This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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I have an Amiga 2500/30 at work, with an AT Bridge which is (on the AT side) hooked into a Novell net. On the AT side I use Paradox (the standard desktop database here). While I have lots of spread sheet, DTP, image processing and wordprocessing software on the Amiga…
Just to put my two cents in. I _have_ an Amiga 2500/30 at work, with a Bridgeboard, hooked into a Novell net through the bridge. Our company word processing standard? WP 5.1. Our company spreadsheet standard? Lotus 2.2 and 3.1. Our company database standard? Paradox on the PeeCees, with Oracle…
J.R.: The Postscript printer driver in the libs here simply takes the information from a standard ascii file and converts it to postscript code. It therefore can take normal text, or things like "DIR > PRT:" from the cli, and output to a postscript printer. If you set preferences to…
Michelle: Steve left out a couple of things. a) in addition to MessyDOS (here) and CrossDOS (a commerical Amiga program which permits MSDOS 3.5" disks to be read in an Amiga drive) there is also Dos-2-Dos, which does the same thing! b) in all of the above cases, so far…
Ron: There does seem to be an increase in real marketing at CBM. Certainly, the second milion boxes flew out the door a lot faster than the first! Right now, based only on what I see, not on any special knowledge, CBM seems to be focusing its resources in three…
Who else would you advertise to if you wanted to sell Amiga 500Cs as presents for children at Christmas? Mothers and fathers do indeed seem to be the appropriate market! ?|^] Ray Lewis
In fact, all of the CBM press releases end with a "boiler plate" statement that the company sells "three lines of computers — the multi-media Amiga series, MSDOS compatibles, and the classic C64." (That's from memory, but the statement is close to that). ?|^] Ray Lewis
Chris: AREXX should be duck soup at creating postscript files. It has very powerful ASCII string manipulation features. There was an issue of AmigoTimes which included a utility on disk which caused PageRender 3D to create a 3D image of a word, and then output that image as an encapsulated…
Tom: Everything I said was *FACT* as well :). ?|^] Ray Lewis
[ continuation ] I've fooled around with AREXX to link UltraCard and BaudBandit (a comm program). An UltraCard deck acts as the front end. It lets me point and click on certain types of stock holder data files I want. Then it logs onto a service, gets that data (I…
Bill: I believe you, but I suspect you were just "looking the other way" when AREXX stuff was being discussed. Bill Hawes wrote it. It has been around for a bouple years, and has indeed been advertised, though usually in small, 1/4 page black and white ads. It is listed…
Chris: The last part (that the stuff is still in the ram disk) isn't a prolbem. It's just that, when you warm boot, your ram doesn't get erased. So, the AMAX ram disk is still there. It doesn't, to my knowledge (or my experience) mess up anything in Amiga-mode. But,…
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#Breaking 1MB Chip Limit
Message #1778
Chris: Who, what , where, when, how much? (i.e. the 2 mg AGnus board for the 2000 series). ?|^] Ray Lewis
Tom: I will do so. Thanks for the input. I really do appreciate your being here, but I do want to make one comment: I have called the phone number you all put in your magazine ads quite a few times. Here are the results of those calls: No answer…
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#Editors for ProScan
Message #1776
Chris: I ran TAD at work today, and used AVAIL to check ram usage before I ran it, and during the time I ran it. Unless I'm crazy, TAD comsumed 3.1 MEGS of fast ram BEFORE I loaded any pictures into it! JUST BY BEING RUN! Now, I love the…
Harry: While I think it would be to Impule's advantage to "host" such a group (i.e. whenever someone in any other AmigaForum asked a question re Silver or Imagine, the sysop would say "Hey, quick as a bunny go over to the Impulse section of AmigaVendor — they have a…
Well, you left messages in EasyPlex, and said we should reply here. So, here goes: My problem is that, as much as I LOVE Turbo Silver, the docs are abysmal (sp?). So, I have fooled around a bit, and put it aside in frustration. In addition, the version I have…
I believe I understand that. If I'm hearing you correctly, what you are saying is: if I import a 256 gray scale TIFF to TAD using the TIFF loader, AND then save it as "8 bit gray scale", THEN I should be able to import the TAD 8 bit gray…
The old version of plans had a zoom function, so I have to believe that the new one does! Haven't dl'd the new one though. In extremis, as they say, RTFM 🙂 ?|^] Ray Lewis
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#Questions on Mods…
Message #839
Betty: Where is noisetracker, specifically? (The last time I checked, the lib 1 sections of the Amiga fora library had a set of indexes only for AmigaTech. Since this is probably somewhere in AmigaArts, it would be helpful to have the exact name, unless and until we have either a)…
I'm also using ProPage and ProDraw to do my company's monthly newsletter. I do not pretend to be a _total_ expert on these programs, but, If you have a question, I _might_ be able to help! ?|^] Ray Lewis
John: I'd very much like to be able to dl Silver objects and files to use as "tutorials", as well as have a Silver group to ask questions of. Don't do much co-ing though. Would I still be able to "play"? 🙂 ?|^] Ray Lewis
Chester: I have had the same problems. Apparently, at this time, the AmigaVision SMUS playing routines are not as robust or flexible as they might be. I suspect that this will be fixed rapidly, tho that is a guess, not based on anything more than common sense. The way I…
Dom: Regardless of whether it is in every way the very latest hardware available, you just got yourself one great system, and I'm sure you will enjoy it very much! ?|^] Ray Lewis
Perry: OK. I believe that I can convert TIFF 256 gray scales to IFF using Hijaak, BUT I also believe that I will only get 16 gray scales in the IFF converted this way. Are you saying that TAD will create a 256 gray scale (i.e. 8 bit) IFF, AND…
Steven: Maybe you were not given accurate information from your dealer when you bought your A3000. That is NOT Commodore's fault, directly, if it happened. Here are the facts: At this time, the Amiga 3000 is shipped with both AmigaDOS 1.32 _and_ AmigaDOS 2.0 on disk, not on ROM. AmigaDOS…
Well, I bought my Amax a year ago, and it did not do any of those things at that time. Glad to hear it does now. ?|^] Ray Lewis
DeluxePhotoLab is GREAT! I have it, DPIII and Digi-Paint3, and use all three, all the time. Throw in The Art Director, and there's not much you can't do. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Show your START-UP SEQ!
Message #1191
The sound file plays in the background, and usually is finished about the time the RAD: is being set up. Then, just as Workbench is being loaded, and scripit is actually opening my DH0: partition so that its window is up and ready for me to use, Orson Welles does…
#Show your START-UP SEQ!
Message #1190
Leslie: Sorry it took so long to get back to you on the "*N" in script text. There are a series of "escape" codes that you can put in text which you want to "echo" to the cli or shell during the running of a script. Those sequences create bold,…
A2500 questions
Message #1189
If I remember correctly, when the 2500/30 came out, they stopped making the 20's, dropped the price on the 20's they had left over, and sold the 30's for the same price for which they had been selling 20's. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Tom: Since you are hanging around :), thought I'd ask a quick question. (Of course, I am probably not capable of asking a _quick_ question 🙂 Situation: I purchased ProPage, Transcript, and ProDraw back in February. Later on I got The Advantage. Didn't register (I'm reall bad about that.) Even…
Rich: There are MSDOS OCR systems that might be able to do this (I see from another message that you are aware that there are expensive specialized systems for optical scanning — transfer agents use them for proxy cards and testing companies use them for test grading in bulk all…
PK: I'm hoping you all might have a few suggestions for me. Situation: I have ProPage 1.3 and TAD on the Amiga side of a 2500/30, and HIJAAK on the AT Bridge side. In the office we also have an HJ ScanJet which, I am told, can create 8 bit…
Roger: Transcript (which is put out by Gold Disk, and can be hot linked with ProPage 1.3 — i.e. you can select text in a ProPage document, and, if you have Transcript multi-tasking with it, can have that text dumped into Transcript for editing from within ProPage, and then have…
Dave: I think we'd ALL be interested in knowing the facts behind this, since we have seen messages from at least two _official_ Commodore Amiga retail stores that they received instructions on how to upgrade a 500 to 1 meg chip ram _from_ Commodore, in writing! ?|^] Ray Lewis
[ continuation ] play the song. Does any of this make sense? If not, ask more questions. ?|^] Ray Lewis
Steven: IFF means interchange file format (or something close to that) and represents a group of file formats used on the Amiga to make sound and visual data interchangeable among programs. A straight IFF sound file (sometimes also calledcan 8SVX IFF file) would be a digitized sound, period. Like a…
Vic: Sorry it took so long to respond to your explaination of what you were trying to do with the music. Now that I see you were trying to take commercial CD music performances and put them over the tape, I understand your problem. This is not a good way…
Mark: I guess it really has to do with respecting other peoples' sensibilities when to do so is not especially problematic for you. In this instance, for a strongly religious person the use of the Lord's name in vain is a direct violation of the ten commandments. Now, I myself…
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For Sale!
Message #651
How much for Polaraoid Palette & Digiview? (Email if you want that info confidential). Also, where are you physically? ?|^] Ray Lewis
Paul: I realize that the Gold Disk fellow has himself complained about CG code. But, you know what? I've used ProPage extemsively with ProPage and CG fonts, both output to postscripet (at work) and output to dot matric (at home) AND have never had a single problem! (Using fonts as…
Steve: I own ProPage, ProDraw, EClips, Wordperfect, Transcript, The Advantage, MaxiPlan, etc., etc., etc., all of which were paid for by the company I work for, all of which runs on a $9,000 Amiga 2500 system complete with NEC 3D, AT bridge, and [IBM side] ethernet card to hook me…
Vic: Look for the ASCAP or BMI office in a city near you and ask them. (BTW -this is strictly a personal experience, limited to an experience I had in Dallas, but based on that, I'd trust a local BMI rep before I'd trust ASCAP — I had an ASCAP…
Ron: AMAX has only a few limitations: won't do MIDI, won't do color, won't do sound. Used to not do hard drives, but I've heard that's fixed. Used to not do Apple Talk (or whatever), but the newest versions are supposed to handle that. Pluses: faster on an Amiga (much).…
Greg: Look up Mike Berro's CI$ number in the Amiga Fora (most likely in AmigaArts) and ask him that question. He is an expert in that area! ?|^] Ray Lewis
Steve: The single greatest cause of problems on an Amiga is running out of chip RAM. That's the very first thing to check when you have a problem. (It's easy to do, since you can multitask. Having 1 meg of chip ram at work has been a godsend. I have…
Andre: If you want to put it into DP III, make sure it is NOT a HAM image. DP III will not handle them. Otherwise, just about anything is ok. (Also not supported, but sorta rare, are SHAM and DYNAxxx pics.) ?|^] Ray Lewis
LUCIANO: Glad to be of help. As my mama used to say, "Be like the ol' mole — if he cain't go through, he goes over, under, or around!" (She was from North Carolina) ?|^] Ray Lewis
Well, I don't know about random, but if you had say five files you wnated to run on a rotating basis, you could have a set of maybe six script files that: sound file.1 copy file.6 file.1 etc. so that they leapfrogged, and file.1 was always a different file next…
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