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The best method depends on how you are using the file. Your method of resaving the file from the deleted record to the end will work but if the file is long, (or medium size and on a floppy disc) it is likely to be slow. A compromise method is…
Ok here is my little contribution. Man is sitting in an office at his desk with a typical PC sat on it, running Windows. The Boss is sitting opposite him. Boss says "Frankly the board is very impressed. No-one else thought the presentation could have been put together in time,…
It was Amiga Format magazine that gave away Imagine 2.0, quite a while ago now. I can't find the magazine right now. They ran a tutorial series for a few months after the cover disc. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
> I think that if a company had a program that would reformat a disk if > the copy was illegal, they'd be sued bigtime. I heard that one large software company released an application which contained a message saying "formatting hard disc now" if it detected an attempt to…
Thanks for the info. Is the ninth chip for Parity checking? If so I'll try and avoid it. No use burdening the power supply (and my wallet) for a feature the SX1 doesn't use.
Thanks for the info. I'll start looking for som RAM this weekend. Going back to a system where you have to conserve every byte of memory is proving to be too much of a culture shock (I've got 6MB in the 500+). If I can get the CD32 to load…
#SX1 Questions
Message #88960
I have an SX1 expander for the CD32. I only got a short 4 page instruction book with it, and there are a few of things I am not clear about. I believe that the memory expansion it uses is the same as that used by PC compatibles, is this…
I hope you have better luck than I did! I rang them to ask about the autodocs for 3.1, now I can use my CD32/SX1 as a computer I'm interested in any WB3 and AGA programming info. The only answer I could get from Commodore was the number of their…
Here is the address and phone numbers I used some time ago to get the 2.04 native developers kit from Commodore UK. They charged 25 pounds for that. Developer Support Group Commodore House The Switchback Gardner Road Maidenhead SL6 7XA England Phone 0628 770088 0908 368222 I have 2 phone…
The .h files that you need contain essentially the same information as the .i files that come with devpac but they are in a syntax that a C compiler can understand. The .i files would only be understood by an assembler. They are listed in the RKM, but typing all…
The best way of reading a file depends on how it was written. If you are writing all your data as ASCII strings, and ending each record with a newline you can use fgets to read a single record. This returns NULL if it finds the end of the file…
> Hey, if an Amiga consortium is started though, why not get Microsoft to > take over development of AmigaDOS – then the Amiga'll be saved!!! Well, in terms of sales it would be saved, but would you want to buy the result? It would be interesting to see how…
I've heard rumours of it. I think it uses the serial port to link to the CD32 instead of the expansion connector. The SX-1 converts the CD-32 into something like an A1200 with a built in CD drive. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
SX-1
Message #158764
I just got hold of a working SX-1. It now comes with the Goldfish double CD containing Fish discs 1-1000. I was wondering if anyone can explain the following strange behaviour. The Goldfish CDs are not bootable, so I tried booting the CD-32 from my Wierd Science Network CD and…
Goldfish with the SX-1? Do you know if this offer is available in England? I think I'm cursed when it comes to the CD-32. I found a shop with just one SX-1 left on Saturday so I bought it. It didn't come with with any free CDs, and it doesn't…
Once you have got your file you can simply copy it to the printer. If you connect your printer to the Amiga's serial port you can use the CLI command : copy file ser: If you don't like the CLI, then you might be able to use your terminal emulator.…
The address and telephone number on the back of the book is : Sigma Press 1 South Oak Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 6AR Phone 0625-531035 Fax 0625-536800 This address is in England, you will have to add the international dialling code for wherever you are calling from. > They also…
S-Video to Scart
Message #157677
I have just bought an S-Video to Scart lead to try and connect my CD32 to an old 1084 monitor. I get a nice sharp picture, but only in black and white! I have tried fiddling with the two push buttons on the back of the monitor (in all 4…
If you are willing to work with a window and IDCMP you can request keyboard events to be sent to your window. Do you have the Amiga ROM Kernal Manuals? They explain this sort of thing very well. There is no direct equivalent to kbhit, but if you try and…
Sigma Press used to publish a book called "Amiga Real-Time 3D Graphics" by Andrew Tyler (ISBN 1-85058-275-0). This is full of assembler examples, but is not AGA. I don't know if this book is still available, or ever was outside of this country. Over in the Gamers Forum they have…
You could connect the output from your Unix box to the serial port of an Amiga. Use a terminal emulator on the Amiga (e.g. NComm) and switch on capture mode. This will capture everything that the Unix box sends in a file. I think you will need a null modem…
> returnvalue = MatchPattern(pat, > ((struct AnchorPath *)obj->ap_Info.fib_FileName) The (struct AnchorPath *) is a typecast. What it means is, treat the object obj->ap_Info.fib_FileName as if it were a pointer to a struct AnchorPath. AnchorPath is a C structure. You will find it defined in include:dos/dosasl.h, and there is an assembler…
The only OCR software I have any experience of is Migraph OCR on the Amiga. It comes in two versions, the Jr. version is fully functional and reads directly from your scanner. The more expensive version will accept either direct input from the scanner or will read an IFF file.…
I hope this explanation is a bit clearer than my last message. To be honest I am guessing a bit at what your problem actually is. The MIDI standard tells manufacturers what messages they should send when you press or release a key, move a pitch bend wheel or a…
Are you using a sequencer built in to the Ensoniq SQ80 to record your sequences? If you are getting the SQ80 to dump sequences as System Exclusive data Music-X will store it, but it won't understand thre format of the data. What you need to do is put Music-X into…
> So, what's everyone using? I'm using Superdark. I've never had any problems with it and the toasters fly very nicely. I've even got source for it and instructions for writing new blanker modules. Writing my own blanker module is on my list of things I like to think I…
Your first if statement will not work. The && on all tests means that the month must be >= the 'from' month and to.year ) date_ok = FALSE ; else { if (( year == from.year && month < from.month ) || ( year == to.year && month > to.month…
I am also trying to port ACK 3D to the Amiga. I am making fairly slow progress, mainly due to lack of time. I will share a few bits of info I have picked up. The key piece of assembler in ACK3D is the routine "draw_col2" which does the texture…
PMFJI, If you mean the file OBERON.LHA, I have downloaded and installed this. I haven't got past the "Hello World" stage in programming with it yet so I can't comment on it's reliability. According to the documentation it is an Oberon-2 compiler with no artificial restrictions or crippling, and it…
You might get more help from the Communications area in Amiga User Forum, but I'll hazard a few guesses. If you are getting the message "NO CARRIER" from the modem, then your modem is not getting a reply that it can use from the other end of the telephone line.…
I only got 4 discs, (my set is version 37.5). I got the .fd files, the .h and .i include files for C and assembler, the standard link libraries, the autodocs and a program that converts them to Amigaguide format (I now have the autodocs in hypertext form on my…
#.SEA archiver
Message #150087
Does anyone know of an Amiga archiving program that can uncompress .SEA files. I have come across a text file in another Forum which I want to read. Someone has suggested this may be a self extracting Mac archive but they are not sure. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
Thanks for the info. It sounds like too much for my 500+ and GVP. If I want Unix at home I'll just have to stick to Minix and shuffling floppy discs. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
Since you seem to know about this, I hope you won't mind me jumping in with a few questions. Is this a System V Unix ? Will it work with a 68030EC or does it need the memory manager ? How large a hard disc would you recommend for a…
I thought PCPatch only worked with 5.25 inch drives, not that I've ever looked closely at it. It wasn't me who asked about file transfers (I use CrossDos), I can't remember who started this but I hope they are reading this. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
Electronic Arts did a program called Deluxe Print, or something like that. It was designed for doing cards and small posters. I didn't think much of it. It seemed to draw its output on the screen first then dump it to the printer, so the resolution was not very good.…
Will these magazines be on sale in newsagents in London ? Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
IMHO 260 quid for a few more years use of an Amiga 3000 is well worth it, whether the machine is still in production or not. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
PMFJI but there is a demo of Guardian, the 3D flying shoot up on the cover CD of "Amiga CD32" magazine. It is brilliant ! Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
If you are using Compuserve with an Amiga, the program to check out is called Autopilot. You can download it from the Amigavend forum. Library 9. The program is AP.LHA, the instructions are in APDOCS and there is a list of updates to the instructions in the files CHANGES. You…
> That should be interesting. Borland's new high end database server is > called Interbase also. If you mean it might be an interesting database, its by some company called Interactivision Aps, no apparent connection with Borland. If you mean it could be interesting from the legal point of view,…
The newsagents I go past on the way to work haven't got it either. It's quite common for one shop to get Amiga Format days before any others do, there seems to be no logic or pattern to how they distribute it. The first coverdisc has a database called "Interbase"…
The great think about SWREG is not having to bother with foreign currency and international post. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
I bought it on Saturday. It was on sale in the Games department of HMV but the nearby newsagents still had the old issue on show. The game shops often seem to have Amiga Format on sale before the newsagents. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
The new edition of Amiga Format magazine has pictures of the A1200 CD drive. It uses the expansion port underneath the A1200 and will probably allow memory expansion using a 4MB SIMM. It has AKIKO and the CD drive is the same spec as the CD32. They say it should…
Octamed can't save in MIDI file format. It can play music via a MIDI port though. If you have access to another computer you could connect the MIDI ports together and use a sequencer on the second computer to record Octamed's MIDI output. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
You can get Wing Commander for the Amiga, and it is texture mapped instead of plain polygons. The problem is that a standard Amiga 500 just doesn't have the power to run Frontier or Wing Commander very well. I have a GVP 68030 on my A500+. With the GVP switched…
It could have been a display model, the box looked pretty tatty. It works fine though. I think the lack of Workbench was not due to poor service but just due to lack of knowledge about computers. Another example of Dixon's level of knowledge was when I asked them if…
Dixons have some intersting ideas about computers. I bought my A500+ from them, they were offering it cheap because they didn't have the free software that was supposed to go with it. When I got it home I found it didn't have any Workbench discs or manuals either! Luckily I…
Thats a pity. I don't suppose 2000 keyboards are any easier to buy than 4000 keyboards. Looks like I'll have to send off for one of those mail order CD32 keyboards at around 40-50 pounds. Peter Wade Autopiloting from London, England
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