This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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What is impossible? You can read menu labels from a disk file and use them "on the fly." Passing constants is not mandatory. … VAR foo : SomeStringType; BEGIN MyMenuFileRead(foo); (* where foo is a string read from a file *) AddMenuItem(ADR(foo)); (* any other params. needed for this? *)…
One minor point: Digi-View DOES load even if you get the "No Video Signal Present" requestor. Just click "Cancel." The screen is black but look, the menus are there. "So what?" Well, apart from digitizing the software alone has some nice image processing capabilities. Keep that in mind for the…
Naughty, naughty, Thomas. The first thing I did was glue that little Xerox thing to a piece of shirt cardboard and cover it with Scotch Magic Transparent tape. Still looks beautiful. I'll copy it for you if you want another. Although it takes some getting used to I really like…
Oh, Thomas. Ain't it funny how outlooks change. When I made the move from BASIC to Pascal 3 years ago I thought "Local variables? Type Checking? DECLARE EVERYTHING? Forget it!" Now I read your message about SNOBOL: "weak typing, everything's global, … GOTO." How ghastly! Viva la diff. — Art
Where do I find TAPCIS? What forum and DL? Thanks. — Art
Could someone post the raw numbers as to what the power requirements of the Spirit 500 board are vs. what the 500 can safely put out. How does this compare with the power draw vs. ability of the equivalent 1000 product? Thanks. — Art
Thank you, John and Steve A. The NEC P2200 might be just the ticket since I already have a Canon PJ-1080A that does reasonable color graphic dumps but stinks for text. Now I need a fast NLQ printer. The ability to stick envelopes in is attractive. Steve's report of shoddy…
Thank you, Don. That answers my question. — Art
#HighCycle–>Disk Size
Message #92149
I HATE WHEN I DO THAT! Would someone please tell me the explicit relationship between the HighCycle value you adjust in the MOUNTLIST file and disk size, in particular VD0: I've looked at the chart in the MOUNTLIST supplied with VD0: but I'd like to fine tune things a bit…
I second Jim's assessment. Benchmark is a rocket ship. Resultant code size is larger, yes, but you get a programming environment that surpasses Borland's Turbo Pascal. Well worth the trade off. If you need to get a commerical package out the door go ahead and port to TDI for more…
Steve, could you elaborate on the NEC 2200? I saw an add for it and it *seems* to be another breakthrough in price/performance. 24 pins, six resident fonts (panel selectable) and kitchen sink paper handling options. < $500 list. What are its draft/NLQ/Bitmap speeds? What driver do you use? Any…
#Music Mouse
Message #91870
Some things really get me PO'ed. Music Mouse (MM) from Opcode Systems is copy protected (key disk) and, what's worse, they don't tell you that and the manual even seems to imply that is not. I spent over an hour last night finding this out. I dutifully made a back-up…
Oops! Let's try again. > Make those PASCALs "Pascal"s; it's a guy's name, not an acronym, > right. Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French philosopher and mathematician. He is remembered for some kind of sequence of numbers shaped in a triangle. Also invented one of the first mechanical calculators (to do his…
#pro midi->DMCS
Message #91520
After some brief experimentation with SMUSConvert2.0 I gave it up. I had the same problems you have. Changing the quantization at all is an invitation to the Guru. In addition, when conversion proceeded okay the resulting DMCS score was worthless. Playing the tune via DMCS was recognizable but the notes…
#2000 Hard Drives
Message #90624
I'd like an ST 506 drive for my (pending) 2000. What are my controller options? Thanks. — Art
Hiya, Matthew. I bought JForth from Delta Research on impulse just to get a feel for the language. The manufacturers demo at our user group meeting made it seem incredibly easy to access the Amiga libraries. Something Modula 2 was giving me trouble with at the time. As it turned…
Star Trek had three seasons on NBC, a respectable run by today's standards. It was shuffled into increasingly bad time slots each season. 10:00 on Fridays at the end, I think. Trivia: Star Trek was turned down by CBS because "we already have a space show [for the upcoming season]."…
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#P.D. sold for profit
Message #89253
I can see why you might be dissapointed to find your disks as part of a profit making venture but here is a another perspective: That guy was performing a service by bringing together many PD libraries from around the country – something a user group can not practially do.…
DateMath
Message #88208
The message someone left me about a bug in a file I wrote dissapeared(#87423) so I can't reply directly. But anyway…. A bug in the DayOfWeek function is entirely possible. I had no calendars beyond a couple years each way to check it out. I'll look at it when I…
Starboard2 –>A2000
Message #88160
Might be old news but… I called Microbotics to get the poop on their A2000 conversion for the Starboard2. Relevant facts: Whole thing is entirely internal. You remove the existing Starboard2 case. Doesn't hog more than one slot but it is fatter than one card so it has to be…
Erv, I like the prospect of more Modula 2 examples. Why not contact Rob and his publisher about doing a "piggyback" book? Just port the whole thing to M2. I see similar things all the time. Que Publishing duplicated at least one book on Lotus 123 macros for Symphony. "Advanced…
#MIDI Interface
Message #86760
Barry, your hack would be very useful to a lot of people. Might I humbly ask that you put a file in the DLs containing explicit instructions on how you did it? I.E. "Buy such and such a part from Radio Shack and solder it between pins x and y…
#Amiga [not] in the News
Message #86170
"Microsoft Unveiling Software Designed To Make Better Use of Intel 80386 Chip," WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/23/87 by Brenton R. Schlender: …In that way a user could, say, type a memo while another program is recalculating a spreadsheet, while yet another program is calling out for stock price quotaions. Before now,…
#Amiga [not] in the News
Message #86170
"Microsoft Unveiling Software Designed To Make Better Use of Intel 80386 Chip," WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/23/87 by Brenton R. Schlender: …In that way a user could, say, type a memo while another program is recalculating a spreadsheet, while yet another program is calling out for stock price quotaions. Before now,…
Unfortunately, using delay() to ensure an ActivateGadget is barking up the wrong tree. There is a problem with Intution taking some time to clean up requesters that delay() will solve. Delay() does not help ActivateGadget to succeed using a keyboard MenuPick. I discovered the cause but not the cure. One…
#Menus
Message #83839
Here's a stumper. Is there any difference to the user program if a menu selection is made by mouse or command key sequence? In my case a window has multiple string gadgets. Picking one menuitem calls ActivateGadget on the first gadget in the list (as well as some other code…
Success! I finally got the driver I wanted by doing a little reverse engineering. I was not able to put the proper graphics parameters into PrtDrvGen (or did not want to try a zillion permutations) but I was able to hack the original driver using FileZap. From PrtDrvGen I knew…
You may have been speaking generally, but the TDI *compiler* is great. It's fast and the code is compact. There are many great demos floating around. Most recently, Amnews, a disk mag out of Canada, has appeared. It sports a dynamite user interface written in M2. What does stink are…
You may have been speaking generally, but the TDI *compiler* is great. It's fast and the code is compact. There are many great demos floating around. Most recently, Amnews, a disk mag out of Canada, has appeared. It sports a dynamite user interface written in M2. What does stink are…
#SoundScape Sampler
Message #75092
Okay. "Tuning" a SoundScape (SS) sampled instrument is trivial but the docs are pretty lean so lets cover a couple bases in a case study. You've spent 3 hours transcribing "Don't Worry About The Government" by David Byrne off TALKING HEADS: 77 into DMCS. It strikes yoz(u that a sample…
#SoundScape Sampler
Message #75092
Okay. "Tuning" a SoundScape (SS) sampled instrument is trivial but the docs are pretty lean so lets cover a couple bases in a case study. You've spent 3 hours transcribing "Don't Worry About The Government" by David Byrne off TALKING HEADS: 77 into DMCS. It strikes yoz(u that a sample…
#74261-
CANNON PJ1080A
Message #74346
That little green lever is critical! There are three positions: up, down and middle (fancy that!). Out of the box (whoops! – no box) it should be in the middle. This is the capped ink jet postion. After you (1) turn on the printer (2) push the lever to the…
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