-party utility that provides CNET with hotkeyed menus. The author of such a utility lives here in San Diego. Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "It chose to destroy itself rather than live with us. You can't help but feel a little rejected." -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:39:26 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Holly Sullivan Subj: Re: Echo Disk Beauties! ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8fb9e ^REPLY: 1:363/1571 4a0a5083 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 27 May 95 Holly Sullivan wrote to me: HS> Maybe you could sell copies? ;) JG>> Hm, I have a few extra projects that could use the extra funding :-) HS> :) Been burning that midnight oil again? That would be wasteful of perfectly good oil! HS> Ought to take better care of yourself.. we can't have you sleeping all HS> the time- who'd watch the inmates, I mean the folks, here in the echo? Why, Cardinal Fang, of course! :-) Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... Shatner, when the wig fell. -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:43:11 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Andrew Scott Subj: Re: A4000 Hard Drive Jumpers ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8fc7f ^REPLY: 3:632/271.6@FidoNet 2fc4d08c ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 25 May 95 Andrew Scott wrote to Ron Keating: [jumper settings] AS> Is it not listed on the drive, I think you will find that it should AS> be. How many drives have you actually SEEN like that? I have at least four sitting out in the open in my living room at the moment, and none of them have that information (Quantum, two Maxtor [one dead], and a SeaCrate). Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "You've got a plan?" "Yeah -- let's not get killed." "Brilliant!" -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:48:30 From: Jeff Grimmett To: Larry Baum Subj: Re: Message from Dr.Kittel ^MSGID: 1:202/720.0 2fc8fdbe ^REPLY: 1:2606/205@fidonet.org 2fc6468a ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 26 May 95 Larry Baum wrote to me: LB> Yes, it was CBM that made the final decision, however the fact remains LB> that what the engineersat CBM Germany came up with pretty boring. They were tasked with a cost-reduced Amiga design... what were they supposed to come up with, a Cray? BTW, you might consider an Amiga 2000 boring, but it sure as hell beats the alternatives at the time. LB> (However, it may be that CBM Intl. saw the US teams proposal, wanted LB> something cheap and crappy There you go again! I have to differ! The 2000 is FAR from being a "cheap and crappy" machine. When it was introduced, I daresay it was the MOST innovative personal computer on the market. (we're talking: up to 9 megs expansion with the motherboard-mounted CPU, 9 slots for expansion (1 video, 1 CPU, 2 XT, 3 Zorro-2, 2 AT/Zorro-2), integrated I/O, integrated sound and video, 1 meg RAM on the motherboard... etc). Jeff (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) amiga.echo.second.bananna GEnie: J.Grimmett2 ... "Ice cube inventory 184 ice cubes. Inventory now low by 6. We shall make MORE ice cubes!" -- Ruby2 -*- ASTG 1.8 --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: The Techo-Mages' Guild (1:202/720.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:255/0@FidoNet 202/720 701 777 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 27 May 95 12:31:20 From: Norm Lenhart To: Todd H Knight Subj: Suggested Amiga ADVERTISI ^PID: T.A.G. 2.7c Standard ^MSGID: 1:267/89 2fc753d8 ^TID: FastEcho 1.40 8222 > > "MOST APPROPRIATE" BACKGROUND MUSIC regarding LYRICAL content: > > Alice in Chains: "Dirt" CD > Publisher: Columbia Records > Catalog#: CK 52475 > > Cut #5: "Rooster" > > Reasoning: The *&#@ lyrics are KUELLE, and MOST appropo! > > "Ain't found a way to kill me yet, > "Eyes that burn with stinging sweat..." > > "Here they come to snuff the Rooster, > "Yeah, they come to snuff the Rooster, > "You know he ain't gonna die..." > > Can ANYONE write anything more appropriate for these particular > circumsances? Well how about QUEEN: "Princes of the universe"(theme for Highlander)See the lines.... "I have no rival,no one can be my equal" or just simply the line "I am immortal". Well "I" like it anyway. | AmiQWK 2.9 - FREEWARE | ... I saw Elvis. He sat between me and Bigfoot on the UFO. --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: Non-Sequitur BBS (518)359-7887 (1:267/89) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:267/89@FidoNet 200 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 27 May 95 12:31:22 From: Norm Lenhart To: Mark Squire Subj: Amiga Whinings ^PID: T.A.G. 2.7c Standard ^MSGID: 1:267/89 2fc753da ^TID: FastEcho 1.40 8222 > Ok, I don't have a fax program. I'm still in the dark ages. Do you > have a > snail mail address for Spry? Or better yet. . .E-mail (-:? Wl ill see what i can dig up .In fact heres what ill do.Ill compose a list of names,addresses and phone / fax #'s and post it here.then all you have to do is print it and start typing! Then there will be NO excuse...WE will be rulers of the universe,masters of all we survey...they will ALL kneel before us...er...ah..ehem...sory,got carried away Sound good? | AmiQWK 2.9 - FREEWARE | ... "Why am I not surprised?" - Iago --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: Non-Sequitur BBS (518)359-7887 (1:267/89) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:267/89@FidoNet 200 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 15:53:00 From: Jeff Hellige To: Glenn Turner Subj: Re: How long for Q-Blue R ^MSGID: 1:2612/114.0 881D4A82 ^TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 94-0019 GT>Ditch OS 1.3, OS 3.1 is miles ahead and more stable. Glenn, Where do you find the upgrades to the OS? I've got a 1000 and a 500, both still running under 1.3. Jeff Hellige@atc.ameritel.net * OLX 2.1 TD * Shin: A device for finding furniture in the dark. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Hafa Adai Exchange, Great Mills MD 301-994-9460/62 (1:2612/114.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2612/114@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 16:10:00 From: Jeff Hellige To: Jon Inghram Subj: ESCon ^MSGID: 1:2612/114.0 881D4A83 ^TID: WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 94-0019 JI>I normaly use a C=1942, but when I saw your message I broke out the old JI>1080, and hooked it up. The ID plate on the back says it was manufactured JI>in November of *1985*! Other than the bottom right corner being a bit Jon, My 1080 dates from the same time and was used in lab type environment until I aquired it a couple of months ago. I got a few HAM images from a friend and it still looks crisp and bright. I think it's a pretty nifty little monitor! Jeff Hellige@atc.ameritel.net * OLX 2.1 TD * Any wire cut to length will be too short. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Hafa Adai Exchange, Great Mills MD 301-994-9460/62 (1:2612/114.0) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2612/114@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 12:45:20 From: Allan Harn To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: amiga comput/dv magx ^MSGID: 1:3659/2 2FC942FD AD> I was a subscriber with a bit over a year left on my AD> subscription. AD> I got the postcard and sent it in immediately. I have heard absolutely AD> NOTHING, AD> gotten nothing, etc.. AD> Someone mentioned this on CIS the other day, and so far we have AD> 100% AD> of people reporting back that they have heard/seen nothing from IDG AD> since the AD> postcard. Me thinks we've been ripped off...:( AD> Asha.DeVelder.... Internet: asha.develder@209-216-5.genesplicer.org AD> * Origin: Don't bite my finger; Look where I'm pointing! (1:209/216.5) Asha I too returned my postcard with my selection immediately upon receiving it which was late. I too have not heard or seen site nor hair of my mag of choice. Does make you wonder what in the world IDG thinks of it's subscribers. I would have to say that if they ever do make another Amiga oriented magazine that I will not be a subscriber of any rag that they Publish. Allan ... It will be released in four weeks. They promised me. * Q-Blue 1.9 [NR] * -*- SF-Quick/BW 1.00q [UNREGISTERED] --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (#70) * Origin: Outhouse BBS -2 NODES-(912)368-9626/(912)368-9686 (1:3659/2) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:3659/2@FidoNet 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 21:05:24 From: Gregory Hall To: Manou Billa Subj: The AMIGA, ESCOM, C=. ^MSGID: 1:123/623@fido 2fc939f8 ^PID: CNet 3.0 On 21 May 95 at 11:38 PM, Manou Billa said to All: MB> Hi everybody! hello, manou! MB> I just did get email from Dr. Kittel. telling me that there will be new MB> AMIGAs (the old ones (AGA) and new ones). Though he didn't mention what MB> the new AMIGAs will look alike. It seems that the A4000T will be MB> released first! Let's hope it will be a lot cheaper and less buggier MB> (does this word exist ???). Let's hope that ESCOM does the right thing MB> and do develop AMIGAs and not only AMIGA-PC cards. and adveritising, and supporting the machines would be nice, too! :) MB> As for the COMMODORE MB> PowerPC I don't think it will be an AMIGA. It will be a MAC clone with MB> C= logo and name, because the C= name is known to 98% to the people in MB> Germany. I would like to have an AMIGA with the HP-PA Risc CPU and not MB> with the PowerPC as it is useless to the AMIGA! Why do we need to run MB> WINDOWS NT? Hey, we do have AMIGA with Workbench so everything else is MB> for the spoiled people. just wondering...is there any nt type software for workbench (such as a workbench nt :) )? MB> I think we should support the remaining AMIGA developers to continue MB> the AMIGA progs especially those of from the PD. There are really great MB> progs out there. yes...i agree. if we lose the pd/shareware development market for amiga, then we are doomed. if we can keep it, we can at least still gather support for amiga on an underground level, despite what escom and third party developers do. MB> The last year did have one positive aspect: All those AMIGIANS who did MB> only use their AMIGAs for gaming are now out of business, most of them MB> bought PCs to be up-to-date with games (DOOM etc.). So NOW there MB> should only be SERIOUS AMIGA users (playing sometimes). The AMIGA will MB> loose the gamemachine image! let's hope so! the amiga could do things ten years ago that other platforms still can't do or are just now doing, and it's about time the amiga's potential was realized. later... greg hall net addresses: /// Gregory Hall@1:123/623.0 FIDO on Eagle's Nest /// long live Greg Hall@1:123/414.0 FIDO on Software Syntax \\\/// amiga! ghall@odin.cbu.edu on internet \\X/ ... Mommy Mommy, there's a strange man in my head! * Q-Blue 2.0 * --- CNet/3 * Origin: THE EAGLE'S NEST *Since 1985* Memphis,TN 901-372-5754 (1:123/623) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:123/623@FidoNet 43 301 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 13:16:34 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Gregory Hall Subj: Re: Amigas ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc8cc12 ^REPLY: 1:123/623@fido 2fc4a16c ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 25 May 95 Gregory Hall saw the light and spoke to me: BJ>> Let's add a 100meg Zip drive, 1.4M Floppy, 2meg chip and 8 meg Fast BJ>> ram, and a roomy case. :) GVB>> The ZIP drive is a luxery and forget the 1.4MB floppy, AAA is capable GVB>> of 4MB on one floppy And 2MB chip is way to low... lets say 4MB (+ an GVB>> extra 4MB on a later date) and 6MB FAST. Hmmm a higher resolution GVB>> monitor would be nice too... Can someone finance me ? GH> geez, guys...you're making me drool over here 8-O.... GH> i mean, here i am, stuck on an a500, no acceleration, 365MB quantum hd, GH> and two 880kb floppies *whimper* Oh come on.. a 500 isn't so bad, if it wasn't for luck, then I would also be using a humble 500 with 3mb ram 20mb HD and 2 880kb diskdrives, You've got 365MB on your 500, that's more then my 4000 got.. and besides you can run far more classic software GH> oh, well... :) Another time, another live Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ ... Control, control. You must learn control. --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: From the Home of BEHOLDERS (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 13:18:12 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Gary Peake Subj: Re: Echo Disk Beauties! ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc8cc74 ^REPLY: 1:106/7512.2@FidoNet 2fc3e166 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 26 May 95 Gary Peake saw the light and spoke to me: GVB>> Don't you want anything back ? Or is that the point of Snail mail ? GVB>> Asha offered me a similar offer... that way it would be a nice way to GVB>> get our amateur stuff from the Netherlands (Belgium ?) to the USA... GP> Sure ... send me anything that you'd like passed around. See, my hobby GP> is spreading around PD/Shareware files so that as many Amiga users as GP> possible get to look, feel, and try it out. Just give me an address GP> (snail mail) and the disks will be on the way. If you can use the HD GP> disks I'll send them on some of the 'free' America Online' disks that GP> they seem to send out every 30 days or so. Now for something different an; what's snail mail exactly ? Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ ... Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler! --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: From the Home of BEHOLDERS (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 15:14:47 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Info needed on A1000. ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc8e7c7 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 28a32e25 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 25 May 95 Asha Develder saw the light and spoke to Jeff Hellige: AD> Jeff, JH>> know nothing about them. The abbreviations OCS, ECS, AGA, AAA, JH>> etc. mean absolutely nothing to me! I know just a tad more about what JH>> a Paula, Fat-Angus, and Flicker-fixer are. So, care to give me a JH>> rundown on exactly what modes are available in a machine using the OCS JH>> chipset? AD> OCS (Old Chip Set) will give you 16 colors in hi-res (limited AD> to 640X400) 32 colors in lo-res, and, 64 colors using EHB (Extra Half AD> Brite, which gives you 32 "half bright" shades of the first 32). You AD> can also get 4056 colors in HAM, out of a palette of 4056. Isn't 4096 colors out of 4096 ? Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ ... I'm going to regret this. --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Pointing from overhere, Trace BBS Groningen. (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 15:26:29 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Larry Baum Subj: Re: A2000 & German Miggy ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc8ea75 ^REPLY: 1:2606/205@fidonet.org 2fc220c3 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 25 May 95 Larry Baum saw the light and spoke to Erik V. Petersen: {A2000a/b + Ranger} LB> Anyway, CBM Germany pushed their inferior (but cheaper to make) design LB> and won. Not forgetting, the Ranger wasn't complete and the A2000 was ready for release Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ ... Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, fly boy. --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: From the Home of BEHOLDERS (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 15:44:15 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Bill Jump Subj: Re: Ami Clones + Newtek ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc8eeaf ^REPLY: 1:318/19.1 2fc2a5c2 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 23 May 95 Bill Jump saw the light and spoke to Dave Tickle: GVB>>> /\_ _/\ GVB>>> The Seer \ \ / / GVB>>> \_/ \_/ DT>> Nice boxing gloves. ;) BJ> I thought they were duck feet. :) I thought it was an alien... wait a minute... what am I saying. Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ ... What makes you think things will be any different this time? --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: From the Home of BEHOLDERS (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 16:12:31 From: Guido Van Bercum To: Thomas Boerkel Subj: Re: Buyout Woe's ^MSGID: 2:282/529.4 2fc8f437 ^REPLY: 2:2476/541.0@fidonet CC3B09C2 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 On 26 May 95 Thomas Boerkel saw the light and spoke to Asha Develder: AD>> Dr.Kittel has confirmed that they plan on licenceing out the AD>> tech. Now we get to see who will REALLY do something with it and who AD>> was just blowing hot air, secure in the "knowledge" that it wouldn't AD>> happen...;/ TB> Well, actually, Escom has already licenced the technology to an American TB> firm for building set-top boxes. Which one(s) ? TB> BTW: Amiga Technologies GmbH (working name) That's better then Commodore-Amiga inc. Be greeted, /\_ _/\ The Seer \ \ / / \_/ \_/ ... I'm out of it for a little while, everybody gets delusions of grandeur. --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: From the Home of BEHOLDERS (2:282/529.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:282/529@FidoNet 5 1 283/512 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 22:23:00 From: Matthew Brown To: Asha Develder Subj: More Final Writer Problem > I'm about to scream and tear the code for Final (insert > expletive here)!!! Asha, Sorry for all your FW troubles! I tried to find anything about the export options, but could find nothing... (Mine worked OK after a normal install.) It may help you to know that prefs can be found in FWFiles as FW.Prefs, at least on my machine! :) (You should probably look in the Fonts dir considering how confused your FW sounds! ;) Good luck with the reinstall, if you decide to try it! Matthew ** UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY - PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT ** --- | AmiQWK 2.2 | --- DlgQWK v0.71a/DLGMail v2.51 * Origin: The Ninth Portal - North Pole, AK USA 14.4k (1:355/17) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:355/17@FidoNet 1 2 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 01:54:58 From: Thomas Boerkel To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: BlitzBlank 2.60 RELEASED! ^PID: MM v1.0/n #1140 ^MSGID: 2:2476/541.0@fidonet F5FC6041 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 2899098b Hi, Asha! In a message of <22 May 95 19:52:03> Asha Develder (1:209/216.5) wrote to Thomas Boerkel: TB>> Just wanted to let the BlitzBlank users know that 2.60 is released! AD> WOW! Got it off of CIS and I'm really impressed! Some of those AD> new modules are wonderful! Thanks for the upgrade! :-) AD> I do have a small question though.. According to the docs (and AD> the GUI) there is an option to read joystick movement. I've only tried Yep. AD> this with one game (Galaga) but when I quit the game Blitzblank thinks AD> that it hasn't read any events (mouse or joystick) and blanks AD> immediatly. This makes me think that it's not reading the joystick AD> movements. Is the problem with Galaga (which takes over the system)? Absolutely correct. Monitoring keyboard, mouse and joystick is done system-friendly (with the OS) and so only works if Multitasking is on. So, when you leave DGalaga, the OS-Timers tell BlitzBlank that the blank time has passed and so BlitzBlank blanks immediatly. But you can easily see that joystick monitoring works if you move the joystick while BlitzBlank is blanking (joystick monitoring must be on of course). It *is* useful for Multitasking games (like Minerunner for example). Bye, Thomas --- Mail Manager 1.0/n * Origin: Amiga Inside II, ++49-7272-76611, Amiga only! (2:2476/541.0@fidonet) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2476/541@FidoNet 539 2 2452/110 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 02:01:24 From: Thomas Boerkel To: Giuliano Pochini Subj: Re: Banshee AGA on A4000/040 ^PID: MM v1.0/n #1140 ^MSGID: 2:2476/541.0@fidonet F7803501 ^REPLY: 2:332/216.13@FidoNet 2fba41f3 Hi, Giuliano! In a message of <17 May 95 12:35:31> Giuliano Pochini (2:332/216.13) wrote to Lance House: LH>> Has anybody here managed to get Banshee (A1200 AGA Specific) to work LH>> on an A4000/040? I bought this yesterday, and cant play it! GP> Banshee is very buggy. You can try launching Enforcer before loading GP> Banshee. Now it shouldn't cracs, but every illegal access causes the GP> game pauses for 1/2 seconds.... It's quite unplayable, but works. You GP> don't need to disable caches. Did you try the QUIET option of Enforcer for this case? With this option, Enforcer hits shouldn't slow the system down that much. Bye, Thomas --- Mail Manager 1.0/n * Origin: Amiga Inside II, ++49-7272-76611, Amiga only! (2:2476/541.0@fidonet) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2476/541@FidoNet 539 2 2452/110 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 26 May 95 02:09:35 From: Thomas Boerkel To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Blitzblank 2.60 ^PID: MM v1.0/n #1140 ^MSGID: 2:2476/541.0@fidonet F9643022 ^REPLY: 1:209/216.5 289f35d5 Hi, Asha! In a message of <23 May 95 23:57:49> Asha Develder (1:209/216.5) wrote to Thomas Boerkel: TB>> Actually, there are 10 new modules! So, in the release there are 39 TB>> modules now, plus AmigaSign256 and ARose (those are available TB>> seperately) makes 41 modules available for BB. AD> I have a version of AmigaSign, is there more than one? Yes, a 256 color version. It's "ASign256Blitz.lha". Do you also have ARose ("ARoseBlitz1.1.lha")? TB>> It is already out! :-)))))) AD> And has been running on my system (smoothly I might add) for AD> days now! It's really great! Thanks for all your hard work!! :) :) Thanks for the applause. :-) AD> (Ok...someone call the exclamation point police!!!!) ;-)) Bye, Thomas --- Mail Manager 1.0/n * Origin: Amiga Inside II, ++49-7272-76611, Amiga only! (2:2476/541.0@fidonet) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2476/541@FidoNet 539 2 2452/110 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 24 May 95 19:36:57 From: Ralf Botterschulte To: Erik V. Petersen Subj: A2000 & German Miggy ^MSGID: 2:2426/4030.51 2fc3df39 ^REPLY: 1:134/27.0 1d8f046c ^CHRS: IBMPC 2 In a message of 19 May 95 Erik V. Petersen wrote to Larry Baum: EVP> Say, my memory banks need updating on this one. I seem to EVP> remember two 2000s, an "A" model and a "B" model of which the EVP> inferior version (with a lesser HD controller I think) was the B EVP> model out of Germany. The A-model was designed in Germany. It was later replaced by the B-model, because it was cheaper to produce. The A- and B-models had minor differences, so the A-model is not 100% compatible with later produced add-ons. For example, when you add a A2630 to your A2000, you have to remove the 68000 in the A-model. B-model owners keep their 68000 and can switch between the 030 and the 000. bye, Ralf_Botterschulte@smalltown.fido.de --- Spot 1.3a #714 * Origin: People will do odd things if you give them money. (2:2426/4030.51) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2426/4030@FidoNet 4000 2001 2449/600 2433/1200 2440/225 2452/110 ^PATH: 105/42 103 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 12:55:00 From: Skipper Smith To: Jeff German Subj: Re: DirOPus 5 ^PID: PDQMail v2.60 RE0064 JG> I have already uploaded my config to a major BBS so just look for a JG> config with "The Wizard" as the author and you will have it! JG> SuperTags, v1.6 Sniglet JG> ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ JG> Û Bunionettes - Any young professional women in a suit and Reeboks. JG> Û JG> JG> ßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßßß Jeff, perhaps it is just me, but are you sure the above characters are considered legal? I thought only the lower 127 ASCII characters were legal. * Q-Blue 1.0 * --- DlgQWK v0.71a/PDQMail v2.60 * Origin: The AmyAdviser*Since 1987*V.34*602-582-5174 (1:114/146) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:114/146@FidoNet 271 124 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 28 May 95 12:55:08 From: Sylvain Racicot To: Louis Dinos Subj: Re: amiga 500 ^MSGID: 1:167/151.45 2fc8c70c ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 In a message of 23 May 95 Louis Dinos wrote to All: LD> does anyone out there know what is going on when the caps lock key LD> blinks, it blinks three times followed by a pause.i was told that this LD> was some kind of message. but i don't know what it means. i was also LD> told that one of the chips was ready to go out. Does anyone know LD> anything about it?s I'm afraid it means you have a defective RAM CHIP... It's been a while, but I think that's what happened to me once. Although it could be something else, I'm quite sure it means that you have a HARDWARE problem... /*Sylvain*/ /*Racicot*/ ... 30 minutes of begging is not considered foreplay. --- Spot 1.3a #1095 * Origin: Le Club Amiga du Quebec - (514)355-1280 - (1:167/151.45) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:167/151@FidoNet 290 90 12/12 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 ^PATH: 343/140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 19:37:54 From: Holly Sullivan To: Dan Ray Subj: Re: Scan the Maidens ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a93b8bb ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ DR> DR> Now, back to the off topic stuff I moved down here to hide it DR> from DR> DR> the grasp of Sir Grimmet and the hot clutches of Holly ;) DR> DR> HS> (laughing HARD) DR> DR> I knew laughing had many different effects, but... Ah, but you've never _heard_ me laughing.. then maybe you'd understand the effect(s) I seem to create ;) DR> DR> HS> You'll have to try harder, Dan. DR> DR> Drats, both you AND Jeff sniffed it out...I KNEW I should have used That's because we're *GOOD* (G) DR> that invisible electronic ink. If only I hadn't spilled it on the DR> monitor while I was using that white-out :) (snicker) Next time, dont' buy it on a blue light special. DR> DR> Dan (you know they are going to get us for this, don't you ]8-> DR> HS> "they" who? ;) DR> DR> Ummmm...Loki and Venus??? (think mythology) Being Pagan, I'm certainly up on my mythology... and I'd be more inclined to bet on Eris and Murphy.... who do you think runs Fidonet? :) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 A conservative is one who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 19:50:59 From: Holly Sullivan To: Dan Ray Subj: raspberries ;) ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a93f4bb ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ DR> DR> Watch out!! Get away from your Amiga QUICK!!! DR> DR> You're gonna short it out ;) DR> DR> HS> :p Couldn't make it any worse than it is already.. should have DR> seen DR> HS> the pretty multi colored bars across the screen when I tried DR> booting DR> HS> it the first 6 times today :( DR> DR> Test patterns?? :) Seriously...I had thought you had gotten yourself DR> a replacement 2000 a couple months ago...sorry to here about the 500 DR> and its crankiness...sounds like it needs a good going over/tune-up (the DR> electronic equipment kind). And some new chips among other things.. :( Todd just last night fixed the power supply in the 2000; now if I can persuade the keyboard to behave, we're back in the bbs business... DR> DR> HS> Make mine raspberry pastries and chocolate milk, please. ;) DR> DR> =] I like your choice MUCH better...make that coffee instead DR> DR> of milk DR> HS> Reminds me of someone else I know who likes coffee... (smile) DR> DR> Yea, all us old swabbies are alike in that regard ;) (sitting here grinning at the screen) DR> DR> DR> and you can torture me all you want...8-# ( oh, and you DR> mispelled DR> DR> one of those words in your request...it's up to you to figure out DR> DR> which one ;) DR> DR> HS> (laughing) You better have a good sized jar of raspberry jam in DR> that case ;) DR> DR> Darn...down to my last barrel of the raspberry supply...but the DR> blackberry bushes are loaded down this year :) :) MMMMMM.. haven't had fresh picked blackberries since I lived in Kentucky years ago... :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 19:53:21 From: Holly Sullivan To: Asha Develder Subj: Re: Slippery ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a93f4bc ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ AD> Holly, AD> AD> JG>> Dunno, there's something about younger balding men... besides, the AD> JG>> flowers were so NICE of him! :-) AD> AD> AD> HS> Erik sent you flowers? Awwwwww........... AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> AD> HS> Guess Erik doesn't love _me_ anymore.. ;) AD> AD> AD> Or me.....;? AD> Maybe we need to gang up on Eric? ;) Think he could handle it? (G) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 People will buy anything that's one to a customer. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 19:56:15 From: Holly Sullivan To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: Re: taglines ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a93f4bd ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ JG> Yup. Spot wasn't intended to be a mail tosser for a BBS. Foozle was JG> created with that option in mind (but not limited to...). It was also created to work with TransAmiga, which it does well.. I hope DLGMail does so good. :) JG> JG>> ... Electronic Technicians do it with no shorts. JG> JG> HS> (eyebrow raised) Been out pillaging the TAGLINES echo again? :) JG> JG> That's an original, m'dear :-) (*GRIN*) Knowing you, should have guessed. Ahhh, well, I know where -your- mind is. ;) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 My one claim to fame among Irishmen is that I never make a speech. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:02:34 From: Holly Sullivan To: Larry Bolch Subj: Re: ARM! VAPOR-lock! Cold ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a941729 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ LB> > In a message dated 21 May 95 15:35:00, Larry Bolch wrote: LB> > LB> > > LB> My Fido Fantasy has come true. Steve N. and Paula L. together. [...] LB> > LB> Can't you just see it? Computer-lit. majors in the mid-21st LB> > LB> century doing LB> > LB> doctoral dissertations on the collected writings of Nordstrom & LB> > LB> Lieberman? LB> > LB> (Sounds like a Minnesota law firm) ;-} LB> > LB> HS> Sounds like the law firm you're gonna need after Paula gets through LB> with you. (G) LB> My agent's lawyer will call her agent's lawyer, they will do lunch LB> and work out royalties and pre-publication advances, etc. Completely LB> out of our hands until signing. (Actually Paula scares me far more LB> than any legal beagle.) (laughing) Smart man. You cacth on quick. LB> Erik, the Great Dane of Calgary passed on the EchoDisk collection. Erik's good people, definitely... had a wonderful time talking with him on the phone the other evening.. :) LB> Classic and classical image - my agent needs to meet with your LB> agent. Their secretaries will arrange it. In the meantime, I am LB> quite awe-struck. Do you also do Renaissance Faires? LB> LB> ;-} there's only two things I love more than Ren Faires and one of them is chocolate.. (and the other one knows who he is (G) LB> ... Love thy neighbor: Mute thy sackbutt and tabor. (G) Verily, s'truth! :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 "Mistrust first impulses, they are always good." --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:05:48 From: Holly Sullivan To: Gary Peake Subj: teddies ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a948f54 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ GP> JG>> I beg your pardon, I am NOT a large, furry, fluffy pillow with GP> ears. GP> JG>> Well, OK, I'm a little fluffy on top. GP> GP>> 'large' ... 'fluffy' ... so *you* are the one who got my teddy? :) GP> HS> Excuse me? *I* am _not_ nor ever have been _your_ teddy... ;) GP> GP> But it's so much fun to be a 'wannabe'!! :) I wannabe ... I wannabe ... (laughing) I hate to tell you this, but I think my infamous waiting list is no more... you're too late.... :) GP> * Origin: Peake's Point @ Raster Line Houston, Texas (G) you run into Scott Denham at the next Club Amiga meeting, tell him I want a hug! Or else! (and that goes for you too btw) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:11:38 From: Holly Sullivan To: Jon Inghram Subj: mail flows.. ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a948f55 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ JI> JI>> for a couple days, and I just polled my mail a little while ago JI> and got JI> JI>> a packet that decompressed to around 800kB, which means LOTS of JI> JI>> messages. :-) JI> JI> HS> Geez, that's _just_ your msgs? Or all of 'em? When I had my node JI> HS> active, I routinely pulled 2-3 megs (zipped) a -day- for all the JI> echos JI> HS> I had areafixed... JI> JI> Here's what's currently in "Spot.log"... [...] JI> This is slightly less than "average". Of course, "average" is hard to JI> find, considering the way Fido's been acting around here lately. :-/ I'm JI> pulling in 12 echos, though some, like AMIGA_PD and WICHITA don't get JI> much traffic, while others like RAST.B5, AMIGA, BABYLON5, and USR_MODEMS JI> are rather busy. The packet that came through TrapDoor was 180746 bytes JI> LZX'ed. All the systems here except 2 are IBM, so I stick with .zip.... and I was pulling 125 echos, some of them alt.* newsgroups.... JI> HS> One of these days I've really got to switch to Spot.. I have used it JI> HS> before, and while I do like Foozle, Spot's got some great features JI> HS> Foozle will probably never have :\ JI> JI> I've never seen Foozle. What does Spot do that Foozle dosn't? Works great as a BBS mail tosser... since Spot uses a custom msg format, it's not possible to use it as a mail tosser... but it's d*mn fast, that's a fact.. Foozle is slow, but works well, especially with TransAmiga BBS. Spot has a lot more bells and whistles too, the taglines being but one of them. :) Don't worry about switching. (G) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:22:43 From: Holly Sullivan To: Dan Ray Subj: Re: Scan the Maidens ^MSGID: 1:363/1571 4a948f56 ^PID: ProBoard 2.02 g1J ^TID: GE 1.11+ On <25 May, 14:36>, Dan Ray wrote to Jeff Grimmett : DR> Jeff Grimmett wrote to Dan Ray... DR> JG>... a fire alarm when anything off topic occurs in a message... DR> DR> JG> it's like honey to bears ;-) DR> DR> Well then, when talking about Holly and you, what do you call this DR> HONEY and BEAR comment (in light of recent sticky, furry little posts ;) ;) It's all in your mind, Dan. DR> Sorry, you'll have to do better than that :) (dry, amused tone of voice) I don't think that will be a problem. :) :)---Holly---<--<-@ - Pedit Ver 2.5 How come there's only one Monopolies Commission? --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: Compu-Link "Simply the best" (1:363/1571) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:363/1571@FidoNet 157 3615/50 396/1 270/101 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 20:33:03 From: Robert Dale To: Richard Aubin Subj: LHA File Splitter ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^MSGID: 2:254/524 9c68eb3a Hey, Richard Aubin scrawled to All about LHA File Splitter RA> I need a LHA Splitter that will halve *.lha files... I know there is one RA> out there, could someone please help me with this? Just use sploin... "sploin -s2 " will split any file in two. Cheers, . : ¡ ¡ : . . : ¡ ¡ | Darkman@ | ¡ ¡ : . . : ¡ | | | | Darkside | | | | ¡ : . -^-^--^---^----^-oOo-^O--oOo^-=> <=-^------^-----^----^---^--^-^- ^ ^ --- Xenolink 1.96, MagicEditor 1.0 UNREG * Origin: === Darkside BBS + 24 Hours + 0181 771 9100 === (2:254/524) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:254/524@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 28 May 95 14:44:54 From: Neil Harrison To: Ralf Buyna Subj: Re: Ram Disk Icon ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:102/496@fido 2fbbbc49 ^MSGID: 2:250/366.7 2fc8e0c6 From out of the night darkness *Ralf* emerged, all grubby and smelly, and muttered something about Ram Disk Icon Hi Ralf, RB> I have a question concerning my Ram Disk Icon. Is there any way to RB> permanently change it? There is no apparent "disk.info" file, and if I RB> make one, the icon is lost after I reboot. Does anyone know a way to RB> permanetly change the Ram Disk Icon using the WB-Icon Edit? I have the following method set up: Create the icon you want to use and save it as 'RamDisk.info' somewhere, such as Workbench. This can be done by using an icon editor to load in the current RAM icon then 'save as' to a different (permenant) directory. Then add the following lines to your user-startup (or startup-sequence): ;copy ram disk icon copy Workbench:RamDisk.info RAM:Disk.info As long as this is done before WB is loaded then you should be laughing. Hope this helps. _ _ __ _ _ / \/ \ / \ / \ / \ FidoNet : 2/250/366.7 / // __// // /_ A/\/\/\/et: 69:101/300.7 \_/\_/ \__\ \_/ \___/ MusicNet : 808:506/100.1 ... TARDIS Express - When it absolutely must be there BEFORE you send it! --- Spot 1.3a #1059 * Origin: Frosty point 7 (2:250/366.7) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:2/366@FidoNet 250/330 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 ^PATH: 343/119.70 Date: 29 May 95 03:42:26 From: Lee Davison To: Louis Dinos Subj: amiga 500 ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc99702 Hi Louis ! In a message of 23 May 95 Louis Dinos wrote to All: LD> does anyone out there know what is going on when the caps lock key LD> blinks, it blinks three times followed by a pause. It means that the watchdog timer isn't working. If you look at the keyboard PCB you will see a chip with the number 74LS123 (I think, but I can't check because I don't have a screwdriver handy). If the caps lock light blinks all the time then this chip has probably died, if it only blinks sometimes then it's usually a bad soldered joint on the PCB somewhere round that chip. Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 04:22:28 From: Lee Davison To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: He returns!!! ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:202/720.0 2fbd8626 ^MSGID: 2:443/509.10 2fc99dc0 Hi Jeff ! In a message of 20 May 95 Jeff Grimmett wrote to Mark Dickenson: MD>> The C-64s are dirt cheap. They were getting to the point where there MD>> were only about 6 chips in the things at the end. JG> Six chips? Where did you get that number from? I was working in a JG> repair shop for C64's right up to the point that they were JG> discontinued, and the chip count hardly varied over the years. The last of the European model C64s had 2 ROM chips, 2 CIAs, 2 RAM chips, 1 processor and a SID/VIC/glue chip. There may have still been the colour RAM chips but I think they got integrated into the SID/VIC chip. The PCB was reduced to less than 1/2 the area of the first model and was only that big because it had to remain full width to accomodate all the connectors. Cheers, __ __ /// Lee Davison :- Sysop \\X// The Unseen University ~~~ --- Spot 1.3a Unregistered * Origin: Lee's electronics & computing lab in the Village (2:443/509.10) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:443/509@FidoNet 25/53 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 31 May 95 17:58:07 From: Eric Szulczewski To: Tom Parker Subj: Re: PAL MODE on an A3000 ^MSGID: 1:115/384@fido 2fcd0297 ^PID: CNet 3.0 > Hey, it works!!! Amazing. Ok, so no i have that problem solved, how do > i get rid of the df0:???? icon? I assume it is produced by the > standard file system, so is there any way of getting rid of it? Install MFS. Magnificent program that I can't live without. Automounts all file systems for floppies, then transparently switches between them when you put a particular type of disk in the drive, with only one icon popping up. WARNING: The latest versions patch your diskcopy and format commands on WB so that you can choose which file system you want to format a floppy in. People have reported problems with that, even though I've never experienced such. | AmiQWK 2.9 - FREEWARE | ... --- CNet/3 * Origin: The Stygian Abyss BBS (312) 384-6250 Chicago, Il. (1:115/384) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:115/384@FidoNet 327 2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 30 May 95 08:33:06 From: David Lascelles To: Gary Tabar Subj: Re: So wadda you really USE??? ^PID: Foozle 1.04 1285 ^MSGID: 2:256/503 28c0bd06 Hi Gary! =-= On 25-May-95, You had a little chat with All =-= =-= You were talking about So wadda you really USE??? =-= GT> I have 1200 with wb 3.0 as do I.. GT> I use these shareware/freeware utilities: GT> SID 2.0 registered (My favorite Dir utility) Powerdata (automatically GT> decompresses powerpacked files as if they weren't compressed--->a GT> GREAT space saver!!!) I use Dopus 5 and I used to use Powerdata when I had an 80Mb Hd, but now I have a 540Mb it is not worth the bother... GT> ArcHandler 1.0 allows you to utilize lha files as directories!! you GT> can use a file within a lha as if it was just lying around somewhere GT> (Another GREAT space saver) Sounds good, where from ?!! GT> MuteFix.lha a pack that has all the voice files you need for 3.0 so GT> yur amiga can spaek again! as above! GT> Magic Menu (adds menus items to wb) GT> SwazInfo (enhances your info command from wb) Powersnap (enhanced GT> snapping/pasteing commodity) KingCon 1.2 (enhanced shell replacement) I'm using KingCon 1.3, and Swazinfo and Magic Menu :) GT> muchmore 4.0 (text reading utility) I *hate* muchmore! I'm using PPmore 2.0, lurvly!! GT> multiclock (adds clock to wb, which speaks the time every 15 minutes) Haven't seen... GT> viewtek 2.1 (pic viewing utility) I'm only on 1.04, looks like some AmiNet searching is in order! GT> Dms disk compressor GT> lha file compressor (moving quickly to lzx!!) LZX1.1 (new file GT> compressor) I'm same, except I never use DMS. I also have Arc, power packer, zip, arj and rar (last two for unextracting only!) GT> So am I missing anything really good? any updates to what I have??? I GT> think this might help us all, as there are just so MANY of these type GT> of things out there!!! I have Virus checker always running in the background and of course Arexx :) Best Regards, David ... )8-) scuba smiley big-face v1.01 Smiletag ©1995 David Lascelles, Registered to DAVID LASCELLES --- * Origin: Creepys AMIGA BBS 0191 3832181 (2:256/503) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:256/503@FidoNet 504 442/403 25/10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 ^PATH: 343/119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 06:48:00 From: Stephen Olding To: Rene Laederach Subj: Re: Photogenics Is GREAT! ^MSGID: 2:254/220.0 2fca8986 ^PID: BWRA 3.02 [Reg] Hi Rene RL> work with my Cyberstorm and so I will have to get a Cybervision to RL> make my RL> system work again. It really sucks to rely on a lousy little RL> deinterlacer. According to the the upgrade bupf i got, v1.2x is supposed to support the retina z3 board and are writing support for the z2 next. and it's only cost's 15 ukp to upgrade, probably due to the new manual. regards steve ... Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups. --- Blue Wave/RA * Origin: From The Crystal Tower : London (0181-4478244) (2:254/220) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:254/220@FidoNet 4 25/54 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 21:16:18 From: Kevin Henry To: Paul Macarthur Subj: Need Amiga Cable ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^MSGID: 2:440/1.4 2fca8e02 In a message of 20 May 95 Paul Macarthur wrote to All: Hello Paul, PM> Well, PM> I just got an Amiga 500 in the Mail, COD, for my daughter. THe only PM> thing I just realized is I do not have one of the 23 pin to 9 pin vidio PM> connectors, RGB?. PM> Can anyone point me in the right direction where I could get one? Its a bit difficult as you lives in the US and I live in the Uk but i think there is a place a called Amiga hut or Software Hut that deals with Amiga stuff or failing that you could try a company over here in the UK called "1st computers" over here and if you like i could order it for you if send me the cash or contact them direct on +44 0113 2319444. Dos error 4 - Signatures empty /Kevin ... Take my advice. I don't use it anyway. --- Spot 1.3a #898 * Origin: Have you ever wondered how sharp a point is? (2:440/1.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:440/1@FidoNet 25/54 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 21:27:43 From: Kevin Henry To: Larry Bolch Subj: C64 - Disk drives. ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^MSGID: 2:440/1.4 2fca90af In a message of 24 May 95 Larry Bolch wrote to me: Hi Larry, LB> KH > program LB> KH > called oranges the used to play a tune with the drive stepper LB> motor? LB> KH > LB> KH > The drives were soo heavy. But never broke down. LB> Kevin! LB> However if you set them in the wrong spot in space relative to a 1702 LB> monitor, they went totally wierd! In what way did they go weired? I dont really ever recall the drive ever getting interference from a monitor! Dos error 4 - Signatures empty /Kevin ... Dyslexics of the world, untie! --- Spot 1.3a #898 * Origin: Have you ever wondered how sharp a point is? (2:440/1.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:440/1@FidoNet 25/54 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 29 May 95 22:52:11 From: Kevin Henry To: Jeff Grimmett Subj: EXABYTE tape streamer **help** ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:202/720.0 2fc3ccc6 ^MSGID: 2:440/1.4 2fca965e In a message of 24 May 95 Jeff Grimmett wrote to me: Hello Jeff, JG> single problem. I've put it through its paces, too, being a good JG> little beta tester. JG> Could you email me or netmail me your system configuration? I'll pass What bit do you need as I was told that the systemconfig file is no longer needed used in the A1200 its all stored in the prefs or the ENV directory??? My setup is an A1200 with Supra FAX MODEM 14.4 plus a Squirrel SCSI 2 interface adaptor and a 3x CD-ROM and a EXABYTE Tape streamer plus a 2MB expasion under the trapdoor of the Amiga1200 in NTSC Hi-resmode 32 colour WB mode. JG> However, part of your problem may be: KH>> It looks like the settings for the block size should be KH>> 1024 andthe number of blocks per write should by only 2?? and KH>> the buffer is set to KH>> 512K. Well it took me 3 weeks to work KH>> that out. JG> The block sizes and all that are under your control, via the MRTape JG> mountlist entry (or dosdriver for 2.1+). Study the docs carefully and JG> you should be able to optimize for best results. I have now got another Tape backup program which not as good as Mrtape but it does seem to work better with the drive. But this writes to the tape in MAX block size 1024 blocks and a buffer of 32k this seams to work but I have since then reseated my accel' card as I thought this could cause problems. JG> Incidentally, the best buffer size is the same size (no more, no less) JG> as that on the tape drive's controller (this is an option you control JG> from MRBackup itself). Hmm intereting point, as I know that the controller buffer is only 256k and I should match this in my software on the Amiga. Thanks again for your help. Dos error 4 - Signatures empty /Kevin ... Get thee down. Be thou funky. --- Spot 1.3a #898 * Origin: Points added for this message (2:440/1.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:440/1@FidoNet 25/54 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70 Date: 30 May 95 21:55:30 From: Kevin Henry To: Mike Christy Subj: How long for Q-Blue Registration? ^CHRS: LATIN-1 2 ^REPLY: 1:102/496@fido 2fc355d5 ^MSGID: 2:440/1.4 2fcbe8b2 In a message of 24 May 95 Mike Christy wrote to All: Hello Mike, MC> I sent my registration to Paul Kienitz on 4/27/95 for a registered MC> version of Q-Blue v1.0....yes v1.0. I am running old OS 1.3. MC> MC> How long does it usually take to get a copy of the software in the I got a registered version of Q-blue 1.0 and it took over 6 months to deliver to the United Kingdom, it must of been sent by ship rather that air with does increase the delivery time. I would keep sending him fido mail, and dont *let up* until you get you package. REMEMBER YOU PAID FOR IT! Dos error 4 - Signatures empty /Kevin ... "We're from the government. We're here to kill you." --- Spot 1.3a #898 * Origin: April pointed out that spot is not a cat! (2:440/1.4) SEEN-BY: 2:115/2@FidoNet 5 31 118 119 270/101 343/108 119 .45 .70 .81 .94 SEEN-BY: 343/121 133 134 137 140 143 148 ^PATH: 2:440/1@FidoNet 25/54 10 2500/153 115/2 343/143 140 121 119 .70