This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#9472-
AmigaAttack
Message #9486
Of all places… my local grocery store (not a big chain) has a video display that provides production location by aisle number and specials of the week are displayed with the means of selecting in store coupons to be printed. oops, that should have been, product location. The voice from…
Hi Tim, welcome to the Amiga Forums. I don't have OnLine! but you go into a LIBrary and select the file you want to download, type D at the Disposition! prompt, have a protocol selected in OnLine (for eg. XModem), tell your term pgm the name of the file you…
We have members who are using the Polaroid Pallette. It has been discussed here several times. So check back. You're bound to get messages. Betty
#downloading to amiga
Message #9421
Howdy! I'm brand new to this service and I have a couple of questions for anyone who could possibly help me. How do you download a program from libraries with ONLINE!, and how do you de-ARC after you've downloaded?
Multiple Questions
Message #9419
Betty, I'll bet you groan when you see ME coming. I'm just full of problems these days! I have two major difficulties. Let's see if you have any answers or advice. Problem number one: I don't believe I mentioned it, but my modem is in a PC bus-slot, and I…
AmigaAttack
Message #9417
Hello, I am Hani Yakan, a new member and I am defending the AMIGA at the ADesk forum. The attack started when the question was raised "How come there's no AUTOCAD for the AMIGA ?" Now I am at the point of defending it's video making ability !!! "The AMIGA…
It was my understanding that ACBM was the way a file was saved. ACBM is a non-compressed file format. The Amiga BASIC disk is supposed to have an ultility to convert files to this format. Bitplane 1 is black & white? A local Amiga user knew these terms and put…
OK – Good I havent been on usenet in a couple of days. I'll check too.
That was very good fortune, indeed! I remember that that virus was new about the time of one of the WOC shows in Toronto. A friend was speaking at the show, and one of his disks caught the SCA virus when he used a machine to demonstrate something. I'd been…
presentation slides
Message #9354
Is anyone using the Amiga for presentation graphics-slides, etc.? How about film recorders (like the Palette)-? I'd really like to How about film recorders (like the Palette)-? I'd really like to share/compare experiences. I know I'm not the only one doing this. Please let me hear from you soon.
AmigaBasic doesn't use the IFF standard ILBM files for graphics. It has its own format, ACBM. Another example of Microsoft up to its usual tricks.
This particular strain of the IRQ virus seems to be benign, but the way it works, gives me a bad feeling of things to come. I now rather happy we stopped putting WB on our stuff, and installing our disks. One of our early demo disks started going out with…
Stan, I merged it as soon as I spotted it -after unarcing and checking it, of course. This new virus sounds really bad. There is something else you might want to add to this file. Over in Tech, Lib14, there is a program called SysChk.ARC. This was originally written to…
Paul, Yes. In Lib4 of AmigaTech there is a program called ARC.EXE. You can download it directly to your C: directory if you wish. When asked for a name for your computer just type the whole path – df0:c/ARC and it will be ready for use as soon as it…
Alan, I've been a developer on the Amiga since Oct '85 and have _never_ heard of ACBM files nor 'Amiga Bitplane 1'. I presume you are just repeating something you were told without understanding the terms. Perhaps you could ask the person from whom you got this information to be…
I wish I could help, Alan. But I don't know of such a program. But don't despair yet. Perhaps some of our members can help you. Most Amiga pictures are in IFF format. Perhaps someone will make a program for the 128 that can show those. Betty
#DL10 File
Message #9284
I Just uploaded an arcfile to DL10 called IRQkill.arc. This file is for the new IRQ Virus. Please merge as soon as possible. Thanks,
Paul, ARC.EXE in LIB 4 of AmigaTech and ARC.HLP (the doc) in LIB 1 AmigaTech.
De-arcing
Message #9274
y Well, I'm back with a new problem this time. I have finally gotten the knack of downloading files using the modem on the PC side of my 2000, and then transferring them to the amiga side. Unfortunately, the only de-arcing program I have (had) is an old Fred Fish…
An utility has been written that allows the C-128 to view Amiga Bitplane 1, ACBM files and convert them to a C-128 paint program. I don't have access to an Amiga to get the pictures un-ARCed or converted to ACBM. (I understand that ACBM is NOT the format of choice…
Manipulating Msg Base
Message #9242
Henry, It would help these people if you would restrict your discussions to Ramblings, though. When you get them going in several different sections, they have a hard time. Some people simply cannot afford the cost of downloading those philosophical discussions, but do want the information from the other sections.…
Thanks. Everything helps. Ray
Ray, The docs that come with WARP are very short – but they do give the exact syntax needed for unwarping, and they tell how to do it with a single drive. Has your friend read them? In case you don't have them, here is the important part: The way…
#9128-
#Bitplane 1
Message #9233
Alan, Everything we have, except for some text files, is arced. That wouldn't matter however. You can download to the computer you have, transfer the files to an Amiga, and then unarc them. I don't know whether there are any acbm pictures or not. You'd find them in either lib6…
#9139-
help
Message #9232
Jason, Those flashes were explained in an article I wrote for TRANSACTOR a year or two ago, but that referred to the startup routines. Whether the same rules would apply after startup is apparently undocumented, since I searched every bit of literature I could find for the information. The documentation…
Manipulating Msg Base
Message #9208
Discussions to which you do not want to participate is always a problem on any forum or local BBS. Learning the appropriate CIS command set, or using WHAP!, is a very effective way to eliminate the problem.
#9111-
HAM Picture Conversion
Message #9171
Randy, Please try again. I didn't understand exactly what you wanted to convert to what. Your title said HAM, and we have a program that converts HAM to GIF format. Also, please put your full last name in the forum. We have a full name policy here. At the Forum!…
Unwarp with one drive
Message #9164
I have a friend that can't unwarp a file he has. He only has one disk drive. He needs to know how to unwarp it. He loads up warp and it asks him to insert the dest. disk and after that the CPU asks him to insert his ONLINE! disk.…
#9116-
Rainbow
Message #9148
Then it must be their chiefs! Ron
#8583-
#Video output to VCR
Message #8708
I desoldered R140 as described in that Amazing Computing article. I did not replace the other resistor to lower the video output level as also described in that article. I can't see any difference so far. The biggest improvement I have been able to achieve is by changing the palette.…
Well, in theory, DMCS should be able to read Sonix files. (In practice, it *does*, but not always the way you'd expect…) And if you've saved a DMCS file into SMUS format, you can go the other way. But there isn't anything that can handle a DMCS native format other…
#8039-
Music data
Message #8164
Hokay, let's get you up on the foot of the learning curve, at least. There are two main IFF formats. 8SVX is for sound samples. They contain a header telling the player program what sort of samples they are, the sampling rate, amplitude envelope, and so on. Within the 8SVX…
Thanks. The lack of a standard format sounds (no pun intended) like chaos. Are there utility programs to convert files so that different application programs can play them. Is there anything comparable to the ASCII TEXT format of the word processing world? Are there efforts to develop a standard? Is…
#8107-
#Music data
Message #8124
Such a standard was proposed (the IFF "SMUS" format…) for musical scores, yet for some inconcieveable reason the people who created the format (Electronic Arts…) failed to use it in their own program, except as an option to save to it instead of their normal format. Sonix uses that format,…
I have had a 24 frame Amiga for use in TV & film production for three years. Perhaps you've seen it recently in John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness", or the HBO movie "Into The Homeland". I worked for many years at "Ruxton, Ltd." in Burbank doing 24 frame video. When…
#7164-
Unlawful upload!!!!
Message #7537
Yes, the file named IBD is the I've been dipped message! I figured you were not being accusatory. From experience I know that you would be more likely to come straight out and say what you mean rather than waste time beating around the bush. (That's a compliment, okay!!!???) We…
#NEW TO AMIGA
Message #7520
Well, I finally did it. We have decided to get an AMIGA. I have a business generating graphic material for motion picture and television. Up to now, the main device we have used is the IBM AT with special Genlockable EGA cards. To top it all off, we have all…
#7198-
Unlawful upload!!!!
Message #7357
Yeah, Roger Rabbit IS from Buena Vista Software, but it was written and animated and programmed by Silent Software. But interestingly enough, even Buena Vista couldn't (or wouldn't) get the rights to certain things (such as the music from the movie). There were other "interesting" limitations, too; but I'd rather…
#7060-
Unlawful upload!!!!
Message #7118
I do indeed see the difficulties involved and all is forgiven. The file which I was referring to was named ROGERR.ARC and I believe it was the most recent upload. We were not allowed to use ANY sound clips from the movie (one of the digitized tracks is "I've been…
Michael, I was the sysop who merged the file in question. I should point out before going any farther that you didn't specify WHICH Roger Rabbit file you are referring to. There are at least two that I recall merging, and perhaps more. I assume you are speaking of the…
In any case the files appear to have been removed so I consider the incident to be at a close. -msl-
What's your point? ….. Either way it's still a no-no. But just to satisfy yourself and myself, I've compared these files to the ones on the roger rabbit game disks. After stripping out the iff header information from the uploaded files, they are IDENTICAL. I ran binary compares on them…
You know, it occurs to me that someone must have gone to a lot of work to do this – if the sound wasn't in a separate iff file, they would have had to run the game, capturing the sound into a digitizer.
Yes, upon reflection I see that nowhere is it mentioned that the voices were from the Roger Rabbit _GAME_. Still, considering the recent release of the game it should be rather obvious. But you're probably correct.
I rather doubt that the sysops knew that the voices were copyrighted.
#Unlawful upload!!!!
Message #6961
There is a file in the audio data DL that contains the digitized voices from the Who Framed Roger Rabbit game which my company produces. We consider this a violation of copyright and insist that they be removed immediately. I can't understand why you allowed them to be posted in…
The way to install Excellence! is well explained in the manual! 🙂 You have to had the command ASSIGN EXCELLENCE!: DH0:Excellence! in your startup-sequence. The DH0:EXCELLENCE! depends on your configuration. Pat.
I'll give you a couple of hints. First, find the hd install exec files, and edit them (copies of the disk) as needed. Execute them as instructed. Then, assign excellence!: to the directory where you keep your excellence files. Ron
#excellence!
Message #6869
Can anyone please tell me how to install excellence on a hard disk? I've tried copying the two floppies into a directory called excellence! on the hard disk but everytime I try to use the thesaurus or grammar checker I get a message saying "Insert volulme excellence! in any drive."…
Doug, You're a lifesaver (or more appropriately; hair-saver). I know I'm still pre-natal when it comes to computers, but I thought I was following the instructions correctly. Whew…. But I'm still using AmigaTerm, however I'll try your suggestion. Dennis PS: I wonder if my picture ever got to LIB 6?…
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