This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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You are trying to compare Apple's to Orange's. Brilliance is a Paint and animation package and doesn't claim to be anything other than that. Xv is a file conversion/pseudo-image processing program, period. You are blaming Brilliance for not doing the things you would like because you only have 2MB of…
"QUESTION: Is there any software available for the drive… and … is there any basic program which will make the Amiga recognize the new addition?" Sure there is Hilary, all kinds of drivers now. If you have 3.1 of the Amiga OS, it includes a CDROM driver. Then there is…
Lyle: You could probably use a 1084 or 1902 monitor on a PC, but only if it had a CGA or EGA graphics adapter. Most of the current VGA or SVGA cards output scan frequencies that the 1084/1902 couldn't handle. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Nope, haven't received the CyberVision yet Paul. Hopefully only a couple more weeks or so. As soon as I get it set up I'll post a mini-review with IntuiSpeed results, etc. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Even though the C64 is low technology stuff compared to the Amiga and other PC's of today, they would probably do quite well in China or previous Eastern block countries as a nice home computer. And then once you get them hooked on the C64, then introduce a low budget…
#access
Message #46549
Well as with anything you or I object to, if you don't want to view nude GIF files, then don't download them! What I find objectionable is self righteous people trying to influence the government or companies into protecting us from ourselves, creating regulations that eat away at our constitutional…
Well just because you are in the weird side of the International Date line doesn't mean the rest of us are . I guess we will have to wait until tomorrow, or today, Arghhh!! // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
I went ahead and ordered the Mac version of NetScape about a week ago or so but haven't received it yet, but until then the demo version works great. Yep, an Amiga version would be nice but I guess with the Emplant you could call it an Amiga version .…
"Yah, I don't dispute that some of their products were good, although Jim Drew says that the Spectrum is buggy." Jim Drew says a lot of things, 95% of which is pure BS . I don't dispute that the EGS software is somewhat buggy but I think the Spectrum itself…
(It's real easy to use a hammer to install the IDC connectors – once you've practiced on a few! ;^) I love ingenuity 8^) For my warpengine cable I used a large bench vise we have at work. Didn't even think of the hammer solution, and I'm an electronics tech…
I was using NCSA Mosaic on the Emplant for the Mac emulation, that is until I found out about NetScape. It's a lot better than Mosaic in speed and capability. Too bad the NetScape people haven't written an Amiga version, but I doubt we will see one. // John (Warp…
Paul: I have a couple of GVP products in my 4000 and I'm quite happy with them, the EGS Spectrum and I/O Extender. Although I'll be getting a different graphics board soon, the Spectrum has done a great job with the Emplant emulation and makes using the Amiga with a…
I think AmiTCP is more complicated than it really needs to be. About 2 months ago I installed MacTCP and InterSlip on my Emplant. Although it wasn't exactly "Plug'N Play", it was about 20 times easier to install than AmiTCP and the SLIP software for the Amiga. Seems like AmiTCP…
Paul: Just thought I would let you know that I've got a CyberVision-64 on order. The Cyber-64 with 4MB is about $600 and the US distributor is Softwood. It will probably be 4-5 weeks for delivery since Softwood does a batch order directly from Germany. // John (Warp 4040 &…
You might make OS-legal calls for your graphics environments but if ImageMaster supported the OS's standard screenmode requester for it's different screens, it would sure make it a lot easier to use with graphics cards. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
I really don't know that much about the PC Toaster other than what I posted Jerry. NewTek might be a little paranoid about announcing shipping dates considering how long it took the Toaster to finally arrive for the Amiga . // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
"Fascinating. I really appreciate the post, John. Have fun at NAB. I sure wish I was there." I wish I was there also Paul. I just posted the message that I downloaded from the newsgroup so I'm still here in beautiful Walla Walla . I'd love to be at NAB,…
#NewTek PC Toaster
Message #192032
I thought some of you might be interested in this message posted by Harv Laser in the Lightwave newsgroup. Looks like another Amiga developer is about ready to jump the sinking ship. ——- Today I attended a presentation by NewTek at Caeser's Palace in Las Vegas in conjunction with NAB,…
#New Imagemaster!
Message #192027
Actually Ben, Cybergraphics is probably as close to RTG that we will probably get for the Amiga unless someone takes over the OS development. Since you were a big promoter of RTG, I'm surprised you will not be supporting Cybergraphics. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Joan: It sounds like you have a hard drive partition called WORK: and the AFAX drawer is in that partition. So your assign statement should look something like this: ASSIGN AFAX: WORK:AFAX This assumes that you get a requester stating "Please insert volume AFAX: in any drive." Not to discourage…
Steve left me a message a few days ago mentioning that Meditation #1 was the only Guru guide published. I guess Carl wanted to get back to nature more than publishing books . Too bad actually, I'm sure it would have been an excellent series of books on the Amiga…
Thanks for the rundown on CAOS Jim. It looks like CAOS would have made it a lot easier to implement some of the things that the Amiga is missing like Memory protection. I have several of the Amiga Transactors but don't have volume 1, issue 1 so that's why I…
Actually I've found EGS to be pretty fast in most cases, especially if you use some of the PD patches available to speed it up like DTPatch and EGS-Turbo. Concerning CyberGraphics, it's pretty stable right now. There are a few minor problems but I expect they will be corrected in…
Actually Paul, I'm not really sure what CAOS whould have or could have been. Carl mentioned in his book that there was a 35 page specification for CAOS but probably nobody outside CBM has seen it. I believe Andy Finkel wrote an article about it in one of the online…
"–translation————— We are now working here in California on a project that, for many reasons, is a tribute to the Amiga. I've met Irwin Gould to try to convince him the product deserved something better…" —————————- Hmmm…..this sounds a little intriguing. I've heard that Apple was doing more work with…
Hehe, yep CAOS might not be the best name for a DOS. Actually, it would probably fit better in the PC world than anywhere else . // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Edgar: Currently a shareware or freeware driver for the Epson Color stylus is not available. However, two software/driver packages are available commercially. Wolf Faust's Studio-II software is available through most mail order companies and I got mine at Safe Harbor. The other is the Endicor Stylus driver available directly from…
Arthur: Right now, I have CyberGraphics installed for the Spectrum card. But before that, I was running the EGS 7.1 software with very few problems as well. Don't know why your machine is crashing when a window is moved or resized because I didn't have that problem. There is a…
#CAOS
Message #189293
Carl also wrote a series of books on Amiga programming called "Guru's Guide to the Commodore Amiga". I only have the first book in the series, Meditation #1 – Interrupts, but sure would like to get the rest if I could find them. Here is an excerpt from the book…
Well, I don't see where the word Commodore or the chicken lips logo should cause anyone much concern. Most everyone in the industry knows Commodore is dead and I don't think too many companies would even wanted to be associated with them any more. So Escom can have it as…
"Hey! I listened to all the cheerleaders online, and renewed last month! Personally, I think the Amiga Sentry will make good on that subscription any day now!" Your not the only one. A friend of mine just renewed his subscription so now it expires in May of 96 . Amiga…
The only problem I see with waiting too long to move to another platform is the re-sale value of my 4000. Right now, selling my 4000 with WarpEngine, 32MB of ram, Spectrum, and Emplant would command a pretty good price and I could probably get enough out of it to…
I waited until the last minute and didn't renew my subscription to AmigaWorld. So today I got the April issue with the special cover stating "This is your last issue". How appropriate and unfortunate!! // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Apple has the same potential to fall on its face just as CBM did. It wouldn't take much for a couple of their executives to make the wrong decision's sending them into a downward spiral. And a lot of the same forces that caused CBM to crash are hurting the…
"They said yeah, they'd get back to me. I called a few times over the course of a year. It never happened." That's one of the reason's I thought AW Tech Journal was top notch while Amazing's AC Tech was mediocre. I still have all the AW Tech Journals, at…
Thanks for the detailed information about Fractal compression Michael. It seems though as long as it's been developed we would see more use, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Either Michael Barnsley's company is keeping it too proprietary so there is no advancement of the technology, or it's…
Paul: Have you tried running a memory test program Paul? When I first got my Warp 4040 I had all kinds of weird problems. I finally traced it down by using Microbotic's MBRTest-2 memory checker which revealed that after the 4000 had been on for 15-20 minutes, it would start…
Sounds good Wolf, we will be looking forward to the upgrade of the Studio software. Yep, I'm a registered owner of the software, at least I hope Noaji's got my registration card OK. // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
Well, how are you getting the RAD CLI screen if the hard drive is not booting? You are not making much sense. What it kinda sounds like is that you have RAD set up with a higher boot priority than your hard drive, so that when you turn on the…
"I've always been a little sensitive that ALL of the magazines I wrote for didn't make it." So are you trying to tell us something Betty . I still have the article you wrote in AmigaWorld. I believe it was about color fonts or something like that. So all I…
Well I knew is was going to happen sooner or later. Unfortunately, it just drives another nail in the Amiga's coffin. Now with no American Amiga magazine for advertising, the third party developer's and mail order companies will be hurting as well. So it won't be long until they abandon…
Jim: A lot of software vendors offer cross platform upgrades, the only problem is that they charge almost as much as the mail order retail for the full package. There are exceptions, but not very many. I agree with you though, if you already purchased the Amiga version it shouldn't…
Hmmm….so what's buggy about the Spectrum's hardware? Mine seems to be working fine, has so since the day I installed it. But I will agree, the CyberVision-64 sounds like a heck of a graphics card. If it's anything like the specs they have posted, I'll probably get one. // John…
I read the article about Fractal Compression in Byte also Christian . It was an interesting article! I haven't seen too much on it since then. I believe the article was written by two people who were part of a company using the technology, and they haven't released much information.…
"PS: Gary, the Studio printing program is now 3(!) times faster for Stylus Color users than the release version ;-)" Is this a new version of the Studio program you are working on now, or one that has already been released? // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/…
JPEG has quite a few nice things going for it and I use it all the time with ImageFX. For one thing, JPEG is a 24-bit (16 million color) compressed image format while GIF is only 8-bit (256 colors), so you have a much larger palette to work with in…
Betty: Well I have been to the PPI forum, and unless they have changed their policy, they were not handling V.34 upgrades. I found most of the people over there to be friendly and tried to be helpful. But overall, I think PPI has handled the V.FC to V.34 upgrades…
And PPI didn't have any upgrade problems? PPI originally stated that the V.FC to V.34 upgrade would be available in November. Now at the beginning of this month, they are finally available. And I can assure you, the PM288MT II V.FC modem I purchased last August has it's own set…
Sorry you couldn't get the NEC driver to work Rainer. I hope you have some luck finding a PD driver but it looks like you may have to purchase a commercial package like "CDROM Toolkit". // John (Warp 4040 & Emplant Quadra 840) \X/ Mercury@ins.infonet.net
You have got to be joking . Give me a good Amiga directory utility like DirWorks or Opus and File Manager wouldn't even come close. Heck, even the file utility in Norton's Desktop is 10 times better than File Manager. And as far as CIM goes, if the PC version…
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