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#AutoCAD Message #122379
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors May 4, 1988 10:33 PM
I just saw a kind of sad news in the AutoDESK forum… AutoCAD release 10 has been made for the MAC II…!?!?!? well in a way it is nice since thw MAC II it is a nice machine…BUT why in heavens they did not port it to the Amiga!!! beats…
#Plotter Spoolers Message #22281
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · AutoCAD April 26, 1988 11:50 PM
Do this froum has a program that will plot a AutoCAD Release 9 to a HP 7585B from does ?
#21857 dfx Message #21920
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · General April 17, 1988 4:08 AM
Where do you work ?
#21845 #dfx Message #21919
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · General April 17, 1988 4:06 AM
Sirs, under what resolutiom does the TARGA board gives 16 million colors 640×400, 1024×1024 ( max avaible for commercial use ) . A pixel can ONLY have one color at all times ( to the human eye… ) a 1024×1024 can only display 1,048,576 color at ANY given time and…
#118940 #Amiga 2500 Message #119369
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors April 15, 1988 4:00 AM
Don, you mean that people that have the A2000 can makeit a A2500 by adding the board(s), and if course will be more expensive ? or by buying an A2500 you will save some $$$. Why CBM did not put the '020 stuff on the motherboard with some hardware that…
#21803 IBM<->SUN Message #21832
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · General April 13, 1988 11:39 PM
Thanks I will give them a call…
#IBM<->SUN Message #21802
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · General April 13, 1988 2:18 AM
Folks, we are in the process of 'killing' Sigma designs from our production department and only leaving it to the design deparments, because we are bringing AutoCAD ( of course ) in replacement of it. question : is there a cheap ( real cheap ) way on hooking an IBM…
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · General April 13, 1988 2:11 AM
From: Ed Silva Autodesk · General April 13, 1988 2:10 AM
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 9, 1988 8:14 PM
well , true but…how about compresing each bitmap by means of only saving waht change from the previous one…for examples if you have a building and a airplane moving around it sometimes only a small chunk of the video memory will change therefore there will be no need to refresh…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 9, 1988 8:14 PM
well , true but…how about compresing each bitmap by means of only saving waht change from the previous one…for examples if you have a building and a airplane moving around it sometimes only a small chunk of the video memory will change therefore there will be no need to refresh…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 9, 1988 1:23 AM
That is a very nice straight aproach…maybe calling Nth folks will awake them up and see this ofter..
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 9, 1988 1:23 AM
That is a very nice straight aproach…maybe calling Nth folks will awake them up and see this ofter..
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 8, 1988 1:08 AM
Brad, now this Nth board is lighting fast…so why not make AutoFLIX run on these 'state of the art' boards such as the Nth, Targa and some others. maybe not makeit for all of them buts at least give the user a choice perhaps make you for the fastest board…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 8, 1988 1:08 AM
Brad, now this Nth board is lighting fast…so why not make AutoFLIX run on these 'state of the art' boards such as the Nth, Targa and some others. maybe not makeit for all of them buts at least give the user a choice perhaps make you for the fastest board…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 8, 1988 1:03 AM
Any plans to make it runon the Nth…?
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 8, 1988 1:03 AM
Any plans to make it runon the Nth…?
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 6, 1988 12:27 AM
we just got a nth engine for a '386 clone ( ALR ) and it works fine with AutoCAD, and as they claim ZOOMS take less that 2 seconds in the nozzel.dwg I went to as litle as my pickbox and always took that 2 sec. anyway will AutoFlix support…
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · General April 6, 1988 12:27 AM
we just got a nth engine for a '386 clone ( ALR ) and it works fine with AutoCAD, and as they claim ZOOMS take less that 2 seconds in the nozzel.dwg I went to as litle as my pickbox and always took that 2 sec. anyway will AutoFlix support…
#114966 #Lost File! Message #115044
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade March 22, 1988 1:33 AM
Thanks will do!
#114912 Lost File! Message #115043
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade March 22, 1988 1:32 AM
Will do Don …thanks…!
#Lost File! Message #114895
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade March 21, 1988 1:53 AM
hello, after doing some heavy i/o on my master C source code 5-1/4" drive , and trying to 'read' my #include MyDef.h file , the compiler load it up but to my surprise it was EMPTY! , for some reasons the file got zapped!, question : anybody knows how can…
#Santa Message #99791
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Forum Business December 24, 1987 2:19 AM
Hoping that the next year is a brighter for all… *********************************************** * * * MERRY CHRISTMAS…! * * * *********************************************** Ed Silva.
#Baud settings Message #97010
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade December 6, 1987 5:54 PM
Hi i just got a supra modem 2400…and i want to know if its possible to have different baud settings without having to have differents accounts with compuserve, i want to have a 2400 and 300 settings, one will be used for CO, reading mail (or messages ) and the…
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming December 5, 1987 4:45 AM
Mike,I dont know if you are passing arguments to this sub,but you can use LoadSeg() ( a DOS function) that will load that particular piece of executable code into memory, after you do that you will need to get an address of that function using that VARPTR basic command if…
#96473 #68020 boards Message #96727
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hardware December 5, 1987 4:32 AM
one thing for sure…price…on the other hand it might be missing other godies like MMU stuff and so on,but I had a chance to see it in action and first…It fits inside the A1000, second its affordable and from gossip I heard CSA asked them for the design of the…
The 4th Amiga? Message #96725
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors December 5, 1987 4:27 AM
Like I always say…dreaming is free…! 🙂
#95828 68020 boards Message #95869
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hardware November 30, 1987 12:30 AM
Finally Technologies 25 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 564-5903 Ask for John Wagoner…
#95380 #68020 boards Message #95682
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hardware November 29, 1987 2:10 AM
I know of a board called Hurricane! made by Finally Technologies up in San Francisco , walnut greek i think it is a 2 meg 32 bit ram , 68020/68881 board for under $2000.00 ( latest price i know ) must of all it fits INSIDE the A1000…
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming November 14, 1987 2:50 AM
Mike, bugs, bugs sweet little bugs. Are they the ones that developed AmigaBASIC and then had MicroSoft market it ? if so i dont seem why they can have a more bug free compiler?!?!? Ed Silva
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming November 11, 1987 2:07 AM
John, I dont know what might be wrong with it but know that we are at it se if you can figure this one out. LIBRARY "graphics.library" AREA (100,100) AREAFILL FILL CALL AreaEllipse& ( WINDOW(8),320,100,60,60) CALL AreaEnd& (WINDOW(8)) if I compiled it the machine will go dead, BUT if I…
#91728 C example problem Message #91956
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming November 3, 1987 3:55 AM
Ok. Ed Silva
#91517 #C example problem Message #91714
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming October 31, 1987 10:49 PM
Most of the times that I have been helped in this forum (lots of times…) i just try to do the same for someone else…in another words dont just try to give me a 'pay back' but rather help whenever you can help somebody. Ed
#91438 #C example problem Message #91467
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming October 29, 1987 9:57 PM
Allan, i ment 5 brackets ( { ) ,sorry . Maybe you should do a forever loop to actually see the prog run or you can put a bunch of prin*****\n); on several lines of the code and then see how far the program goes. Also have you compiled any…
#86496 #lisps for amiga? Message #86855
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming September 29, 1987 12:29 AM
Where is this PD LISP…? Ed Silva
#85766 #Paint Bug? Message #85874
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Programming September 22, 1987 12:33 AM
Mode=0: "…You specify an x,y coordinate, and from that point the system searches outward in all directions for a pixel whose color is the SAME as the specified in the outline pen…" Mode=1: "…Whatever pixel is found at x,y defines the area to be filled…" this is what the ROM…
#85766 #Paint Bug? Message #85874
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Programming September 22, 1987 12:33 AM
Mode=0: "…You specify an x,y coordinate, and from that point the system searches outward in all directions for a pixel whose color is the SAME as the specified in the outline pen…" Mode=1: "…Whatever pixel is found at x,y defines the area to be filled…" this is what the ROM…
#85284- amiga commercial Message #85492
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Hot News & Rumors September 19, 1987 12:48 AM
Baseball series?
#75670- #Basic question Message #75876
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming July 11, 1987 12:47 AM
Mike,have you ever tried to use IDCMP flags from basic (BACKDROP…)
#75807- AmigaBASIC workaround Message #75875
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming July 11, 1987 12:39 AM
A better aproach is to have a 'LOADER' like… CLEAR ,3000 CLEAR ,YourMemorySize LOAD "YourProgram",r END MSB 1.1 had a bug with memory management but MSB 1.2 has fixet (i think…) but if you use this trick you will make sure that your program has ALL the memory it needs……
#Legal help Message #74686
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade July 3, 1987 12:58 AM
If after signing a royalties contract with a publisher for two years and the contract specifies whe are royalties due (ea quarter) and the publisher MUST send you a report about the program financial status (sales) BUT the publisher DOES not sends the report to you and it doesn't gives…
#Legal help Message #74686
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Talk to the Trade July 3, 1987 12:58 AM
If after signing a royalties contract with a publisher for two years and the contract specifies whe are royalties due (ea quarter) and the publisher MUST send you a report about the program financial status (sales) BUT the publisher DOES not sends the report to you and it doesn't gives…
#74284- Sample Drawing Message #74405
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade July 1, 1987 1:01 AM
That is the way i am implementing this convertion program , first i will detect and look on the D+ file sort it out and rearrenge it in a way i can trow it into a desire format also if a want to just add or delete any thing from…
#72263- BLink error? Message #72410
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Programming June 16, 1987 10:04 PM
Are you using the proper Math library if so are Blinking with the proper flags?
Sample Drawing Message #72408
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade June 16, 1987 9:56 PM
Could someone UpLoad a sample Drawwing from Draw AND Draw PLus to a Data library, if you can try to have as much stuff on it (one of each ) like parts,few layers,some text,measures,and any thing that you can put on it DOESN'T have to be good looking or a…
#71119- C->Basic Message #71186
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade June 8, 1987 8:46 PM
Don, I just got a book C to BASIC handbook and they mentioned your response… i will give it a shot
#69641 AllocMem()… Message #69755
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Talk to the Trade May 29, 1987 12:40 AM
Vic, i DO have AreaEnd() after each AreaEllipse() and/or any AreFilling commands,such as AreaMove(),AreaDraw(), and ofcourse AreaEnd(). i am still trying to debug these things. I have tried to call tech supp. but they have an answering machine as a secretary. do you know why?. Kind of rude! right?
#69553 Animation comments? Message #69599
From: Ed Silva The Amiga Forum · Videophile May 27, 1987 11:33 PM
Thanks, for your reply and your time on the phone today…
#Animation comments? Message #68918
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Videophile May 22, 1987 11:43 PM
Is, there is a way that i can get info on how DrawPlus & VideoScape info is stored (database format), because i am interested in exchanging AutoCad's files to the Amiga using DrawPlus and/or VideoScape ( I don't have neither one…) , this type of info should be (if possible…)…
#Animation comments? Message #68918
From: Ed Silva Forum unknown · Videophile May 22, 1987 11:43 PM
Is, there is a way that i can get info on how DrawPlus & VideoScape info is stored (database format), because i am interested in exchanging AutoCad's files to the Amiga using DrawPlus and/or VideoScape ( I don't have neither one…) , this type of info should be (if possible…)…

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