This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#Employment needed
Message #74441
To all vendors developing software: Because Hurricane Andrew forced me out of my house and job in Florida, I am currently in need of employment. I am a degreed software engineer with 11 years professional experience, the first 6 in a minicomputer environment using Pascal and assembler, the last 5…
#Employment needed!
Message #29539
To all vendors developing software: Because Hurricane Andrew forced me out of my house and job in Florida, I am currently in need of employment. I am a degreed software engineer with 11 years professional experience, the first 6 in a minicomputer environment using Pascal and assembler, the last 5…
Bill – If your local dealer can't for some reason get 2.04, try mail-order. I believe Grapevine Group sells the 2.04 upgrade either as a complete package or ROM only (I assume for those with more than one Amiga in the same room …). Also, folks like Creative or Briwall…
Javier – I'll be corrected in this if I'm wrong, but assuming that your 50MHz '030 had a 50 MHz '882, the slowness of the '040 could be the fact that the built-in floating point unit in the '040 is not as capable as the '882. Therefore, some floating point…
Miles – If the programs are in Turbo Pascal, I believe the new HiSoft Pascal will be the most painless way to go. I haven't yet seen it, but word is it's Turbo-compatible at least up to machine-dependent stuff. I don't know about "several Pascal" compilers – I only know…
Jim – I think he means the current G-Force combo boards. Mine came with a little flyer inserted warning about the possible trace cuts and suggests placing electricians tape (the black rubber stuff that never seems to stick to itself 8^) ) over the traces under the hanger supports. It…
Wayne – And as it turned out, it's a good thing they _did_ include the source, since we end-users are the only ones interested in fixing any compiler bugs. I'm still hoping that someone with bunch of free time eventually comes out with some 2.0 defs. Harry
Dave – Thanks for the reply. My local dealer was supposed to tell me when it was available. Guess I'll have to go have a talk with him … 8^). What's the price range on it, and how close to Turbo is it? Harry
Steve – I was afraid of that. Has there been any word on what will happen with my 17 remaining issues? Thanks … Harry
#HiSoft Pascal
Message #24447
Does anyone know if HiSoft Pascal is available in the US yet? It's supposedly a Turbo Pascal clone, and has been available in Europe for a while, but I haven't seen it in stores yet. Thanks … Harry
#.info Magazine
Message #60130
I've been out of touch for a couple of months, so this may be old news, but … Does anyone know if .info is still publishing? I don't remember recieving my May issue, and I'm sure I didn't get June. The phone number on their subscription form doesn't answer (but…
[ continuation ] Folks might DL the examples and then post questions about them, which would spark conversation, I'd think. OK, I'm done now 8^). I might have wandered a bit from your orignal request, but I hope this has been at least a little interesting. Thanks .. Harry
Leon – I'll be leaving an EMail regarding your this-month-only sale; the prices are finally reasonable enough to make it worth considering something besides M2Sprint. I would definitely like to see some M2 programs uploaded here – I had very few examples to go from when doing the project I…
John – Hmmm. I thought that name was too good for someone to pass up 8^). Maybe he can get away with it by leaving off the "Digital" … Harry
Ben – 1) Darkroom 2) Graphics Master (though that sounds familiar …) 3) The Big Picture There may be more later … Harry
Greg – Thanks for the reply – I've saved it this time 8^). Is the press release you mention upcoming or already available? I'll pass on this information to the other parties involved (in fact, you may have directly or indirectly communicated with them already). I already own the latest…
#20926-
C++ Prog Advice Please
Message #20962
Greg – How compatible is Comeau C++ to Borland C++ 3.0? I'm considering getting into a project that will be developed for several platforms using C++, with the initial development and main design being done with BC++ on a '386 machine. I've informed the other people that Comeau is the…
#20926-
C++ Prog Advice Please
Message #20962
Greg – How compatible is Comeau C++ to Borland C++ 3.0? I'm considering getting into a project that will be developed for several platforms using C++, with the initial development and main design being done with BC++ on a '386 machine. I've informed the other people that Comeau is the…
Wayne – In addition to Pat's response: it also won't stop the folks who picked your particular sequence of numbers at random, and kept them around because they felt you were a good "mark". Just a couple of weeks ago, some young kids managed to erase my outgoing answering machine…
Kurt – Unfortunately, no one who could do anything about it seemed to notice that the announcement had the dates backwards until about 20 minutes before the CO (judging from the timestamp on the message, which I read the following day). I too would be interested in a transcript; someone…
Mike – Thanks for the info. I'll wait 'til sometime next week to call, maybe by then tech support will have caught up to engineering and marketing 8^). Harry
Mike – Are you sure about that 4.4 version number? I just upgraded a couple of months ago and they sent me 4.0, which they said was the latest. If they're up to 4.4 now, I should probably call them and find out what's been changed/fixed. Thanks … Harry
David – I believe GVP is developing one that will be made available at (I think) no cost to current owners and will be included in the box at some point in the near future. The name I've heard bandied about is "Tarantula". Harry
Wayne – "Get Sections" will work if you select it before logging on to get messages or post replies. Simply setting it and selecting "Perform Actions" is not sufficient or Whap to go on-line. Harry
Keith – Thanks for the info. It's all working fairly well now (at least, it does what I've told it to do for a change 8^) ). I even figured out how to get the 2.0 3D look, color-wise. Had to look at an article by Andy Finkel in AWTech…
Keith – It makes perfect sense 8^). I thought about the constant/variable thing after I posted the message, but forgot about TAG_MORE (it was late …). Assuming TAG_MORE takes a pointer to a tagitem list, and that "windowtags" is my existing array of tagitems, I can do OpenWindowTagList( NULL, WA_CustomScreen,…
#2.04 Tags confusion
Message #20033
Desperation time … I'm trying to define a window using tags (under 2.04). I want to associate it with a custom screen (which I have been able to figure out how to do with tags). The declaration of the screen pointer is: struct Screen *myscreen; When I build the window…
Vic – Thanks for the reply. I really couldn't prove one way or the other that what I was postulating had or had not occurred, it was more a "feeling" that I'd missed something 8^). I hope that high number thing you mention is there – if not, it sure…
John – Thanks, I'll do that. Harry
Skippin messages?
Message #47550
I've been using automated CIS readers on three different computers for several years now, and I've always had the feeling that I periodically miss messages by using RTN, even though I'm on virtually every day. FOr example, I'd read a message that sounded like a reply to a message I…
David – You ran into the same thing I did – Make sure the main PSFonts directory is in the Font Manager directory list, even if there are no actual fonts in that directory. PgS needs to see files like the plugin.typebucket and such that are in that directory. Harry
Don – Thanks for responding. After I did my messaging last night I flipped through it and found the Tech Ref section and example code. Now I don't have to wonder what I'll be doing the next few nights 8^). Harry
John – Off the subject a bit, but now that you're talking about Interchange Plus – could you do me a favor and make sure I'm a registered user of Interchange? I always mail in my registration card, but I've been misplaced before so I want to check. A change-of-address…
John – One thing I just thought of – Will that book still be valid for 2.04 and/or is it being updated? I'd hate to buy an existing version and next month the new one comes out. Books are harder to upgrade than software 8^).
Thanks for the reply – now I have a little more info on where to look, and yet another book to get 8^). Thanks for the info!
Lessee, I have the two Sybex books and the published new RKMs, and the Bantam AmigaDOS manual, "Amiga C for Advanced Programmers", etc. You mean there's another one? 8^) Oh, well, looks like I have to make a trip to the bookstore. Thanks for the info!
Thanks. I _did_ come across something on my third or so 8^) trip through the available books about the date stamp, but I couldn't find any header files or structures that showed how to access it. Next time through I'll key on "Root Block" and see if that gets me…
AmigaDOS & Disks
Message #19484
I've been looking for details on how AmigaDOS formats a disk and is able to tell two disks with the same volume label apart. MSDOS gives each disk a unique serial number – does AmigaDOS do the same? If not, what's the best way to do this? I've looked in…
Hardware sale
Message #47297
Miscellaneous hardware for sale: (1) SuperGen Genlock (external), new condition ……. $500 (1) Commodore A2058 RAM card w/4 meg …………….. $195 (1) Microway flickerFixer ………………………. $185 (1) A.M.A.S sound digitizer/MIDI interface ……….. $ 75 (1) Supra WordSync SCSI controller (for A2000) ……. $ 75 (2) Seagate ST296N 85MB SCSI 5.25"…
Michael – I have the same problem with kd_freq and FR_Bypass. I have to modify my startup and reboot (there might be an unload function but I haven't read the docs 8^) ) in order to get PgS to load a file. I was about to post a message about…
Bill – Actually, the only misleading thing in the manual quote you gave was the unqualified mention of "VCR", rather than "VCR with digital freeze". All the other sources mentioned produce a stable signal for the slowscan. The laserdisk is by nature a digital freeze, and the still-video camera is…
David – There has been a HiSoft Pascal advertised in British Amiga mags that's supposed to be a more-or-less clone of Turbo Pascal (integrated environment, interactive source-level debugger, etc. – at least if my memory's any good …). I've talked to my local dealer, and he called his distributor while…
Bill – I would guess that, unless you have a digital freeze-frame on your VCR, a visually steady image probably isn't. It's a general problem with all slow-scan devices. Digi-View has the same problem. A possible solution would be a TBC (like the DPS Personal TBCs) that will retain the…
I know, but David's right – it doesn't hurt to ask. And it sure would be nice to have a product available that the makers of a lesser package couldn't buy and squelch.
#Oxxi Modula-2?
Message #45917
I've heard rumors that Oxxi is going to publish a Modula-2 system fairly soon. Is there any you can find out if this is true, and if so what the time frame for release is? If it makes a difference, I've also seen it referenced in a product list included…
Jorge – I don't really have the number handy since it's programmed into my phone 8^). But look in the phone book, they're there. Harry
Julia – Yes, it can send ASCII. You might have to play with the character delay and line delay setting to get it to work right depending on the destination (some BBSs seem to have small buffers or something and I've had characters get lost until I put in longer…
Not really related to this thread, but I had an idea for something useful and I was wondering if perhaps it was planned for 2.2. I've oftern had to print multi-page documents on my DeskJet and was wondering how difficult it would be for you to add a "Print Pages"…
Don – Not necessarily. One could purchase the laptop sans OS and chips, then purchase a bare A500 (even cheaper used) and get the chips from that. A used A500 would most likely be out of warranty anyway, and the chips and OS would still be in use on only…
Jorge – You could try Computer Image, if you haven't already. I've been getting almost all my major computer stuff there for 8-9 years. They also know a lot of people in the video area. Harry
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