This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Regis, You need to set your serial settings to 8N1 to be able to download. That setting (combined with the "strip 8th bit" set on) should work without problem for you. Hope this helps…. – BobR
Tony, Download the file LHA138.RUN from Library 16 of this forum. This is a newer version/replacement for your lharc program, and will work with both .LZH and .LHA archives. It is what you want to un-archive AP.LHA. Note that LHA138.RUN is a self-extracting archive. Just run it from the CLI…
Yep – I had a "brain fault". I've since retracted/clarified. Mea culpa….
Mark, Yes – I had a brain lapse there. The version of 1.3 that shipped with the _early_ 3000's was a special version made just for the 3000 ('cause the "release" 1.3 didn't know about the 3000's hardware requirements). As far as I know, this "special" 1.3 image was only…
Bob, There is no 1.3 SuperKickstart that will work on a 3000. One of the reasons for the development of the 2.0x Kickstart was to _add_ the needed hardware support for the 3000, which is not in 1.3. The implication of this is that 1.3 will not work on a…
Andrew, I'm currently off-line, so I can't do a search at the moment. However, there are a number of ways to go about relatively quick searches in interactive mode. The first place I'd try would be the Amiga FileFinder, which you can get to with the "GO AMIGAFF" command from…
David, .LHA files are archives created with a program called LHA — it's similar to but different than .ZIP files. There is an MS-DOS version of LHA available, which will work with both .LHA and .LZH files. You'll have to look in one of the MS-DOS forums – the file…
Steve, I _used_ to understand how (and why) it worked, but it's been much too long since I've been buried in Amiga code that I've pretty much lost it. At least I still have the old code sitting around that I _know_ works, even if I don't know why it…
Steve, I just checked some old source code (from The Perfect General), and I'm using a MinTerm value of 0xE0 for my cookie-cut blits (using BltMaskBitMapRastPort(). Hope this helps…. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Dale, For "quickie" text dumps, I've been using a program called PSPrint which was written (a while back) by Paul Higginbottom when he was at C=. I know that it was included on some of the DevCon disks (Atlanta, maybe?) and I think that it has been distributed on the…
This really makes sense, which, considering past history, is a VERY scary thing indeed! Interesting. – BobR
Robert, Make sure you set your serial parameters to 8N1 (8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit). You may also want to set a "strip high bit" parameter, if NComm supports it. Most Amiga term programs will have problems downloading if set to use parity (like 7E1). Hope this…
Steve, I'm not positive that it will work, but you can probably rename the WBStartup drawer to prevent its contents from being run. Just add the following lines to the script in which you don't want the startup stuff to run: IF EXISTS sys:WBStartup rename sys:WBStartup sys:WBNoStart ENDIF Make sure…
Paul, I strongly recommend that you check out Autopilot for accessing Compuserve. It's an "automated navigator" program for the Amiga that will allow you to do 90 percent of your work off-line (and not accruing connect charges). IMHO, it's a much better alternative to the CIM products for making the…
Paul, In Library 16 of the AmigaUsers Forum, you'll find a file LHA138.RUN, which is a self-extracting archive containing the latest version of the LHA archiver (which handles .lzh and .lha files). It should meet your needs.
Nevil, With no startup code, there isn't any initialization of ExecBase, from which the OpenLibrary() function vectors. Hope this helps…. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
You are right that a drive does not necessarily have to be ready to function within 3 seconds, but it _should_ at least be able to respond with a "I'm not ready yet, but I'm working on it". That is the "spec", and that is the way that well-designed drives…
3DO is now shipping and available. I suspect you may be able to find one at the Electonics Boutique at Southwest Plaza — I know they are carrying them, but don't know if they sold out their initial shipment or not. The early reports I've seen on the nets have…
Speaking as both a published game developer and registered Amiga developer, I can relate my experiences concerning C='s support of their developers. On two occasions this year, at industry-specific "developer"-releated gatherings (C='s developer conference last January and the Game Developers Conference this past April), I spoke with representatives of Commodore…
John, The trick is to get the "date" command to prompt for the command-line arguments, so it will read from the input device. Issuing the command "date ?" will result in the command prompting you with "DAY,DATE,TIME,TO=VER/K:" and waiting for you to enter the parameters. Consequently, if you enter the…
I'm as confused as everyone else about the various ROM revisions — I'm far from an "expert", since I don't have access to C='s RCS files. My understanding is that the main changes from 2.04 to 2.05 releases were providing support for the hardware needs of the A600 (i.e., the…
Dave, Using the words "strange" and "C=" in the same sentence does not strike me as abnormal. Particularly in recent times, when the chicken seems to be running around without it's lips. Actually, I conjecture that they are releasing some fixes that they feel that users do not want to…
Robert, Most definitely NO – the setpatch as released by Commodore is meant to update ONLY the setpatch that is included in the 2.0 version of the operating system. WB2.1 includes it's own SetPatch command, which should NOT be updated by this release. Basically, what I think is happening is…
Clint, White Wolf Productions would be willing to be a Beta site. We've a number of Klones, and both Class 1 and Class 2 fax modems. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Charles, Autopilot is supported by the vendor in their section (Section 9) of the Amiga Vendor forum (GO AMIGAVEND). The file is available for downloading in their library section (also 9) of that forum. In addition, the documentation is available as a separate file. Hope this helps…. – BobR (Motorola…
Gary, Unfortunately, Whap! has been withdrawn from the market. The program will break in the near future, due to changes being made to the Compuserve system. The author is no longer able to support the program, as he no longer has access to an Amiga. It's usefulness has been supplanted…
Greg, Atari-formatted diskettes should be readable by CrossDOS or any other program that will read IBM-formatted diskettes. The Atari disk format is _almost_ identical to the MS-DOS format. Hope this helps…. – BobR
Paul, I have a 14.4k modem and _never_ run my serial port faster than 19200. I never have problems, nor do I ever "peak out" in terms of throughput. CIS currently does not support 14.4, as far as I know. I have no idea what their future plans are. -…
John, Glad you resolved the problem. One thing to watch out for with fast modems — you'll never be patient at 2400 baud again and don't ever try to do anything useful at 300 baud – you'll go blind. – BobR
John, Are you sure that you are calling a 9600-baud Compuserve node? Most of the nodes are _either_ 300/1200/2400 _or_ 9600 baud. Depending on how you have your modem configured, it could very well be reporting the CONNECT 9600 because you are talking to the modem at 9600 baud (between…
Paul, On what do you base your negative impressions of Microbotics? I've been a customer of theirs for years, and have received both good product and good support from them. – BobR
Kevin, Welcome to Denver! I see John gave you the info about the Amiga users group (and I don't have the address handy either ). The Amiga forum sysops are rather well represented in Denver (3 of us live in the area). Give me a call sometime (I'm listed). We…
Good analysis, Steve. I sure hope you are right — I _want_ to be able to do Amiga development again!
Gopal, The only way that I know for an "end user" to get a 2.0-compatible version of amigaguide.library is to purchase a software package that has licensed it for distribution. I know that I received such a copy with SAS/C 6.0, and I'm sure that other vendors are currently licensing…
Denny, Is Dave A. taking the AmigaMan with him? 🙂 – BobR
Gopal, That version of amigaguide.library _requires_ the 3.0 kickstart. It will not work with the 2.0 kickstart. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Darren's working for Commodore Engineering. – BobR
John, Congrats on your expansion of your power base. I do hope that you're able to get to DevCon – we need more curmudgeons there! 🙂 – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Chas, I'll be at DevCon. Arriving Tuesday (late afternoon) and staying at the Marriot (i.e., the DevCon hotel). – BobR
Denny, I doubt that a million A600's would attract the mainstream entertainment software publishers. The machine is too underpowered to handle the conversion of today's "major" games and still provide an acceptible level of performance. This implies a major expense (rewrite) to fit a game to the machine. On top…
Steve, I'll be there, but won't be arriving until late afternoon on Tuesday. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Dave, The person in question has been a member of the Amiga forums for a long time. We know him from the way that he has acted in our forum. He never entered these hallowed bitpaths with an attitude, nor did he ever do anything here to arouse any suspicion…
Denny, Thanks for confirming the byte-for-byte match. As someone who tries to make his living with commercial software, I am very much concerned about the unauthorized distribution of commercial work. As for imbedding a Copyright string in the executable, I can't think of any reason why that can't be done.…
Denny, Thanks for pointing this out. I have moved the file out of public view. You are ** SURE ** about this, I presume. The problem is that there is absolutely no imbedded text in the driver asserting a copyright, so there is no way for us to confirm or…
Leslie, The command I _intended_ to type had a space after the "rexxmast" and before the ">nil:" – i.e., "rexxmast >nil:
Erik, Thanks for pointing that out. Guess I'm showing my age – I always think of the "CLI-oriented" solutions rather than the GUI solutions, as I've been working with the Amiga since well before there was a usable GUI solution to just about any problem. Old habits are difficult to…
Dave, Let me see if I'm reading this correctly – you are announcing an add-on product for the 1200 before you've even seen a 1200 "up close and personal"? I've heard of accusations of "vapor-ware" before, but this has to take the cake, if I'm reading correctly. Are you sure…
Leslie, I think that a small change was made in the 2.1 startup – it does not start RexxMast automatically. This could be the cause of your ADPro macros not working. Add a line in your s:user-startup: "rexxmast nil:", and things should start working. Hope this helps… – BobR
Steve, Gadtools is contained in the kickstart image – it's not disk-based. – BobR (Motorola Inside!)
Edson, Most of the high-speed modem vendors recommend using Hardware handshaking (RTS/CTS) between your computer and modem, rather than software handshaking (XON/XOFF). This is what I use with my PPI 14.4 modem and have no problems. I'm not familiar with NComm, and my Supra FAX modem is in my other…
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