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Steven, You can easily backup several different hard disk partitions to the same tape with Quarterback. We even include an AREXX macro with Quarterback that makes it automatic. Drop by our vendor support section (section 1) of the AmigaVendor forum if you need any assistance with this. James Bayless Central…
Steven, Sorry to hear that you are not using Quarterback. The problems with the Nexus controller were due to the controller, not Quarterback (if memory serves, they were not properly handling some of the SCSI commands that Quarterback uses–they were seldom used commands, but still part of the required SCSI…
Dave, With Quarterback you can get fairly high data transfer rates when backing up to tape. When doing a file backup we get over 5 megs a minute going to Commodore's 3070 or our own Touchdown 100 tape drive, which is pretty much the max transfer rate of the drives.…
Robert, I don't have the upgrade prices with me right now, but if you drop by the New Horizons section in AmigaVendor (section 5), someone there will be happy to give you the full details on our upgrade pricing. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
The patch file names are QBP503.LZH for the Quarterback patch (in library 1), and PWP331.LZH for the ProWrite patch (in library 5). I'll be sure to mention the name of any patch files in future announcements. Quarterback Tools 2.0 is coming along, but due to the nature of this type…
ProWrite 3.3.1
Message #46868
There is now a patch in the New Horizons section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch ProWrite 3.3 to version 3.3.1. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
Quarterback 5.0.3
Message #46867
There is now a patch in the Central Coast section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch Quarterback 5.0.2 to version 5.0.3. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
ProWrite 3.3.1
Message #30005
There is now a patch in the New Horizons section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch ProWrite 3.3 to version 3.3.1. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
Quarterback 5.0.3
Message #30004
There is now a patch in the Central Coast section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch Quarterback 5.0.2 to version 5.0.3. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
Quarterback 5.0.3
Message #77276
There is now a patch in the Central Coast section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch Quarterback 5.0.2 to version 5.0.3. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
ProWrite 3.3.1
Message #77275
There is now a patch in the New Horizons section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch ProWrite 3.3 to version 3.3.1. Also in the same library is a demo version of ProWrite 3.3. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
ProWrite 3.3.1
Message #23315
There is now a patch in the New Horizons section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch ProWrite 3.3 to version 3.3.1. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
Quarterback 5.0.3
Message #23314
There is now a patch in the Central Coast section of the AmigaVendor forum that will patch Quarterback 5.0.2 to version 5.0.3. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
Steve, You might drop by our (Central Coast Software's) tech support section of AmigaVendor (section 1) and ask about your problem there. It could be some simple hardware setting that our tech support knows about. I personally have used the Commodore tape drive with Quarterback on the A3000 controller, which…
Tom, I apologize for the lateness that some of you have experienced in receiving the ProWrite upgrade offer. There were a host of factors that delayed our mailing beyond what we normally do–we normally send notices out a couple of weeks before we start shipping, but this time we weren't…
Brian, The easiest way to get the best results with ProWrite's High quality printing is to use the Amiga's outline fonts. You can also get jaggie-free results using bit-map fonts (as you mention), but it requires installing double-sized fonts that ProWrite can use at print time. With outline fonts it…
Roy, ProWrite has several modes of printing: PostScript – for printing to a PostScript printer High quality – for high resolution graphics output to dot-matrix printers. Normal quality – for screen resolution graphics output (which is faster) NLQ or Draft – for using your printer's fonts ProWrite has quite a…
Chris, ProWrite 3.3 has all of the print features you mentioned–print odd/even pages, collate, and print reverse. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
[continued] we don't abandon products and replace them with new incompatible ones. Anyway, if you have any questions about ProWrite, drop by our vendor support forum (section 5 of the AmigaVendor forum) and someone from our tech support dept. will be happy to answer any questions you have. James Bayless…
Roy, Well, since I'm with New Horizons, obviously I'm going to recommend our product, ProWrite. ProWrite has won several awards, including AmigaWorld's and recently Amazing Computing's reader's choice awards, for its power and ease of use. It has everything you mentioned in your needs (other than index generation), and is…
Tim, Basically we have done that (sent them a list of all of the SCSI-direct commands), since Quarterback uses all of the mandatory SCSI commands except one. Still, they (Nexus) _ought_ to have this information–they make a SCSI controller after all! James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New…
Betty, Yes, we picked up A-Talk III about a month ago, and have just now started shipping. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
Wayne, Sorry for not getting the info to you. I'll send your message directly to the person who handles this. (We have been a little busy around here in the last few weeks getting A-Talk III out the door, so your mailing was probably just delayed.) James Bayless New Horizons…
Peter, Try turning on the "Optimal Spacing" check box in ProWrite's "Print" requester. This improves the appearance of non-Pica (i.e. Elite and Condensed) printing. As to final copy, its handling of printer fonts is very limited. First of all, you cannot mix Pica, Elite, Condensed, and Wide fonts in the…
Dave, I don't know who at Advanced Storage (the Nexus manufacturer) gave you that information about the Nexus controller, but according to what they have told us, the problem is due to their driver. They have admitted to us that it does not support all of the SCSI direct commands,…
Stephen, Thank you for your response, and for your support of our products. We do appreciate it greatly. I would like to mention, however, that the majority of the problems we have had with Quarterback 5.0 have been either due to problems in various SCSI controllers, or getting it to…
No doubt Mark will get on here and give you a fuller response, but there is a reason (and a simple solution) to why you are getting three blank lines when you save as an ASCII (i.e., Text Only) file. When you have ProWrite set to expect line feeds after…
Joe, To have ProWrite save your PostScript printer settings _and_ have it default to PostScript printing, you have to (1) set up for the PostScript printer you will be using (choose "PostScript" printing and click on the "Options" button to set these settings), and (2) actually print at least once…
John, If all you need to do is bring in WordPerfect documents with formatting intact, ProWrite 3.2 ships with a file conversion program that will convert WordPerfect files into ProWrite files (it also supports many other word processor formats, including RTF, which is very common in the MS-DOS world). James…
Dan, In Quarterback 5.0.2 we slightly modified the algorithm that picks what colors to use for the 3-D look. This has the result that more screen color combinations have the 3-D look, but some combinations that used to no longer do. When Quarterback can't find what it thinks is an…
#Quarterback 5.0.2
Message #41059
A patch to update Quarterback 5.0.1 to version 5.0.2 is now available in the Central Coast Software library of this forum. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
Quarterback 5.0.2
Message #25099
A patch to update Quarterback 5.0.1 to version 5.0.2 is now available in the Central Coast Software library of the AmigaVendor forum. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
#Quarterback 5.0.2
Message #61302
A patch to update Quarterback 5.0.1 to version 5.0.2 is now available in the Central Coast Software library of the AmigaVendor forum. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
Quarterback 5.0.2
Message #20298
A patch to update Quarterback 5.0.1 to version 5.0.2 is now available in the Central Coast Software library of the AmigaVendor forum. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software, Inc.
Jonathan, We did post an "official" fix to the PostScript Level 2 printing problem some time ago, I guess you missed the message that announced it. Anyway, check in library 5 of this forum for a new PostScript Prep file that fixes this problem. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
#ProWrite3.2
Message #60367
Eugene, We (New Horizons) have a vendor support section here on CompuServe, in the AmigaVendor forum. If you would jump over there and mention more information about the kind of problem you are having, we would be more than happy to help. As to the spell checking speed, are you…
ProWrite PostScript Prep
Message #40090
There is a new PostScript Prep file available for downloading in the New Horizons library of this forum. This prep file fixes a problem with PostScript printing on PostScript Level 2 printers. Also, when using this new prep file, pictures are printed much faster on Level 2 printers than on…
Jonathan, You can have ProWrite do correct page numbering when using the "Title Page" option by setting the starting page number to zero (0). You set this in the "Item Formats" requester. This will cause the title page to have page number zero (which is not printed, since headers and…
ProWrite 3.2.4 patch
Message #39184
There is now a patch file available for downloading from this section that will patch ProWrite version 3.2.3 to version 3.2.4. This version fixes a few very minor problems with version 3.2.3, there are no new features.
Ron, While we do suspend shipments for about week before any new revision is set to ship, yours had already gone out before we did that. James Bayless Central Coast Software (a division of New Horizons Software, Inc.)
Ron, Flow (and our other programs) open the printer.device at startup time, since they need to get information about printer capabilities (they automatically adapt to what the printer can and cannot do). This would explain why Flow was sometimes crashing with your corrupt printer.device file, when other programs (which are…
I don't have the update info with me right now, but if you check the CCS vendor support conference (section 1 of AmigaVendor) there is a message that gives the upgrade details from any version of Quarterback to version 5.0. James Bayless Central Coast Software (a division of New Horizons…
#Quarterback 5.0.1
Message #39076
In the library for this section (section 1), there is (or will be on May 9) a patch file that will update Quarterback 5.0 to version 5.0.1. This version fixes a few minor problems, there are no new features. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New Horizons Software,…
Quarterback 5.0.1
Message #23316
In the Central Coast Software section of AmigaVendor (section 1), there is (or will be on May 9) a patch file that will update Quarterback 5.0 to version 5.0.1. This version fixes a few minor problems, there are no new features. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New…
Quarterback 5.0.1
Message #56816
In the Central Coast Software section of AmigaVendor (section 1), there is (or will be on May 9) a patch file that will update Quarterback 5.0 to version 5.0.1. This version fixes a few minor problems, there are no new features. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New…
Quarterback 5.0.1
Message #19181
In the Central Coast Software section of AmigaVendor (section 1), there is (or will be on May 9) a patch file that will update Quarterback 5.0 to version 5.0.1. This version fixes a few minor problems, there are no new features. James Bayless Central Coast Software A division of New…
>>Please note that ProWrite was the only program that did this!! That is because ProWrite takes advantage of more of the new features in AmigaDOS 2.0 than any other program. Trying to use ProWrite under AmigaDOS 2.0 in conjunction with other programs that _don't_ work properly under 2.0 will lead…
Vic, If we want to use the Amiga's drawing routines, we have to have it draw into graphics memory. We could obviously draw into graphics memory, then move it into expansion memory, and we are considering doing just that, but the memory requirements for printing would then double (you'd have…
Well, obviously since we know how to read it, we know how to write it. We may (depending upon demand) include that facility in future versions of Convert and/or ProWrite, but we wanted to get this version of Convert out as soon as we could because we had a large…
Flow Demo
Message #37994
Now available for downloading is a demo version of Flow 3.1, the latest version of New Horizons' outline processor for the Amiga. This version is identical to the release version, except that it does not save or print, and there is no dictionary file. James Bayless New Horizons Software, Inc.
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