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Great post. Thanks a lot, Ron! Malcolm
#A1200 HD Query
Message #143987
Are there any makes or models of HDs that should _not_ find their way into an A1200? I want to put a HD in my son's machine and went to a notebook store. They had had _one_ A1200 customer in the past who had come in with a list of…
A1200 HD queries
Message #143370
Are there any HDs that _shouldn't_ find their way into a 1200? I want to get a HD for my son's machine and went to a notebook store. They'd had _one_ Amiga customer previously who came in with a list of C= recommended drives. They were all Seagates. The store…
#Autopilot & Term
Message #130207
AP doesn't require 1MB of chip. I run with just 512K. Malcolm
Phil, You can download the 386/64 emulator from CBMAPP forum. Malcolm
1. Chris was right about the processors. 2. Most notebooks these days support SimulScan but some do not. Also, some that do will let you do 800×600 on the external but that will disable SimulScan. 3. I'd pass on OS/2 for a notebook. With 8M RAM you'd be wanting more…
Phil, Brad Fowles now works at ATI (the Canadian maker of modems and PC video cards). Malcolm
Jeff, It's my understanding that the disappearance of AmigaBasic was due to its being 68000-only and not 32-bit clean.
HAR! I think you're right, Steve!
Thing is, it's already maximum physical size for a handheld. :/
My pleasure, Rob. Malcolm
Aye, Mr. Scott will take one of those. 😉
I was at the Canadian launch for my magazine. My opinion of it is higher than yours. But I wasn't thrilled. Seemed to me like an executive toy except that the executive probably wouldn't appreciate the possibilities of the technology. As I said to Ben, it seems to me that…
Andrew, The Newton ads here are indeed first class. I'm wondering what folks are seeing in the other markets. (Perhaps you've noticed that the voice in the ad is the guy who was doing the Labatt's LA ads a while back.) Malcolm
Dean, Glad to hear it! If the thing has long term legs and makes C= some bucks, great.
Jochen, Sorry, I don't follow. I need a matrix of 16×16? If my printer is 300dpi, what formula do I use to calculate the number of screen lines? Malcolm
You also have to suspect that the authors are Americans. 😉
I think Newton is the covered wagon of what will one day be an auto industry of PDAs. The OS needs to get better, the price needs to plummet and the wireless comms need to get rolling but I expect all those to happen. I think Apple is just staking…
Despite the fact that C= is claiming good sales for CD32 in Britain, I can't help but think that it's deja vu all over again as with CDTV.
Rob, I haven't used PageSetter or FC II to any great extent but they _might_ suit your needs. However, I'd generally recommend a full-featured, pro quality page layout program such as ProPage or PageStream; particularly if this is a money-making venture or something you expect to do a lot of.…
I generally use a 133 line screen for the Lino and maybe 60 for a laser proof. I don't really know what number is best for a laser and they probably vary. I suppose that, as you go up the numbers, there's some point where higher numbers don't result in…
Brian, IBM's clone subsidiary (Ambra) has been operating here in Canada for over a year already. They're doing very well actually. Malcolm
Andrew, Actually, Compaq tripled profit in the last quarter and the Jays are going to the World Series again. (I had to say that.) Malcolm
Joe, What you want to do is scan the photos into an IFF file and drop them into a box in PPage. At Transactor we used to use DigiView for some illustrations. In fact, we used it to do the product package shot for DigiView and most folks would never…
Karl (& Mark), Just FWIW, so's folks will know… The Release 2.0 package includes a FastFileSystem in L: on one of the distribution disks that's 1.3/2.0 compatible. If you copy that into your l: dir, you can leave l:FastFileSystem in the RBD, not do anything with your drive and still…
Frank, I just downloaded it from here on Thursday. The file name is POST17.LZH. Malcolm
Tim, Not in the Article Editor; it doesn't like tabs. Double-click the ProPage box and click on Set Tabs. Figure out where on the ruler the tabs should be and enter those values in the string gadgets. I usually find I have to go back and edit them a bit.…
Jerry, Ooops! Memory failure. I remembered your name from DTP Forum (quite a while ago) and incorrectly remembered you to be a Mac afficionado. Sorry. I used PCs for 5 years before I started using Amigas. I still find the Amiga a much more agreeable environment than DOS but at…
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#Amiga Downloads
Message #116311
Jerry, Well, just so you can see the other side…. I think the Amiga is the ONLY OS that _isn't_ brain dead. It will probably amaze you to hear it but until about two weeks ago I was at the point of giving up on *_MACS_* as being totally unusable.…
Christopher, -> version devs:mfm.device That command never comes back on my system. In fact, version rarely does. I just wind up with a hung shell. Things that make you go, "Hmmmm….." Malcolm
A2386
Message #113333
Kelly, No, no mix-up. This IS a 286 BB and the original Janus software. Inside a 2500 running WB1.3. Malcolm
Don, Yes, I have an incomplete install of the new software – as in… none of it! This is old with a capital O. I think I'm probably gonna give it back anyway. Malcolm
Oh, OK. That's different. I did another binddrivers and PCHard. Still no Amiga services. Malcolm
Yup, that's the one. Glad to hear the problem was fixed. Malcolm
Hmmm… wish I still had the Hayes white paper on it. Or that I had the device itself so as to investigate. Thought that the paper said that the 16550 had 16 _byte_ buffers. Malcolm
Don, Binddrivers is the 22nd command in the s-s. When the thing finishes booting, janus.library is NOT in memory and the PC is not even remotely awake. When I dbl-clk PC Mono, the window opens and I see the BIOS message and RAM test. With a disk in the drive…
Jan, The Quadra av is much more than an Emplant. I agree about independent platforms. I've mostly given up on the idea of using a BridgeBoard. Malcolm
Michael, I think it's about $650 here in Canada. Notably less in the rest of the civilized world. :/ Malcolm
Pat, Geez, I hope it doesn't! I wouldn't pay for an upgrade like that. I'm strictly a "print on paper" kind of guy. IMHO, you should be looking for a different application. Malcolm
Jonathan, The Hayes ESP board goes inside your PC. It has 1K send and receive buffers. The board's coprocessor handles each character until the buffer is full. The board then DMA's the 1K into system memory. This relieves the x86 of something like 96% of its serial interrupts. It's intended…
Thanks, Michael. Good news! And I _will_ send in my registration cards soon. Will the new TypeSmith obviate the need for the FontFix ARexx program that uses t1ascii and t1binary? Malcolm
Steven, -> The Janus handler always loads with Binddrivers. I've often seen this said but it just ain't so with the 2500 I have. Nothing happens till I click PC Mono or PC Color. Just FYI. Malcolm
No, no, no! There's a Serial Communications adapter AND there is an Ethernet adapter. Two separate products. Malcolm
Paul, I just reviewed the OL-400e. It's also an Energy Star device, using
Christopher, Can't put my hands on the appropriate info right now but Michael Loader can tell you whatever you'd want to know about TypeSmith. I have some bumpf on AllType at the office that I can check sometime tomorrow. Malcolm
Yup, I know that but that doesn't at all diminish the achievements of these new Macs. I thought the embargo date was Aug. 29 but I'm reading about them now. Thing is, none of the items I've read have given ANY CLUE as to how amazing they are. You can…
Robert, The hardware is fully impressive. I came away thinking that Ami no longer had any hardware advantage at all. You're right about the OS but some might say it's unimportant till humans develop multitasking speech. Wait'll you see these things. Malcolm
No, a Serial Communications adapter AND an Ethernet adapter. Both with software. Actually, Ethernet is a terrible waste! Check out HP's 100-Base-VG for a GREAT improvement – 10 times faster and you get to keep your UTP wiring. Course, some people are saying that it's not Ethernet at all. I…
Chris, I think you mean Atech's ALLTYPE. Course, we've also got Soft-Logik's TypeSmith now (which needs to be mentioned in all such discussions). A way cool application. Malcolm
Jonathan, OK, I've retrieved the dope on the PCMCIA Ether card. Available from: Amigo Business Computers 192 Laurel Rd. E. Northport, NY 11731 Evidently they also have a serial adapter. That's all I know. Malcolm
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