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From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Amiga UNIX July 5, 1991 3:54 PM
Greg do you have plans for a csh compiler ? how about awk ? Perl ? also on your CCsh if you have awk inside the sh will it compiled them ? -Ed
#11540- #Which 3000? Message #11831
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Amiga UNIX July 5, 1991 3:50 PM
I am dying to get mi hands on 2.0 or as a matter of fact for UNIX for my 2500… -Ed
xmas. Message #5828
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Hot News and Rumors December 24, 1990 2:25 PM
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#4371 #Amiga UNIX price. Message #4616
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Ramblings December 2, 1990 4:10 PM
IF it comes with the 24 bit card then…it is a heck of a purchase… -Ed
#4363 Amiga UNIX price. Message #4615
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Ramblings December 2, 1990 4:08 PM
MicroPort for one, and I can't recall the other one…. -Ed
#4399 Amiga UNIX price. Message #4609
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Ramblings December 2, 1990 4:07 PM
Will…go get BYTE to some the 'bosses' of this new unix box. -Ed
#7449 For Sale Message #7492
From: Ed Silva Amiga User Forum · Classified November 29, 1990 11:49 PM
$225.00 delivered to your door. -Ed
#7159 For Sale Message #7404
From: Ed Silva Amiga User Forum · Classified November 29, 1990 12:22 AM
folks, the phone number is (714) 897-7380 for ALL items…ed.
#4333 #Amiga UNIX price. Message #4356
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Ramblings November 29, 1990 12:00 AM
there are two computers that I work on SUNs and Amigas I like them both a LOT!!, but I still think that the price it is toooo steep like I said you could get a sparc IPC for about 9k with a 200 meg HD and has about 3 times…
#4298 #Amiga UNIX price. Message #4354
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Ramblings November 28, 1990 11:53 PM
hmm…interesting…now if this was true, the 'street' price will be around…3k ? did they ever try to see who this person was ?
#4226 Unix Amiga Available Message #4263
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Hot News and Rumors November 27, 1990 9:33 PM
steve can you buy just the OS and get your own HD on a 2500/30 ? -Ed
Amiga UNIX price. Message #4262
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Ramblings November 27, 1990 9:31 PM
I was just reading UNIX today! and they have an article on the A3000UX, they say the developers price for the beast is $4995. don't you guys think it is a little too much…what will the retail price be $6995 ? too much, but on the other hand a lot…
For Sale Message #7159
From: Ed Silva Amiga User Forum · Classified November 26, 1990 10:30 PM
FOR SALE FOR SALE =================================================================== Sculpt/Animate 4D with AutoCAD translator, this version of sculpt has 020/881 support asking $350.00 OBO, please e-mail me or call at (714) 897-7380 and leave message. VideoScape AND Modeler 3D, videoscape version is 1.0 asking $150.00 for both!!, please e-mail me or call at (714)…
#Minix Message #4178
From: Ed Silva Amiga Tech Forum · Amiga UNIX November 26, 1990 10:17 PM
I called them and they told me that it does NOT support hard disk support, but yes you can upgrade from IBM to amiga version… -ED
From: Ed Silva Amiga Arts Forum · Ramblings March 20, 1990 1:48 AM
well, either case might be correct, but the card is gone and now I have a 25 MHZ 68030/68882 card from CBM . thanks for your thoughts. Ed Silva. p.s. either the 68020 or the 68030 are MUCH betterh than the plain 68000 for ray tracing that is…you should see…
From: Ed Silva Amiga Arts Forum · Ramblings March 5, 1990 11:05 PM
This is a 14.5MHZ board is the one made by CBM. Ed Silva
From: Ed Silva Amiga Arts Forum · Ramblings March 5, 1990 1:27 AM
Hi, I have a A2620 board from CBM ( 68020/68881 and MMU+ 2megs of 32 bit RAM ) and I would like to put it for SALE the asking price is $1000.00 US dollars after having a buyer I will send this board UPS C.O.D. please either leave a messages…
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor Forum · Gold Disk June 28, 1989 2:46 AM
Hello, I have Professional Page ver 1.2 and I have been trying to do a color separation to a QMS 100 color PostScript printer…after a did a color postscript print to verify that PP does in fact supports color postscript I then when ahead a did a color separation of…
#8750 V1.2 PPage Problems Message #8756
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor Forum · Gold Disk May 25, 1989 9:36 PM
what not then use the floppy…or better yet a HardDisk…this is almost standard practice even on DOS machines… Ed Silva
#8492- V1.2 PPage Problems Message #8506
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor Forum · Gold Disk May 17, 1989 12:33 AM
here is…(714) 630-5897 3510 enterprise dr. Anaheim CA. on the printing I called tech. support. the asked me for my phone number… and that was the end of that…now aren't they supposed to be reading these messages and tell us whether they read it or not ? better to give…
#7936- #V1.2 PPage Problems Message #8444
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor Forum · Gold Disk May 14, 1989 9:52 PM
Richard, I bought V1.1 about 2 weeks ago can I get the v1.2 upgrade free ? also I mainly use PPage to print RayTraced images ( Sculpt-4D ) but…the first one I did to test PPage came out B/W ! and I don't know why…also I have not been able…
#17935- Hurray for WB Message #18121
From: Ed Silva AmigaTech · Talk to the Trade October 22, 1988 6:39 PM
The Amiga Interface known as WorkBench does the trick.
#203 Syndesis section Message #210
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor · Syndesis July 19, 1988 9:52 PM
Use the RM Function to read these messages.
#190 Syndesis section Message #192
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor · Syndesis July 19, 1988 1:18 AM
Use the RM Function to read this message.
#88 Syndesis section Message #175
From: Ed Silva Amiga Vendor · Syndesis July 18, 1988 5:13 AM
Use the RM Function to read these messages.
#477 #UNIX for A1000? Message #988
From: Ed Silva AmigaTech Forum · Talk to the Trade July 18, 1988 5:02 AM
There is suppose to be A UNIX clone called Amix , I saw an AD on Amazing COmputing and the girl told me that they expect to go out in a month. their phone # is 801-269-8150 give them a call, price is around 400.00 and you need a hardDisk…
#133231- William Volk Message #133813
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors July 9, 1988 4:14 AM
Hi Bill great to see ya again!
#132937 AMIGABASIC "INPUT" Message #133041
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming July 3, 1988 3:59 PM
Ross, the WINDOW you are INPUTing from MUST be the current window ( not ghosted ) to fix this you must click on the WINDOW requesting input or use the Intuition function WindowActivate& ( WindowPointer ) and you must have the intuition library open ( bmap ).
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 20, 1988 12:19 AM
John, Don't forget that AutoCAD has a language ( AutoLISP ) that the enables you to do complicated objects ( kind of slow but… ) . and your tree I can zap in on minute by telling AutoCAD to give a cone then I will just put a cylinder below…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 20, 1988 12:19 AM
John, Don't forget that AutoCAD has a language ( AutoLISP ) that the enables you to do complicated objects ( kind of slow but… ) . and your tree I can zap in on minute by telling AutoCAD to give a cone then I will just put a cylinder below…
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors June 18, 1988 6:52 AM
Wait, You are telling me that there is a Object Editor BETTER than AutoCAD for the Amiga? I just got the 3-Demon and won't even be close to AutoCAD 2.5! No Way!. Do you have acccess to AutoCAD ? ( any version )
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 17, 1988 2:08 AM
Why, Will I wanted to Import Amiga3D files to AutoCAD or to the DXF format ? the reasoning behind this 'tranlator' is to use AutoCAD or whatever other 3d CAD program supports the DXF format to create 3D objects and have them render/animated on the Amiga, a similiar Amiga ala…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 17, 1988 2:08 AM
Why, Will I wanted to Import Amiga3D files to AutoCAD or to the DXF format ? the reasoning behind this 'tranlator' is to use AutoCAD or whatever other 3d CAD program supports the DXF format to create 3D objects and have them render/animated on the Amiga, a similiar Amiga ala…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 15, 1988 3:32 AM
John, yes you are right BUT the reason that people used their extruded entities is because the DID not had any REAL #D entities to work with. secondly to construct real objects ( 3d objects that is ) with non 3d entitites is very difficult even in AutoCAD ( from…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 15, 1988 3:32 AM
John, yes you are right BUT the reason that people used their extruded entities is because the DID not had any REAL #D entities to work with. secondly to construct real objects ( 3d objects that is ) with non 3d entitites is very difficult even in AutoCAD ( from…
#128624- #gcvt() blink bug! Message #128793
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade June 8, 1988 9:10 PM
yup you must do LIB LIB:lcm.lib+LIB:lcmffp.lib+LIB:amiga.lib and I had omitted lcm.lib nut in the manual states that you only need ONE of the math libraries! oh well…
#128624- #gcvt() blink bug! Message #128793
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade June 8, 1988 9:10 PM
yup you must do LIB LIB:lcm.lib+LIB:lcmffp.lib+LIB:amiga.lib and I had omitted lcm.lib nut in the manual states that you only need ONE of the math libraries! oh well…
#128567- gcvt() blink bug! Message #128792
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade June 8, 1988 9:08 PM
Hi ben, Yes you are right I talked to lattice tech. support ( great support ! ) and after several minutes…he ( harold ) found out that you must inclide lcm.lib PLUS the lcmffp ( which I did ! ) and whatever other libraries you will need ( amiga.lib etc…
#128567- gcvt() blink bug! Message #128792
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade June 8, 1988 9:08 PM
Hi ben, Yes you are right I talked to lattice tech. support ( great support ! ) and after several minutes…he ( harold ) found out that you must inclide lcm.lib PLUS the lcmffp ( which I did ! ) and whatever other libraries you will need ( amiga.lib etc…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 7, 1988 1:25 AM
One at a time…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors June 7, 1988 1:25 AM
One at a time…
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors June 3, 1988 3:44 AM
Folks, I just finished a AutoCAD DXF format translator to VideoScape 1.0 and for now I will make it shareware…but I will need a name for it that will describe waht it does…this is my first attempt int doing this DXF trasnlation deals so this translator will ONLY 'see' 3DFACES…
#123506- AutoCAD to Amiga ! Message #123662
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors May 10, 1988 11:22 PM
Joel, maybe you should trow this message in the ADESK forum …and see what they have to say , although I left a message similar to this one in their forum…no response…some people think that the IBM PC still a 'state of the art' anyway…
#123506- AutoCAD to Amiga ! Message #123662
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Hot News & Rumors May 10, 1988 11:22 PM
Joel, maybe you should trow this message in the ADESK forum …and see what they have to say , although I left a message similar to this one in their forum…no response…some people think that the IBM PC still a 'state of the art' anyway…
errno.h Message #123178
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade May 8, 1988 6:43 PM
it is in the same directory as the error.h ( df1:include/lattice )
errno.h Message #123178
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade May 8, 1988 6:43 PM
it is in the same directory as the error.h ( df1:include/lattice )
errno.h Message #122708
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade May 6, 1988 8:21 PM
folks I have been compiling C source code on the Amiga since 1985, and last nite I DownLoaded AreaBug.arc to try to help somebody and in his source there is a line #include "error.h"…that actually loads errno.h…the thing is that the compiler is telling me that it cannot find this…
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming May 6, 1988 8:15 PM
well…I dunno FORTH ( read C )…sorry…
#122411 AutoCAD Message #122706
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors May 6, 1988 8:13 PM
john, will ask the dealer for it, about AutoCAD I have not seen a MATCH for it within is price range ( just like the Amiga 🙂 ) . The speed in AutoCAD can be 'turbo charge' by means of display list cards ( very expensive about 2600+- dollars plus…
#121516- Area Drawing Primitives Message #122382
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming May 4, 1988 10:44 PM
What language are you using C if so please elaborate a little…but some of the 'primitives' sre so fast that you need to tell them to wait with the function Delay() from the DOS library…also makesure that you have initialize every buffer needed for this sort of hacks…

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