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#48591-BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48663
Well, I have a string multiply in a system I wrote, it has to multiply a 9(4.6) by a 9(3.2) or a 9(3). How would you do this??? Phill
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#48586-BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48662
Ok, I would like to see the code Phill
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#48658-Fading hopes for ol A500
Message #48661
Hi John, Of course its possible to upgrade your A500. There are boards with 68020 and 68030 CPU's, and 68882-50 (!) copro's. On those boards you also can put PS/2 RAM's. These boards are (in Austria or Germany) about 140 – 200$. A new kickstart is about 70 $, OS…
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#48651-TERM4.5
Message #48659
Oliver, I've never used Term – but many of our members have. There is a way to change the serial settings, but you really need to have them set for 8-N-1 for Compuserve, and then have 'Strip High Bit' set so that text will appear normal. You'll neet the 8-N-1…
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#Fading hopes for ol A500
Message #48658
I am the proud (ha ha ha)owner of an A500 with 1.2. with a 68000. I would like to know if it possible to upgrade ( $ ). Will I be able to replace the processor or should I get a new motherboard or ??????? Please feel free to offer…
#48651-TERM4.5
Message #48657
try doing the change with the modem turnedoff the porblem happens in teleterm too set a large buffer, try left amiga s to save the current bufffer
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#48652-"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48656
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#48627-Help
Message #48654
Thanks for your reply. Apparently the file is in ROM and accessed throught the dos.bmap file. Thanks Again!
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#48629-Help
Message #48653
Thanks so much for your help. My dos.bmap file may be corrupted. Thanks again!
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#48648-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48652
>oh that's a natural occurence…< Yep, you have seen the screen, then. >means though that some file may have gotten corrupted and disksalvv2 shareware can fix the drive and remove and attemp repair on the file.< I'd love to try disksalv on my hard drive, but I've never had the…
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#TERM4.5
Message #48651
Hi Betty, ========= Now – I`m still here. I`m searching for a good terminal-Programm. Now I have downloaded Term4.5. A very good Terminal-Programm! But – I can`t Set my Bits to 7 (for CS). What can I do??? I can change all Datas – but the Bits(7), and the Puffer…
#48580-Help
Message #48650
John, >>I'm still holding my breath for the PC-based Amiga emulator, though. It wouldn't surprise me if one arrived someday, probably from Europe. I'm also
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#48646-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48648
oh that's a natural occurence… all that means is that you nedd to reset again because the drive did not pin fast enough the first try this meansthough that some file may have gotten corrupted and disksalvv2 shareware canfix the drive and remove andattemp repair on the file. it happens…
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#48630-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48646
>whatonearth are you talking about?< Lepido: You have to see the screen to understand. If the machine is booted without a hard drive, and no bootable floppy in DF0: a purple colored screen is seen with an animated disk being inserted into the image of a disk drive. It is…
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#48639-BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48644
I knew that you'd look it up and have it exactly, Jim. Yep, he was pretty busy, all right!! —Betty
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#48637-Trakball from Amiga2PC
Message #48643
John, I'm sure you need a pin-out reading, which I don't know – – and that you'd have to change some of the wires to different pins (or find an adapter) to make it work. I'm sorry that I can't be of help on this. —Betty
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#48638-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48639
It's I KINGS 7, verse 23: (quoting Revised Standard): "Then he made the molten sea: it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, .. and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference". Now, Betty, you can't expect a man who has seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred…
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#48631-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48638
The passage you mentioned is in II Kings – forget the chapter and verse – that was describing one of the fountains or baths in the court of Solomon's temple. It gave the circumference and the diameter, which had a ratio of three. The fountain was, as best I can…
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#Trakball from Amiga2PC
Message #48637
I am attempting to use a Microspeed Trakball that I used on my Amiga on my PC. It has the same 9 pin female plug and plugs in fine but doesn't work. What do I need to do to get it working? Someone has said there needs to be some…
#48615-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48631
> Then again, I'm told that on one occasion in the 19th century, a state > legislature passed a law that in that state, the value of pi would be > taken as 3. Seems they wanted to simplify things .. 🙂 I read about this years ago in one…
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#48609-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48630
whatonearth are you talking about?
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#48621-#Help
Message #48629
David, >> and apparently have lost a file called "Dos.Library" Hehehe, you can't loose it, because it's in the Kickstart ROM of the OS. Looking into the (C) 1987 Absoft Corporation AC/BASIC Compiler Reference Manual, the problem you got may derive from the LIBRARY statement in your code: LIBRARY "dos.library"…
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#48625-ObjectOriented
Message #48628
Ian, >> AddPower written in assembly is about 18K in size. Wow, pretty small >> for all it does. The same thing (with a much improved interface, and >> a few more features) is about 100K in C well, I solved this kinda problems by (1) not linking with c.o,…
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#48621-#Help
Message #48627
David, I just looked and I don't have "Dos.Library" so its not part of AmigaDOS 2.1 or 3.1. I don't have the AC-Basic Compiler so my guess would be that the Dos.Library came with the compiler or some other program. // \X/ Amiga lives? Gerald Bonnstetter, Bonnsoft
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#48445-#ObjectOriented
Message #48625
>>assembler will produce the most efficient programs of them all. Absolutely correct. I have been using assembler for years, in fact most of my Amiga programs are in it. But the problem is that the larger projects get, the more impossible it is to manage them. I can't even figure…
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#Help
Message #48621
I just had a catastrophic hard drive crash on my Amiga 2000 on which I have 10 years of business accounting information. I've written my programs in AmigaBasic (using AC-Basic Compiler) and apparently have lost a file called "Dos.Library". I have the Dos.bmap file in my LIBS folder but no…
#48610-"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48620
Hi Bob, >Your suggestion appears to be elegance in simplicity. ..and if it works … Ernst >=====on AutoPilot_1.80 [what else?] for AMIGA—–> from Europe/Austria/Vienna
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#48614-BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48616
> I have heard that NASA during the moon program use 3.14 as PI not 3.1415…, >which is what I would expect. If you mean they puposely did so, I'd question the context. If you mean some part of the code did so, I wouldn't doubt it. >Though the instructor…
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#48614-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48615
> NASA used 3.14 instead of 3.1415927… I doubt it. Then again, I'm told that on one occasion in the 19th century, a state legislature passed a law that in that state, the value of pi would be taken as 3. Seems they wanted to simplify things .. 🙂 –Jim
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#48542-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48614
Hi Jim, I have heard that NASA during the moon program use 3.14 as PI not 3.1415…, which is what I would expect. Though the instructor told us this while showing us how hard it is to be truely accurate.
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#48597-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48610
>No elegant solution but it works: insert a line > > wait 1 Ernst: Thanks, I'll give it a try. Your suggestion appears to be elegance in simplicity. Bob Bob Campbell Clover, SC
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#48579-"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48609
>My A4000 does that, too. I just reboot several times until it "catches." >:-) Hmmmm, not a very elegant solution!! Actually you are right, it isn't a big deal, but it is to my wife who doesn't like to see something she doesn't understand on the screen, so she makes…
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#48590-serial-device
Message #48607
Ingvar, just sent you some serial.device assembler routines through binary EMail. – wkc – … via AP from Hamburg, Germany
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#48581-TCPIP and NFS
Message #48605
about that samba port… can you ost it on compuserve or at least give it's full ftp.address? bye. lepidovargas
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#48013-68060 programing
Message #48604
uh i have noidea why you said that… but therisisters are bigger thenpentium chips… …
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#48464-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48597
No elegant solution but it works: insert a line wait 1 at the top of your user-startup. This causes the system to wait a second. If that isn't enough you have to try with wait 2 and so on. cu Ernst >=====on AutoPilot_1.80 [what else?] for AMIGA—–> from Europe/Austria/Vienna
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#48580-Help
Message #48593
Well, John – I hope you won't have to wait too long….but I've not heard of any of those things being right around the corner. I did read the ESCOM was considering an Amiga emulator card for PC's, though. Haven't heard anything about the recently, but it was mentioned last…
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#48575-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48591
Some folks love to wrestle with questions such as how to do a binary multiply/divide (that includes me .. I tend to write the code fresh rather than use macros). Other folks just want to get the job done. And a few trust their floating point processors (even that of…
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#48587-#serial-device
Message #48590
Werner, >> BTW, do you speak German ? Yes! (Und sogar besser als Englisch. 😉 ) Thank you again, Ingvar
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#48580-Help
Message #48589
John, I wouldn't hold my breath for that if I were you. Somebody just managed to finish a C-64 emulator for PC, and it needs a 486DX2-66 to run at 100% C-64 speed… The C-64 has an 8bit CPU clocked at 1MHz. The (old standard) Amiga has a 32/16bit CPU…
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#48566-Problems with DICE.
Message #48588
Igor, Thanks for helping me with GameSmith. Well I think the only choice for me is to go and buy SAS C… Diego!
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#48577-#serial-device
Message #48587
Ingvar, >> If you have example code could you please mail it to me I'll mail some example code to you. But wait one or two days, as I have to check the comments in my code I probably added out of frustration :-). BTW, do you speak German ?…
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#48575-#BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48586
Phillip, >> I couldn't work out how to do 8 byte multiply/divide well, if you got Knuth Vol. 2 `Seminumerical Algorithms', there is extensive discussion of this matter. And yes, while multibyte addition/subtraction is quite simple using the ADDX and SUBX commands, multiplication is not that easy, and division is…
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#48545-BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48585
It was a typo in my post…it was "%7.000000f\n",number -Daniel (useing my dads account)
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#TCPIP and NFS
Message #48581
Commodore once beta-tested a version of their TCP/IP software that included an NFS server as well as client. I've also used an NFS server for WinNT called 'SOSS' that is an NFS server. I haven't tried it under Win95 yet, though. There's also a guy on the Internet who has…
#48464-#"Pls. insert floppy"
Message #48579
My A4000 does that, too. I just reboot several times until it "catches." 🙂
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#48363-GPIB Scanner Interface?
Message #48578
I believe ASDG (now Elastic Reality) once made a GPIB board for the Amiga. You might try them at (608) 273-6585 to see if they might still have some in stock.
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#48563-#serial-device
Message #48577
Hi Werner, >> As this is the ASM section, you are interested in some Assembler example code, no? Yes, I am interested in Assembler code. If you have example code could you please mail it to me. Thanks, Ingvar Lange
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#48549-Amiga & Internet
Message #48576
I don't think the latest amosaic is here, but then you can pick that up later. I got it all working in one evening using ppp.device and a document that tells you exactly how to set up amitcp. I cannot however remember what the document was called and my amiga…
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#48558-BEGENNER HELP" again!
Message #48575
I ended up writing string maths multiply and divide, I couldn't work out how to do 8 byte multiply/divide 🙁 Phill
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