This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Ron! That is a question I have been sporadically asking ever since I bought my Amiga in Late 85! Where the &^%$ is TLC LOGO???? Regards, Larry.
But Tut is missing a bunch of colours on the IIsg version. Regards, Larry.
Gee Bri…. and I was hoping for WYGIWYG (What You Get Is What You Get)… a design feature of a great wordprocessor called Tritewriter, and its associated Thesaurus, Hackneyspell, which will take complex and meaningful thoughts and translate them to well used cliches. Regards, Larry.
A few more thoughts Mike… what is in A0 when you set the baud? Are you using a long enough area for the io block?
Another thought Mike… by default do they really mean some default (9600?) or do they mean Preferences? If you want to check Preferences, it is really quite easy, and Aterm 7.3 does it (I wrote that part, so it must be easy). The source code for Aterm 7.3 is in…
Mike, I don't know of any way to detect end of data from SER:, but you can do it with the DoIO/SendIO/Command_Query (pick one or more… lack of docs here). The idea is to ask for a certsin number of characters within a set length of time, and to terminate…
DAvid, Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on whether I am thinking of the weather or the meeting) I will be flying back Friday evening. Regards, Larry.
Good luck with the program Mike. Yes it is cold here. My room is colder than the outdoors in Vancouver, and I am _not_ amused. Regards, Larry.
Heehee! I very nearly dropped my keyboard when I read that! Regards, Larry.
You know, there's another thing that has bothered me for a long time about Amigados. When you ASSIGN something to a drive name ie. 0: DF0:, or CD to a disk, you are actually setting up the name of the disk that's in the drive. Now this has its uses,…
Absolutely right Steve. When we were forced to go through Datapac/Telenet before they restored our local node, it was irritating in the extreme to press a CTRL O to cancel a message and then have to sit through all the packets that were already in the net on the way…
Rick, Mine (from UseNet seems to run fine, but since my current external ram does not autoconfigure, I have not been able to make it recover after a boot. Regards, Larry.
Ben, I don't have my books with me, but I would think that it should be possible. After all, the serial port, the disk port, and the sound port are all done with DMA and/or the blitter. There is a PD LIFE game floating around (may even be here in…
Rick, I just grabbed the rcoverable ramdisk from Perry off UseNet last night, but I havn't had time to upload it yet. Regards, Larry.
I took a look at that ad you mentioned (in Amazing) and I'm inclined to agree that the ad _seems_ to imply that the BASIC is included in the Personal version. I think they should either change the ad or supply the BASIC. Regards, Larry.
I'm afraid I can't help you much right now Mike, as I have none of my books with me. I am calling from a Holiday Inn in Toronto. As a first thought, could it be invalid baud rate? The baud settings are a bit strange I think. I gather you…
Bill, it isn't the modem that handles the Xon/Xoff, but the serial.device itself. As I said, there is undoubtedly a way to get it transmitting again short of closing the serial port, but I don't know about it. Regards, Larry.
John, if you like another editor, simply copy it into your C: directory (boot disk, directory C by default). Rename it to whatever you like and then you can just call it up. The Amiga is nothing if not versatile. Regards, Larry.
I'll try to make a version that will load into CHIP and upload it. I don't think the Manx Obj can be made A/Blink compatible. Regards, Larry.
Interesting.. I have just sent off for the updated includes/autodocs, since I only have the Gamma 1 docs. I guess that's where you got the info, but I forgot to look there. FreeTwice sounds like it is trying to Free allocated memory twice. That should narrow it down. Thanks. I'll…
Absolutely Bill, though don't ask me to supply too many details. If you are just looking to output a message to the user, it becomes a matter of finding the appropriate window. All windows may be found by tracing from Intuitionbase. If you are trying to communicate with a program…
Mike… If you are using the Addison Wesley books, go back to your dealer and ask him to supply you with appendix F of the RKM as published by Commodore. Unfortunately, it doesn't help much in this case, as it is still documented in C. There is code in Amiga.lib…
Charlie, I have heard that you and a few other people are rewriting all the Amigados commands. How is that coming, and will the results be made public or be in a commercial package. One of the things I desperately need right now is a COPY comamnd that keeps its…
Danny… "adjusting everything" is not exactly the way to go about it. There is a diagram in the Mirror manual that shows where the adjustment is. Regards, Larry.
Kelly, I gather the string to set the parameters in your last message was a typo, and that you really meant ^P PROF 3 Another possible source of your problem _might_ be (how's that for definite?) the escape character that gets you back to iNET. I think it defaults to…
Kelly, You might try setting the Datapac parameters as you would for a download and see if that helps the NULLs after newline. We are lucky here in Vancouver to have a direct CIS node. It is a lot cheaper, and there are no extra parameters to fiddle with. Regards,…
I suspect that the serial.device change was part of the problem Jack, but can't be sure in this particular case. I just went back to CLI and did a compare of the 1.1 and 1.2 versions and they are different. If you're curious, you might want to try the 1.1…
John, Hopefully they will dig in and rewrite the time critical parts in assembly so that we can have the benefit of speed where it's needed. Regards, Larry.
I would appreciate the info Ed. I am quite experienced with wait states of course, having worked on memory both for micros and mainframes for some 20 years (when I started, 2 microseconds was good, 1.5 was excellent), but I can always use another viewpoint, and I do want everyone…
John, I haven't used ED in quite some time, but if I remember correctly, you can start up ED and do an IF (Insert File) to load up a file that contains characters that ED complains about. You might want to try MicroEmacs as an editor, or perhaps MED. MED…
Todd, One possible reason is that the program itself ends up loading into FAST memory, and that will affect the timing. Might be worthwhile running it through ATOM and specifying that it load to CHIP just to see what happens. Regards, Larry.
Todd, That number looks familiar, but looking through the docs I have, I see that it isn'r listed in what I have handy. (81000006 is highest shown in RKM and another text file I have). I'll see what I can find, perhaps in autodocs or new includes. Regards, Larry.
Todd, if you receive a spurious ^S from line noise or whatever, the ^Q you type will not be sent, and therefor not echoed, to get you out of the lockup. I think there must be a way (short of closing the serial port) to escape from this condition, but…
You may have spotted the message from Ed Lippert mentioning that the Microbotics does wait when accessed during refresh. Todd, this is a "no wait state" RAM, regardless of what you think about that small percentage of waits. I would have no qualms about advertising it as such, and believe…
#MicroBotics StarBoard
Message #50501
Quite right on all counts Ed, and I would, if asked call that a "no wait states" RAM. To me, you can't really say it needs wait states unless the chips are slow enough that it has to wait in order to meet the setup times of the ram chips…
New Product Research
Message #50499
Thanks Ed, I have been trying to scare up info on it for quite some time. Regards, Larry.
Ram & Stuff
Message #50498
Welcome back Rick! It's been a long time. Yours is the second report I've heard on the ASDG board that raves about it. Regards, Larry.
#49191-
software
Message #49215
Donald, ZAPCIS sounds like quite the thing. From what little I've heard of it, that is. It also made me start thinking about terminal programs that have features custom tailored to the service you are running on. Bela has given me a lead to the author, and I will ask…
Awright! Let's hope CBM pays the man. A faster DOS would really do wonders for the Amiga, especially in the initial impression to someone that is used to a machine that can get a directory faster than you can write it down.
Awright! Let's hope CBM pays the man. A faster DOS would really do wonders for the Amiga, especially in the initial impression to someone that is used to a machine that can get a directory faster than you can write it down.
I wondered about PAL. When they said that the extra meg was "outside the normal expansion range", I figured it might be there, but how the heck can they stop the custom chips in the Amiga from responding. the /OVL signal will disable the custom chip select, but it has…
I wondered about PAL. When they said that the extra meg was "outside the normal expansion range", I figured it might be there, but how the heck can they stop the custom chips in the Amiga from responding. the /OVL signal will disable the custom chip select, but it has…
#49012-
OS-9 for the Amiga
Message #49023
The scripting abilities I envision are a little different than what you would normally see. Most script methods require waiting for one string at a time, with a few of them having the nice feature of being able to set a time limit in order to let the script dile…
#49012-
OS-9 for the Amiga
Message #49023
The scripting abilities I envision are a little different than what you would normally see. Most script methods require waiting for one string at a time, with a few of them having the nice feature of being able to set a time limit in order to let the script dile…
Chuck, I believe there is a file in DL 10 that contains bith a tutorial and sample programs that show how to start a task or process (or both). Regards, Larry.
Chuck, I believe there is a file in DL 10 that contains bith a tutorial and sample programs that show how to start a task or process (or both). Regards, Larry.
#46955-
#Layers Anyone??
Message #47186
Yea, and STILL nobody has figured out how to make a clipped region without 10 pages of code.
#46955-
#Layers Anyone??
Message #47186
Yea, and STILL nobody has figured out how to make a clipped region without 10 pages of code.
Yea!! The Amiga has been out for 2 years and I'm completly blown away by the fact that NO ONE has EVER written any layer stuff using Intuition. WHY!!! Crunch
There are several reasons why I don't want to use the console. One of which is performance. I would rather work directly with IDCMP messages than to shoot serial data streams to the console input. I would prefer to code it myself like you mentioned, It's just that VERY LITTLE…
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