This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Don, I know it is not necessary to preface the commands with the C:, but when you look at the list of directories that AmigaDOS will look for commands, the C: directory is the last one on the list. It will start at the current directory, the system: directory, the…
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Startup sequence
Message #69517
Jim, here is something a little bit more elegant thatn what Larry sent you. C:echo "Last system date:" C:date C:echo " " C:date < "con:0/120/350/25/DD-MMM-YY HH:MM:SS [enter new date:]" > * ? C:date C:date >now This is part of my startup-sequence. I got this from a magazine somewhere. It should…
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Startup sequence
Message #69517
Jim, here is something a little bit more elegant thatn what Larry sent you. C:echo "Last system date:" C:date C:echo " " C:date < "con:0/120/350/25/DD-MMM-YY HH:MM:SS [enter new date:]" > * ? C:date C:date >now This is part of my startup-sequence. I got this from a magazine somewhere. It should…
Michael, After reading your reply to Vic, the warpage problem that you were hollering about that totally destroys the whole screen seems to have shrunk to a few pixels on the title bar of 1.2 windows! That is quite a change in the amount of distortion from what you originally…
Michael, After reading your reply to Vic, the warpage problem that you were hollering about that totally destroys the whole screen seems to have shrunk to a few pixels on the title bar of 1.2 windows! That is quite a change in the amount of distortion from what you originally…
Hi Chris, I really liked your TrapSnapper program in the latest issue of Transactor. Do you know if anybody wrote the trap routine so it will work with any of the 68000/68010/68020 (and also the 68030 !?!) yet? If that trap routine ever gets written then this program of yours…
Hi Chris, I really liked your TrapSnapper program in the latest issue of Transactor. Do you know if anybody wrote the trap routine so it will work with any of the 68000/68010/68020 (and also the 68030 !?!) yet? If that trap routine ever gets written then this program of yours…
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#Zzzz Fan Club
Message #66717
Ben, is this Wayne Green the same one that is know in the ham radio circles? (Wayne Green W2NeverSayDie of 73 Magazine)??? By the way, how is the SSTV/FAX software going? I am sure it will really make heads turn and take another look when you get it done. Did…
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#Zzzz Fan Club
Message #66717
Ben, is this Wayne Green the same one that is know in the ham radio circles? (Wayne Green W2NeverSayDie of 73 Magazine)??? By the way, how is the SSTV/FAX software going? I am sure it will really make heads turn and take another look when you get it done. Did…
Louis, I don't know too much about VideoScape, but I really don't think the addition of the compression routines will take away from the more powerful features of VideoScape. I believe the compression/decompression routines are used in the storage/playback of the animations. VideoScape will probably come with a seperate program…
Louis, I don't know too much about VideoScape, but I really don't think the addition of the compression routines will take away from the more powerful features of VideoScape. I believe the compression/decompression routines are used in the storage/playback of the animations. VideoScape will probably come with a seperate program…
Gary, First off, if your question is how to download something from here when going through datapac, you have the message in the wrong subtopic on the AmigaForum. It should be either under the telecommunications subtopic or the help/whatever subtopic. Anyways, if your problem is how to download stuff from…
Doug, I don't know too much about VCRs either, at least stuff like single frame recorders, but you no longer need such an item with VideoScape 3D. They now have compression/decrompression software in the package so after the frames are created they are compressed and stored. Then when you play…
3.10 Benchmark
Message #52498
Well, I finally got my Lattice 3.10 yesterday. Very interesting package – remember this is coming from a non-programmer! If you all who don't remember the savage benchmark time for Lattice 3.03, is was 234 Seconds, error 3.2 E-07. Under 3.10, still using 64 bit double precision (Lattice's IEEE math…
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#DIGA!
Message #52497
Hi Marlene, It sounds like a real winner! I was wondering if you could remember if the graphics protocol is NAPLPS – North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax? This is the only real telecommunications standard that I am aware of, though there could be others. I believe this standard was…
Joergen, I went and modified my DoSpecial.c so that any EXTEND command would simply take the value in Parm[0] and put it in the outputBuffer, thus sending it to the printer. Well, it does work. I never had to do anything special for the escape character. I did an ESC[27;14"x…
Henry, you may have to wait a while for the A-500s to become available. I und I understand they wont be available until May. This is from what I have heard around here and not from any confidential sources which I don't have anyways. But hopefully PaperClip Elite will be…
Joergen, I finally found out how special density is selected. It is passed in the io_Special field when doing a DumpRPort call. This left me a little bit upset, since it lacks support for the user to control it. I don't know of any programs that even use the io_Special…
Bruce, you already seem to be ahead of most people when they first get their Amiga. You should only have to deARC files that have an .ARC suffix in their name. If you try to run a data file you will get "is not an object module", but that is…
Brian, I did, and it doesn't work either. I appear to get the same response as I do with the setup I mentioned before. I just don't know what gives. I me. 73, Kelly
#Density selection
Message #51902
Hi Rick, Here is something that I think should be put into 1.3. There should be an easy and consistent way to determine printer density selection from preferences. I believe the current method is to determine printer density based on what print quality is set at, and maybe even print…
#Density Selection
Message #51901
How does one choose the printer density from preferences? I know one way is to use the print quality (draft/letter) to choose between two densities, but how does one choose four, six or even more densities? At the present I have four densities that I would like to use on…
Karl, if you have the 1.2 operating system, you just have to call up the program "GRAPHICDUMP" and it will dump the top most screen to the printer. If you want to print a picture, then you need a program to display the picture, then call the graphicdump program. The…
Karl, If this monitor you want to show off is for a flight simulator, what better would there be than Flight Simulator II to run on it?? I have never actually seen it, but from what I have heard, am pretty impressed. just leave it in the demo mode, maybe…
Thanks.. I "try" not to ask people questions that they shouldn't answer, so since I knew most of what can be said, I passed it on. I wouldn't mind having a hard drive to be stuck next to!! 73, Kelly
No upload yet!!
Message #51782
Okay Larry, I went and uploaded my printer drivers for the Star Micronics SR-10 and SR-15 printers (may work for the SG & SD series too, but don't know for sure) on CBM's BBS. It sure is nice to see a transfer going full speed!! On your next version of…
new SR-10/15 drivers
Message #51781
Barry, I just uploaded my printer drivers for the Star SR-10 and SR-15 printers to the Amiga BBS at CBM/West Chester. The file is called STAR.ARC, and is about 15K. I am not sure what section of the BBS the program is in, since I didn't know it had sections…
#No upload yet!!
Message #51732
Hi Larry, Still can not upload. Here are my datapac parameters is you are interested: ^P prof 1 set 3:0,4:4,5:2,12:0,126:0,1:0 It seems that somehow datapac is echoing my data after repeating the second second block a couple of times. The first block goes thru and gets acknowledged but that is…
Jerry, I think the A-500 is supposed to be in a package similiar to the C-128, except bigger of course. Your disk drive is on the right hand side of the front panel. Larry was trying to tell you the disk drive was on the right hand side panel, where…
Barry , I have a real nice SR-15 driver (untested, but should work). It is based on the driver I made for the SR-10. I just finished my final touches to it today. I have one problem, I can't seem to upload to CIS. I will be making one last…
James, You probably have the proper cable if that cable is designed to go between the modem and a computer. Just be sure to take the precautions that Larry mentioned about disconnecting (or desoldering) the pins in the cable that might hook up to the pins that supply power from…
Probably mostly bug fixes, but can't really be sure. Otherwise I understand it appears mostly the same as far as the editor is concerned, which is where it could really have used some speed improvement. 73, Kelly
Larry, you hit the nail right on the head! I noticed with Xon/Xoff enabled (actually can't turn it off) on my 64 term pgm, that I get an Xoff from datapac when I type the first letter in a datapac command after hitting ^P. Almost every time I am typing…
Auto? Please expand a bit on that. Will there be a visual indication of a received Xoff condition and the capability to over-ride that state if neccesary? Be looking forward to the release. 73, Kelly
Larry, Okay, maybe I will finally give it a try. I got some help on setting up the datapac parameters from iNet and tried it with no success last night with my 64. I had set 1:0, which means I shouldn't get back into datapac, but some how I got…
Jack, I hope CBM will see the light!! Hope you also pass on my suggestions about the possible need to support more logical output ports in the same fashion as the current printer.device (except for its bugs!) handles PRT:. By logical devices, I mean add on serial or parallel ports,…
Jrgen, I just tried that and it did the same thing to me. I had selected narrow tractor and fanfold paper. Set the paper size to 10 lines, and got a screen dump the size of a large stamp. Not sure, but this could be considered another bug in the…
Joergen, Better start writing. FNT0 doesn't seem to be working for me either. I guess an option for me is to use the couple of character sets my printer doesn't have and use them to send the equivalent of the FNT0 command. Darn! 73, Kelly
Hi Jack, There is a list of all the Amiga Escape Sequences in the manual that comes with the 1.2 Enhancer Software (1.2 KickStart/Workbench). The list is also in the Rom Kernal Manual. The idea I gave you would only work with a wordprocessor that allows you to print the…
#NovaComm Flow ctrl
Message #51235
Jim, In your new terminal program are you going to going to have it respond to Xon/Xoff? And if so, have it so Xon/Xoff control can be turned on and off from the menu? The reason I am asking is that I found out yesterday that in order for me…
Gene, glad I could help. 1) Thanks. 2) I know what you mean. Actually, the AmigaBasic manual for the Amiga is probably the best manual CBM has ever shipped for any of their computers. What I wish they would add to the manual is a few pages to act as…
ME! ha ha ha dats a gud 1!! I actually do have a 68020 sitting right beside me, except it is missing the a couple parts. It is missing the ceramic (or epoxy) case and the pins to make connections to anything. I have the actual chip that is inside…
MENU 5,0,1,"Test" MENU 5,1,1,"Hit me" MENU 5,2,2," Hi" MENU 5,3,1,"Finish" ON MENU GOSUB CheckMenu MENU ON toggle = 1 WHILE 12 SLEEP WEND STOP CheckMenu: menuid = MENU(0) menuitem = MENU(1) IF menuitem = 3 THEN MENU OFF MENU RESET STOP END IF IF menuitem = 2 THEN PRINT "Hi…
Gene, I will leave you another reply with the simple program I made to try your problem on. I dunno, it seemed kinda simple. When I looked in the Advanced Amiga Basic book I thought it said that the toggling of the checkmark was automatic, but it is not so.…
Steve, Then I still consider it a CIS problem. They should have a direct port to Datapac. This would result in higher throughput by not having to go through telenet, and will also result in lower costs for Canadians to access CIS. I got that one comment (not in them…
Don, I have no problems downloading (yes I do the stuff the DATAPA.TXT says), just uploading! I will have to wait and see what iNet has to say about it. 73, Kelly
Rick, Maybe you should pass on to QA that seven months is a little long!! So where is Dave hiding?? 73, Kelly P.S. Are you going to consider putting a 2400 bps modem on your BBS?
Billy, Do a (PEEK(&HBFD*&H1000) AND 32) If result = 0 then you have a CD, if result = 32 then there is no CD signal present. There is an AmigaBasic BBS program in the data library. It does require some additional work to clean it up. You might want to…
Jeff, This program shouldn't require "fixing". The .MSB means that the program is an AmigaBasic program and runs under AmigaBasic. So you have to get AmigaBasic going, then load in rmaze.msb It should load in okay, and hopefully run when you tell it to. 73, Kelly
Ben, How about going two steps farther and put an 68020 and a 68881 on a board at 14 MHz. Now that will truely yield higher math throughput. I think that you would have to slow down the clock to the 7.1.. MHz when ever you wanted to talk to…
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