This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Ron, I don't know. Don
John, 71 MB should be enough for a while 😉 I have a 63 MB that's about half-full, so I still have a ways to go, but, always lookinghead, I am already pricing out an 80 MB in the Shopper! Really though, I love my 500, it has taught me…
Larry, I believe you are correct, in that the solidity of the product is not the sole means by which it should be judged. Technical support can sometimes alleviate many many problems that the novice would face, but, also the attitude of the company in dealing with their customers can…
Where can one get 1 meg chips for $30? That's the best price I've seen.
Steve, The memory is probably being eaten by drive buffers. No, no way to unmount a partition…just don't mount it in the first place unless you need it (if you can…I'm not familiar with GVP's software). tstGVPscsi sounds like 'test GVP scsi' so I presume it's some form of test…
John, Non-DMA controllers require the use of the CPU to transfer data from the drive into memory…thus slowing down anything else going on in your Amiga at the time. As a general rule…it's also slower than DMA. DMA (Direct Memory Access) controllers don't need the CPU to access memory…they can…
Ken, Unknown on the release date for the 286 BridgeBoard…but you're probably right…the day you buy an 8088 bridge the 286 version will come out. I haven't tried Turbo Pascal on the Bridge, but there's no reason it shouldn't work. The Bridge is an 8088 driven IBM PC/XT clone run…
Txed/printing
Message #29359
Dear Charlie Heath-I've been enjoying your Txed+ package immensely, along with WShell. My computing skills are too meager for me to get much out ARexx as yet, but I'm trying to stretch all the time. Here's what's got me hung up at the moment: even with all the ARP stuff…
#Help!!!!
Message #29358
I'm new to downloading. Can anyone in the NYC area help. Desperate!!!
I found that qmouse using left amgia escape can have its command line set to use the shell, if that helps you any. Ron
Don, This afternoon I found a flyer in my HardFrame/2000 box that pertains to using Mac-style SCSI drives with an Amiga. (I've only had the HardFrame for a few days, so I'll excuse myself for not going over the docs more thoroughly. 8^>) The flyer notes that "many SCSI drives…
Now, if I remember that earlier message, that there were about 200 thousand some Mac's sold, sounds like Amiga did extremely well by any standards. Ron
Wasn't at least one of the two other boards available bare? Ron
Karl, I haven't seen the new virus, but I have read descriptions. It seems that the IRQ virus first makes itself known by changing the title of your AmigaDOS screen at bootup – changing the title to something that announces the name of the IRQ virus itself. Another manifestation is…
Ah ! I wondered much the same thing myself. A kludgey but easy answer is to have the CLI-Startup file in you SYS:s directory perform the e desired ASSIGNments and then RUN NewShell. Voila ! The ,major drawback is that this does take longer than the usual POPCli, but it…
Paul, I had similar experiences with my HD. With the jumpers set as I thought they should be, and the drive reponding to PREP, I'd go to format, get a message that it was formatting the first cylinder, then it quit – with no error message. Don gave me some…
Thanks Don, It appears that the New Year has brought out the worst in several pieces of software. I've installed the New RTClock and will await the update to "Diskmaster". I really like the program and hope they fix it RSN! BR — Canton, Ohio
Don, The 2620 uses 256K x 4 ZIP chips. From what I understand, one of the reasons for the 2620 being delayed was the DRAM shortage, and the 256K x 4 ZIP's have just recently become available in more than sample quantities. Since CBM buys RAM's in HUGH quantities, they…
#GVP questions
Message #29346
I've just gotten and installed a GVP Impact A2000 2/0 controller and Quantum 40Meg hard drive into my A2000. I don't have the A2000 Autoboot roms installed. It all works pretty nicely, but two things came to my attention to ask about, in case anyone here knows… 1) The boot…
Randall, I used to live in the Danbury area years ago, and occasionally visit my parents, who still live there. Try Softtown on Mill Plain Road, or travel down Route 7 to Amigo Business Systems (they are the distributors of KickWork, and appear to do quite a bit to support…
Peter, How much memory does your machine have? Qlens needs to allocate a few (several?) bitplanes worth of memory to the sizing/manipulation of the image and may be exiting when it determines that there's just not enough mem available. Just a guess, – Keith
According to you we won't be. 🙂
Mike: What are the advantages/disadvantages of DMA vs. non-DMA hard drives? John
Perry, Terribly sorry about that…ASDG will be there, -Andrew.
and it's more expensive as yours! -Mike
Ethan, I'm selling all kind of hardware for the Amiga in W-Germany and I do have experience with every controller available for the A2000. I had the chance to compare CBM 2090, GVP Interfaces, Supra Interfaces and last but not least MicroBotics HardFrame 2000. Depending on what you are doing…
Aha… I hadn't looked at 68000 OPCODES that closely yet. Thanks for that piece of information. (Explains why AS treated the short branch differently from everything else, but it doesn't explain why it didn't flag it as an error, or at least warn me.) Now that we've gotten out of…
#Turbo/Ami Pascal, Bridge
Message #29336
I am an Amiga 2000 owner who is about to enter a Master's Degree program in Computer Science. My problem is this: Most of the programming assignments will require Turbo Pascal. Can anyone here compare for me Turbo Pascal to MetaComCo's, or to any other Amiga Pascal there may be.…
Bill: I got it from COMB (800-328-2190) for $799. I'd been thinking of getting the HP Deskjet but at $799 the Pageprinter seemed a better buy. The graphics are not the greatMt but that may be because I'm u%sg the builtin Epson X emulator. I'd be interested in any further…
Lynch? Lunch is much better!
What I know is that this memory board was done by a third party developper and that it does not autoconfigure and so have problems with certains softwares. Only a couple been done. PAt.
I have tried the GVP HC 80 with the Subsystem and it does NOT fit! Pat.
(Continued) PrintScript doesn't require any additional coprocessors. We use the IEEE math librarieso a math coprocessor could be utilSed this way- we don't support !@specifically, though. It does need a lot of RAM, depending on how elaborate your page is. Our March Info ad, which uses several fonts, rotated text,…
#PrintScript
Message #29330
Here's a brief description of PrintScript. I hope it answers most of the questions you have- any others can be posted here, or emailed to me. I'll answer them as promptly as I can! PrintScript allows you to print PostScript files on a non-PostScript laser, ink jet, or dot-matrix printer.…
Bob, PrintScript supports PostScript fonts. It comes with two- a Times-like one, and a Helvetica-like one. Be careful though – the metrics are not yet the same as Adobe's. We also support PostScript fonts from other vendors, such as LaserUp! In fact, we use LaserUp!'s "Classic" font in our ads…
John, Yes, PrintScript can handle direct commands, as well as PostScript files generated by a DTP- or other- package. You'll be able to use PostScript in the same manner as the demo you saw. Amanda Fisher Pixelations
Betty, PrintScript costs $89 and will be released in early February. It allows you to print a PostScript file at the best resolution your printI n handle, rather than bypassing PoSRAt and printing a screen-resolution bit-map. PostScript files can be generated with packages from other vendors, such as Professional Page…
New Uploads
Message #29326
The ANNouncement of new uploads for the week ending 01-06-89 is now posted. Type ANN;5 from the Forum! prompt to view. Thanks for the uploads… Marlene
Randy, No…we don't have a list of dealers here, but your local yellow pages would be a good place to start. Also, perhaps someone reading this thread who also lives near you may want to jump in with a dealer's name. Don
#A1000, SCSI, DMA
Message #29324
I am looking at hard disks and controllers for my Amiga 1000. I'm looking in Amiga World and notice good prices for SCSI drives, but can't tell which of the many SCSI boards are available for the 1000. I'd like something like Great Valley Products' SCSI boards for the 500…
Art, Yes, there is a significant difference in speed between a floppy and a HD. So even without FFS, you'll be 'happy'…just don't go look at an Amiga running with a HD and FFS and you'll never know what you're missing. Don
Bill, Diskmaster has a problem all by it's self…but so does RTClock, so you'll need that with your Insider. Don
Randy, You can use just about any disk drive you want…and there's no pratical size limitation (Actualy about 2 Gigabytes or so). You also have choices of controllers. The difference in price between the A2000 and the A2500 is that the A2500 comes with the A2620 co-processor board. Other than…
#PopCli/Shell
Message #29319
Does anyone know if there is or will be a version of PopCli which will open a shell instead of cli under WB1.3. PopCli is a great utility, but that would definitely improve it. — Ethan
I got that $45 price from Microprocessors Unlimited in Oklahoma, I had dealt with them in the past, and thought they had good prices. Sheesh. $45 for a little tiny chip. And people think Godiva chocolates are expensive. 🙂
Mike, there's a driver for the DMP-100 in LIB 7 DMP.ARC – don't know if it will be useful but you can give it a try. Marlene
Mark, just type BRO filename at the LIB prompt. Marlene
#AMIGA dealers/suppliers
Message #29314
Betty – Does the forum have a list anywhere of AMIGA dealers, suppliers, software shops and the like in local areas?? I live in Danbury Connecticut and would like to know who might sell 2000's and other AMIGA stuff. Thanks Randy
downloading
Message #29313
I am new to Compuserve, and my local dealer stopped handling Amiga–leaving me high and dry as far as support goes. I'm having trouble downloading software and other stuff from the Amigaarts Forum library. I have a Amiga 1000 (512K) with Online! communications software. I had my modem (practical Peripherals…
Michael: I was responding to someone else's problem. The handlers, by convention, should be in the directory pointed to by the 'l' logical device. Of course the spelling, including case must also match. Normally and handler should not be in the libs logical device. 73, bill
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